Reverse racism is back, sort of. If you don't spend a lot of time watching the news, you might have missed the major messup made by the White House, the NAACP, the USDA, and FOX News. What do all of these groups have in common, besides the fact that they are all run by men in suits? (You thought I was gonna say white men didn't you?) They all decided to take the word of a conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart was pissed that the NAACP was condemning the Tea Party for racist elements within their movement. So he posted this video of Shirley Sherrod (An employee of the USDA) on his site. He was trying to make the case that the NAACP is racist. Well FOX News got a hold of it and ran. And the USDA saw it and asked Sherrod to resign. The White House heard about it all and supported the decision of Tom Vilsack, the Agriculture Secretary. And oh yeah, the NAACP immediately condemned Sherrod. What was on the video that was so racist? Sherrod was discussing her reluctance to help a white farmer at an NAACP meeting. It was assumed she was suggesting that she used her position in the USDA to deny access to this farmer. The problem is that the clip was only a small part of the video. Breitbart had never seen the rest of the video. When watching the entire video, it becomes clear that Sherrod is explaining a story about how everyone can learn to understand each other. The circumstance she was speaking of, happened many years before she ever worked for the USDA. And if that wasn't enough, the white farmer (Roger Spooner) and his wife (Eloise) came forward to say that Sherrod helped them save their farm. Oops! Well now a lot of people look stupid. Ironically, Breitbart and FOX don't look nearly as bad as the NAACP, the USDA and the White House. After all what do you expect from a conservative blogger and FOX news? We certainly expect the White House and the NAACP, to know not to take FOX for their word. And oh yeah what prompted the NAACP to call members of the Tea Party Express racist in the first place? Nothing really, just this letter written by Mark Williams, chairman of the Tea Party Express. Williams satirizes Black America in a mock letter to Abraham Lincoln where Black People essentially ask to become slaves again because we don't really want to work. You can't make this stuff up.
BP is still trying to plug up that oil spill. Watch that clip and listen to Anderson Cooper say "we have a right to know" 353 times, in his scathing condemnations of BP. You go Anderson!
I finally watched the M.I.A. video, Born Free. Wow. I recommend watching the Alicia Keys video Un-Thinkable immediately afterward. It's like watching a gory horror movie and than watching an after-school special, it's trippy.
And if you never saw M.I.A.'s performance at the grammy's in 2009, than you've missed a whole lot in your life. She is about 9 1/2 months pregant in the performance of Swagga Like Us with T.I., Lil' Wayne, Kanye, and Jay-Z. I mean Super Wow.
...Going to the club to listen to Jay-Z sing "get that dirt of off your shoulder"... $10. Watching pregnant M.I.A. brush "that dirt off" Jay-Z's shoulder... priceless!
Also big ups to Z for putting me on to this K'NAAN Video. Can we please start listening to more Hip Hop like this!
Finally in case I haven't mentioned this before... I love Periwinkle Manifesto!
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