niggers & queens

“Well you see my sistah, i actually believe that the most progressive step we can take as black people is to INCREASE our use of that word. Getting in touch with our inner nigger will actually accidentally get rid of racism. If we continue to throw the word out so frivolously, we will surely witness, at sometime prior to the turn of the century, a point in which the word becomes absolutely meaningless. Nigger will be used to refer to all things and at the same time it will refer to nothing at all (kind of like the word “thing” itself). The nigger will cancel herself out and, because she is meaningless, she will vanish off the face of the earth. In other words, if we continue to illuminate the nigger in all of us, we are effectively shining a black light on the entire human race. Underneath the black light our color is rendered invisible and all that is left to be seen is our inner glow.”

~kellicoon, transcending race since 1492

we cannot start the revolution without pro wrestlers

please do not sleep on jesse ventura. remember circa 1998 when the pro-wrestler dude became the governor of minnesota. i didn’t even give dude a second look back then but it seems like he’s back on the scene droppin some knowledge that’s relevant to the times. he had me screaming last weekend during his appearance on larry king live.

janelle is on bad boy?

Can we take a little bit of a timeout to talk about what’s hot in the neon valley streets? FYI Janelle Monáe is still high steppin in them saddle shoes singing love songs to cyborgs. As of 4/1/08 I hadn’t put this crazy gal from Kansas City on my playlist in months. This morning, after a long span of out of sight out of mind, just when the whole android theme was seeming like a played-out fad, I jammed her mini-album in the headphones. For all of you that must have forgot, the Sincerely Jane track bangs just as hard as it did in October. I had to play that joint today because this morning I looked in my inbox and I had a message from Janelle’s camp, the Wondaland Arts Society. On April Fools Day the WAS sent out a message to all of the cyboys and cybergirls in their rolodex announcing that they recently shook hands with the shiny suit man, signing into effect a new “joint venture” with Bad Boy records.