Lisa "Left Eye Lopes"

A Free Spirit Gone Too Soon

Lisa "Left Eye Lopes1971-2002

May Lisa Lopes always rest in peace! She's a very beautiful, but troubled free spirit who was very talented in the arts, particulary in the realm of music and hip hop/R&B. Lisa was a very extraordinary woman who was also the most controversial and outgoing of the TLC girls. Chilli is the muse and T-Boz, the poetess. She was an extraordinary entertainer, rapper, songwriter, and actress. She was the most flamboyant of the TLC girls, embracing life as it comes at her, engaging in outlandish antics, on and offstage. She rivals Janet Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Hillary Clinton, Cynthia McKinney, Josephine Baker, the fictional Carmen of Bizet's play, fictional Madame Olenska, Madame X, even Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown of late. These women live their lives at odds with the prevailing societal Free gender and class norms and were made to paid the price for doing so. The prescribed roles for women then and now were to stay in their places, preferably submissive, meek, and traditional wives and mothers and not to make waves that threaten both traditional and current patriarchial societies of the world. Lisa's wearing a condom on her left eye caught the wrath of the establishment and conservatives who don't want any form of education that doesn't stay to the basics. Her offstage lifestyle is like that of Carmen, who doesn't like being told what to do. Had Lisa is alive today, she wouldn't like what she sees in society today, including the impulse to conform to the dictates of society.Once again,may she rest in peace always!

Hating on the Obamas by WomanUp

Hating on the Obamas
By WomanUp

Call me indifferent.But after reading just a few of the racist-fueled comments aimed at 11-year-old Malia Obama's fashion choices on the "conservative" "news" site FreeRepublic.com, I was neither shocked nor surprised. A little confused maybe -- as in, what's so bad about a little girl wearing a peace sign? Do Republicans hate peace? Wasn't Jesus a pacifist? Isn't that the point of the whole "WWJD?" movement?Forgive the repetition, but I hate to say that nut-bag blog comments constitute hate speech. The Freepers mindless mouth vomit felt less like shouting fire in a crowded theatre and more like splashing gasoline on an already burning tug boat. Speech that incites violence is one thing, speech that reinforces stereotypes about a certain group of people--in this case, barefoot, cousin-marrying, gun-toting, "conservatives" -- See, doesn't it just make you cringe? -- is another. One is illegal and the other, well, we'll call it Fox News. Some of my best friends are Republicans. (Well, not best best friends, but you get the point.) And just as I hope their picture of me and other African-Americans hasn't solely been solidified by the movie "Boyz in Da' Hood," I'm sure they're hoping a bunch of maniacs in their pajamas won't serve as their party's mascots.

Racist And Sexist Attacks Against Judge Sonia Sotomayor

BLACK WOMEN In Interracial Relationship Who BASH Black Men

This video was doen in Sep 2008...and I speak on black women who feel only black men are deadbeats as if running to a white man is going to solve everything.

Maria: Prima Ballerina

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DUMB A** DRUDGE - Internet Gossip Continues Phony Outrage! HuffPost Beats Drudge!

And you wonder why Arianna Huffington is clobbering Matt Drudge?

The faux controversy on most news outlets got the right wing echo chamber bananas over a photo of President Barack Obama looking at a young woman. But in reality, it was the president helping guide another woman.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy and the president are at the G8 Summit over the weekend.

Visit the Huffington Post for factual, informative, honest and logical journalism.

Malcolm X: Afro-American History (January 1964)

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Malcolm X: Afro-American History (January 1964)

Another thing that you will find is that those who go to other places usually think of themselves as a minority. If you’ll notice, in all of their struggling, programming or even crying or demanding, they even refer to themselves as a minority, and they use a minority approach. By a minority they mean that they are lesser than something else, or they are outnumbered, or the odds are against them – and this is the approach that they use in their argument, in their demand, in their negotiation. But when you find those of us who have been following the nationalistic thinking that prevails in Harlem, we don’t think of ourselves as a minority, because we don’t think of ourselves just within the context of the American stage or the American scene, in which we would be a minority. We think of things worldly, or as the world is; we think of our part in the world, and we look upon ourselves not as a dark minority on the white American stage, but rather we look upon ourselves as a part of the dark majority who now prevail on the world stage. And when you think like this automatically, when you realize you are part of the majority, you approach your problem as if odds are on your side rather than odds are against you. You approach demanding rather than using the begging approach. And this is one of the things that is frightening the white man. As long as the black man in America thinks of himself as a minority, as an underdog, he can’t shout but so loud; or if he does shout, he shouts loudly only to the degree that the power structure encourages him to. He never gets irresponsible. He never goes beyond what the power structure thinks is the right voice to shout in. But when you begin to connect yourself on the world stage with the whole of dark mankind, and you see that you’re the majority and this majority is waking up and rising up and becoming strong, then when you deal with this man, you don’t deal with him like he’s your boss or he’s better than you or stronger than you. You put him right where he belongs. When you realize that he’s a minority, that his time is running out, you approach him like that, you approach him like one who used to be strong but is now getting weak, who used to be in a position to retaliate against you but now is not in that position anymore.

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