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Name:
fanteeking
Comment: The poet laureate of Africa-America "missed the Jericho boat" that transported African slaves from the Bight of Biafra to the "New World". She chose to scribe for "Miss Hillary" rather than chronicle our young "Shaka Zulu". Be steadfast Miss Angelou and write a beautiful poem about President Obama's great triumph and send copies to TAVIS SMILEY and BOB JOHNSON. Hey maybe, you can recite it at TAVIS SMILEY's next State of the Black Union "run-your-mouth and accomplish-nothing-athon" where I'm sure it will be well received by the attending Black 'intelectickles'. Now, I KNOW WHY THAT CAGED BIRD SINGS. It overheard the escape plans of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth and flew out of its cage and perched on the shoulders of "Ole Massa" and "Miss Anne" and told them who organized it, how many were involved and the time of departure. Yes, I Rize, I Rize, I Rize....and you Snitched, you Snitched, you Snitched!! I pray that our Black Shining President will let NIKKI GIOVANNI have this august HONOR!!!
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MrMarques72
Comment: In reality, this whole election process still had remnants of slavery embedded in its proceedings. In the beginning, many of black America's prominent ole school leaders threw their support behind the Clintons like obedient slaves who remained faithful to their masters even after slavery. The Clintons initially treated Obama as if he was massa's illegitimate offspring who didn't know his place. And in reality, Obama played the role of the non-threatening, faithful negro, who Malcolm X spoke about in his famous "What's the matter, boss, WE sick?" comment. I admit to having pride in seeing Obama succeed to the nation's highest office, but I knew from the beginning that it would mean that he would have strip himself of certain aspects of blackness to "pass". That means throwing Jeremiah, Farrakhan and any other figure deemed "too black" under the bus. I continue to wonder how black folk will feel when a black man is the official face of America when it bombs or invades another sovereign nation.
MrMarques'08
www.afrobrasilamerica.com
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fanteeking
Comment: MrMarques72: Agreed. Many of the ole skool leaders of the 50's anf 60's, Civil Rights Era supported Hillary from the beginning because they felt that Obama hadn't paid his dues in the Civil Rights Hey Day. Hell, he wasn't even born then!!! Unconsciously, Jesse Jackson, Tavis Smiley et al felt that their celebrity status would be diminished if a bona-fide intellectual were to come on the scene and capture the attention and get the printer's inky daily. They cringed at the idea that "Meet the Press" and "Face the Nation" wouldn't be calling them on Sunday mornings. Thatz why Jackson went on the enemy Fox News where he made that viciously, sly "cut your nutz off remark". I guess an enenmy forum is better than no forum at all if I wanna run my mouth and be on TV? About Obama relinquishing his BLACKNESS in order to be elected, he HAD to do that and play the yt man's game and he did and he won. What if he came on TV with a Tito Jackson Afro, leopard skin dashiki, bone in his nose speaking Ki Swahili? He'd been defeated the first day. Yt folks wouldabeen threatened and all those liberal folks would have thrown their support behind McCain. As my grade school teacher Miss Harden used to tell me: "Fanteeking, you must use your head for something else rather than a hat rack!!!" Obama used his head and won!!!!! Miss Harden I know you smiling in heaven!! LOL!!! As far as throwing, Rev. Wright and Farrakhan under the bus, he initially defended his relationship with Rev. Wright then Rev. Wright got a little full of himself rebuked scathingly Obama in his last news conference. Had Obama embraced Min. Farrakhan then he would've lost the Jewish vote. What's the use of actin' militant if it's gonna pound a nail in your coffin? Obama was raised up around white and Asian folks in Hawaii and Indonesian and has a different world view. Let's give the young BROTHER a chance and support him to the MAX!!! He gonna do just fine, if we give him a chance. Can he do any worst than BUSH???!!!
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SoopDawg
Comment: I swear you mofos need to stop with the racial bullshIt. People can support who they want to. Fukking knucklehead,I swear.
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fanteeking
Comment: MrMarques72: Damn, if I ain't mistaken, I specifically address my comment to you. Ain't it funny how people get up in your bizness and you ain't even talki' 'bout them!!! Thatz how a buddy of mine got his throat cut in front of the Sunset Terrace Ballroom on Indiana Avenue. Meddlin' in sumbody else's business. SMH.
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huey
Comment: she needz to be writing a poem on why her candidate loss, not on why OUR candidate won.
oppourtunistic hustling azz heffa who thinks she entitled based on her celebrity to make some money off of the candidate, after all of these battles that the average everyday foot soldiers fought to get bed-rock in office, now she wanna "man post, with her negro rifle"..please, in the words of her boy bill clinton "give-me-a-break"...this reminds me of the movie "a few good men" when jack nicolson was on the witness stand"....
"I have neither the time nor the
inclination to explain myself to a
man who rises and sleeps under the
blanket of the very freedom I provide,
then questions the manner in which I
provide it. I'd prefer you just said
thank you and went on your way.
Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a
weapon and stand a post. Either way,
I don't give a damn what you think
you're entitled to."
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fanteeking
Comment: HUEY: LOL!!! I swear you must be a descendant of the FANTEE Nation of Cape Coast, Ghana 'cause I can feel your BRILLIANT spirit. You NEVER disappoint me!!! LOL!!! Always on da MONEY!!!
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nightshift
Comment: Stop with these fvcking manifestos!!!!!
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bigchassie
Comment: uh...didn't she already recite a poem to a "black president?"
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McNasty
Comment: Chassie that was 'her' black president and Toni Morrison's 'black president. No while I agree with some of what you MrMarquess and Fanteeking have said the other way to look at it is the fact that the old guard were backing folks they thought could win - who really knew about Obama?! In the end - other than tavis and bob johnson, they all backed Obama. Its time to move on from their pasts and Lord it's time to stop dragging the ancestors through the dirt. Oh, and I was very proud that Obama conducted himself the way he did throughout the whole process, Rev. Wright turned out to be the pure shyts wanting his 15 minutes and Farrakhan, while I actually admire the man, he has said some incendiary things that would get some others killed. We all do things in the heat of the moment that maybe or maybe not we later regret.
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McNasty
Comment: . . . as far as this poem, I love Maya and even sat in her audience a couple of years ago, but I am so over it.
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huey
Comment: McNasty "the other way to look at it is the fact that the old guard were backing folks they thought could win - who really knew about Obama?!", respectfully disagree, there was more than enough time to get to know and support obama. i dont agree with the argument that people didnt think barack could win. it was clearly evident to everyone, even white folk, that barack could win when he won iowa. that was the coming out party. everyone got on the bus at that point.....except the house negroes...
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DCGG
Comment: Eat Crow Maya...damn right Obama ain't using your hilary clinton supporting azz...
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bigchassie
Comment: i knew Obama was going to be our president back in 2004. when i first heard him speak, it was like an unsusal sprirt that came over that audience at the 2004 convention. that man had them in his grip. he was powerful. and when he left, everybody was asking, "who is that man?" "Where did he come from?"somebody said, "THAT IS YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT!"
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bigchassie
Comment: To be honest, i hope they get a new poet to do the honors for the inaugral.
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huey
Comment: forgive me but that picture of maya looks like someone put her teeth in upside down.....
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bigchassie
Comment: HUEY>LOL!!! STOPIT MAN!! LOL!
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huey
Comment: bigchassie --u know im telling the truth, looks like the top plate is on the bottom and the bottom plate is on the top....
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JustTellingTheTruth
Comment: LMAO @ Huey! Yes, you are just telling the truth. I thought Maya looked a bit like the Jokers GrandMother. Either way, she didn't put those teeth in right. Why don't you give her some corn on the cob & see how well she eats it. LOL
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bigchassie
Comment: JTTT>LOL!! YOU STOP IT TOO!! LOL!!! say, is she and Oprah still girliefriends? i have not heard her hanging with Ope lately.
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huey
Comment: thankx JustTellingTheTruth, everyone else saw it but the didnt want to say it cause the scared something bad gonna happen to them if the talk about maya...but dammmit someone needed to say it....so i said it, yep i said it...
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MrUnapologetic69
Comment: You guys are all crazy and present some thought-provoking points, but at the end of the day we only have NOW!
Barack Obama was designed for this moment regardless of how anyone may feel about it. And I've never been more proud in my thirtysomething years of living on this earth - in country to be called American. We have EVERY reason to poke out our chest and beat it like a drum; We're an amazing people and now the world will see. Yet, for every positive there is a negative. For those who don't know President-elect Obama has an unprecedented team of security than any other "sitting" president in our history. There have been two "credible" attempts on his life that were foiled - and hasn't been sworn in yet. Man, I rebuke the day I wake up and have to read in the paper that he, michelle or his babies have been murdered. So, instead of pondering what's been said and done prior to this moment - we should be praying and stay watchful of his enemies (our enemies) that sit next to us on the train, on the job, across the room in a restaurant and so forth that are plotting to destroy him. I'm just saying... lol
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NYCsoul
Comment: Somebody get Nikki Giovanni, anybody except Ms. Angelou. Her voice irritates me to no end. I never understood how or why these folks who were once so 'pro-black' lost their minds when Clinton came into the office and still supported them after they revealed themselves as the patronizing and opportunitistic vultures that some of us knew all along. LOL @ Fanteeking 1st post.
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nightshift
Comment: huey, I bet with that gap --when she eats a hot dog it looks like a pig being sucked through a fence!!! Has anyone seen "Chocolate News", with David A. Grier do her? He's got it on lock!!
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huey
Comment: MrUnapologetic69 ---not sure what your point is. "Man, I rebuke the day I wake up and have to read in the paper that he, michelle or his babies have been murdered."...why would u even think such thoughts?
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nightshift
Comment: Ditto huey, that's some shyt MrU -- you need some prozac
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mamacita22
Comment: NIKki Giovanni...Yess! That would be awesome. I have had zero respect for Maya since she came to Univ. of TX in 1988 and was rude as hell to the student group who raised money to bring her azz to speak....and I love-ded her before that.
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ss69054
Comment: I think Nikki would do a fine job or a new upcoming poet/artist would do too. Nothing is going to happen to the HNIC of the world...people need to get over themselves and get a life because his winning was designed by God. I am glad he has a different perspective because these pro-blacks ain't done a damn thing but get paid to run their mouths with no solutions. Kick rocks!
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McNasty
Comment: Huey it's okay but when you think of the little time a lot of them have left on this earth maybe they didn't think they'd be around to see this campaign through to fruition so they backed what they already knew. No matter - at this point in spite of their lack of support in the beginning Obama won and it's really time to let all the rest go.
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bigchassie
Comment: MAMA>whattt??? mamamaya was rude? aww naww. whatt?? not good mama! not good at all!!
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bigchassie
Comment: SS>i think Nikki G would make a lovely poet to do it. haven't heard from her in a long time either. i remember meeting her one time. she was so sweet.
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Name:
nightshift
Comment: Hey y'all Miriam Makeba died. RIP sister.
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huey
Comment: nightshift --yes, i read, and the msm seems to be lost of the fact that she was married to the great kwame tourre (aka stokley carmichael) alas we must know our own history and not rely on them suckas...
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mamacita22
Comment: Yes, bigchassie, heifa was rude. We didn't have the right kinda bottled water in her room...didn't pick her up from the airport in a limo (the rented full size luxury car did not suffice)...an excited student messed up and called her "Maya" instead of "Ms. Angelou" and was torn a new a-hole...her sorors didn't come to greet her (none happened to be on the planning committee)...yada yada yada...just constant complaints! My friend at Baylor University said she was just as rude there, too. When she left town, we were physically drained from kissing her crusty ole butt for 36 hours. She was just awful!
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bigchassie
Comment: MAMA>day-ummmm! euuu, that sheds a new light on this hefa!
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Name:
bigchassie
Comment: oooh MAMACITA, you make me want some soup today. lol!
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ss69054
Comment: Ummm, I am not surprised at Maya, she seems like she is a bit much at times.
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nightshift
Comment: huey, thats the truth! mamacita22, thank you for confirming what I always felt about this cow. I'm glad I've never read any of her books and I don't like poetry. I hope they don't have her or beyondme at the inauguration.
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bigchassie
Comment: SS>my only complaint about maya is that she talks so dayum slow! can't stand slow azz talking people.
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Name:
fanteeking
Comment: Mother Maya wuz here about 10 years ago at a book signing at a Black Bookstore. She wuz signing copies of her book at one end of the table and sipping from a giganitc bottle of Old Grand Dad at the other end of the table. We wuz all giggling but was too civil to laugh out loud. She sho-nuff like Old Grand Dad!!! LOL!!!
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bigchassie
Comment: MAMACITA>cream of chicken soup. ummmm...it's a cold day today.
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Name:
bigchassie
Comment: FANKEEP>LOL!! Whaaaat? so ole gurl was gettin her sip-sip on huh? dang!! lol!
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mamacita22
Comment: Well...I had read EVERYTHING Maya had penned. I was so excited to be in her presence, as were the other students. I have never gotten over the disappointment of finding out how unkind a person she was. Our group held BAKE SALES and CAR WASHES to supplement the money we were given from the University to bring her to speak. It was a slap in our young faces. Ugh...
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bigchassie
Comment: i must admit,ole gurl had quite a colorful life. exotic dancer and madam of a brothel back in the day. and was married to a yt guy who didn't want her to go to church and then an african freedom fighter who turned out to be an azzhole. i think he hit her.
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bigchassie
Comment: MAMACITA>mann...thats sad. sorry that happened to yall!
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Name:
ladybyrd
Comment: Soop> I agree with you! Blacks always think there are other trying to divide us and they don't realize all they need to do is look in the mirror.
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fanteeking
Comment: bigchassie: Her last heart throb was an Italian guy whose name is in the first page of her last book. Check it out. Somebody I know who is also a great poet and personal friend of her's revealed she wuz sSSSOOOOOO upset when the Italian guy left her for another younger woman. I know that Old Grand Dad bottle took a beating!!! LOL!!!
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huey
Comment: bigchassie --so to capsulize mya, she is talented but was giving up poontang outta both sides of her drawers...
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ladybyrd
Comment: Mamacita> Ms. Maya is over 80 years old. My mother is in her seventies, she not famous at all. Now you should know better than to call an ELDER by their first name. How old are you and where did you grow up not to know this wouldn't fly, you should have known better. Regarding artist riders, if you promised her signed a contract then you need to follow the rider that you agreed upon. All of this hate on one of OUR ELDERS is ridiculous! Blacks are losing or never had respect for our ELDERS or LEGENDS.
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huey
Comment: Mamacita---i think ladybyrd ready to whip yo tail...im putting a popcycle stick on yo shoulder...
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Name:
ECSUVking
Comment: this fake b-itch here, needs to go pen another clintonesque ode to 2016 for hillary... because she was not and is not for Obama... jumping on the bandwagon all late
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Name:
ECSUVking
Comment: Ladybyrd just because you are old does not give you the right to be a curmudgeon. I had the distinct displeasure of meeting/working with that nasty old cow more than once 10 years ago when I lived in Winston-Salem, NC. She is without a doubt one of the nastiest old ladies I have ever met.
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huey
Comment: ohhhhh, well looky looky at east carolina ECSUVking up in here raising the dayum grammer bar...appluade that venacular gangsta.. using words like "curmudgeon". i had to go to the effn dictionary up in here...ummm, u think he/she is uppity? anyone?? do tell...
Main Entry: cur·mud·geon
Pronunciation: \(?)k?r-?m?-j?n\
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1568
1archaic : miser
2: a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man
— cur·mud·geon·li·ness \-l?-n?s\ noun
— cur·mud·geon·ly \-l?\ adjective
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Name:
ladybyrd
Comment: Huey> lol you are silly, however you are correct I will fight for legacy of my people. peace
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Name:
Calidee
Comment: I think the old guard were not only backing people that they thought could win, but people they knew.
Black people, like Maya Angelou, who are friends to the Clintons supported them. I don't see anything wrong with that.
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Name:
ladybyrd
Comment: ecsuking> I can't believe you are calling a woman a bytch. Thanks for confirming my respect stance.
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huey
Comment: ladybyrd technically ecsuking said "b-itch", im not so sure it would hold up in court... he would be in and out in a day or so.
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Name:
ladybyrd
Comment: huey> LOL... a mere technicality. My claim will still stand, until he explains himself.
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mamacita22
Comment: Ladybird, did you not see that I said 1988?!?...I was 18 at the time and MAYA was in her late 60s. Now, I am 42 and in wise retrospect, I still believe that MAYA was just plain ol' stank. Most of us were, of course, raised to be respectful, but any young person is prone to a mistake. My grandmother is a graceful lady and a kind and generous spirit, especially to young people. MAYA was being snooty and hateful. None of the amenities that she was upset about were agreed upon or promised to her in ANY way...this is a fact. I was an officer in the student group and I am certain that she got what she signed up for and more...we did the best any group of intelligent students could do for a lady we were in awe of until we put her butt back on the plane in her first class seat.
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Name:
Jaye
Comment: I love Maya Angelou's poetry, but my favorite all-time poet was "Gwendolyn Brooks". While attending college she came to our campus for a Writer's Fair, and I found her to be a brilliant lady. While signing a book for me, I told her about my poetry and she asked me to come and read it for that night's presentation. Unfortunately, I didn't have any personal transportation, so I missed her performance. Nonetheless, some of my co-workers invited me to a special breakfast the following morning and guess who I sit right beside? Yes, Gwendolyn Brooks. She asked, What happened to me? And I explained that I didn't have a car." She said, "I would have picked you up myself, but I no longer drive". We laughed long and hard about that. We chatted away, and she reminded me of my of late grandmother. Both warm and kind, with a wicked sense of humor. Afterwards, I recited a couple of poems for her and she thoroughly enjoyed them. She told me to keep up the good work and we embraced before she left. A couple of years later, she past, but I will never forget that day for the rest of my life!
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Name:
BKLYNVIAMAHATTAN
Comment: Huey... you are one crazy person. LOL.
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