What's next? I don't know, do you? Who am I? I am someone who makes films. What do I do? I look through viewfinders. And how do I live? I live by the skin of my teeth.

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Anti-Nigger Machine, Part I Of A Series

A friend forwarded this to me. I hope this didn't happen like this. Check it out. Interview with Serena. WOW! This is disturbing. Have all Black athletes gone nuts?

Ms Williams we are all interested in your new boy friend.

There is no new boyfriend. I stopped playing with boys when I stopped dating black guys. I have a new man in my life and yes, he's white.

So you prefer to date white men instead of black guys?

Let's be real. If you are a successful black female you only have two choices.... date outside of your race or date other successful black females.

Are you saying there are no successful black men to date?

Of course not but lets face it, if Oprah would date outside of her race she would be married with children now. The state of most black men is so low the only thing you can do is love them. Like a poor homeless dog. You can't expect it to protect you. You can only offer shelter and love and watch as our neighbor's pitbull protects his home and family. I, unlike Oprah, am not forced to stay within those boundaries. I was born into a new generation of black women.

So Oprah is being forced to date Stedman?
All I can say is when you find a successful black women who is not married and does not have children it is because they refuse to accept the two choices. Some may go as far as marriage to a black guy but they realize divorce is inevitable so they do not have children. Or they have children with one and don't marry in order to preserve their wealth and good credit. Oprah is one of many who silently protests being stuck with such poor choices by refusing to marry and reproduce but you can see how much it hurts her. She's always giving away money to children's charities. I hope she makes the choice to marry a non-black soon so she can have a child of her own.

But you have decided to accept the two choices?
Yes. I grew up in California around the two extremes of wealth. If I could only get myself to try the bisexual thing I would have been much happier in my relationships. Instead I dated black men. I loved many of them but they were just not suitable for marriage. Many of them were raised by women and had warped mentalities. So I finally had to date outside my race. When I moved to Miami, I accepted my status and dated men on my level.

What do you mean by warped mentalities?
Well, where do I begin? Many of them were raised predominantly by women and had this feminine/bisexual complex. Where they wanted to be treated like a female sometimes. For example, I would have the money & they would have the sex. I would teach them things. You know, all the things a woman likes a man to do, I would end up doing for them. Then if we would get into an argument, there would be a role reversal. All of a sudden, they would be the man wanting the respect of a king in his castle. Black men over the years have become less and less of value to black women both rich and poor. I predict in 10 years they will be obsolete. Now they serve little to no function and what little they can do, they don't want to do.

Why 10 years?
That's when going to a fertility clinic to get impregnated by a sperm donor will become as common and accessible as the flu shot. Women who want sex will do it with whoever they want (girl, guy, rich, poor, white, black) and go to the bank (the sperm bank) when they are ready to have children. Even those who waited (like Oprah) will have fertilized eggs placed in Vitro. That's the day the secret organization of women is waiting for. The day when men are 100% dis-empowered.

Are you apart of that organization?
No. They're a mostly white group. Plus that day for black men is practically here already. Black women are already raising 75% of the black population without a man. When fertility clinics become more affordable Black women will be standing in line. It will be just like plastic surgery. Everyone laughed at Michael Jackson but its becoming so popular now, that even poor blacks are getting work done...mostly breast reductions and liposuction.

So do you want men to be dis-empowered?
Heck, no! That's why I am with a white man now. I want a man to be a man and I am not going to settle for less just to stay within racial boundaries. A Black man in my position wouldn't do it so why should I. Don't get me wrong, I love black men. My father is black, I have dated black men all my life, and if I have a male child he will be part black. But my husband and I will raise him together so hopefully he will be a worthy choice for a worthy black female. Not the only choice, or "there's nothing better out there so I'll settle for this" choice. When you are successful you want the best. The best food, clothes, places to live etc. I want the best man also.

And you think the best man is a non-black man?
I think if there's a better choice for me, God would have shown me. I am in the public so I get to meet lots of people from all over the world... athletes, celebs etc. I am wealthy so I am invited and have traveled to the most prestigious events all over the world. Out of all those people, places and events.... I had to choose the right man for me. Like it or not (with very few exceptions) a white man is the only real choice for a successful black female.

Serena Williams… well let’s take a look at how she fails to analyze her situation correctly. Serena and her sister Venus grew up in the 80s in Southern California, specifically the L.A. megalopolis. As someone who moved to SoCal in my mid 20s, I can honestly say that the African-Americans who are raised out here are the most blighted of any Blacks in the entire United States.

Why? Several reasons. The mid to late 80s LA Black culture was VICTIMZED by rampant crack use, the nationally televised gang violence between the Crips and the Bloods, and the complete downsizing of manufacturing jobs from the LA basin – all under the extremely rich and glamorized glare of Hollywood and the record industry (as it moved its focal point from NY to LA).

What this did to the fragile Black community? It’s caused damn-near irreparable harm! The “boys” Serena and Venus grew up with are now the men who popularized the long, baggy white T-Shirt look that has taken the “pop” culture stylists of the urban world by storm (the complete antithesis of the stylized Cross-Colors era of the previous generation that originated in the East Coast and South). These self-same boys grew up to men whom popularized “gangsta rap” – the bane of African-Americans across the world. Why the bane? Because it promotes a culture aesthetic of championing poverty, glorifying violence, denigrating women AND this gangsta-gangsta culture also happens to be the most immediate example to which the mainstream media turns to for its litmus test for what is considered “Black” and then this idea of “Blackness” is broadcast ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE via TV, Films, Music Videos, Music, Magazines and the Internet – the vilification of Black men. What’s real funny is that White people in LA will TELL you what it means to be Black, but the only Blacks they know (by arms length knowledge) are niggas from Compton, Gardena, Hawthorne or other scandalous regions of South Central L.A., that they may have met at a party while sharing a blunt.

No person – Black or White or Latin or Asian – that I’ve met in the LA area would be considered “normal” by the rest of the country. The youth culture of LA is the most scabrous and demoralizing – ignorance to everything beyond the San Bernardino Valley is relished – and therefore the culture lowers the behavior standards of all the ilk it churns out.

The thing that confounds me the most is that Serena doesn’t see that the job of the Anti-Nigger Machine is to castrate Black men. Does she even address this? No! Because SoCal Blacks aren’t even hip to the ANM. That's because racism is most tricky out here, and the entire West Coast/Left Coast vibe is racism doesn’t exist (or at least the same way).

To her credit, Serena kept her nose to the grindstone to become a world-class athlete. This kind of dedication/discipline does not contain in it a regular social scene presence. Her pops, much like Joe Jackson, wasn’t about to lose his meal ticket letting his kids out in those fucked up streets to get pregnant by some kid with a degree in ‘keepin’ it real, or addicted to crack. Therefore, how can she possess an understanding of the hairy, crooked hand of the ANM? The ANM is most notorious at jailing us at an alarming rate – destroying the societal quality traits that are expected of men. When you are a convicted felon, you fall between the cracks – no proper education, no job, no ability to vote, and the ex-con has been around animalist men for far too long; jammed into an environment (the jailhouse) that rips the innards out of normal male-female relationships.

Secondly, Black women are RARELY portrayed positively in the media – and I don’t give a fuck what anybody says the media (TV, film and lamentably music videos) affect our behavior in ways that most of us can’t and don’t comprehend. Whenever I see a “playa-playa” nigga in a music video at night club with a wad of $100s, that he’s fanning as he buys his favorite brand of sizzurp for his crew, or shakes it in the face of the ubiquitous music video hoochie (known to be after $$$$ only), I say to myself “where did this image become something to be hyped? Why are we proud to support this kind of music? (Does the smart man who works for his money reveal it to perhaps packs of hostile hating schemers in the dark club?) Not without his 9, riiiiiight.

The ANM will win as it operates on that kind of subversive level in destroying the Black family relationship by driving the males insane, placing burdens on them that aren’t immediately grasped. For example, the average Black man with a college degree earns equal to or less than the average white man with a high school diploma; the corollary amongst Black-White women isn’t so disparate. How familiar is this: “Man, I can’t afford her” Oh, she doesn’t know that you are trying to walk with no feet to be a good husband and father. She pushes you away… then hates on you for dating a White woman? Don’t blame the Black women… blame the imagry that constantly teaches her what is “right”. Rapper Lil Kim often speaks of “If you don’t have *** then don’t even try talking to me.” What does that do? It makes us want to get those things. By hook or by crook. I guess we can’t point a finger at Lil Kim either because she has been so hypnotized into thinking that White women are the ONLY symbol of beauty to the point that she has reinvented her entire physical appearance. Lighter skin, bigger boobs, facial and body recontouring. Baby, you were beautiful from day one. Nas talks about it on his last two albums. Too bad people aren’t feeling Nas as much as the rapper who talks about killing random Black people, selling crack, and teaching Black women that they should have a complex about their grade of hair and skin tone.

…then you have the fact that Black men are being embraced by white women, Asian women and Latinas more and more – and the friction that arises from the expectations//history of Black men and women are never confronted, so a certain level of resentment grows and grows. Don’t act like you don’t know what happens when a pack of Black women see a Black man happy on a date with a White woman? The ‘head shaking’ that is going on should be refocused to what factors drive Black men away.

The media, particularly the print media, has done a great injustice to Black male/female relations – just look at any magazine ranging from KING and the SOURCE to VANITY FAIR and GQ. Notice the couplings of Black women with successful White men.

I know that I cannot get involved with a woman who has spent more than 3 years in Southern California, let alone grew up here – their sensibilities are warped, twisted and vomited back up in ways that best examined by the bizarre behavior you see from celebrities.

Also, being a Black female celebrity… you’re not rejoiced the same way as your white female counterparts, you’re still dehumanized by the trend-setters of youth culture (rap music, poor TV shows and offensive cinema). Beyonce` is ten times better than Brittany. For starters, she can really sing. She does not need anyone to teach her how to dance. She is a budding actor. She writes her own music, but yet she does not share the same spotlight? (no disrespect to Kim and Kelly)

Of course I’m speaking in gross generalities, but so is Serena. If she really said those things, you can’t blame her. You can only know for yourself, that she has learned from her experiences, and come up with an honest opinion. In Cali, as a Black man, if you aren’t a thug… you gets no love from the perponderance of Black women. It’s kinda funny cause I see Black cats going to great lengths to wear the thug ‘costume’ just to mack on Black women. These women can see it a mile away after they test you. You’ll fail if you’re not real. Even White chicks front on you, saying “Oh we have to get you some tatts, you’d look cute with one on your neck.” Or when they first meet you - “What size rims are on your truck?”

We, as Black men, have no idea how close we are to being obsolete. Why do you think no record companies are looking for the next Public Enemy? The next KRS-ONE? The next LL Cool J? Because those artists promote thought. We as the hip hop generation have more money and power to buy into what MTV is selling. Why not put it into independent labels to bring the record companies more “I hate my baby mama” songs? Every time KRS mentioned a book in one of his rhymes, I bought that book. I thought “If I can know what the teacher is talking about, I can teach my little brother.” Public Enemy tried to tell us not to enlist in the armed forces. Chuck tried to tell us to take an interest in politics. He tried to tell us to vote, and know whom we are voting for. Did we listen? Why do we hate reading so much? Well we sure made Malt Liquor divisions of Beer companies rich. We happily let Corporate America make drug dealer rappers our new heros. With lyrics like “All I did was sell crack to the kids in my hood and didn’t get caught, you can too.” The crack dealer: OK, so you have some nice sneaks, a fat whip and a frozen wrist, but what happens when the crack kid generation starts looking for jobs? Are they no concern of yours? It's already coming to fruition -- read between the lines in regards to the shifting downward of educational standards. Kids today are biologically different because their parents's genes and DNA have been altered by the mind-blowing controlled substances that flooded into the mouths and arms of kids in the late 70s and early 80s. Hate to see what this country is like in 10 years -- yeah, people have been saying that for ever. BUT look at the society 10 years ago, look at it 20 years ago... think, think and think again - all the wealth continues to consolidate OUT OF THE HANDS OF BLACKS. True we migth have more INCOME, but inflation of disposable products -- the kind niggas love to buy -- is increasing at a higher rate of inflation. Hmm.. why is that?

The greatest cultures in the world HELP ONE ANOTHER. THEY GIVE BACK. We destroy our own with a “Nigga, you better get yours, 'cause I’m getting mine and ain’t sharing with you!!” Crabs In The Barrel system of knowledge. That is the way we’ve always been. Slave masters knew it: Take away the mind and empower their bodies. Why do you think WE are the example of a chest-puffed out, tough guy with gold on to show how bad we are? How bad we are?

Do you know what it means if a nigga walks in the club in a HUGE chain? It means he is yelling out loud: Take my shit if you’re badder than me!” Then he’s the guy smoking blunts in the club, waving hundreds in the air. He’s safe, because his boys each have two guns on them and can’t wait to shoot somebody BECAUSE THEN, they can rap about it in a song and have REAL STREET CREDIBILITY!!! And that is what we all crave. To be cool. To be respected. To be feared.

My Dad got his ass the FUCK out of the projects to give his kids a better chance at life. He probably didn’ t know the difficulty we would have when we’d interact with other Black kids of lesser means. That’s the funniest thing in the world to me. “You’re not real” is what I hear because I didn’t grow up on the corner. First of all, fuck face! It’s not my choosing where I grew up. And if I could choose… do you really think I’d grow up poor with one parent, without role models, without proper education, diet, medical resources, and an open mind to other cultures?

Yeah, I’m so not real. Fuck you for not accepting me. And letting the ANM tell you what's real and what's "real."

All She Has Is A Back With A Crack?!!?!


Cumdumpster Paris
Originally uploaded by Ramses 3rd.

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Condom Use On The Rise???

Drug-resistant HIV strain found
Who DID NOT hear about this? Apparently some car-bomb assassination in Lebanon is more important, or is at least garnering more media attention (on NPR, the story has ran about 6x today).

So here's the 411:
Health officials in New York say they have found a new strain of highly drug-resistant HIV in a city resident.

The resident, a man in his mid-40s, is thought to have developed AIDS much faster than usual after infection.

The strain - known as 3-DCR HIV - has not been detected anywhere else in the world and is "difficult or impossible to treat", according to health experts. The discovery prompted renewed warnings from city health officials for people to practise safe sex.

New York health workers are now hunting other possible cases of the strain. Experts say drug resistance is increasingly common among people with HIV, but not when accompanied by such a quick progression to Aids.

'Wake-up call'
Officials said he [the victim] frequently used the drug crystal methamphetamine, a stimulant taken to reduce sexual inhibitions. The man - who has not been named - is thought have been infected quite recently, and developed AIDS between two and 20 months after infection. Progression to AIDS usually takes about 10 years.

The strain was found to be resistant to three out of the four commonest anti-retroviral drugs. Ronald Valdiserri, director of the HIV/Aids programme at the US Centers for Disease Control, no similar case had been found anywhere in the world.

"What's unique about this is the combination of multiple drug resistance and a rapid course," he told the New York Times newspaper. "To folks in the public health community, that is a particularly dangerous combination."

However, some AIDS specialists outside New York have cast doubt on the alarm, saying that the man's immune system may already have been compromised, the newspaper said.


Now, my only question is what races are going to avoid this new strain? Or more importantly, when is this strain going to dicksmack Africa? The Occidental Powers need to find new energy resources and African seems to be the best place to exploit (again).

Friday, February 11, 2005

The Trial Of The Decade (Part 2 Of A Series)


MJ & Corey Feldman
Originally uploaded by Ramses 3rd.


So the "drugs is bad" poster child is being subponea'd in the Michael Jackson case. Apparently, Corey spent some time at Neverland Ranch when he was a kid and the prosecutors want to grill this cat to find out what he knows.

It was stated the Corey saw a book on venerial diseases at MJ's house that have pictures of male and female genitalia... in a book on VDs? Surprise?! Surprise! Surprise!

Is Feldman going to break the Code Celebre and rat out his fellow celebrity? I would LOVE to see that happen! Because then all the HOLLYWOOD DIRT might finally start to come out! Like who likes to get shit on during sex? Who's been gang-raped for a part? What male stars are into S&M, all that juicy shit that was touched on in magazines like Hush-Hush and other scandal rags of the 40s and 50s (or was that just in James Ellroy's book/movie L.A. Confidential?).

MJ is going down, if he's not then he's going to be like OJ, and just won't be able to show his face in public at all.

My big question is what's going to happen to the Gloved One's money? Does he have any left? There have been rumors that MJ is broke, or that he mortaged all his lucrative music catalogs to Sony, or that he squandered it all on Bubbles The Chimp's funeral service. Who The Hell Knows?

Stay Tuned.

Part I of The Trial of the Decade

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Do Mayors Matter?

Here's an email I received from a friend of mine who still suffers the indignation of living in Cleveland, OH.

About a year ago I predicted in one of my joke/commentary emails that Cleveland mayor Lame...I mean, Jane..Campbell would handily win re-election as mayor of Cleveland.
As ineffectual a mayor as she's been, I stand by that statement.

Should a majority black city like Cleveland have a black mayor. Does it matter? Does anybody care? Nope...and here are five reasons why:

1. The Hood is The Hood...Is The Hood - Former Cleveland mayors Carl Stokes, George Voinovich et. al. What's the commonality. The hood remains f__d up no matter who is mayor...black, white or purple. Potholes and check cashing joints will remain whether it's 1968 or 2008.

2. Big Bucks/Safe Gig Factor - Often, persons highly regarded enough or with enough money to run for and win a mayoral election are better off remaining partners of law firms or CEOs of this or that rather than throwing that away for a thankless $120K per year job with more critics than supporters.

3. Cities Don't Matter - Money, public policies and voters are increasingly directed to suburbs and exurbs (places that were...and in some cases still are...as country as a chicken coop just a few years ago). Why brave the grimy streets of Cleveland for treatment at The Cleveland Clinic when there is an outpost of the Clinic in the suburbs of Strongsville or Mentor?

4. "It's All About The Bucks...The Rest is Just Conversation" - Michael Douglas' character Gordon Gekko uttered those words in the 1987 film "Wall Street" and they could not be more applicable today. If you can put together a coalition of city residents to vote for you and corporate fat cats to fund and advance your agenda...you too can be mayor...and it doesn't mattter if you're whiter than Michael Jackson or black like Don Cheadle.

5. Corporations Run Cities...Not Mayors - A piggy back on #4. When Ford Motor Company says jump, the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan say how high. Same game everywhere. Mayors are but figureheads in the redistributuion of an incredibly shrinking corporate largess.


The best job of pulling the wool over the public's eyes has been the consolidation of civic power by Fortune 500 Companies AT THE EXPENSE of America's most touted democracy, and the "democratic ideals" that we're looking to foist on the rest of the world...? That's the biggets excuse that I've heard in regards to how corporate America can continue to take over the world.

Although that stranglehold is loosening, because China is making a lot of side oil deals with all the energy producing nations that the US is striking out against 'cause of Human Rights abuses (ranging from Venezula to Iran to Sudan). In 20 years the world is going to need 40 million more barrels of oil a day -- where it that going to come from considering that OPEC hasn't increased capacity in decades.

It's so laughable it makes me cry.

Thursday, February 03, 2005

The Inevitable Rise of Poor, who witll Riot and Rob

In the most recent "State of the Union" our current Crawford, Texan President seeks to slash government entitlements, does he honestly expect the poor fuckers who don't know how to manage their welfare checks to be able to invest wisely for their future?

In country where the savings rate is lower than the interest rates, you have to wonder to people (speaking broadly and stereotypically) EVER consider "that rainy day." I sure didn't. About four years ago I went out to buy a new car, as I had some money in the bank and a well-paying job. However, I lost my job in the aftermath of bin Laden's dicksmacking of the US and I have struggled to have a full-time job that paid me at least $10 more than subsistance wages. I recently had a great contract job paying around $1100 a week, but I was so in the hole 'cause of the car payments (three months behind when I finally got the job) that by the time the job ended I was just treading water again (as opposed to drowning earlier).

The U.S. is increasingly becoming a Third World Nation, and why is no one addressing this? Is it because that's too much to consider? Is the nation, as it's being run by the GOP, in a state of denial? The GOP will be where our version of a military junta is culled.

Take a stand, depose, oppose, and fight against GOPism!

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Hey, Hey, Hey - I'm Still Getting Play

The Cos

Did celebrities learn anything from the Kobe Bryant dick slapping?

It's like that Chapelle Show skit, if you are a celebrity or better yet, if you have something to loose, then you better get a broad to sign some document before you even give her a kiss. What is wont to happen is the broad is going to try to get over.

In this Cosby situation, apparently nothing happened outside of some fondling and what kind of drugs is Cosby peddling to people. How old is the broad in question to? In her 20s, 30s or 40s?

Only thing that makes Cosby look like a CHUMP, is that he's been slamming the nigga-youth for fucking-up and now here he is in the paper. I bet this doesn't come out if Cosby wasn't in the press some much lately 'cause of his attacks on the Nigga Youth in America today.

Cosby has been in this place twice before - once with his son's murder, and then other time with that broad who claimed she was his daughter (where the DNA testing showed her claim was complete fraud).

Cos has every right to say what he's been saying to the Ghetto Fabulous kids of the 90s (The Decade of Regurgitation), because in a period of supreme socio-economic transition American Blacks - by in large those kicking it in the most impoverished sections of the country - are taking 4 steps back for every one forward.

I want to know what Cos supposedly "drugged" this woman with? Weed? Coke? Rohypnol? What? And old celebrities are entitled to skimming young trim, just ask Clint Eastwood!

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