This might be a slur-ish joke about color and race, but it’s also a testament to the political commentary behind racial relations and religious attribution of ethnicity. Deep, maybe. Funny, yes.
Category Archives: Hum-an-ity
Love and let love
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 440
“The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It’s equality of opportunity. There’s a fundamental difference.” - Robert Reich
Israeli soldier poses for torture!
Gay rights across the world…
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 431
“Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion”
- Gandhi
Lady Gaga protests Arizona immigration law
Michelle Williams’ ad for breast cancer
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Argentina legalizes gay marriage!
1Boycott Katy Perry
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We have taken a decision a while ago and we are sticking by it. There are many reason from this boycott, but what tipped it off is Katy Perry’s last remarks on Lady Gaga’s supposed blasphemy while she is playing all the chauvinistic tricks she can pull to market her tired music. We barely like one song from her horrid repertoire. Her first 3 singles all had tones of sexism, homophobia and a knack for ludicrous stereotyping, this is why for a period of time we referred to her as “Stereotypia.” We are surprised that bloggers who support equality and human rights alway give her airtime. She is a vile person who has no regards for other people and lifestyle and will do anything to pocket money. She was a Christian artist under the name Katy Hudson and tried to preach her way to fame, when that didn’t work is became a “boner dyke,” as Beth Ditto would say, and a pawn in a misogynists’ world. On top of all of that, she dared to lecture other artists on morality. She is a mall rat that got lucky. This is my boycott statement. Bye bye, Stereotypia!
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 418
“Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men”
- Mortimer Adler
Lindsay Lohan gets 90 days in jail, cries out…
Typical of the American incarceration system where they don’t remedy the real problem and just throw people in and neglect them. No drug abuser deserves jail time, plain and simple. She needs a rehab and a good one at it. Prison is no answer to anything, but just psychological torture and societal negligence. We feel for Lindsay Lohan and anyone in her condition and we hope that the US and the rest of the world gets a better understanding of the prison abolition movement that is muchly needed.
Legendary: Feminist poetry slam!
2Moby slams homophobic group ad!
What Moby had to say on his official website: “Oh, some people have drawn my attention to the fact that a homophobic ad campaign is using ‘Porcelain’. Needless to say we:
a-didn’t approve this
and
b-have contacted them with a very firm ‘cease and desist’ letter.
It goes without saying that I’d never let an anti-gay marriage campaign use my music.
Malawi frees jailed gay couple!
Malawi’s president, Bingu wa Mutharika, on Saturday pardoned and ordered the release of a gay couple sentenced to 14 years in prison for sodomy and indecency charges. “These boys committed a crime against our culture, our religion and our laws. However, as the head of state, I hereby pardon them and therefore ask for their immediate release with no conditions. I have done this on humanitarian grounds, but this does not mean that I support this. We don’t condone marriages of this nature. It’s unheard of in Malawi and it’s illegal.”
Malawi had faced international condemnation for the conviction and 14-year sentences given to the two men, who were arrested in December, a day after celebrating their engagement. No one knows where the men went after their release. They were not at their Blantyre home.
Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 392
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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground,
they want rain without thunder and lightning.”
- Fredrick Douglass
Madonna’s statement on Malawi’s gay couple who have been sentenced to 14 years in prison for being gay
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“I am shocked and saddened by the decision made today by the Malawian court, which sentenced two innocent men to prison. As a matter of principle, I believe in equal rights for all people, no matter what their gender, race, color, religion, or sexual orientation. Today, Malawi took a giant step backward. The world is filled with pain and suffering; therefore, we must support our basic human right to love and be loved. I call upon the progressive men and women of Malawi – and around the world – to challenge this decision in the name of human dignity and equal rights for all.” – Madonna
Really? After all of the hoopla that surrounded this subject and after everything this couple has gone through Madonna releases this lame statement when the court decision has been made. It’s just another one of those things where Madonna could have done something but waited until she couldn’t and then released an altruistic kumbaya kind of jargon.
Documentary on homophobia!
2We want to watch all of this, it sounds intriguing. They should teach this at school.
Christina Aguilera in Haiti, just in time for album release
3Why now? The suffering has been going on for a while, this coming out when her first single comes out? She loves herself way too much.
Must-Watch: Video Premiere: “Born Free” by M.I.A.
This video was banned by YouTube, so we get it on the lovely Vimeo. After completely trashing the single, we have to say that we absolutely love the video. It’s one of the year’s best. It reminded us of The Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up.” M.I.A.’s video is a take on discrimination and the governmental disenfranchisement of a people. In this case the group is redheads. Although it is not a minority that would normally get this kind of persecution, this portrayal is supposed to show the absurdity of civil strife and extrajudicial punishment. Very powerful little video that will probably see the light of day on TV channels because the bigwigs behind the music industry would rather show you the misogyny of demeaning rap videos rather than ones that would make you think, like this one.
