I had what could be considered the Blackest moment of my young life the other night. I mean Black y'all. Dead Mike Black.
I'm not gonna lie. If this were a real record in 1992, I would have bought it. How do you go from this proud moment in Black History to House Of Payne anyway?
One of my friends bartends at a little bar in Harlem...yes, I have been hanging out in Harlem lately. Like, four times in TWO weeks! That's crazy, Brooklyn girls don't do that. I'm just trying to enjoy Uptown while there are still Black people there...anyway, a bunch of Howard folks are in the spot chilling. I'm hungry and my friend is like "Oh, we ordered some sushi." Now, I eat seafood but no other type of meat. I don't think twice about eating sushi because it's safe territory for me.
So I grab a roll and take a big bite. And something tasted...different....
There was FRIED CHICKEN in the sushi. No shrimp, no crab meat. Just rice, seaweed, fried chicken.
They even had "sushi" that consisted of chicken wrapped in waffles. My people, my people. Actually, despite my horror at eating meat (which I do once a year typically, and I've already used my 2008 meat coupon on some turkey burgers that damn near killed me), I liked the idea. I'm falling in love with Black people all over again these days. We make cocktails with Kool-Aid. We sell oil, incense and pictures of the Obamas from Essence magazine on the corner. We look like this in our 70's:
FIERCE.
For all the perils of Negritude, I feel like most of us have those moments where it's like "Oh, us!" When have YOU just had to smile at the Blackness of it all?
Peace, prosperity and a little paper,
Sister Toldja
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
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I dont know why (so dont ask lol) but I LOVE CB4. I think I've seen that movie so many times, I know the lines word for word now. That's kinda scary really. It is lol.
Sweat From My Balls was one of the downers in the film though...ehn...lol
But yea, I have recently found out that the term 'sushi' isnt just raw fish, but rather raw ANYTHING. It's like a cut of some sort. There's sushi-steak too. I've had it and I liked it. I HAAATE sushi as a raw fish though. Blech and blech. LOL
It's because we're so damn cool like that. ;o)
Ah yes Me loves some black people and that clip from CB4 is one that I quote to this day...classic!!!
So what place was this, next time i come to new york I would like to partake in this sushi!!
waffles and chick'n... ugh
I have those (black out) moments often when I am amongst my fellow black like me's and I reflect on how much flavor and flyness we have as a people even though we have been through some of the worst kind of hell. The good mos def makes up for the bad.
I'm a white guy myself. I've got lots of black friends. If I had to choose between my black and white friends, I would easily choose my black friends. There's just something I love so much about blacks. Love your line about kool-aid, incense, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Th31iNa1g
oh keith. what would your black friends say if they read your comment?
About which part of my comment? I didn't say anything they wouldn't agree with. They know that I prefer them over my white friends. I have deeper friendships with my black friends than my whites. When I've had tough times, they were there for me. My white friends hit the road many times. As far as the kool-aid, incense, etc., I've got friends who do that. I could see them when I read that in the blog. I love my black friends so much.
Oh, I can definitely relate to this. The things that makes us....US, brings all kinds of smiles to my face. My sister told me about this dude around her house who sells meat and movies on the street. LOVE it. Probably the two best things ever. I can picture the exchange:
Meat Man: Sup, my sista, would you like to buy some fresh meat? I gots steak, chicken, pork chops, you name it.
Passerby: Uh, yeah, I'd like some steak. I can whip that up tonight.
Meat Man: Cool, and while you're at at, how about you watch you some movies while you're enjoying that steak? Two for 5 dollas.
Hustle!!
I love the bootleg man. The quality bootleg man. Its like the homeless guy that says have a nice day and God bless after you don't give him no money. Or the old man who says you look beautiful and you don't hear anything after that. Or the fact that a chicken wing spot that serves 40 types of wings, cheesesteaks and burgers and is the only spot to deliver past midnight. (although they probably wouldn't if Latarian lived round here. I swear he's Suge Knights baby). And the existence of Checkers. And the fact that you can get chicken and waffles at 2 am and a bag of sunflower seeds if you suffer a bit of insomnia. (but none of that bourghie pre-shelled seeds). and the fact that I went to a regional underrepresented minority medical student conference and they served 2 types of chicken, mac and cheeese and had a choice of tea, lemonade, OJ, gingerale, generic grape, generic orange, miscellaneous pineapple, red-flavored juice (in the industrial brown coffee dispenser, hawaiian punch or RC Cola. And they ran out of orange soda in the first 5 minutes. And they had 3 times the orange soda than ginger ale and cola together. I love black people.
Oh and to Keith
Keith I have a huge pet peeve whenever anyone talks about a person without mentioning they are a person. I am a Black person, not a Black. This ain't Arabian Nights. I hate when newspapers or official documents say Blacks did suchandsuch or 10,000 blacks gathered, etc. etc. Lightning rod standard was the Richmond Times Dispatch full front page headline after Halle and Denzel won their Oscars. It read "Blacks Win Awards" . I get suspicious of anyone who talks like that. Yes, even those who say whites are always yada yadda yadda. My grandmother says that and I know shes bigoted agains white folk (which is understandable since she's 80 and from South Cackalaka). And I've been a token friend and I was upset she was going around saying some racist shit I would be offended if she said around my family and/or to me directly. And she was playing it off like b.c. we were friends it was cool. So just b.c. you like black people doesn't immediately make you immune. I've met too many liberal racists.
But I realized I sounded more angry than weary which is what I was.
So longwindedly this "There's just something I love so much about blacks." bothered me. And have you ever said those exact words to you friends and/or their mothers? I mean if they know you and your heart then they may not mind, but I don't know you and I get irritated. Not trying to attack you but just asking you to think a bit further about what you sound like. Just like Obama and the lipstick on a pig comment. It's an innocent comment that people say every day. But in light of current events/recent history he should've gone with a different word choice. Just watch it with the dehumanizing terminology.
Its not something most people think about unless you are part of a group that has been systemically dehumanized in many ways, overt and insipid. Its the same reason when McCain was talking about Obama and said "That One". Informally and amongst friends thats an ok joke. Everyone knows that if you say it, you don't mean it negatively, but you wouldn't (shouldn't) say that about a stranger or to a stranger, because they might get the wrong impression about you. So don't say it around strangers. Cuz they also might get the wrong impression about you.
Sorry this is willnotbetelevised. For some reason now Google/Blogger has signed me in when it usually fronts like it doesn't know me.
Damn being a black woman is hard. I'm going over my shit twice to make sure I don't sound like a stereotype of the 'bitter/angry black woman'. Hope you get me on this Keith.
I checked this out with a Harlem-ite. All said person wanted to know was where the spot was and saw nothing wrong with the bastardization of sushi. *sigh* Ain't nothin' sacred.
I love the wrap up line @ something tasted different. I have no idea what it is, but I will definitely check back to see if my instincts are true.
Sushi is good, but it sounds too much like coochie to me. LOL.
Hey ST, Glad to hear about this. Nothing like in-yo-face racism as we've seen in this year's elections to make black folks more aware that we haven't been nearly as much of the melting pot as we thought we were. It's raised a lot of consciousness in the black community, and not a minute to soon. The way the hardcore racists would have it, not only would Obama become extinct, but so would all of us.
If Cynthia McKinney is right about what she was told, they may have already taken out a bunch of us in a trial run during Hurricane Katrina. Read about it in my article here: Were 5,000 Hurricane Katrina Victims Murdered & Turned Into Alligator Food?
Sorry if how I said "the blacks" was offensive to anyone. It was not meant to be at all. Maybe I should have phrased it something like black community and so forth. I apologize if anyone was upset by what I said. It was not meant in any way in a negative connotation.
I think I know the spot you are talking about and their food sucks. Please don't compliment their tomfoolery called a menu
i eat food period, have a great weekend folk
I just want to co-sign tonja and p: cause there ain't no hustle like a black folks' hustle. Go to the hair shop, come back with a bag of hair...and 3 dvds, a 2 liter of RC Cola, some batteries that ain't in the package, a bean pie, a copy of The Crisis, 10 flyers for old-school stepping shows, and the number of a woman who will hook up your twists, cheap. And all from the same dude!
btw thank you. Now I'm going to be singing I'm black ya'll, i'm black ya'll I"m blackity black i'm straight black ya'll for the rest of the month. WHY?
Cuz I'm black ya'll
Oh and thanks keith. Just wanted to word you up. No harm no foul. Just keep your eyes and ears open. Ask questions n'shit. Holla if you wanna
Were they called soul rolls becuase I think I have been to that spot. I hope you tried the Wu- Tang made with actual Tang. Gotta love it
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