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The Dynamic Du-no Pt. 2

October 23, 2007 | Tags: oprah, bullshit, Cosby

So let me go ahead and finish this off before I get into anything else. There’s a lot of real shit being said on both sides of the coin, if you missed part 1 of the blog, go back here and check the blog and the comment section, cuz there’s some people who believe a lot (not all) of what Cosby is saying and they got real shit to say too. Now let’s go back to the show…..

“Our kid got shot by a stray bullet, we did everything right…and he got shot. If we, blacks and Hispanics, don’t step up, we’ll all be afraid to go outside.”
Mother of kid shot to death on the back of a Chicago public bus on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”

This goes back to something I said before. The people who need to be talked to…don’t give a fuck about an Oprah Winfrey or a Bill Cosby. The parents of the kid who shot these people’s child weren’t watching Oprah. That’s what really makes me upset about the whole situation, he goes and does these speeches at college’s and on Oprah, but the thing is, the people he’s speaking to, look down on us (I feel I’m very much a part of the communities he’s talking shit about.) right along with him. So you got all these muthafuckas with money like “Oh my god, it’s so horrible, they DO need to get there stuff together, they are messing up,” What the hell is this gonna help? Then you got these right wing dick faces going “Oh, see, even Bill Cosby agrees, they can’t say he’s racists. Now you have an established black man, who came from their community saying the same thing I’ve been saying for years”. They use Bill Cosby words to push their racists’ bullshit which isn’t based on the situation at all, but based completely on race. (Which was seen when ole’ boy started ranting about when that Coon shot the school up) Bill Cosby dos this shit, and then get’s turned into a pawn…for what? What are these rants gonna change? Absolutely nothing. If he wants to talk to muthafuckas, put together a celebration at the park, then, when everybody is eating, and chilling and shit, get on the stage and say “Hey, I’m Bill Cosby, remember me? You used to watch my show. Guess what? It’s not fake, it’s real, you can have a black family where the mother and father are doctors, we can do this, but first, we have to work on some things,” It’s still not gonna shake up the world, but at least then his “message” will get to who it’s supposed to get to. After that, he can put together some programs where those same people that heard him speak can come, and talk about problems they have parenting and have some people with some solutions attempt to help. At these same programs the parents can get to know one another, so when they find out, their son got into it with Ramon, they can say, “Fuck that, I got Ramon’s mom’s number right here, I’m gonna call her, and were gonna work this out,” They can set up some programs that will get people into drug rehab. Then we’d have somebody WE recognize talking directly to us (instead of about us) about something that’s about something. But wait, I forgot, this is a capitalist economy; Bill Cosby didn’t make a bunch of money so he can put it back into the hood. He made it so he can put some in the hood, then sit up on top of the rest and talk shit about the hood to other people sitting on their stacks of money. So I guess that’s an idiotic idea.

So after a while of Bill Cosby saying the same shit, they fielded some questions from the audience. There were a couple of funny ones. So this teacher talks about how she tries to reach out to the parent of a child who’s struggling, yet she gets no response. Bill Cosby says in an asshole voice “You know what you do, after the final bell rings, follow the kid. Normally, following a kid will lead to some adult or authority figure. When you see what house the kid walks into, knock on that door” Somebody (I don’t really remember right now, either Cosby, Oprah, or Cosby’s co-author Poussant) said that they knew of a teacher that set up conferences with all the parents of all their students, and their kids normally did better. Well, that’d be just lovely, only problem is, teachers don’t make no damn money. They don’t get paid for that shit. It’s not in the teacher’s job specifications to teach the kid and the parent. But Brillyance, you want the great honorable Dr. Cosby to do all this stuff for the hood, why do you not expect more from teachers, you do want shit to get better right? Of course I do, and I’d love it if teachers talked to all parents, but the thing is, it wasn’t the teachers that got up on that podium and started calling the kids dummies, and stupid, and the parents idiots. If Cosby didn’t do that, I wouldn’t say shit about him. If Cosby didn’t do that, I’d being saying teachers should get paid more, and there should be more programs that get teachers to interact with parents, however, I definitely wouldn’t expect them to have to do it with the bullshit salaries their getting paid now. (At least in the hood, cuz I know private school teachers make cake like Cherokee’s momma)

So, after the question by the teacher, and then questions from a few other people, a white lady steps up to say something. First I was wondering what the hell she had to say, then I was wondering why Oprah let her normal audience members even speak on this episode. She starts off by saying “I want to talk about the N Word” (I really think that’s how she started it off too) So she goes on blaming Movies and music, saying that her kids know of the word because of movies, music and their friends. (That’s a god damn lie, you mean to tell me, SOME white people have been calling black people stupid niggers since slavery, yet your kids never heard the word nigga till they saw some movies and heard some music? STFU) All of a sudden, Oprah turned into Shameeka and was like “and your question is?” with a “bitch please” type of voice.

“I just don’t know what to do, how do I stop my kid’s from using that word”
-Random white lady (whose name Oprah just happened to know, so this was all set up, they planned to have a white person bring this up) on “the Oprah Winfrey Show”

At this point Mr. Poussant says “Tell your kids that the word has been used to hurt and demean black people for years, and that the word is wrong” After talking to Becky in the “the cow says MOooOO” voice, Poussant flips and says “Gangster rappers say they’re making the word positive…but you can’t. The same people saying they’re making the word positive are killing people at night and using the word” to applause then commercial……

Are you that fucking stupid? I’m sorry. I’ve realized I’m using a lot of profanity in something that’s supposed to be serious, but the thing is, last time when I wrote part one of the blog, I was still a little thrown off by the BET Hip Hop Awards…however that’s worn off and as I look back at the notes I took, I can’t believe this shit. It’s hard to believe that some people are that idiotic and believe that “gangster rap” is actually “gangsters making rap music”. Had this been Bill O’ Reily or some shit, I’d simply write it off as him being blind due to his racism, but I expected these uppity ass niggas (oops) to know better.

So after they come back from commercial, they have this dude from DC. As a kid, his mom was killed by her boyfriend. One day, her boyfriend was dragging her in the street, then, he went and loaded his gun. He shot the kids mom twice in the face, then he came in the house and shot the kid’s brother. As he went to the kid, he put the gun to his head. The kid begged him not to shoot him, said he’d do anything, and then he prayed to god. The boyfriend told the kid he can go. Before I go on to what the kid and Cosby and his sister talked about, why did this happen? Who was the kid’s mom, what did she do? Who was her boyfriend? We don’t know, I guess it doesn’t matter, it has nothing to do with proving their point (maybe something to do with disproving it…but who knows?) This may, William (the kid’s name) will be the first in his family to graduate from college.

Cosby: Since you lived “down there” with the drugs and all that, what do you feel?
William: It’s bad
Cosby to Williams sister: Do the people make it sound Ok? All the people “down there”?
Williams sister: yea, they ALL do…I was selling drugs, I had a baby at 16…

WOW, I didn’t know DC was like that. See, in the hood I hung out in, they’d tell kids who did good in school to stay away when they were gonna do bad shit. While you may be occasionally “peer” pressured to drink or smoke, it’s never EVERYONE who influences you to do shit some view as bad. The way the girl emphasized ALL sort of made it seem like a set up. The people who are strongly pushed to do bad shit by everybody, are normally the ones who people know can’t do anything else. Gang members normally tell the dummy “You better be down for the hood!”, however, it’s extremely rare they ask the kid with good grades “Are you gonna put in work for the set nigga?” So I really don’t believe the shit she was saying. The fact William seemed hesitant to talk about the hood negatively, then they switched to talking to his sister made it seem even more set up.

“Low expectations from teachers can cause a child to fail, low expectations from parents can crush them,”
Poussant on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”

“You don’t have to knock on doors to go in kids room, cuz in prison they don’t do that. They don’t pay rent in prison, kids don’t pay rent… When you go in the room, look under the bed, kids are stupid enough, they always hide stuff there”
Bill Cosby on “the Oprah Winfrey Show”

These statements combined pretty much explain the how show. Contradictions, low expectations, and plain fucked up thinking. Poussant speaks on how low expectations can fuck with kids, then, later on, Cosby calls kids stupid. When he does it, everyone laughs. Cosby also says that treatment in the home should be like treatment in prison. While I understand this is simply a metaphor, and doesn’t mean to completely treat kids like their in prison, that’s definitely a metaphor that should have never been made. As much as Cosby has been calling kids stupid, and dummies and such, some of the things he says make me question his intelligence. I could question “Dr.” Cosby’s intelligence, flip his words around, diss his personal life, all day, but it doesn’t matter. I feel I don’t have to, I feel it’s obvious that

A. If he really cared about the people “down there” he’d go about things a different way

B. What he’s doing isn’t helping, and will do no positive. In fact, it’s only doing negative by adding ammunition to the likes of …just about everybody on FOX news.

What about Oprah? Well, let’s look at the commercials during her show?

1. On the next episode we got…some white people with money problems

2. On another next episode (how do you have 2 next episodes?)we got…they were the other woman…what life felt like when these women found out their husband was cheating…and…the women who sued her husband’s mistress…and the results

3. The November issue of O magazine: Turn back the clock on aging (note: black don’t crack)

4. Dove commercial with white girl, to find out more go to….campaignforrealbeauty.com

5. Some cooning ass Kaiser commercial

…ok, so what I attempted to flip commercials 3 and 4 to make them seem like they were made specifically for white people… I just took what they gave me. (And besides…I can’t be serious all the time) I didn’t really have to, we all know Oprah cares about American black people less than Bush (If you got paper, Bush fucks with you. If you had paper and was looking to make more and save money while doing it, the Bush administration was great no matter what color you were)If your name isn’t Umdum Diah and you don’t have flies buzzing around your head….Oprah don’t give a fuck. According to her, you care more about PlayStation than education. Oh well…fuck them all, that’s what I say.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the writer and not necessarily those of HipHopDX.com or Cheri Media Group.

The dynamic du-no Pt. 1

October 19, 2007 | Tags: oprah, bullshit, Cosby

Let me let ya’ll in on a little secret about me, I hate old people. Due to the fact they can’t do anything else, old people tend to talk a lot. I have no problem keeping up conversations, however, when old people tend to find themselves talking about shit they know nothing about. You’d figure after 70+ years your old ass could find something to talk about other than hip hop, cuz you know you don’t know shit about it. Anywayz, yesterday when reading Ms. Bassa’s blog, I noticed she knew that two people I’d like to smack the shit out of found themselves in the same place two days ago. Had I been in Chicago I could have pulled one of those big TI (and that goes for either TI or T.I.’s) pieces out of the bag and put both of them out of their misery. I would have read through her comments to see if anybody mentioned it, but I didn’t feel like going through 40+ comments saying “White girl we gonna say nigga all we want…nigga” (I got something to say about that too. I’ll put that up later), so I figured I’d do my own blog about it (like I was going to, but I was so confused after liking the BET Hip Hop Awards). I took some notes on what I seen on that show (nigga u ain’t in school, yea, I know), and now allow me to vent.

So Bill has Cosby done a lot of bullshit speeches, about…niggas. That’s basically what he would like to say. The almighty Dr. Cosby is calling out the poor black people for lack of parenting. The Poor blacks aren’t parenting, that’s why their kids are fucked up. Does this explain why his daughter Erinn was doped up? No, it doesn’t, but oh well…I guess the “non-poor” black people fuck up too. At least that’s what Autumn Jackson thinks. Oh well, on with the show.

“it’s a domino effect, I sell you drugs women, you use them, you sell yourself for money to get more drugs, you get AIDS, then, your child, has AIDS also”
-Bill Cosby On Oprah

He didn’t go into how this domino effect effects parenting, but I guess that’s obvious. He forgot a couple of steps that come before he sells the women drugs. If by drugs, we mean shit other than weed…that shit doesn’t grow here. We can keep terrorists out now (allegedly) and Cuban cigars, but we can’t keep drugs and illegal immigrants out…WTF? I don’t know. I mean, why can’t we keep drugs and illegal immigrants out, why those two things? Could it be because the rich people of America are somehow profiting off both of those? Bingo. While people can choose to just leave drugs alone…just say no kids, it’s oh so easy, let me go on first, I’ll come back to that.

“The woman was asked, “Why’d you play this role” she said “You want me playing this role, or in the alley having sex for drugs” There are other jobs out there, you (Oprah) obviously have found one. (Crowd applause)

While I have gotten on Morgan Freeman for playing the background to white people frequently (always damn near) it’s because we know he can act, we know he’s talented. Others…not so much. You don’t see me getting on Brian Hooks for playing the roles he plays…that’s because I know he’s not on the short list of people who could play Huey P in the Spike Lee directed flick. (What’s taking Spike so long…WE NEED YOU) Of course, there ARE other jobs then acting and prostitution, there just hard as hell to get. While my typing speed of 70 WPM and my high test scores with Word and Excel have struggled to get me a decent job, I can imagine what it’s like for someone who can’t type, and don’t know shit about Word and Excel. So, for someone fresh out of high school with no office experience, no one over them telling them go to college, and no office skills, Wal-mart seems like the spot. Wal-mart doesn’t pay bills in any neighborhood other than one near a Martin Luther King Blvd. That shit’s not that appealing or safe. So, why didn’t anybody tell this kid about college? Where are the parents? I don’t know, maybe, just maybe, their parents were some of the people who got strung out on crack in the 80’s & 90’s, and are now dead, in jail, or just fucked up in the head. Oh…but Dr. Cosby says leave the drugs alone…it’s too fucking late for them. See, I don’t disagree with Cosby 100%, the problem with his logic is, he has to realize, for some…for a lot…it’s too late. You can’t tell the parents of the kids under me, that they need to get their shit together…people are lost. It’s too late. If you want to help, you have to find a way to reach out to the kids, EARLY. You have to get somebody to speak to these kids EARLY and stay on them as they grow in the schools, you can’t sit up on some stage at some college and talk shit about their parents. I got peoples who are 3 generations deep into gang banging, drug selling, and other ignorant shit, please believe their parents don’t give a fuck about what Bill Cosby has to say. To affect people coming up in situations like this, you have to skip past the parents and put the knowledge in the hands of the kids at an early age, cuz if I know people fucked up like this in a city like Long Beach (which has it’s bad parts, but is nowhere near a city like Los Angeles, or Chicago), it’s most likely a lot worse in other areas.

What happened to us since Brown VS the Board of Education?
“People fell into decadence because of the media and gangster rap”
Mr. Poussant Co-author of Bill Cosby’s new book “Come on people, Victims to Victors”

It’s funny, people tell us that we need to stop blaming white people for our problems, then, they blame gangster rap and the media. First of all, gangster rap exists because gangsters exist. Had it not been for people in the hood of Compton, Eazy and Dre never would have created NWA. Blaming gangster rap for the problems of the hood is THE worst excuse EVER! While I’m not one to blame white people for the problems of the hood, I will put partial blame on certain people who just happen to be white. So, while I won’t put blame on Eminem, Amanda Bassa, or Peyton Manning, I will put some blame on Reagan, Lyndon Johnson, and Bush Vol. 1. Disagree if you like, but it wasn’t Ice-T that had people giving cocaine to Rick Ross an amazingly low prices! Therefore, the blaming of gangster rap is a cop out, and especially weak for people who are saying don’t blame the man. One of many contradictions I noticed on this show.

“70% of black kids are born to single mothers. Many young males don’t have fathers, so they don’t know how to be fathers”

That’s an alarming stat right there…if you believe stats. See, the problem with this statistic is, how they hell did they find it. I was raised in 3 different households, one with my mother, one with my sister, and one with my dad and his girlfriend…when did they take this stat for me? Another problem with this stat is that single mother households aren’t only a black problem…it’s a poor people problem. What percentage of the black population are considered to be low-income or lower middle class income as opposed to whites? I’m pretty sure those stats are damn near aligned with the percentage of single mother households. That goes for every race. You can manipulate stats all day if you want. They also said there is a 50% drop out rate for blacks in some urban cities. In some cities, really? Really, I’m sure I can find a 50% percent dropout rate for whites in some rural cities…does that mean whites aren’t graduating from high school. These are POOR people problems. Poor people of all races are dropping out of high school.

I’m only half way through this shit, so I’m gonna cut it here, and drop something else later. I’ll come back to this next Monday. I got a WHOLE lot more to say about the dynamic Du-no.