It's a Sad Day

When Flavor Flav goes from "Fight the Power" to hand me my crown.

I see rappers are still bitching about Oprah.  Morons calling for a boycott.  Even more morons saying, yeah! That was disrespectful.

Who gives a fuck if Oprah rarely has rappers on her show? Rappers rarely have clothed women in their videos.  I figure they are close to even.

There is no reason she lower her standards if they won't raise theirs.

Of all the crap out there to protest this ain't one.  If you want get trifling, boycott the whiners for crying.

Currently Reading Bone Black : Memories of Girlhood (Bone Black) By bell hooks see related

Don’t Judge Me

They take my kindness for weakness.

They take my silence for speechless.

They consider my uniqueness strange.

They call my language slang.

They see my confidence as conceit.

They see my mistakes as defeat.

They consider my success as accidental.

They minimize my intelligence to potential.

My questions mean that I’m unaware.

My advancement is somehow unfair.

Any praise is preferential treatment.

To voice my concern is discontent.

If I stand up for myself, I'm too defensive.

If I don’t trust them, I'm too apprehensive.

I'm deviant if I separate.

I'm fake if I assimilate.

My character is constantly under attack.

Pride for my race means I'm "too black."

- Sianna Leavy

*applause*

Currently Listening El Abayarde By Tego Calderón see related

I LOVE Keyshia Cole

Kinda a neo-Mary J.

You think you're the bomb singing "Love" and then her song comes on and you hear how flat you really are.

I haven't heard anyone sing that song right.

I don't think I like Keyshia anymore.

Currently Listening The Way It Is By Keyshia Cole Love see related

"I'm trying to enlighten you to the fact that you've got to approach life in a certain way and not expect you're being mistreated because you're Black."

There was a Black guy teaching White people to slouch so that they'll pass as Black.

A Black kid being sent to etiquette class in order to learn a White thing.

Black and White people fetishizing their lovers because of their new skin.

This is the state of my country.

Oy yoy yoy.

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry after watching that first episode of "Black. White."

And to think that I was anticipating this series.

Currently Reading Caucasia By Danzy Senna see related