tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post5821357394546513306..comments2024-03-28T23:32:05.817-04:00Comments on field negro: That ain't "Flipper".field negrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-58257032394380275112010-03-14T20:16:46.407-04:002010-03-14T20:16:46.407-04:00animals dont belong in cages or pools the white ma...animals dont belong in cages or pools the white man might want to figure that shit out.NOLOVEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07434377442737936633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-7570324727287220642010-03-01T15:35:35.380-05:002010-03-01T15:35:35.380-05:00I heard the judges for the competition weren't...I heard the judges for the competition weren't steppers. This is all bullshit and the black frats and sororities shouldn't participate in this next year. We promoted their event and in the end got screwed. That's corporations for you.Nonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-25715091031338879722010-03-01T14:58:33.788-05:002010-03-01T14:58:33.788-05:00Field,
I know it is a little late to be commentin...Field,<br /><br />I know it is a little late to be commenting on your story of Feb 26th, re: Sea World Killer Whale.<br /><br />HOWEVER, someday in the future maybe this type of entertainment will not be considered family entertainment just as now we don't see organ grinders with monkeys hopping around collecting money with a cup nor lions being tamed by trainers at a circus ring.<br /><br />Just my thoughts.........<br />Aloha from MakaiiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-86452204202239451622010-03-01T09:34:23.166-05:002010-03-01T09:34:23.166-05:00re: the wf steppers
why is everyone so angry at ...re: the wf steppers<br /><br /><br />why is everyone so angry at coke inc?<br /><br />but not angry at all at the bm judges who actually chose the winners?alicia bankshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15921804031029586951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-52726094689186210252010-03-01T09:02:50.332-05:002010-03-01T09:02:50.332-05:00J,
Since you are post generation civil rights era...J,<br /><br />Since you are post generation civil rights era, you should do more research. What you are getting is revised history. Elvis was played on Black radio stations, until he was credited with making a racist statement. Jerry Lee Lewis was played too. This is the first time in my life that I had ever heard that Chuck Berry was the father of Rock and Roll. Ask some other older people. Little Richard was not considered Rock and Roll on the charts. Look up some old record industries newspapers.<br /><br />There are Black people who like country music as I like classical music. I also like the cross cultural playing of Bach by Jazz pianist Chink Corea. The thing is, Bach's music isn't going to disappear or be said to be the fore runner of Jazz, because his music is so easily adaptable.Hathorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657524404057819428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-15881302507576388592010-02-28T18:30:48.315-05:002010-02-28T18:30:48.315-05:00"On Thursday, Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company..."On Thursday, Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company, which sponsors the college step dancing competition, announced that because of a scoring discrepancy in the sorority results, the second-place winners, the Tau Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. from Indiana University, would be recognized as co-winners and awarded the same $100,000 prize as Zeta Tau Alpha."<br /><br />What a crock! They weren't even close to winning. Coca-Cola is playing politics with its brand name. <br /><br />Everybody, Black and White, wins! good marketing, Coke. Let's hope there won't be a backlash on your products because you definitely cheated and lied.<br /><br />A moron could see that the white sorority won hands down! Well, at least you didn't cheat them out their winnings. But you just threw away an extra $100,000 on mediocrity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-78016864719988345462010-02-28T18:15:57.837-05:002010-02-28T18:15:57.837-05:00"After learning they would be co-winners in t..."After learning they would be co-winners in the competition, Kosmitis said the nine-member step team remained grateful. “We are just keeping a positive attitude about it," she said. "We are excited to still have $100,000 for our scholarships and we are excited that someone else can have some money to help them out as well."<br /><br />To have sympathetic appreciation and joy for others who shared in the winnings is a 'class act'. I am glad they won because they are modeling how a true "winner" should conduct themselves. <br /><br />That would not have happened if it had been the other way around. Blacks would have been screaming "It's racism-they did it because we are Black!" <br /><br />j, you know it's true. and so does Field and Jody. Of course, those in the legal 'field' have been trained to never admit to anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-9175159083517273072010-02-28T17:55:45.752-05:002010-02-28T17:55:45.752-05:00"Limbaugh et al are gonna have a field day wi..."Limbaugh et al are gonna have a field day with this when they catch wind of it."<br /><br />--j<br /><br />No doubt. But if not this, it would be something else.<br /><br />Limbaugh thrives on controversy, and most of it he creates himself.Minghttps://www.blogger.com/comment.gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-23133793908724911982010-02-28T17:45:10.913-05:002010-02-28T17:45:10.913-05:00Well those complaining the white girls won should ...Well those complaining the white girls won should feel better. Coke reversed itself and now they're only co-champions tied with the AKA's:<br /><br />---<br /><i>Five days after taking first place in the Sprite Step Off finals in Atlanta last weekend, the women of Zeta Tau Alpha's Epsilon Chapter from the University of Arkansas learned they would be sharing the spotlight.<br /><br /><b>On Thursday, Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company, which sponsors the college step dancing competition, announced that because of a scoring discrepancy in the sorority results, the second-place winners, the Tau Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. from Indiana University, would be recognized as co-winners</b> and awarded the same $100,000 prize as Zeta Tau Alpha.<br /><br />The change was revealed in a Facebook statement. It did not offer insight into the exact problem with the scoring or how it was discovered. Coke representatives said in an e-mailed response to questions from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Due to the extremely narrow margin between the first and second place winning sororities, we conducted a further post-competition review and discovered a scoring discrepancy. There is no conclusive interpretation, nor definitive resolution for the discrepancy."<br /><br />...<br /><br /><b>Ironically, it was an attempt to foster unity that first brought Zeta Tau Alpha into stepping. </b>The chapter at the University of Arkansas began participating 16 years ago in a Unity Step Show sponsored by the campus chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc., an African-American sorority. Through the years, the Zeta Tau Alpha teams learned a variety of steps as well as some history on the tradition of stepping, said Alexandra Kosmitis, a senior Zeta Tau Alpha who is a member of the current step team.<br /><br />...<br /><br /><b>After learning they would be co-winners in the competition, Kosmitis said the nine-member step team remained grateful.</b> “We are just keeping a positive attitude about it," she said. <b>"We are excited to still have $100,000 for our scholarships and we are excited that someone else can have some money to help them out as well."</b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.accessatlanta.com/atlanta-events/scoring-discrepancy-changes-results-329103.html" rel="nofollow">Full story.</a><br /><br />Limbaugh et al are gonna have a field day with this when they catch wind of it.<br /><br />--jAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-83681501498828114242010-02-28T17:22:16.700-05:002010-02-28T17:22:16.700-05:00Nony said..."Can't we as black people hav...Nony said..."Can't we as black people have some shit to ourselves?" <br /><br />No. We don't live in a bubble. Cross-culture pollination takes place constantly.<br /><br />If blacks wish to stay out front, they need to keep the creative juices flowing--perfect what has been created, and create anew.<br /><br />We're living in an age of instant communication.<br /><br />No cultural creations are safe, and nor should they be.Ess [S]https://www.blogger.com/comment.gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-39514110935834180172010-02-28T16:36:20.260-05:002010-02-28T16:36:20.260-05:00Those white girls won for being white girls. They ...Those white girls won for being white girls. They ripped their show and moves from the other frats and sororities. They were NOT original. All the shit they did I've seen before. I'm in a sorority and have been to many step shows. I'm tired of black people getting all happy b/c some white person performs something from our culture. That's how we lost jazz, Rock N' Roll and that's how we're losing hip hop. Now we're going to lose stepping b/c once white kids see this show on MTV they're going to want to do it too. Can't we as black people have some shit to ourselves? <br /><br />As for the whale, he's killing people b/c he wants to be free. If I was one of the biggest wild animals in the world and some person is keeping me in a big ass fish tank and making me do tricks I'd probably hurt someone too. I'm sorry to hear about the trainer's death. But this whale wants freedom.Nonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-37144289487966501682010-02-28T13:55:00.920-05:002010-02-28T13:55:00.920-05:00@Hathor -- There's probably a bit of a generat...@Hathor -- There's probably a bit of a generation gap impeding our communication. I grew up post-civil rights and in an area with relatively small racial baggage in comparison to a lot of other places. <br /><br />I don't understand why you say Chuck Berry isn't the father of Rock N' Roll. I'm not trying to be difficult it just doesn't make sense to me when he's universally acknowledge by music experts and scholars. I think I understand now, because of your last post, what you mean about being shut out but to me that doesn't take away the obvious contributions and success of guys like Berry, Little Richard, Ike Turner (as much as I dislike Ike he was a genius) and Jimi Hendrix. To me, they are forefathers of rock n' roll and they crossed over despite the fact that for Berry and Richard there was segregation of the audience. Richard was known for bringing audiences together. And they were still playing in front of white audiences.<br /><br />As for Elvis... Hell, early on R&B stations wouldn't play him because he sounded too "hillbilly" and C&W stations wouldn't play him because he sounded too "black." I think you're talking about the history of music segregation on regular people both in terms of audience segregation and chart/radio separation but the development of music which didn't follow those neat segregation lines. It was blended. The two are not the same. Artists didn't care -- they openly defied them -- and it didn't matter all that much until the record labels started kowtowing to Jim Crow because they were more concerned with the almighty dollar than making a statement.<br /><br />But again, all of this is beside the point for me because I was talking about how culture develops -- as an admixture from many constituent parts rather than how Jim Crow and segregation affected rock n'roll. <br /><br />You bring up some strong points but I don't think we're really having the same conversation. You're talking about one thing while I'm talking about another. I think this a limitation/problem that often arises because of the internet.<br /><br />As to your last point regarding assimilation, I'm not arguing for assimilation but an appreciation of all that goes in to any given cultural production. Although, I will say proudly that I seek the destruction of the concepts of race (a false concept created to divide and oppress blacks), supremacy, and the worst aspects of tribalism. To me, humanity is what we are and most distinctions artificial. <br /><br /><b>However, that doesn't mean I think uniqueness should be done away with.</b> To the contrary, I think cultural productions and expressions should be appreciated by all for what they are: beautiful expressions of humanity's abilities and accomplishments.<br /><br />As for taking away, how can you say that? If all culture is heterogeneous in origin then the same applies to so-called 'white culture'! Would you bury the contributions of Africans to Christianity -- not American Christianity but 1st and 2nd Century Christianity -- because they don't fit a preconceived notion regarding white christianity or would you rescue them from history? <br /><br />What of countless other people of color who have been a part of European history for ages, why destroy that to minimize/ignore that in favor of or in trade of false purity?<br /><br />I've said before that I believe the future is blended in more ways than one. We cannot know -- nor can anyone else -- what color our future generations will be despite our own backgrounds. Some black folks will undoubtedly have "white" progeny while some white will have "black" ones. What we do know is that they will be human and I want the best for them no matter how they turn out. I also want them to appreciate the full extent of culture but I do not want them believing myths regarding false origins for the sake of a false pride. There is too much to proud of in the truth to have to worry with that.<br /><br />--jAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-27453736478776221202010-02-28T13:53:42.639-05:002010-02-28T13:53:42.639-05:00sad day when a killer whale gets more chances than...sad day when a killer whale gets more chances than the avg nonviolent black human male drug felon...<br /><br />this whale had way more than 3 strikes!<br /><br />and bros are rushed to executions while this whale will be saved<br /><br />tragic!<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253800/Sea-World-killer-whale-Shamu-attack-Tilikum-down.htmlalicia bankshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15921804031029586951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-38793075518708904642010-02-28T10:05:37.275-05:002010-02-28T10:05:37.275-05:00Damn! Thanks for the 411 Rus.Damn! Thanks for the 411 Rus.field negrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-82403827354087543732010-02-28T09:52:01.102-05:002010-02-28T09:52:01.102-05:00J,
I meant exactly what I said. Rock and Roll was ...J,<br />I meant exactly what I said. Rock and Roll was and is not inclusive. If you had listened to R&B in the early fifties most of the music was evolving, but very, very few Black artist music have ever been considered Rock and Roll, not even Little Richard. Elvis's early music didn't contain country, his version of music was considered. We Black kids thought our music was Rock and Roll, but the media, Bandstand and like programs told us we were wrong. <br /><br />Now when we accepted we will always be R&B, defined our Black selves and our art, people like you come along and talk of cross cultural influences. What this does is eventually take what we have away. I'm 65 years old and it has happened too many times during my life time.<br /><br />What nurtures a people is, tradition and culture. When that's assimilated and we are not; what will we have left, anger?Hathorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657524404057819428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-114372729290985392010-02-28T04:27:29.199-05:002010-02-28T04:27:29.199-05:00"Tilikum is not a first-time offender. In 199..."Tilikum is not a first-time offender. In 1991 — <b>eight years after he was captured off the coast of Iceland</b> — he and two other killer whales drowned a trainer during a performance at Sealand of the Pacific in Vancouver. In 1999, a man who trespassed in SeaWorld after hours and apparently jumped in the whale tank was found dead the next morning, lying across Tilikum's back. Is the big whale a bad seed? At least one marine-mammal expert thinks that yes, that's at least part of the answer.<br /><br />"'When Tilikum was wild, he was a transient, not a resident,' says Russ Rector, a former dolphin trainer who is now a fierce opponent of keeping any dolphins or whales in captivity. 'Resident whales are the kind that live in a fixed place, like Puget Sound. Transients travel the world, eating dolphins, fish, other whales, basically anything that gets in their way.' Such animals need to be particularly aggressive, both to establish territoriality when they're passing through and to hunt such a wide range of large prey. Those are traits that don't go away." <br /><br />Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1968249,00.html#ixzz0gotgymc3CommentsRushttps://www.blogger.com/commentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-68286998715010826242010-02-27T23:53:56.507-05:002010-02-27T23:53:56.507-05:00@Hathor -- I don't know why anyone would think...@Hathor -- I don't know why anyone would think Little Richard was anything but rock. Jackie Wilson was a little different in that his sound was not as clearly rock. But all of that is beside the point, rock is a combination. Blues are a combination. Jazz and Bluegrass are combinations. Nothing develops in a black or white vacuum.<br /><br /><i>"In your mind we can't be inclusive or have any heritage of our own."</i><br /><br />Do you mean to say exclusive rather than inclusive? Because I don't get what you mean by not being inclusive. <br /><br />As to heritage, I don't understand why you'd think that. I'm not saying there's no such thing as African American heritage or culture rather I'm saying culture doesn't develop in a vacuum. It's not pure. That it developed under the influence of multiple sources just as every other culture has done. <br /><br />Bluegrass relies on the Banjo does that mean that it's not Appalachian? No, it means that it's origins contain African influence along with many other things. <br /><br />Christianity developed from Judaism and has heavy elements of Greek philosophy and later African Philosophy via Alexandria. Does that mean there's no such thing as a Christian culture?<br /><br />Judaism contains elements of Babylonian Myths, Egyptian culture, Zoroastrianism and Hellenization (to name a few) is there no such thing as Jewish culture?<br /><br />All cultures are a product of this in some form. Maybe Easter Island was its own thing because no one knew where they were but they're all dead and likely somewhere along the line there was outside influence.<br /><br />Everything is heterogeneous in terms of what it's composed of and no, I don't have a problem with that. In fact, I find it comforting because it <i>undermines </i>the lie of purity and notion of racial, cultural, and/or religious <i>supremacy</i>. <br /><br /><br />--jAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-56922717111350059112010-02-27T23:53:19.761-05:002010-02-27T23:53:19.761-05:00@cactusrose:
"I bought a fountain for the ...@cactusrose: <br /><br />"I bought a fountain for the front yard a while back, well the friggin blackbirds turned it into their spa! Had to empty and turn it over. Lizards shitting all over the patio chairs, pigeons...sharks coming up on the beach to carry us away... bears looking for any chance in the mountains (US) to eat us...tigers in India silently stalking their human prey for days etc,etc. Need I say more"<br /><br /><br />Too funny!<br /><br />Peace.<br />~agape2010~agape2010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-6846489922993804112010-02-27T23:48:00.847-05:002010-02-27T23:48:00.847-05:00The Stepshow winners/co-winners (they let the AKA&...The Stepshow winners/co-winners (they let the AKA's share the title)...IMHO neither gave a show. Theatrics and that was it. The ponytailed girls in the Matrix outfits (done & overdone) had so many steps from fraternities and sororities (black) that they clearly had been to every black step show they could get to...lol:) I saw alot of the Q's steps...the Delta steps...the Alpha's steps, etc. *yawn*<br /><br /><br />THE KILLER WHALE!!! What I would like to know is this...Is the economy really that bad that America is now buying second hand whales...?...we used to buy top grade A whales...not these second hand whales that have a HISTORY of killing people. *Sheesh:?*<br /><br />Not making light of the loss of life... but...EVERYONE knows that ALL non-domesticated animals have instinctive drift (and some domesticated animals as well). <br /><br />Seaworld knew the deal (the whale killed before they bought it)... and THEY WERE ADVISED not to try to train the whale...JUST MATE IT...they took a chance and one of THEIRS died...Imagine had that been someone's child...yeah I said it. *Hmmpfh*<br /><br />They killed the monkey that snatched the face off that woman...and those Tigers that weren't bothering anyone until some kids started messing with them got put down...they shoot horses don't they...why does the whale get to live? *SMDH*<br /><br />And...<br />@FN:<br /><br />The whole Rangel fiasco has been coming on for three...maybe four years. And while he messed up...I still stand on my earlier statement on this:<br /><br />Rangel being Chairman of the House, Ways and Means is better than what blacks had before his senior position at HW&M.<br /><br />And...<br /><br />Unless we get somebody in his place to help support blacks economically...I am going to support him (but not what he did). Chairman of HW&M is the most important position on the Hill.(Exactly WHY do you think they have been after him...C'mon FN...you're a smart guy).<br /><br />And...<br /><br />Like Mayor Daley once stated:<br />"You have to expect a little corruption in the government."<br /><br />And...I think I wrote more than CF :)<br /><br />Peace.<br />~agape2010~agape2010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-58323444861111176252010-02-27T23:14:01.245-05:002010-02-27T23:14:01.245-05:00J,
You see, I don't think of Chuck Berry being...J,<br />You see, I don't think of Chuck Berry being the Inventor/father of Rock-n-Roll. Nor do I think it initially contained any country. It just so happened that Rock-n-Roll got only to be associated with singers like Buddy Holly. This was done to make sure Blacks weren't included. Jackie Wilson or Little Richard didn't sound like James Brown or Muddy Waters, but they were thrown in R&B anyway.<br /><br />I am aware of cross cultural influences, but some things are not. I was a little pissed off, when some one told me that Theresa Brewer had wrote <i>Go Tell in the Mountain</i>. I didn't get angry at the person, but angry that the song's history had not survived. It was a Negro Spiritual, not a hymnal that Black folk sung and was over a hundred years old. It was a part of my history and having a white person tell me that a contemporary white person had written it, It felt like some part of my existence had disappeared. The only cross cultural influence in this song was over a thousand years, because it shares the same tonal system with the Europeans and it was written in English. <br /><br />In your mind we can't be inclusive or have any heritage of our own.Hathorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657524404057819428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-13097897535425375262010-02-27T22:40:07.676-05:002010-02-27T22:40:07.676-05:00Let's put a concrete example regarding inventi...Let's put a concrete example regarding invention and culture. Chuck Berry is widely acknowledged as the inventor/father of rock n' roll (although there are others playing rockabilly which is also a form of rock n' roll he stands out as the most important by far). So how'd he do it? One of things he did is this: he played country music for white audiences because that's what was popular. Then he decided to to play country/hillbilly to black audiences to see their reaction and at first they thought "who is that black hillbilly?" and laughed at him but then after being exposed a while they started liking it and dancing to it. Chuck Berry then put it together and boom. The major constituent parts of rock n' roll are blues, country, blue grass and gospel (all of which come from cross-cultural exchanges themselves). <br /><br />--jAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-56760208634507755672010-02-27T21:59:06.252-05:002010-02-27T21:59:06.252-05:00"It is about giving credit where credit is du..."It is about giving credit where credit is due. There is a guy that claims he invented the "Electric Slide" and I know that dance existed in the fifties under a different name. He didn't trademark the name, he claims he copyrighted the steps. It is not about race or culture, its about theft."<br /><br />So what white person copyrighted "stepping"? <br /><br />And since the answer is none, why are you still arguing? Sounds like sour grapes.<br /><br />Should we go through everything you use in your daily life and determine the nationality, race, ethicity, culture of the inventor, and say you stole it?<br /><br />At some point you have to realize how bitter you sound.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-56892212155749996772010-02-27T21:41:42.394-05:002010-02-27T21:41:42.394-05:00"Those girls will get all kinds of endorsemen..."Those girls will get all kinds of endorsement deals, commericials, and will appear on hundreds of tv shows"<br /><br />Oh please, The vast majority of Americans don't even know what "stepping" is. And if they saw it, most would ask, "How is that any differen't than what the background dancers for [insert name of undertalented, and overmarkted "artist" here] do?"<br /><br />These girls won't be making a living, even for one year, on stepping between the 7 or 8 of them. Nor will any other team.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-52656986615524398912010-02-27T21:34:53.378-05:002010-02-27T21:34:53.378-05:00@Hathor -- I hear what you're saying there and...@Hathor -- I hear what you're saying there and agree. I just can't stand by the notion of cultural purity when that's a fantasy that more often than not is used to prop-up some sort of racial, religious, or nationality based supremacy. Giving credit where it's due is another thing altogether. <br /><br />To put it another way, there's no such thing as purity. <br /><br />--jAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-81119676524053205132010-02-27T21:28:24.404-05:002010-02-27T21:28:24.404-05:00I can't wait to hear what Pat Robertson has to...I can't wait to hear what Pat Robertson has to say about the earthquake in Chili.<br /><br />Also, when an atheist like Maria starts to pray, things on earth are getting to be pretty bad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com