Backs Against The Wall Of Privilege

The So-Called Elite…

They are beyond busy disagreeing with the method of protest vs. acknowledging and addressing the problem(s). The epitome of privilege will try to dictate and lecture the behavior of those that dare disagree with its poisoned position. 

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57c6f912e4b0b9c5b7361eef

Someone’s proverbial back could be up against the wall…privilege is only concerned with the condition of the wall…it could care less if the back is broken…bruised or bloodied…just don’t dirty the wall.~Daryl~

The Lynch Mob Has Come For Colin Kaepernick

Damn Excellent!!!

United States Hypocrisy

Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers

Current quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick has drawn the ire of U.S. nationalists everywhere for his principled decision to stay seated during the playing of the National Anthem before his team played the Green Bay Packers on Friday night. By choosing to remain seated, the 28 year old was taking a stand against the police brutality against Black people and other people of color in the United States that is so prevalent, and he stated as much when asked about it afterwards. Predictably, American nationalists (aka ‘patriots’) of all ideological stripes have been swift to condemn him, calling for his immediate firing and demanding he pack his bags and leave the country. Most ominously of all, unnamed NFL executives have gone so far as to declare to the Bleacher Report that Kaepernick will never again have a career in…

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Prince Summer: “Style” (1996)

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Prince’s 1996 three CD set Emancipation is going to be celebrating its 20th anniversary shortly. Usually very shy about publicity,Prince was extremely proud of this album. And he seemed to go all out,by his promotional standards,to get the word of this album out to the people. He even appeared with his wife of the time Mayte Garcia in an interview with Oprah Winfrey on her show. Just as I was first getting into his classic catalog,the “new” Prince of the era,in his O(+> persona,was showcasing a more personally revealing identity than his more enigmatic public approach had been a decade earlier.

Emancipation is an interesting conceptualization musically. As usual,Prince is instrumentally exploratory in terms of trying different genres. What’s most striking is that he goes for genres of the era that didn’t always require heavy instrumental acumen- such as house and his hip-hop interests of the era. What he did on…

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The Day in a Quote

The Last Of The Millenniums

Yes……hoping that a terror attack killing 100’s just to make Donald Trump look ‘appealing’.

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My Devotion to Blackness Doesn’t Extend to Rapists: Why I’ll Never Defend Bill Cosby

This is an excellent, thought provoking commentary.

THE KINFOLK KOLLECTIVE

At its core, The Cosby Show was an absolute endorsement of black respectability politics. The two married, professional, successful black parents, the mostly well-behaved children educated at the best schools, and the focus on real “American” values were all a deliberate counter to the poverty-stricken, low-class images of shows like Good Times and Sanford & Son. The show seemed to always be mindful of its responsibility to uphold the ideals of what black people could be if we did everything right.

With Bill Cosby steering the ship, that responsibility for promoting and maintaining black respectability quite naturally shifted to him. He became not only “America’s favorite dad,” but a figure of reverence and irreproachability in the black community, so much so that more than two decades after the show ended its eight-year run, it is virtually impossible for many black people to divorce the character of Heathcliff Huxtable from Bill…

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Anatomy of THE Groove: “Erotic City” by Prince

Excellent post!!!

Andresmusictalk

Prince’s musical legacy has a lot to do with his prolific level of recording. He was a very private man who didn’t make a lot of public appearances. And was known to have spent a good deal of his time recording new music. The end result of this is a now legendary vault of songs on his Paisley Park estate,containing thousands of unreleased songs. Of course there were many times when some of these songs not intended for albums were so strong,Prince just had to get them out there. The result was him being an artist known for some extremely high quality B-sides.

In the days of 45 RPM vinyl,I  was one of those people who used to love turning the record over to see what song was on the other side. Some B-sides,for Prince included,were actually album tracks that had never been hits. Prince for his part seemed to…

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Sometimes It Snows In April…This Time…Prince Fans Really Feel Sad

 

Last Thursday…the axis of my music appreciation world was thrown off balance forever. No amount of tilt will EVER allow the suns brilliance to enlighten me as to why the brightest among us=often burnout the fastest.

Then again…I could never imagine Prince as a senior citizen.

Can you imagine him=senile…trying to order a fruit cocktail…while trying to take a bath with his clothes on? Dorothy would surely laugh.

Out of this world talent…often makes us forget about the consequences of simply being human. Prince Rogers Nelson was the ultimate personification of both.Flawed, but beautiful…loved…and blessed.

He literally was the ROCK in the ROLL…the RHYTHM  that defined the BLUES…the POP…that gave LIFE…He was literally my generations Sign ‘O’ The Times.

I still remember hearing “Soft&Wet” for the first time in 9th Grade. I was grown enough to know he wasn’t talking about melted butter…he was speaking for my barely out of prepubescent…suddenly sex obsessed adolescence. Erotic City…

The purple player that wrote about “Pussy Control”…blended this thing called life=like no other…he also appreciated When 2 R In Love=the ultimate example of being “Lovesexy.”

Prince…I Wish U Heaven…Rock the Angels with a coat of Pink Cashmere.~Daryl~