Silent Evolution…

I am speechless.
Utterly.
This man, Jason deCaires Tayloris a genius. He has created an underwater ‘menagerie’ of beautiful sculptures, you just have to see.

The life-size pieces were created to honor the African slaves who either were forced thrown overboard, or jumped on they own to escape bondage and torture on they way to America.

They are truly beautiful to behold. The detail is unbelievable, and when you get into the moment, I think you’ll know what I mean.

There are about 80 of them; all created out of artificial reefs disguised as sculptures, actually.  And underwater. 

I think that is soooooo phuckn tha shyt!!!)@&$$%_€¥>¥!!!!

They located off the coast of Molilnere Bay in the waters of Grenada.  

Sunlight penetratin’ the water at different depths and angles, and the water currents movin’ are said to cast the most enchantin’ kalidiscope…

Check this guy out.  He has other projects, equally awesome…

Jason deCaires Taylor

The Reason…

Intelligence +  character is the true goal of education.
…Martin Luther King

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!

Jazz great, Gill Scott-Heron  passed yesterday.  He was a young 62.  Reports are sayin’ he fell sick after returnin’ from a European trip.

This son of a Jamaican soccer player Gilbert “Gil” Heron and singer Bobbie Scott-Heron, was raised in Jackson Tenn by his grandmother.  He attended Lincoln U, mostly because Langston Hughes went there.

Gill wrote his first book at the age of 19, The Vulture,  along with his first album, “Small Talk At 125th and Lenox.  Both were published in 1970.  He was widely known as the ‘Godfather of Rap, and considered one of the first Spoken Word artist.  They just called it something else  in those days, guess…

“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” is touted as his best work, and he will be remember for that,  amongst other things in his 40+ yr career:

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie Mays
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o’clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.

April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011)

R.I.P, Soul Brotha~*

The Freedom Riders…

The Freedom Riders…

I dont normally watch Oprah (lots of reasons that I wont go into here…), but it was awesome yesterday…  She hosted all 178 of the Freedom Riders on her show.  The 50th anniversary is May 16th.

The Freedom Riders were a group of Black and whyt folks who traveled by bus from Washington DC to the N.O., singin’  freedom songs against Jim Crow laws. (Can u really believe there were actually laws that prohibited black folks from shyt like sittin’ at lunch counters, and goin’  into bathroom?  Lawd…)

The first group of Freedom Riders were 12 people — six blacks, six whites.  They got on Greyhound and Trailways (they still in business?) buses and decided they’re going to go from Washington, D.C., down to New Orleans and they were gonna sit together in the front of the bus. They were gonna eat together in restaurants in the bus stations.  The white folks were gonna use the ‘colored’ (we’s Black now, Boss!) bathrooms, and vise-versa.

These people were beaten, their buses set on fire and sent to jail for their belief that all Gods children are equal.   Everybody feared for their lives, but pushed on in the name of equality.

She had all 178 of the survivin’ Freedom Riders as guests on her show.   It was an awesome moment…

Next-Gen Riders

University of Utah student Esther Kim is followin’  the path.  She is one of 40 students from 30 states who boarded a bus May 8th to retrace the route of the Freedom Riders.  They will pass through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana, joined by some of the O.G. riders.

PBS is airin’ a special on May 16th.  Check your local listings.

Make Yo’ Mama Proud!~

This is an AMAZIN’ young lady, here! 

Layin’ up watchin’ late night/early mornin’ TV news and they ran a piece on this lil lady; had me sittin’ up by the time it was over…

Saheela Ibraheem is only fifteen and still in high school (a senior!) but has been accepted at 13 colleges- includin’ six of the eight Ivy League schools. Yale was the one that popped off a rejection letter.  Why?  Who knows or cares?

Eager to learn more about her favorite subject, math, the daughter of Nigerian immigrants asked to move to a higher-level class. The school let her skip sixth grade entirely.

By high school, Saheela said, she was no longer feeling challenged by her public school classes. So, she moved to the Wardlaw-Hartridge School, a 420-student private school, where she skipped her freshman year and enrolled as a 10th-grader.   Her three younger brothers, twins now in the ninth grade and a younger brother in second grade, all eventually joined her at the school.

And she is a three-sport athlete-softball, soccer and swimmin’, sings alto in the school choir, plays trombone for the band and is President of the school investment club.  Isn’t she just wonderful?

She has settled on Harvard and will be the youngest member of the 2011 freshman class.  She’s decidin’ between neurobiology and neuroscience…

Its upliftin’ to read about a young black person that is not cuffed up, on the run, or dead or dyin’…

You go girl!~

That’s Gangsta!~ Pt. 2

What's my mofo'n name!

As more and more facts come out about Osama Bin Laden’s murkin’, Obama looks better and better to me (as if he wasn’t already shinin’…*)

Basically: Bam just came out as gangsta as he could get, (bein’ the Prez n’ all…) against all the stupid criticism that has been goin’ on since the man took office in 2008.   He’s was always suave and sophisticated; ignorin; the bs and handlin’ his business regardless of whatever the bobble-heads were babblin’ about.

I don’t have to tell y’all about the sudden eruption of the Tea Party, the over abundance of racist and threatenin’ images, articles, and posts all over the web about our Editor in Chief, the name-callin’.   Baldy and the Birther Bullshyt (which was quickly smoked).  Racist groups threatened and still threaten his very life, simply because he was elected POTUS.   There was a whole billboard erected with a pic of Obama supposedly dead with the caption, “Who Killed Barack?”   How funky can they get…

Yeah, there is a lot of shyt swirlin’ about the ‘timeliness’ of his announcement and whether there was some kind of cover-up, covert conspiracy to mislead the public.  That’s just the bullshyters still bulshytin’…  If he DID delay the announcement, so what?  WTF does Mr. & Mrs. Average Joe Blow need to know about plans to blow this mofo up?   My theory is it was a good thing; if he has somehow  stupidly annouced “We goin’ to kick Osama’s ass!“, the press would have had that shyt all over the wire, Osama would have been somehow warned, and got away again.

I ain’t mad at him.

We saw a new Barack; he’s not takin’ no more shyt like he took in the past.  Shyt is serious, he’s got more important things to do (he told y’all), and that’s what that is about.  First roastin’  Trump’s bald-headed ass, (first ‘Crip Walk’ thru the b.s) and then when he announced they had Osama’s ass, his true O.G. came out.  He attitude was no non-sense, “F*ck U, Kiss my ass, I’m runnin’ this, and what?”

He told America he was on the case since August, and played his hand close to the vest till he knew it was time.  Really, why contact and alert the press and the public?  The big-mouth press, Tea Partiers and Rethuglicans chantin’ bullshyt would have ruined all of this.  We would still be lookin’ for this insane mofo.

Then we have those who have their heels dug in the sand tryin’, to discredit Bam at every turn. They are sayin’  Osama is not dead and this is some type of elaborate ruse perped by the Prez and his cohorts.  And as always, they don’t ‘think it through’.   Just HOW could he perpetrate such an elaborate ruse?  Wouldn’t he have to have hundreds of people in on it with him?  Pakistan? The Seals who went over there and got his ass? The innocent man in the mountains on his laptop?  Come on, son.  Face Reality.

America gotta love him!   I can’t think of ONE thing a ReThuglican/Tea Pariter/Conserv/Independent/WTFEver Presidential opponent could ever bring to the table to top this.  OBAMA TOOK OUT OSAMA!  How much f*n’ greater can he get?

To me,  this solidifies his position in the WH in 2012, and maybe beyond. He told you what he was could do, planned to do, yet wasn’t given enuff time to even marinate in the fact that he was actually the POTUS, let alone solve a problem.

Well -wtf do you call this?   A problem well solved,  even if ‘they’ have say so themselves!~

Obama/Biden are in for 2012.  And it’s not just this; it’s the fact that with this, Obama has shown the naysayers that he is about it, and all that shyt they talkin’ is just that.  Shyt.  No matter how much they hate, investigate, procrastinate, instigate, and regurgitate, they wont win.  The best thing is to congratulate and try to f*ckn’ participate.  Its inevitable…   They can’t touch him now.  (Thought they will continue to try!)

A Black Man just might rule the world!~ 

I said it first!~

This Just In!!!!! Bin Laden is Dead!!!!

wonder who gets the reward...?

Familial DNA has identified the body of Osama Bin Laden!   And the United States is in possession of his remains.

Reports say he was ‘killed inside a mansion in Pakistan’.   They might be responsible…  Supposedly this happened a week ago, and we waited this long for them to fully ID the body.  No one is sayin’ how he died….

The Prez is about to speak!  Crowds are gatherin’ outside the WH cheerin’ now!~

More later*

Obama-The ReMix

Bam is rallyin’ his supporters for 2012.

Bam tweeted (isn’t his the most innovative thang?)  his trillion followers this mornin’,  “Today, we’re filing papers to launch our 2012 campaign.  Say, that you’re in” He did say that while he is focusin’ on the job at hand, the work must start today.

He also hit his 19 Milli Facebook friends with the news this mornin’, too.  It official.

And I guess I agree.  The ReThuglicans been posturin’ for a place in the WH, almost since the day the man took office.  Everything they have said and done, no matter how stupid has been a campaign move.  They somehow think they can do a better job.

Only the  stupid ‘hardcore racist’ and ‘anti- Black anything, will vote any one of these jackals into the Oval Office.  We have seen in the last 3 yrs their game plan.  They want to keep and control the money, no matter if they have to slash every social program to keep the armed forces and their pockets lined.

They showed us how they really felt about us when they held millions of lives hostage, threatenin’ to kill UI extensions if they didn’t get that tax cut that cost the budget trillions.   They let us know how much they cared when they signed a bill that outsourced thousands of jobs to India, just to spite Bam.

So far none of them have stepped forward.  You know normally if Bam forgets to wipe his ass in the bathroom, 15 of them were on all the major channels with somethin’ to say about it.

**crickets singin’**

They didn’t see it comin’.  Even though he showed them his nuts, when he ran and got elected,  I don’t think they thought he had the real nerve to run for re-election

I’m sure by the time I get off work today, they will have ‘made a statement.’   And then the fight begins; who is gonna run against him.  They all think they are the one.  This will be a comedy show I can’t wait to see…

I think he can do it again. Change takes time and if folks give him that- they been snatchin’ that up since he was elected too- he’d be alot better off.  There are those who only want to see him fail at any cost.   But to me, he has made some strides, got some shyt done.  This is a big job with a big deadline and lots of pressure.

I believe he can make it happen…again.

I’m in.

You Go, ‘Chelly-O!

Isnt  Michelle a ‘stunna’?

This is the finest 1st Lady in the history of “1st Lady-dom”!

Michell is sittin’ on top of  Forbes magazine’s  ”World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” list for 2010!

The Top Ten

1. Michelle Obama!

(*yay!*)

2. Irene Rosenfield-Chief Exec., Kraft Foods
3. Oprah Winfrey-Talk show host/media mogul
4. Angela Merkel-Chancellor
5. Hillary Clinton-Secretary of State
6. Indra Nooyi- Chief Exec., Pepsi
7. Lady GaGa- Singer. performance artist
8. Gail Kelly- Chief Exec., Westpac
9. Beyonce Knowles-Singer, fashion designer
10.  Ellen DeGeneres-Talk show host

Click here for the rest of the list!

Make it rain on them hoes ‘Chelly-O”, and *look good* while you doin it!

 

 

Black on Black Crime

Whats REALLY In a Name?

Big Shot Bob’s in Pitts. PA  has it goin’ on.  They’re famously known for their 100 flavors of chicken wings.   And they are pretty creative when it comes to the names of the flavors, like “Mean Joe Green“, black and gold with jalapeno sauce, and “Mr. Northside’, flavored with honey mustard and BBQ. 

But its this creativity that got they asses in trouble. 

They named a flavor, “Black on Black Crime“.    Now why would they do this? 

OMG! The racist mofo!   That’s has evidently popped up into some fool’s pea -size brain.   Everything is not the race card these days…dayumm!

The owner, Matt Cerone, says the wings were named by a loyal, long time customer who just so happens to be Black!    This was just a play on words that referred to the wings being doused in dark barbecue sauce and cooked with ‘Black Magic’ seasoning.   (*fat-kid voice*: dayumm,  I bet they goooood!)

They started gettin’ threatenin’ phone calls and complaints about the name ,and then rumors that they were closin’ started to swirl.  Guess somebody planned on helpin’ them close… 

“Offense was never part of anything.”

They have since changed the name, allowin’ the woman who first brought the lil ‘crusade’ to their attention, to choose the new name, “Big Fine Woman 2000″.   (Dayumm… she couldn’t  come up with somethin’ a lil better than this?  SHE must be a Big Fat Bytch.)

I’m not seein’ what the big deal is here.  It’s just a name.  When I first heard it, it didn’t ring that kinda bell in my mind, and the ingredients in the flavor kinda support what they were tryin’ to say. 

These are the times we live in; seems since the Election of Bam,  it’s gotten even worse.  On both sides.    The race card must  be pretty worn out by now.   But this is not one of those issues.    This is an example of the hysteria.    People are always seein’ somethin’ negative in what a person says or does.    Instead of takin’  it for the face value it was offered, they over-think and over-infer it.    Ignorant Inference, that’s what I call it (if you can understand that…)

And after takin’ a look at their menu, who gives a dayum what they were inferin’-I think I need to holla at them anyway!