Barack to media: “these damn n*ggas keep fuc&in a brotha sh*t up”

(been a while, i know. In order to make it up to ya’ll, i got three videos for yuh!)

This morning, Barack was off stuttering about the long-skirted issue of race, vehemently distancing himself from his pastor Jeremiah Wright. This comes after he rebukingly did the same to Nation of Islam leader Minister Farrakhan. Basically, he used all this historical rhetoric to say “these damn niggas keep fuckin a brotha shit up.” Hats off to the man for successfully concealing the elephant in the room for this long. But, this is america after all, where elephants can’t hide forever.

An old one, but i like it

A memory:

4th grade trip
and Ms. Eckleman’s class searching
for familiar family names etched in marble,
stone

Then me.

The lone Black
man-child searching in vain.

My people never known no Ellis Island

-amari

Africans Ain’t End Slavery by Voting: Black Power and Barack

(originally published in THE GRIOT, the Black student newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin)

In the short time since announcing he would run for president of these united states, Barack Obama has made history a few times over. Besides being the only major Black candidate since Shirley Chisholm, no other presidential candidate has had a music video nor a thong stamped with their name. Barack has taken the nation by storm with his winning smile, his cadence borrowed from the grave of Dr. King, and an inspirational slogan stolen from Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. (How very american of him.) It’s crazy. But this election craze has brought a number of fundamental issues to the fore that i, in my endless pursuit of the well-being of Black folks, would be remised not to mention. So shall we?