The backlash against Kramer's racist rant has branched off all over the place.
I was talking to my boy the other day about the utter failings of the so-called "black leaders" and how meaningless of a gesture it is for Kramer to apologize to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson as well as appear on Jesse Jackson's radio show.
Did you listen to Jesse Jackson's radio show or even know that he had a damn radio show?
There is nothing Richards can say on that show that anyone doesn't know already.
Did he have plenty of black friends as a child and were some of those Negroes his best friends?
Of course they were.
Spare me the bullshit.
Michael Richards would have been better off apologizing to Will Smith or Fiddy Cent if he wanted to reach relevant black figures or have a real discussion about what happened.
Did Mel Gibson apologize to Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg after his little anti-Semitic outburst?
Who do Reverend Jesse Jackson and Reverend Al Sharpton really speak to and what can they really do to resolve this issue?
Well the shining leaders of the black community decided the best resolution of this problem is two-fold: First, boycott the 7th season DVD of "Seinfeld" and second, stop using the word "Nigga" in popular culture.
Black leaders seek end to use of slur (AP)
Let me address the first point; Season 7 of "Seinfeld" is fire.
This is the season with where George gets engaged, the Soup Nazi enters American popular culture along with the term sponge-worthy and Jacky Childs gets his Johnny Cochran on.
This season is not to be boycotted.
Secondly, no one will stop using the word "nigga."
I won't, you won't, white kids from Long Island listening to "Ready to Die" won't.
No one will.
First off, most rappers don't have enough words in their working vocabulary to remove "nigga" from the rap song equation. That is fact.
And most importantly black people don't have the Jewish power it takes to get things done.
When Michael Jackson said,
"You can never
Kill me
Jew me
Sue me
Everybody
Do me
Kick me
Kike me
Don't you
Black or white me"
On "They Don't Really Care About Us" the Jews in charge damn near made him take the CDs off the shelf himself while making him promise to perform at several bar mitzvahs for free.
Or something like that.
Black people are so marginalized within the power structure that the blacks who are offended by rap can't do shit.
And most Blacks are so happy when the record labels throw them a bone that they dance a jig, literally.
Shit, even white principals of jig schools in the Bronx are doing the Chicken
Let's not forget the minstrel anthem "Zip Coon"
That was covered by Jibbs (a coon ass name if I ever heard one) and became a Top Ten Billboard hit,
And of course there is the now classic "Fry That Chicken" that has been getting play on radio stations in the south.
This new trend of Minstrel Rap and the real-life dangers that rap music spreads through the "Stop Snitching" movement and its violence laden culture is far more relevant and boycott worthy than anything Michael Richards could ever say.
But I guess Sharpton and Jackson get more camera shine rallying against the famous whites than they do from criticizing their own.
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EFF YOU START! and the proverbial rhetorical Cadillac you rode in on.
ReplyDeleteI love the Seinfeld series even more than the Cosby show but I will boycott that shit on some principle that you half azzed negroes aint built for. You need to take a page out of the Jew manual for getting your voice heard.
Eff marching and eff voting. I vote every single day with my wallet. That is where I am going to take my fight to these supremacists.
As long as some of you negroes will try to seperate the chaff from the wheat you will always be second class. In my book, everybody from Seinfeld takes the hit for this one. No Seinfeld DVD's, no Julia Louis Dreyfuss sitcom, no Jason Alexander TONY Awards (no Ted Haggard to the TONY Awards reference) and no effing Curb Your Enthusiasm!
If these dudes want to play the supremacy game they are going to do it on someone elses' dime.
(damn shame too because the hot tub episode was this season)
Interesting post, but linking the Jibbs song to the minstrel show rap trend BECAUSE OF ITS MELODY is more than a little disingenuous. That song is clearly in the tradition of Snap Music/Sesame St. for Grown-Ups, and Jibbs clearly jacked the tune by way of the familiar nursery song that most American children are familiar with, "Do Your Ears Hang Low". I find the similarity you are trying to force akin to insinuating that patriotic Americans are a bunch of alcoholics because the melody of their national anthem is taken from an obscure drinking song. I doubt Jibbs can even read, moreless research the history of blackface in America.
ReplyDelete- No homo on getting the Tony Awards reference.
ReplyDeleteI feel what you're saying but to be fair I boycott everything.
I'm a pretty cheap dude.
- Frankly the content of the Jibbs song in the context of the Chicken Noodle Soup jig dance and all the other completely self-parodying nonsense out there makes it a valid comparison.
Do you think Jibbs knew where this song came from?
Would he even care?
Don't get me started on the national anthem.
Keep speaking the truth, my friend.
ReplyDeleteYou hear about Paul Mooney vowing to stop using the "N" word too?
ReplyDeleteYea I heard about that.
ReplyDeleteIt was the most surprising thing to come out of this.
But I guess it affected him because he said Michael Richards was his friend.
First, all of Seinfeld is fire, save for parts of the first two seasons. Especially if you're from New York, Jewish, and happy to only encounter black people on a very limited basis.
ReplyDeleteSecond, I don't think anyone should be using the n-word or any of its derivatives in any format. It's a poisonous word, and I'd wager that efforts to "take it back" haven't really worked out so well if it can still be so hurtful and controversial.
Third, I liked "They Don't Really Care About Us." Not because of the ignorance or bigotry, but because it was just so crazy: he shouldn't have made it; it combined this post-industrial synth and guitar with a children's chorus--it was a hot mess.
Fourth, you're absolutely right about the power structure, but this is nothing new.
Fifth, the Chicken Noodle Soup looks like a minstrel-show audition.
At what point should black folks, and white kids from Long Island start taking responsibility for what comes out of our/their mouths? This has nothing to do with the Sharptons of the world, really. In my opinion, the word has gotten out of hand -- out of black people's hands at least.
ReplyDeleteSeinfeld was off the hook, but watching a re-run yesterday I was only half as interested in the show. All that brilliance just seemed kind of grotesque in a way.
Yea, it's still weird watching reruns but I'm sure I'll get over it.
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