Not Your Number One Supporter

I ran into this piece of ranting on my lunch break at Mr Pickwicks on Long Street. One of my favorite restaurants.

Solidarity.

My favorite people

Towards the end of year 2004 Dave Chappelle threw a party in Brooklyn and invited his friends to come and give performances. A documentary was made out of the the occassion and is on dvd. It was also shown in this years Encounters film festival.

Chappelle says its the best thing he has ever done in his career. I think the event was a historic moment for contemporary hip-hop.

I also found the sentiment of throwing a block party and getting the best Hip-Hop artists to perform, for free, or for almost close to nothing, better then Ms. Oprah Winfrey's (may the gods bless her little soul) splashing of money disguised as an act of misguided philantrophy.

There was definitely a form of collective pride amongst the black people who had attended the Block party on the day. Attendance was free. One would wish for black people to use their wealth (for lack of better words as Chris Rock believes it is the white man who signs Oprah's cheques who is wealthy) for such causes.

The dvd is essential viewing for black people, very inspirational, witty, entertaining, funny! Make sure you see it, buy the dvd and watch it over and over again!

Celebration!

Hello World!

Hello World!

The sole mandate of this blog is to document some of the things I sometimes get up to. I will also share what I think is cool and what I think is not.

Solidarity.