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Money Well Spent- This weeks classic

Nourbese — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:56:57 +0000

To continue with reppin the ladies during Women’s International Month…we’re going to take it back to the one and only group Salt and Pepper…. you can’t get more classic than with push it

Another Mic Stollen, but no media outrage

Nourbese — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:22:37 +0000

Yo is this Kanye the reverse…but no outrage?

So I don’t know if anyone saw the oscars last night, however it seemed that a mic stealing moment happened ( video below). This time though, it was an older white woman who stole the mic from a Black man. So now comes the next day…and I’m waiting for the fireworks…..But there seems to be little outrage for this moment…No president saying that the woman was an idiot, no vilifying in the media of the woman’s unsavory behavior, nada. So I ask the question to ya’ll readers out in web land, do you think there is a double standard out there or was this situation different than what happen with “Ye?

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A ’starter’ condom for 12 year olds?

Aerial — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:26:10 +0000

News Website THE WEEK says:

A Swiss company has begun selling extra-small condoms—called “Hotshots” — made for boys as young as 12, after a government study found that adolescents in Switzerland are not using proper protection when having sex. The Swiss Aids Federation and family planning groups pushed for the smaller condoms—which for now are only being sold in Switzerland—on the theory that teens would be more likely to wear Hotshots, which are 1.7 inches wide, than standard condoms, which are 2 inches wide. Will marketing condoms to 12 year olds keep them safe, or just encourage them to have sex?

Selling kids tiny starter condoms is ’so wrong’: This sends the “worst possible message” to boys, says Rachel Henwood. “Randy pint-sized” men already see sex everywhere, and think it’s cool. Tell 12-year-old boys that having sex is okay as long as you put on a Hotshot, and they’ll run out looking “for 12-year-old (or God forbid, younger) girls to test them out on.”

The idea of extra-small condoms is disturbing … but smart: “As much as the idea of a 12-year-old having sex makes me uncomfortable,” says Ronda Kaysen, “I think this is great. Kids are having sex whether we like it or not,” so making a condom they can actually use is a necessary part of any effort to protect them from sexually transmitted disease and unwanted pregnancy.

Technology isn’t the answer: Getting engineers to design a “training-wheel condoms” won’t solve the tween sex problem, says Rod Dreher. In fact, when you have enough sexually active 12-year-old boys to “economically justify the manufacture of training-wheel condoms,” your society’s troubles probably run “far deeper” than you think.
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Aerial of The Black Intel says:

We have to teach safe sex somehow. Just because we are not talking to the kids doesn’t mean they aren’t doing it. How old were you when you first started having sex? Come on, be honest. Not the age you tell your aunt or your sex partner… the REAL number. Ok now subtract five years from that and that is the average age kids these days are having their first sexual encounter. Protecting THEM helps to protect US… think about it.

FAMU-Video- The Real Cost

Nourbese — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:32:46 +0000

Since, I work and live in health, my first thought after watching this video was, well maybe that is some of the reason why HIV/AIDS is spreading through our community so rapidly….However this is not what this blog is going to be about. This blog is about careers in the new age of media. College students, I know at 18, 19 and 20 most of you are not thinking about your future job interview at a fortune 500 or as a political figure, but maybe you should. I mean the whole point of college is to get a leg up in the world and well I don’t think doing amateur porn is going to help. Now I know this is from, daredorms.com, which gives college students I think $10,000 a submission, but lets break down that math a little more. From what I peeped, there was about 4-5 ladies in the video, and I think 4-5 brothas. So on the safe side lets say 9 people were involved. So give or take a couple of cents, they all got about 1100 each. Now, I don’t know how it goes down in Florida, but every place I’ve lived, 1100 is probably rent and some bill a couple of groceries if I’m lucky. Now lets look at what this cost, since there seemed to be quite a bit of alcohol involved, I’m going to say some was purchase. Will say the video camera someone already had or borrowed, but they had to purchase a tape. And well soda…which someone please remind me later to blog on sugar and health… and well…. places it should not go other than your mouth…. but I digress.

Now lets push this a little further and think about the future cost. Someone’s parents might see this and reevaluate why they are sending their child to college. A future organization might see this and wonder if they should hire you. Your fellow campus mate, including students and teachers might see the video and have a different opinion of you as a person. These are all things that were up for sale, that cost these young students, when they decided to participate in an orgy on film. Black folks and friends, besides the obvious health risk to participating in this type of debauchery, there is a cost that in some cases could be much higher. In the days of the internet, email, photo texts, facebook and youtube, things that your parents might of gotten away with you might not. Each action that you film, each crazy wild picture that you take, each TMI blog you put up, could be forever immortalize on the net. Just because the Obama’s are in the Whitehouse, doesn’t mean that Blacks tax doesn’t apply. College is a learning experience, so have fun and learn, but folks, be safe…and please be smart.

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UC Berkeley Students Protest UCSD Racist Acts

Nourbese — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:42:14 +0000

By Riya Bhattacharjee

Wednesday March 03, 2010

UC Berkeley became the scene of yet another protest Monday when a group of students and supporters staged a “Blackout 2010” blockade of Sather Gate.

The group—comprised mainly of black students on campus—wore black clothing, with black scarves around their mouth, to silently protest racist acts at UC San Diego, including an off-campus event mocking Black History Month. The situation escalated when a noose was found hanging in UCSD’s Geisel Library two weeks later.

An e-mail message from Blackout’s organizers said the Feb. 14 “Compton Cookout” themed party encouraged “female participants to be ‘ghetto chicks’ with gold teeth, cheap clothes and ‘short, nappy hair …’ and ‘a limited vocabulary,’ while consuming ‘chicken and watermelon.’”

It pointed out that state Bill AB 412 makes placing a noose on school property a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.

“It is deplorable that while our students, faculty and staff work to heal the campus, a few misguided individuals tried to divide it,” UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox said in a statement Feb. 26. “We are feeling real pain, and we will take real action. The safety of our students, faculty, and staff is my primary concern.”

Fox said that an individual had come forward and admitted responsibility for the latest incident due to pressure from the UCSD community.

“This underscores the fact that our university is banding together,” her statement said. “We will not tolerate hate on our campus, and all criminal acts will be punished.”

UC President Mark Yudof met with students in Sacramento today and pledged to focus on system-wide strategies to prevent further acts of intolerance.

The Berkeley campus protesters stood or sat silently back-to-back, arms linked, blocking a major part of Sather Gate, the main entrance to campus, from 11: 30 a.m. to 2 p.m., after which they marched to California Hall, where Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and other administrators have their offices.

“We are brothers and sisters in a nonviolent, silent demonstration, standing in solidarity with the UCSD students who have been affected by blatant acts of ignorance and hatred,” a flyer from protest organizers said.

UC Berkeley senior Lajuanda M. Asemota, who helped organize the “Blackout,” said the protest also wanted “to call attention to all the things happening on the Berkeley campus despite the administration’s promises about racial diversity.”

The protest, which remained non-violent, had about 200 students at its peak. Pedestrians were able to pass through the narrow side arches of Sather Gate, although a female protester was reportedly pushed by a student trying to squeeze through.

In front of California Hall, the group read out a letter addressed to Birgeneau which expressed disappointment with a message he sent to the student body on Feb. 24.

In his letter, Birgeneau condemned the racist acts at UCSD and outlined the steps UC Berkeley has taken to promote equity and inclusion among faculty, staff and students

“We are distressed by the recent event involving UC San Diego students that mocked the commemoration of Black History Month,” Birgeneau’s letter said. “We have zero tolerance for deliberate acts that discriminate or demean others based on race, gender, national original, sexual orientation, or any other personal characteristic, and know that all UC campuses share that view.”

Birgeneau said that a team comprising of students and staff was working with the Vice Chancellor to organize a Climate Forum later this semester.

“They expressed their outrage regarding the UCSD event and are working to discourage and prevent such incidents at Berkeley,” his letter said. “An excellent step in this direction was the early response by the CalGreeks community deploring and distancing themselves from the actions at UCSD.”

The letter to Birgeneau from the Berkeley protesters said that his message “failed to explicitly address the ‘deliberate acts that discriminate[d] and demean[ed] others based on race…” at UCSD.”

“We are disgusted that the administration is merely ‘distressed’” by the offenses,” the students’ letter said.

The letter went on to outline what they said were racist incidents on the UCB campus, including:

• “A hate crime committed by the men’s crew team in which members encircled, assaulted, and poured beer on a black female student while calling her “n***er” repeatedly. UCPD was called, and did nothing.”

• “An incident in science class in which the professor turned out the lights for a classroom presentation and a student yelled, “Where did all the black people go?” The professor made no rebuke.”

• “An on-campus PETA demonstration comparing enslaved Africans, lynched Black Americans, and Tuskegee experiment subjects to chickens, pigs, and cows. Canines were brought to a peaceful protest to “calm” the situation.”

• “A hate crime in which the African-American Theme House Co-Op was vandalized with swastikas.”

• “An article in the [campus student newspaper] Daily Cal which stated that Blacks are seven times more likely to kill than whites”

“Though these incidents seem isolated, they are in fact symptomatic of a deeper issue that plagues the University of California as a whole—a continued marginalization of the Black student body,” the letter said.

The letter criticized the low population of black students on campus—3.49 percent of 35,843 students—since the passage of Proposition 209 and the failure of the UC administration to recruit and retain Black students or appoint Black faculty members.

Signed “3.49 percent,” the letter concluded by saying that the protesters hoped that the “few hours of discomfort” they had caused would “be indicative of the anguish experienced daily by Black UC students.”

“The UC Berkeley Black community stands here silent,” the letter said. “Silent because we fear for the future. Silent because the past is prologue. Silent because there is nothing left to say. Our silence, then, is your opportunity to act.”

Asemota said UC Berkeley Executive Vice Chancellor George Breslauer and Vice Chancellor Harry Le Grande came out to talk with the group after they finished reading out the letter.

“Breslauer said he was really sorry about the things outlined in the letter and that stuff like that continued to happen on campus,” she said. “He said that the campus administration would come forward with a resolution.”

Letter from The Editor: Please & Thank You

Aerial — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:24:20 +0000

Have you said your please and thank you’s today? Where is our home training? Just because we are not getting our home training at home anymore means we shouldn’t search for and use them daily? Lets see: we wear our house shoes outside of the house, bath robe outside of the bathroom, under garments… well you see where I’m going with this.

I’ve always said that my child (whenever he or she is conceived) will be the most well mannered, well behaved creature ever, simply because I can not stand a snot nose, smart mouthed crumb snatcher, but as parents who can we blame but ourselves? Well I am not a parent so I guess I’m talking to you or the person behind you. Who can you blame but yourself?

Each child must know that it is not only improper but impolite to not address an adult as Maam or Sir. Funny be it though, whenever I use the word Maam to a woman older than myself, guess what they say to me… “who are you calling Maam, I ain’t that old.” I’m channeling Ed Lover right now … C’MON SON! We have to do better people. Teach the children! When was the last time you said Maam, Sir, please or thank you? Like Katt Williams’ said in “It’s Pimpin Pimpin,” “Don’t worry, I’ll wait.”

We must set a good example. “Do as I say not as I do” is sooooo contradictory of how a child is suppose to be raised. If the child sees right, they will know right. It is then up to the child to act right or not. As opposed to only knowing and channeling the wrong that is seen in their own home. Lets create a better future for our self, for our offspring, for our race; starting today. Please?

Love,
The Editor
*thank you*

KKK hood found at UCSD campus

Nourbese — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:59:54 +0000

A hood similar to those worm by these Ku Klux Klansmen was found in a prominent place at University of California San Diego

From the new york daily news

SAN DIEGO – University of California San Diego police were investigating a KKK-style hood that was placed on a statue outside the main campus library.

The incident was the third targeting black students at UC San Diego in as many weeks. The other incidents were a “Compton Cookout” party that mocked Black History month and a noose in a library.

A university statement said the hood was found about 11 p.m. Monday. The object appeared to be a white pillowcase that had been crudely fashioned into a hood with a hand-drawn symbol. A rose had also been inserted into the statue’s fingers.

The university said an aggressive investigation was under way, including fingerprint and DNA analysis, and vowed to punish the culprits to the fullest extent of the law.

University officials also said a student admitted she and two other people were responsible for hanging the noose. A statement did not identify the students or their race or include a motive.

In a news conference Friday, Chancellor Marye Anne Fox said the student has been suspended but declined to discuss her motive or other students involved.

“This person admitted her involvement in what we consider to be an abhorrent act,” Fox said.

UC and campus authorities did not indicate whether the students would be charged with a hate crime. Under state law, hanging a noose to terrorize is punishable by up to a year in jail.

Hundreds of students rallied for several hours outside the university administration building Friday, where speakers denounced the noose as an example of intolerance on a campus where less than 2 percent of students are black.

The school — where about 2 percent students are black — has been in turmoil over an off-campus “Compton Cookout” party organized by some students that urged people to dress as ghetto stereotypes and promised there would be chicken, watermelon and malt liquor.

Fox condemned the party, and the school began an investigation to determine if any students might face discipline. The school also initiated a campus-wide “Battle Hate” campaign.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/03/02/2010-03-02_kkkstyle_hood_found_on_statue_at_college_campus_as_cops_probe_third_racist_incid.html#ixzz0h5dWjmVZ

Money well spent- This week’s classic pick

Nourbese — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:49:46 +0000

Light as a feather hard as a rock…. In homage to one of the first lady MC’s to rock the mic, MC lyte’s Rock the body…Let’s start international women’s month right… Big up to Ladies who held down hip-hop without holding us down!

Black folks did better under slavery than now…well according to Trent Franks

Nourbese — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:10:40 +0000

Well found this on the starkreports.com… I’m at a lost for words here…This has been one hell of a Black History Month…. I wonder what is going to happen during International Women’s Month… a congressional bill that states women need to fulfill household duties..

Health Reform Summit

Nourbese — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:37:55 +0000

If you didn’t catch it live, here is the health reform summit put up on by the white house. If you’re interested in health reform and where the parties are standing…this is a something you should watch…Hope you enjoy