Don’t Name Your Baby Qua’Shaya.


So the ZestyLeo has decided to name her daughter “Brooklyn”, if its a girl. Upon hearing that. I said, you better not do that to that child, she will need to be able to get a job in the future.

Bear in mind that the baby is not gonna be Black but Mexican & Jewish. The fact still
remains. Babies need to get jobs as adults, and discrimination is trill!

In a timely and ironic twist The invite/ card for the Joe Ovelman show that I went to on Saturday listed hella negro names crossed out a la Basquiat, nice touch.


The EXHIBIT

Joe took polariods of brown people and also had them take of him.

He then had them write their names underneath his face.

He tied it together with James Baldwins quote, “as long as you are white, I will be black.” (Hot right!?!?!).

And then the chickens came home to roost.

The second part of the exhibit was a interactive piece where I listened to rap songs with “n*gga” in the title.

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However, some n*ggas be trippin’, so we constantly go back and forth over that jawn.

Its deep that a white boy put the list together.

In listening to the songs in the art gallery, I felt ashamed and delighted.

Ashamed because someone so personal was on display in a gallery.

Delighted that Joe, decided to call attention to it the way that he did WITHOUT preaching.

Truth be told. Some of the songs straight knock too.

The most surprising thing about the show were these miniture figurines of lynched people.

They actually would make cute earrings. However I don’t think that is what Joe had in mind.

The figurines are subversive in that they are the smallest, and disposable of the show.

Yet they represent something so heinous and central to American history- the violence of lynching human beings.

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My Bears loss.

Go Dungy.

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Go See the Oliver Kamm Show @ the 5BE Gallery, titled, For Whites Only.

Joe Ovelman: For Whites Only

January 12 ? February 10, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, January 12, 2007, 6 ? 8 PM

Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery is pleased to announce Joe Ovelman?s second solo show with the gallery. ?For Whites Only? is an investigation into race and culture in America. Ovelman confronts racism and questions identity.

“For Whites Only” will feature Ovelman?s largest participatory project to date.

“Rosa Parks 381” includes 381 Polaroids of the artist, taken and signed by 381 individuals who could self-identify as African-American. You can experience dizziness, so be careful while driving and operating heavy machinery within a 24 hour period because it may cause dizziness. levitra 60 mg However, consumers super cialis cheap is going to take warning when choosing a specific product or pill, as there are many products out there is because each one works differently for each person. The Acai Capsules or the World’s Strongest Antioxidant (apart from a few spices), is the perfect supplement for a top cialis 10 mg informative pharmacy shop model. Order Page levitra 10 mg Usually, men with diabetes are in risk of erectile dysfunction or impotence in male. The number in the title commemorates the number of days of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and is inspired by the James Baldwin quote, “I?ll be black for as long as you tell me that you are white”.

“Regi”, 2005 is a video in which the paid subject, chosen for his African decent, stands naked and confined to one end of a room for 8 hours, the length of a typical work day. The video was shot in Porto Seguro, Brazil, a historic slave-trading port.

Also on view: ?7 Gold Lynchings,? miniature, bound figures sculpted in wire;

?Twelve Drawings,? anecdotes of racism from the artist?s life; and a compilation CD, ?Nigga in the Title,” featuring twenty-four songs whose titles include the word nigga.

Ovelman asks, out of 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 12 months a year, when am I white?

February is Turning out to be Racially Charged and Delicious.

White College students dressin up like coons again.

Don’t blame this sh*t on Hip hop. This coonery sh*t is as old as baseball and apple pie.

Baggy clothes one thing.

Bling another thing.

Black Face, w/ baggy clothes @ a party dancing holding a forty = ’07 Coonery.

Apparently the President of Clemson is investigating the parties.

“The behavior of the students involved was so offensive and inflammatory that it could quickly have spiraled into a major racial episode on campus,” said Bill Nigut, ADL Southeast Regional Director. “But by publicly condemning the party and quickly calling for an investigation, President Barker has hopefully shown that the incident doesn’t represent the attitudes about race held by most students on the Clemson campus.”

“This unfortunate episode points up the need for ongoing education on the college campus to ensure that students fully understand America’s history of racism and the consequences of unchecked bigotry and hate,” Nigut said.

In a letter to students and faculty, President Barker said he was “appalled, angered and disappointed by the party.” He pledged that the university is “willing to do anything to make this right.”

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Presidential candidate Joseph Biden calls Obama a N*gga. I mean he called him “Articulate and Clean”.

I betchu he figures out a way to blame it on hip hop.

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.” (Watch Biden’s comments and Obama’s reaction Video)

Biden issued a statement Wednesday afternoon, saying: “I deeply regret any offense my remark in the New York Observer might have caused anyone. That was not my intent and I expressed that to Sen. Obama.”

Biden also spoke to reporters in a conference call Wednesday afternoon and said the remark was taken out of context.

“Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that the Democratic or Republican Party has produced at least since I’ve been around,” Biden said on the call. “And he’s fresh. He’s new. He’s smart. He’s insightful. And I really regret that some have taken totally out of context my use of the world ‘clean.'”

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A school in Oakland has succeeded in reducing the number of Black students and increasing the number of neighborhood white students.

Peralta is still a racially and socioeconomically diverse school- in part, because its attendance area includes neighborhoods outside of Rockridge. But African-American children made up 85 percent of the kindergarten class in 2000, and only 28 percent in 2005. The number of kids who receive free or reduced-price lunch also has declined.

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Barclays has naming rights to the New Jersey Nets stadium in Brooklyn. Politicians and n*ggas a trippin off the fact that Barclays has “ties to slavery”.

Mr. Green, who is also black, said that Barclays, one of the wealthiest corporations in the world, had agreed to pay $2.5 million for park renovation and other projects. ?At least as a point of negotiation,? he said, ?we should seek far more.?

He added, ?If we were to exclude all the corporations that participated in the slave trade, there would only be a handful of companies? for Forest City Ratner to negotiate with.

So wait. Is the problem that Barclays benefited from slavery, or that folks fell that Barclays they need to pay MORE BECAUSE they benefited from slavery.


He added, ?This game of ?gotcha!? ? pointing out this particular bank had relationships with slave traders or slaveholders ? gets a little bit silly because all banks did. Barclays is not unusual in being connected to the history of slavery, nor is it unusually innocent.?

Sh*t every major financial institution has ties to slavery. Whats the point?!?!??! If fools are gonna go @ major institutions then go hard. No cherry picking allowed.

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Speaking of cherries. I was in Wholefoods today and the strawberries were so aromatic that I smelled them before I saw them.

It was a short wift of summer.

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Academic /Artist Dudes vs Street Dudes.


A couple of weeks ago Minnesota McGuyver got in my @ss for saying that one of the major distinctions between street dudes and academic/artist dudes is that street dudes are far more likely to be transparent w/ their emotions. (They are also more likely to call you @ 3am talkin’ ’bout can you stash me out?).

In addition he felt that we were breaking down cats into two strict categories, whereas hella cats fall into the gray area. That gray area is where the Academic and the artist dues overlap.

For him, it is offensive to say that street dudes are more emotionally transparent than the academics/artists. He felt that my homies were making that distinction because they have a thug fetish and they were using the “emotional transparency” argument as a convenient justification.

Consequently, women who fetishize the “bad boys” are not taking into consideration that academic cats can have a lil street jawn to them. And, that academic cats can be “emotionally expressive”. Which leaves us with the middle cats in the gray area.

Minnesota McGuyver major funk w/ me was a theory, posited by a couple of my girls, who’s experiences demonstrated that street cats:
a. Are more transparent with their feelings, less passive agressive.
b. Are more likely to let you know where you stand, in relationship to the other women in their lives. They tend not to keep a jawn at arms length b/c they can.

c. Are more likely to treat you, the academic sista, as The Prize, with a captial T.

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Which brings me to
the new P video, Mac 10 Handle.
Ballerina P aka Pistol Pump P, aka P Lova from Queens.

Now ladies, tell me P, in all his corrupt darkness, ain’t fly.

Physically, not really. Spiritually. Super gulls.

This video reminds me of why a lady checks for dudes who put his sh*t out there.

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This is one of those posts that I contemplated for a couple weeks.

Then I hear MP in my head saying, gurrrl, let it dew what it do, so I let the words spill.

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Drama, Cannon and the Future of Mixtapes


The record industry is notorious for operating under quasi legal auspices.

Cannon and Drama need to do two things. Get Gotti’s attorney. If I recall, Gotty had a RICO charge.

Once they get his atty, he/she needs get down the Georgia attorney general and see about putting the record labels on the defensive by requesting an investigation into the labels practices of paying to have songs placed on mixtapes, then PENALIZING the DJ’s w/ a raid for selling too many mix tapes. **Cue DMX, DONT BE GREEDY.

The labels are gonna try and eat. They are institutions. Thats what they are built to do, like alligators. However, invading n*ggas houses, thats a declaration of war.

ABOUT PAYOLA

Fools are sitting up here citing the fact that label execs PAY DJ’s to put songs on Mixtapes. And? These n*ggas orchestrated payola for hella years too. Whats new?

Jeff Leeds breaks it down in The Times.

The labels? reliance on the D.J.?s is complicated further by the fact that many of the top mixtape creators also double as radio D.J.?s on major rap stations. Many label executives acknowledge that when they write checks to certain D.J.?s to produce a mix CD for an artist, there is often an expectation that the D.J. will play the artist?s music on the air ? an arrangement that recalls the industry?s recent radio corruption scandals involving illicit pay-for-play, or payola.


RECORD EXECUTIVES ARE SURPRISED

And many more people now know: last week, local authorities, working with the recording industry?s trade association, stunned fans and music executives alike by raiding DJ Drama?s studio in Atlanta and arresting him and a fellow D.J., Don Cannon, on racketeering charges. Investigators seized more than 81,000 allegedly pirated CDs and say the pair were producing unlicensed recordings and selling them without permission.


THE SCOPE OF THE CASE CHANGES

I thought this was a copyright infringement case. Then I came across this @ analoguehole.

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In both these cases, the court majorities found that the state laws in question were not preempted because the state offense included an “extra element” (lack of an identifying label) beyond the elements of a mere copyright violation. (The “true names” provisions are also drafted so as to apply regardless of the copyright status of the underlying work, or whether the copy was authorized by a copyright owner, so arguably the state true names offenses lack some of the elements of a copyright offense as well.)

However, Georgia’s state antipiracy statute goes beyond requiring “true names” labeling, treading into what clearly seems to be copyright territory. The Georgia law makes it a crime to “[t]ransfer … any sounds or visual images recorded on [any disc, tape, or other] article … onto any other [disc, tape, or other] article without the consent of the person who owns the master [disc, tape, or other] article from which the sounds or visual images are derived” or to distribute (or possess with intent to distribute) copies of any article to which which sounds or images have been transferred, “knowing it to have been made without the consent of the person who owns the master [disc, tape, or other] article from which the sounds or visual images are derived.” Ga. Code Ann., ? 16-8-60(a).


Drama’s case is a tricky issue b/c there are notions of federal copyright law as well as notions of notions of state racketeering law involved.


MIX TAPES vs. BOOTLEGS: THE DISTINCTION

He goes on to address the distinction between MIX TAPES AND BOOTLEGS and the applicable law and tests.

Unlike a typically street vendor of pirated CDs, a DJ selling mixtapes would want to identify the product as his own, and also will generally (in my admittedly limited experience) identify the various tracks included in the mix. So a “true names” violation is unlikely. Perhaps the Georgia authorities have other RICO predicates in mind that are unrelated to the content of DJ Drama’s mixtape CDs (like state tax or licensing violations, or maybe someone has been taking DJ Drama’s compilation label, “Gangsta Grillz,” too literally). But given the involvement of the RIAA in the raid, and the public statements from the RIAA’s Bradley Buckles, et al., it appears that the charges are indeed based on the mixtapes themselves.

If the basis for the DJ Drama RICO charges is indeed a claim of “unauthorized distribution” under Ga. Code 16-8-60(a), then we should expect some vigorous challenges to the statute. It would seem that Simmons and Cannon likely have the means to mount a vigorous defense, and they certainly have the incentive to do so. And given that Georgia’s “unauthorized distribution” law so closely mirrors federal copyright law, it also seems quite difficult to see how the Georgia statute could withstand such a vigorous challenge.


Ummmm Sticky legal questions!


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I think that is a whole weeks worth of blogging fam.

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