A new Tribe?

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Too bad to see that I've arrived with campfires slightly doused, I was excited to join the party.....

I'm apprehensive about writing much stooooopid shit, cause that damn last post that the server farged was so tight, and this one will prolly fall short....fuggggit...

So y'all don't need to know my life-story but you gotta know some. I'm just turned 21 born and raised in small town NH, went to HS in ME. We're talkin a HS with ONE African-American, ONE Asian-American, and that's it for "cultural diversity". That said, my older sister (by ten years) is finishing up her doctorate in Political Science, worked as an assistant to the ambassador of Kenya in Nairobi, is soon to be the wife of a wonderful Ethiopian man, and will prolly BE an ambassador some day. I don't wanna babble my shit, but my point is I come from a place where I've been bombarded with blatant racism, not *only the shit that the media comes with, the smoggy outer rims of the intricate web of bullshit that was weaved and concieved long before we were; yet I was in a family (eight kids, one damn proper mumma) that were free thinkers, had an inate awareness and did not for a second perpetuate anything but love and respect, and that's speakin to a whole lot more than the race issue(s). BUT, no matter how I was able to logisticize to myself the brethren that exists in breathing the same air as everyone else, I wasn't able to have friends that were black, or even be hanging around enough to just talk about the Celtics, or music or whatever the shit, just no one, literally.

My thought process throughout is, yeah just gotta graduate and get to a city, diversify, again much broader scope than just wanting a burgeouse buddy;). Go to school in Boston, live there for a year, move here to Seattle, live as close to downtown as possible, hit the courts three times a week, and man I feel more frustrated about MY alienation from human-kind than I ever imagined when I was in a state with a 2% black population, again this isn't just a black-white thing. It seems that it's understood that I can't just say hey to someone of another race, best not look anybody straight in the eye, best keep our conversation to ourselves. Invite a black dude over to my house for a blunt and some Madden, uh-uh. In an elevator with a "repectable" "well-off" 45 yo black buisnessman, is it just me that's concerned about the tightness in my chest cause he might be thinkin, I'm thinkin that or he's thinkin this????

Now my question here is not WHO's to blame, or WHY this has happened, or any of that shit, that's the winners writting the history books, that's not NOW anyways sos that's not for me. My question is WHAT the fuck can a short, goofy, white-boy do to help this situation? I'm asking that from a place that, again relates very little to the grand socio-sucko dilemna(s), racism being one very basic and heavy such dilemna, but moreover from a me-first perspective. I don't mean, me GET mine first, I mean me FIX mine first. I can't take the energy that smacks me like the bitch I am when confronted with this shit, it KILLS me, I struggle with this walkin down the street, I struggle with this in my sleep, I struggle with this right the fuck now.

Flo' Dolo said:


I don't "worry" about that shit, like you said, I simply am aware & concerned. And, as an "aware" person, it's encumbent upon me to do something with that knowledge. IT FUCKING MATTERS. Cats like you end up teaching little black (and white, and yellow, and red, and green, and fuschia) children all the wrong shit without even realizing it, due to your own, self-imposed, egotistical, self-aggrandizing ignorance.
Flo' Dolo
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MY ignorance is not self-imposed, egotistical, and (I don't think/hope not anyways :):):)) self-aggrandizing. I curse my ignorance every second, I search for my dahrma (props-->Jack). I'm well aware of the inaccuracies, flaws and blatant ignorance that will be evident in this one post alone, and I loathe that, and I apologize as much as could matter, "they know not what they do." Despite this ignorance, inexperience and plain old stumption (?!?) that fucks me, I NEED to know what I can do about this for me, and most importantly for my kids, the kids they hang with, the kids I see at the playground when I play ball, the kids who wander into homerec.com, the kids who danced in the streets of Kabul as the Towers collapsed on 9/11. I will not die a happy man unless I figure that out, for ATLEAST ME.

I feel I am "aware," I feel I am "concerned," naw scratch that, I'm fuckin pissed the hell off. It matters, no doubt, and I'm never giving up on all this shit. I unequivocally respect the stance you have taken/come with here Flo' Do, and I mean that as no disrespect to Crosstudio. Your words scream revolution, and I'd die for it if I thought I wouldn't die alone and be buried in an all white grave or some shit. My revolution is being fought within my soul and my world every second of every day, I won't lose. I fancy we are fightin for the same squad, but I again resign myself to my own ignorance. I really want this thread to keep progressing, I really want whatever racism I might come with in my every day lingo to be pointed to, I really want some feedback from y'all on your thoughts about solutions, I really want a cigarette....



.............the beat goes on................................



Laj
 
Laj... Wonder if you need to save your fervor for a "true" battle, too...

The fire is OUT, unfortunately, duke. Consider what you've just seen a prime example of what we at Chocolate Philly Studios refer to as "the academic punk out..."

CROSSTUDIO - that comment wasn't intended to spur you on to reply or anything, but it's what I believe, so I said it. Needless to say, I WELCOME the opportunity to continue this discussion with you, if you care to. If not, that's more than cool, too...

Laj... You learned all that in lily-white New Hampshire? Makes that whole "upscale D.C." thing C-studio was spittin' so much more vividly laughable. I think what ol? boy didn't realize and you do is that it ain't where your ass is, it's where your HEAD is.

Your words scream revolution, and I'd die for it if I thought I wouldn't die alone and be buried in an all white grave or some shit. My revolution is being fought within my soul and my world every second of every day...
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Don't let fear paralyze you. Do what you feel compelled to do or die unfulfilled. Many people die many deaths everyday. Some of those are exquisite, thick, sweat-filled minutae, such as "Le petit Mord," and some of those are far worse than the tangible act of one's respiratory system ceasing to function and being covered with dirt, or cremated, or jammed in an oil drum to be buried under your favorite ballpark or sports arena. All white or all black, especially in the grave, doesn't matter, provided the muthafuckas around you in life ain't all ignorant... The country you live in isn't a far cry from what you say you're afraid of in death, so why sweat it? Color is one of those things that shouldn't define who we are or what we can become, but instead be a reminder of where/what we come from individually and collectively as a race. The HUMAN race, that is...

I won't go on about this anymore in this thread, 'less late one night the smoke trails from my black & mild inspires me, but if you want dialogue from me, check your PM on the 28th in the AM (i've already written a lil sumpin' sumpin', but opted not to post it publicly. I'm shedding the responsibility of having to continue this particular part of the thread.


"Like Don Quixote bangin' gats at the bats crashin' and cats laughin'
near the windmill... human spirit spills I sherm up chill pill - chunks
in the gutter... Where ya' mind is at, though ya bank is stack, educated cat
still you stutter... 'fected with the germ, when you gonna learn
butter it do burn Tiger's putter... ain't his golf club, but his thought plug -
suck the nappy dug til she flutter... little things in ya golf swing
and ya bling-bling makes me wanna box cutter cut ya... shutter - click - I see you...
naps and all that, dick and balls yella-to-black, still you frontin' like that little yard monkey statue... on plantations, perception mutations..."

<next comes something about house negroes vs. field negroes - blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...>

Flo' swift in still waters, Flo' with stealth in raging floods, why do I Flo' like I do? Just because, just because, just because...

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Flo Dolo:

you and i are thinking along the same lines lyrically. i proposed a song to the rapper i've been collaborating with called...

sold rebel

which of course is a play on bob marley's soul rebel. wherein the song is a verbal battle between a rapper from the black middle class and a rapper making strides to get out of an economically deprived neighborhood. it's a call and response type of feel.

the intermediate bridge between the verse and chorus chants the following:

the revolution will not be televised, the revolution will not be trivialized.

Laj35:

in the past week i've seen two things occur that i am concerned about:

1) the college board is changing the SAT to put more emphasis on Verbal essays. the verbal section of the SATs are subjective and thereby more culturally based and biased. it seems as though the rules are being changed now that african-american students have shown a marked improvement in math skills.

2) the supreme court will allow non-random drug testing of any student involved in an extra curricular activity. if you are amongst a handful of african-american students in a predominantly european-american school, you can expect to be unduly tested. if you live attend a predominantly african-american school, the european-american students will most likely go untested.

i have a slightly different outlook because i live in a county that is predominantly african-american (65%), and is the richest majority african-american county in the united states. yet i don't feel like our politicians are any more prudent or upstanding because they are black. i've seen children go without textbooks because of in-fighting on the board of education. i watched as our politicians overlooked the crack wars of the 80's while my friends died in the street. i do however prefer to live in a county where i'm not the only black person on the job who isn't pushing a broom, and i do prefer living in a county where a black man driving a BMW isn't probable cause... of course i won't be driving anything resembling a BMW until i get my house paid off. true wealth is measured in land acquisition and savings, not flash.

i love my city and its subhurbs. you should come for a visit... you'll probably stay. most of the african-american students who attend HBCU's (Howard, Bowie, Morgan, Coppin) in the area stay in the area after graduation instead of going back where they came from.
 
crosstudio said:
Flo Dolo:

you and i are thinking along the same lines lyrically. i proposed a song to the rapper i've been collaborating with called...

sold rebel

which of course is a play on bob marley's soul rebel. wherein the song is a verbal battle between a rapper from the black middle class and a rapper making strides to get out of an economically deprived neighborhood. it's a call and response type of feel.

the intermediate bridge between the verse and chorus chants the following:

the revolution will not be televised, the revolution will not be trivialized.
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Cool enough idea if you got the MCs in your troupe to pull it off - are you rhyming, too?

I dunno if that little thing I posted qualifies as lyrics, I just wrote it and posted. After I posted it, I read it and just deleted the rest. That pretty much means that if I wanted to "finish" it, I"d have to just pick up where I left off and see what comes. "A fool and his money," right? Most of the most interesting stuff (to me) that I write is kind of a one pass thing. If anything gets to the stage that someone wants to spit it or blow one of my joints, THEN I sitdown and try to make sense of whatever it is I've written. It's hell on notebooks, but that's just how it is for me.

Laj35:

in the past week i've seen two things occur that i am concerned about:

1) the college board is changing the SAT to put more emphasis on Verbal essays. the verbal section of the SATs are subjective and thereby more culturally based and biased. it seems as though the rules are being changed now that african-american students have shown a marked improvement in math skills.

2) the supreme court will allow non-random drug testing of any student involved in an extra curricular activity. if you are amongst a handful of african-american students in a predominantly european-american school, you can expect to be unduly tested. if you live attend a predominantly african-american school, the european-american students will most likely go untested.

i have a slightly different outlook because i live in a county that is predominantly african-american (65%), and is the richest majority african-american county in the united states. yet i don't feel like our politicians are any more prudent or upstanding because they are black. i've seen children go without textbooks because of in-fighting on the board of education. i watched as our politicians overlooked the crack wars of the 80's while my friends died in the street.
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On the contrary, your outlook is really no different at all, just your immediate surroundings, I think. Watch out you don't fool yourself. What you said about your local politicians illustrates just that. And when those cats hit the clock at the end of the day, they're just another bunch of people driving down the street, eating shit at MickeyD's when they're in a hurry, and so on. Most of the people who hold positions like that appear to be just as theiving, lying, self-serving, and, way too often, biased as the next simple-minded asshole when it comes to moneyhoescarsclothes and the shit ideal they carry with them (and surely espouse to their kids and circle of peeps) about the next man. Only diff. between them and "the others" is their job title & tax bracket, not whether or not they're racist, compassionate, embracing, or even accomodating.

i do however prefer to live in a county where i'm not the only black person on the job who isn't pushing a broom, and i do prefer living in a county where a black man driving a BMW isn't probable cause... of course i won't be driving anything resembling a BMW until i get my house paid off. true wealth is measured in land acquisition and savings, not flash.
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True wealth is intrinsic knowledge, true material wealth is in land & savings.

i love my city and its subhurbs. you should come for a visit... you'll probably stay. most of the african-american students who attend HBCU's (Howard, Bowie, Morgan, Coppin) in the area stay in the area after graduation instead of going back where they came from.
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Should I feel slighted since you didn't invite me?
;-)

Seriously, I dunno if moving to your A.O. will do anything for Laj35. Despite its' pockets of tolerant or even encouraged diversity, the immediate problems with others he mentioned will probably be the same as where he's living. Think about it, all those college kids and tranplants come from "somewhere," and it's probably not the most tolerant of environs (as evidenced by the border-to-border lack of true, unconditional acceptance, and more importantly, understanding of those somehow "different" than you <as a globally identifying pronoun, not you, 'Studio) in this country.

BTW - Laj, i'm always up for hoops (it's stupid, but I realy dig the sound of chain nets), PS2, and "most things" my host has to offer (or guest wants to indulge in). I can't fuck with you on Madden, but if you break out NBA2k2, "Streets," or NBA Live, then it's on!!
 
My Celtics would wooooooop your ass on Live, which is prolly my ultimate favorite, PC version of course. I refuse to pollute myself with cable TV, or any TV for that matter, but I have yet to shake the video-game attraction, pretty cool way to chill with some cronies though. Flo Do I really look forward to reading that PM, I agree with Cross in that you are an amazing writer, it's inspiring to read your words, and I'm a fiend for inspiration.


I really have neglected to even say that I'm by no means a Hip-hop expert, it's really not my style, but I think that's only cause I haven't been able to have anybody kinda push some shizzy that would hit me. Again, acts like Blackstar, Massive Attack, Biz Markie, KRS, Tribe, etc. all are pretty much right on for me, but outside of that the only hip-hop I listen to is by turntabilist/live types, dudes like DJ Shadow, Spooky, Anti-Pop Consortium, less flow based but holding true to the efforts, and VERY musical IMO. Check out DJ Shadow's "Entrouducing" if you want a Hip-Hop concept album that highlights the beats.



Laj
 
crosstudio said:

2) the supreme court will allow non-random drug testing of any student involved in an extra curricular activity. if you are amongst a handful of african-american students in a predominantly european-american school, you can expect to be unduly tested. if you live attend a predominantly african-american school, the european-american students will most likely go untested.
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Alright crossstudio, I was debating whether I agreed with you or not and my wife had the Today show on in the background. Matt Lauer is interviewing the little white girl who brought the case up, and her complaint is that she was in chorus and the math team and they tested her, and that they were testing the wrong people for drugs, and she felt violated blah, blah blah. And Matt Lauer agrees with her and says, "Yeah, nothing against football or basketball players but you would think that those are the type of people they would test." (That quote is not 100% accurate but that is the gist of what he said.)

Now, I wonder who is stereotypically associated with football players and basketball players.......
 
Gentlemen...

Laj...

My Celtics would wooooooop your ass on Live, which is prolly my ultimate favorite, PC version of course. I refuse to pollute myself with cable TV, or any TV for that matter, but I have yet to shake the video-game attraction, pretty cool way to chill with some cronies though. Flo Do I really look forward to reading that PM, I agree with Cross in that you are an amazing writer, it's inspiring to read your words, and I'm a fiend for inspiration.
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As for LIVE, my Pistons & Mavs would be happy to shrink your Celtics down to size anyday!!!!
:-) The few cats I know around my A.O. (and it's less than I can count on one hand - hence, Flo' Dolo) won't even play hoops or soccer w/me on the PS2!!!
<don't tell nobody a ghetto baby like me is feeling european football, you'll ruin my rep!!!!>

Cool about you and TV. It can be a friend or a foe, just gotta wade through the shit to find the shine. Cats think I'm nuts cuz in my shop I play documentaries and shit all the time and they be like "who the FUCK is Fred Loich, Luch, Luck, how you say that cat's last name?" (Leuchter)

The PM is still "under construction" as I had to make an emergency run to the dentist due to a nasty wisdom tooth issue. And the pills I took for the pain had me way too loopy to write anything cohesive. It's a comin'.

Oh, thanks for the compliment... I don't think it's anything so special though, I see heaps of cats posting on BBSs who are thought-provoking, witty, well-versed, and al that shit (and I'm not including myself with them;-))

I really have neglected to even say that I'm by no means a Hip-hop expert, it's really not my style, but I think that's only cause I haven't been able to have anybody kinda push some shizzy that would hit me. Again, acts like Blackstar, Massive Attack, Biz Markie, KRS, Tribe, etc. all are pretty much right on for me, but outside of that the only hip-hop I listen to is by turntabilist/live types, dudes like DJ Shadow, Spooky, Anti-Pop Consortium, less flow based but holding true to the efforts, and VERY musical IMO. Check out DJ Shadow's "Entrouducing" if you want a Hip-Hop concept album that highlights the beats
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Don't feel bad, the only things I'm an expert on are probably frowned upon by the Federal gov't. Cool you're into turntablism, maybe i'll post a lil' sumpin' I've done for you to check out. A.P.C. might be mad if you say they ain't "flow-based," but I get your drift. I know Entroducing all too well, as well as some stuff in the same vein that DJ Cam has done. If you wanna know some more cats who make interesting stuff like that, lemme know. I met/heard some amazing cats when I lived overseas. Oh, and the groups you mentioned pretty much run the gamut from A-Z give your take a degree or two.

JohnWaynesTeeth...

Originally posted by crosstudio

2) the supreme court will allow non-random drug testing of any student involved in ...

JWT wrote:
Alright crossstudio, I was debating whether I agreed with you or not and my wife had the Today show on in the background. Matt Lauer is interviewing the little white girl who brought the case up, and her complaint is that she was in chorus and the math team and they tested her, and that they were testing the wrong people for drugs, and she felt violated blah, blah blah. And Matt Lauer agrees with her and says, "Yeah, nothing against football or basketball players but you would think that those are the type of people they would test." (That quote is not 100% accurate but that is the gist of what he said.)

Now, I wonder who is stereotypically associated with football players and basketball players......
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I'm writing...

Seems it's no secret how things are being shaped to be "softly" targeted towards certain groups of people. I'm actually in the process of writing a letter to the Today show regarding Matt Lauer's comments, and I'm CCing it to Al Roker (hoping he'll catch ol' Matt on a coffee break and bend his ear).

Funny up here in the sticks where I live, there aren't many minorities (if any) to be tested, save the kids on the rez, but they don't count since they can vote to not be constrained by the new Federal law), and I saw a pile of kids on the local news, all white, who were in favor of the testing. Amazing... That, in and of itself, I could swallow, but what I had to winder was, what is it like in those kids' homes to so willingly swallow giving up some of their civil liberties. And just so you know, Crosstudio, just cuz they listen to hip-hop (well, rap for most of them) doesn't mean they aren't prejudiced motherfuckers. I know this from my dealings with them on the street, in my shop, coaching AAU hoops, and djing the occasional function as a favor to an in-law or something. I figure if I don't address the same issues with them that you and I were discussing, when they are adults, they'll ultimately do a lot more damage than good in this world as doctors, lawyers, entertainers, artists, shit shovellers, elected officials, "Matt Lauers," and porn stars. Like I said, everything fucking matters. In 10 years, those same kids will be heavily influencing what goes on in this country, so you see, maybe modern day quixotes like me aren't so crazy after all. I mean, what do you think Matt Lauer's gonna be teaching his baby boy? And how many people didn't take notice to what he said in that interview with that little girl? How many thought he was "right," and that the princess of a white girl was so unjustly treated? Maybe I should write a letter to her daddy reminding him that his kid is a part of "any student involved in an extra curricular activity?"

I'm glad she got tested. I hope they hit up every dawson's creek lookalike, too. Especially in lily-white towns like the ones next door to me. Why? because the more it happens, the more they'll keep saying it's the OTHER people who should be tested, and the more people like you will realize that every little stinking thing matters. And, more importantly, it'll bring them ultimately face-to-face with their own sorry prejudices. Whether or not they'll recognize or acknowledge it, I dunno, but it'll be in front of them, warts and all.

And for those stupid kids in my neck of the woods who all seem to think it's a good thing, we ALL better watch out for them in the coming years.

Same goes for the SAT... I blew the doors offa that thing in the 11th grade and even then I bitched to my history/sociology teacher that it was biased. My moms got a big kick out of how fired up I was, told me "son, use that anger, make it work for you" - the start of my lifelong activist mentality/activities...

If any of this post seems out of whck, my bad. Blame it on the vicoden. Ugh...

Flo' Dolo
 
Flo' Dolo:

we'd be more than happy to have you come to DC... especially if you can come down to Republic Gardens for Spoken Word Wednesdays.

my wife coaches AAU. she played shooting guard at Elon in Burlinton, NC.

just because a caucasian listens to hip-hop doesn't mean they want to be your next door neighbor.

when i was a teenager, my family attended a non-denominational christian church. the church touted itself as a multi-cultural church where people of all different races came to worship God and Jesus.

my parents sent me to the same private school that many of the caucasian students attended. it wasn't until i began dating the preacher's daughter that the trouble started. my parents were not particularly happy about my having an interracial relationship but never interfered because it would be against the love taught in the new testament.

then one day, the preacher saw his daughter begging me for a kiss in front of some of the other people in the congregation (mostly other teenagers). when he got home from church, he referred to me as a ni**er. he didn't know that there were other church kids in his home at the time. word spread and most of the non-white and some of the white members left the congregation.

his daughter ended up marrying an abusive husband who cheated on her with her own sister and doesn't do much to support his family... but i wonder whether that preacher, in hindsight, still would have preferred things the way they are.

JWT:

if i could have collected $20 for every european-american who smoked pot in high school, i could have sent myself to Howard Law. i'm not concerned with the people who have the resources to fight a POSITIVE test. i'm concerned with the ones who don't. the kid who NEEDS to have a good season in order to be able to attend college without taking out a myriad of college loans.

Food for thought:

at Virginia Tech a european-american applicant sued the school because he thought that it was unfair that the school accepted 200 african-americans into the freshman class. he was sure that he could not have possibly been a less deserving student than those 200 despite the fact that he was not chosen among the 2000 (or more) non-black students accepted.
 
>Flo' Dolo:

>we'd be more than happy to have you come to DC... especially if you can >come down to Republic Gardens for Spoken Word Wednesdays.

Yo dog, I'd straight love that shit. As much as I love where I'm livin', sometimes I'm mad achin' for the city and all the blood pumpin through its' veins. <sigh> Probably why I scoot off to ATL so often (it ain't the "D," but it'll do in a pinch).

>my wife coaches AAU. she played shooting guard at Elon in Burlinton, >NC.

Word?!? Nuff ;spect to all AAU coaches, money. That shit is a labor of love (minus the obssessive controlling parents that coach and go beserk in the stands, but that's another story). My sophomore year in college we busted that ass everytime we played Elon. They was good to "give" me about 20 a game... LOL. My dog graduated from Elon, too. Played football and shit.

>just because a caucasian listens to hip-hop doesn't mean they want to be >your next door neighbor.

No, it doesn't. But that's not what I was getting from Laj's post. As I peeped it, he was saying that blacks won't really give him the time of day in Seattle, as they see him as a "geeky" (or did he write "goofy") white kid instead of giving him the time of day to say what he's really all about, and that's got him amped cuz it's so fucked up. I don't really know what you were trying to get at with that statement above (unless it was just a statement you tossed out there).

>when i was a teenager, my family attended a non-denominational >christian church. the church touted itself as a multi-cultural church where >people of all different races came to worship God and Jesus.

Yeah, I went to one of those too in Cleveland during the school year, and when I was back at the crib for the summer, it was Mt. Hermon Baptist Church, complete with the choir, the reverend (my gramps), and the theiving-ass deacons...

>my parents sent me to the same private school that many of the >caucasian students attended. it wasn't until i began dating the preacher's >daughter that the trouble started. my parents were not particularly happy >about my having an interracial relationship but never interfered because it >would be against the love taught in the new testament.

Sounds like most of my fam. My daughter's mother is Australian (German birthright - dual citizenship), vegemite, crazy-assed accent ("oy!!!"), the whole hook. My peeps was "quiet" until she ran off with my kid after I raised her for 2 years by myself, then they was all on some "boy, you can't FUCK with them white girls, you know that!!!" <of course, they didn't wanna admit that in their cases, it was the same "crimes against nature," only black on black...>

>then one day, the preacher saw his daughter...and most of the non-white >and some of the white members left the congregation.

Phat. That's how it's supposed to be. See, I told you every little thing matters.

>his daughter ended up marrying an abusive husband who cheated on her >with her own sister and doesn't do much to support his family... but i >wonder whether that preacher, in hindsight, still would have preferred >things the way they are.

Sad thing is, if he could do it all over again, he probably wouldn't change a thing...

>JWT:

>if i could have collected $20 for every european-american who smoked >pot in high school, i could have sent myself to Howard Law. i'm not >concerned with the people who have the resources to fight a POSITIVE >test. i'm concerned with the ones who don't. the kid who NEEDS to have a >good season in order to be able to attend college without taking out a >myriad of college loans.

I know you didn't direct this at me, but what's your point? I thought the issue wasn't who had resources to fight a positive test, guilty is muthafuckin' guilty (if you get caught :D). And like we both know, puh-lenty of whie kids smoke 'erb, pop pills, 'shroom, and the like. I'm MORE concerned that the majority is trying to quell this thing and consciously, visibly, and forcibly turn this into a non-white/white thang... The point, I thought, was that the law now states that ALL kids who participate in extracurricular shit are now eligible for non-random tests, and that little stereotypical princess thinks she should be exempt from that shit, that there are others "better suited" to be tested. She's the fucking mainstream mentality we've gotta contend with today, and as "insignificant" as she may be now, oh, the power she wields... Better fight now while people think she and the millions like her are "invisible," cuz in a few years <cue spooky music> she'll not only be grown and on her own, but teaching her kids the same evil shit.
Question:How do you think she learned that mentality?
Answer: <to the tune of the mickey mouse theme>
L-E-G
A-C-Y
stink-in' leg-a-cy!!!

>Food for thought:

Just another example of why we got fight/teach/reach at every level, my man...

Side note: I had a friend who got a full ride to N.C. A&T on a minority scholarship. I couldn't be mad at him, he fit the description of a minority relative to the university's student body. Fair is fair... Now most of the student body wasn't feeling that shit, at leat not at first but that's another story, and probably a good example of how it "works both ways."

Happy Huntin'...


Flo' Dolo
 
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i played football at bowie state university. our TE was on a minority scholarship because BSU is a majority black university. it took me a minute to wrap my head around it.

my issue with drug testing laws are that they be enforced fairly across all socio-economic and racial lines.

just like the issue of crack vs. coccaine. for all of black peoples love for bill clinton he still didn't correct the disparity. crack dealers are more-likely to be black. coccaine dealers are more likely to be white (based on who has been convicted). why should you be sentenced to more time for an inferior product? after all, the non-coccaine additives to crack are not illegal.

having said that, i'm glad there are still hip-hop artists such as Mos Def who are willing to tackle some of these issues. i think the trick is to do so without watering down the hard beats that make people want to listen.
 
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