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George Bush
Don't Like Black People
By Legendary K.O.
I ain't saying he's a goldigger,
but he ain't messing with no broke niggas
I ain't saying he a goldigger,
but he ain't messing with no broke niggas
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
Hurricane came through, fucked us up round
here
Government acting like it's bad luck down here
All I know is that you better bring some trucks round here
Wonder why I got my middle finger up round here
People lives on the line you declining to
help
Since you taking so much time we surviving ourself
Just me and my pets, and my kids, and my spouse, trapped
In my own house looking for a way out (pause)
Five days in this motherfucking attic
Can't use the cellphone I keep getting static
Dying 'cause they lying instead of telling us the truth
Other day the helicopters got my neighbors off the roof (off the
roof)
Screwed 'cause they say they coming back
for us too
That was three days ago, I don't see no rescue
See a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
Since God made the path that I'm trying to walk through
Swam to the store, tryin' to look for food
Corner store's kinda flooded so I broke my way through
I got what I could but before I got through
News say the police shot a black man trying to loot
(Who!?) Don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like 'em
I ain't saying he a goldigger,
but he ain't fucking with no broke niggas
I ain't saying he a goldigger,
but he ain't checking for no broke niggas
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
Five damn days, five long days
And at the end of the fifth he walking in like "Hey!"
Chilling on his vacation sitting patiently
Them black folks gotta hope, gotta wait and see
If FEMA really comes through in an
emergency
But nobody seem to have a sense of urgency
Now the mayor's been reduced to crying
I guess Bush said, "Nigga's been used to dying!"
He said, "I know it looks bad, just
have to wait"
Forgetting folks who too broke to evacuate
Niggas starving and they dying of thirst
I bet he had to go and check on them refineries first
Making a killing off the price of gas
He would have been up in Conneticut twice as fast
After all that we've been through nothing's changed
You can call Red Cross but the fact remains that...
George Bush ain't a goldigger,
but he ain't fucking with no broke niggas
George Bush ain't a goldigger,
but he ain't fucking with no broke niggas
Come down Bush, c'mon come down
Come down Bush, c'mon come down
Come down Bush, c'mon come down
Come down Bush, c'mon come down
George Bush ain't a goldigger (Hmmn)
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
George Bush don't like black people
Come down George, c'mon come down
Come down George, c'mon come down
Come down George, c'mon come down
Come down George, c'mon come down
(Fade out)
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George Bush Don't Like Black People |
Protest Hip Hop
Kanye West is a musical powerhouse with the
nation's top-selling album at the moment. Now, even the words
West utters offstage and outside the recording studio carry
weight, and inspire outrage and creativity.
West's harsh criticism of President Bush
during a nationally televised benefit concert nearly three weeks
ago ratcheted up the volume in an international debate about the
Hurricane Katrina relief effort. It also has sparked one of the
more potent political protest songs of recent years, George Bush
Doesn't Care About Black People, by the Houston rap group the
Legendary K.O. Tribune rock critic Greg Kot reports.
In an interview, Randle said he was shocked
by the bluntness of West's comments but not their substance.
Nickerson lives near the Astrodome and Randle near a convention
centre in Houston, both of which are being used to house New
Orleans refugees. "Not till you see these people face to
face and talk to them can you appreciate the level of
hopelessness," said Randle, who by day works as a financial
adviser at a Houston bank. "The one common feeling was that
they felt abandoned, on their own little island."
Four days after West's comments, the rappers
put together the song in their home studios.
"I finished my verse at 6:15 [p.m.], and
we had it on the Internet by 6:30 and circulating to our friends
and people we know in the music industry," Randle said. The
group, which has put out four albums since 1992, claims the song
was downloaded for free 10,000 times the first day it was made
available on its Web site, www.k-otix.com. Response was so heavy that it crashed the Web
site, and Randle said they have been receiving feedback from
around the world ever since. `Not just a hip-hop audience'
"What's surprising to me is not the
level of the response but the demographics of the people
responding," Randle said. "It's not just a hip-hop
audience. I got an e-mail from one guy in Austin [Texas] who
described himself as a `typical middle-class conservative white
male' who didn't necessarily agree with the politics but liked
the fact that we were speaking out."
How long the song will remain on the Web site
is questionable, because the Legendary K.O. did not clear the
use of the sample with West or his record company. But in the
Wild West of the Internet and underground hip-hop, such creative
appropriation is commonplace and, in the case of George Bush
Doesn't Care About Black People, downright thrilling. Not only
does the song do justice to West the producer and commentator,
it also ranks with the best protest songs of recent years.
"We're not interested in profiting from
the song," Randle said. "We'd like Kanye to hear it
and maybe work something out where we could jointly license it
to benefit charities."
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The State of African Education
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Attack On Africans Writing Their Own
History Part 1 of 7
Dr Asa Hilliard III speaks on the assault of academia on
Africans writing and accounting for their own history.
Dr Hilliard is A
teacher, psychologist, and historian.
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.— WashingtonPost
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