BTW: A Post on Nikki Minaj's FB Page

So all speech aside, I recently was reading a post someone posted on Nikki Minaj's page. Take a load of this:

Nicki, You need to really reevaluate yourself. You are the worst Atrocity to happen to the Black community. YOU DO NOT REPRESENT THE BLACK WOMAN! You are a degradation of the black woman and all the hard work and blood shed that our female ancestors put in. I’m not surprised at your comment about you voting for Romney and calling us lazy bitches who are fuking up the economy.

You are fuking up the young minds of potential Lawyers, doctors and maybe a president with the garbage you put out…… DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO FUKED UP THE ECONOMY???? It was your MASTERS, those devils who pay you to keep our people dumb and fitting the stereotype our ancestors died so we can step out of……. It was the greedy Jewish woman whose husbands own businesses and homes who collect more welfare than anyone. It was the 37% whites which outnumber Blacks and Latinos in recipients who receive and collect welfare.

It was the Rich who send their money to islands to escape taxin g….Leaving the middle class to pick up that bill. Have you even seen these politicians pay rates?????? What about 3 Billion of NONE Taxed US dollars that is being sent to ISREAL by our leaders???? What about the Trillions the US spends on War and building drones that are bombing huts that are worth less than $1.00 in the name of DEMOCRACY???? Should I keep going????? What about the money spent on 911, the money that us Tax payers (the middle class) had to pay because U.S. created the whole mess by training and supplying Al Queda with war material we paid for????? 

Did you even register to vote????   I’m more upset that your fans didn’t take notice on you calling them NAPPY HEADED HOES WHO NEED PERMS AND BELONG IN UR KITCHEN working as a SLAVE?????? That shit was DISRESPECTFUL and coming from a Black woman’s mouth is disgusting. Did you forget under all those wigs and perms you also have a nap or two……… You can put on all the blonde wigs, blue eyes, lighten skin you want….YOU WILL NEVER BE WHITE! Learn to love yourself………TRULY LOVE YOUSELF not the Clown you and your team created……   Have you ever heard of Sara Baartman?????

You are a plain disrespect to that beautiful woman who your MASTERS put in a cage and looked at as an ANIMAL EXHIBIT because of her ASS and CURVATIOUS BODY! And here you are doing the same thing WILLINGLY….. No wonder they still look at us as ANIMALS…. Cause of ppl like you who worship the dollar over your soul…… You and your whole team are the destruction of the black family!

-TEAMFUKNIKKIMINAJ

When I read this I was just speechless. Here this person spoke her mind in a manner that wasn't just "I hate you, fake ass hoe". Who are the people we listen to? Where is pop music going to? Is music business just music or does it expose the ignorant savage animal part of us? Is it really about supporting poor people or supplying more for the rich? WHAT IS GOING ON? please feel free to post your comments

Public Safety is his Priority: and Theirs Is Movement

from Occupy Wall Street's webpage

       About 20 minutes ago, I turned on the TV on NY1 to find footage of tables being picked up, people walking around, tents being moved, a police officer speaking contents off a flimsy piece of paper into a speakerphone, and an angry man pointing a finger to someone barely off screen. Mayor Bloomberg comes on and starts speaking of how "they" don't have the right to deny someone else the opinion of opposition or no position at all. As I continue to tune in, Bloomberg continues to speak of the situation of protestors being notified by police officers they had to remove their tarp, sleeping bags, and other personal belongings at 1 oclock this morning from Zuccatti Park. There was suspicion of people "defecating in alley ways" nearby and other incidents that he mentioned. However, this doesn't stop Occupy Wall Street from continuing their movement as a young woman from Occupy once told me. According to a recent post on their website today at 9 AM, (right on this hour!) the plan for Occupy Wall Street is to move to Canal and 6th Avenue. Unfortunately, for the 50 people who came back to Zuccatti Park at 8 o'clock this morning didn't get the memo and possibly are still waiting until they are allowed to go back in. And that will take a while since Bloomberg mentioned a judge whose name wasn't mentioned sent a court order to possibly stop the movement from using Zucatti Park. As for further notice, its not over.

If you want to watch the Eyewitness News coverage of this: click on this link:

(http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=8432254)

Til Next Blog Post,

Miss Bobo

News and A Side

Things have been quite hectic with keeping up with my "occupation" as a student this fall. Papers, exams, discussions, professor meet ups; the works. So again, I apologize for the random pop of these blog posts that will follow. Anyways...on with this post!!! There has been quite a commotion or talk of something that has been going on here in NY. I am sure many of you reading this would know what I am writing about.....drum roll....(come on you know it): Yep, it's Occupy (you can click on the link if you don't know). From what I can gather on their website, this movement has been going on since September 17, 2011 with the idea in mind of fighting against the "power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process" and other things. It started as a small group and after a certain amount of time, gained enough momentum to make it into a global movement. I would think this would be a good example of one of those social domino effect phenomena my sociology professor would discuss in class. 
But regardless of that,  many people are currently going to these "demonstrations" and staying for days and I MEAN days with signs, food, and other objects. It is just brimming with people on computers, with cameras, with instruments, with fliers, stands, handouts, stickers, signs. I say that last sentence with the actual weight of the experience of walking into this demonstration and experiencing first hand what Occupy Wall Street is.

 I went there this past Tuesday and I just couldn't believe it. It was just brimming with people scattered but still clumped into one space. News reporters from channel 11 and other networks were walking in there looking around where exactly to start their news report. People were chatting and eating food from paper plates. There were flags out and a slideshow of historical images being played on some sort of fabric. People were singing and a priest was saying prayers.
So much was going on at the same time things were happening. For me it was amazing to watch. I for one am glad I found Occupy that day because I have been wanting so much to see this for myself instead of hearing it on the TV or reading it in some newspaper
Now you wonder why am I blogging about this:
Well...there are people who write and talk about these demonstrations in the question of whether it is just people ranting and complaining or is this something serious to think and talk about. 
So along with those words, it brings me to type the following announcement:
for the weeks that follow I will be attempting to interview and capture what Occupy Wall Street is from the perspective of the people who are in it. I want to inform you, the reader, what Occupy is, not from my perspective but directly from the people who are participating in it. I will be posting videos and hopefully the interviews I will be conducting on my visits to the locations in which the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations are at. It will give you the reader, the chance to figure out your opinion from what I have given you through photos, video, and hopefully voice recordings without the oppressive force of my opinion. Because at the end of the day, your knowledge of things are more important to me than what I want to rant about. 


Til Next Blog post,
Miss Bobo