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“Good” Rebb’n Doctor, You Get The Side Eye of the Week Week Week

11 Friday Jul 2008

Posted by Vivrant Thang in Feeding The Music Jones

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by vivrant thang on jesse jackson gets the side eye of the week

SECOND POST FOR TODAY: OLD SCHOOL FRIDAY IS BELOW

When I first got wind of this story last night, before the details developed, I just thought Jesse was talking slick again about Barack. Sipping out of that big cup of haterade that’s being passed around by our so-called “leaders.”

I wasn’t prepared for this.

What kind of fuckery is this? Somebody please tell me that Faux News framed him.

Afraid not because he issued this stumbling, bumbling “apology” which some feel that he should not even have made.

I’m not even going to address his contention that Obama is talking down to Black folk. While I don’t agree, that’s not even the issue.

Why would Reverend Jesse ,a black man who was active in the Civil Rights Movement and ran for President of these here United States of Amerikka, let anything about cutting another black man’s balls off come out of his mouth? Why was that even in his head? We don’t need that kind of rhetoric coming from our own people when there are plenty of white men (and women) who would love to string Obama up on a tree and get ahold of his nuts. Need I remind you? Jesse are you smoking that Pookie?

What is he really mad about? He wasn’t mad about how we looked when his very public and messy dirty laundry came spilling out of the closet in the form of a yet another illegitimate black child.

Doesn’t matter if he thought the mic was off. Soundbite my ass. Did you see that slicing movement he did with his hand? He was serious with it! Besides, this was Faux News. They had it in for his black ass the minute he stepped off the elevator.

It’s obvious that deep down he does not support Barack’s candidacy. Guess someone will be holding his nose and pulling that lever huh? So be it. We’re doing okay without you. We’re busy trying to give an old man a beat down so just put a muzzle on it, mmkay? I don’t want to hear from you. Don’t you have an outside kid to raise?

Jesse, for your foolishness, you are awarded the hardest bitch slap Michelle can muster and the Side Eye of The Week Week Week.

You know though, for all my ranting, this could turn out to be a good thing. Barack could be having his “accidental Sista Souljah Moment.”

While I got that good twitch going on, I want to share some thoughts inspired by a comment left on my Malia Obama post.

The problem is they are kids of today. Kids of today are TOO BRATTY. In addition, I think Michelle’s real problem is not her kids, but herself, turning her kids on her husband,. She likes to castrate him and often, perhaps the way Jesse would like to.


First, I do agree that many kids today are bratty. I was going to disagree when I first read this in the morning. But on my evening commute, I listened as a black father and his teen daughter talked about the phone he was going to buy her. She was rejecting the phone he wanted to get her because she didn’t want the same phone that everyone else had. She then suggested that he buy her an iPhone and he was actually amenable to it. When he saw my not-so-subtle side eye he started pretending to lecture her about how there was only one phone in the entire house when he was a kid. Whateva sucka. I put on my IPOD at that point. I see why the Lord took care of me when I wasn’t taking care of myself (kept me childless thus far.) By the time I finished with that little heffa, she would have been begging me to use Morse Code to communicate with her little friends.

That being said, I blame the father. I would have never thought to ask for an expensive ass smart phone. She is a kid without a j-o-b! What appointments does she have? He should have nipped that in the bud long ago. It’s all in how you raise these kids. My hair stylist told me that she taught her kids long ago not to even expect stuff like that and to be happy with the things they got. And they are. I believe that’s what the Obamas are teaching their kids. Therefore, Malia is not a brat.

This person is not alone in their assertion that essentially Michelle is a giant, angry black woman that walks around with Barack’s balls in her purse. Lots of people feel that way, which is part of the reason there’s the need for a site like Michelle Obama Watch. Obviously since I am a Michelle Obamaholic, my side eye explodes each and every time I come across these kinds of comments.

Amerikkka has not seen anything like this statuesque, dynamic and vibrant woman before and they just can’t handle it. She is not the Stepford Wife staring into space, waving like an empty headed pageant contestant. She is going to dap her man up, telling him with her eyes, “You that man, B! The world is yours! I got your back.”

I, for one, love how she keeps it real about her husband – that he is just a man and not some god that’s going to swoop into the White House and save the world overnight. America is not used to her brand of wit and I fear that she will have to change her rhetoric quite a bit a bit once the general gets under way. I already see it happening as a result of her “political makeover” and that saddens me. It’s already starting. What was with that Daisy Mae dress she had on during the Access Hollywood interview? It wasn’t “her.” Very subdued and matronly, even for a casual day out.

In any event, I know Michelle will do what she has to do to get her man in there, including snatching up the good Rebb’n Doctor. Oh to have been a fly on the wall when she heard that one!

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Kwame KilpaTRICK, You Get the Side Eye of the Week Week Week!*

01 Friday Feb 2008

Posted by Vivrant Thang in Feeding The Music Jones

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by vivrant thang on side eye of the week

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New feature that’s been rattling around in the brain for a while. EveryMost Fridays, I’ll highlight one or several things that occurred during that particular week that caused my side eye to twitch to the point where my special drops wouldn’t even help!

I’ve been talking slick about “Mayor” KilpaTRICK all week long (here and here) and I had no plans to devote a whole post to his foolishness. Especially when Average Bro and Skeptical Brotha  do it SO much better with these hilarious (as in laughing to keep from crying) posts.

  • Kwame Kilpatrick is a Dumbass…and Going To Jail!
  • Kwame Kilpatrick Needs To Step Down (and go to the Free Clinic)
  • Kwame “Apologizes”

However, when I read this on the Entrepreneur Magazine site, my side eye started twitching.  I know people that live there so I got heated all over again.

Whether you’re looking for an investment property or a place to live, here’s a look at the cities you should seek out and avoid in 2008.

Places to Avoid

 

  • Detroit, Michigan: The job market is in chaos. People are getting laid off left and right. National statistics seem to point to a significant problem with job loss and job income not keeping up with inflation. As a result, many nice neighborhoods are now abandoned due to people leaving their homes. Inventories exceed one year (under six months is what we want to see), and the foreclosure problem hit Detroit hard. With fewer jobs to support home purchases, I don’t see Detroit turning around anytime soon.

Hellll no, it won’t be turning around anytime soon because “Mayor” Phone Bone is too busy humping around to actually attend to the affairs of his crumbling city! He’s been involved in all kinds of tomfoolery for years and gotten away with it. As mayor of a city like Detroit (hell, any city), if you got time to send 14,000 non-work related texts, clearly you’re not on your job. Aren’t there some plans and initiatives that needed his attention while he was skulking around with ole girl at the Snooty Fox Motel?

But you know, what he did certainly isn’t anything new. He’s been involved in all kinds of nonsense for years and gotten away with it. Besides, sex scandals are as common as a cold these days for Black and White leaders alike.

So Vivrant Thang, why you gotta hold Kwame to a higher standard than those White officials? Because he’s Black?

Hellll yea! You want to know one major reason why? Because he is raising three Black boys, including a set of twins that are at a very impressionable age.  What kind of message is this sending to them? He has continued to give the city and his poor contituents the finger by repeatedly abusing the oath he took and costing the poor taxpayers nine millions dollars? Can you imagine the ways that could have been put to better use? So what does that teach his kids about responsiblity? About having integrity? Moral values? Hell, about being a MAN, which after all is his primary responsibility in life as their father.

Then he dishonors his marriage and publicly humiliates their mother, a black woman, and put all their business in the streets. What are they learning about commitment? Hell, again, about being a MAN?

But Vivrant Thang, Kwame is human. Isn’t he allowed to make mistakes?

Sure. And after watching this oh so heartfelt apology, during which I struggled not to break out my smallest violin, I’m sure many people’s hearts were breaking for him and his family. You know how we can be so forgiving of our leaders when they fall. At the end, while appearing to be close to tears, he’s kind enough to break down how all the ways the city has prospered under his six year tenure. Touching huh?

Hellll no, I’m not touched. “Carmen Slowsky” was though as she and the “Mayor” were holed up for the weekend in some cozy resort in North Carolina where he was speaking at an MLK Day event. Once again, his wife and kids were at home while he was slapping it, flipping it and rubbing it down on the organizer’s dime (which they may ask him to repay). How dumb can you be? What’s next? Are we gonna get the Eric Benet defense?

I don’t totally blame him though.

What was I saying earlier about raising Black sons? Whether this was for show or not (doubt it) and his mother, Michigan Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, was  slapping him all up in his face behind closed doors (doubt it), it comes off as ignorant and dismissive of what he did wrong, which was once again, say to hell with his oath and his constituents.

Congresswoman Kilpatrick was right about one thing though. The video was from his 2006 re-election campaign, after he had already spent his first first term blowing the city’s money on all kinds of debauchary and self-indulgence like in-house lapdances from “Strawberry. “  Obviously, the citizens of Detroit re-elected their “boy.”

BOY indeed. They got that part right.

At the end of the day, aside from the wanderings of his magic stick,  it’s all about accountability. I hope he gets what he deserves, which is a nice vacation in Oz.  We would have stayed out of your bedroom antics had your lies and alibies not cost Detroit millions. Sure, the economics conditions in that city are part of a larger issue. However, as the mayor, you’re supposed to be helping, not hurting.

Therefore, Kwame KilpaTRICK, you get the side eye of the week week week.

Update 2/3/08: I found this posting from a Detrot resident on a Topix message board. Ole boy may just need to get the side eye of the month month month.

I cannot believe the ignorance of some of the people in Detroit making comments on the news such as, ” He said he was sorry, we all make mistakes, its time we forgive him and move on”

What kind of people think like this. ( Her guess is as good as mine)

He LIED UNDER OATH, HE BROKE the LAW. Its not our place to forgive him for the affair and for him to ask us to is just wrong.

This plea for forgiveness last night was just a ploy to divert the attention of the fact that he lied and has been lying to the people of Detroit for many years now. (Yessir!)

Lets talk about the explorer, Lets talk about the missing stripper, lets talk about all his uses of TAX dollars used for selfindulgance. ( Wellll!)

Its very simple he LIED under oath, he lied to the people of Detroit. He has been nothing but an embarrassment to the STATE of Michigan.

I so sick of people saying we should focus on the good he as done for this City.
WHAT good has he done? Someone make a list for me. We live in dilapidated neighborhoods. The schools look like school in a third world country.

Falling down abandoned homes, crack houses, CITIZENS of Detroit stripping houses in broad day light. Dogs running the neighborhood. Citizens throwing trash on other peoples lawns, I have actually witnessed people stopping there cars on a side street to get out and pee on someone’s house or fence.

Maybe it’s because the people of Detroit find how they live is acceptable. Maybe they find having a Mayor with such blatant disregard for its citizens is acceptable. I think its disgusting. (You’re not the only one!)

Tell me people, what good has he done. In the last 4 years I have only seen the neighborhoods decline to a war zone appearance. Yet the property taxes have gone up.

KK needs to step down, his legacy is an embarrassment to the City and the State of Michigan.

Step up people and have some PRIDE. (Preach!)
SAVE OUR STREETS.

 

    *with love to Huggy Low Down and Butta

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