According to a tweet I saw from your twitter, it doesn’t seem that Frank Ocean coming out didn’t make an impact to you one way or another.
“It wasn’t in reference to Frank Ocean. It was in reference to black women. Black women tend to be overly celebratory about things that directly or could directly affect them in a harmful way. I watch black women on twitter malign heterosexual black men who they view as promiscuous. I watch them malign them every day, yet it’s harder for a woman to give HIV to a man than it is for a man to give it to a woman. I watch the same women celebrate bisexuality in a black man. I don’t judge bisexuality or homosexuality; to each his own. I grew up under wonderful gay uncles who are the reason why I went to Morehouse, the reason why I have certain fashion sensibilities. They are the ones that gave me culture because my dad and stepdad were just manly kind of men. Artistically and culturally I am who I am because of my gay uncles.
carries higher risk for something. (<there’s clearly something missing here because it doesn’t make sense but whatever) So I am just amazed when I see black women who just castigate their heterosexual partners to dirt level, celebrate gay and bisexual in a way that is almost exclusive of how their distrustful they are of black women. They look down on black women and say that ‘I’m not a whore,’ but all these other whores are. In how they look down on heterosexual men who are traditionally their partners, but they celebrate somehow another group of man that supposedly will never betray them and seek their heterosexual partner.
I support Frank Ocean’s freedom to be who he is. I congratulate Frank Ocean. I feel that my gay uncles would be ashamed of me to be anything else. With that said, I’m not ever going to let black women who don’t let us off the hook, off the hook. I’m not going to let sisters who are the highest growing population of HIV cases off the hook either. There is some sick s*it in our community we got to get our head around. That’s a problem.”
I was referring to a tweet I was referring to the day Frank Ocean came out and you tweeted was something like Luther Vandross was one of my favorite R&B artists … I don’t care. Are you saying that there is a certain type of black woman that likes to put bisexuality or homosexuality on a pedestal?
“No that’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is on Twitter, bisexuality and homosexuality being celebrated by the same women who were disparaging their heterosexual counterparts and their mates. In terms of like he’s gay and singing, if you look at high school, all the kids that were in AV were techs and they were music nerds. So when I get in the music business those guys are that run the boards. Most of the kids that were in theater, some of them were gay. So I’m not surprised by that culture. I was introduced to the arts by my gay uncles; like they’re point of interest is there so I’m not surprised if any singer or rapper is gay honestly. I just want their music to be good. It mattered to me that Luther Vandross sang about love honestly. It doesn’t matter who he was singing to. When I listened to his song I apply to it who I want to apply to it. When I listen to his songs I think about my woman.”
Food for thought. I’m still digesting. I’m sure he meant well but I’m a little lost if I’m being honest. And, I’m not sure how I feel about “They are the ones that gave me culture because my dad and stepdad were just manly kind of men.” I find it to be a little stereotypical.#KanyeShrug
President Barack Obama is in town tonight raising money for his political campaign. He, along with Hollywood powerhouse Tyler Perry, host a special evening with supporters tonight. Though I had planned on being at the event, the campaign prices are a bit steep considering today’s economy. Atlanta’s elite is in the building. Ludacris has been tweeting feverishly about blessing the Prez with a custom designed headphones from “Soul” by Ludacris.
I snatched some pics from twitter surrounding tonight’s event. Including, but no limited to, President Obama’s arrival in ATL. Enjoy.
President Obama arriving in Atlanta at 5:25pm via @WBTV
Cee Lo performing
The DJ’s of the night @DJmos @DjKiss
President Obama talking to the audience about current economic hardships.
Y’all know that I love my President. But we got to keep everybody honest if we’re really going to ever truly achieve democracy. It seems while most internet users were boycotting SOPA and PIPA, an international treaty, presumably disguised an executive agreement, was already signed by President Obama.
According to Infowars.com, Obama signed the “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” in October that would allow companies in China or any other country in the world to demand ISPs remove web content in the US with no legal oversight whatsoever.that would allow companies in China or any other country in the world to demand ISPs remove web content in the US with no legal oversight whatsoever.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was signed by Obama on October 1 2011, yet is currently the subject of a White House petition demanding Senators be forced to ratify the treaty. The White House has circumvented the necessity to have the treaty confirmed by lawmakers by presenting it an as “executive agreement,” although legal scholars have highlighted the dubious nature of this characterization.
The hacktivist group Anonymous attacked and took offline the Federal Trade Commission’s website yesterday in protest against the treaty, which was also the subject of demonstrations across major cities in Poland, a country set to sign the agreement today.
Under the provisions of ACTA, copyright holders will be granted sweeping direct powers to demand ISPs remove material from the Internet on a whim. Whereas ISPs normally are only forced to remove content after a court order, all legal oversight will be abolished, a precedent that will apply globally, rendering the treaty worse in its potential scope for abuse than SOPA or PIPA.
A country known for its enforcement of harsh Internet censorship policies like China could demand under the treaty that an ISP in the United States remove content or terminate a website on its server altogether. As we have seen from the enforcement of similar copyright policies in the US, websites are sometimes targeted for no justifiable reason.
The groups pushing the treaty also want to empower copyright holders with the ability to demand that users who violate intellectual property rights (with no legal process) have their Internet connections terminated, a punishment that could only ever be properly enforced by the creation of an individual Internet ID card for every web user, a system that is already in the works. [Read More]
It’s getting real out here people. Let’s see if mainstream media picks up on this.
GA’s contentious racial history is about to blow up in it’s face now that a judge has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court in Atlanta for a hearing on a complaint that says Obama isn’t a natural-born citizen and can’t be president.
I’m not even going to dignify the aforementioned with commentary.
As poor people continue to struggle and record high unemployment amongst the black community continues to climb, words from Cornell West addresses these issues head on in an interesting piece written for The Washington Post should give you some food for thought:
….The age of Obama has fallen tragically short of fulfilling King’s prophetic legacy. Instead of articulating a radical democratic vision and fighting for homeowners, workers and poor people in the form of mortgage relief, jobs and investment in education, infrastructure and housing, the administration gave us bailouts for banks, record profits for Wall Street and giant budget cuts on the backs of the vulnerable.
As the talk show host Tavis Smiley and I have said in our national tour against poverty, the recent budget deal is only the latest phase of a 30-year, top-down, one-sided war against the poor and working people in the name of a morally bankrupt policy of deregulating markets, lowering taxes and cutting spending for those already socially neglected and economically abandoned. Our two main political parties, each beholden to big money, offer merely alternative versions of oligarchic rule.
The absence of a King-worthy narrative to reinvigorate poor and working people has enabled right-wing populists to seize the moment with credible claims about government corruption and ridiculous claims about tax cuts’ stimulating growth. This right-wing threat is a catastrophic response to King’s four catastrophes; its agenda would lead to hellish conditions for most Americans.
King weeps from his grave. He never confused substance with symbolism. He never conflated a flesh and blood sacrifice with a stone and mortar edifice. We rightly celebrate his substance and sacrifice because he loved us all so deeply. Let us not remain satisfied with symbolism because we too often fear the challenge he embraced. Our greatest writer, Herman Melville, who spent his life in love with America even as he was our most fierce critic of the myth of American exceptionalism, noted, “Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges; hence the conclusion of such a narration is apt to be less finished than an architectural finial.”
King’s response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution…..
While President Barack Obama prepares for a pretty massive reelection campaign, it seems not everyone who stood in lines for hours chanting “yes we can,” is ready to re-up the first black President for a second term.
I’ll admit that even I am starting to give Obama the side-eye. For all his promise on “change” it still seems very much like the good ole boys are still winning overall. From massive stimulus packages, to keeping many of our financial destroyers of this country in their same dangerous financial positions, I’ve grown very weary. But what’s most troubling is our current wars in Afghanistan and Libya. And it seems it’s an issue Minister Louis Farrakhan has no problem bringing to the forefront of Obama’s political outlook.
Farrakhan says, “We voted for our brother Barack, a beautiful human being with a sweet heart, and now he’s an assassin. They turned him into them.”
He also raises the issue of killing Saddam Hussein over weapons of mass destruction and knowingly sending young men to fight a war based on lies. “You talk about a man killing his own people. When you lie to the American people saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. When you lie and then take innocent young men who come to serve their country, and send them to die in Iraq and Afghanistan, over lies, that’s a murderer in the White House.”
Watch the video above and decide if you agree with his growing disdain for our President. Personally, I can’t say a second vote from me is imminent. He’s got a lot of explaining to do. But what say you?!
Donald Trump has been raising a lot of trouble recently for President Barack Obama. We all know that in a desperate attempt to get more eyes on the low rated “Celebrity Apprentice,” Trump accuses the President of United State of falsifying birth documents, and in essence is discounting his win as becoming nations 44th President , and first African-American Prez
As outlandish an accusation, news polls showed that a small part of the country (republicans) still beleive that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and smuggled into Hawaii.
Well today that rumor can be officially killed as President Obama has released his official document proving that he is an American citizen. The long form copy bares the signature of his mother, the name of the hospital, his birth date and a raised seal. It’s being reported that Obama sent his personal lawyer to Hawaii to retrieve the document.
Donald Trump is set to speak to a crowd today. Let’s see if he will man up and admit that he was wrong. Or at the very least a racist.
