Hanna Montana Twerking Adventure

I don't get it. I can't say she's not accountable (Billy Ray's Daughter), extending, how can we expect a level of emotional intelligence from her, when the cycle of Black female objectification isn't policed in "our own house?" The writer of this piece completely sidesteps patriarchal masculinity at every section regarding the packaging and false reproduction of "so-called" Black culture and parish the thought Black feminism. Last I checked Betty Shabazz, Coretta Scott King, and Michelle Obama never twerked. Now having said that, I also am cognizant of the fact I am talking about Black Feminism through a Bourgeoisie lens. I am willing however to cosign that this child's performance was unequivocally rooted in hypersexual stereotypes of the Black female body, all the way down to the Sarah Baartman throwback. I think what also has mainstream America in a tizzy is the fact that you have this blond haired, blue eyed, cookie cutter, fresh off the assembly line Disney kid, "Hanna Montana" suddenly has planted both feet into what larger dominant hegemony deems as low brow culture. (Please note, i am censoring myself) Because of this, she in essence has broken a slew of social contracts with mainstream America and consumer parents simply cannot relate. Lets be real, Hanna Montana was the biggest thing since sliced bread for 15 minutes. Bottom line, in a market driven media based economy, there will always be a market for controversy. Controversy sells, and at the risk of being blunt, as some folks "sold out" some other folks got paid.

Blurred Lines: Sagging Mentalities and Defeating Black Nihilism

This is why Don Lemon's five no talking points failed.. This came from Rev. Al Sharpton on the 50th anniversary on the March on Washington. Powerful stuff indeed.
"When I was younger I used to said to my mother, my friends said. Why are we dreaming. You need to be awake to fight. Well my mother said to me you got to understand what dreams are for. Dreams are for those who won't accept reality as it is, so they so they dream of what is not there and make it possible. They will romanticize Dr. Kings speech. But the genius of Dr kings speech was not just the poetry of his words, the genius of his speech is what the bloodshed in Bermingham with Metgar Evars having been killed, with James Farmer, one of his co leaders in jail, he didn't stand here and discuss the pain, he didn't stand here and express the anger, he said in the face of those that wanted him dead, that no matter what you do, I can dream above what you do, I see a nation that will make change if we pay the price, others saw voting booths we couldn't use, but King saw the possibility of an Obama 50 years ago. The world is made of dreamers that change reality because of their dream. And what we must do is we must give our young people dreams again. That's lead Sandars and Widegardern were talking about: you take the funds, you take the expertise and you tell the children they are nothing, and you tell them they aren't expected to be nothing, you build jails and close schools and you break their dreams and you wonder why they walking around with their pants down, because that's what you wear in jail, and if you think that's where you headed, you might as well get dressed before you get there. We need to give them dreams again; not to worry about sagging pants but about sagging mentalities. If we told them who they could be and what they could do, they would pull up their pants and go to work. We've got to change how we deal with this."
Al Sharpton
March on Washington
August 24, 2013