blm – Myalogy

Powerful Niggatry

zyansaeed615 / June 29, 2016

We all saw him. His gloriously handsome face, spewing forth sentiments not usually seen on primetime television, and certainly not on a station that has been so destructive to the same people to whom he was so powerfully speaking. I dont mean to overstate the case, but watching him up there briefly made me feel echoes of what I felt when I watched another gloriously handsome black man command the stage on an unseasonably warm November night in Chicago, with his equally beautiful black family, primed to occupy a supreme position of power. Pride. Pure unadulterated pride. But y’all saw Jesse. All the think pieces done been thought; all the videos of the acceptance speech been shared and reposted – WE SAW YOU FACEBOOK AND YOUR FUCKT ASS CENSORSHIP ATTEMPTS and “woke bae” was typed ad nauseum. The intersphere will inevitably move on to the next fauxtroversey or black man in a wig skit, but NOT before doing the one thing y’all and y’alls cousins are so apt, so eager, so ready to do. Tear him down. Cuz thats what niggas do. Three things pissed me the hell off yesterday. They revolved around the following trite played out ass themes. He talkin bout white folks killing us, but not us killing us. Y’all only give a fuck cuz he light skinned/handsome. No one watches BET. Powerful niggatry at its best. Sigh. He talkin bout white folks killing us, but not us killing us. An old negroidian woman, who fancies herself a journalist and beloved fixture here in Chicago (and I suppose to people who still have 8 track players, she is indeed a beloved person) was the latest perpertrator of this fuckshit ass line of thinking, which she felt the need to share on Facebook. This man was talking about the oppressors of black folks, who have traditionally been the US government and its enforcement units, killing us and getting away with it. And here she come in all her “im old, but Im hip, hey sistagirl, what it do brothaman” glory, attempting to be radical, but revealing herself to be nothing but an Auntie Ruckus. She had so many lil cousin Ruckuses on the thread “amen-ing” her bullshit too, yall. I wish I could say I was shocked, but I wasn’t. Anytime anyone has ANYTHING to say about one of us getting shot down in the streets like a rabid dog, or suspiciously killing ourselves in a jail cell, some nigger will stand up and talk bout how we kill ourselves so how can we expect others not to kill us. Really? Is that really what you want to say? Does your dumb ass really not understand the difference in murder by cop and crime? BLM and Stop the Violence – these are two separate issues. How are you walking around without a helmet when you are unable to process the difference in these movements? They can and should co-exist, but they should NOT be compared. And lets be really really really real. Even if peace was achieved in every war torn city across this country and world, the oppressors would still be killing us, cuz they were killing us on the got damn Amistad, when we aint even know what a fucking gun was, so stop with the respectability bullshit. This person then went on to tell us, what regular folks aint doing in the hood while we applauding Jesse and his sentiments. Well ma’am. Just like a broke clock, you are wrong a 1,438 times a day. Alpha’s walking thru the hood. MASK. 10K Fearless. Organizations comprised of regular everyday working folks who wanna do better and effect change. The action this woman offered as proof of her concern, activism and righteousness? She doesnt kill people, which allows them to make it home to their families everynight. Well guess what dumb ass? Most of us are doing the same thing you are doing, including Jesse, so maybe y’all got more in common than your dumb ass thinks. Yeah, I said it! DISCLAIMER: That is her wack ass catchphrase and not mine…Im way too cool for that. Also this person has a pic of another Jesse as her FB cover photo; Mr. Jackson if ya old, uncool, ruckusy and think Stella Foster is a real journalist as opposed to simply being the assistant to a real journalist who died, upon which she assumed his position cuz she happened to be standing there and probs knows where some bodies are buried. Also, she is no longer in that position. Apparently she retired to give herself more time to write the shit she used to write in her column, on Facebook, FOR FREE. Y’all only give a fuck cuz he light skinned/handsome. Jesus H. Christ. Jesse Williams is a beautiful man. I dont know him, but it SEEMS his inside matches his outside. Many people just found out bout “woke bae” Sunday night, but bae been woke waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before that. If you were woke and your third eye wasnt focused on Scandal and the evolution of the sidepiece, you would know that. But I’m struggling with why his level of attractiveness is being used as a point of detraction. If he stood up on that stage looking like whoshotjohn, and said the shit he said, I’m willing to bet the reaction would have been the same. Kendrick Lamar isn’t an obvious sex symbol – he dont look shit like Woke Bae but didn’t your heart beat proudly at the sight of this? and then this? Thought so, so miss me with that handsome bullshit. And while I’m angry, as if I exist in any other state, what the fuck is you people’s problem with light skinned black folks? Seriously. WHAT. THE. FUCK. IS. YOUR. PROBLEM. WITH. LIGHT. SKINNED. BLACK. FOLKS. We aint legit? Only value we have is how light we are? Nothing we say or feel is important because our ancestors were

And Now a Word on Blackyonce

By this late date, you are more than aware that Beyonce has instantly become the most black woman, dare I say person, in America. She got on the world stage where the previous blackest title holder was Janet’s nip. She done told yall that she likes Blue’s hair in an Afro, even tho that doesn’t explain why she sometimes likes it with lint in it, but I digress. (im not linking to that picture, she’s a child, a beautiful lil black one for chrissakes, but Im a lowlife at times so if you wanna see it, hit me up in the DM, where it goes down). She single handedly saved one of the most important black institutions in America, The Red Lobster. That alone should grant her instant savior status. Where else would yall go after church, graduations, baptisms, the mall, exorcisms, a lover’s quarrel, a clean pap smear, etc. And although Im not a member of the vaunted Beyhive, I picked up what she put down, with that Formation move. Luckily for me and for those of you that pretend that you liked that song, I got to see the video sans music, cuz I was in a ghetto ass shop on Ashland doing something almost as black as that video – getting my hair crochet-did. That shit was black as fuck. BLM. Afros. Nostrils. NOLA. Katrina. POLICE brutality. Made me think bout Kanye for a moment, when he was still black post-Katrina, then I felt dirty, repented and stopped. I have my thoughts on the timing of the release followed immediately by high as giraffe ladyparts concert tickets RIGHT AROUND TAX TIME, but I aint in attendance for me today. I am in attendance for one of the funniest folks I know, one Antonio Bealer. I asked that negro what he thought. One question. What do you think about Beyonce…and this nword wrote a dissertation in my inbox! Hivers….go away. You wont be happy. Antonio? On Sunday as I was watching Cameron J. Newton and Co. lay down and let the already insufferable Manning family add another ring to their collection, (Why Black Jesus, why?) a popular singer named Beyonce Knowles (you may have heard of her once or twice) debuted a song that made a political statement during halftime. While singers using these platforms to make political statements is nothing new, this was a whole new world for the singer who previously pioneered the art of surfboarding and leading packs of single women to dance around in a circle celebrating their single-ness while she went home to her husband every night. Needless to say, it caused quite a firestorm. Sometime between the end of the game and now despite her brief experience as a freedom fighter she has been installed as the new leader of Black Panther 2K16 by the powers that be and there have been oh so many social media battles between us peasants about Queen Bees motives, impact and how anybody who didn’t agree with what she did is a hater. SMFH. So I’d like to take a moment to say…. STOP IT. All of you. Stop right now. Stop it to all those who thinks that somehow Beyonce has channeled her inner Angela Davis and is gonna somehow inspire others to finally recognize that Black Lives do indeed MATTER. If I need someone to inspire women to drink large quantities of Ciroc and profess their love for “bae” or to eloquently throw their man out the house while only making left turns and leaving the keys to the Jag because she bought that, Then Beyonce will be the 1st person I turn to. When it comes to making anthems for ladies to follow (even tho she herself probably wouldn’t) she is indeed the queen. As Winnie Mandela 2.0 im not really buying what she’s selling. I for one just find it to be far too coincidental that this outburst came just as tickets for the Look at Me Stand Up for Yall Now When These Tickets Go On sale Tour went on sale. I say stop it to the media and government officials in America and abroad who are calling for boycotts and investigations into her alleged “Black Panther” ties. Are yall serious right now? Did yall listen to this song. I didn’t know whether to go lie down on an expressway in protest or head to Red Lobster with a bottle of hot sauce for some of those Cheddar Biscuits. The song was dumb as hell and although I don’t know her personally I’m gonna say her ties to an militant groups, ummm don’t exist. Unless you get the girls she dissed in destiny’s Child back together. Now there’s some black rage there. A double stop it to all the people who think EVERYTIME somebody doesn’t agree with one of their superhero’s (oh yes the Queen is an Avenger) that they are a hater. Beyonce and Jay are shrewd business people and had to have known that this mini controversy would generate publicity that no marketing campaign ever could. Furthermore, those performances are on tape delay. If what she sang was so bad, they would have NEVER aired it to 111 million people worldwide. Its ok to have divergent opinions people. If you love Beyonce and she inspires you to do better than so be it. Do you. Love on Top made me wanna change my life too. So I get it. But if you like me, think this was a shrewd publicity stunt, then theres nothing wrong with that. You shouldn’t have to be attacked on social media by the Beehive for dissing the Queen. They have a right to be angry after seeing those tickets prices for the On the Run From The Man Tour. At any rate. Stop. Enjoy the Show. Because that’s all it is. READ IT. LIKE IT? SHARE IT!