Archive for August, 2008

BLACKNESS… WHO THE FUCK CARES?!?

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

JACK JOHNSON

Okay, so I have been on this “Blackness” trip lately. Why does it seem that all of a sudden a confluence of stories comes to unsettle me? Am I being paranoid? It’s not like anyone has said anything to my face that was malicious or even supremacist. Maybe I’m having a middle aged crisis? Part of the new Blackness is passing away from heart disease while in your mid-forties.

What I needed to do was to find something that would recharge my spirit. Something to validate my desire to keep on living. Thank GOD for the internets. If you search hard enough you will dig up something that falls right into your wheelhouse of emotions. This is the story I have been waiting to read…

A WHITE WOMAN EXPLAINS WHY SHE PREFERS BLACK MEN

Or so I thought.

This shit might as well have been written by DAVID DUKE or fucking JOSEPH MENGELE. I just wish that for once a mainstream media voice would relate to Blackness as not the ‘other’, but the same. This author has obviously been sampling cocks for most of her life and she still can’t get past the outside. There are too many WTF?!? quotables in that article.

This article also reminds me of a discussion that I listened to on Racialicious Radio. CARMEN hosted a podcast which asked the question why there are no “sexperts” of color working in the mainstream media. It’s obviously needed when the only mentions of color are submitted by a racist fetishist. I think the New York Press article was meant to be less serious and more tongue-in-cheek. What I really could have used from the author was more tongue in asscheek talk.

True story, funny story is that the day after I read that article my homey POLOTRON sent me an e-mail containing ANOTHER article from the same author. Holy shit! The way things were developing in my mind I was about to meet up with the author and possibly bump uglies. If there’s one thing I could do it would be to bring her ass back to the white side. White girls aren’t the only ones that got back to white after dating me, but I have been known to give Blak chicks the motivation to find something new too.

HARLEM: IT’S A HARD-KNOCK LIFE

In this article, the author blames the thug element for decreasing the quality of life for Harlem’s indigent residents, as opposed to gentrification by people who could give a rat’s ass about the Saturday afternoon drum circle that convenes in Mount Morris Park.

I always heard that all you need to happen in order to change someone’s voter registration card from Democrat to Republican is to mug them. The truth is that it’s impossible for me to feel any kind of way for the author NOT because I have a tacit agreement with thug life. I don’t. I recognize that it stems from poverty and is harbored by people who have a gut feeling that their options are limited.

The other reason that I don’t feel anything for the author is because I now know the backstory. The REAL story. The man that the author mentions is someone that I have known since we were teenagers. I call him Menasaur. Is he a thug? Yes. Is he a gentleman? The answer to that is yes also. Menasaur was providing the author with more than just hairstyling. He was styling on her with his manhood. The author enjoys Black rods, but apparently doesn’t like to pay to play. I think her white privilege told her that a Black man would see her clit as a gift from GOD. Truthfully, it prA’li looked more like another job. Driving Miss Daisy type shit.

So the author has a sexual relationship with her hair stylist and she is upset with Harlemites for not jumping up to get beatdown when everybody in the building already KNEW that she was behind on her dick payments. If anyone on this planet understands how lay-a-way works that would be Harlem folks. The author had exceeded her grace period and full payment was due.

The author complains that Harlemites accept thugs because they fear them. The author is a liar and a doppelganger. The poor people that live in Harlem, and Bedford Stuyvesant and East New York and wherever else thugs also reside are constantly under attack. Economically, educationally, social accesibility and democratically. They are victimized constantly by outside forces and they in turn victimize each other. If they police, or the government killed every suspected “thug” would there still be poor people? If your answer is yes then the thug would still exist as well.

Fuck what your heard, SUSAN CRAIN BAKOS is a liar, and a thief of services provided (I’m talking about haircuts, not escort services). Hopefully she will use some of the proceeds from her sex advice books to buy herself a place to live where Black guys view a forty-something years old white woman as the goddess Isis. I have no idea where that place is.

Trouble The Water…

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

trouble the water

Hurricane Katrina didn’t shit on New Orleans. The U.S. government did.

‘Trouble The Water’ is the documentary that makes filmmaking my goal in life. Imagine having your eyes inside the eye of that storm.

Three years ago this website was borne from the disaster that was the gulf coast hurricane. I hope this film will ignite the passion for justice and truth in everyone that watches it.

ImageNation presents ‘Trouble The Water’

Friday, August 22nd to Sunday, September 7th @ the Faison Firehouse Theater, 124th Street bet. St. Nicholas Avenue & Morningside Avenue, take the A, B, C, D trains to 125th St. and walk 1 block south.

  • Friday, August 22nd – 7pm, Intro by Danny Glover
  • Friday, August 22nd – 9:30pm, Q & A w/ Danny Glover, the directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, and Kim and Scott Roberts
  • Saturday, August 23rd – 7pm, Intro by Warrington Hudlin
  • Sunday, August 24th – 7pm, Damon Todd Hewitt (Director, NAACP LDF Katrina Project), Brenda Stokely (NY Solidarity Coalition with Katrina/Rita Survivors), Joetta Rogers (Northeast Region Katrina Survivors Assembly)
  • DP Dot Com Is NOT A Black Website…

    Thursday, August 21st, 2008

    blackness

    I have been toying with this notion in my mind for several years. I no longer want this site to be considered a “Black” website.

    Yes, we will still own and publish the articles that appear on these pages, but should the racial designation of the website owner determine the racial ethnotype of virtual community? I mean, what racial ethnotype should be assigned to the binary code that comprises the info contained on the server that feeds DP Dot Com? I thought that the internets was the first place that none of our racial designations mattered anymore.

    That’s not totally true either. Racism still matters, but I was hoping that I could hide my Blackness on the internets. I wanted to sneak into your computers and create rants about society in general. Not from a Black man’s perspective but from a clear thinking man’s perspective. Clear thinking people hold no racial ethnotype. They simply see and understand our world better than others.

    The real reason I have wanted to shed the notion of Blackness is because it describes a second class citizen in American society. Poor = Blackness. Undereducated = Blackness. Criminal = Blackness. Victim = Blackness. There is nothing good in the American diaspora that Blackness represents except maybe popular music, but even then I find that pop music has to exist in one of the sub-categories listed above.

    Trying to change how people think of the words they use has been too difficult a task to implement. Therefore I choose to simply bow out of the entire racial blogosphere. You won’t see any banners posted here about DP Dot Com winning the Black Weblog Awards. Thankfully, we weren’t even nominated. Unlike OhWord, which is definitely a bigger and Blacker weblog than DP Dot Com.

    Get Your Hand Out My Pocket!

    Thursday, August 21st, 2008

    ebay

    I fucks with eBay directly and by extension through my use of PayPal since eBay own’s that website. PayPal is a convenient way to trade money for goods and services because the website looks so damn officious.

    Quiet as shit is kept PayPal is also a bastion for thieves who have figured ways to manipulate that system as well. I’ve learned my lesson the hard way that you had better keep your tracking slips and shipping receipts for a few months after a transaction so that in case your buyer files a complaint you won’t get your account shut down.

    eBay makes a grip off handling people’s money through the PayPal service. So much so they have decided to mandate a PayPal account for ALL of their users beginning in October. I feel a kind of way about this news. Checks, and by extension, checking accounts are being phased out of consumer transactions. Debit cards, with the function as credit cards are the norm for most people’s transactions, mine included. Cash is now firmly holding the stigma as the method of payment for only poor folks.

    The truth is that I would use cash if I wasn’t so poor my damn self. I have $25 in my account before payday and I will be damned if I give $2 of that away to another banking institution as a transaction fee. Keep in mind that my bank will also be taking $1.50 of that total for their “out of network” fee. reminds me of the time I only had $21.48 in my account and I did an inquiry from a bank that didn’t hold my account. The bank charged me $1.50 and that dipped my balance below the $20 mark so I couldn’t even make a withdrawl when I did get to my bank’s ATM.

    As shit gets more fucked the fuck up economically we need to be vigilant for all of these services that extract fees for no good gotdamn reason. These banking bastards be charging us to hold our money. At least a check cashing spot tells you what they are going to take from you the second you walk across the threshold. These banks and fake ass financial services companies live off the people that don’t read the fine print. I’m one of those people. Not so much anymore since the fine print is all I have to read other than the negative balances in my account.

    After Kaiju, The Pardon Me Duke BBQ…

    Thursday, August 21st, 2008

    pmd bbq
    pmd bbq
    pmd bbq

    The party doesn’t stop this weekend as the PARDONMEDUKE.com family puts it down in Flatbush.

    Bring your own bottle Brooklyn.