We don’t know what happened to this country, but apparently a negro rapper was allowed inside the White House to read his so-called “poetry,” like black people have ever written poetry. There was a time, honestly, when black people were kept to the various servant and kitchen positions in the White House. But not with this president, no sir. We’ve never heard of this rapper “poet” minority, but VIBE senior editor Sarah Palin said he’s no good! That’s enough for us. (We always trust crazy old white grandmas in Alaska when it comes to choosing our hip hop.)
Reuters reports on this outrage:
Despite the best efforts of right-wing pundits and contradicting earlier reports, controversial rapper Common went through with his White House appearance at Michelle Obama’s poetry event Wednesday. Earlier reports suggested that he wasn’t there, but a White House video confirms that he showed up later than expected.
The Daily Caller earlier reported that he wasn’t in attendance at the afternoon session, saying that when the first lady welcomed the poets who had been invited, she neglected to mention Common, and reporters did not see him at the event. But he apparently showed up for the evening session and even tweeted about his presence there.
When the Daily Caller starts screwing up on its urban music coverage, we might as well say good-bye to music journalism in general. [Reuters/Hollywood Reporter]
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More black people in the White House. Did anyone count the silver place settings after he left? Being one of "the blacks" is Trump good with him?
The silver is all accounted for. There's a case of Grape Shasta missing though.
Lean wit' it. Rock wit' it.
Hey! Who was getting high in the Lincoln Bedroom? Bristol Palin? Never mind.
Common only digs her for her chin.
The new one or the old ones?
An African-American attendee of the event was quoted as saying he "always had good relations with the plutocrats."
Right, the blacks don't know nothin' 'bout a dream deferred.
I *knew* somebody was going to come right out with the Langston. I almost linked to that exact poem, hahahaha.
Half the poems or novels I was taught about back in the day I never cared for until much later.
i still hope it explodes.
On the next Mythbusters!
That will be a tie-in with the 20th anniversary re-issue on blu-ray & in digital 3d in theatres of X.
Nation of Islam Week on TLC: The La'Nah Channel.
Me fucking too.
My property law teach read Langston Hughes' "The Ballad of the Landlord" at the end of the Landlord Tenant section. Made up for a lot by doing that. Of course, since Hughes was an uppity Negro, probably a socialist, definitely form Kenya, I'm sure he isn't allowed in schools any more. Dear God, imagine if someone had read Ezra Pound?
But he couldn't even be Kenyan! Being teh ghey, he would have been executed under Shar'iah Law.
… Wait! I think I just gave the Oklahoma GOP an idea!
Fuck.
It's OK. The idea, finding itself in unfamiliar territory, probably fled at high speed. They have now settled back down to their normal brainless existence.
What? No love for Phyllis Wheatley, who was not only one of "the blacks" she was also a slave in Boston before there even was a 'Merka?
Nothing beats Eazy-E visiting the shrub elder white house.
Every time I see evidence that that visit happened, I test myself for 'shroom usage, because there's no other evidence for it happening.
More proof Obama is turning the White House into UPN.
UPN: Unplanned Promotional Network
Still better than the Palin's versions: Unplanned Parenthood Network/ Ugly Parenting Network.
WooHoo! Star Trek: Voyager!
Has Barry made him the Poet Laureate Czar yet?
Being dissed by Common showing up late proves that Ubama is morally weak.
No, making him wait til all the kiddies (and hopefully the kiddy press) had gone to bed proves that Ubama is morally weak.
Meh…wake me when Public Enemy performs "Fight the Power" at the White House. I'd pay to see that, and here's my credit card number…
nnnnnnnineteen eighty NINE!
I've thought that myself over the last week. I can see Chuck D sitting at home saying 'these crackers are tripping over Common? Motherfucking Common? That's my hate, I earned that shit fair and square'
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the White House built by black people? So why does Sarah Palin have a problem with black people using it?
Because Sarah Palin doesn't care about black people.
Of course, Sarah Palin doesn't care about non-Sarah Palin people.
Sarah is a stickler for custom. She knows that the black people should use the service entrance, and stay in the back rooms.
Let's face it, Sarah gets a little, how does one say, overheated at the thought of a virile, strong black man, so it is easier if she pretends that they are still kept in bondage.
Of course, that just makes it hotter for her, so you can see her dilemma.
Sarah's turn as the lead in the Anchorage Fireside Dinner Theatre presentation of The Notorious Bettie Page really changed my opinion of the half-termer.
How dare you sully the image of Bettie Page?
B/c Sarah Palin thinks that the White House was built by solely by Jesus, George Washington, and Richard the Lionheart right after our nation was founded in 1141 by crusaders to celebrate the complete victory of Christianity over Islamo-fascism for all eternity.
Cuz Sarah is ignorant!
The Revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be tolerated.
Obama's "Mr. Common" moment.
Them cats we fuckin wit put bombs in yo moms gas tank
Let's get this money baby, they shady, we get shady
Dress up like ladies and burn em with [dirty] three-eighties
Then they come to kill our babies, that's all out
I got gats that blow the wall out, clear the mall out
Fuck the fallout, word to Stretch, I bet they pussy
Rapperations! I knowed it was gonna happen!
The syncopation proclamation!
Damned beatniks with their bongos and reefer sticks.
Vipers!
Jon Stewart pretty much destroyed the arguments against him tonight, but since Fox News viewers never step outside their conservative information bubble, they'll never know how flimsy the case against Common was.
They don't give a shit about teh flimsy. All they care about is the n* in the WHITE House invited ANOTHER n* into the WH, like his being married to one wasn't bad enough.
The RW hasn't been this inflamed since Obama whacked ol' what's his name.
And remember, y'all, torture is OK. It's all legal Mr. Cheney.
Nevermore, bitch.
Hannity, Innanity.
She made the babies sit in their places at the table.
Then, before calling HIM, she hurried
To the mirror with her comb and lipstick. It was necessary
To be more beautiful than ever.
The beautiful wife.
For sometimes she fancied he looked at her as though
Measuring her. As if he considered, Had she been worth it?
______
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
___
your move sarah.
Gwendolyn Brooks FTW ~
Chicago Thug.
Straight outta Chicago, also birthplace of Slam Poetry–rescuing U.S. poetry from academic irrelevance since 1984. Poets with HBO specials and record deals! You're welcome!
It's not iambic pentameter. It's HBO.
We wear the mask that grins and lies
That shades our cheeks and hides our eyes,
But let the world think otherwise,
We wear the mask.
I prefer this poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar:
We Wear the Mask
WE wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
"Ah, the good old days!" –Mike Huckabee
It is always great when "conservative" white people interpret song lyrics…
"Fuck the police" What does he MEAN by that?!?
"Coming straight from the underground, a young nig….." Wait a minute, did he just use the n-word?! Why can't I use it if he can? No Fair!!!
"I shot a man just to watch him die"
Now what could that mean?
And why did RMN, RR, GHWB, and GWB host that convicted felon poet at the WH?
Opps, sorry, I looked into it, he's white, it's cool, carry on. (h/t Jon Stewart)
Who dat? Johnny Cash?
And don't get me started on murder ballads . . .
They do say it… we just haven't caught 'em on video yet… we will… no worries.
I always love this Conservatard argument.
They aren't fighting for equality of races, they are fighting for equality of racial slurs.
Gosh, poor oppressed Conservaturd! Your rights (to be a bald-faced bigot) are severely curtailed by the horrible forces of decency and respect! How do you even survive under such oppression!? All that socially unacceptable vileness inside you, being prevented from spewing all over is exactly like being forced to the back of the bus.
Did he perform that new hit "Mammy"? While wearing whiteface?
Or perhaps this: http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/recordings/detail/id/1...
When Sarah Palin is President, she'll have Fox News regular Ted "Obama can suck on my machine gun" Nugent do a reading, so the blacks can see how real, civilized, white folks express their angst.
Haha, Ted Nugent actually reading something. You crack me up.
I was sure she would get Vanilla Ice to show that she is open to other cultures.
Toby Keith. She'll have Toby Keith there.
But, as a sop to the distraught Hopey, Changey set, she'll include Alaska's own Portugal.TheMan as the opener.
It's been downhill ever since Carter had Lynyrd Skynyrd there.
*fake southern accent*
Whut?
Don't you BE talkin' bad about Skynyrd!
I will purely kick your ass!
*holds up lighter*
FREE BIRD!
[Hey, I lived there for years; this Jersey Girl learned to blend]
So a great(?) Ted Nugent story-
A friend told me he went to an archery exhibit nearby and TN was there. The event was inside a store… he pulled back his bow a launched one THROUGH the roof. As if that's not Asshole enough… he asked them if they wanted him to go up there and SIGN it. What a fuckin' Jack-Hole.
I always wondered how a peaceable guy like Tommy Shaw could even jam with him…
With or without teh poopy pants?
Has Nugent done anything of note, the last couple of decades?
They paid him more than Snooki got 'cause they all know guys rap better than bitches do.
He's also lighter-skinned than her.
Dayum, theah's WAY more people of colour out there than I knew about, starting with Boner and on down ta Snooki. Is hers a colour found in nature?
I would like to see Queen Latifah visit the White House to play her jazz standards thing. The tighty whiteez would make a fuss and then get outclassed yet again.
I would have brought a Casio to this poetry slam just sayin'.
I would have brought my cardboard.
Whoa whoa whoa! A nigra race pimp is one thing, an elitist poet another, but now you're talking about lesbin ladens, and we all know what Jeebus would do then, right?
Wow, that picture.
I never realized that Linc from Mod Squad had gone that deep undercover.
? Not seeing the resemblance.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/harrymo...
Fuck Sarah Palin and her herpetic, hookwormed fart box. Her dropout, well-trodden mutant offspring is blatantly lying as to why she had liposuction on her chin trucknutz. Amongst all the lies and misrepresentations this family has, this is an easily documented fib. And Palin is worried about an artist in the WH.??!…oh, he's a rapper, a n*g*er BTW, Be assured under President Palin it' ll be snow machines on the lawn and Trig firing a .50 calber machine gun.
Why couldn't they get a White rapper like Will Smith?
Or maybe the Beastie Boys. Wait–they're Jews! Why does Obama hate the Jews?
hows about the Paul Wall ?
I bet he could set up Bristol with a nice grill to camouflage her medically-unsound teeth.
That would surely leave them Sittin' Sidewayz, boyz in a daze.
Or John Ashcroft.
Let the nigger soar.
That was R. Kelly's rejected first attempt at a theme song for the "Space Jam" movie.
OK, I actually laughed out loud in a very unladylike manner at this. BEFORE coffee!
So Common is to Obama as Kid Rock is to George Bush.
Common by a landslide.
That's Cheddar Bob to you & I, Mr Burl.
Hahaha, oh, Daily Caller.
"Those [positive] messages haven’t stopped conservatives from quoting Common’s anti-cop lyrics, citing his opposition to interracial dating, [etc]"
Republicans sure do love interracial dating! Wait, is impregnating your housekeeper and keeping it a secret "dating"? No?
Traditional values, eh? Dating is something that should be between a congressman and his young male page. In a restroom stall, or in the bushes at Rock Creek Park.
Wait, is impregnating your housekeeper and keeping it a secret "dating"?
No, that's called "capturing millions of people, chaining them together at the bottoms of ships, selling the survivors as slave labor and then raping the women, reluctantly emancipating their descendents 300 years later, treating them like subhuman garbage for the next hundred years, reluctantly giving them a few more 'freedoms' just as the pressure cooker is about to blow, and then acting offended when they don't love white cops and white industrialists."
You know, America!
Sir, I am suggesting that for our new Georgia license plates, it goes right with the new In God We Trust default plates.
"Republicans sure do love interracial dating!"
They may love the "massa raping his slave wimmenz" kind of interracial dating, but I'm pretty sure they don't love the "blonde teenage daughter brings her urban boyfriend to meet the parents" kind of interracial dating.
Depends. If you're white and the housekeeper is of the coloured persuasion, yes. Otherwise, NO! In fact, maybe even HELL, NO!
SHUT UP EVERYONE, sarah palin has an opinion on rap music!!
"SHUT UP sarah palin… an opinion on rap music?!!"
*fixed?
When the Daily Caller starts
screwing up on itsurban music coverage, we might as well say good-bye to music journalism in general.There…we…go.
kind of like how punk died when suburban moms were getting spiky haircuts….
With the possible exception of finding Osama Bin Laden, is there anything that Barak Obama can do right? Now George Bush, on the other hand, hmmm… he could ride a bike real good.
He was also a silver medalist at pretzel eating. Also. And, he cut the fuck outta' some brush.
I got you back to no p, where it has been negative. Two trolls?
If you think Obama killing Osama was done right, you haven't been reading the wingnuts on my Facebook page. They say he should be tried as a war criminal for violating Pakistani sovereignty.
Ignore.
Cause sovereignty is sooooo important to Obama- haters.
Did they say anything at all about Dumbya violating Iraq's sovereignty? I mean, it's not even like they had bin Laden living there or nothing.
But a Segway, not so much…
I recall seeing reports of him falling off of his bike fairly regularly. I guess he meant to do it.
That was Pee Wee Herman!
Pee Wee is an entertainment character whom I like. Dubya is a buffoon and a Dolt in real life who I despise. Other than that, you are correct, T.
As long as Common promises to use the word "santorum" in a poem someday, he's all right by me.
The was a shit-head called Santorum
Who spoke lots of shit in all forums
He googled his name
His cheeks burnt with shame
And everyone else thought it was awesome
Whenever the Republicans can get themselves a quorum
which means like two or more, um
they lose their decorum
like Romans in the forum
they'll put their stumps in each other's rumps
and hump and pump and pump and pump
until their bums are oozing out a frothing of santorum
Insufficient FRANK ZAPPA.
Sort of on / sort of off topic: could the daily caller be any less subtle with its vile racist insinuations? From this new article, a "scandal" piece about the criminal activities of the treasurer of a black business associated whose president is on the white house guest list:
"As reported by The Daily Caller, President Obama, the nation’s first African-American president, has backed the U.S. Black Chamber, bringing its president, Ron Busby, to the White House for bill signings and important speeches, and his staff even helping coin the new organization’s motto, “the national voice of the black business community.”"
Oh? The first African-American president? Good of you to tell us this new information, Daily Caller! I can't think of any other reason you'd bring it up in that sentence. Certainly you weren't implying that black people are corrupt and stick together, upstanding journalists that you are.
I'm just impressed that they used the term "African American" – I had gotten so used to "Halfrican". It's almost as if they are acknowledging that he is a citizen or something.
At least they aren't going around calling him a Nigra and insisting that they're doing so because "Halfrican isn't a race". I mean, not all the time, at least.
I'm still trying to get used to the fact that "Kenyan Socialist Muslim Usurper" has fallen out vogue, since the birth certificate was released.
Some racists wear sheets and abuse their children, some get degrees from "conservative universities" and write for the wingnut web.
Isn't it wonderful, all the diverse opportunities available to today's modern anachronistic shitracists?
I guess Obama just didn't want any fanfare for the Common man.
by Aaron Cop(killer)eland
Two groups of people care about the White House Poetry Night: Loudmouth knuckle-head right wing commentators and people who care about poetry. The number of people who belong to both groups is zero.
Mock all you want, but it was the Daily Caller's review of Fear of a Black Planet that got me into Public Enemy.
The Daily Caller's literary supplement is what turned me on to James Baldwin and Richard Wright, back in the '50s. That's also where I learned about LSD.
See, I learned about LSD from Bill Buckley's seven part serial in National Review where he talked about how dropping acid is what first got him to realize that taxes were too high.
And how quickly Conservatives forget that Ronald Regan had NWA perform "Cop Killer" and "Straight Out of Compton" after his farewell address.
"Cop Killer" was Body Count! I will always remember the way I first encountered that. A friend at a newspaper had loaned me a paperback of Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, and the bookmark was a xerox of the lyric sheet from that cassette single (ha ha, I'm old). No reference to who it was, whether it was a poem or lyrics, etc. I actually took it to my library downtown asking for clues. No lyricsweb.com then. Finally I learned, from the person who loaned me the book, that it was a just-released song by Ice-T's new "rock band." And then a while later, there was a huge fake controversy with the white republican idiots (dan quayle, etc.), so nothing ever changes.
/People need to make a living and the music business is brutal but I really thought Ice-T was one of the best poets of the early '90s — and there was a lot of great stuff at this time, whether rap or G'n R or the alt-rock poets like Black Francis — and I wish he wasn't some Hollywood sleaze today.
So it was Ice-T that performed for Reagan? Late 80s to early 90s rap had some amazing stuff. All the olds didn't realize that by complaining about the sex and violence, they just got us to listen to politics that were there also.
Back up in your ass with the Reurection
Is the group harder than an erection
That shows more affection
They wanna ban us on Capital Hill
Cause its die muthafuckas, die muthafuckas
And now, a word from the president!
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta
Gettin voted into the white house
Everything lookin good to the people of the world
But the mafia family is my boss
So every now and then I owe a favor gettin' down
Like lettin' a big drug shipment through
And send 'em to the poor community
So we can bust you know who
So voters of the world keep supportin' me
And I promise to take you very far
Other leaders better not upset me
Or I'll send a million troops to die at war
To all you republicans, that helped me win
I sincerely like to thank you
'cause now I got the world swingin' from my nuts
And damn it feels good to be a gangsta
"Damn it feels good to be a gangsta" will always, I'm afraid, remind me of the movie "Office Space".
Landlord, landlord,
These steps is broken down.
When you come up yourself
It's a wonder you don't fall down.
Ten Bucks you say I owe you?
Ten Bucks you say is due?
Well, that's Ten Bucks more'n I'l pay you
Till you fix this house up new.
What? You gonna get eviction orders?
You gonna cut off my heat?
You gonna take my furniture and
Throw it in the street?
Um-huh! You talking high and mighty.
Talk on-till you get through.
You ain't gonna be able to say a word
If I land my fist on you.
Police! Police!
Come and get this man!
He's trying to ruin the government
And overturn the land!
Copper's whistle!
Patrol bell!
Arrest.
Precinct Station.
Iron cell.
Headlines in press:
Man Threatens landlord
Tenant Held Bail
Judge GIives Negro 90 Days In County Jail!
Damn, L-Esq, you on a roll.
Thanks. I've been busy, and hadn't posted much this week, and just had to let it flow.
Will Lexington Steele portray Common in the next film of the Nailin Palin franchise?
Oddly enough, it will be Keni Styles. A path-breaking performance, like Robert Downey, Jr., in Tropic Thunder
How/Why. Is. This. News?
Because it's an easy way for them to justfy their racism?
Sarah Palin crapping the random thoughts that wander across the barren landscape of her mind onto twitter and/or facebook is ALWAYS News Item #1. The prez is just lucky he nabbed bin Laden before Dumbelina had gotten around to twittering something snotty about his correspondents' dinner remarks, or we still wouldn't know about it.
"Sarah Palin crapping the random thoughts that wander across the barren landscape of her mind "
Thanks to one of you wonderful wonketteers (sorry, don't remember which won), I will always picture this as a malfunctioning bug zapper which fires at random.
It's ALWAYS "news" when a black artist did something that's not 100% in line with the Bob Jones University curriculum.
It just really blows my mind. I love Common, but he's not even a household name in the hip-hop community. They go an get one of the most socially conscious, most inoffensive, and one of the more obscure guys from that community that they could find and defame the fuck out of him?
Stay kkklassy, Sarah. This woman couldn't gain dignity if she shot it from a helicopter, skinned it with her teeth, and wore it's pelt around her shoulders.
He turned up late to the White House? That is kinda ghetto, you gotta admit.
a White House video confirms that he showed up later than expected
CPT.
We used to call it ART – Asian Rubber Time.
Obama's got ninety-nine problems but Sarah Palin isn't one of them.
Supreme Upfist forever best comment evar! You number 1, joe, me love you long time!
Do real gangsters tweet?
One of the NJ Police unions blasted Obama for allowing a 'Gang Rap Artist' who rapped about 'killing police officers.' The announcement disappeared an hour or so later when it was realized they were quoting Tupac.
Well, they do all look and sound alike. Can't blame the refined folks from Jersey Shore for not being able to tell the difference between two black men.
I bet J-Woww could tell the difference.
Just thinking about the size of the junk the blacks carry makes it hard to focus on anything else about them.
Have some empathy for the white boys.
ZOMBIE TUPAC AT THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!
Direct from Norway.
Zombie Reagan/Zombie Tupac/2012!
I think that I shall never see
A rap as ragged as this harpy.
With Todd whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the rude bitch's flaccid breast;
A rogue that spouts of God all day,
Then lifts her latest grift to play;
A candidate that in summer wear
A $150K of Neiman Marcus fair,
Upon whose bosom ice has lain
Who views us all with such disdain
Poor raps are made by this olde runt,
To say Lou Sarah's a fucking cunt
Judges?
10! 10! 10!
Common is apparently anti-abortion. Ergo, one might think the Snowbilly would approve.
Grifter Twunt is pro-abortion, actually. It's just the methods she has issues with. As long as you terminate the pregnancy by flying around in commercial jets for 30 or so hours once your water breaks, it's all good.
Michelle Obama should have had Common read his poetry out in front of the Lincoln Memorial, like Eleanor Roosevelt did with Marian Anderson back in the late 30s when the DAR refused to let her sing at Constitution Hall because of the whole "but she's black!" thing. Of course, the irony would be lost on the critics.
Yes, but the 1930s were a Great Depression, and…
Um.
Carry on.
Pretty much anything short of the ol' snort 'n grunt is lost on these "critics."
He wasn't even like "M-Fer I want some more Ice tea".
Ya'll got any Kool-Aid up in this muthafukka?
Purple only, nigga! Grape, what the fuck is grape? I said purple muthafucka!
Lou Sarah apparently has an opinion on eeeeeverything… (the color commentator for the world…)
This whole thing gave me such an 80s flashback. Tipper Gore. Ice-T. PMRC. Run DMC. Dee Snider making sense before the US Senate. Good times.
Let us not forget: Frank Zappa, too. & John Denver!
I just can't help but love Dee Snider. He can sing, too.
The difference being that the Common lyrics in question are completely inoffensive.
And Cindi Lauper's She Bop lyrics (a PMRC target) were so completely disgusting.
Nothing new here. The plantation owners didn't want Black people to read either.
The peoplez O' Color are taking over the whole Damn world, what with their high energy dancin', terrorist killing and enormous genitailia.
Welcome.
Strong words from someone whose avatar is Bootsy Collins.
well let's face it – most of our white-trash nation thinks the Lincoln-Douglass debates were RINO Lincoln defending slavery against Frederick Douglass!
If you think that Common, Jill Scott and Barack Obama are scary black people, there's probably no hope for you.
Oh Sarah Black people built the White House, let 'em use it every so often will ya?
You never will so what's the harm?
I'm an Irish "rose", (gin blossoms), freckled, blindingly pale, and I am seriously starting to hate white folks. Especially those older ones that watch the Faux.
Same here…I'm the whitest guy on the continent and I'm starting to hate whitey too.
Yep; I'm red-haired and pale as shit and I've hated white people for years now.
SorosBot, your'e a Ginger? I love redheaded men, my first love had that fantastic, dark auburn hair and brown eyes, he was dreamy.
Yep, a ginger; there's quite a few in my family. Though it can be annoying at times, particularly the summer; I cannot tan and have to be careful to avoid too much sun which can burn me to a crisp.
Look out, Real Americans, the blacks are taking over "Ginger" too! Slam-dunk champion Blake Griffin's Mom is apparently Bonnie Raitt…
http://clippers.topbuzz.com/albums/blake-griffin/...
…and let's not forget the tatted-up Delonte West.
Malcolm X was a ginger.
Better not forget Delonte, or he'll bone your moms (allegedly) while carrying 4 guns, Terminator style.
Damn, that's a vertically unchallenged family.
As a person of Northern European descent, I can say that I wish that white people would just shut the fuck up.
Now, now, here, I still like the white folk that shuffle along the sidewalk, with their eyes to the ground, and tip their hats to the black ladies as they walk past and mumble, "Good evening to you, Miz VanderBilt." They're a credit to their race.
I really like Common's use of the glasses and the tie. I applaud the whole "gangsta nerd" concept.
Is it bad that I've never heard of this gentleman?
Not bad just "too bad"
You didn't see "Date Night?"
No, I didn't, but this controversy has had me knowing more about him now, so that's pretty good. Publicity..good or bad…it helps.
Wayne LaPierre sent out a fundraising letter for the National Rifle Association calling Federal agents "jackbooted thugs." G. Gordon Liddy said you should shoot Federal agents in the head because they wear bullet proof vests.
Johnny Cash (there's a rapper name!) sang that he shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. He also sang that he took a shot of cocaine and shot his woman down.
Merle Haggard sang about turning twenty-one in prison, doing life wiithout parole.
Haggard and Cash sang about leaving a redneck dieing in the dirt because he told them to go back to the cotton patch.
Johnny Paycheck (who stabbed a man in real life) was the only Hell his momma ever raised.
But whitey is down with them because?
I believe the key word in here is "whitey."
Not that whitey thinks in terms of color, not at all, way beyond that.
It is the size of the junk and the effect that might have on the women folk that they are not completely comfortable with, you can understand that, can't you?
Well, Common is just so… urban.
I think you mean urbane.
I dunno…genuine urbanity is pretty uncommon.
Um, did you ever look at all these guys you listed? 'Cause, you know, not to be obvy, or anything, but most of them are like BLINDINGLY fucking white?
Really?
No Way !!!
Does anyone remember Ludicrous' song about Obama? Lolz were had.
no Toby Keith? I'm offended! Impeach!
After all Common did for the War on Christmas in '09, this is the thanks he gets?! Mighty white of you, Sarah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNw4amjdV0c
(I'm hittin' the champipple early today and stayin' in bed with my Sanford & Son boxed set.)
Holiday in the Hood? Oh, I get it, 'cause he's wearing a hood and stuff!
That boxed set works better if you slide it into the video player instead of keeping it in bed wit' youse.
Hey wait, Redd Foxx is a ginger, too!
I love that show so much it hurts. I just youtubed for one Richard Pryor wrote, the great "cousin Grady visits" one, The Dowry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hlS7nkHt5w
Sarah Palin's post-Tucson efforts to rehabilitate herself are *not* going well.
Everyone knows, these are just simple surveyors' white hoods!
It's hard to do well in a 12-step program when you've only got 10 fingers to count on.
I have a poem for the occasion:
Roses is red
Violence is black
I'd like to punch Sean Hannity
Eleventy-billion times in the sack
That's beautiful. *wipes tear*
* golf clap *
For The Win, Fuck The world!
Remember the scene in Last Days of Disco where Whit Stillman showed all that footage of working class racist Met fans rioting at Shea stadium with signs saying "Disco Sucks" because for them at the time the word "disco" signified black music of a type that they would prefer to remain segregated (even though they all loved Hendrix presumably)?
This is kind of like that.
Did they do that in NYC too? Disco Demolition at Comiskey Park was not one of Steve Dahl's proudest moments.
Now, the anti-disco rioters weren't all racists; some of them were using disco as code for the gays instead (or more likely, as well).
And some of us would have just paid good money to see the Bee Gees thrown into a wood chipper.
Yup. I think some folks who didn't actually have to live through "disco" may not realize that "disco" was — at least IMO — bleached house. And a lot of it was just not very good.
And why didn't they arrest Axl Rose after he confessed to killing the "her" he used to love, anyway? Or Tom Jones for killing Delilah?
Or Christopher Walken for killing Delilah?
[she must be one tough cookie if she needed to be killed twice]
Ya can't keep a good 'ooman down.
"What? A nigra in the White House? Violet, get me my smelling salts, I do believe I'm having the vapors!"
Exactly. They should change their name to "The Gentleman Caller" and install a nice plantation facade as their masthead. Peggy Noonan, Lindsey Graham and other glove-wearing white ladies can write all the content.
Noonan & Graham, one of these ladies has never sucked a dick, I'll let you decide which one.
You misspelled "vapahs."
So true, Dahling! Thank you, but I was concerned our Northern Wonketeers might miss the reference.
How long will it be before they start having All-Star Old School Rap Concerts during pledge drives?
I'm already bummed out enough by the fat old white people covered in 1980s tattoos ….
Don't you mean "negra"?
Did he ask for some motherfucking iced tea? I heard negros are crude like that.
Holy shit look at those glasses! He's dangerous as fuck! A black hipster? SOMEONE GET THE NUKES.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I do hope to be known one day as the JRR Tolkein of blatantly false right-wing demagogic alternative history…or wait, is that Cleon guy Beck jerks off to already known as that?
So… you're not even going to mention how he hailed a black-supremacist woman who murdered a state trooper as a hero?
The real scandal is how timid the other picks were. Rita Dove? Billy Collins? The white man slot could have at least gone to Charles Simic or somebody edgier like that.
"One Nation Under A Groove."
I wish that white rightwingers would just … oh, wait, there aren't any BLACK rightwingers, are there? ARE THERE?
Happy to be of service, my dear.
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