Bald-faced lies about Black men (Part 6)...

 Bald-faced lies about Black men (Part 6)—The "Love TKO" of Black relationships, Tasha K. and the "Lead Attorney", Kevin Samuels and the "Jamaican" perturbation, white fascist welfare vs. Black marriage, and answering the age-old question: When are Black men gonna' get their "stuff" together? 

“…complaining about the government is useless when you can build your own.”

—KRS-ONE, Hip-Hop Philosopher and Metaphysician

To the consistent (and patient) readers of this blog: Family, being a bit back-logged with content is a problem I'm currently facing 'cause of the long hiatus I took from this forum. So, to rectify this, I'm gonna' use this portion o' the post to publish some subjects I formerly planned to write about regarding the obstacles plaguing the concept of what I, and some others have called, "Black Love". With this said, the next "3" parts of this prologue will feature some of my observations and solutions, which I hope will lead some of us to a future where the Black Diaspora can exist in a (more) productive and progressive state. So, with this outta' the way, let's dive into...

Part 1. 

Family, one day, while driving with the woman I was in my first relationship with, I began discussing the lyrical ingenuity of the song, "Love TKO", by the R&B artist, Teddy Pendergrass. As I continued my soliloquy about how masterfully the song's lyrics matched the sonic sentiments of the track, my African-American woman-friend stated matter-of-factly, how Teddy got into the car accident which left him wheelchair bound for the rest of his life, behind some woman performing a sexual favor on him while he drove his Rolls Royce. 

A decade after leaving this woman, I happened upon a documentary about Teddy's life one evening. Come to find out, the local police department in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Teddy's from, were not only harassing him 'cause they didn’t like seeing Teddy ridin' around in his Rolls, but officer McFoley and ‘em really didn’t like how Teddy'd become a bona-fide "sex symbol" for so many American women-including the white ones. 

Turns out, this harassment continued so much over the course of several years, Teddy finally sued the local authorities in an attempt to get ‘em off his back, and after filing this lawsuit, is when he had the infamous car "accident" where his brakes mysteriously failed-and fam, lemme tell ya’, Teddy was lucky to make it outta' this near fatal car accident alive. Proof of this came right before Teddy was put on a gurney so he could be transported to the hospital, when he said to his woman friend, "Don't let them hurt me." 

Now, before I saw this documentary, I’d planned to do some research to find out if this story was true—but, there’s a chance I might’ve never gotten around to doing this research, thus, I might’ve went to my grave with an impression of Teddy Pendergrass being some depraved sexual deviant. Moreover, the reason this woman became my ex, is because I recognized how much this story reflected her opinions of ALL Black men, not just Teddy. I remember she and her friends were constantly thinking the worst of Black men and pursuing relationships with any and every other kind of man except Black men. So, at this point you're probably thinking, bruh, we’ve all been in bad relationships—you can’t very well say something about the majority of Black women based on your individual experience. I realize this, which is why I’ve got some other anecdotes to share. This said, let’s go ALL THE WAY in wit’…

Part 2.

David Freiheit, better known by his YouTuber alias, “The Lead Attorney”, grew up in Montreal, Canada and was a Creative Arts major at Dawson College, before he received a B.A. in this subject at Canada’s McGill University. Shortly thereafter, he obtained a law degree from Universite Laval where he was editor-in-chief of the school’s law journal.

In 2007, David began practicing law and following in the footsteps of his father and older siblings. He worked for the law firm “Border, Ladner, Gervais” for six years, before opening his own litigation practice, Freiheit Legal. Now, for the first years of his YouTube career, David was a commercial litigator and stated he couldn’t become a full-time YouTuber because of his legal obligations. However, in January 2018, he left his practice to commit to YouTube and focus his channel on the issues of Family Law.

Latasha Transrina Kebe, better known by her YouTuber alias, “Tasha K.”, was born in Panama, Florida and now resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She started her YouTube career in 2015, and her channel caters primarily to “celebrity gossip”. Tasha got her first taste of YouTube success when a video she created titled, “Sidechick shows up at her Boyfriend’s Wedding” went viral, and got her a million views. More recently, she’s become noted for vids exposing celebs like Cardi B and Derrick Jaxn, the first of which sued Tasha for $70,000 when she said Cardi was a former prostitute, stripper, and member of the “Bloods” street gang. Tasha retaliated by suing Cardi for allegedly sending Bloods gang members to her home, which she said forced her to leave the state of Florida completely.

Now, about three weeks ago, Tasha K. allegedly leaked some information about the R. Kelly trial which she may have gotten from a “retired” prisons officer. When this became a hot topic on YouTube, The Lead Attorney (TLA), gave his two cents about the matter saying, if this is true, Tasha could be facing some jail time. Welp, Tasha K. got wind of what TLA said, and preceded to record a YouTube video responding to his statements.

So fam, what I’ll do is post the vid’ at the end of this publishing, but lemme just tell ya’ some of what Tasha said. She basically proceeded to call TLA a “…stiff-hipped, pillow-talkin’, becky-lovin’, bi#ch.” At certain points, you could almost see her spittle flying toward the camera. Fam, not only did she look like she just rolled outta’ bed, but she proceeded to expose herself for the piece of tenement trash she really is. Mind you, the name of her podcast is “Unwine with Tasha K.” ‘cause she likes to drink glasses of wine in an attempt to look upper-scale, but in one fatal swoop, she returned to the gutter she obviously crawled out of.

Now, afterwards, I believe Tasha probably felt she’d made TLA look like an emasculated clown, until she started getting some feedback from her fans. Mind you, nearly all of them told her how crazy she made not only herself, but Black women in general look with her profanity-riddled tirade. After she’d heard all these negative reviews, she actually made a vid’ apologizing to TLA—but, the vid’ seemed like a half-hearted attempt at an apology, from someone who didn't really have any remorse for what they did.

The strangest part of all this fam, to me at least, was Tasha’s fans wondering, well, was she drunk when she made her vid’ calling TLA everything but a child of God? I kinda’ shook my head thinkin’, isn’t it obvious what this woman was showing? If not, lemme tell ya’ fam--what Tasha was really showing the world was her venomous hatred for Black men. This is why in the vid’ she wears no make-up and uses every profane word she could think of when talkin’ about TLA—it’s also why she comes off as a half-crazy, neck-snappin’, eye-rollin’, and arm waving "Pam" from the projects.

Moreover, what’s more worrisome still’ is this—Tasha’s intrinsic hatred for Black men, is the same kind the overwhelming majority of Black women have for us, whether they know it or not. Now, you may be reading this and saying, bruh, she’s gotta’ Black husband. Welp, not only is this brotha African, so he may be dependent on her for his immigration status as well as his finances, but according to Tasha, he spends most nights sleeping on the couch and he’s not interested in having sex with her. Mind you, Tasha and her friends are entertaining the idea of his being on the “down-low”—but, what’s most likely is, he just doesn’t wanna’ have sex with a woman who looks and acts more like a man than he does. Just sayin’.

Now, I’m bettin’ some folks reading this are thinkin’, bruh, you’re saying the majority of Black women are this way is still completely unfounded. Just ‘cause Tasha’s spittin’ mad at Black men, don’t mean they all are—the majority of sistas don’t act like she does. Welp, you’re right—not every Black woman is prone to bouts of violent outbursts against Black men. Which leads me into the next section o’ my post—so, let’s hop over into…

Part 3.

About a week ago, Kevin Samuels recorded an Instagram live chat he titled, “Can Modern Relationships Be Fixed?” On this broadcast he spoke with a Jamaican woman who was fit, relatively feminine, and wearing her natural hair—additionally, she spoke in very calm and measured tones, making her seem like she’d be a pleasant person to be around. Mind you, I’ll provide a link for the vid’ at the end of this post.

Now, in a calm and very relaxed manner, this Black woman made the following “4” statements about Black men: 1. She said Black men aren’t “intellectually stimulating” (read: she thinks we’re stupid), 2. She said we’re more likely to cheat than the average man, 3. She said we don’t make good leaders, and 4. She said our “grandfathers” made our grandmothers miserable. So, my point is this, Black women don’t have to go on angry rants like Tasha K. to show their virulent hatred for Black men—they can do it with a smile.

Now fam, I said there’d be “3” parts to this prologue, but I gotta’ fourth I need to expound on right quick—so, on the topic of “pleasant-sounding” Black women who hate Black men, lemme point y’all over to…

Part 4.

The other day, I was looking over my YouTube “home page”, when a suggested vid’ titled, “Did Black Women Choose Money Over Our Men?” popped up. The title peaked my interest so I clicked on it.

What appeared was a very pleasant and feminine looking female named Erica LeShai, who was the channel’s curator—so, I leaned in closer to listen to what she was saying about the topic. Now, the premise of her vid’ was how she’s heard Black men for years saying Black women chose government programs over staying with us, particularly in the 1970’s and 80’s. So, the counter argument she presented was as follows: she began talking about how America shipped the majority of its manufacturing jobs overseas in the 1970’s, and because Black men were the ones primarily working these jobs, when they lost them, they could no longer provide for their families. Thus, Black men became depressed and abusive, which drove Black women away from them and on to these government programs. I just shook my head.

Now, if any Black person is reading this who thinks this is a sound argument, lemme just introduce a few facts to this incipient theory. First off, Lyndon Baines Johnson, LBJ, created the “Great Society” programs as a means of eliminating poverty in the U.S. (at least this is what they told us) in 1964. So, these were the programs at least half of Black women chose over being with Black men during the “1960’s”—meaning, Black women already enrolled in these programs several years before the “70’s” even came around. Second, the majority of America’s manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas during the “80’s”, not the “70’s”—meaning, Black women chose these programs over Black men while we were earning decent and stable salaries—moreover, stats show Black men’s salaries were actually increasing at the time. Mind you, Erica looks to be in her early-to-mid thirties, so not only isn’t she familiar with these decades, but I can tell she’s not used to doing much in the way of historical research.

Meaning, this was yet another example of a “feminine” looking Black woman not taking accountability for the actions of Black women overall, and saying emphatically to the Black Diaspora, whatever is wrong with our people has to be the fault of the Black man-thus, showing her inherent hatred for us. Whether she knows it or not.

Now, I’ve said all this to say, in spite of these truths, there’s a silver lining to these storm clouds for Black men in particular. So right now, you’re probably thinkin’, bruh, what good can you extract outta’ these facts in regards to “Black Love”. Welp, these examples definitively show Black men we CAN NOT count on the majority of Black women to help us achieve anything resembling “unity” in our Diaspora.

So, you might be thinkin’, how’s this a good thing? Well, peep this out brothas, when you’re building something, it’s better to know who will and won’t help you—‘cause once you’ve got this info. you’ll understand who you don't need to consider. Lemme expound on this further--what I’ve discovered most about our Diaspora is this truism: MEN MUST LEAD. PERIOD. If you know this, then you know it’s up to Black men to build the sociopolitical and economic infrastructure necessary to unite our people—again, the majority of Black women chose white fascism, so we don’t have to wonder where they stand. Moreover, because of their choice, the majority of them are winding up obese, oversexed, and alone.

So, to the Black men reading this, I say it’s a moral imperative for us to laser beam our focus on creating this kinda' unity amongst ourselves—irregardless of whether or not Black women want to join us.

Now, you may be thinkin’, bruh, have you noticed Black men ain’t doin' too well lately? How do you suspect we'll be able to accomplish this without Black women? Well, to this I’ll say, let’s pore over some stats to see whether or not Black men are equipped to unify our Diaspora, and pull our people outta’ the ineptitude of the integrationist mindset which led us into this white fascist fiasco in the first place. In other words, follow me over to the main part o’ this post fam’…

—MontUHURU Mimia

People, since I’ve spent more time on the first part o’ this post than I intended, what I’ll do here is dive right into “3” socioeconomic queries which’ll qualify whether or not Black men can build up our Diaspora, while answering the decade’s old question: When will Black men get their “stuff” together? So let's start wit'...

Question#1. 

How can Black men build up our Diaspora when Black women earn more than them?

Welp, let’s go to the stats—now, according to the American Bureau of Labor and Statistics, this year, the median weekly salary for Black men was $877, while the median weekly salary for Black women was $746. Note, I’ll leave links for these stats at the end of the post fam. So Black men are actually earning more than Black women.

Question#2.

How can Black men build up our Diaspora when they’re going to jail in droves?

Well fam, comparable to 2007, the Black American male incarceration rate has dropped by 34%, and is now at its lowest levels since 1991.

Question#3.

How can Black men build up our Diaspora when they’re so uneducated?

Fam, over the last 15 years, Black American men’s college graduation rate has jumped from 28% to 35%. Also, Black men continue to lead in obtaining professional degrees (doctorates, law degrees, etc.) over Black women—approximately 88,000 Black American men have professional degrees, while Black American women have obtained 62,000 of these degrees.

So, regarding the question of when are Black men gonna’ get their “stuff” together, here’s the answer…

WE’RE DOING IT "RIGHT NOW "Y’ALL!

Now, here’s the real question: Will Black women acknowledge this and will it make them act any differently towards us? I heard one Black woman say, well, if Black men are only doing 1% better, there’s not much of an improvement. So, to the brothas reading this, I’ll borrow a quote from Kevin Samuels and say, “…the gender war is over. It’s now time for the Black woman to come to the Black man’s table so they can show what they’ve got to offer us.”

And like Sam L. Jackson said in Spike Lee’s classic movie, “Do the Right Thing”: “…that’s the double truth, Ruth.”

Later…

—MontUHURU Mimia

Fam, here’s the Tasha K. vid’.

Warning: This video contains gratuitous amounts of profanity. Viewer discretion is advised.

 Also fam, the link for the Kevin Samuels vid’ is HERE

Family, you can find the stats for incarceration rates among Black American men HERE and HERE 

Also, you can find the educational stats of Black American men HERE

Finally, you can find the wage stats for Black American men HERE

The white fascist attack on Black femininity (Part 5)...J. Prince, Suge Knight, and Irv Gotti's thwarted "power moves", marginalized "Little Mermaids", "Yemaya" the Orisha, and answers to the age-old question of why Black folks don't stick together...

To the (consistent) readers of this blog: Fam, as of late, I’ve been focused on following through with the mission statement of this forum, especially in terms of honoring this site’s name—that being, “The ‘CINEMATIC SYMBOLISM’ Blog”. Meaning, I felt the need to explore other mediums that spoke in more of a “visual” language, than a “literal” one. Thus, I’ve been obsessing over my video editing, being that I went through the trouble of swapping out my older software for a newer program—but, I must confess that over the last few weeks, I’ve really missed the tactile sensations of typing out my feelings on a keyboard. So much so, that when I read about the topics of the “live-action”, “Little Mermaid” movie backlash, and the dismantled music distribution company J. Prince, Irv, and Suge attempted creating, I eventually decided, I need to get back to my writing.

Mind you, in keeping with the template of my last few “written” posts, this one’s gonna’ stick wit’ tha’ “mash-up” style I’ve recently adopted. Reason being, both these topics kinda’ hit me at once—so what I’ll write about here is how I was repulsed, but not surprised, by chez whitey’s negative reaction to a young sista playing the lead character in Disney’s, ”The Little Mermaid”, and how the thwarted corporate troika of Irv Gotti, Suge Knight, and J. Prince can answer the age ol’ question of why Black folks can’t seem to stick together. Now, since this post is gonna’ be bifurcated, for the most part, I thought I’d compartmentalize these goings-on by splitting this editorial into a “Part 1” and “Part 2”. So, with that said—let’s get into the first deciphering(s) of how these seemingly disparate subjects, actually fit together under the umbrella’d tyrannies of america’s white fascist social order.

Now family, last week, a young brotha from Africa, who I’d acquainted myself with, out of the clear blue, asked me this question: why haven’t Black men (Black american men especially) created organized crime networks, like the italian “mafia”?

Now, what the young brotha was really saying (or telling me) was “3” distinct things about himself. And those are: #1. He was saying, Black (american) men (especially) aren’t as smart as white men—and when I say white, I mean italians, irish, jew-“ish” men, etc. #2. He was telling me, he didn’t realize he’s Black himself, thus, he’s indirectly calling himself stupid, and #3. He let me know by asking this question, that he’d received the same kinda’ education I did to “subconsciously” make me hate myself and everyone who looks like me.

So, after I gave him a talking to in private, I told him the true story I’m about to tell you brothas, sistas—and the assortment of other ethnic enemies who’re reading this post. And when I use the term “enemies”, that’s NOT hyperbole. If you’re not one of us, then I really don’t want or need you to read this post, or blog, for that matter—cause now, more than ever, we’re seeing that there is not (and never will be) a “Black-brown” alliance, or any kind of other “alliances” forged between “US” and other people—and I’ll expound more on that in my next post.

So, with that said, let’s go in on this true story of what happened behind the attempted alliance forged between Suge Knight, Irv Gotti, and J.Prince, and the “Black power” move they initiated.

—MontUHURU Mimia

Part 1.

Marion Hugh “Suge” Knight Jr., was born in Compton, California on April 19^th, 1965. He’s the son of Maxine Dikemen and Marion Knight Sr.—and mind you, the nick-name “Suge” came from his parents who nick-named him “sugarbear” when he was young, cause of his sweet demeanor.

Suge attended Lynwood High School in California, where he was a football and track star. He graduated from Lynwood in 1983. And after high school, Suge attended El Camino College, and later transferred to UNLV (University of Las Vegas) where he played collegiate football. Now, at UNLV Suge not only made the “Dean’s List”, but he was such an outstanding athlete that he wasn’t only voted UNLV’s “Rookie of the Year”, but he was made a “defensive captain”, and won “first team ‘all conference’ honors” in UNLV’s football program. And what Harvey Hyde, who became UNLV’s football coach said about Suge was this: “Knight played his butt off…He was a ‘yes sir, no sir’ guy…the type of player any coach would want for his team.”

After graduating from UNLV, Suge played briefly on the Los Angeles Rams football team during the 1987 NFL strike. After the NFL, Suge found work as a concert promoter and a bodyguard for celebrities such as Bobby Brown, before he opened his own music publishing and management companies. And behind these, one of the first moments when he saw any real profits of his labor, was when Robert Van Winkle, a.k.a. “Vanilla Ice”, agreed to sign over royalties to Suge for his hit, “Ice Ice Baby”. Mind you, the person who wrote the song was a brotha named Mario Johnson, a.k.a. “Chocolate”. Now, I can’t very well write about Suge’s first monetary windfall without addressing the rumor that Suge robbed Vanilla Ice for these royalties, by holding mr. Ice Ice Baby over a balcony by his ankles, until the white rapper forked over the publishing rights to that song. So, the truth is, after this alleged incident, Suge had to sue both the music company “EMI” and Vanilla Ice to reclaim those monies—and it wasn’t until a couple of months to a year later, that Suge and “Chocolate” were paid for those songs.

And thereafter, Suge’s management company signed the artists “DJ Quik” and “The D.O.C.”—and it was the D.O.C. who introduced Suge to Dr. Dre. And when Dre talked to Suge about his being robbed for royalties at “Ruthless Records” behind Jerry Heller’s chicanery, they both decided to form “Death Row Records”.

Irving Domingo Lorenzo Jr., a.k.a. “Irv Gotti”, was born in Hollis, Queens, New York City on June 26^th, of 1970. In his teenage years, he was known as “DJ Irv”, and became one of the most revered “turntablists” in his neighborhood, especially after garnering the coveted honor of being the official DJ for block parties in “Jamaica Park”, which was the nucleus for the burgeoning Hip-Hop culture in Queens. Once Irv got his first taste of being a “local celebrity”, his music career evolved to the point of him beginning to DJ for mainstream Hip-Hop artists like a young “Jay-Z” (and we’ll talk more about ‘Jay’ later), and this predated Irv’s producing records for artists and beginning to think about forming a management company of his own.

Irv’s music industry cred, and his seeing how he could affect more change in the industry from the “inside out”, got him an “A&R” executive position at “Def Jam” records where he was responsible for signing and producing songs for DMX, and Jay-Z. Now, once Irv felt he’d developed a “formula” for making mainstreamed (or at least “cross-over” eligible) hits, he created his own record company, “Murder Inc.” in 1988 with his brother Chris, and the first artist he signed was a young, up and coming rapper from the “Woodhull projects” in Hollis, Queens named, “Ja Rule”.

James Prince, also known as “J. Prince”, was born in Houston, Texas on October 31^st, of 1964. Now, James started out being a “used-car” salesman as a young man, and years later, he became the owner of a “car-lot” himself. And while James was busy running his business, he saw how much trouble his younger brother was getting into on the means streets of Houston’s “fifth ward”. And what James also recognized, was his brother’s passion for rap music. Now, James’ brother went by the emcee name, “Sir Rap-a-Lot”, thus, James founded the music company, “Rap-a-Lot Records”.

Now, I’ve detailed all that to say this, between the years of 2001 and ’02, Suge, Irv, and J. Prince spoke of creating a Black music distribution company. Reason being was, at some point they realized our people were the ones providing not only the majority of the best talent in the industry, but we were also setting the musical trends nationally, and globally. Moreover, their artists were the ones doing the marketing and promoting of their products—thus, the only service(s) white execs could offer these brothas was distribution, and even that perceived fact was now (complete) fiction with the advent of the internet (and we can thank brotha Dr. Phil Emeagwali for that invention, and I’ll leave a link for my post about him). So, it was between the above mentioned years that these brothas had a meeting, where they drew up plans and put up monies to make this company happen.

But there’s even more to this story—turns out, these “3” Black men not only wanted to create a music distribution company, they were gonna’ create a full-fledged “union” for Black music artists, regardless of genre. Or as Irv Gotti stated in Rob Markman’s article titled, “Irv Gotti and Suge Knight planned to unionize artists”, for “MTV News”: “It wasn’t a ‘distribution’, it was a union. In the music business, the artists, we have no union. There’s no health care, it’s nothing like that. It should be done…” said Gotti, crediting Suge with devising the plan.

Now, here’s where the wild card comes in folks…

Dame Dash of Rockefeller Records was rumored to also be at this meeting (and if you don’t know who he is, I’ll leave a link for a post I wrote on him). And supposedly, he had Shawn Carter, a.k.a. “Jay-Z” with ‘em. Now, once again, rumor has it that Jay-Z decided to tell his white fascist buddy, Lyor Cohen (he’s a high-ranking music exec. working for “YouTube” y’all) what the brothas were up to—and long story short, “3” things happened…

#1. In late 2002, the L.A. Police Department raided Suge Knight’s offices in Las Vegas and L.A. Mind you, they said they weren’t directly targeting Knight, but someone associated with him.

#2. In 2003, the Feds raided Murder Inc.’s offices in New York City, and arrested Irv Gotti. Federal investigators alleged that Irv’s seed money for Murder Inc. came from Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff, and his criminal enterprise—a few years later, Irv was acquitted of these charges.

#3. J.Prince talked about how the Feds seemed to be stalking him, and how they pulled him over in Dallas, Texas. He hired a private investigator and found out that one of the federal agents assigned to him had killed 8 people previously—so this man was essentially an assassin for the federal gov’t. Thereafter, J. Prince took it upon himself to go to Washington D.C. and tell authorities that this “hitman” wasn’t gonna’ get a chance to murder him without him hiring security in his own defense.

Now, I’ve said all that to say this, when people—especially (indigenous) Black people, ask the question: How come Black folks don’t stick together? The answer is, when we do, THIS is what happens. Meaning…WE WILL ALWAYS COME UP AGAINST MORE OPPOSITION THAN ANYONE ELSE WHEN IT COMES TO THE TOPIC OF OUR UNITY!

AND I SAY AGAIN, WE’LL COME UP AGAINST MORE OPPOSITON THAN “ANY” OTHER KIND OF PERSON!

For “3” reasons—and those are…

#1. We have the most genetic power(s) to breed these inbreds outta’ existence, #2. white birth rates have fallen below replacement levels, and #3. whitey’s committing suicide and overdosing on drugs in droves, thus, now more than ever, they’ve literally got more bullseyes on our backs ‘cause of reason #1.

Now, for the indigenous Black persons reading this, not only don’t you ever have to ask yourselves this question again, but you can tell other folks, especially other Black folks, who ask you this question, to STOP ASKING STUPID QUESTIONS!

Part 2.

Now fam, I was gonna’ use more of a formulaic approach to writing this part of the post, but I have to say what’s on my heart, so I’ma just freestyle in this section y’all. With that said, lemme speak on Halle Bailey, and the backlash surrounding her playing the lead role in Disney’s remake of “The Little Mermaid”, with a little primer on one of the deities of the Black Spiritual Sciences—the “ORISHA”, “YEMAYA”.

Now, I can already hear people saying, “Yema—who?” And behind that, I'll say this, to the right are 2 displays of the deity Yemaya, who's said to be the “mother” of ALL “The Orishas”, and this energy was depicted as a Black female “MERMAID”. And Yemaya predates both the author, Hans Christian Anderson’s tale of the ”Little Mermaid” and the 1989 Disney flick of the same name. *Note: On the left of the above pic, is a modern depiction of this deity and on the right is a photo that's reppin’ for the ancients, and you can click on this pic to make it larger.

Moreover, as depicted (right) you can see that Yemaya was the inspiration for the “Starbucks” logo—who’d a thunk it? And again, you can click on the pic to enlarge it.

So, here’s what I wanna’ really say directly to tha’ sistas reading this post—you NEED to understand that a white woman’s MOST valuable asset, when it’s all said and done, is her STATUS AS THE WORLD’S PRETTIEST WOMAN! And mind you, she’s called that behind “european” standards of beauty.

And that means what? It means that while trailer trash Tina (3T) is selling sistas on “feminism”, she’s liable to get spittin’ mad whenever she feels you’re takin’ this title from her. Or, let me say this another way—3T feels that the tale of “The Little Mermaid” speaks to the kind of exquisite femininity, that’s ONLY RESERVED FOR HER—and that’s why she’s showin’ her true colors (pun intended) when it comes to this Disney flick. But, like I’ve showed you with YEMAYA, EEERRRYTHANG—AND I MEAN EVERYTHING, IN THIS WORLD BEGINS WIT’ US! And like I’ve said in the past—ultimately YOUR “FEMININITY” IS WHAT’S GONNA’ SAVE YOU SISTA—NOT FEMINISM!

And like Sam L. Jackson said in Spike Lee’s classic film, Do the Right Thing, “That’s the double truth, Ruth.”

Later…

—MontUHURU Mimia

P.S.

Here’s a video detailing the controversy over Halle and her lead role in Disney’s, “The Little Mermaid”

   P.P.S.

Now, I was tryna’ find a longer video to explain what happened to the triumvirate of Suge, Irv, and J. Prince—but this short clip from a J. Prince radio interview just says it all.

 

 *Addendum: 7/25/2019—Family, the link I promised to post about Damon Dash you can read HERE. 

*Addendum: 7/25/2019—Also, you can check out the post I wrote on the ingenious brotha who created the internet, Dr. Phil Emeagwali, HERE.