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Remy Ma …American Gangster?

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My favorite part fo the Remy Ma article in The Voice is when the author
quotes some girls who catch a glimpse of Remy in the street:

“That’s Remy Ma!” a teenage girl says to her friend in disbelief.

The friend responds with a nudge: “Follow her!”

“Hell, no! She just shot her friend!” the first onlooker says,
staying right where she is.

Remy caught a case ladies and gentlemen.

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I am not feeling the Jay-Z single.

Seriously, when the video first starts out, that shit felt like it was the
great beginning of hot narrative short.



In fact. It has the beginnings of a hot documentary.

I have not listened to the new
jawn in its entirety as I am saving it for
some time on Friday when I can sit back and marinate,
decompress and get-‘er-in. (hi babe.)

I think I know what it is, I ain’t feeling how forced the hook feel.

It ain’t organic. Its like he trynna squeeze in too much.

Dear Summer. Show Me Wat’chu Got. They just flowed.

And the little shootin’ at the end is SO cliche. I mean.

Man.

Come on.

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Speaking of American Gangster NY mag has an conversation/interview
between Nicky Barnes and Frank Lucas.

Creepy. Old D-boys talking ’bout the good ‘ol days.

But then. They start getting real and talking
about how THEY DON’T want to glorify the street game.

MJ: When the movies come out, there?ll be a lot of controversy about whether you guys are being glorified. What about that?

FL: Nick is a good dude who should be glorified, not me.

MJ: Why do you say that?

FL: Because he?s a hell of a good guy.

MJ: But you were both in the same business.

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NB: No one should be elevated because of what they did in the drug business. The way we operated?there was a lot of violence, like, ten to twelve homicides, to keep the whole operation running. You can?t glorify that. It?s not something Frank or I would tell any of our children to get into.

FL: Absolutely right, Nick.

NB: Heroin wreaked a lot of havoc and a lot of pain in the black community. I shouldn?t have done it. Maybe I was aware, but I just didn?t give a fuck. I wanted to make money, and that?s what I did. Looking back, I wouldn?t have made those decisions, but it?s a hell of a lot different and much easier to sanitize yourself after the fact.

Wowsa. This is the voice that we NEVER hear. Black men speaking about AND
apologizing publicly for the havoc wreaked on the hood.

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New Jay, ye or nay?

If Jay did a version of “Big Brother” who would it be about
and why?

Are black folks to soft on thugs? Or are thugs like crack heads
and politicians, family members too?<<<---Can't believe I just said that. Whose more corrupt, dope dealers or cops? <<---Egregious. =====
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Wesley Got no Love for the Redneck Juries.

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Wesley Snipes, Taxes and Rednecks. So, your boy Wesley’s tax
evasion case is up, and he is trying to get a change of venue citing
how racist Ocola County, Florida is:

The motion, which seeks to have the charges dismissed or the trial moved to New York, describes the area as “a hotbed of Klan activity where the Klan adopted highways to commemorate the Klan and the Confederate flag flies over government property.”

Hell naw at a “Hot bed of Klan activity.”

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If Bernard Kerik (Guiliani’s former police comissioner) was a black man,
he would be toast, with some cream cheese and a side of butter or strawberry
jam if you like it sweet.

Authorities have alleged that Kerik took tens of thousands of dollars in services from benefactors and never reported it as income. Earlier this year, he rejected a plea deal, and his attorney insisted he had done nothing wrong.

An indictment would be the latest chapter of a downfall that began within days of Kerik’s nomination in 2004 to head the Department of Homeland Security. At the time, he was billed by the former mayor as a no-nonsense, self-made lawman who helped restore calm following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

But the nomination was confronted with news reports about stock-option windfalls, his connections with people suspected of doing business with the mob and overlapping extramarital affairs with two women: Judith Regan, the publisher of his memoir, and a city correction officer. The liaisons reportedly occurred in an apartment near ground zero that had been set aside for rescue workers.

Kerik, 51, who married his current wife in 1998 and has two children with her, apparently became close with Regan while writing “The Lost Son,” in which he described being abandoned by his prostitute mother.

Kerik rose from cop to Giuliani’s correction commissioner in the late 1990s. From there, he became police commissioner and later went to work in Iraq rebuilding the country’s police force.

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Bush nominee dresses up in Black face, ahem, BRONZE face, a
Dred Lock, wig and A prison uniform and STILL THINKS she is
going to keep her job.

WHERE.

IS.

AL.

SHARPTON?


A Halloween party where a Department of Homeland Security worker won praise for a costume of darkened skin and prison garb may stall Senate confirmation of the party’s host for a second time.

Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said Wednesday that she has placed a temporary “hold” on Julie Myers’ nomination for the job of assistant homeland security secretary for immigration and customs enforcement until Myers answers questions about the party, including why photographs of her with the costumed employee were destroyed after questions were raised.

“As the leader of that organization, she should have immediately recognized the problem and asked that person to leave,” said McCaskill, who has raised previous concerns about Myers’ nomination. “And what really happened was, she judged the costume as one that should get a prize and be recognized and she had her photograph taken with the person in the costume — and only later came back and apologized and said it was a problem.”

Hold up. So she hosted the party. Judged the costume.
Took pictures with the employee.

THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN.

When she learned that her new appointment was on the line,
she thought. “Aww. Sh*t. My bad.”

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I wonder if one of those @ss itch liberals are going to figure
out how to blame this on Hip Hop.

An 18-year-old student opened fire at his high school in this placid town in southern Finland on Wednesday, killing eight people before shooting himself in a rampage that stunned a nation where gun crime is rare.

The gunman was rushed to a hospital in Helsinki with a gunshot wound to his head after the shooting at Jokela High School in Tuusula, some 30 miles north of the capital.

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Is Wesley snipes tripping or what?

What would you do with the money that you spend on taxes?

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"If it was a Swastika it Would be a Hate Crime."

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An recent article about the nooses that have been popping up
brought to my attention the fact that while swastika’s constitute a hate
crime, nooses don’t.

Why is that?

Sar-ron Beverly knew about nooses from family stories and historical photos. But he never understood their power until he walked into his boss’ Fairfield office one day and saw one hanging from the ceiling, in front of a bookshelf and a family portrait.

“It was just too much,” said Beverly, 30. “I’m from Mississippi. My grandparents moved to California to get away from this stuff.

“A hangman’s noose shows the ultimate hatred for African Americans.”

Nooses say, sit down, shut up and EVEN THINK ABOUT FIGHTING BACK.

“Many white people are unaware of the incredible power of the lynching story for African Americans,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and a former civil rights attorney. “Lynching was a message crime. It served to tell the black community that there were boundaries. Don’t get too educated. Don’t vote. Don’t get too wealthy. Don’t look at a white woman.

“It was not just used to punish an individual, but to serve as a threat to others.”

Then we get to good part about why the image is so powerful image.

“I don’t buy the story that these are pranks,” Ifill said. “If this were a swastika or a burning cross, no one would be asking that question.

“Lynching is a history that blacks take very seriously and live with, and that whites have almost entirely ignored.”

Displaying a noose is illegal under federal hate-crime laws if it is intended to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person, or to attempt to do so, by force or threat of force, because of that person’s race, color, religion or national origin.

My question is why don’t the recent incidents consitute an attempt to intimiddate or interfere with a person….?

Black people NEED more people. LOL.

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Cheney gets caught wrapped in around a Confederate Flag and quickly starts side stepping that sh*t.

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New York Magazine be KILLIN’ me.

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Oh. The Bounty Hunter loves N*ggas.

Where is Al Sharpton? Somewhere blaming this on NAS. LOL.

HONOLULU?Television bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman apologized Wednesday for repeatedly using a racial slur in a profanity-laced tirade during a private phone conversation with his son that was recorded and posted online.

Chapman, star of A&E’s hit reality series “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” responded after The National Enquirer posted a clip of the conversation in which Chapman uses the N-word in reference to his son’s girlfriend.

A&E officials did not immediately return phone messages seeking comment from The Associated Press. Chapman issued a statement apologizing for the comments.

Don’t apologize. If you wanna call n*ggas, n*ggas, claim that sh*t.
He used the term because he INTENDED TO INSULT HIS son’s girlfriend.
Which is precisely why he did it.
And the son FLIPPED IT by recording it and leaking it. NICE!
Thats the problem with n*ggas now, a lack of integrity.

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I am jealous of Virginia Heffernan. Yes. I said it.
She’s funny (she co-wrote The Underminder with Mike Albo
who is right up under Judd Apatow on my nerd humor list),
adorable and gets to write PROFESSIONALLY
about technology. <<<----Is relieved that I let it out. I just peeped her blog today a nd she has a piece up
from a few days ago about a web
site that has one of the most popular message boards
on the internet, Prison Talk,which allows folks in
prison to communicate with the outside
world.

Check her out.

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I am still unclear on why a swastika evolve to constitute a hate
crime but a noose does not?

Why wasn’t the above cited Federal law applicable in Jena or
at Columbia?

Is Al Sharpton gonna start protesting the Bounty Hunters
show?

Should he be punished for just being angry and
racist?

Was he in fact being racist?

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Al Sharpton is Starting a Rap Label.

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Of course Al is not starting a label, but I could not help
but think about it when I read two articles about
women and Hip Hop in the NY Times by Tara Parker-Pope.
Apparently there is a Professor, Dr. Munoz Laboy, who is studying
young women and hip hop. Parker-Pope writes,

Dr. Mu?oz-Laboy spent three years studying the hip-hop club scene, talking to dozens of teenagers and watching them dance. While hip-hop music has been widely assailed as misogynistic, the researchers found that young women were the ?gatekeepers? of boundaries on the dance floor, according to research published this month in the journal Culture, Health and Sexuality. Even during the highly sexualized form of dance known as grinding, in which bodies rub against each other, the girls in the study ?were consistently vigilant about maintaining control over their bodies and space,? the study noted.

Most of the teenagers in the study were sexually experienced. But the researchers found that the overt sexuality of the music and dancing was not the main influence on sexual behavior. Rather it was the old standbys of alcohol, drugs and peer pressure that typically led them into sexual encounters.

I thought that was an astute observation, but I would NEED
to see the data before I cosigned on anything.

The second article starts off ambitious enough.

The Atlanta teens are part of a group called HOTGIRLS (Helping Our Teen Girls In Real Life Situations). Although rap is often blamed for promoting degrading images of women, HOTGIRLS uses rap music to start conversations with girls about the challenges they face growing up.

Rewriting song lyrics helps girls ?critically analyze the messages they encounter in the media and in their daily lives,?? said HOTGIRLS founder Carla E. Stokes. ?Girls are using hip hop as a vehicle to reach their peers and raise awareness about issues that affect their lives.??

The bugged out thing about it is that RAP HAS ALWAYS been about
talking about how f*cked up your life is, how dope your car is,
how you can take someone else’s man. Duh. We came from the
people who made the blues.

The comments section in the second article, on young
was full of tolerance, love and understanding.

I mean they had so much shit poppin’ in there
that I felt myself get the blog wiggles just reading it.

November 6th,
2007
12:02 pm

Chronic sexual harrassment of girls and women is the sound track to how demeaning and deadly Hip Hop and Rap have been to the black community.

As Stanley Crouch points out, approximately 3,000 black people died in the south from the reconstruction after The Civil War through The Civil Rights Novement, whereas 10,000 black people were victims of black-on-black gun violence in the 1990?s in California alone.

Music that celebrates this slaughter and perversion of black culture is $ in the pockets of ClearChannel and disrespects and endangers black girls and women especially. White people who defend it are poseurs, appologists, and dilletantes with ?no skin in the mix?.

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The Stanley Crouch reference not withstanding, the poster
does make an economic argument about the issue,
which is TYPICALLY what is missing when talking about
minority/majority issues.

I guess the article would have made more sense if they mentioned pop culture AND ITS affect on women
in general

Then there was this comment.
I couldn’t tell if the person was serious, a f*ck wad or both.

November 6th,
2007
12:24 pm

How about teaching teens to completely avoid rap music, rap ?culture? and always speak proper English? Rap music and culture leads to low IQ, low expectations from life, angry attitude, praising-prison mentality and many more social problems.

When will you liberals give up on this ?hip hop in the classroom? nonsense?

KP

? Posted by Karlos

Shit just made me want to play Stakes is High.

Rap music and culture leads to low IQ, low expectations
from life, angry attitude, praising-prison mentality and
many more social problems.

Rap music is also responsible for…
$100/ barrel gas.
The Writers Guild Strike.
Obama’s drop in the national polls.
Overinflated CEO pay.

I mean really.
What did White/Black people blame Black struggle/failure/apathy on before Hip Hop? The article illustrates when you use your voice be prepared to be silenced. Another commenter noticed this when they wrote,

November 6th,
2007
2:31 pm

I live in Portland, OR?one of the most liberal, whitest cities in America?and I can tell you my partner and countless other young women are harassed, screamed at, catcalled and followed every single day. A man can walk around wearing nothing but sandals and shorts on a sunny day but my partner would not dare wear even a tight shirt. The way women are treated in our country is a complete disgrace. So I guess I have no idea what someone is talking about when they say ?asking for harassment?. I have no idea why a group of black girls empowering themselves makes anonymous readers fret about the girls? sexual practices.

Ah. The WAY WOMEN ARE TREATED IN OUR COUNTRY. Wait. I thought it was only in Hip Hop that women were treated like expendable sex pockets.
Then I came across this one and got really, really concerned.

November 6th,
2007
5:41 pm

I love the idea of suing the idiots making all of the money off of selling audio poison?sorry, misogynist rap?to teens. I wonder what the legal strategy would look like for said law suit?

? Posted by Ulrike

Creepy. Law suits to end Hip Hop. As long as they sue Half of
Hollywood while they‘re at it. I’m down.

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What would happen in a world if you could sue an artist because you
didn’t like their genre of music?

How about being able to sue an artist because he stole your music.
Elvis anyone?
That commenter probably wants to sue Michael Vick as well, lol?
What if that were possible?

Public figures get convicted of sh*t,
gave us the right to sue them because they disappointed us.
HA!

People and they sometimes applicable Constitutional Rights.

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***writing that. felt. good.

My American Gangster.

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I understood Ridley Scott’s point about gangsters when
Denzel murked Idris and then promptly returned back to
the diner to eat with his family and discuss what it means
to be loyal and faithful. To have a code.

The muder scene was almost comical. And it was meant
to be based on the expression of some of the actors faces
after witnessing the murder.

I was also disturbed by the scene because it made light
of the fact that A MAN could be so powerful so as to feel
comfortable murking another man in broad daylight and
was sure that those who saw the event take place KNEW
better than to talk to the police. It was as if he presumed that
the witnesses would remain silence, so ?I can do what the
f*ck I need to do.?

I have been thinking about the general premise of American
Gangster. The notion of the benevolent COKE/CRACK dealer
who REALLY loves the hood and it dovetails nicely with
Will Okuns latest piece in The Times about his students who
are members of gangs.

He points out that having had conversations with his
students that there are four reasons why students join gangs.

He also talks about the intervention he attempted with a kid who
was murdered recently.

I asked my classes if gang members feel any remorse when an innocent bystander is killed. I asked if this type of tragedy forces gang members to at least temporarily question or reduce their own violent actions. I asked if gang members feel regret that their community expresses outrage that their ?children are too scared to play outside.?

To all three questions, the students answered with a resounding no. One student volunteered, ?That kid was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.?

It is easy to write off gang members. In my school, they are often hard, violent, disrespectful, indifferent, ignorant, hostile, agitated, boisterous and confrontational.

But sometimes you get a glimpse behind the steely fa?ade and realize that many of these gang members are just scared, angry teenagers who have raised themselves and are trying to navigate an adult world on their own. Both their support system and their safety net in this chaotic environment are disproportionately small.

You just want to grab them and yell, ?Stop! Life does not have to be this way. You do not have to be this way. I can see who you really are. It is not too late to change.?

When I first came back to the bay, my cousin told me I could
earn $60K starting, annually, working at juvenile hall. I was like,
?why does it pay so much?? He said the work was hard. I told my
dad about it, and he said that that not only was the work hard,
but that it is very difficult to watch people fail.

Okun?s recent article reminded me of this.

Back to American Gangster. I also thought about Russels
observation that ?some people just don?t want to stop
drugs from entering the country? so many ?laywers,
correction officers, judges? would lose their jobs. And to
that I say salute.

Where is the economic analysis of the number of jobs
created by the sheer volume of Black/Brown men and
women who are in jail violent AND non violent drug
offenses. How would our economy be impacted if
these offenses were no longer prosecuted at the current rate?

What would happen to said our economy IF those
prosecutions ceased?

I ask these questions to get us in conversation
about whose interests are being served by having such a
robust prison population.

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You seen American Gangster?

What is your feeling on “humanizing” a Drug Dealers?

Why isn’t the same level of scorn directed towards Ken Lay and
Jeff Skilling of Enron? Is it the white collar/street crime distinction?

Is it way of looking at an individual or does it constitute going soft when
what you really need to be is critical?

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