Rush... AKA Dopefiend

In the words of crackheads everywhere.
" It just be calling me"
Yo Rush, Just say NO Beeotch!
Naro%

Cross Talk: Shoot the breeze blog style

Even though I am on the go, you know I love to drop in on my peeps! Harold (Ghetto Uprising) always got some good flavors brewing, so if you havent made it over there you really need to. What compelled me to drop it like this is the feeling the vibe, the scenario; three minds dropping science, views, opinions in a virtual barbershop...

Obviously African slavery is one of mankind's most egregious crimes and music and videos are just entertainment. It ain't that deep; but at the same time, it kinda is. Harold Clemens (Ghetto Uprising)

conscious1 said...
It always amazes me when we (black people) get all riled up when YT disrespects us but no one says a cot damn thing when we disrespect ourselves. no one causes more harm daily to sistas than us.

My 2 cents:

Harold, you all on it bro. Its like flipin the script back to the og drop! We can and must do the Critical Race Jont, all day from every angle. I agree with conscious as well BUT, the "space and sheer volume" from YT is eschelons above and contains 98% of the negative energy focused around us. In other words SUPREMACY is Ubiquitous...Its a disease that we must find a cure for, a release from, mentally, physically, and culturally. Fighting the Power is a monumental task and while self awarness is the first step in "transcending" being realistic as to who and what we are truly up against is very important as well.
Far too often do we hear from "our" people that the moment we collectively "get our shit together" is the moment we will begin to prosper. By saying this one would then have to assume that the majority of "our" problems are internal, something we all know to be the exact opposite. We must stop saying things that only reaffirm YT's mind control JEDI bullshit. I am not the problem, I did not create the problem, but I live in the shadows of a galactically fiendish form of oppression which makes "us" think in some way we are partially to blame for this hot ass garbage. Naw YT homie dont roll like that, come correct or dont come at all. AND dont expect me to suck that ass on the way to retribution, self awareness, or respect.

Moments from the Virtual Barber shop

"If you stay ready, you dont have to get ready!"

NARO%

Punk Ass Bitch...

Yo asswipe, you suspect.

Naro%

Fuck Scarface...

Can I please see something other than a "stoopid ass drug dealer" on damn near every black persons home who decides to show off just exactly how stupid they really are to the public (mtv, bet, vh1). Since when did being a drug dealer become everyones aim in life, and when did the so called king of the world become the Idol to so many black young men? Fuck this movie (Sorry Al its a black thing) and fuck the image that it represents, who ever heard of a drug dealer with morals? And for all of you skeptics, right before this fool got his ass busted by manny's New jersey connect, he was listening to the "man" (the white banker) talk him out of dealing with those "monkeys" in the caymans...

"Stop being stupid, at least in public"
Naro%

Black power Comics

Some old stuff from my other jump off (Forms Of Thought). I plan on doing at least one online full lenght issue real soon. Would love some input, Holla back.

Peace
Naro%

Jail House Rock. Improving investor relations CCA style

CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA ANNOUNCES HIRING OF STEVEN CONRY AS VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS April 10, 2006 NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest provider of corrections management services to government, has announced the addition of Steven Conry as Vice President of Operations. In this newly-created position within the Company, Conry will oversee the operational leadership of approximately one-third of CCA’s 64 correctional facilities. Conry joins CCA after a 23-year career with the New York City Department of Correction, one of the nation’s largest municipal corrections systems. He joined the New York City Department of Correction in 1983 as a correctional officer and served in many leadership roles prior to his current appointment, including warden, assistant divisional chief, chief of management and planning, and chief of security for the agency. Most recently, Conry acted as the Chief of Facility Operations for the New York City Department of Correction. Conry graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in public management from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he later received a master's degree in public administration. Conry's appointment as Vice President of Operations is the result of CCA's recent reorganization of the company's Operations division. As the fifth largest corrections system in the country, CCA is the nation's largest owner and operator of privatized correctional and detention facilities, serving all three federal corrections agencies, nearly half of all states and more than a dozen local municipalities. The company operates more than 60 correctional facilities, including 39 company-owned facilities, with facilities in 19 states and the District of Columbia.
The Board of directors, just some FYI stuff for all of the "Stakeholders" out there.

CCA Corrections "Industry" overview

CCA 2004 Annual Report


Look at the board of directors from many of the "institutions" we end up in very closely, you may find some interesting similarities in the "Demographics" of it's members. To Mr. Conry sorry about the photo, it was the only one I could dig up!

Note: Click on the "Investor" tab on the site and check out how the prison guard blinks his eyes in the banner on the top page. SOMEBODY GOT JOKES!!

"Listen well, share information. Speak honestly and openly with intent to always improve our efforts"
NARO%

Once in a life time...

Once in a life time the stars line up and you witness something special.

We need some more hero's.

NARO%

A harsh Life, to be sure...

First off props to everyone who dropped science on this "Lil ol Lady". Ups to Blaxplanation for hitting the point so concisely, and to Rachel for hitting a point that I been waiting for someone to write (other than me). I'll hit you with a piece of Adele's "Logic".

The pony hidden in slavery is the fact that it was the ticket to America for black people. I have long urged blacks to consider their presence here as the work of God, who wanted to bring them to this raw, new country and used slavery to achieve it. A harsh life, to be sure, but many immigrants suffered hardships and indignations as indentured servants. Their descendants rose above it. You don’t hear them bemoaning their forebears’ life the way some blacks can’t rise above the fact theirs were slaves.
Adele Ferguson

The hidden pony, priceless... but this is a sentiment that I as well as many other "unthankful" blacks have heard time and time again. "its not my fault" or "get over it" or as one of my Ronald Reagan loving past professors put it "When is it enough?" (and yes I did set it off in class that day). An interesting aside both my professor and adele have an affinity for Ronald Reagan (HMMMM.....). Anyways what we are faced with is the continual attack on the Cultural Fitness of the African American from all fronts wither it be in academics (ala my Ronald Reagan obsessed prof) or the mass media or any other information source. Its continued "full court press" on our status allows for the type of environment which we have before us today. One which allows these malicious attacks on our Cultural Identity to go on with impunity.

Rachel states:

The lack of empathy that many Whites display is both a sociological and a psychological problem. It is the indifference to human suffering that allows ordinary people to engage in extraordinary acts of violence. It is the lack of empathy that allows people to sit by and blame people for their suffering.

This is the same lack of empathy that allows people like Neal Boortz to call a Congress Woman a "Ghetto Slut" on a broadcast radio show. The same lack of empathy that allows people like Michelle Malkin to Post images dipicting "The Race Card". Like black folks made up 400 years of oppression to simply have it cast aside in the terms of Ms. Ferguson "A harsh life, to be sure, but many immigrants suffered hardships and indignations as indentured servants. Their descendants rose above it." The communal well of condescending thought runs so deep among "these people" one is left to wonder, what do they really think about us?
props to the blogs, holding it down...

Blaxplantion, Blackademic (dont throw that laptop!), TBLJ, Horses Ass, Rachels Tavern

"Dont worry be happy"
NARO%

Learning to love Africa

Monique Maddy speaks at Google...
Upon graduating from Harvard Business School, Maddy, born in Liberia and educated in Britain and the U.S., relocates to Tanzania to execute a start-up business providing telephone service. With the excitement attendant to starting a new company and the soul-searching of a young woman on a mission, Maddy brings personal experience and a different perspective on the troubled history of conquest and colonization of Africa, including the resettlement of American slaves in Liberia. Having worked for the UN, Maddy also brings a perspective on capitalism versus the benevolent efforts of world organizations. She contrasts their ineffectiveness with the entrepreneurial heritage of the Mandingo, who have an extensive network of trade and finance throughout Africa, as well as her father's business enterprises and the foreign investment of Firestone and other companies in small, isolated towns that stand in stark contrast to the chaos of the surrounding country. Maddy is ultimately disappointed when her enterprise fails owing to local corruption, ineptitude, and bureaucracy, and she struggles to maintain her vision for self-reliance and entrepreneurialism in Africa.

See Video here

Monique Maddy Website

Africa is talking, are you listening?
Naro%

Peep This

Something I came across in my travels (around the web). Sounds like he's pitching the same thing I been ranting about for some time now...

"Live wires connect"
Naro%

Opening day hate.... Barry Bonds public enemy number one

"When you get booed or cheered it means people

are aware of what you're capable of doing."
Eric Young Padres Outfielder

Why is it that in a sport where our numbers have dwindled to such a point where you could count the amount of African Americans on each team with one hand, we still catch flack? Why is it that everytime we excell in any arena (especially sporting) its like you have to be the "Prefect Kneegro". The kneegro who denies he is a negro, or the kneegro who never speaks out on issues beyond the hardwood, the greatest kneegro's are the quiet ones. The ones who dont dance, the ones who dont have tats or wear baggy clothes, the ones who listen to the funky ass comments from the "Press" and respond in proper fashion. Just imagine a stadium full of white people hating on one black man, so resentful, so spiteful, and for the most part, it is because of who and what he is, and what he is capable of doing. America's past time? You better believe it...

Yo Barry keep smacking them
"little white balls" outta the park!
Naro%

Cynthia dont play that!!!

"Let me be clear," Ms. McKinney said, surrounded by supporters at the historically black university. "This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female black congresswoman. I deeply regret this incident occurred, and I am certain that after a full review of the facts, I will be exonerated."

How you gonna just bum rush a political figure? Stop the hate people!

Go Cynthia!!!
Naro%

P.S. Why is the State Department and the Congressional Budget Office all up in my shit? I can think of thousands of ways my hard earned tax dollars could be much better spent!!

SO TRY GETTING YO ASSES TO WORK!!!

Malcolm X : Things we already know...

"Show me how a country treats its women,
and I'll show you the progress of that nation"
Malcolm X

Now you know why they call'em Blue Devils

Shalom,
Naro%