Racism
[MP3] Throwback Thursday: Stic.Man of Dead Prez, Mike Flo & Mos Def – Made You Die
I don’t know how I missed this heater flipping Nas‘s classic “Made You Look” examining the Trayvon Martin case from last year on the Every 36 Hours album (released by Nu Afrika Ent/MXGM). I only caught wind of it after watching the low budget but still worth watching, Hip Hop, White Supremacy & Capitalism documentary on my man DCQ (of UTD and Medina Green)’s blog, in which the video for it is featured, but #ThrowbackThursday gave me the perfect opportunity to post it still now. After all, the f-ckery still continues. Smdh….
Kitchen Link Roundup: This Week (or so) in Racism….
42: the biopic about ballplayer and civil rights icon, Jackie Robinson’s experiences as the first Black player in Major League baseball comes out this month and it’s amazing.
Infographic: are there really more Black Men in jail than college?
Mona Scott-Young Responds To “Love & Hip Hop” Critics: “Don’t Tell Me I’m Not Changing Lives” [Clutch magazine]
English Premier League soccer team, Sunderland FC hires avowed and unapologetic Italian Fascist, Paolo Di Canio as their team manager. WTTF??!?
Intimacy Intervention: “My Husband Uses Racial Slurs During Sex” [Essence.com]
Film director, Antoine Fuqua Says, “Stop Crying Racism At Hollywood… Put In The Work” [Shadow and Act]
Is “Pass The Mic”, this week’s Grid magazine oral history cover feature story on MuchMusic, as told by their on-air VJ’s & show hosts, racist for not including any on-air personalities of color? Soulafrodisiac examines the case.
“Once again the Junos TV slots do not reflect true diversity in music. Still a Molson Canadian Rocks World I guess….” – an industry friend on the recently announced artist performance line-up for the Canadian music industry award show, the Junos.
This one is kind of obvious but I had to include it anyway, NYT Op-Ed: “The G.O.P.’s Diversity Deserts”
And finally, there’s this:
Brad Paisley ft. LL Cool J – “Accidental Racist”:
Brad Paisley On ‘Accidental Racist’: ‘I Wouldn’t Change A Thing’ [Huff Post]
[News] Jordan Davis: the next Trayvon Martin?
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Another Trayvon Martin? “In Florida last week, a gun enthusiast killed an unarmed teenager for playing his music too loud….” [Salon]
Here we go again. We haven’t even settled the Trayvon Martin case and another maniac is invoking FL’s asinine ‘Stand Your Ground’ law under very, very dubious circumstances. I am truly getting tired of asking, “When does this end?” Absolute.f-cking.travesty. Michael Dunn is out of his mind and deserves to be jailed for a long, long time. The fact that whether that will happen is in serious question is almost the saddest thing of all. Jordan Davis, R.I.P.
[Video] 17 Year Old’s Secret iPod Recording Captures the Reality Behind the NYPD’s Stop and Frisk Policy
I don’t do this often (ever??) but EVERYONE SHOULD RETWEET, REBLOG, POST AND OTHERWISE SHARE THIS VIDEO. It’s that important!
From The Nation:
Exclusive audio obtained by The Nation of a stop-and-frisk carried out by the New York Police Department freshly reveals the discriminatory and unprofessional way in which this controversial policy is being implemented on the city’s streets.
On June 3, 2011, three plainclothes New York City Police officers stopped a Harlem teenager named Alvin and two of the officers questioned and frisked him while the third remained in their unmarked car. Alvin secretly captured the interaction on his cell phone, and the resulting audio is one of the only known recordings of stop-and-frisk in action.
In the course of the two-minute recording, the officers give no legally valid reason for the stop, use racially charged language and threaten Alvin with violence. Early in the stop, one of the officers asks, “You want me to smack you?” When Alvin asks why he is being threatened with arrest, the other officer responds, “For being a fucking mutt.” Later in the stop, while holding Alvin’s arm behind his back, the first officer says, “Dude, I’m gonna break your fuckin’ arm, then I’m gonna punch you in the fuckin’ face.”
‘Stop and Frisk’ is just a terrible, terrible program despite what Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly may think. Besides the fact that this kid had been stopped before that day, the amazing thing is, he’s the son of a cop (‘on the job’ in their parlance) and known to the police who stopped him as having been part of their Explorers after-school program. Clearly, as people of color have long known, no-one is immune and social programs meant to bridge the gap may not be enough to overcome the level of dysfunction and damage that marks relations between that community and the police. And sad to say but I feel Alvin’s pain. And BTW, don’t think this is just an NYC thing either….
[Video] Trailer for Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden
YOU.MUST.LEARN! Check it…
A clip from the film Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden showing the dark history of the use of “education” to dominate and destroy traditional cultures. To find out more about the film, please visit schoolingtheworld.org.
Related:
– Wab Kinew, musician and CBC Winnipeg host speaks on the tragedy of the Native American residential schools on the George Stromboulopoulos show.
– American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many. [NPR]
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