Everyone keeps mentioning that people should address EVERONE poisoning the music industry and not just Nicki Minaj. I.e, Jasmine Manns got a lot of heat about just targeting Minaj. I mean, would you rather her have gone down the list of predominately the WHOLE music industry and disect who is giving us poisoning with our medicine? No, she can't address everybody, but in addressing Nicki, who is a big head in the music industry, she in a way, is attacking everybody, as she should. I read a blog that say's we should look past song's like "Roger that, itty bitty piggy, pu*** on your sideburns" etc., but look at the fact that she talk's to kids about abstinence and all that. That was a contridiction to the whole theme of discussion. If a murder murders someody but holds the doors open for old ladies, should we look past his crimes and see that he's a gentleman? Would you rather a prostitute say, "kid's dont have sex till your married" while she still trickin???
The point is, just because she talkin to kids about abstinence and loving yourself, don't make her poison less effective. She is a grown woman calling herself a cunt and a bitch, where the hell is music coming too? I can't love myself and call myself a cunt at the same time. The bar on female music use to be TLC, destinys child, and Queen Latifa, it scares me that this is the bar now. you can no longer argue that the industry is sexist and that feminism is still a debate, we doin it to ourselves! So, in being a Nicki fan, don't be biased in the matter that she is sending poison to this generation and to women. Its unfortunate because she is good lyricist and so is Wayne and Drake etc., but they not providin no balance. We the only culrure that boasts music degrading OURSELVES. No other race, besides Eminem, degrades their people as much as us and its sad that we can't look past these colorful words and fashions and see how we're hurtin ourselves.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
A True Georgia Peach
Her outlook on life exploded like a silent bomb. In this thought altering interview of Sequoyah Armour, she exposed her most pleasant memories, deepest regrets and her opinions on where we as a world stand today.
Armour, a 19 year old sophomore majoring in journalism, can very easily appear to be a closed book once you look at her rather soft demeanor. However, that isn’t something she’s too fond of to say the least. She mentioned how she regrets not being open when meeting new people. “I’m kind of closed off and too shy and standoffish sometimes. I guess I regret not meeting more people,” said Armour.
As she reflects on the make-up of her generation, she commends the fact that we’re smarter and more aware of the world in reference to books and the streets. However, that can also be our demise as we think we know too much according to Armour. “Like, a lot of us don’t know the difference between a girlfriend and a boyfriend and a husband and a wife’s marriage. It’s like we focus too much on relationships and sex,” said Armour.
Armour mentioned how we focus on shallow things compared to those who fought for Civil Right and serious things that could keep us in the future. Armour seemed to be very in-tune with her opinionated side. As I dug further to the core of this Georgia Peach, I discovered that she has a soft spot, her family. She noted that family vacations are her favorite past time. “I’m a family person. I like game nights and being with my family. They really know me and I really know them,” said Armour.
Armour also noted that her mother is her inspiration as her patient yet go-getter, attitude really inspires her. “She had a kid at 19 and she was still able to flip her life around to accommodate us. She know’s how to take care of her kids, her husband and her job,” said Armour. Following behind her mom’s title of people who inspire Armour, Terri McMillan also places a spot on her list. McMillan’s writing style is non-existent according to Armour, yet that’s what she likes. She mentions how McMillan writes about what she feels. That would probably explain McMillan’s recent tweets regarding Willow and Jaden Smith’s sudden stardom and Kim Kardashian’s backside.
While on the topic of writing styles, Armour confessed that she’s still searching for one. She stated that she’s motivated to find her own opinion on other people’s statements about topics. “I’ve taken lines from songs and just went off. It’s like a new thing I do.”Armour discovered her writing when she discovered how sports wasn’t going to be an option for her as ‘a thing to dabble in’ when she’s feeling expressive. She mentioned that she would re-write the ends of stories and change character descriptions to fit her comfort. It was then where she realized that she possessed the power in the pen to create.
This young gifted writer is on her way to self-discovery as her eyes are growing bigger on the world as her perspective grows on who she can become.
Armour attributes success to achieving your five to 10 year plans. “When you actually have pin-pointed all those plans and you have a check mark by it, that’s success,” said Armour. “You did what you really wanted to do and you helped others along the way,” Armour said.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Fate vs. Free Will
In rare cases, people are aware of their fate. In those same cases, people find themselves trying to run from it by doing what they WANT to do (Free Will) rather than what they're SUPPOSE to do (Fate). But what happens in the end? Don't we eventually find our way? Don't all our decisions eventually lead to what we were destined to do, say, become and be?
The truth of the matter is, we can NEVER escape our Fate. It is written. It is embedded in us. For example, you could find all kinds of ways to make 4 right? 2 + 2, 5-1, 4*1...but at the end of the day, it all equals '4' right? Those options are your free will, but fate is the 4. Number 4 will remain the same and even when you try to find loopholes to prove it wrong, you're indirectly proving it right.
So why do we sometimes run from our fate and run to the very things God is trying to prevent us from so that we don't get hurt? Th truth of the matter is that God is a gentleman. He's not going force us to serve him. It is indeed a choice. He'll let us experience things and all that, but we are never fully complete because what we're searching for is him and it is in him that we will truly find answers to life's questions as well as our hearts desires.
So go ahead and keep testing the waters in your careers and relationships etc...what you'll eventually find is that you will never truly be fulfilled in this life unless you stop and realize that you are not in control, but he is.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
No strings attached" = sex vs. love
I am so sick and tired of hollywood promoting that life is just abou, sex, having fun and partying. It is extremely unrealistic to say that you can form a beautiful and loving relationship out of something that began with lust.
In the movie, "No Strings Attached," Natalie Portman was depicted as the emotionless girl who finds it completely suffocating and awkward to be in a relationship so she wants’ to have her cake and eat it too. Her relationship with Ashton Kutcher is awkward in itself and it sparked a thought in her mind that she wanted to KINDA be friends while sleeping together with each other periodically.
Portman stated in an interview in the 'E' channel, that she thinks it's kind of liberating to have the roles reversed. The fact of the matter is that males more often have people believing that they're sex crazed and that they crave it 24-7. Portman mentioned that she appreciated the fact that the woman had the upper-hand in this case. o_0 Is this what it’s come to America?
I was in utter repulsion at the fact that this movie began with Kutcher getting sloppy dunk and finding himself in the home of Portman. After he woke up, they had sex. After the quickie, Portman established that she wanted to remain associated basically. She then realized that the sex was so good that they should become sex partners with no strings attached. Of course it wouldn't be a movie if no strings were attached, so the culprit happened to be Kutcher when he fell for her.
After countless episodes, Kutcher fell for Portman and as she kept fighting him off and PUSHING him to sleep with other women, she realized that she was f'ing up and she confessed her love to him. It was then where he told her that, if she took him back, she needed to realize that he wasn't gonna let her go. Are you friggin kidding me???
How can you honestly sit up here and say that is is acceptable, cute and romantic to build a relationship on sex and call it love? How dare you promote that and have the audacity to nominate it for rewards??? I’m not understanding America, help me understand. Better yet, help yourself understand why you have so many basic problems in your relationship. How did your relationship start? In what way did you base your attraction on this person?
Stacy Dash mentioned that in her three divorces, she had sex the first night to see if it would last. She claimed that she wants to do it the right way this time. What does that tell you??? It is truly heartbreaking to see people go through such a preventable demise in this world when all it takes is a little patience and self-respect for self.
Women, men only treat you the way you allow them to treat you. Have more standards for yourself. Why are you in a rush to get into a relationship? To say that you got somebody? Think about your motive for wanting to be with someone or even while you're still with that person.
My mother told me once, people are so confused with relationships and marriages. You washing his clothes and living together and having joint accounts and no ring. That's a problem. There's no true commitment in that. He is truly having his cake and eating it too. Demand more for yourself.
Men, we look to you for protection and comfort and guidance. Would you want your daughter to date someone like you? Expect more for yourself. We gotta have higher standards for ourselves people.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Herschel Walker promotes 2nd knockout sports Endeavour!
Football legend, Herschel Walker, will battle it out with Scott Carson this Saturday on Strikeforce at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California at 10pm.
This will be the second fight for Walker following his victory over Greg Navy in his last match on Jan 30. Walker, 48, entered the world of MMA fighting, has many eyes raised as his counterparts are predominately half his age.
“I'm in better shape now than I was in my early 20’s playing football,” Walker said on a Monday evening teleconference to promote the fight, “I've been trying to get a lot of players to do some type of MMA training. It would help them out a great deal. Most of the things you do in MMA training is correlated to football.”
However, this doesn’t seem to be a hobby for Walker considering the fact that Martial Arts fighting has been under his belt since a young age. He says, “I've been doing Martial Arts for 33 years. I started in high school with just Tae Kwon Do. I got heavily into it when I was in college. Every fight that I go into I'm going to win. This is not a gimmick for me, this is life.”
Walker seems to be the Michael Jordan of football seeing as to how he’s trying to dominate a variety of sports. However, Walkers reasoning behind it is to stay active because he knows it’ll make him a better player and that is the type of challenge he aspires to give to his counterparts.
Walker is considering ambassadorship for the sport of MMA.
“Being an ambassador doesn't mean that you have to be fighting,” say’s Walker. “I want to be able to talk about this MMA stuff, and at least have the knowledge that I've been in the cage before and I've done it.”
In football, Walker went on to score three 90 Yard Touchdowns in a season while playing for the Philadelphia Eagles. He explains, however, the biggest challenge between the two sports.
Walker states, “In football, if I make a mistake I have a quarterback, a wide receiver or a defensive lineman who can make up for that mistake,” However, “There are not mistakes being made here. You make a mistake and you may be knocked out or you may be hurt.”
Walker see’s the sky as a road block and not a limit to achieving his goals. So what’s to come in future endeavors?
“This is nothing but hard work,” Walker said, “I’ve never turned down a challenge and I wouldn't do it now.”
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