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30 de Marzo, 2007
As The War Machine Keeps Turning
Categorized under Arte , Iraq the Casbah , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: fotoshop, GOP, racism, Rove
ALL I CAN SAY is that these are the moments I will personally remember and recall as reflective of the ruling party's demeanor during the Iraq invasion/occupation. Bush, playing peekaboo on video, mocking the lie he took the nation to war with. Rove, being unfunny, ugly, and hostile to the notion that we ought to be reflective, respectful, and affected by the deaths of probably almost a million humans by now. You think he'd have the smarts to lay low while the lid continues to blow off his can of worms.
What is beautiful about hip-hop is that it began with the street poets, the black youth who had no music they felt represented them and they took that power in hand. The black youth who had no power in society, and so took some in hand. And then, later, they used it as a means of telling the world things it needed to hear about some parts of their experience. I'm not talking about the love affair with brand names, or the hypnotizing glare of MTV, or the other places Hip-Hop went, and may always go. I'm talking about NWA and Public Enemy and Jurassic 5, even. I'm talking about The Message, and the Fugees and Lauren Hill and Tupac. We could go on and on. The point is that for me to see rich, pink, warmongers handling Hip-Hop as a weapon both against black people (see the token grin and clap to lines like "He's so White, he'll never be beat") as well as against the process of Justice creeping up on the GOPs power-hoarding and lording (Fitzgerald tears off "animal tops"?) makes me want to SCREAM.
And what really gets me is they know exactly what a perversion they make of Hip-Hop by doing this. And that's why they choose this shape of "fun." Clapping and jerking their idiot gawk about as all the hellish consequences of their inhumanity infect the human race.
I can think of a better song. It's an oldie, but a goodie.
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Comentarios (7)
Rafael dijo:
Well this reminds me of Powell playing one of the village people awhile back. These people have no shame, and their bad performers to boot. Of course no one had the courage to get up and leave in the middle of this crap, I know I would have.
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 30 de Marzo, 2007 at 09:37 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
"and they are bad performers to boot"
cracks me up. it's true. at least have the decency to be skilled. put people through that thinly-disguised hostility and without even any talent. shameless is right!
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 30 de Marzo, 2007 at 09:44 AM
RickB dijo:
They should of done this- Bin Laden remix Green Lantern/Immortal Technique
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2004/11/118473.php
(free mp3!)
I mean if you're gonna be shameless, then go for it.
This is like the reign of Caligula.
Do you know that Bruce Cockburn song 'If I Had A Rocket Launcher'?
-Here comes the helicopter, second time today
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered only God can say
If I had a rocket launcher...I'd make somebody pay
I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate
I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states
And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate
If I had a rocket launcher...I would retaliate-
Palabras por RickB spat forth on el 30 de Marzo, 2007 at 10:03 AM
Sylvia dijo:
Well, I recognized Brad Sherwood and Colin Mochrie; they are two regulars/semi-regulars from the old ABC comedy improv show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" on ABC. On the show, they had regular music-oriented sketches where America's Favorite Militant Black Guy Wayne Brady would shine. Brad came a close second, and well...you heard Colin's beatboxing.
But still...this whole proceeding kinda made me want to vomit. His preliminary quips about "taking the tops off animals"? The zombielike dancing to somehow pretend he has a soul? Ugh ugh ugh!
Palabras por Sylvia spat forth on el 30 de Marzo, 2007 at 10:55 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
yeah, i've laughed my ass off at colin and crew before. it's rove who poisons the whole thing for me because of what he stands for, him and his party. colin just needs to make cash, i guess, and doesn't care who he stands next to to get it. not very respectable, but not a ghoul like Rove.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 30 de Marzo, 2007 at 11:01 AM
Yolanda Carrington dijo:
I just don't know what to think right now, after seeing four white guys and a lone Black dude writhing awkwardly onstage. I just need to decompress for awhile.
Palabras por Yolanda Carrington spat forth on el 30 de Marzo, 2007 at 01:06 PM
PseudoAdrienne dijo:
Gah! What the fuck is wrong with these people?!
Palabras por PseudoAdrienne spat forth on el 30 de Marzo, 2007 at 01:07 PM