Archive for December, 2009

Celebrate Your Beautiful Blackness Brooklyn…

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

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The Brooklyn Museum of Art hosted Target 1st Saturday party is NYC’s best monthly jam hands down. First off, you are in one of the city’s greatest buildings right in the heart of the county of Kings. This neighborhood, and this city, was brought to its knees during the Crown Heights riots. Everything is not equal or equitable but those fires aren’t burning any longer. Young Black male teenagers are still at risk of dropping out of school and falling through the cracks but if one of those young men comes to the museum and sees himself in the image of regalia maybe he will internalize that memory for the dark days.

I love these portraits of Black men that Kehinde Wiley has created [ll]. I need to put a boldface on that pause button too since C.S. informed me that the subjects of the paintings may be Wiley’s intimates. I have to ignore that detail to really appreciate the details in these portraits. C.S. tells me that these works further objectify Black males within the larger power structure, but honestly asking, what DOESN’T objectify the Black male? The Black male is what everyone wants to be when they consider the virility of mind, body and spirit. The unconquered lions roam free in the county of Kings. Well, not exactly, but you can get that feeling from viewing some of the Wiley paintings the museum has on permanent display.

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Make sure you get to the museum early enough to enjoy some of the permanent collection…

Curator Talk – 7pm
Kevin Dumouchelle, Interim Assistant Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands, discusses the Museum’s collection of African art. This event is Sign Language interpreted. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 6:30pm

Music – 7:30–8:30pm
The award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus presents seasonal songs and liturgical music inspired by James Tissot’s The Life of Christ

First Saturdays Focus Group – 9–9:30pm
Join us for a discussion of what would bring you back to the museum

Dance Party – 9–11pm
Relive warm summer memories and shake it at a hot dance party presented by Brooklyn’s Soul Summit

You don’t have to come to the Brooklyn Museum of Art in a tuxedo, but if you have a nice piece of vintage Polo Ralph Lauren put it on and show your respect to the style and swagger that young Black teenagers have made popular all around the globe.

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The Afghan Plan Is A Dog…

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

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I could imagine America’s armies going into the mountains of Asia minor to save these hounds. We love dogs over here way more than people. I can’t imagine what we are doing in the region at this moment. I just don’t see how we can dissuade the poor people of Afghanistan from fuxing with the Taliban by occupying their country. They are a proud people and we are the invaders. I don’t like this revisited scenario.

I don’t like the shell game we have been playing with our servicemen either. We removed forces from Afghanistan and transferred them to Iraq to support the G Dubbz surge back in 2007 and now less than three years later and under a new administration we are taking the Iraq forces and shifting them into Afghanistan. I call this militaristic recidivism. The election of Barack Obama was supposed to be a referendum on the previous admin’s use of the military industrial complex to force stability throughout the region.

Now all of a sudden I feel like we are the third G Dubbz admin, except this time Dick Cheney isn’t hiding out in the mountain fortress in Denver. Cheney is now front and center talking shit and taking names. Nevermind that he and his partner made the mess we have our soldiers lives invested in now. This is why some people like dogs more than humans. Dogs use their teeth to bite through, not to lie through

Hide The Salahi…

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

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Let’s play a game and imagine that the Salahi couple were from NE D.C. instead of Georgetown, or wherever the rich people live. Would they have even known that a state dept. dinner was going down in the White House? PrA’li not.

The fact that the Salahis abused their privilege is why I want their coat pulled. When in the history of America has a *pretty blond haired woman been posited as a criminal? Never. Blond broads are literally like little Easter chicks that the collective society has to protect always.

No Secret Service agent in his right mind could justify barring this blond woman if she was unarmed and posed no clear and present danger. The Salahi couple knows this and they abuse their privilege because they are starfuckers. This is why we need them arrested and the shit beat out of them.

Let’s kill all the starfuckers

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Bizarro B-Ball…

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

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What else can you call the team with one of the Association’s worst records serving a facial to the team with one of the league’s elite records? The Knicks should make GALLINARI their franchise player for at least the rest of the season. When you have a white guy who can pop from the arc and pull down double digit rebounds picking up Iverson would have been nothing more than Affirmative Action and we all know that AA shit is dead and stinking.

Around the Association…

Iverson back to Philly. Who the fux cares?

New Orleans is asscheeks with CP3, Okafor, West and Posey? Byron Scott took the fall but there is something rotten in the Hornets lockerroom.

Adam Morrison will have a championship ring before LeBron James does.

Kevin Durant > LeBron James

The Secret War On The Old EARTH (World AIDS Day ReMix)

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

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Editor’s Note: Today is World AIDS Day. Although we here at dallaspenn.com don’t subscribe to the general consensus on AIDS, we still want to show respect to those people who have paid the ultimate price.

An article in the March ’06 Harpers Magazine exposed the genocidal griminess of the medical industrial complex. The article opened with the story of a working class mother from Memphis who was pregnant and coerced into taking an HIV test. She received a false positive and since the doctors didn’t administer a back up test she was labeled to have HIV. Fearful that she would pass the HIV to her yet unborn child she agreed to become part of a clinical trial that was using a combination of anti-HIV drugs. What she and the other women in this trial were not told was that the drugs that they would be receiving were actually pathogens. Designed to break down the immune system by giving it toxins that the body would have to fight. The duration that these toxins needed to destroy their host was the true subject of the study.

This particular woman, JOYCE ANN HAFFORD, a healthy 33yr. old probably didn’t have HIV, but she had the disease with the deadliest combinations of symptoms inside of America. She was a Black, single, working-poor mother. Mrs.HAFFORD used the HIP centers and the free clinics that so many of us rely upon inside of our cities. When you are uninsured and unable to afford the services provided at a private practice you become the human equivalent of a test animal. In the case of Mrs.HAFFORD, her demise was from massive organ failure and not AIDS.

Pharmaceutical companies, with the blessings of the Federal Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health use urban health clinics to sample thousands of proposed trial medications. Many of these trials test the levels at which patients can consume lethally toxic drugs. This is far worse than the Tuskeegee study which was about administering a debilitating, albeit non-lethal, dose of syphillis to men and analyzing the effects over time.

The drugs used in these trials were known for their rampant toxicity. AZT in a branded combination called Combivir was lauded for the test tube trials in which it killed HIV-infected blood cells and prevented them from replicating. The truth is that AZT prevents all cells from reproducing and kills all cells especially healthy ones is not the info that is put on the table. Instead I see MAGIC JOHNSON doing ads for pharmacuetical giant Glaxo-SmithKline. This is the same company that has been sued by African nations for price gouging on its medical patents. Apparently the only drugs that Glaxo will give away for free are the ones that will kill you quickly.

What is also becoming apparent is that HIV/AIDS does not have a clear definition or symptomology. Did you know that depending on what country in Africa you are from determines your presumed HIV status? The World Health Organizations give pharmaceutical giants free reign to distribute any trial medications throughout the continent. I can accept the genocide that is waged daily on African peoples in Africa because I am not over there. I will not accept the genocide that is being administered on intraveneous drug users and Black women right here in my community. When you watch OPRAH this afternoon peep how many commercials she runs for prescription drugs. You better believe someone is making her rich when she says that down-low Black men are responsible for the spike in African American women contracting HIV. EDDIE MURPHY can’t be having sex with everybody. OPRAH is going to have to stop co-signing these pharmaceutical companies on the one hand and then posing as a champion of Black womanhood on the other side.

Pharmaceutical giants, the FDA and the National Institutes of Health are fighting a secret war against the old Earths. Will you take a stand?

rest in peace mrs.francis