Mister Wallace - 'It Girl'
Banjee Report - Demi Monde
Jesse Williams 2016 BET Award Speech Transcript
Peace peace. Thank you, Debra. Thank you, BET. Thank you Nate Parker, Harry and Debbie Allen for participating in that [video].
Before we get into it, I just want to say I brought my parents out tonight. I just want to thank them for being here, for teaching me to focus on comprehension over career, and that they make sure I learn what the schools were afraid to teach us. And also thank my amazing wife for changing my life.
Now, this award - this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country - the activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do.
It's kind of basic mathematics - the more we learn about who we are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize.
Now, this is also in particular for the black women in particular who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you.
Now, what we've been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday. So what's going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours.
Now... I got more y'all - yesterday would have been young Tamir Rice's 14th birthday so I don't want to hear anymore about how far we've come when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on 12 year old playing alone in the park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich. Tell Rekia Boyd how it's so much better than it is to live in 2012 than it is to live in 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner. Tell that to Sandra Bland. Tell that to Dorian Hunt.
Now the thing is, though, all of us in here getting money - that alone isn't gonna stop this. Alright, now dedicating our lives, dedicating our lives to getting money just to give it right back for someone's brand on our body when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies, and now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies.
There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There has been no job we haven't done. There is no tax they haven't leveed against us - and we've paid all of them. But freedom is somehow always conditional here. "You're free," they keep telling us. But she would have been alive if she hadn't acted so... free.
Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter, but you know what, though, the hereafter is a hustle. We want it now.
And let's get a couple things straight, just a little sidenote - the burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.That's not our job, alright - stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest, if you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.
We've been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we're done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil - black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit.The thing is though... the thing is that just because we're magic doesn't mean we're not real.
Thank you.
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ADELE - HELLO
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Shamir - On The Regular
Such a beautiful night out with @billydec at the #scionmotivate event. Great speakers, great ideas.
Lauryn Hill-Black Rage
Ms. Lauryn Hill is the latest to add her voice and use her creativity to speak against the unjust killing of yet another Black Man, Michael Brown. Listen to Black Rage, as it is set to the melody of "My Favorite Things."
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TRIGGA
This. Is. My. Shit. Since I'm so late, I'm posting everything from the new TRIGGA album. Bieber came thru and killed it. I love this song. "She got a new bikini when we in the Lamborghini!" yaaaaaassss!
Mercedes Benz X Mario Kart 8
My favorite video game has gotten a very royal upgrade. The whole Mario Family have traded their little tricked out Yoshi mobiles, for Benz's, ans truthfully it's about damn time. I mean they been in this game for the longest. Princess in a 6.
Rich White Ladies - Wimbledon
I need a #latepass for this post, but I get to post it now, because they will be at Roscoe's this Saturday night. I'll be there servin like Sampras. Peep Wimbledon by Rich White Ladies.
Lil Kim - Identity Theft
What I tell you? What did I say? She ain't goin. Listen to Mama Kim with this Nicki diss called Identity Theft. Do you see the art? I mean...
Blake - Your Boyfriend Sucks
Shoutout to Trannika Rex for booing up with the trade, Blake aka Jams Dean for this new one off his upcoming album called Blake 4Ever. Cute.