Pop diva, Rihanna and rapstress, Nicki Minaj are shooting the video for Nicki Minaj's "Fly" single this weekend. SMH! The brothers who go for lightskinned chicks are gonna be all over this team. Nicknamed 'Rihnaj', their combo is sure to be a creative off-the-wall video... how much donk can the brothers take in one video. Someone call Amber Rose for a triple decker!!
Date Submitted: 1/10/2011 8:22 AM
Posted By: DimeWars Staff
Oral Roberts preaching in the 1950's
“Every generation of African-American, colored, Black and Negro youth have the same dialogue the preceding generation taught them about color: light skinned women, and men are somehow better, superior, charmed, and in possession of the sole reason they got the big break, the good job, and the good career. Every generation thinks the dialogue around the subject is fresh, and new. The reason to have the dialogue is peppered with the same seasonings, but the young think they have the right approach, and are as ineffective as the preceding generations in advancing beyond the controversy. Why? It has everything to do with fear, and identity. White people owned their niggers when they had slaves, and that ownership is a large part of Black American identity. It is an inseparable part of who Black Americans are. It lives in the root of our identity. It is the main reason millions of Black Americans defends the use of the word nigger with pride, and the connection between Black Americans insistence on eating chitlings to the practice of eating proverbial shit as slaves, and being, not relatives to the White man, but his nigger.
Clinging to slave patterns into the 21st century has not raised any of our ire, or driven us angry enough to insist upon re-writing the 13th Amendment that allows the continuation of slavery legally. The machinery of slavery, and imprisonment are easily called out to play, and identifying the connections has never aroused the wrath of Black Americans into actions to rid the nation of the last vestiges of slavery. Outsiders are fully aware of the disadvantage to waking up Black America to define power, determine the parameters of collective, and individual identity based on spirituality, and powers beyond self acquisition to teach us how to negotiate with power, and Powers as a sovereign nation or as men to other men of power. Asleep Black America clings to the narrowness of divinity taught by their slave masters. Black Americans revere the designers of their opinion of themselves to the detriment of the lives of their generations. Black American women suffer deeply in their souls being valued by old European paradigms that saw women and children as chattel.
Black American pride is not solely based on reason. It is a reaction, a trained reaction to the truth of who we are, and our contradictions around freedom, the concept, the idea and the notion of freedom. It is tempered by the anticipation of waiting for the subtle, and the open validation of white Americans. Corralled by a belief in what we are told has suspended the brilliance that empowers the music, and the inventions, and the discoveries of the best of Black American minds. To be freed of this requires what we, as a people who call ourselves Christians, or Muslims, cannot do. We cannot stop eating the shit we are proud of. We cannot face and kill the white man within us, and we cannot see ourselves as global citizens. We have not learned to embrace spirituality in the deepest sense of the word, nor do we create the sacred space to teach and train our children to be African-Americans, or how to give birth to themselves into the world as whole people connected to their ancestors, and the future of humanity. There is no urgency beyond existence, and the fear of life is suicidal. We give our children away to a system designed to under develop them, and our habitual reaction to the end result is to grieve over the trail that leads them from home to school to prisons. Because prison is slavery, and the freedom we were given imprisons us we have learned to trick ourselves into believing we are free. Freedom given to a people does not make them free. There is always a clause, and that clause is in the 13th Amendment.
These are my words, and this is what I know: If you want to live you must die to who you have become, and who you think you are.” © Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
older white woman holding her breasts tells her own story of fear and bondage...
