Celebrations for the 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge continue throughout the summer. I came across a video made for the shuttering of one of the boro’s most historic landmarks. Sadly, Empire Roller Rink was not as important to some as it was to the others.
My last time at the rink was in the fall of 2003. KeiStar Productions was doing a classic 80’s roller skate party. KeiStar + Brooklyn = That Sexy Black Spacehip. Do the math.
KeiStar Productions featuring DJ SPINNA takes over the Brooklyn Museum of Art this Saturday. This landmark is one storage building that they won’t ever close.
The newstand at the commuter rail station has a million magazines for sale.
I will bet you that there are images of Blacks on one quarter of all the magazines being sold.
Since African Americans account for reportedly on 12% of the U.S. population, but are pictured on 25% of all magazine covers you can make the argument that racism no longer exists.
DON’T try to make that argument just yet though…
ESPN (Walt Disney Co.) has put KEVIN FERGUSON a/k/a Kimbo Slice on their latest cover. America still loves (read: FEARS UNCONTROLLABLY) the large scary negro.
Kimbo Slice is one of the featured fighters in a televised mixed martial arts contest. Mixed martial arts is going mainstream and everyone is placing their bets on FERGUSON to be the MMA version of MIKE TYSON.
I’m fucking with the magazine sitting next to ESPN.
Whether its the Boogieman or the oversexuality of the savages, Black people stay losing.
*Click on the headline below to read Scritch and Scratch blogs thorough dissection of the Kimbo Slice storyline.*
Hip-Hop has been dying from several different diseases over the last decade. There has been an overall lack of creative talent being promoted by the record companies as each label falls over the previous in a rush to bring us the latest fad in cRap music. Sellout ringtones to soulless robotic voice machines. From anthems that create dance crazes to crazed cough medicine filled anthems. If Hip-Hop still had a heart it was going into cardiac arrest.
More than all of that Hip-Hop was missing one half of its very essence. There hasn’t been a first rate female emcee since Rah Digga. My homegirl Lin Que is still on the set out there somewhere, but when was the last time that we listened to a female rap because she had skills and not because we thought (and hoped) that a tittie would pop from her bustier? Enter underground phenom Jean Grae.
Jean Grae was bringing lyrics back from the beginning of her career. She is a devoted Hip-Hop head which means that she is a fan of all music. I started to really listen to Jean Grae after she did the ‘No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn’ remix single with GAME Rebellion. All you underground Hip-Hop heads (RAFI) knew about this chick like ten years ago. I’m glad for her that she is finally becoming an overnight success. Without Rah Digga or Lauryn Hill the game has been in a shambles. Jean Grae can’t bring rap back all the way by herself, but when I see artists like Joell Ortiz, Phonte, Wale, Immortal Technique and Jean Grae I know that real Hip-Hop lives on.
Copp Jean Grae and 9th Wonder’s new album ‘Jeanius’ on iTunes.
I thought we could use one of these drops to shout out the ladies since this summer is so laden with great super hero movies.
Jocasta was a highly specialized fembot made by Henry Pym with memory implants from his super sexy, super heroine wife Janet Van Dyne also known as The Wasp. Pym made Jocasta as a mate for his other psycho creation, the evil robot named Ultron.
As evil and badass as Ultron was, and trust me, Ultron was a hardbody badguy, he like the rest of us wanted to eff the Wasp in the ‘A’. When Henry Pym realized that his illmatic psycho robot was gonna merc’k him just to snatch his wife’s seat he made Jocasta to appease him. The crazy shit is that Jocasta knew her role and played her lane.
That was until she started staying up in Avenger’s mansion and watching television with Jarvis and listening to Ms. Marvel and the Scarlet Witch. They convinced Jocasta to dip off on Ultron. Sure, that dude was abusive and downright malevolent, but where does Jocasta get off by going against her programming? Ultron almost destroyed the Earth after Jocasta broke up with him. I blame the Avengers for that. Those motherfuckers should’a just minded their own business. They were all fags anyhoo.
Except for Vision.
But he was a gotdamned robot so he didn’t even have a penis[ll].
Nonetheless, Jocasta was shiny and sexy and she even had a titanium garter on her left leg. Jocasta would be the perfect wife until she turns on you and fries your ass with her laser beam eyes.
Why do you think that 70% of Black women are single? They wanted it that way. If there aren’t any Black men available for these women isn’t it ultimately the fault of the women who raised the Black men?
Yes, we should also blame the men that DIDN’T help raise these Black men, but what do they care?
Leave it to OPRAH WINFREY to stir up the the cauldron of discontent. OPRAH thinks that there aren’t enough Black men to satisfy the demand. There are tons of Black men though. I’m talking about Black men that work hard and honest.
There are also tons of Black mothers that coddle these dudes so far into adulthood because these mothers don’t want to let go of the one Black man that has needed them throughout their life. That’s right ladies and gemtlemen, Black mothers are currently ruining Black men. Not all Black mothers, just most of them.
These mothers are ruining their daughters as well. So when these daughters become mothers this Oedipal syndrome cycle will persist. Yes, it would be of tremendous benefit if the fathers of these Black children were active in the childraising and nurturing. There are still plenty of mother-father parent units that exist in the Black community.
Somebody needs to stand up and admit that Black women ultimately choose to be single and unmarried because they are horribly selfish. The compromise required for a sustained relationship is not within their grasp. Look at OPRAH herself. She obviously is having her cake and eating it too. She is definitely eating her cake. On a much smaller level than OPRAH Black women are unwilling to compromise their lifestyles.
There are plenty of Black men who are suitable and worthy mates if Black women would just get their shit together.
