June 2011
98 posts
The Backup Plan
you used to call me to say hi you want to be with me that you care
now you only call when you need an “extra hand” whenever your new man isn’t there
I love you but not enough to be your on-call handyman your personal backup plan
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Young & Time
you think that there’s always time but you your looking at the clock with a young mind one day, you’ll think that you’re 3 steps ahead and realize that you’re actually 15 behind
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elmosince87:
We Are Up To Our Noses In Cocaine Rap
Is there any greater fairytale in rap than the cocaine selling emcee who documents his illegal escapades in song? How is it that nearly two decades after the crack epidemic of the 80′s, the public is still able to be entertained by this subject? While we can all acknowledge the cocaine plague even in this day and age, surely we’re smart...
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Flashback To 1992 – Alex Haley’s “Dialogue With...
blackmoviesummer:
I was reminded of this short-lived series which Alex Haley hosted not-so long before he died in 1992, titled Dialogue With Black Filmmakers. The title should be self-explanatory.
I believe the episodes were shot in 1991, but I couldn’t find very much written about the series; I couldn’t even find any absolute confirmation that it even aired at all! And it doesn’t appear to...
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My Favorite Thing White People Ask Me All The...
whothehellisedenhansom:
So last night I was at the bar and this nice white woman……she had to be in her late 50’s/early 60’s was talking with to me. She then began to talk about how beautiful I was. Here’s the conversation:
“I love your bone structure!”
“Your skin is so beautiful!”
“How do you get your hair like that?!”
And then came the infamous question…..”So where are...
leaveyourfeelingsatthedoor asked: Oh HOW I LOVE MY BROTHERMEN OVER HERE! Muah!
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I Wonder About You, Boy...
Discussion with my grandfather, back in the 20th Century:
Me: Hey, Granddad!
GD: Hey. Come here, I want to ask you something.
Me: (sitting), What’s up?
GD: How old are you now?
Me: 34
GD: Hmm. You not married?
Me: No, sir.
GD: No kids?
Me: No sir.
GD: No woman?
Me: No cry.
GD: What?
Me: Bob Marley.
GD: What? Is that your woman?
Me: Huh? No, that was a joke. ...
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For new life, blacks head South →
thedailytakeaway:
Interesting, though not wholly original, piece in the New York Times about black people picking up stakes to head back South.
Thugs/Gangsters in 2011...dont forget most rappers
lifeingifformat:
Expectation:
Reality:
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emaciatedwildebeest:
Quarteto em Cy - “Tudo Quê Voce Podia Ser”
So way, way back in my first post on this blog I mentioned that outside my endless allegiance to hip-hop music, I had interests in other genres, from funk to breakneck big beats. But I also had an ear for Brazilian music, particularly pop music and funk out of the late ’60s and ’70s. Unlike rap, I know...
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What Is a Classic if Everything is a "Classic"?
elmosince87:
Bill Maher does this segment called “New Rules” in the closing of each episode on his show Real Time With Bill Maher. Its a sarcastic and cleverly written series of newly appointed rules society needs in order to rid themselves of fuckery, for lack of a better term, in light of whatever the current state of affairs may be. Of course these aren’t actual rules, and I suppose the...
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“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our...”
– Audre Lorde (via lunetlautre)
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"Brother (Brotha) and Sister (Sista) are terms of...
eartha:
- African American Registry
I don’t understand it when people try to rationalize with me that the word “nigga” is different than the word “nigger”. Please. Someone try to tell me why why why this word should even be used ever. I think the most common explanation of “nigga” as a term of endearment is a load of bullshit, thank you. I don’t really know of any derogatory terms against...
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Why is it that a black man coming home from jail...
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Ugly People Need Love Too, Right?
thehuskybro:
At Le Restaurante’:
Ugly Man: I will never find anyone. I’m too ugly, Black Shrek, ugly. C’est La Vie.
FriendGirl: Awww, that’s not true! You’re really kind, you are funny! Any woman out there would love to be with you!
Ugly Man: Really? Thanks, that made me feel better and more confident! There’s been something I’ve been wanting to ask you for a while now, here goes;...
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BasketBall Wives At "Empowerment Seminar" At...
thehuskybro:
whothehellisedenhansom:
REALLLY ESSENCE????? REALLY????
You’re going to have seminars on empowerment and you decided out of ALL THE influential people you could have picked…..the cast of BASKETBALL WIVES was a great pick? What the hell are they gonna teach these women down in New Orleans?
The proper way to get semen out of a turkey baster so you can get a...
Say It 3 Times, Really Fast!
THERE ARE GOOD BLACK MEN OUT THERE
THERE ARE GOOD BLACK MEN OUT THERE
THERE ARE GOOD BLACK MEN OUT THERE
It’s sad that there needs to be a constant re-affirmation of the very fact that, yes Virginia, there are good black men out there.
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THERE ARE GOOD MEN OUT THERE LADIES!!!!
whothehellisedenhansom:
I had an AMAZING weekend that just past because I spent it with TWO, not one but TWO incredible men. Don’t judge me……hear me out.
The first one was my father.
Father’s Day was yesterday and even though my dad had to make his way back down to base in Virginia early Sunday...
The whitest city in America is Livonia,...
verbal-purification:
thehuskybro:
buttabiscuits:
The 2nd blackest city in America is Detroit…right next to Livonia
Simple explanation with no funny gif (because I don’t have those): white flight.
And just when I start to miss Michigan, I get a reality check. Thanks Tumblr. lol
It just ain’t Michigan. Black people always chasing white folks, then white folks run away only...
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12 things a black man must do or be in his... →
borednschooled:
There’s no doubt that the black man has the toughest job in America. He has been beaten down, called worthless and strategically cut out of American prosperity.
The dropout rate, incarceration rate and illiteracy rate would all lead us to believe that the black man is destined for failure.
Even with the highest number of black men in history graduating from college; a...
Happy Father's Day to my mother :)
thehuskybro:
Okay, don’t do that shit. I don’t like the fact that a lot of men don’t own up to their responsibilities either but no, Mom wasn’t Dad, too in the single parent home, she was just Mom.
inmyhead16:
Being bitter is not cute…at all.
Today is Father’s Day! Not Mother’s Day part 2 or Mother’s Day Jr.
Unless ya’ll start saying Happy Mother’s Day to the single father’s out there, just shut up and sit down.
I just find it funny how nobody was complaining about the mothers who brought home a different “uncle” each week or was out getting high every other day or in and out of...
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Why My "What I Want In A Woman" List Is Short
Because the more things you add to the list, the more women you rule out to the point where you have this big list of wants and no woman because there is no way no one would ever fill out all the requirements of a long list.
For me, there’s a difference between essentials that a prospective mate must have:
Communication
Trust
Caring
Sense Of Humor
Attractive (initially, it has to be...
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Church members celebrate Juneteenth - WTVA.com →
thehuskybro:
Juneteenth weekend, never forget those who came before us, those who lived and died as slaves in America, never knowing the freedoms that we have today because they never gave up.
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karbarkalediscope: 2011-06-16 15:18
For The Record
I have NEVER referred to TuPac as ‘the black Jesus’.
God is not pleased.
Jesus was black to begin with so….I’m not drawing the connection.
You know Jesus was black, I know Jesus was black, how many of the Assimilated Black American believe that he...
...while I'm thinking about it
The infamous, East Coast-West Coast Rap War? Great publicity stunt…until folks started getting shot and killed.
charmtheroyal asked: so are you saying that people who called tupac "black jesus" are stupid?
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Ode to the Southern grocery store chain
randomorganization:
I am an African-American customer of this store and do not appreciate the treatment I have gotten in this store. From being watched by the bagboy to the pharmacist while there are cameras in every aisle is a bit much. I just went in today looking for an item that was listed in the product’s site as being there and it wasn’t. When I checked out, I was met with the rude...
