Turning the Clock Back for the Black Community

I was about 12 years old when I first heard Public Enemy. I saw them open for the Beastie Boys. It was 1987, and growing up in a home where politics were often discussed, I found it stimulating and refreshing to listen to revolutionary minded rap lyrics. Flava Flav was energetic and flambouyant, while Chuck D and the S1W's were more subdued and disciplined. Who knew that Flava Flav was just a pimp wearing gaudy clocks and sun-glasses? I guess i feel fooled to a certain degree. I thought that Flava Flav was about uplifting the people. I watched Flava of Love last night, and wondered what Chuck D and the S1W's must be thinking about Flava Flav these days.

Pitt Avoids Marriage

Brad Pitt. What more can you say, a true player. Just when you thought he'd settled down, he pulls one of the most clever marriage avoidance maneuvers imaginable. He claims to be standing up for the rights of the disenfranchised, by not marrying Angelina Jolie. Let a regular Joe Schmoe try to pull one of these fast-ones. "Listen here shawty, ya see, we should'nt be gettin married, bein as though Fa.., I mean Homosexuals can't, nah-mean, I mean it just ain't fair. Feel me?"