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The Next Thing to Legalize
The Next Thing to Legalize
It amazes me that feminists are not on the front lines of the sex hustle, tryna get that shit legalized so that they themselves can start raking in the dough.
Cause Lord knows to listen to them, you’d imagine that none of them hoes has heterosexual sex “on the strength” anymore and that if they’re notteachers and subsequently raping young boys, they’re at home, alone, mad, and beating the fuck…
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The late Aretha Franklin's family said Monday that it found an Atlanta pastor's eulogy delivered at the Queen of Soul's funeral last wee...
The late Aretha Franklin's family said Monday that it found the eulogy delivered by Atlanta pastor Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. at the Queen of Soul's funeral last week to be offensive and distasteful.
10. Just as the span of Aretha Franklin’s career told the intersecting stories of the civil rights movement, the Black Power movement, Motown, rock ‘n roll, soul music, pop music, black culture, black America, and America, her homegoing told the story of the black church. There has never been a better and greater and more accurate synopsis of the smelting of beauty and majesty and history and messy and ugly that happens in our pews each Sunday. Aretha Franklin’s funeral was, fittingly, the Aretha Franklin of funerals.
4. Much has already been said about Ariana Grande’s choice of attire (which was inappropriate for the event, but the same way it would have been if she wore a fireman’s uniform), her performance, the way the men on stage seemed to be gawking at her, and Bishop Charles H. Ellis III’s condescending (and racist) joke about her while clutching and pulling a clearly uncomfortable Ariana closer to him. It was, for lack of a better term, gross.
The disgust people felt with Ellis’ act was so quick and vehement that he offered a tepid apology for it while at the cemetery. Although he said “I hug all the female artists and the male artists” in his apology, I doubt the truth of that. He had the power of the pulpit, and he used it to put her in what he believed to be her place. This, in a nutshell, is what rape culture is and does.
That said, I do wonder if the perfectly justified and appropriate outrage would have been as swift if he’d done that to someone who wasn’t as popular and traditionally pretty and small and light-skinned as Ariana Grande is. Actually, I lied. I don’t have to wonder. I know that if she were someone darker or heavier or less aligned with Western beauty standards, the level of rebuke wouldn’t have been the same. Of course, I’m not saying that Ariana Grande shouldn’t have had so many people upset for her. Just that black women and girls should get it, too.
9. There has never been a bigger turd in a sweeter punch bowl than Jasper Williams Jr. What he said during the eulogy wasn’t just inappropriate. It was violent and evil. I tweeted something yesterday comparing it to Bill Cosby’s infamous Pound Cake speech, but considering the circumstance, this was even worse. It was so bad that the name Jasper—which, let’s be honest, was already an “eh” name—has forever been ruined. “Oh, I don’t fuck with dude. He’s a Jasper-ass nigga” is now a telling and illuminative insult. He Adolf-ed Jasper.
Also, while I’m lucky enough to attend a church in Pittsburgh where the pastor and the pastor’s wife are progressive, I know that’s not everyone’s church experience. Maybe there aren’t men like Jasper Williams Jr. leading every church, but there are churches led by men like Jasper Williams Jr. in every black community. And while he blamed black-on-black crime on single motherhood and single motherhood on us moving away from the church, the true enemies in our communities are the Jasper-ass niggas wielding power. Some do it at church and on the pulpit; others do it at cookouts and on the couch — oblivious to the destruction they cause; content and fat as long as the ring is kissed.
Fuck him.
Shomari - Fight Song
Shomari – Fight Song
After the passing of Jasper Williams, Shomari releases this heartfelt record titled ‘Fight Song’ he made while Jasper was fighting for his life. He also produced the song.
https://rudeboyy.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/shomari-fight-song-final.mp3
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Shomari - Fight Song
Shomari – Fight Song
After the passing of Jasper Williams, Shomari releases this heartfelt record titled ‘Fight Song’ he made while Jasper was fighting for his life. He also produced the song. https://rudeboyy.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/shomari-fight-song-final.mp3
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-it had been a rough week in the williams household. jasper had saved evan from a jail cell and their father received news of lung cancer from the doctors - years of smoking had obviously taken their toll on the man - and on top of all of that, eric was still mia which only caused jasper to stew even more than he would without the added stress of that. but instead of focusing on his problems, jasper tried to think of everything else, and so took up doing any chores he could to take his mind off his worries, even when the chore was gardening.-
Braced myself for the "Goodbye." ‘Cause that’s all I’ve ever known Then you took me by surprise You said, "I’ll never leave you alone."
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