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Upset The Setup: Black Monday!

31May07

If the culture has no strong semi-independent economic base, then it resembles a plantation, not a community. – C. Mason Weaver

African Americans continue to live in the [...]

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Upset The Setup vs. Four-0

30May07

This malt liquor popped up in my corner store grocery a few weeks ago. It is called Four-0 and brewed by La Crosse Brewing company.

It is just another malt liquor, but the branding signifies everything that is wrong with liquor marketing aimed at urban markets.
My question to you dear reader – can we organize to [...]

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Fenty’s recent plagiarism flap should send a signal to local DC politicians: DON’T COPY. But then you get DC Democrat boy genius Dee Hunter straight ripping off David Catania’s campaign posters. Is there anyone capable of an original thought in DC politics? WTF?

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Cultural Exports – Japan

22May07

The black experience is everywhere.

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Cultural Exports

22May07

Davey D had posted this a few years ago. My post about Pure Hate had me looking for it..
What’s in a Name? Hip-hop’s African Influence By David Sylvester

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Pure Hate

22May07

OK, I tend to rail on Hip Hop for exporting its brand of nihilistic materialism worldwide. But how’s this for a cultural export: A gang (literally) of German kids roll up on a train and paint a double whole car that reads PURE HATE. I mean, I don’t care if they are skinheads or what, [...]

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