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Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6870
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - 02:02 pm: | 
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This is a vent. I don't expect any useful replies.
This Sunday we had an anti violence, get black men together march here. They said it was more than 20,000 people there. History making, groundbreaking event, right? We're going to get it together and take back the nieghborhoods, right?
That evening about a block over two females were shot in the head in broad daylight on a service station parking lot.
What happened? There are conflicting stories. A hit. A gunfight they got in the way of. A carjacking. Nobody knows.
I heard the whole thing. After the shots when I heard the screaming and sirens I knew it was serious (people around just fire off a few rounds now and then--no use calling the cops cuz unless you seen it or know where it came from you are wasting their time.
It is that common. Supposedly there were several other shootings around town that didn't even get reported.
So much for "Increase the Peace"
After the march, we neighborhood folk who are still trying to do something noted on how few people at the march actually live in the hood. Nothing can be done until the people in the hood are involved.
But what are we going to do? Drop dime on everybody? Besides, two cops live on the end of the block, a woman who works in the lockup works across the street, and a cop lives in the house next to the scene of the gas station shooting.
I guess they are trying to keep a low profile, too.
Anyways, walked by gangbangers, dope dealers, dope addicts, prostitutes again ("You ready to give up some of that money?" "Ain't got none") and think--man, why do you have to live like this. Why you got to see this.
But this is America. This is what people doing to survive. Hell, if I was in their position, I might be doing it too.
Might be doing it anyway.
Getting tired of it.
But what's a mutha to do? |
Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 3165
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 - 12:02 pm: |
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"But what's a mutha to do?"
Nothing. Life is what it is in coon town USA. What do you expect...??? |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1302
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 - 05:46 pm: |
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Chris, sounds like harlem Back in my youth -- without the marching.
I left as soon as I finished high school. What are you waiting for, seriously?
Living under those conditions saps your soul over time.
We got through it by showing false or ignorant pride in where we came from. We kinda rejoiced in the terrible conditions we lived it. You were soft or were an oreo if you did not come the 'hood.
Melle Mel talked about it being a "...it's like a jungle sometimes/makes be wonder how I keep from going under..." Gil Scott Heron spoke on it a generation before that and the blues men generations before that...
...Even Barack ain't gonna change this man. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6875
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 11:48 am: |
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Life is what it is in coon town USA.
(So what is it like in Honkytown?) |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6876
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 11:49 am: |
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I'll tell you what its like.
They are screwing their own daughters and molesting little boys.
Come to think of it, it ain't so bad over here with the BLACK folks. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6877
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 11:52 am: |
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I left as soon as I finished high school. What are you waiting for, seriously
(Maybe, God help me, I like it.
But seriously, you are still thinking that the whole world is like New York City.
You need to come down here and live around these white folks around here! They'll get your mind right.
Somebody may do something to you in a black neighborhood, but at least they won't be doing it just cuz you are black.
I don't have KKK spray painted on my car and house.
Negroes move into white neighborhoods around here and move back in the ghetto after the white folks are through with them. |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 729
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 02:23 pm: |
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Excuse me!.....Coontown. What type/kind of person.....man......black man?....Brotha?....calls an area "Coontown"?
Watchout my brotha....the sky may be falling down.
I could see it being used as a term for those that live "there"....
But it rings of some vile misplaced contempt, from someone living in....ahhh...what?...polarbear town....WHAT!?
How ignorant would a statement like this sound, "All them ass kissin' NI**A'S up in them Twins, hangin' out and chasing nothing but fat white girls, you know it's the Snow White and Brotha Dwarf capital of the world..."Yeah"..."for real" "sh*t, one of them brothas see you with a sister and they with their snow"..."Sh#t, snowball" ...black-ball..."wouldn't give you the sweat off his balls if you were dying of thirst"..."brothers are strong man"...."they lost up there in"...."THEMSELVES"
Something ain't right.....Coontown?
Criss talks about his love and pain of living in his neighborhood. He does not however try to imply that he is better than anyone. His values my be different than some around him but he's black...who is the Coon? |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1313
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 06:07 pm: |
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Chris "Honkytown" may be a year or two premature.
Also, I know, better than most, that NYC is absolutely NOT like most other places. Why do you continue to associate that belief to me?
Carey, consider the environment from which Chris hails. This may lend some insight on his choice of words. |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 733
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 09:43 pm: |
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I am so sorry! I must have misread it. I didn't associate that word with Chris. Okay, if Chris said it I AM COOL with that. If he was refering to his own hood.....yeah Coontown *smile*.
Dang...done stuck my foot in my mouth one mo time. Yum Yum, I'm starting to like it. |
Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 3169
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 06, 2008 - 04:26 pm: |
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"Something ain't right.....Coontown?"
Yep! Don't attempt to chastise me. I'm not responsible for it. It is what it is. Too bad too sad............ |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 10044
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 06, 2008 - 04:42 pm: |
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Chris,
You know, as I read that I couldn't help but hear the late great Curtis Mayfield's Freddie's Dead playing in my head. |
Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 3173
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 05:34 am: |
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".....late great Curtis Mayfield's Freddie's Dead playing in my head."
Glad you're still with us bro ABM. Wasn't that a great sound track? |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1318
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 08:30 am: |
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A to the B to the M! always a pleasure.
NTFS, yeah that was a great soundtrack. Would you agree that Issac Hayes soundtrack, from the same era was even superior?
I'd be hard pressed to think of any movie with better soundtracks than Shaft and Superfly. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 10048
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 11:38 am: |
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Ntfs,
Yeah. That's an alltime great soundtrack, eventhough that movie itself - Superfly - was mostly Blackploitative CRAP.
Troy,
I think Curtis Mayfield's entire soundtrack for Superfly was better. Every one of Mayfield's songs is wonderfully written, arranged and produced.
But the theme song for Shaft is as thrilling as ANY song you'll ever hear that was written for a movie. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2930
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 04:43 pm: |
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any movie with better soundtracks than Shaft and Superfly
One of my favorite playlists on my iPod right now is the Superfly and Claudine soundtracks back to back. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2931
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2008 - 04:44 pm: |
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Chris, regarding your initial post: I am sorry your community's stance against violence had to be disrupted this way. THe summer will be a long one: As such, I hope this does not deter the neighborhood elders and other leaders from continuing efforts like this. |
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