Insa
My Familia Insa has dropped a new Tee!
The Kool Skool
Zulu North Star BlogZulu North Star
Friday, 13 February 2009
"I Ain't Takin' T-Shirts" - Ultramagnetics
You don't want to go to the "soon come" FEMA work camps looking like a tramp do you ?!!! Get some real work gear.... Here are some to flex in the yard !!!!
Insa
My Familia Insa has dropped a new Tee!
The Kool Skool
Zulu North Star BlogZulu North Star
Insa
My Familia Insa has dropped a new Tee!
The Kool Skool
Zulu North Star BlogZulu North Star
Shaq Attack
Black Milk & Royce DA 5'9 "Losing Out"
"Pullin' out heat longer than Shaq's Shoes" 2:52mins
(Video spotted on MC Search's (3rd Bass) Blog)
Shaquille O'Neil's Shoes
Big Ass Reeboks!!!! Size 22 (US) display shoe seen in every Mall in the US circa 92'
Monday, 9 February 2009
1979 or 2009???!!!
Daughter of Margret Thatcher, Carol Thatcher's recent comments (private or not) about a French Tennis star have offended many people. It has created a strange Twilight Zone world, where some ignorant people are defending Victorian Racist cartoon/logo "The Golliwog". I didn't even it was worth commenting on originally, as Carol Thatcher's bourgeois foolishness, reflects that certain "Tim Nice But Dim" aspect of Upper crust British society that unfortunately, is still alive and well. But then I came across this:
(Prince Hall will NOT be amused)
Some people are trying to make light of the subject, the Right-wing press are cynically feigning outrage (the same press that play race fear on a daily basis), and even some so-called "Liberal Press", are using expressions like "attack of the Thought Police". Ex-Thatcher Cabinet member Norman Tebbit claims that it is some kind of secret attack on Margret Thatcher, but that is not only simplistic, but wrong! It is offensive, end of story. Its not amusing or endearing to a huge swathe of the public. It is pathetic (although not surprising) that in 2009 that far-Right groups are rallying to this throwback to the past, and claiming its a cultural icon...
Here is what Floella Benjamin icon, broadcaster and children's campaigner had to say in The Observer Newspaper Sunday 8 February 2009
"The golliwog has been hijacked by racists as a symbolic insult. Those who refer to it as a harmless children's toy should understand its connotations. It was used against me as a child and those saying it certainly weren't smiling. This divisive incident will harm children, many of whom are already suffering racist bullying. The word has now been splashed throughout the media so children have seen the image and will pick up its negative meaning. This affair has resurrected the word and given it a new lease of life, rather than it being consigned to history."
Floella Benjamin
This kind of imagery is not just a British tradition. Most of the Colonial Powers reflect the imagery of the people they had exploited, in the product packaging of those peoples natural resources. Just go to the Supermarkets in France Portugal, Italy and you will see negative images of people of colour on Coffee, Sugar, Chocolate products... Progress?
Packaging that reflects the past...
KMD "Who Me?"
All it takes is for one to look at the Racist propaganda directed at the Jewish population of Nazi Germany, to understand that some cartoons can kill...
(Prince Hall will NOT be amused)Some people are trying to make light of the subject, the Right-wing press are cynically feigning outrage (the same press that play race fear on a daily basis), and even some so-called "Liberal Press", are using expressions like "attack of the Thought Police". Ex-Thatcher Cabinet member Norman Tebbit claims that it is some kind of secret attack on Margret Thatcher, but that is not only simplistic, but wrong! It is offensive, end of story. Its not amusing or endearing to a huge swathe of the public. It is pathetic (although not surprising) that in 2009 that far-Right groups are rallying to this throwback to the past, and claiming its a cultural icon...
Here is what Floella Benjamin icon, broadcaster and children's campaigner had to say in The Observer Newspaper Sunday 8 February 2009
"The golliwog has been hijacked by racists as a symbolic insult. Those who refer to it as a harmless children's toy should understand its connotations. It was used against me as a child and those saying it certainly weren't smiling. This divisive incident will harm children, many of whom are already suffering racist bullying. The word has now been splashed throughout the media so children have seen the image and will pick up its negative meaning. This affair has resurrected the word and given it a new lease of life, rather than it being consigned to history."
Floella Benjamin
This kind of imagery is not just a British tradition. Most of the Colonial Powers reflect the imagery of the people they had exploited, in the product packaging of those peoples natural resources. Just go to the Supermarkets in France Portugal, Italy and you will see negative images of people of colour on Coffee, Sugar, Chocolate products... Progress?
Packaging that reflects the past...
KMD "Who Me?"
All it takes is for one to look at the Racist propaganda directed at the Jewish population of Nazi Germany, to understand that some cartoons can kill...
Dres of Black Sheep Interview
I saw Black Sheep in New York in 1992 in a really small venue, with DJ Stretch Armstrong & Broken English (an ONYX/M.O.P. style group. They rocked it, Mr. Longue was cutting up records and rapping at the same time, which to me was crazy...
In this interview Dres talks about the Red Alert connection, Red Alert is related to one of the Jungle Brothers, which then explains how two brothers from Carolina ended up in the Native Tongues... Very interesting.
I found this by watching the Nice&Smooth interview on the http://knowgoodmusic.blogspot.com
In this interview Dres talks about the Red Alert connection, Red Alert is related to one of the Jungle Brothers, which then explains how two brothers from Carolina ended up in the Native Tongues... Very interesting.
I found this by watching the Nice&Smooth interview on the http://knowgoodmusic.blogspot.com
SKEAM R.I.P.
"Inmate discovered hanging in cell
A prisoner serving a 20-month sentence for damaging property has been discovered hanging in his cell.
Tom Collister, 23, was pronounced dead after staff tried to resuscitate him in his cell at HMP Camp Hill near Newport on the Isle of Wight.
"Staff attempted to revive him but sadly he was pronounced dead shortly afterwards," a spokesman for the Prison Service said.
His death will be investigated by the prisons and probation ombudsman."
(From BBC News)
I met Skeam along time ago, and my condolances go out to his family and Friends. Like Park-Life said "Stop giving graffiti artists custodial sentances...."
FREE DPM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A prisoner serving a 20-month sentence for damaging property has been discovered hanging in his cell.
Tom Collister, 23, was pronounced dead after staff tried to resuscitate him in his cell at HMP Camp Hill near Newport on the Isle of Wight.
"Staff attempted to revive him but sadly he was pronounced dead shortly afterwards," a spokesman for the Prison Service said.
His death will be investigated by the prisons and probation ombudsman."
(From BBC News)
I met Skeam along time ago, and my condolances go out to his family and Friends. Like Park-Life said "Stop giving graffiti artists custodial sentances...."
FREE DPM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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