Japanese electronics company Toshiba thinks women are bitches and hoes

T-Pain/ Toshiba TV commercial

Have you heard that rapper T-Pain, real name Faheem Rasheed Najm, now has an endorsement deal with Japanese Electronics company Toshiba? That's right, the rapper, whose lyrics are below, is now representing a supposedly reputable Japanese electronics company. The T-Pain/ Toshiba TV spot can be seen above.

Lyrics from T-Pain's song Mr. Downtown

Bust it open. Ca-ca-call call me Inspector gadget go-go dick.
Up and down on the hoe, like a pogo stick.
Go stupid, retarded but don't go sick.
Don't put me on the couch like its 106.
(gasp!) now its hard to breath.
if i fuck her on the floor I can call it shag carpeting. (get it?)
and shes a freaky thing. if i ever wrote song about her it'll be hard to sing.
she got my, tongue tied ima give her the noose.
triple cider apple phone. gotta bitch gettin loose.

It seems to me that Toshiba is saying loud and clear that they are no longer interested in having women as their customers. What else can one think when a company hires a man to represent them who makes his living referring to women as bitches and hoes?

I won't ever be buying any Toshiba products. I don't do business with companies that hire misogynists to represent them. Nor with companies that think that women are bitches and hoes as Toshiba obviously does.

Sometimes there is a price to pay for your associations. Maybe not a big price, losing one customer for a lifetime, but a price none-the-less.

Black dysfunction porn

Dysfunction Pimp?

So there's a lot of talk about Tyler Perry's latest film, "For Colored Girls". I haven't seen it nor do I plan to. Truth is I've never seen a TP film. I'm just not into Black dysfunction porn. That's what all of his films are about, aren't they, Black dysfunction.

I'm a believer in self-fulfilling prophecies. And I think all of these images of Black dysfunction serve to brainwash many of us into believing that dysfunction is not only normal but the norm in Black lives moreso than for other people. And once we begin to believe this then it's easy to internalize and act out the dysfunction we see portrayed in the media.

So rather than art imitating life, life begins to imitate art.

Dumbass Democrats, lying-ass Republicans

Well the Republicans are about to take over Congress after being out of power for just two years and after having been in power for eight of the last ten years. The economic disaster that this country is experiencing is without a doubt due to their economic policies.

Bush and the Republicans grew the government and increased government spending like never before and yet somehow the Republicans have apparently convinced a huge number of Americans that the economic meltdown is the fault of the Democrats.

That is partly due to most Americans being unable to think logically and partly due to the Democrats being brain dead.

If most Americans could think logically they'd be laughing like crazy at the lies Republicans are telling while voting the Republicans that are already in office out on the street. I mean how unbelievable is it that the Republicans are talking about the government being too big when they grew the government? And yet there are millions of Americans who are buying that nonsense hook, line and sinker.

And yes, the Democrats are brain dead. If they collectively had any sort of normal brain activity they would have been blaming the Republicans for the economy for the last two years. Every time a Democrat spoke they should have mentioned George Bush and his deficit.

But they didn't do that. They just sat around patting themselves on the back because they won control of Congress and the Senate.

Wall Street is going to throw a party on Wednesday

The Republicans are going to be a disaster once they take over. They are going to reward the rich for being rich with tax breaks and all sorts of goodies. Meanwhile they will cut all sorts of programs that help middle-class and poor Americans.

So, buckle-up folks we're about to fly through some serious turbulence. Unless of course you happen to be rich.

Some things that I just don't understand

Willow Smith

I just don't understand


Why Black people watch Mad Men and then complain when there are no Black people on the show

Black Tea Party members

How PBS became White Supremacist television and why tax payers are still supporting it

Why Jada and Will are trusting their daughter with a misogynist

Why more people can't see that Oprah is a modern day 'mammy'

Why Clarence Thomas is on the Supreme Court

Why track and field isn't more popular in the U.S.

How anyone couldn't respect Nicki Minaj's flow

Why people drink Starbucks coffee

Why Barack Obama is still so popular with African Americans

How any woman singer could tour with R.Kelly

Why it took so long for NPR to fire Juan Williams

How the Democrats could be losing control of Congress after only two years

Why anyone would watch the World Series if the Yankees aren't playing




This post was inspired by this post by Don.

Are you Black? Do you need a job? Are you willing to say all sorts of racist crap? I've got just the job for you!

It's a bad economy, we all know that. Jobs are very scarce especially if you are an African American. But there is work if you are willing.

Have you considered becoming a Black conservative?

The pay is great and so are the perks. But you will be required to say some crazy stuff. Like you may be required to talk about how when you fly and are seated near someone who looks all kinds of Muslim-ie how they scare the bejeezus out of you.

Also you will be required to defend the crazy racist stuff that White conservatives say. That's a given.

If you are willing the sky is the limit for you. Just ask Black conservative Juan Williams who talked about his fear of Muslim looking people on Fox (cough) News the other day. Of course those lefty crazies at National Public Radio, with whom Williams was employed as a news analyst, fired him because of those remarks. But who cares because on the same day that he was fired he got a big attaboy from Fox when they signed him to a multi-year deal reportedly worth a little over 2 million dollars. Not too shabby for a days work, right?

If you are so inclined just listen to a few Rush Limbaugh shows, a couple of Glenn Beck shows and at least one Bill O'Reilly show then take a glance at Michelle Malkin's blog and you're ready! Just put on your best business attire and head over to Fox (cough) News and tell them that you are ready to be a resident Black conservative. And wham, you're in!

Anyway, somebody's got to do it so why not you!

Oh and you'll have to just hold your tongue when the Tea Partiers start uncontrollably spouting the N word.

Columbus Day?

The Sunday Report: Can $100,000,000 make a kid learn?

This is a long post so please bear with me.

Recently the CEO and founder of the online social network Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg , gave 100 million dollars to the Newark, New Jersey Public Schools. There has been a lot of media hoopla about it from online stories to a big production on this past Friday's Oprah Winfery Show.

So what will 100 million dollars do for Newark Public Schools? Well I suppose they could build a few new schools, fix some old ones, buy text books, hire teachers, buy computers and stuff like that. But will that fix the problems of this inner city/ urban/ mostly Black school system?

No.

Buying a bunch of stuff and building new schools won't fix this or any other troubled schools system. I know this because history tells me so. Money has been thrown at inner city schools for decades now and it has not helped one bit. In fact Newark Public Schools already spends more per student than any other school system in the nation, over 20,000 dollars per student each year.

So what will work?

Well lets go back in time. Back before the so-called integration of public schools in this nation. Back to a time when Black children went to all Black schools. When those schools were short of everything they needed. There were shortages of text books. The facilities were poor and the teachers underpaid.


But something amazing or maybe not so amazing happened at those segregated Black schools. Kids learned. They excelled. Those are the kids that today are of the so-called baby boomer generation that have gone out in the world and done very well for themselves.

So what was the difference that caused kids then do so well and kids today to do so poorly?

Once again we have to look back. We have to look at Black communities before the Civil Rights Movement. Those Black communities were often very prosperous. And even the ones that were not so prosperous were much better off than most inner city communities of today.


In many Black urban communities around the country there were good jobs. Beginning around the time of World War 2 Blacks moved in huge numbers to metropolitan areas around the country. They moved there for well paying jobs in factories that were making all sorts of things for the war effort.

And both African American men and women experienced a great prosperity beginning in this period that extended until the mid 1960's when commercial factories began to move to the suburbs along with Whites during what was called White flight.

As Whites moved to the suburbs and factories with them Blacks were left in the lurch. Unemployment during this period skyrocketed for Blacks. And where there are no jobs crime fills the void. And where there is crime there is violence.

And another little thing was going on as well that kept business out of urban areas. It was called redlining. A practice in which banks would refuse loans to businesses wanting to operate in these urban areas.

So in the 1960's Black kids were no longer living in communities where their parents and neighbors went to work everyday and brought home salaries that could provide for a family. Now they lived in communities where almost no one was working a legitimate job.


These kids now had to deal with homelessness, deal with worrying if the lights would be on or whether there would be heat in winter, deal with worrying about street violence that often entered their homes either through the incarceration of a parent or losing a parent to that violence.

Black kids no longer had the luxury of just focusing on their school work, now they had to focus on very serious issues. Poverty became apart of millions of Black kids lives beginning during this period. And unlike in previous times when Blacks mostly lived in the South being poor in an urban environment was harsh in ways that they had not seen since before World War 2.

In an effort to help inner city Blacks in the 1960's the government expanded what was then known as welfare. This program would offer help in paying rent and buying food. But there was a catch that came along with that help. That catch was that fathers would be pushed out of homes.

One of the stipulations for a family to receive welfare was that there could not be a man present in the home. From the late 1960's until well into the 1980's this would destroy what was left of cohesive Black communities all over the country.

So now the stage was set for inner city Black kids to become the poster children for academic underachievement.

Nothing much has changed in many urban areas of the country. In most of these communities the unemployment rate was high before the current recession and has become astoundingly high since.



So when a Black kid in Newark goes to school can they focus on school like their more affluent mostly White counterparts in the burbs?

We all know the answer to that. No, they can't. Kids in most of these communities are more concerned with making it to and from school in one piece. They are constantly tempted by the drug trade and other illegal enterprises. They have to deal with drug addicted parents. They have to deal with incarcerated parents. Or parents that are just absent.

Many inner city Black kids are already suffering from Post-traumatic stress disorder by the time the reach first grade.

So how can we expect kids to learn in environments like this?

We can't and we shouldn't. In order to fix urban public schools we have to look outside of those schools to the communities in which they exist. We have to fix broken parents and families. We have to bring jobs into these communities so that parents can work. We have to get rid of the crime that infests these communities.

If and when we do that then Black kids in inner cities around this country will have a fighting chance to do well in school. But if all we do is talk about firing teachers and throwing more money at schools then we will see Black kids continue to fail in large numbers.

So in my opinion if Mark Zuckerberg really wants to make a difference with his 100 million dollars he could do so by using it to create jobs for the parents of the kids in Newark Public Schools. He could help by using that money for counseling for drug addicted parents and parents with criminal records. He could use that money to get drug dealers off of corners by hiring them too.

If Mr. Zuckerberg and other well meaning billionaires and the government did this then Newark Public Schools would be transformed and so would the lives of the kids who attend them.

But what do I know.

Eddie Long is a hypocritical, lying, pedophile (allegedly)

Cry Eddie Cry!

Wednesday's lawsuit, filed in DeKalb County, Georgia, State Court, was brought on behalf of Jamal Parris, now 23, who was a teenager at the time he joined Long's church.

The suit, which claims Long encouraged Parris to call him "Daddy," also names the church and a youth academy as defendants.

Believe it or not sometimes evil people do get their comeuppance. And Bishop Eddie Long is an example of just that. Long is the biggest gay bashing preacher in this country and has been for quite some time. And now we find out that Long has been chasing young men for years.

The suit, also filed by attorney B.J. Bernstein, claims Long engaged in sexual acts with Parris. The young man eventually became a church employee and served as personal assistant to Long and traveled with him, the suit says. The pastor continued to engage in sexual activity with Parris and gave him money, trips and gifts, the suit says.

Three lawsuits have been filed alleging that Bishop Eddie Long had sexual relations with at least three young men on several occasions over several years. They suits also claim that Long took the young men, some were teens, on trips and bought them lavish gifts.

All of this was going on while the Bentley driving, private plane flying Bishop Eddie Long was making life hell for gays and lesbians with his hate speech from the pulpit of his mega-church the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in the Atlanta area.

So now all of those idiots in Long's mega-church know that their tithes have been going to a man who is nothing more than a alleged pedophile. Religion it seems is the perfect place for evil people to take advantage of weak people.


I hope that Bishop Eddie Long ends-up where he belongs and that is in hell with all of the other pedophiles and thieves. In the meantime it's likely his parishioners will make a way for him to stay exactly where he is, in the pulpit, and continue to give him their money like the good lemmings that they are.

Maybe Eddie Long should have been a Catholic priest, he would fit right in.

A day of rest?

I used to live in the South and one thing I miss is that on Sunday people were really quiet. Now that I live in California my neighbors, though generally quiet, don't have any problem pulling out the weed eater on Sunday morning and trimming up the yard or pulling out the hammer and nails to fix the dog house.

My grandmother, who was raised in the South, had lots of rules about what not to do on Sundays. Like, you don't do laundry on Sunday and you certainly don't hang clothes on the line on Sundays. According to her you just take Sunday as a day of rest and try to be as quiet as possible.

Anyway, I miss quiet Sundays.

"Hey pretty girl, do you want to go to jail now?"

(liar)Bethany Storro

"She claimed her attacker said "Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?" before splashing the acid that burned her face."


Remember the story of the White woman who said a Black woman threw acid on her face outside a Vancouver, Washington coffee shop? Bethany Storro, 28, even gave a detailed description of her alleged attacker from which the police made a sketch and gave to media outlets which then plastered the sketch all over the media for about a week.

Well it was all a big fat lie!

"A woman who claimed she was the victim of an acid attack (by an African American woman) has admitted her injuries were self-inflicted, Vancouver, Wash., police said Thursday afternoon.

Police Chief Clifford Cook said at an afternoon news conference that Bethany Storro, 28, told detectives the truth during an interview after discrepancies emerged in her story." - MSNBC

This is the sketch resulting from Bethany Storro's fake attack

Well thank God no Black women were taken into custody or worse because of this crazy racist religious wacko.

Yep, religious wacko:

"Storro said she held the news conference then to draw attention to efforts to find the attacker, but also to talk about her faith.

"I'm here today because of Jesus Christ," she said at the time, adding that the strength of her faith would allow her to move forward." - MSNBC

Meanwhile African American women were under attack all over the internet because of this story.

"Oh shiiiiet! She`s deaf? Holy smoke, she could have been blinded as well. Daaaamn, talk about hell on earth if that happened. BTW anyone ever notice it's always black chicks and transsexuals who always do this acid in the face stuff? WTF is that all about?"

"FAT ebony women jealous of a pretty white women? I can see why black men are going for white women and i dont blame them,"

The police are already sounding as if they are going to let this woman off the hook:

"They said they were not ready to discuss Storro's motivations. Storro is remorseful and in a "fragile mental state," police said." MSNBC

I hope they throw her 'fragile' ass in jail for a long, long time because I'm sure if the police had picked up an innocent Black woman matching that bogus description Bethany Storro gave she would have gotten no mercy from the criminal justice system nor the media.

Somebody is lying and that's the truth

"This summer the Obama White House promised Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche L. Lincoln that farmers in her state would receive $1.5 billion, ostensibly for disaster-relief aid. Cynics, however, say the money is a payoff to the farmers along with their relatives, friends and other Arkansans to get them to vote for Lincoln in November."

But "Obama says the black farmer settlement is a high priority for his administration."

So Black farmers who won a 1.25 billion dollar settlement against the USDA years ago can't get a freakin' dime but a bunch of White farmers in Arkansas get 1.5 billion without even asking for it?!

This summer the U.S. Senate twice blocked payment of the settlement to Black farmers. But in total the Senate has blocked payment to Black farmers seven times. But Obama says that paying Black farmers what they are owed is a high priority. Yeah right.

Somebody is lying.

Photo de Jour: Nicki Minaj signs an autograph (Not Safe For Work!)

Nicki Minaj is unique. And that's really saying something these days with so many cookie-cutter singers and rappers out there. Though she is associated with Lil Wayne and mainstream rap I think of her more as sort of a punk rapper. Between her rap flow, which reminds me of punk singers musical deliveries, to her very unique outfits and her fans, she is definitely a punk rapper.

I haven't bought a rap album in a very long time but I plan to buy Nicki's album.

Nicki has been known for signing her fans breasts and now I guess she's signing booties too.

Question de Jour: Do you think White people would watch TV if 99.999% of the people on TV were People of Color?

I don't have cable TV. I haven't had it in a couple of years. It's one thing to be ignored and not pay for it but another to pay for being ignored, as people of color are on TV.

As the new fall television season nears I have noticed that nothing much has changed, at least on network TV, as far as diversity is concerned. There are three shows on NBC, one with Boris Kodjoe, one with Blair Underwood and another with Jimmy Smits. I'll give NBC its due for that but NBC is also the network that will air a show about a call center in India that from the promos looks dangerously racially offensive.

Other than that the new TV season seems as lily White as ever. It gets so bad sometimes that I find myself just scanning channels looking for a person of color on the screen. And when I see one I stop and watch. It doesn't really matter whether it's a commercial or an actual show I'll watch it. Well except for anything produced by Tyler Perry.

I can remember hearing older people talk about how back in the day they essentially did the same thing, looked for a person of color on TV and then if they saw one they watched no matter what it was about.

So it seems that in the new millennium, as the world changes by leaps and bounds, some things never change. Namely, television is as White as ever, heck even more White actually. In the 80's and 90's there were quite a few People of Color on network TV. So TV is actually going backwards.

PBS even seems to be less diverse than ever.

According to people who are supposed to know; African Americans and people whose ancestors hail from Spanish speaking countries (sorry but I really hate the word Hispanic*) watch more TV then other groups.

Which makes me wonder; if most of the people on TV were People of Color would White people watch?




*I hate the term Hispanic because it tells you nothing about a persons heritage. People whose ancestry is from Spanish speaking countries have very different cultures and histories. So the use of the term Hispanic seems like a way of ignoring a persons culture and lumping everyone in a cultureless pot. This country has already taken away most of African Americans pre-American history and culture and now its trying to do it again with the term Hispanic.

Need a job? Speak Jive? The DEA wants you.

The DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) is looking for linguists who are fluent in Ebonics.

"Federal agents are seeking to hire Ebonics translators to help interpret wiretapped conversations involving targets of undercover drug investigations.

The Drug Enforcement Administration recently sent memos asking companies that provide translation services to help it find nine translators in the Southeast who are fluent in Ebonics, Special Agent Michael Sanders said Monday.

Ebonics, which is also known as African American Vernacular English, has been described by the psychologist who coined the term as the combination of English vocabulary with African language structure.

Some DEA agents already help translate Ebonics, Sanders said. But he said (he) wasn't sure if the agency has ever hired outside Ebonics experts as contractors." - The Associated Press

In other words the DEA doesn't understand what all those Negro criminals in Atlanta are saying to each other and they need a few Black people fluent in the Negro language of Ebonics to translate. Sounds more like something from a bad movie (see video below) than something a government agency would be doing.

Back in the 70's and 80's Ebonics was called jive, right?

Hey wait a minute! Don't we have a Black President now? Is he okay with the DEA looking for Ebonics translators?

I wonder if the DEA will have linguists who understand the Redneck language as well? Or is Redneck not considered another distinct language like Ebonics?

It's amazing how Black people in this country are constantly subjected to being 'othered'. Pretty much every culture uses vernacular but it's only with African Americans that it is supposed to be another language.

Baby Boomer paranoia and an Islamic Cultural center

Unless you have been camping in the Amazon for the last several weeks you've heard about the controversy surrounding a proposed cultural center and mosque near the site of what's called ground zero in New York City's lower Manhattan.

According to a poll I saw yesterday 63% of Americans think it's a bad idea to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque near ground zero. The news media is loving the controversy, they can't stop talking about it. And President Obama was so over come by the pandering instinct last Friday night that while speaking in front of a group of Muslims honoring Ramadan he said he supported building the cultural center. Of course the next day he denied supporting it.

So since so many people are in such an uproar over this I have to ask myself why this proposed Islamic center doesn't bother me in the least.

I'm an American. I was raised in the U.S. So shouldn't I be as closed minded as everyone else? Shouldn't I both hate and be frightened of anyone who is different from me? Shouldn't I feel insulted by this cultural centers close proximity to the place that 3,000 Americans were killed on September 11, 2001?

Maybe you as well are confused by your lack of righteous indignation about this. Maybe you too feel it's really no big deal.

So what makes some Americans so closed minded, hateful and fearful when others aren't? Does it have to do with age? Seems most of the people going nuts about this are so-called baby boomers. And baby boomers are notorious chickens. They are afraid of everything. Maybe it's because they grew up just after World War 2 and during the Cold War? Maybe it has to do with them thinking America as they knew it was coming to an end during the 60's?


What ever it is I'm really getting sick of baby boomers and their nonsense. It seems all they do is protest anything or anyone different from them. The Tea Party couldn't exist without baby boomers. Fox News would be out of business with out its baby boomer viewers. The Arizona anti-immigrant laws would never have been passed without baby boomers.

Note below the crazed baby boomer hyperbole from possible 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich:

"And I think we ought to be honest about the fact that we have a right – and this happens all the time in America. You know, Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center."

Now I understand that not every baby boomer is a crazed hater of everything. Some are totally rational people. But it's painfully obvious that baby boomers have more than their share of wackos that hate everything and everyone.


Which brings me back to the Islamic cultural center.

After writing this I realize that nothing is wrong with me. I just don't belong to a generation that is afraid of its own shadow. After all it's fear that is driving these protests against the cultural center. Fear masquerading as outrage.

Baby boomers are afraid of Muslims because they're different. And many of them are brown. And some of them have foreign accents when they speak. And because of that baby boomers see them as 'other'. And because they are other, they can be villains in this never ending melodrama performed by baby boomers over and over again. A melodrama of anger and fear.

The proposed Islamic Cultural center in lower Manhattan doesn't scare me. In fact after its built I'd like to visit it. I'm just not afraid of the stuff that a certain generation is afraid of.

I don't think baby boomers are going to change. I think they'll be riding off into the sunsets of their lives yelling and screaming and pointing fingers. So it's up to the rest of us to not let them destroy what America is supposed to be about. And that thing is hope. A hope that we Americans can turn corners when needed and do better. That we can overcome differences by realizing how much we all have in common.

America can survive an Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan just a few blocks from ground zero but I'm not sure we can survive the baby boomer generation.

Losing my religion

Author Ann Rice has apparently given up religion. She made the pronouncement via Facebook. The mainstream media is all over the story. But to me it's old news. I've given up on religion long ago.

In my humble opinion one's relationship with God ought to be the simplest relationship one has. So why muck it up with a bunch of books, preachers, ceremonies, collection plates and hate.

God and religion are two very different things.

Religion has a very sordid history, to say the least. It's been used as a excuse to abuse women, to treat women as property, to enslave millions of people, to murder, and to terrorize.


So why would I want to be apart of such a thing?

The way I see it, unless one is a psychopath, one is able to learn at a very early age the difference between right and wrong. So why do I need someone reading from a religious text to tell me the difference?

I don't.

And the religion one belongs to has more to do with geography than anything else. If you are born in India then chances are pretty good you are Hindu. If you are born in Mexico then you are probably Roman Catholic. If you are born in Saudi Arabia you are probably Muslim. The United States, a Protestant Christian sect. And the effects of geography on religion is even more pronounced in Ireland.

So what religion you adhere to is really a geographical crap-shoot.

I can pray to the God that I believe in, try to walk with the God that I believe in and serve the God I believe in without all that religion brings with it. Without religion my relationship with the God that I believe in seems so simple and pure.

No politics. No fighting against others having rights that I have. No finger pointing. Just me and the God that I believe in. What more does a person need?