Dang.

Go to www.collateralmurder.com right now. 
No bullshee.


This is something else. But who's surprised?

Russell Simmons Not In Favor Of Jay-Z & AEG Casino Partnership; Starts New Comedy Venture

Russell Simmons Not In Favor Of Jay-Z & AEG Casino Partnership; Starts New Comedy Venture
(via Hip Hop Wired)

But wait:

I'm uncomfortable. And these profits will go towards...?
And what "the people" are we talking about...exactly?

*sighs...

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen's Torture in Montana Prison

:::::ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen's Torture in Montana Prison :::::

This situation is entirely, ENTIRELY out of hand. The link above is the full letter from the ACLU to the U.N.

A young man who has been tagged "Robert Doe" is going through HELL in solitary. Half of Robert's time in prison--since the age of 16--has been spent in isolation. According to the ACLU's letter, Robert has a documented history of childhood physical and mental abuse, has been diagnosed with more than one mental illness including PTSD, and yet has been repeatedly deprived of appropriate mental health treatment. INSTEAD, Robert has been Tasered, pepper sprayed, stripped and further animalized.

Robert has tried to commit suicide twice, and I ask you:

WHAT 'REHABILITATION' DO YOU SEE HAPPENING HERE?!!!!

Here is American TORTURE at its finest!

Here are the politics of the prison industrial complex laid bare! I don't know what color this child is, and gottabehonest, I don't care. This is what's happening, folks.

Truth is more heinous than fiction. A baby. This is how America raises her babies.

Nicki Minaj and Hip-Hop's Lesbian Quarantine: The Threesome

Nicki Minaj and Hip-Hop's Lesbian Quarantine: The Threesome

Interesting.

Got this from The Sexist via Washington City Paper.

That Bitch Magazine touched Minaj at all is actually more of a shocker for me than anything. (You'll see the reference to another Nicki--who penned the Bitch article--a few paragraphs in.)

I'm a Nicki Minaj fan. I'm not necessarily a good one, with a Barb card and all. I don't know all of her songs or own all of her mixtapes. But one of the draws for me had been exactly what's under discussion over on Champlain St.

I am aware of how males in the industry give her the touche for commanding 'tig ol' bitty' pics quicker than any dude. (See Twitter.) And I think it's an--albeit amusing--but tried and true exercise in futility to attempt pinning her persona down to an exact location within the crossfire of sexual politics and hip hop culture.

We've grown so accustomed to bashing the oral dimension of the medium--especially within the last decade--that it's difficult to speak of it from anything other than a reactionary stance as a 'feminist-type'.

Rather than reinforce hip hop as a male sphere, the two songs referenced actually function as evidence of not only Minaj's lyrical chantdown of Victorian norms, but hip hop's resistance to the same. This is her game, too.

In other words, Usher could be indulging fantasies of 'lipstick lesbianism'. Gucci could be indulging fantasies created by the patriarchal imagination, but at the end of the day they both have Minaj on the song screwing with all gender theories on all fronts confusing all interest groups--straight, Ally, SGL, LGBTTSQ, hip hop heads, sexist dudes, not sexist dudes... (See Bitch.)

This may be because I think I'm grown now, but I think I kinda like the confusion she's causing.

Good job. Carry on.

Would like to see more of this Minaj en comparable rotation, though:

#OMGfacts: Lil Wayne's Final Words on #NOLA & #Haiti

Lil Wayne Has Love For Haiti, But What About New Orleans?
(via Global Grind)

Weezy states ThingsThatAreJustTrue.com.

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AlterNet calls it Flour Power: the Tea Party Movement

Flour Power: White Racial Resentment Bubbles Under the Surface of the Tea Party Movement News & Politics AlterNet

My point exactly.

But it's deeper than resentment.

I've been tweeting dates in American history that'll likely only see the light of day in a month like the one we're in right now. (That is: Chris Matthews fave and mine, "Oh!-I-Just-Remembered-You-Were-Black! Month)

But without a doubt, current events are pointing to major, sweeping revolution--as in the not so 11/4/08-celebratory kind. As Black Codes and Jim Crow (are) were to Reconstruction, so I truly, seriously, honestly believe our present political and social situation are about to erupt in further mobilization of those who had heretofore been pushed to the fringes of the U.S. nation-state's extremism.

Now?

I just don't know.

The Tea Party doesn't seem to be particularly organized or well centered--but that's actually a greater cause for concern than it is for disregard, in my opinion. And to make matters even more interesting, Rev. O'Reilly and Brother Beck are cranking out revival shoutdowns across the country. (Sidebar: If Black churches and theatres get to be tagged the 'chitlin' circuit', O'Reilly & Beck's circus act would constitute a working of what circuit?)

I predict Strange Fruit to be the no. 1 best-seller on iTunes by tomorrow.
Happy New Year!
1491.

Racist Consul General Of Haiti In Brazil Exposed

Racist Consul General Of Haiti In Brazil Exposed

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UM...anybody fighting the feeling on this one???

Earthquake in Venezuela today of 5.6 magnitude.

Trace Mag blog gives a little more detail about the natural disaster de resistance. S.M.H.

San Francisco Gate reports that no one has been reported hurt, but folks are indeed shaken.

Things that really don't make you wonder...(2009 image)

Now that you say it, he IS much fairer than Wesley Snipes...

Y'all weren't lying when y'all said he'd 'change the way we talk about race.'

Indeed O-beezie would.

We got 'Negro' on the Census. 'Negro' out of Harry Reid's, actually, accurate analysis of then-Senator Obama's candidacy. And, yes: It's 2010.

If he'd been Wesley Snipes-Black, and 'round the way-vernacular'ed, no, he wouldn't've been a contenda [sic]. But the fact that we're discussing this at all is what's greater than the issue itself what's been said.

The future feels familiar.

Ok. Being...(what's it called?...oh!) 'objective'...let's look at it like this: back in the day--that is, the late 19th century--'Negro' carried some teeth. Something like 'Black' did for 'Black' Power in the second half of the 20th century. Think New Negro Movement. The truly 'uppity Negro'--who may have had any trace of 'agency' or 'mobility' (if they can be called that) circa the early 1900s resisted such an association for fear of being excommunicated further from an overwhelmingly pro-terror White Supremacist society. Y'know...Societe des Etrange Fruit. (At which time, we were still Terror Threat #1. Now we've got mad bred'ren de todas las razas y colores...)

Hubert Harrison's The Voice [of the New Negro Movement], for example, was the kind of publication no allegedly progressive-minded 'Colored' (or so-dubbed by Le Societe) would want to be mentioned in cahoots with. These were the folks who were acknowledging the need for armed resistance in the absence of a system of law that would protect, defend, honor and enable their personhood and right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

That history, then, adds this "dayummmmm right/bad mutha--shutyo'mouth!", Shaft-like dimension to being called a 'Negro' because of how boldly the naming was claimed by our not-so-status-quo foremothers and -fathers.

On another hand, it makes sense that folks would be sensitive to the re-emergence of a term that feels odd in the context of the race classification of the first half of the 20th Century.

When you get into the no-excuses-indisputably-racist-as-HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLL so-called 'science' of eugenics?? THAT'S when moi is tempted to neck roll, three snaps and everything else. That whole Negroid-Mongoloid-Australoid...Freakazoid biz was for more than tha birds!

That was the kind of foolery meant to legitimize some biological predisposition to less-than-human status. Consequently this was the science (much like 'drapetomania'...ohhhh...science...) that supported Black Codes and miscegenation legislation that still hasn't been totally disappeared from the books.

SCIENCE-IS-STOOPID: EXHIBIT A

As emerges in conversations on the other notorious 'N' word, 'tis true that we existed in this country for so long without the stated, on-the-record power to name ourselves, define ourselves as a kidnapped, and forcibly subjugated people. Annnnnnd as emerges in conversations on the other notorious 'N' word, there's this proclivity to discuss 'reclamation' of language and 'who's term is it anyway?'

That last matter is the real source of discomfort. Cuz it's whose mouths this word has slipped from: the State and Sen. Reid. Do they mean to acknowledge this string of history?

Negro, please.

But I'm content to rear back, real cool-like like Shaft. Like a knowing rebel sitting on a secret...criminal indeed.

And so the moral of the story is simply this: no knee-jerks here. This business of semantics may never tire! But perhaps our threshold for dumb-it-down dialogue will.

Tryna get 'woke daily. Deuces!

Where to begin? Gaddafi, Jr. & Bey? 'Caribou Barbie & Friends'?

Or should we acknowledge Michael "itdon'tmatterwhenugohard:youlostyocardwhenuapologizedtoRushLimbaugh" Steele?

Decisions. Decisions. Decisions.

Let's just jump right into it.

Next entry: This 'Negro Dialect' biz >> per Michelle Martin's guest this afternoon:

I mean, let's keep'i'treal, "he's much fairer than Wesley Snipes..."