editors soapbox

While our friends, that are nice people, that we know, love and broke bread with, might post most extreme images, do celebrities have more of a responsibility of what they should post? 

The song is the Rick Ross and Future-assisted “U.O.E.N.O.” And the song would be perfect if it wasn’t for this one Ross line:“Put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know, took her home and I enjoy that, she ain’t even know it.”

Zimmerman's erroneous claim that Trayvon, who we know as a smart, regular teenage boy, has much more in common with a 17-year-old who was charged with murder because he was throwing a "f*ck you" sign to the camera, is not only a disrespectful comparison of someone who was actually murdered with an alleged murderer...it's a racist claim that reflects both Zimmerman's intentions and views. 

We all share the burden not to reinforce our stereotypes. So by no means do I believe all Black women are angry, but I am smart enough to understand how certain situations may appear from the outside looking in. 

The media can distort the story all they want, acts of hate may still take place in the future, but what is important is Oberlin's resilience in the face of hate and fear. 

Face it, Kanye West is comfortable. And I’m not sure if comfort is a good space for Kanye. Like MJ, and most of the other greats, he needs adversity to be pushed to his creative limit. 

As I said before, the man is brilliant and if more people saw the world like he did, it might actually be a better place, a human utopia even, as he suggests.

If Wayne wants to be mad, let him be mad, but it's time for people to stop throwing Tupac's name around so loosely.