in particular the line of...Yes. David Banner said it.Talk about colored girls, homicide and patriarchy. You would think that Capitalism, the fall of the stock market and the priceof rice were controlled by who we had sex with. What if a white man sat on that stage and said that? R.I.O.T. David goes on to say that “Most of [...]
Archive for June, 2008
For Colored Girls who Considered Homicide When Patricarchy was Enough
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008These days and times are trife for Black women. You will rarely hear me speak from the stance of victim-hood, as i try my hardest to keepagency on mines. My rationale is that as long as you are reactionary, someone elsewill always be setting your agenda and you will not gain any sustainabletraction. However the [...]
The Removal of White Feminists
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Earlier in June Linda Hirshman wrote a piece in theWashington Post about the feminist movement is fracturingby paying too much attention to the “other”, and that the movementneeds to focus. Hirshman writes, A movement that uses intersectionality as a lens but banishes white, bourgeois, corporate older women might be a vehicle to glue what remains [...]
On Vulnerability
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Vulnerability came up not once, but twice yesterday, and I had thefeeling that it would come up again this morning. Yesterday, one of my homies, S.bot confided some crazy shit to me.She basically said that she recently learned that she hadan issue with being vulnerable to the extent that she workeddiligently at not allowing any [...]
Congress Got a Problem with Nas?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Remember when MC hammer was considered a sell out becausehe endorsed so many products? My how things have changed. What this video brought up, that I never considered, was thedifficulty in buying ads with an album titled N-gger. Nas, oddly, appears to find comfort in the industries discomfort. Doesn’t Congress have better things to do [...]
M.dot’s Podcast Ep. 2- Other Peoples Property
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Click the above text “M.dots Podcast…” to listen. Shout out to Gotty for recommending the podcast service. That shit was getting me heated. I did the ‘cast on Friday, but washaving uploading problems. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I really wanted to post it. As usual, your feed back is appreciated. TOPICS: [...]
Are Little Black Girls Human?
Friday, June 13th, 2008R. Kelly got acquitted today. He is a sick man and his not being found guilty says thatour girls bodies are worth very little, unless they are in a music video. Jail would have only made him a worse predator than he already is.He needs to go into recovery. Ask someone who is from the [...]
Hip Hop, Homophobia and the Down Low
Monday, June 9th, 2008Last month, when I read Weiss’s post titled ?Passion of theWeiss’s Guide to the Gay Rapper” I thought about both, whatmen in general and white men specifically have invested inmonitoring the Black gayness in hip hop. Weiss’s post was inresponse the Terrence Deans new book, Hiding in Hip Hop. I then decided that I was [...]
On the Margins
Thursday, June 5th, 2008Every since my pastor told me that Black women are thegate keepers of the margins, I haven’t been the same. He said this, then handed me bell hooks’ Feminist Theory,and Malcolm and Martin, American Dream American Nightmareand encouraged me to write. I was honored. I was also bummed out.It felt great to be encouraged, but [...]
Keep the La in the Air
Thursday, June 5th, 2008The post that got Gotty to take “notice” of me, and cross post,was piece where I was talking about listening to The World is Yoursremix and dancing around as I listened to it on repeat. That post is so old that, I think we were BOTH on Blogger then. Well. I went out tonight. And [...]
