disecting some lyrics that may offend white folks...that i like!

alright so i been talking about this concept for a while but never really was able to communicate all of my feeling and thoughts in there entirety...but basically I love lyrics that "hate on white folks" in hip hop songs---> mostly because the specific songs I am talking about I agree with what there saying. Also because Hip Hop is a type a black music (which is a channel for brown and black folks to be uplifted and unified) but its also the "cool" and bought by white folks.

So I love the line in EYEASAGE's song when she says:
"Don't let the white people tell you the formula of success cause history will tell you that will be a knife in the chest"

Resurrect ft. Bambu - EyeASage

---> now some folks may think "Dang that's hating on white folks" but to me she's asking you to look at history not the warped one we learned in schools the real history and when you do you will see : from La Isabella (where Christopher Columbus first sailed to and began to slaughter gazillions of native folks that had BEEN there and then claim the land as his) or the Philippines or pretty much anywhere white folks went and played divide and conquer and even recent history or even current wars in the middle east.

Now another line that I am a fan of comes from Bambu's song Like Us, same thang goes for this one, if you are not aware of the context than you may say its anti white but look deeper and see it is more about unifying brown and black folks and countering the racist mentality that "white is better" and giving sisters of a darker shade some love which I am never opposed to--->

"...especially when she been told her beauty comes second to the white, now its white women collagen in lips and fake tits now we over look a sister cause a white girl thick uhhh naw has me scractn my head I have never I will never I rather be dead"

Like Us - Bambu

---> this shit is dope for so many reasons. I love when people speak on it like this.

there are hella other songs that speak on it like this but i don't have the lyrics memorized but I encourage you when you here a song to look deeper into the lyrics if it stirs some emotions up for you because the artist most likely said it for that very reason.

One Love!

Medicine for Melancholy-A love story set in the Bay

Medicine for Melancholy (peeped about it on racialicious.com) "no get the onion but don't try to tell me any secrets"

Same ol Same ol News be Tripp'n

First off aint nobody said that OBAMA being a president will demolish racism, second of all MICHELE MALKIN neeed to shut the f up, WHO SAID we are in a "POST RACE" world wtf????????? (thought it was funny how she can't pro-nounce Naz...) is it bad for black folks to be happy about Bush leaving and Obama taking over? Hell Naw the fact that this went on the news shows how much CHANGE we still need and that Obama ain't gon solve everything It Comes from the Peeeeople! Lets Organize freedom fight day and night...

PRAYING 4 PEACE-->WORKING 4 JUSTICE

It was so worth all the time spent organizing to have a beautiful event, to protest the Police (opd and BART) and Honor Oscar Grant and all the people who unjustly lost their lives to the po-po... Thank You: Jennifer Johns and all the Folks at C.A.P.E. for giving ya all, some of these folks never stop organizing and protesting and for them I AM THANKFUL this world is better because of them. More photos after I learn how to make a jump...

that ain't scary, thats just wrong

Its all fun and games when it ain't you getting put it to a box, told how to act, oppressed, labeled, and taught to have self hatred because you are the "other", and considered a people that are joke able and buy able, at your local Halloween discount store...

geisha girl Halloween costume

image from Racialicious.com

The article they posted is dead on!
click HERE to read.

I think its a little different when it's a hip hop fan dressing up as a artist they like. I don't wanna say I think it's ok or not ok because I am not here to pass judgment. I selected these images because it shows that there is a very thin line between fun and going to far. But I always think that its a good idea to be on the safe side if there is a risk of racially offending someone. so is Someone dressing up as T-Pain for Halloween different from the above pictures? why or why not? I am not trying to hate-or hate on one person alone for this, but rather address the disappoint I have when some people are insensitive, and challenge and promote the discussion of what is considered socially exceptable and what is racially insensitive.

My problem is that "ethnic races" are being made fun of or laughable, yet "white" is considered the standard or the norm. It is assumed that superman, and wonder women, and the joker, and the business man are all white. Holidays are one of the ways that you can easily see how racism is taught to kids (how many Santa Clauses do you see that are not white?). When I used to teach young kids, I had a friend of mine come in and teach a game and I told the kids that he was superman, one kid quickly replied that he couldn't be superman because "he's black." this was something this 6 year old had learned he was not born limiting his ideas of super heroes to one race, that was taught to him.

call em how I see 'em--don't come at me wrong on myspace

I have a love and hate relationship with myspace, I have connected with some wonderful people from homiez I grew up with, to people of like minds, who I am honored to call my friends, and i love that it allows me to have easy access to good music.

But the shit that gets on my nerves are the never ending random ass friend requests, the inquires for art and then faking, dudes trying to be cutty buddy when they know I have a man, and the fact that it has added to a culture where people are constantly trying to take pictures of themselves to post it so they can look like they have a life of myspace, and girls posing in there thongs-putting it up on the internet, for what?

I was in the computer lab the other day waiting to print out my report and as i was waiting I watched this girl who kept uploading pictures and making slide shows of her out at clubs and cup caking with her man, writing these little captions, and in that moment i was able to see how vane it is too be all about pictures of yourselves, I'm not knocking her and I am guilty of it too, but I just think it' s a little self absorbed, now that doesn't apply to [music] artists cause with that its a way to connect with fans.Anyway I sometimes go for months making a conscious effort to not go on myspace cause I don't have time, & I don't want my time to go to it, and because I want to see if I am effected by it (i do the same thing with T.V and other things just to make sure I am not brainwashed or dependent on anything).

Anyways I checked my friend request box and found more folks I didn't know (taking up space), but 2 people who wrote a message, one was from this cool homie who was saying he read this here blog (he's on my bloglist-'From Ashy to Classy') and I checked his blog and I'm feeling it, cause he's speaking for folks like myself with empty pockets and fresh style and big dreams.

anyway then I look at the next message and its a kid from one of my classes, who will remain nameless but this is what it said "wow you never told me your bf was black that is why when i say o right oright you are happy o right than see you in class." and I just got out of class with him and he proceeded to talk in this manor about how shocked he was that I kicked it with the "sistaaas" and that he didn't think I was the type of girl to have a "ghetto black boyfriend." And then proceeded to tell me that some of his friends spoke "black languages" and that he new ghetto people too. (I'm tired its been along day my first reaction is to cus him out, or pretend like i didn't hear him so I woudn't have to get mad or deal with it, but I feel it's my responsibility to all the people I know and all the knowledge I have learned from seeing this fucked up system, to speak out when ignorant comments are made, plus he talked about my man so I had to say something...)

Please believe that I corrected him saying that he was over generalizing and that if he was talking about slang than thats called Ebonics but if he was talking about a language from a country in Africa than he should find out the name of it and what specific country his "homie" was from (i let him know I have friends from three different parts of Africa and that they all speak different languages with the example of my homegirl Sojourner who is from Tanzania and speaks Swahili) then I informed him that there is a difference between ghetto and black, and that I grew up in an area that was not that white, and predominately African American, but that I don't limit myself to kick in it with one race, and that my boyfriend is half Filipino and doesn't consider himself ghetto, no matter what hood he was raised (because against all odds he was able to live, to graduate from high school (look up the Oakland drop out rate) and go to a good college and has never sold drugs or killed someone in his life)...anyway I said it in a way without getting angry or making him feel bad but just to let him know not to get it twisted. Whenever I have these little incidents I always hope that that person's mind is opened just a little bit, maybe an inch, so some of those stereo types can escape and some knowledge about other cultures can get let in. In order to continue to speak out, I have to tell myself that even if I cannot see impact, it is there. And that is a true lesson in patience.

Each week its another battle, another comment, another frustrating moment. The only thing that gets me thorugh is to see like minded people who feel how I feel. I was missing my bay fam and then I got to kick it with some dope folks. Just conversating with such wise intelligent like minded folk made every moment of this week so far, not seem so hard, my friends are my motivation to get thru.

that's all i really wanted to say, I'm tired as hell but on my way to pull another all nighter, and I ain't gonna stop fighting until the battle is won!

When white people sometimes need to shut the f*ck up Pt. 2

im hella mad:





*did that old white cracker say what I think he did
"If it walks like a duck..."*wtf does it mean "the black will take over"
*the lady that said-"she's concerned that Michelle and Obama might be anti white" STFU
*and to that one white lady note: "he thinks us white people are trash" you are trash but Obama never said you were

*wtf does it mean that "hes a sheep or a wolf in sheep's clothing", and Palin ain't "holy spirit" you mean holy shit that she could be the president.
*"just the whole musilm thing..." how bout the whole believing stupid things on tv thing...

VOTE! because as crazy as it is there are some dumb ass people out there that would rather have a cracker mentally unstable guy and a "hockey mom" from alaska running the country over some (Obama-Biden) amazing leaders that the whole world stands behind. Vote!

i was hella mad from this about what these racist people say about where America is, and the fact that these people have the right to vote, when they are the ones who are really brainwashed (not the open minded folks like us),but then i put on that LIKE US song my BAMBU check it out

that one bigot

Thank You to Adriel for making this video!: That One Bigot:


from AAA Fund Blog:

During last week’s presidential debate, McCain revealed his true attitude towards racial tolerance when he praised Teddy Roosevelt . The straight talkin’ “maverick” said squarely, “You know, my hero is a guy named Teddy Roosevelt.” Well, this Teddy Roosevelt character was an imperialist racist who, according to his frontier thesis stressed a racial struggle between “civilization” (white) and supposed savagery (people of color).

Teddy Roosevelt, a proud supporter of the Spanish American War and American imperialism, wanted to globalize manifest destiny. Following the Spanish American War Roosevelt fully advocated the annexation of the Philippines, the first real American effort to colonize an Asian country. Filipinos, fought for liberation from their once so called Spanish American War allies. As a result of the conflict, Filipinos, who fought side by side with American soldiers in the Spanish American War, were massacred, leaving hundreds of thousands of Filipinos dead and the country in shambles.

While fighting in the Philippines, American soldiers disrespectfully coined the racist slur “gook” to refer to Filipinos who resisted the American occupation of the Philippines, a term McCain uses freely still to this day. In his 2000 presidential primary run, McCain candidly told reporters that “I hate the gooks,” and “I will hate them as long as I live” when discussing his attitude towards the North Vietnamese prison guards he interacted with. McCain refuses to apologize for foul language.

the fact that this was actually a commercial is crazy and shows how much this country needs CHANGE!

When white people sometimes need to shut the f*ck up!

Disclaimer: this is me venting but it is all true and based from my experience...

There are some things white people (myself included) have no right to say. This is pretty basic that anyone i respect would already know but ima speak on it:

1. I don't care if you grew up in the hood and ain't never even seen a white person, or you think its ok because you only say it in the privacy of your own home, there is no circumstances where it is ok in my book for a white person to use the n word. as far as white people having an opinion on the words use I don't think its a white persons place to tell a black person they cannot or should not use the word it just comes off as a "if i can't do it you can't do it thing."

2. Don't speak as if you have suffered from racism. Someone getting hated on because there white is not the same thing as the immense amount of racism that is seen around the world against anybody of color. So yes make it your issue just as much as the next person to be against any kind of racism, and yes care that your neighbors don't get treated the same as you, but don't try to act like you know what it is to be non-white in America if you don't. With that said if you are a white person who is actually down enough to want equality to the extent of willingness to give up your privileges, then speak on that, that puts you in a in between category (like myself) your privileged until you open your damn mouth and then your politics change that.

3. Just because there is a back lash from ingrained racism in the country does not give white people the right (even if there repeating it cause they heard a black person say it) to make fun of a darker skinned person or applaud someone for having "good hair". This is just an example of the many systems that are ingrained in black culture due to some racist crackers back in the day so just cause a white person isn't saying it doesn't mean its not from racism.

4. If I ever hear another white person say "why is there no white history month" there's gon be some problems. I was sitting in a movie theater last year and it happened to be black history month and thier was a commercial (i think it was Coca Cola) that was honoring notable African Americans in history by saying different invention and achievements and then showing their name and picture, me and Phil were having fun seeing if we could get them alright (we did) and then I heard it, from two white guys sitting behind us, "What, aw dude why isn't there a white history month?". Phil had to hold me back. First of all k-12 and then some in college we learn about white history month and when its not on white history its white washed so thats why!!! I have also heard a white person say "there should be a WET"... how about FOX or the entire media, white people who complain because they notice systems or programs implemented to make the world a little more equal (affirmative action) need to shut up and stop complaining, or take a walk in someone elses shoes...

5. Just because a person of a "minority" race doesn't want to hang out with you and would rather be around people that they look like, and wouldn't have to worry about representing their whole race, doesn't make them racist. Somebody had the nerve once ( i think he was drunk at the time) to call out a good friend of mine because he thought he enjoyed kick n it with black folk (his same race) more, or that he let his black friends get away with clowning on him but didn't let this white guy do the same. He thought that made my friend racist. that reminds me which goes with #4 with student associations on campus I can't tell you how many times I've heard a white person point out when they see a flier for a club like "Black Engineers Alliance" as if it's ludicrous that at a college where there are seas of white faces at every lecture you wouldn't wanna find some folks that represent you. Come on now foreal put yourself in someone elses shoes and while doing so acknowledge the system.

6. If I hear another white person say "they were trying to act black" first of all what the hell does that mean your going to classify a couple of limited stereotypes to an entire people. Foreal? Whether you think your complementing someone or insulting them by saying that, its still wrong.

7. this has nothing to do with anything but I think its weird when i see white people with fake tans, so they think its cute to be orange???

8. If you are describing people and you are looking for descriptive words can you try to not always put negative comments and black in the same sentence. I guess because i grew up where saying someone was black was describing most of the room but it always burns my ears a little when i hear "the BLACK guy" and then some negative comment, and if your gonna a start a sentence with "Im not racist but..." that sentence should not be continued, and whatever you were going to say is racist you probably just were never called out on it, either because you were sheltered, or the people that had a problem with it were so damn tired of calling people out, cause there seems to be way more ignorant folks out there than racially educated and hungry for equality people.

So this is mostly to let out my frustration being in southern cali around some ignorant ass white folks, who don't realize I don't think like them even tho I kinda look like them. I'll let other people speak on it but I just wanted to put out there that there's a time where every one should speak up and then sometimes white people go too far and that's when they need to stop. And please believe i make it my problem when i hear people talk bad about a race just cause that's not my race doesn't mean it ok, I'm against any type of hatred or discrimination.

(note: the word cracker was used in this document only as a joke i think its funny and honestly I think white folks in general could use a little humbleing when refering to there own race...

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