if we sleep together will it make it any better?
So... tired. Jumpin' rope is serious business. Or at least that's what my calves are tellin' me righ' now. I need new sneakers.
I'd forgotten how much I liked Mirah's music. My favorites of hers:
Good stuff.
Headline from blackfolk: Sen Obama warns of 'quiet riot' among African Americans.
Obama said in remarks distributed by his campaign that that "quiet riots" that take place every day across America happened when "a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates."
"Much of what we saw on our television screens 15 years ago was Los Angeles expressing a lingering, ongoing, pervasive legacy -- a tragic legacy out of the tragic history this country has never fully come to terms with."
"That despair quietly simmers and makes it impossible to build strong communities and neighborhoods.
"And then one afternoon a jury says, 'Not guilty' -- or a hurricane hits New Orleans -- and that despair is revealed for the world to see."
My comment: "Hol' up... I know hommie ain't tryin' to let The Revolutiontm "out of the bag" before we're ready to pop off. I don't want any potential victims fleein' the country!"
I was being (attempting to be) facetious, but really though, Obama needs to stop scarin' America's White Folktm with stuff like this... no matter how much truth is in it. He needs to be able to play the complete opposite of our current national figure(dunder)head, but he'll be hard-pressed to explain away scaring White Folktm with, "Black folk 'bout to riot, y'all! Better watch out!"
What he said about a hurricane hitting "the N.O." reminded me of a question I forgot to answer though, "Anyway, I want your honest-to-God "Katrina today" opinion, especially if the only way you were affected by it was gas prices. I won't think less of you. I just know people think negatively of us, and we never have a chance to defend ourselves."
Truth be told I hold nothin' against anyone who had to struggle through that catastrophe, even if all they had to suffer through was losing everything they had (those few who were able to leave the area beforehand). What I find most people don't understand, and something I'm glad Spike Lee tried to get across in When the Levees Broke, is that Hurricane Katrina wasn't responsible for the real catastrophe. It was a nasty storm, yes, but the majority of the damage, what flooded the neighborhoods of Louisiana and what really has to have focus brought back onto it was that the levees broke. These precautionary measures failed, causing the water to invade those areas. Evey time I'm forced to hear or read someone ramble on about how the people knew how dangerous it was to stay and they chose to stay there I become infuriated, because it's obvious he or she has never been in a situation like that in their life but sees him or herself fit to judge those people. If one doesn't know what it's like to try and prepare for the oncoming of such a storm, or what would go into trying to evacuate before such a storm arrives, then one should seriously just not say anything about it; and "by such a storm" I really just mean a hurricane, or perhaps a tsunami. 'Cause other types of storms really aren't anything like a wall of water trying to go through your home. The wall collapsing around you. Destroying damn near everything. Tornadoes are a close second. I'm rambling, out of anger.
The fact is... those people depended upon the jobs of others, and those others failed them. The US Army Corps of Engineers first and foremost, but they were only the beginning.
The comment Kanye made was damn near right
But Bush hate poor people, be 'em black or white
- That's Life