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Drooping Willows
Sexy moss leaves

White one story bungalows,
Clap board windows
The location of my future nuptials

I pronounce it New- or-Leans
Jus? like my momma

You are not suffering alone
We are watching, planning,
Evaluating and assisting

My heart

Ventricles,

arties and all

Goes out

To you and yours.

We Fugees now hunh?

Big up to my girl T who brought to my attention the MAJOR problem with calling displaced New Orleaneans REFUGEES.

New Orleanians are NOT refugees. For all intents and purposes refugees tend to be discarded by this country. Wait, maybe I need to rethink this argument. These are tax paying citizens of the United States. “Refugees”, are left to perish at the hands of the ?corrupt? Haitian, Sudanese or government.

The folks in New Orleans are people. They have, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, grand mommas, godmommas etc. Calling them refugees undermines both the suffering they have experienced and their rights to post disaster FEDERAL assistance.

Ann Rice recognized the folks down there for what they are when she stated that,

Thousands didn?t leave New Orleans because they couldn?t leave?..and they did what they felt they could do?— they huddled together in the strongest houses they could find. ?.What?s more is that thousands more that could have left stayed behind to help others.

Bling it Back

On a more personal note I am keeping a close watch on EXACTLY what Universal records does for New Orleans. Home to the Cash Money Millionaire’s, a very profitable group for Universal. Universal has made A LOT of money off rap music from New Orleans, (and we won?t even get into Jazz). The dudes at Cash Money invented the term Bling. Lets see if Universal, not withstanding the fact that they ARE a corporation that is ultmatley responsible to their share holders, will help the folk down in N.O.

The folks in N.O. supported these artists when they were hustling their music locally. This success ultimately provided proof to Universal that Weezie, Juvie and Baby had a sound that was bound to go national, it was just a matter of when.

Black folks are notriously forgiving, think R. Kelley, Kobe. Lets see if we forgive Universal if they fail to assist the town that has produced music that has made millions of dollars for them.

August Wilson, the playwright is dying. He was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer in June. I still remember reading the ?Piano Lesson? and high school and thinking to myself ?Wow, this man has an amazing sense of the context of Black folks lives within the U.S., and REFUSES to portray us as violent, greedy, animals.? He is currently working on a play titled ?Radio Golf? which will be on view at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. My thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family.

Movie News

Puff?s version of Carlito?s Way is coming out soon. I think we have Mario Van Peebles to thank for thatJ

Bullets in the Hood, a film about gun violence in Bed-Stuy. The two filmmakers, Terrence Fisher and Daniel Howard were friends of Timithy Stansbury, the young man who was killed by an NYPD officer on the roof of the Louis Armstrong projects. Timithy was on the way to a party with a friend.

There will be a FREE screening on Tuesday the 6^th at BAM as well as a reception.

When Affrimative Action was White by Ira Katznelson

Talk about provocative. In Nick Kotz?s New York Times review of the book he states that there were two major ways issues that undermined with Black wealth development and transfer that, there White counterparts, were able to receive.

The book mainly focuses on the FDR?s new deal, and how it affected Black and White veterans differently.

?The G.I. Bill in the south was designed to accomadate Jim crow?Southern Congressional leaders made certain that the programs were directed not by Washington but by local officials, businessmen, bankers, and college administrators who would HONOR past practices.?

?By October 1946, 6500 former soldiers had been placed in non farm jobs by the employment service in Mississippi. 86% of the skilled and semi skilled jobs were filled by white?.92% of the skilled by blacks. “

[Home ownership and college attendance are the two main perquisites for wealth bulding and transferance. You gotta GET the house and then you gotta pass it on to some after you die. By attending college, offers greater insurance that you will be employed and able to pay the taxes so you can pass it on to your children.]

Diversity for Dummies

Jonathan Kozol calls it like he sees it.

That fool said diversity is a synonym for segregation meanin ? black students, ? latino students, and three white kids.

A lot of the problems that we enounter with public education have to do with the lack of financial transparency. How can we advocate more money for the shcools when we do not know, in plain speak how the money is being spent.

Perhaps a federal bill requiring all school budgets to be published annually could empower more parents and students. Instead of No Child Left Behind, we could call it the School Budget Sunshine Act. or the School Cash Transparency Act. I know, my idealism is showing. But hey, I can dream:)

Bobby and Rich

There is nothing like Labor Day weekend, in the spot, singing-a-long with my folks to DWYCK, Passing Me By and other 89-94 treats. Table 50 was live then a mug last night. I forgot how much fun that party could be. The wack part was when some one set off the fire alarm. Other than that, I couldn?t think of a better way to chill on a breezy summer evening.

First I don’t post for hella weeks now I can’t stop postin’.

When I was in Cali of all places I caught a Hip Hop panel on C-Span.
It was sponsered by Third World Press and Institute of Positive Education, Betty Shabazz International Charter School.
The panelist were:

Coval, Kevin – Artistic Director, Young Chicago Authos

Kitwana, Bakari – Author

Norman-Hawkins, Amina – President, Chicago Hip Hop Initiative

Paniccioli, Ernie – Photographer

Rivera, Raquel Z. – Correspondent

Wang, Oliver – Critic

Wimsatt, William Upski – Author

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Talk about something that was inspiring.

I did not get to see all of it.

I just may purchase the video to soak up some of that game.
If C-Span was right, they would stream that ish, but that is another story.

At first glance you may groan and say, just another afternoon w/ egroesn talkin’.

But peep. It still sticks out in my mind that one of the panelist said, only when people congregate will they make it congress.
That isn’t to say that that is our Ultimate goal, but I am not mad at that.
William Upski is mad inspiring. He was on some “The people in this room have the power to use Hip Hop to change the world type ‘ish.” It was easy to believe That pre ’96, but not in recent memory has someone said something to that affect AND had me thinking of ways to harness HH’s appeal with the young bucks.

I cannot believe that I am just now hearing about it.
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Jay-Z was in the Times this weekend.
The dopest part of the article was when, wait it minute I have to get the clip out my purse, was the exchange between Jay and Ghostface that the author translated.

Around 2, Ghostface Killer….showed up for a meeting…”What up, family?” Jay-Z said with a strong handshake and a quick man-hug. [Men do BE having man hugs too, especially brotha’s.]

I just wanted to dump some heat on you,” Ghostface replied…Its extra meaty already, but I just want you to add your little extra.” (Translation: Iv’e got some great new music that I’d like you to hear and I would appreciate your input).

I swear there are few times that I feel more alive than when I read some beautiful language.

Does anyone else love, wireless, but hate Explorer? I mean damn. That ‘ish is so wack. I don’t know how I have been living without Firefox for so long. The damn Blogger menu bar has like two options when you don’t use Firefox.

The Sideshows are thought to be over, at least a recently as last week. Ionno. The young hyphies may just be waiting for Raider season to start to have an excuse to go dumb. Robert Gammon, of East Bay Express fame was talking about it.
According to Slinky, iggasn did start shootin’ at the end of Summer Jam in the Bay. It will probably be the last one. Everyone was cool when, Kanye and Common and ‘nem were on stage, but brotha’, brotha’, brotha’ when E-39+1 gets on, and yer smobbers get to smobbing, it was pretty much a wrap.

On the political side of things, appears the Ron Dellums is running for Mayor of Oakland. I left last week, and he was still on the fence. That could be really interesting, seeing as he has had such a lofty career as a state representative.

Some town sista’s are coming to NY (SOB’s). Keyshia Cole on 8/31 and Goapele on 9/21.

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New Ish about to come out:
Brand Nuban: Solo Material an EP. I do not know which label is putting this out, but it is interesting to see that they are still at it.

AZ’s new joint is titled AWOL. He has allways been one of my favorite “I am hungry ma, and Im gon’ shine” kinda individuals.

I picked up the Turf Tawk Collaboration, the new Madlib.
But what I am checkin’ for is the new Sean P. His verse on one of those Chemistry joints was NIIIIICE. I almost wanna transcribe it.

Slinky, Imma try and post that NWA you an I were talking about.

And last but not least a thank you goes out to J. Douglas Allen-Taylor. I have been reading his work since he was a writer for the “Oakland Urbanview”.
I can allways depend on him to provide an insigtful interpretation of town events.
Most recently he wrote about a concert series taking place at Arroyo park in East Oakland.
He attributes the lack of gun clap, the hyphies being present at the event to the fact that there was more of an “Older” crowd, and their children at the event.

Dwayne Wiggans organized it. Council woman Desley Brooks paid for it out of her own budget. The following has performed:
Rose Royce
Lenny Williams
Midnight Star
Dwyane Wiggians is set to perform in September.

Mr. Allen-Taylor could not have said it better when he stated that “the road to Oaklands well-being does not pass down Broadway. It passes through the neighborhoods where all of us live.”

He admits that one of the reasons why the event ran so smoothly was because the cops were “easy going and professional, acting as if all of us were part of the same community.” I would imagine that this is what good police work is all about.

Okay Dame. So you know I had to do some diggin’ and thinking.

Being the pathological reader I am (wussup Joneze) I have to do a book list on town books. Keep in mind that this is partial, yet a start.

#1. Drive By Gary Rivlin. It is an account of the murder of Kevin Reed who as Kevin was former classmate
of mine at King Estate Middle School. He was murdered on Aeseon and Dowling on July 9th, 1990. I think that was the first funeral that I went to for someone so young. Not only does the book talk about Kevin’s murder, but about Kevin’s family, and Oakland’s history.

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#3.Blues City: A Walk in Oakland by Ishmael Reed. Is was wonderful book that drops some jewels about the town and the history of some of our neighbohoods. Despite the fact that Ishmael and Alice do not get along, this is a fast read about our beloved town.

#4.Too Beautiful for Words by Monique Morris. This book is inspired largely by The Coup Song, Jesus the Pimp. Monique is real cool too.

#5. The Dying Ground and The Last King by Nichelle Tramble. Nichelle is a FIRST RATE myster writer who uses the Bay as her backdrop. My heart skips a beat every time I hear that she is publishing a new book. I cannot WAIT until the third installment of this serious.

Next up is a lil’ piece on the Mac Dre phenomenon.