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Kola
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Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 05:12 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

He's written an article that's angering a lot of Black Men:






ARE BLACK MEN RETARTED?



By Minister Paul Scott

All my Brotha's eatin' chicken and watermelon, talk broken English and drug sellin' See I'm tellin' and teaching real facts. The way some act in rap is kinda wack. ("My Philosophy" -Boogie Down Productions)

Every family has one, that cousin who got stuck in a 1980's time warp and just refused to grow up. You see him at every family reunion walking around in a Members Only jacket with a 40 ounce braggin' about how he has 10 children by 10 different women and is too smooth to pay child support. While the rest of the grown folks slip away to the family room to discuss important family business, Cousin 'Junior' stays outback with the children trying to do the Cabbage Patch off of the Whisper Song, not much different than what he was doing 20 years ago....

If we look in the dictionary, we will see the definition of retarded as 'slow or backwards in mental or emotional development ' along with a big picture of one of the Ying Yang twins. While the off the chain behavior of some Brotha's has been discussed in detail by some of our greatest scholar's such as Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, this issue is rarely discussed in a Hip Hop-centric context.

Historically, white supremacy has made it virtually impossible for Black boys to become Black men. Back in tha day (and even now in a small town just south of Tupelo, Mississippi) it was common for 70 year old Black men to be called 'boy' by 10 year old white children. The system has put so many obstacles in our way that it is hard to live up to the basic meaning of manhood: one who provides food, clothing, shelter and security for his family. So much so that many Black men choose to live in a perpetual childhood instead of risking the wrath of white supremacy by asserting their manhood. This is why, in 2005, we see that our development has gone way beyond being arrested; it is on major lockdown.

So today, you have 35 year old men acting like they are 14 year old teenie boppers. They may not be going around singing that jingle from the commercial from back in tha day 'I don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid, but they are singing the Hip Hop remix, 'It's plain to see, you can't change me cuz I'm a be a nigga for life...'

While back in the day a rapper was shipped off to the Happy Valley Hip Hop Retirement Home on his 21st birthday, thanks to the industry's potent Hip Hop viagra, a rapper can still be pimpin' all over the world well into his 40's. So the natural progression to manhood has been altered.

While many Brotha's come into the rap game in their late teens with the 'product of my environment/ just keepin' it real like it is on tha streets' excuse,' it becomes problematic when the 18 year old kid becomes a 33 year old multimillioniare who has traveled the world several times over but still kicks lyrics about standin' on tha block with a 40oz, hollerin' at ho's. There is something very wrong in a society when in 2005, Snoop Dog is talking about virtually the same thing he talked about in 1992.

Also, problematic is the 'school yard brawl' mentality where instead of threatening to beat someone up after 6th period woodshop class, grown men like 50 cent and the Game threaten to annihilate each other if they cross paths in the hotel lobby after the after party.

Most disturbing is the crunk music coming out of the Dirty South which has done more to destroy Black manhood than when JJ Evans from Good Times was running around in those red pajama's screaming 'Kid Dy-no-mite !!!' With few exceptions, like Durham's 'Street Ambassador' Crown King, who is developing a sound called 'Conscious C.R.U.N.K. (Consciousness Raising Unleashing Nubian Knowledge) the subject matter is pretty much the same. It usually doesn't go much deeper than a Brotha threatening to shoot another Brotha over a parking space in front of the strip club or a Brotha whispering to a Sista like some sick pervert calling one of those 900 numbers at 3 in the morning threatening to do things to her that are illegal in most states. (Wait till ya see my.....OOOOh!!!)

This Father's Day, in communities across the country, Black men should join together and put a mandatory age limit on actin' the darn fool. We must develop a Rites of Passage for the Hip Hop Generation that doesn't include a 10 year bid in the federal pen.

Just as in some countries every male is required to serve in the military, we should require every Black man to do a tour of duty in the Afrikan Liberation Army (or at least enlist in the Hip Hop DROP Squad). Also we must join efforts to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, like Bro. Sile, National Chairman of the RBG SOULdiers, is doing with the Take Back Black Music Campaign.

We, as Black men, must join together and boldly proclaim the words of Eldridge Cleaver, “We shall have our manhood or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it!”


Minister Paul Scott represents the Messianic Afrikan Nation in Durham NC. He can be reached at (919) 451-8283 email minpaulscott@yahoo.com web site: http://members.blackplanet.com/THE-MYD



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Abm
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Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 06:43 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Kola,

Though I might characterize things a bit differently, I substantively concur with Scott. And think it's time I and other Black men (and women) do SOMETHING about the squalor of popular hip-hop.

WHAT to do, I struggle to divine.
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Chrishayden
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Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 10:51 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

This is all BS.

Back in my day 50 year old men were walking around wearing headbands and fringe vests and trying to be hippies.

Nowaydays those who are going through male menospause act hip hop. In 20 years it will be something else.

These middle class negroes that look down on lower class ones doing this get a porche and an 18 year old girlfriend and ignore the fact that they are doing the same thing.

People are basically ridiculous. They will do any thing. Paul Scott will talk all this and one day decide he's a woman and get a sex change and look at us like we are crazy if we say something about it. Ain't nothing anybody is going to do about it.

The world is going to hell and people are worried about something like this. When they bury us put on the tombstone "Too Petty and Stupid to Live"
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Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 12:40 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Chris,

I hear you.

Yeah. It's cheap/easy copy to bash the young. You get older and begin to lose pace with where/how things are going. And wonder why what worked before no longer bears utility.

But, honestly, I just can't help being somewhat frighten by where we are head with some of this stuff.

I'm beginning to have this nauseating feeling as though I'm watching some long, plaintive movie that includes mayhem, disease, poverty and abandonment and death...

...and the FUCKING Ying Yang Twins is blaring from the soundtrack.

I'm not angry with hip-hop per se. Honestly, I enjoy a lot of it, at least sonically if not lyrically.

And I even like some of the cheeky confidence and brashness duh yung foks (especially the women) exhibit.

But it seems now certain very corrosive elements of hip-hop is - really like no prior artform - being wielded into such a potent agent of social/cultural/economic influence, I think at the very least there needs to be developed some more serious, earnest but still fair assessment/rebut of it.

Because while few can compete with Snoop Dog's cultural potency, at the very least some of us should be loudly proclaiming that much of what Snoop PRETENDS to do is, for most who enjoy him, a perilous mirage.
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Kola
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Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 01:00 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

It's also downright WRONG---what Snoop Dogg does----ABM.

He's trash.

But since we, as a people, don't have too much else that's SHINING in the sun---we glorify him.

He's the absolute worst in human frailty---materialistic, selfish, woman-hating, self-hating, egotistical and worst of all.....unchallenged.

I love some of his music. "Gin and Juice" used to be my cut when I wanted to surprise Thomas with a little striptease.

But Snoop Dogg is really a glaring example of how people who don't stand for something-----will fall for anything.



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Abm
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Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 02:21 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Kola,

Yes. He's all that. But, ironically, you miss the very WORST thing about Snoop Dogg(& others of his vintage)...

...He's a GOTDAYAM FRAUD!

Snoop hasn't done a FRACTION of the insane-2-the-membrane $#*+ he advertises!

Why: Because he's too dayam smart!
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Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 10:10 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Who da hail can understand what the Ying-Yangs are saying..geesh
LiLi
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Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 08:21 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

There are two spaces being held on a 2010 reality show for celebrity has-beens for the Ying-Yang Twins...
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Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 09:14 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

LiLi,

You should know good & well by now that to "understand what the Ying-Yangs are saying" is BESIDES the point.


'Vette,

I think you meant the 2007 version.
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Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 11:55 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

This reminds me of a incident last fall.
I was walking on campus when a fresh-out-of-high school freshmen yelled out to me from his car: "Hey, what's up! you gonna talk to me boo?!"
Being the adult, I pretended he wasn't there. But then I heard: "I thought they had brains in college!"
I thought to myself:" Me too."
The bad thing is that this "boy" is not the only one of his kind runiing around at my campus. Since I've been at school I've only met 5 black men who actually discuss important issues and are actually trying to reach their potential. I've had to go outside campus to find other black men on our level of intellect.
Sad.:-(
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Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 12:16 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

roXie,

Hmmmmmm? What kind of place(s) "outside campus" do you find men on your "level of intellect"?
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Posted on Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 12:47 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I think you meant the 2007 version.

LOL! Yeah, let's hope their current 15 min will be up by then!

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