Friday Hip-Hop 8.22.08

Like I stated in a previous post (and vlog) Carlo is my guest host for this podcast. This one is slightly over 17 minutes. Enjoy.

Bambu

Lady Loe (duh, it says it in the title!)

Pac Div

Intro by: Common Market

Vlog on Upcoming Podcast and Hip-Hop Show

Cross-posted from The Mustard Seed.

So this is just a very simple Vlog; a very straightforward video of Carlo and I advertising our joint podcast which will be coming out this Friday.

It's also us just messing around, which will probably only be funny to those who know us.

Also, check out Pac Div, Hopie Spitshard, The Jacka, and Bambu playing at

Fat City on August 20th at 8:00 pm

314 11th St.
San Francisco, CA

Race and Biology

Cross-posted from The Blog and the Bullet.

Ridwan blogs:

Last year around this time Nobel Prize laureate, James Watson, shocked the scientific community with his ludicrous claim that race is a scientific category.

Watson, you may remember, won the Nobel Prize for his research that led (in part) to the 'discovery' of DNA.

So, it is October again. Now comes a report that Akhil Bakshi, a fellow of the prestigious Royal Geographic Society and celebrity photographer, is pushing the preposterous claim "that blacks, whites and Asians have different ape ancestors."

I Couldn't Resist, Thanks Krish

Sorry, guys, but this shit is dope!



Thanks to Krish.

The Exotifying Gaze

Cross-posted from The Blog and the Bullet.

Johanna blogs:

I am really uncomfortable with how a lot of vegan cooking is described as “exotic” (to whom?). It assumes so much about the audience racially & culturally, & as well is loaded with really creepy connotations — the exotic is there to be conquered, mastered; it’s there purely to titillate your (white/Western/etc.) self (which also implies that white people have no culture — a convenient excuse used by people participating in cultural appropriation, but not actually true). It’s a “safe” way to imagine you’re experiencing other cultures without, you know, having to do that pesky thing known as actually engaging with the people whose cultures you’re attempting to eat via their food.

Friday Hip-Hop 8.15.08

I was at my friend Christine's house while I was creating the vocals for this podcast so I decided to include her as a co-host.

This podcast runs around 13.5 minutes.







Intro by: KRS One

What Do We Want? A Five Part Series

I got this e-mail from the blogger Brown Man, check it out:

I've heard a constant refrain lately – at work, on TV, on the internet – from some of my black brethren about Barack Obama.

He doesn't need to "lecture black people" about personal responsibility.

He should be mindful of the tone he uses when he speaks to us.

He's just saying what racist white people want to hear.

He sacrifices black people to score points with whites and other non-blacks.

I was offended by his criticism of black people.

What gives him the right to call anybody out about anything?

Since he doesn't have anything good to say about black people he shouldn't say anything at all.

What do we want from this man?

Over the next five days, the blog Brown Man Thinking Hard presents "What Do We Want?" which will explore some of the issues that underlie this intraracial discord within black America.