Sunday, August 01, 2010

DECLINED!


It's late, and I am just getting in, but I have to talk about Diddy real quick before I call it a night.

I remember when I first heard the news of Diddy giving his 16 year old son a car worth a McMansion for a birthday gift. I thought it was silly, over the top, and a colossal waste of money. But I also thought to myself that it was his money, and he could do with it what he damn well pleased. It just said a lot about Diddy and where his head is, that's all.

Now, is it turns out, my man is in the news again due to this very same issue.

Diddy recently told Vibe magazine that Nightline Host Martin Bashir's question about him giving his son a Maybach for his birthday was racist:

"There were times in the interview when I had to give him an ultimatum," Diddy told Vibe. "The questions weren't being handled the right way. In hindsight, when I saw him, I shouldn't had done the interview because I know the style of interview that he does . . .. The whole thing about giving a Maybach to my son, that's really like a racist question."

"You don't ask White people what they buy their kids," he continued. "And they buy 'em Porsches and convertible Bentleys, and it ain't no question. It's really a racist question and put things back in perspective with money and the way that people still look at you. And I'm not saying that consciously he's a racist. But he probably don't even realize that he would not ask Steve Jobs that. He would be like Steve Jobs has that money and that's the gift his kid is supposed to get."


Hmmm, sorry Diddy; you might have a Amex Black Card, but you are being declined for a race card with this one. I agree with Jam Donaldson who was writing for AOL Black Voices:

"I think Diddy was right about one thing: Most journalists would never question a wealthy white person like Steve Jobs or Warren Buffet about a car they may have bought their children.

I think, though, he is missing a critical difference between himself and men like Steve Jobs. Men like Jobs and Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have not made a fortune promoting luxury lifestyles and defining themselves by them.

A tenet of hip-hop is ostentation and glamour and luxury. Diddy's image, probably more than any other entertainer, is built on throwing wealth in the faces of others who look on with a mixture of awe, envy and delight. He brags at every opportunity about his wealth, so why shouldn't it be fair game in an interview? The image of boundless wealth, big mansions and fancy cars is how hip-hop has defined itself, and whether he wants to admit or not, Diddy is one of the main architects.

I bet a reporter wouldn't ask Bob Johnson or Kenneth Chenault about a car they bought for their children.

I believe the question was less about race and more about the fact that he is not taken seriously.

You can't be a media whore and then get mad if someone asks you a question you don't like. If you don't want to be questioned about what you give to your children, don't do it on TV. You can't have it both ways, Diddy. I can't remember the last time Bill Gates bragged to the world about how much money he had. "

Exactly! And, for the record, Bashir may or may not have issues with matters of race, but we can't call him out for this question to Diddy. Why? For all the reasons the author mentioned above.

Diddy, you might need the race card one day down the line. Don't waste it on this.

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alicia banks said...

mostly rabid:

got lust?

got dreams of being satiated like your own pvt tiger's side pcs?

we feel your frigid pain!!!

go bathe...may help!

Anonymous said...

rugmunching gets old after a while anyway

thats why theres fat ugly disgusting

lesbian bed death cuz of nasties

like a buceta

Anonymous said...

mostly rabid:

got lust?

got dreams of being satiated like your own pvt tiger's side pcs?

we feel your frigid pain!!!

go bathe...may help! a buceta

eyem sure grandpa isadore would

be proud that u take so much time

out of ur day to insult other

black people u rugmunching lunatic

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Anonymous said...

speaking of staying on topic with the post

eyem sure ur parents are proud of

how they raised u every day they

have to deal with their needy insane

manhating daughter ur mother prolly

wishes she had an abortion

alicia banks said...

mostly rabid is obsessed with me/lesbian myths/life/xxx fantasies etc....weird & nasty!!!

maybe her man just wants a real het?

Anonymous said...

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5:23 PM a buceta

awww poor thing is so upset she has

to keep removing her posts

awww have u lost control buceta?

Anonymous said...

speaking of staying on topic with the post

eyem sure ur parents are proud of

how they raised u every day they

have to deal with their needy insane

manhating daughter ur mother prolly

wishes she had an abortion

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

Kathy:

And all this time I thought that America went to war with each other back in the day. You know that one they called the CIVIL WAR. Don't forget the Native American are living beneath the poverty level and haven't been compensated yet, either. They didn't exactly lend or give this country to anyone from what I can recall regarding history.

Gurl, no_slappz is not only a certified bigot but a revisionary, certified bigot too. Naaaaah, I take that back he is a straight lying, certified bigot with an overactive,dislusional,imagination. Where is our resident head shrink at when we need them? I guess, those budgets cuts even affected the blog too and we had to lay off the head shrinks. Are there any head shrinks out there willing to do a little volunteer work for a worthy cause? We have a bonafide bigoted nut running amok on this blog called no_slappz.

Anonymous said...

maybe ur woman just wants someone who

doesnt smell like cat assholes

Anonymous said...

We have a bonafide bigoted nut running amok on this blog called a stinky buceta breath banks

Anonymous said...

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5:23 PM a buceta

awww poor thing is so upset she has

to keep removing her posts

awww have u lost control buceta?

alicia banks said...

uts/assnon:

i do not hate men

i hate u

u r not a man

period.

alicia banks said...

mostly rabid's mom did have an abortion.

it is just brain dead as it lives.

maria said...

i didn't see the interview. but neither jagger nor rod stewart have ever promoted themselves as role models and father figures.

alicia banks said...

mostly rabid:

i am shocked that an alley cat like you actually sexes alley cats too...ick!!!...u bestiality loving bimbo!!!

that is xxx redundancy on crack!!!

Anonymous said...

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5:23 PM a buceta

awww poor thing is so upset she has

to keep removing her posts

awww have u lost control buceta?

5:28 PM

Anonymous said...

a buceta i am shocked that an alley cat like you actually sexes alley cats too...ick!!!...u bestiality loving bimbo!!!

thats prolly why u smell like cat anuses trick

Unknown said...

"He doesn't have an appreciation of money therefore he probably won't keep it."

Although I have little appreciation for Mr. Combs' music or wardrobe for that matter, I'm pretty sure he's well past the "lose it all" stage. At least he has an impeccable taste in automobiles.

Anonymous said...

a buceta i am shocked that an alley cat like you actually sexes alley cats too...ick!!!...u bestiality loving bimbo!!!

thats prolly why u smell like hamster anuses trick

Anonymous said...

Although I have little appreciation for Mr. Combs' music or wardrobe for that matter, I'm pretty sure he's well past the "lose it all" stage. At least he has an impeccable taste in automobiles.

*parola*

alicia banks said...

rotfl!!!

i am trying to decide which one is funnier:

uts for bragging about his lack of sexual prowess

or

mostly rabid for bragging about not knowing that the clitoris is an external organ

got a hand mirror?

2 sexless shameless fools!!!

alicia banks said...

mostly rabid:

please keep your circus of bestial pleasures to yourself!!!

____

fn:

can you also be reported as a sick twisted animal sex site??

dyam!!!

Anonymous said...

a buceta i am shocked that an alley cat like you actually sexes alley cats too...ick!!!...u bestiality loving bimbo!!!

thats prolly why u smell like hamster anuses trick

Anonymous said...

a buceta i am shocked that an alley cat like you actually sexes alley cats too...ick!!!...u bestiality loving bimbo!!!

thats prolly why u smell like cat shit trick

Anonymous said...

u seagull smelling porch monkey

lookin bug eyed mmm crush having

magilla buceta eating fool!

Anonymous said...

Magilla, why don't you just sit down and shut up? Coon.

Anonymous said...

Magilla is at her monkey shining antics again.

alicia banks said...
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alicia banks said...
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alicia banks said...

mostly rabid's IQ is way too low to compose her own "thoughts".

so she stupidly pastes and edits my own words to make them sound like her own retarded lingo...

carry on u brain dead mostly rabid.

imitation is the greatest form of flattery...even when done by illiterate vulgar morons who have sex with all kinds of animals.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

Maria:

Diddy has five children and one informal stepchild [whatever that is]. :) I'll give him some credit though for raising $2,000,000 for the educational system for the children of New York and making donations to a foundation for children with eating disorders. Me, myself, and I don't really waste time focusing in on Diddy because it is too much mess going on right now in the political arena, police brutality, and education right now that at times gets to be a little overwhelming and draining of mental energy.

Gurl, I think I might need another vacation before this month is over with...LOL!

Anonymous said...

Why would a big grown black man, go out and spend that much MONEY for a car? well, he need's to GROW UP! but, he is not alone,we have a whole SLEW of young black men out there that, act like children in a candy store!

When you look at TV, what do you see? you see young black men Flaunting! they spend Million's of dollar's on home's and car's! that FIFTY CENT MAN, bought a home with bathroom's Galore! why? well, i guess he has a FETISH for bathroom's! and the little funny looking black man with the GRILL! let me move on! these are the black men of the Future!

We complain about what is needed in the Black community, but, what are these Rich black men doing, to help it to Flourish! Magic Johnson, has invested in the Black community! what about PIDDY! this childish man spent thousand's of dollar's on ONE CAR! BLACK FOLk have lost job's since the recession! think they don't need a helping hand? YES! they do! think black college's, don't need a Hefty donation? YES! they do! what about a little park, for black kid's in the inner city! see, we don't want to go there! well I did! i said something, black folk don't want to hear! I said what, black folk could be doing with their money, to help their black brother's and sister's in need of help!

Oprah built a school in Africa, that's all well and good, but, don't you think, somebody should have told her, to throw in some FOOD BANK'S as well! a big pretty school in the midst of hungry black folk!

ISEEISEE

Anonymous said...

Magilla is at her monkey shining antics again.

Anonymous said...

Magilla is at her monkey shining antics again.anon

aint that the truth that feces colored

bug eyed coon is up to no good

Anonymous said...

bug eyed coon bug eyed coon smells like

cat assholes

hamster bucetas

just like u

maria said...

granny, try not to stress! time to turn off the TV, stay off line, enjoy the summer.

Algie said...

Generally, people only get defensive when you touch on something that is true, they don't want it revealed, or they are trying to hide from the issue themselves.

LACoincidental said...

ISEEISEE, you speak the Gospel truth. Whether its building for the greater community or simply building true wealth for their family -- a lot of Black superstars simply don't have a clue.

Someone should tell Mr. Combs that the Top Hat and Monocle style of wealth went out of fashion when trains were still the primary mode of long distance transportation. Again, "The People who own the color blue" as Chris Rock calls them, don't flaunt their wealth. Sure, they may have a nice house -- but living in the New York metro area, most of those old money folks are indistinguishable from the middle class folks down the street -- they live fairly simply.


Or better yet, lets have Sean Combs read a few stories from the New Testament where Jesus essentially shows rich people for the vapid, empty souls they usually are. He likes to wear giant, diamond studded crucifixes on his neck. How about he read some of the lessons taught by the man who gave that cross any meaning beyond a Roman death sentence?

A few bloggers pointed out that all that flossing points to an empty suit and an empty soul. For all his wealth and fame, Puffy is a probably a miserable & lonely man.

He's one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in hip-hop, love him or hate him. But all of the wealth he's built came from a high price minstrel show. And the people he's burned over the last 20 years have come back to bite him square on the rear end. He, along with guys like Bob Johnson, set Black folks back 20 years in terms of perception. And he's destroyed the lives of many talent young men and women to get to where he is.

And I personally think Puff's trying to buy his son's love. Honestly, if he spent any real time with his son -- he wouldn't need to buy a 16 year-old a Maybach. Hell, just taking your kid on a father son trip would do.

He may throw the biggest party in the Hamptons, but he probably has few people he can call on for support if he ever went broke.

All that floss is the attempt to fill a "God Shaped Hole". So, he tries to overcome his spiritual shortcomings with money, and that leads to a miserable existence in the end. Hell, anyone who ever saw "Brewster's Millions" could tell you that.

vanishing point said...

And I personally think Puff's trying to buy his son's love. Honestly, if he spent any real time with his son -- he wouldn't need to buy a 16 year-old a Maybach. Hell, just taking your kid on a father son trip would do.
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La, your right, and I think he said that in the video that he felt bad that he didn't spend enough time with his children,

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

Yeah, why don't they build parks, skating rinks, even a bowling alley, video, or shucks contribute to inner city schools. It would be nice if inner city kids had somewhere to go for recreation to burn off that excess energy. However, I wouldn't just stop at recreational places, why don't they donate to building back up our community, colleges, hospitals, etc., and putting money back into our own communities period!

I mean donating to Africa is fine, but we live in America and charity begins at home and spreads abroad. Our own black communities right here in America have needs too. We have children starving and doing without the basic Maslow necessities right here in our own black communities.

Anonymous said...

oprah AND Bill Cosby donated 20 milliion dollars to morehouse college a few years ago

stop bitching about what rich folks do with they money ya ingrates!

no_slappz said...

granny wqrites:

I'll give him (diddy) some credit though for raising $2,000,000 for the educational system for the children of New York

Baloney. How about some details? It's a lot more accurate to say that $2 million was PLEDGED. But there's no evidence donors actually wrote checks to the NY City school system. Moreover, there's no suggestion Combs himself wrote any checks. The only verified detail is him sweating his way through the marathon. And this little episode occurred back in 2003.

Meanwhile, there are over one million kids in the NY City public school system. Over the latest school year, the Department of Education spent over $17,000 per student, which means the total NYC school budget for last year was almost $20 BILLION.

Let's get serious, $2 million is nice, but it's not enough to cover the annual salaries and benefits of 20 teachers.

vanishing point said...

slappy,
last time i looked, NYC teachers are the lowest paid teachers in the entire downstate NY area.

LACoincidental said...

No_slappz, by your rather rough estimates, NYC Teachers make 200K/yr? Are you on crack?! If teachers made that money -- every junior hedge fund analyst in New York would sign up for certification.

More like, with benefits and all, you could pay for 40 or 50 teachers. NYC teachers get paid less than garbage men and bus drivers.

But I would agree that Puffy could have dropped the whole 'marathon fundraiser' shtick and just wrote a 2M check to the New York DOE and wrote it off his tax return.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

no_slappz, so what do you propose that he do foot the entire bill for the whole educational system? Your pettiness and stupidity never ceases to amaze me, in those two areas you always excel with flying colors. Smh!

no_slappz said...

granny, you wrote:

Yeah, why don't they build parks, skating rinks, even a bowling alley, video

Hell yeah, that's what blacks need. More parks, skating rinks, bowling alleys and videos. And don't forget swimming pools. Yeah, that's been to problem all along.

On 125th Street in Harlem there are TWO Gamestop stores, thus, a whole lot of video games. And a huge swimming pool on 124th St. But the movie theater by the Apollo Theater is out of business. However, there are lots of cell phone stores, sneaker stores, Jimmy Jazz, churches, nail salons, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts and Harlem's Children's Zone Promise Academy, a charter school that's actually succeeding.

...or shucks contribute to inner city schools.

Per-student expenditures in NY City are already over $17,000 a year. And of course you'll love this -- but expenditures are much higher at the "inner city" schools compared with the schools serving mostly asian and white students.

Why? Because the schools serving asians and whites have much less need for remedial services and little need for the massive levels of security required at most "inner city" schools.

It would be nice if inner city kids had somewhere to go for recreation to burn off that excess energy.

Or what? They'll commit crimes?

A few nights ago I was on the subway leaving Harlem and a big hefty -- fat -- black girl, about 20, repeatedly threated to punch a Chinese woman, a woman of about 60, who was working her way through the uncrowded car offering DVDs.

Seems the girl needed some new recreational site for burning off her excess energy.

However, I wouldn't just stop at recreational places, why don't they donate to building back up our community, colleges, hospitals, etc., and putting money back into our own communities period!

Hey, granny, you nitwit, you just gave the list of things the local residents are obliged to do for the betterment of their communities.

By the way, no shock, but you never mentioned libraries or books. Of course in Harlem the library branches double as homeless shelters and there is only ONE independent book store -- the Hue-Man Bookstore, next to the Magic Johnson movie theater.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

BTW, no_slappz, I've reset the hour glass now about the 1000th time and am still waiting for you to answer my question about Columbus and white people. So now, I'm adding the Menendez brothers, Scott Peterson, and the Columbine killers to that list.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

no_slappz:

LOL, yeah and there are a lot of white folks residing in those homeless shelters now thanks to the greed of those darn Republicans and Reagan and Bush tickle down economic policies. Did those white folks I named up above and in prior post need somewhere to burn off their excess energy too? I guess they didn't get it because they committed a crime. You are so easy!

no_slappz said...

la coincidental you wrote:

No_slappz, by your rather rough estimates, NYC Teachers make 200K/yr? Are you on crack?!

Starting pay for NY City teachers is $43,000. The healthcare plan for teachers is Solid Gold. Moreover, it can cover a teacher's entire family. Then there's the pension allocation.

Meanwhile, at this time, the top paycheck for classroom teachers is $100,000 a year. Quite a few teachers are at that point. There are 90,000 working for the NY City Department of Education who are designated as teachers. Many are no longer classroom teachers, but they are paid via the Teachers' Union contract.

Anyway, as I think you can already see -- though your limited understanding of financial issues many cloud things -- when you add up the paychecks, benefits and pension expenses, you find the per-teacher annual funding allocation easily exceeds $100,000.

If teachers made that money -- every junior hedge fund analyst in New York would sign up for certification.

Here's a tidbit for you -- the teachers work harder than hedge fund analysts. Second, they make a lot more than teachers. Third, a lot of Wall Streeters have gotten involved in the public and private school systems because they see a possibility for improving things.

But mostly they are overly idealistic.

More like, with benefits and all, you could pay for 40 or 50 teachers. NYC teachers get paid less than garbage men and bus drivers.

Once again you show a disappointing grasp of real-world numbers that are easily available online.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

BTW, no_slappz, its spelled...
w r i t e s, and not w q r i t e s.

no_slappz said...

granny, obviously you have your own bizarre way of looking at Christopher Columbus.

However, to work with your concept, what do you think of the fact that EVERY YEAR in Africa -- now -- the number of blacks who die from drinking dirty disease-carrying water is FIVE MILLION?

Every Year -- 5,000,000. And no one in the black nations of Africa acts to stop this annual holocaust.

You, like most blacks, need to get over your obsession with myths about the history of the world and focus on your current idiocy.

Cleaning water is easy. In the US, Canada, Europe and a lot of asian countries, no one dies from drinking dirty water. The water is clean.

Why is public health such a total disaster in Africa.

Shall we discuss AIDS in Africa? Dirty water kills far more people, but an astounding percentage of blacks in many African nations are HIV positive or AIDS infected. That's one reason so many black nations have a median age of less than 20.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

Well, I guess they would need remedial classes since they only get outdated books that their great-great grandparents used back Lawd know how many centuries ago, while whites have those brand new up-to-date books. In addition, that little rigged system of how education is funded called property taxes and the big income gap in urban neighborhoods.

BTW, no_slappz, don't you think that is a little deceptive comparing poor neighborhoods to wealthier white neighborhoods. Shouldn't you be comparing them to poor white neighbors. Oh, I forgot, in your rush to feel superior to people of color you have to cheat with your facts a little bit. Smh!

BTW, you not fooling with no dummies on this blog. The only dummy is you for assuming that!

uptownsteve said...

"That's one reason so many black nations have a median age of less than 20.'

Wha?

no_slappz said...

uptownsteve,

The median age in many African nations is less than 20. The lowest I've seen is 16 -- in Mali.

Hey, when millions die from acquiring diseases by drinking dirty water, AIDS, famine, political violence, criminal violence and an absence of basic healthcare, a median age of 16 is no surprise.

vanishing point said...

http://teacherportal.com/salary/New-York-teacher-salary

No sloppy, check the link, 2006, your salaries for teachers are, as with everything else, wrong.

vanishing point said...

In the US, Canada, Europe and a lot of asian countries, no one dies from drinking dirty water. The water is clean.
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again, sloppy, you have never been to Venice, care to drink that canal water, or Asian countries, you have got to be kidding me, the water can be so bad that you wouldn't leave your toothbrush in the bathroom, the US and Canada, what is legionaires disease, dirty water from air conditioners!

no_slappz said...

granny, you wrote:

BTW, no_slappz, don't you think that is a little deceptive comparing poor neighborhoods to wealthier white neighborhoods.

granny, I can see your ignorance is a burden that is invisible to you. The mindless never know they are totally uninformed.

Anyway, the NY City school system serves 1.1 million students. Kids go to grade school (K - 5th grade) at neighborhood schools, unless they are smart and get into one of the smarty-pants programs. Then they might have to travel further to get to one of the special schools.

After 5th grade, kids are assigned to Middle Schools. If they are smart and get a good score on the entrance test, they can go to an advanced school -- which generally means more science, math, language and literature.

Money has no role in this side of things. The kids at the top are mostly asian and many of them come from families where the parents have arrived in the US within the last decade.

Anyway, at the top public schools in NY City, most of the students are asian and white.

But the demographics of the student body go like this: 35% black, 35% hispanic, 14% asian, 14% white, 2% other.

So try explaining why blacks and hispanice always trail whites and asians in NY City public schools even though all kids start in grade schools that are pleasant places run by decent peopple?

Shouldn't you be comparing them to poor white neighbors. Oh, I forgot, in your rush to feel superior to people of color you have to cheat with your facts a little bit.

In NY City, the problems of the school system are found in every school. However, in schools attended mainly by minority students, the students themselves bring a special set of problems to school and the schools cannot overcome those problems because they are tied to the urban pathologies of illegitimacy, fatherlessness, substance abuse, violence and low parental academic achievement.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

no_slappz, nope, I studied history and the majority of books on my library shelf deal with history. Columbus discovered nothing and was an opportunist, a willful murderer, and liar. Records of his protracted crimes is massive and still growing. Former cheerleaders for Columbus have even discarded the word "discovery" for the word "encounter". On his second voyage, he had his crew to sign papers that declared that if they told anyone the island of Cuba was not the mainland of China, he would have their tongues cut out. His own diaries reveal a lot about his unsavory character. Even the pope was apologizing and asking for forgiveness because of Columbus criminals actions.

In addition, Columbus fathered seven illegitimate children by different women. He didn't even know where he was at and thought that Cuba was Japan. He was supposed to go the East Indies and went to the West Indies and for a navigator of a ship he was completely confused.

The Europeans had enslaved their own people. They called it feudalism, but it was nothing more than enslavement of other Europeans. If you lived on a Lord's land and got married, he had the privilege of sleeping with your wife first. Pauleeze, and the European were over in Europe starving to death and looking for another place to provide food for their own and it didn't matter if they STOLE others land to do this. Not only that, they brought their diseases with them.

no_slappz, you should know all of this by now, since the history books in schools are beginning to somewhat disclose the truth about history you being a teacher/engineer/financial/etc., etc.,and all. However, knowing you that was too much for you to digest in your little bigoted heart because it might deflate your bigoted superior ego.

vanishing point said...

slappy, check out Styvesant High, where they were already sued years ago and think about the fact that some kids dont get any educational assistance to compete until the completion of 6th grade. douche.

no_slappz said...

kathy, you're making an art of being stupid. You wrote:

again, sloppy, you have never been to Venice, care to drink that canal water...

Here in America we do not drink untreated water, like the water in the East River of NY, or most other bodies where anything can flow into it. However, I guess you're unaware of the huge quantities of water we clean and treat for drinking and bathing purposes. And like I said, no one dies from drinking the water in the US.

or Asian countries, you have got to be kidding me, the water can be so bad that you wouldn't leave your toothbrush in the bathroom

Okay, to help you with the obvious, I see I have to be more specific. Japan. Clean water is abundant in Japan.

the US and Canada, what is legionaires disease, dirty water from air conditioners!

First, no one deliberately drinks the water condensing off air conditioners. Second, Legionaire's disease is a lung infection, not associated with drinking anything.

So keep reaching and keep trying to avoid the obvious -- that every year another holocaust occurs in Africa because no one bothers to put effective public health programs in place.

Your interest is skirting the issue with your inane examples is evidence of your utter contempt for the MILLIONS of people who needlessly die every year from problems that are easily preventable. But, that's you.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

I'm so sick and tired of you trying to pretend that one group of people is superior over all others. Puleeze, and don't have me break down how Asians view you since you love to prop yourself with a crutch up next to them. No one group of people is better than the other. They all have the same flaws, faults, and have those few in their community who commit criminal acts. No human being has a patent on intelligence either. When you wake up and realize those facts, you might be able to join the human society as a human being.

Kathy said...

Granny, I hope someday Slappy will join the human race.

uptownsteve said...

"However, in schools attended mainly by minority students, the students themselves bring a special set of problems to school and the schools cannot overcome those problems because they are tied to the urban pathologies of illegitimacy, fatherlessness, substance abuse, violence and low parental academic achievement."

And once again slappy tries to tie these pathologies simply to being "minorities" and not to poverty, under employment or unemployment.

50% of American marriages end in divorce so there are alot of white children growing up in single parent households.

And I know this moron is not going to attempt to suggest that substance abuse is not a problem among whites.

These problems are socico-economic issues.

Today the urban poor in America are primarily people of color.

The last groups to enter the urban centers as the manufacturing and industrial jobs which made them great were leaving.

The black middle class children in neighborhoods like mine are achieving and succeeding.

Doing as well or better than their white peers.

What is your purpose here slappz?

To try to convince US we're inferior to you?

When you know damn well in your heart that most of us have achieved more and live better than you while still having to deal with the spectre of race in America?

That's it isn't it?

no_slappz said...

kathy, you wrote:

slappy, check out Styvesant High...

I am very familiar with Stuyvesant High School. A number of my family members are alumni. One of my nieces graduated in June.

where they were already sued years ago

Yeah, there's always someone who moans about the fact that so few blacks and hispanics pass the entrance test. But, maybe this is news to you -- it is illegal for public schools to engage in Affirmative Action.

Every 8th-grade student in NY City can take the Specialized High School Entrance Test. Every kid gets the same test. What's the problem? Face it, some kids are smarter than others.

Stuyvesant is like any other good school -- it is good because it accepts great students. There's nothing out of this world about the teachers or the building itself. Until about 15 years ago, Stuyvesant occupied a run-down building constructed about 100 years ago.

...and think about the fact that some kids dont get any educational assistance to compete until the completion of 6th grade. douche.

The student body of Stuyvesant is about 60% asian, 35% white and 5% everybody else.

Face it, asian kids study like demons. And so do the white kids who are accepted at Stuy. Meanwhile, there are four other top-notch high schools the best students. Some for to Bronx Science. Some go to Brooklyn Tech. Some go to Townsend Harris, and some go to Staten Island Tech.

As for academic support -- remedial and otherwise -- offered to public school kids -- there's loads of it.

You're another nitwit who blabs without knowing anything. Inasmuch as I have kids in the public school system and have worked in it, I know things.

Kathy said...

First, no one deliberately drinks the water condensing off air conditioners. Second, Legionaire's disease is a lung infection, not associated with drinking anything.
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is it dirty water or not, just answer the question.

Kathy said...

no-slapz I already told u, Asian students LIVE NEAR STUYVESANT HIGH, it's a FREE public high school, what part don't U get.

no_slappz said...

uptownsteve, you wrote:

And once again slappy tries to tie these pathologies simply to being "minorities" and not to poverty, under employment or unemployment.

What do you take to keep your denial in such tip-top shape?

no_slappz said...

kathy, do you need someone to tell you it's a bad idea to eat dog poop? Or, do you have the sense to avoid ingesting certain items?

An half-way intelligent person is able to assume the obvious and discard the irrelevant.

There's plenty of dirty water in America and most of us -- maybe not you -- are sensible enough to avoid drinking it.

no_slappz said...

kathy, you wrote:

no-slapz I already told u, Asian students LIVE NEAR STUYVESANT HIGH, it's a FREE public high school, what part don't U get.

The only people who attend Stuyvesant High School are the kids who pass the entrance exam. That's it. No one else.

As for where they live, well, only residents of NY City are permitted to attend. But living across the street from the school means nothing. It is NOT a "neighborhood" school.

But, it seems you are, again, unaware of the facts.

Meanwhile, Chinatown is not far from Stuy. Walking distance, but a long walk, and undoubtedly many kids do make that trek. But my family members were in Brooklyn and other parts of Manhattan when they attended.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

no_slappz, my discernment is very keen, and the only time it is off is when I'm totally exhausted or irritated. You might fool yourself, but you do not fool me. You are one sick puppy and I wouldn't let any child of mine sit under you in a classroom because you are poison to children's mind.

BTW, you still haven't answered my question regarding Columbus and white people.

Kathy said...

Yes, they do have an entrance exam for Stuyvesant High, but it is a first choice for kids who live nearby, slapz.
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Meanwhile, Chinatown is not far from Stuy. Walking distance, but a long walk, and undoubtedly many kids do make that trek. But my family members were in Brooklyn and other parts of Manhattan when they attended.
-------You do realize that you being an alumnae is a detriment to the school, actually, you are a disgrace, no one at that school would want you to be a spokesperson.
slappy, i hope u realize that u are a disgrace to Stuyvesant High.That school would not be proud of you or your "family"

Maybe one of your family can't get in, from being so stupid, is that it?

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

And if you were a teacher in a classroom, I'd be rallying up the troops to get you kicked out where ever you call yourself teaching at.

Anonymous said...

@ no_slappz: You have shown tremendous patience arguing with idiots like Granny and Kathy, and fools like Uptown.

Black Americans need to learn to embrace the truth, for it actually will set you free. The lies and mistruths you so adamantly cling to are what keep you enslaved.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

Anonymous aka no_slappz 10:30:

no_slappz, you do not have to disguise yourself to kick it. Racist white Americans like yourself likewise should do the same, because they need freeing too and more than the minorities on this earth.

Anonymous said...

@ Granny: Can you think and type at the same time?

Kathy said...

no-slapz can't get his kid into Stuyvesant High, LOL, that is why he is so mad.

Kathy said...

Anonymous said...

@ no_slappz: You have shown tremendous patience arguing with idiots like Granny and Kathy, and fools like Uptown.

Black Americans need to learn to embrace the truth, for it actually will set you free. The lies and mistruths you so adamantly cling to are what keep you enslaved.
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slappy can't help himself, now he is resorting to fake anony posts.

Kathy said...

Granny, I forgot, slappy was a teacher before he got into banking.

Anonymous said...

@ Granny:

Christopher Columbus is a hero, one of the great explorers who delivered the New World from the hands of Godless savages (the murderous Caribs and the human sacrificing Aztecs) and facilitated the establishment of the greatest country on earth. Christopher Columbus is the reason your black ass is here, sitting in front of a computer, instead of in some mud hut picking ring worms off your grandchildren.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

Anonymous 10:51:

Christopher Columbus wasn't worth a knitting needle of dung! He was a mass murderer, a thief, liar, and a very confused and evil demon possessed man who raped and murdered millions of Indians who showed him hospitality and in return he stabbed them in the back with his treachery. Columbus was the one that was a godless savage. He ripped babies out of pregnant mothers stomachs and fed his captives to dogs for dog food. A hero, no! A slithering slimeball, yes!

Cocoa_Goddess said...

LOL! Didn't I tell ya'll that No_Sacz will resort to creating an anonymous sock puppet? PATHETIC!

Anonymous said...

@ Granny: Did you drool a little when you typed that? Isn't it past time for your pills?

@ Feces_Goddess: Nothing gets past you, does it? You are quite the genius.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

*Christopher Columbus wasn't worth the dung you pick up with a knitting needle*

He was scum of the earth and a vile, vicious, murderer. If I were you, I wouldn't even go around proclaiming that sleezeball a hero, because he was the lowest piece of dung on earth and he didn't discover anything. He ran into America by accident because he didn't even know where he was at that's how confused he was and stole it by murdering the Indians who the land belonged too. Everywhere he went he committed atrocities towards the original inhabitants of America.

Cocoa_Goddess said...

UTS wrote: "What is your purpose here slappz?

To try to convince US we're inferior to you?"

If that's his purpose he's wasting his damn time. Every time he posts he just proves the opposite. Maybe he's just a masochist. Poor bastard. SMH

Cocoa_Goddess said...

Good one sock puppet! Did you come up with that all by yourself? LOL!!!!

uptownsteve said...

slappy,

"What do you take to keep your denial in such tip-top shape?"

Slap you're the one in denial.

I've met a hundred of guys like you in my life and on these blogs.

Obsessed with the failures in you're own life, unable to rationalize why you haven't achieved the the prominence and privilege you fekt was your birthright as a white man, and furiuous at the blacks you have to take shit from and who have passed you by.

So you come to a black blog and hurl crime and illegitmacy stats
or dysfunction in Afirca,

And guess what my friend.

YOUR LIFE CHANGES NOT ONE IOTA.

You still can't get a promotion, laid, or a luxury car like Diddy's kid.

LOSER.

no_slappz said...

granny,

I have no idea why you or other blacks maintain an obsession with ancient history, particularly when your history is mostly fiction.

I do not care one bit about Columbus. I do not care who he worked for, what he did, how he got here, or any other place he went.

All the details that obsess you are irrelevant. America exists. There are 310 million people here and nobody cares about some clown who sailed somewhere nearby 500 years ago.

If you want, let's say he was black and sailed his ship from what is now Nigeria. How's that?

Anonymous said...

@ Granny: So do you have any plans yet for Columbus Day? Gonna come to the parade?

no_slappz said...

kathy, you wrote:

Yes, they do have an entrance exam for Stuyvesant High, but it is a first choice for kids who live nearby, slapz.

Like I said, with respect to Stuyvesant High, where a student lives makes no difference. No one gets in by living across the street. Every student must pass the entrance test. That's the only way in.

But some students are accepted at Stuy but choose to attend other schools, like my neighbor's kid, who got into Stuy and Bard College High School. She went to Bard and had a great experience.

Anonymous said...

uptownsteve said...
slappy,

"Obsessed with the failures in your own life, unable to rationalize why you haven't achieved the the prominence and [affirmative action] you felt was your birthright as a [black] man, and furious at the [whites] you have to take shit from and who have passed you by."

Project much, Uppy?

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

no_slappz, stop trying to avoid answering my question about Columbus and white folks. BTW, it is not fiction and is written in up-to-date school history books.

Oh yeah, I don't blame you for not praising Christopher Columbus, because he doesn't exactly fit your image of a superior white man now does he.

no_slappz said...

granny,

Here in Brooklyn we have the Caribbean Day parade. It's held around Labor Day and people fly in from the Caribbean to attend, joining the locals. It's a huge event that takes up a long stretch of Eastern Parkway for most of the day.

One thing we've gotten adjusted to is the annual killing that goes along with the parade.

Inevitably someone brings a gun and after a while, following some liquor consumption or ingestion of other substances, the gun carrier feels compelled to fire that weapon. Boom, and then there's a dead guy in the middle of the parade and the whole show has to stop while the clean-up crew does its work.

Every year. Same story.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

Nah, he wasn't black. Don't try to put Columbus off on us black folks because you're finding out that he wasn't worthy of all the former praise he was given for his so-called discoveries.

Anonymous 11:41:

Nope, I don't celebrate pagan holidays, especially those worshipping murderers. I'll leave that up to you and slappz.

no_slappz said...

granny,

Like I said, whites really do not care about Columbus or what he might or might not have done.

We're here and nothing changes that fact.

Of course it is worth wondering why blacks in Africa never developed any knowledge of sailing or the sea.

Instead of indulging your pointless silly obsession on the morality of one sailor, you ought to think about the Age of Exploration and how whites were beginning to travel the world while nothing new was happening in Africa.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

no_slappz, you so full of dung, but that made up story of Caribbean holiday was sorta funny and original on your part. You really do know how to offend those of us with West Indies roots don't you. Smh!

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

no_slappz:

I guess you never heard of the Moors huh? If you were not our only form of entertainment, I would give you some more history lessons, but I don't want to ruin the fun we're having tearing you a new one.

Cocoa_Goddess said...

Aw Granny, he is still avoiding your questions, just like he avoids explaining why he comes to this blog everyday.

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

One sailor??? Oh...here all this time we were led to believe that Christopher Columbus was the so-called great explorer and discoverer of this great land. *snicker...snicker*

Okay, but now, would you answer my question that I asked you back prior topics ago?

Anonymous said...

Granny, "Gurl, I think I might need another vacation before this month is over with...LOL!"

"Gurl" correctly spelled is g-i-r-l..."girl".

no_slappz #2

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

Anonymous 12:54:

"Gurl" correctly spelled is g-i-r-l..."girl".

It's a black thang so that's why you wouldn't understand. BTW, I understand that you are hungry for attention, but I'm sorta tired right now, so run along and play.

Anonymous said...

Granny, "BTW, no_slappz, its spelled...w r i t e s, and not w q r i t e s."

Granny, it's a white thing so you wouldn't understand. Btw, all of your comments have been nothing but a cry by you for attention.

Anonymous said...

Granny, it's a white thing so you wouldn't understand. Btw, all of your comments have been nothing but a cry by you for attention.@anon

yeah granny shutcher pie hole!

GrannyStandingforTruth said...

Nah, all of my comments were directed at no_slappz and Anonymous busybody decided to jump in and play captain save a no_slappz.

no_slappz said...

granny, you wrote:

no_slappz, you so full of dung, but that made up story of Caribbean holiday was sorta funny and original on your part.

Instead of showing your determination to remain uninformed, why don't you Google the annual Caribbean Day Parade in Brooklyn? Every year, around Labor Day. Eastern Parkway, through Crown Heights.

Like most of what really happens in the world, this Parade is a regular event. Unfortunately, you're one of that large contingent of blacks who live in the alternate black universe.

no_slappz said...

granny, you wrote:

I guess you never heard of the Moors huh?

How are the Moors tied to this discussion? Does it have some connection to Moors in Spain?

Do you know how close Morocco is to Gibraltar?

Anyway, like I said, blacks never caught the sailing bug. Even today. Yeah, blacks with money to burn, like Sean Combs, buy wildly expensive toys for themselves and their kids -- huge houses and fabulous cars come to mind -- but I have never seen any glitter shots of rich blacks and their sailboats.

Cocoa_Goddess said...

Did No_Sacz ever answer why he comes here EVERYDAY?

Anonymous said...

yeah buceta shutcher pie hole!

Anonymous said...

Comparing Dipso to Gates or Jobs is an insult to Gates and Jobs. Gates used to be the wealthiest man in the world. Now, maybe he's the second wealthiest. Gates has devoted himself full time to managing his philanthropy, not guzzling champagne and acting like an airhead. I'm pretty sure no one has ever shot at Bill Gates or Steven Jobs.

Jobs and Gates have developed products that have had a MAJOR impact on people's day to day existence. What has Diddy done? Made some bad rhymes that were bought by people with bad taste.

Here are the wealthiest top 15 black Americans. And Dipso isn't even on the list:

http://thefutureforward.blogspot.com/2010/01/forbes-top-15-wealthiest-black.html

The sad thing is that only three of the 15 earned their wealth outside of sports and entertainment.

Diddy personifies the nouveau riche, much like those hookers on the various "Real Housewives..." series. Ostentatious and shallow.

no_slappz said...

anonymous, you wrote:

http://thefutureforward.blogspot.com/2010/01/forbes-top-15-wealthiest-black.html

The sad thing is that only three of the 15 earned their wealth outside of sports and entertainment.


Well, one of those three -- Alphonse Fletcher -- is involved in the shadiest part of Wall Street. Meanwhile, there's something fishy about his operation. I can tell from reading the company's website.

Look for Alphonse to have a little trouble with the SEC before long.

Anonymous said...

Nah, all of my comments were directed at no_slappz and Anonymous busybody decided to jump in and play captain save a no_slappz. jaw flappin granny

no miss lady u was flappin ur jaws

and people was getting tired of it

but no worries and no offense

intended

no ballz is a nutsack u well ure

just bloviatin sometimes which we

should all do from time to time

muah muah muah muah muah

Anonymous said...

It would behoove some folks to actually look at the interview. I saw it. It was not only the question on the car, but asking about having oow children. I am no Puff fan, but the line of questioning seemed off.

Anonymous said...

Just to add..on the oow question Bashir asked about...He didn't ask Puff about Al B. Sure's son that Puff has been taking care of since he was a toddler.

Anonymous said...

Maybe when black folks back off of identity politics and feeling the need to defend every tom dick and harry just because they are black we might actually be free people. I can't imagine why anyone would defend Puff Daddy just because he was asked "quesntionable" questions in an interview. I find the man highly questionable. I feel the same way about Russell Simmons and Jay Z.

Someone wrote a letter to Rolling Stone in response to a Jay Z cover story and wondered how a guy who doesn't play an instrument, doesn't sing, and "borrows" other people's music can be considered a musical auteur. Just sayin'.

I don't even understand why this interview with Puff or P, or whatever his name is today, is an issue. Seriously, who could care about this poseur?

SpkTruth2Pwr said...

Good points.

In these moments, it is moments like these I think that take away from and hurts the legitimacy of other moments that really call for a serious discussion about race or inequality

George F said...

Diddy,
You are dead wrong on this one, plus setting a bad example for your son

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