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A few thoughts on this mess:

• Jesse Jackson is a man of the cloth, right? Under what circumcision circumstance should he be talking about cutting off anyone’s nuts?
• Nick Fieldz is spot on.
• I dig Nas, but I would’ve rather he dropped Bushwick Bill over Young Jeezy as a voice of the people. Seriously.

UPDATE: More from Nas:

Not that Fox is responsible for Jackson’s stupidity, but Nas makes a good point — why does Jackson keep flocking to spots like Fox? Particularly in the age of self-broadcasting? I think it’s because he’s not even trying to speak to or represent the < 35 yr. old demographic, which supports Nas' take on "Messy Jesse" even more.

One point of contention with the last Nas video, though: nuts have nothing to do with prostate cancer. Where are the freestyle torture schoolings of Method Man when you need them?

(via Nah Right)

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Instant classic.

(via Davey D)

And to extend the focus on his third point about hypocritical laws regarding drugs, check out this gem of a Canadian PSA I found:

Produced by DJ Green Lantern

(via Nah Right)

UPDATE: The Nigger Tape is now available online (via NappyAfro). Don’t know why it’s compressed as a .rar file, but you can decompress it with either RAR Expander (Mac) or WinRAR (PC)

Before you get raving mad and blast me with PC noise please understand a few things:

• Yes, I agree with the Hitler comparison thesis. Ironically, it’s what makes this so damn brilliant
• Hillary is more than deserving for most of her criticism. Not all, but most.

Written by James Adomian.

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Is the Obama shoulder brush in 2008 the pop equivalent of Clinton playing the sax on Arsenio Hall in ‘91?

Classic.

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All that’s left to see is Charles Gibson doing the Superman dance.

(via Ill Doctrine)

If you should choose to spend the next 37 minutes and 10 seconds sincerely listening to Barack Obama speak on American life as he has experienced it, I promise that you will feel a connection to a fellow human being, not merely a politician.

David Weinberger summed up the speech the best for me:

[...] Obama is asking us to do what is perhaps hardest. What it takes adults to do. Obama’s speech asks us to embrace difference and simultaneously to transcend it. [...]

Who else is tired of the romper room, polarizing, media frenzied society we live within?

Five years ago, today, The United States of America went to war — the epitome of a last measure — with a country because a majority of Americans were led to believe that they had a good excuse to do so.

Barack Obama is making no excuses.

UPDATE: Check out what real people have to say about the speech:

King Anyi from Oakland, California

Cosmo from somewhere in America

Mike Dayvas from somewhere in America

VerticalPolitics from somewhere in America

Students react to Obama’s speech

And to round off this topic, let’s see how Fox News handles the issue:

As always, Fox goes for the binary response. Everything is either a yes or no answer, because it either fits their “gotcha agenda” or it doesn’t.

Big props to Davey D for flippin’ the script on their reporter.

I’m trying to keep this blog free of political discussions, but this has to be shared.

While there’s a decent chance that Clinton could actually be adding fuel to a potential Democratic loss in November — which should in reality be equitable with hell freezing over — I believe that she and Bill have differentiated themselves as people in ways far more damaging to their own place in society rather than simply the confined parameters of this campaign.

I know we’re talking politics here, but who at this point has blinders thick enough to consider Hillary anything more than a desperate, self-serving shell of a public servant?

Previously.