"Got Coke?"
Posted on 04/11/2008 8:25:34 PM PDT by james500
And another thing, she's a complete hypocrite because I saw her on her first tour. Since she only had two hits from her first album and the rest of the songs were not all that, 3/4 of her concert was opening acts that were hip/hop and ghetto rappers. It was a total free for all kind of show. She'd be singing and rappers would come out and start do that fake record scratching with their mouths into the mics and grabbing their junk. But yes, according to Ms. Keyes, its all big whitey's fault and profiting from it all.
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs.”
-Booker T. Washington (1911)
This generation’s Whitney Houston.
All that talent. All that self hate.
"Got Coke?"
Well said, sir.
“To spew this hate and nonsense to the younger ones (Obama’s daughters among them) is the worst thing a person can do to impede their growth and appreciation of this great, though not-perfect, nation that is second to none. Just ask any African or Jamaican that spends a fortune coming here. (They should be the ones giving sermons about being Black in the U.S. of A.) Sneakyuser “
But as a black person you’ve done something right there that most seem reluctant to do: you’ve stated that this is a great nation, and second to none, though not perfect (and no nation, or individual, or anything is perfect).
I don’t know percentages, but believe many blacks will not admit to America’s great aspects because if they admit that, then they have ceded much of the basis for blaming America for their possible lack of success. I’ve read of more than one commentator, black and white, say if Obama is elected, then the claims of discrimination will be less believable afterwards, and that some blacks actually support Hillary because an Obama win would cost blacks too much in bargaining power when claiming racism and discrimination.
That’s being said, but again I don’t have any idea what percentage of blacks might think that way about an Obama win.
“She’d be singing and rappers would come out and start do that fake record scratching with their mouths into the mics and grabbing their junk. But yes, according to Ms. Keyes, its all big whitey’s fault and profiting from it all.”
Plus, one of her best buddys and sometimes work-mates (they appear in each others’ videos and CDs) is that great erudite thinker and ‘artist’ Mos Def who thinks the U.S. government planned and setup the September 11th attacks.
Just spending a little time researching this “theory” at the Popular Mechanics site, and you’ll be convinced otherwise.
The problem is.... these people WANT to think whitey/US government causes their problems and not their culture or personal actions.
Gangster rap ain’t got nothin’ on Black barbershops, workplace conversations, street rap sessions, Black preacher sermens, family gatherings, liberal political ads/columns/pundits/media, etc.
Sneakyuser
Kent, you were reading my mind.
20 years ago, Whitney Houston was an explosion of talent—God given talent.
And she threw it all away. What a role model she could have been!
Beyonce seems to be her successor and so far, she hasn’t gone over to the dark side. I hope that continues.
Thank you for your interesting comments.
Curses! Foiled again!
Truth be known, the government lured Shakur and B.I.G to the Twin Towers on 9/11/2001. The promise was of 1 million kilos of crack cocaine, to be sold only in the inner cities, for the grand sum of $1.00.
Not believing their good fortune, they met government agents in the basement of the Towers to do the deal. Immediately they broke out their crack pipes to test out the cocaine. Shakur's car had a gas leak, the pipe fell out the window after a particularly big hit, and, well, the rest is history.
from the article:
“Like Obama, she won a crucial Oprah endorsement early on when Winfrey built a whole episode around Songs in A Minor. And she preaches a uniting, post-racial vision of humanity.”
Uh, not in this interview she doesn’t.
“No matter how many records she sells or Super Bowls she opens, Keys still doesn’t feel she quite belongs in the mainstream. She likes to think talent transcends prejudice, but she knows that if her skin were darker, she’d have a much harder time crossing over. “I’ll always be an outsider,” she says.”
Oh yeah! If she didn’t have that exotic/ethnic baggage, she’d be a household name...maybe even as big as YVONNE WALTER!
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If black leaders such as the late Black Panther Huey Newton "had the outlets our musicians have today, it'd be global.
Only a very confused person (and I'm being charitable here) could entertain such contradictory arguments in the same breath....
I’ve talked about it before. I observed it among white students when I went to school (friends of different economic or IQ levels) and Johnny Lydon/Rotten noticed the same thing when he worked as an art teacher before joining the Sex Pistols.
The dumb ones don’t want to be left behind, so they keep drawing the others back in (like your crab analogy). It isn’t about race. It is about self-preservation for those with little positive ambition.
It takes a lot of drive to be a professional thug. Why don’t they ever channel it into something more productive?
Some have gotten into rap these days, but they still throw “props” to their dirtbag friends who don’t help them in the long run. People you grow up with aren’t always your friends, especially when they try to hold you back because they can’t advance themselves.
A little known fact is that Dick van Dyke and Cary Grant, led by Frank Sinatra, developed this scheme. After inventing Rap music over a period of months in the early 1970s, they knew that they needed a national leader to implement the plan, after succeeding in placing "tin ear" Ronald Reagan in the White House, Sinatra and his henchmen succeeded in fully introducing Rap to the black community. And I don't have to tell you what that meant, women and minorities suffered most,... well, I think that I suffered the most but you know what I mean.
What a breath of fresh air you are....
LOL.
I think many artists feel guilty about their success and their wealth. That's my theory, anyway. :-)
I believe Barry Nobama has found his running mate!
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