Hey Schola Nigga,

Being an ignorant Gay cracker is hard sometimes. I can't understand why a well connected black African journalist, the "African Proust" can keep ignoring genocide and instead post about cry baby American multi-millionaires who make bad cat woman movies and then blame Hollywood for not getting anymore good parts.

In Dafur right now they are burning up more than poor people's buildings - do you or any of your bratty trust fund collegues care?

Sudan is in the midst of a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. Currently, a brutal system of ethnic cleansing is being practiced against the Black people of Darfur, located in the western region of Sudan. Arab militiamen, known as the Janjaweed, are the main cause of these horrific conditions.

"So many men have been killed. I and another woman buried seven men. We put the bodies we could not bury in a shelter, but the Janjaweed returned in the night and burnt the shelter and the bodies, a woman described to Amnesty International delegates after her village was attacked by the militia.

So do you really expect ignorant gay crackers like myself to give a shit about Halle Barry's problems when an entire race of people is being wiped off the face of the earth?

As Depeche Mode once said, "Princess Di is wearing a new dress."

Charles, are we having a homophobic moment here? Princess wearing a new dress? Are all gay men supposed to be princess? Are you implying that all gay men wear dresses?

What if someone said "Watermelon is looking ripe" on TV? Wouldn't you have one of your hissy fits? So why is it OK to imply all gay men are princesses and wear dresses?

Could it be that Gay men have developed a sense of humor about things like that because we hear them every day and even from people like yourself who cultivate the "holier-than-thou" liberal persona?

My bad. I forgot I'm smarter than you. Not only am I familiar with Italian architecture, German Philosophy, and Russian novels, but also Brit pop from the 80s--during my privileged childhood I happened to own a radio on which I caught the UK Top 40 on BBC. Here's the song I referenced in the last post:

Bomb blast victim fights for life
Girl thirteen attacked with knife

Princess di is wearing a new dress

Jet airliner shot from sky
Famine horror, millions die
Earthquake terror figures rise

Princes di is wearing a new dress

You cant change the world
But you can change the facts
And when you change the facts
You change points of view
If you change points of view
You may change a vote
And when you change a vote
You may change the world

In black townships fires blaze
Prospects better premier says
Within sight are golden days

Princess di is wearing a new dress

(Just in case you didn't get it, Depeche Mode is listing side stories in a newspaper and contrasting them with the main story: Princess Di is wearing a new dress. Now, I would much prefer it if you stopped calling me nigga. Thank you.)

Hey Schola Nigga,

Being an ignorant gay cracker is sure hard sometimes. I never claimed to be anything but poor white trailer trash wanting to learn from a real scholar.

Is today's lesson that it's OK for you to say something that seem's homophobic as long as it's a song lyric?

Then what about this?

WATERMELON MAN - Lyrics

HEYO,
HEYO,
Get Your Watermelon,
HEYO,
Watermelon Man,
Watermelon Man.
A wagon and a horse
IN the summer sun
WATERMELON!
Pretty little housewife,
Let me sell you one;
Red ripe watermelon.
If you want to treat your husband right,
Watermelon!
Know what to give him
When he's home tonight
Red ripe watermelon.
EEOH - HEYO,
I got your red ripe watermelon,
HEYO watermelon man.
Watermelon man.
Get out your money when you hear me call
when you hear me call
Watermelon
Ain't going home
Till I sell em all
Red ripe watermelon
Jus my type
Watermelon
Sweet like watermelon
Round and ripe
Red ripe watermelon
EEOH - HEYO,
I got your red ripe water melon
Heyo eeoh
Watermelon Man
Watermelon Man
Watermelon Man
Watermelon Man
Watermelon Man

That song seems simple enough to an ignorant gay cracker like me, just some guy selling fruit. So why are middle class blacks so upset about any mention of watermelon when it's just a song lyric?

You say gays can't get upset if you say "Princess has a new dress on". Because it's just a song lyric.

But if I was on a bus and three straight black guys starting whispering about "princess in her new dress", it's possible they were not talking about a song.

I thought the whole language game with discrimination was using double entendre so you can say something like "hey stupid I was really just saying you look happy...not Gay in THAT way."

So can white people talk about watermelon now that everyone knows it's just a song lyric?

I like a princess in a new dress, do you like red ripe watermelon?

i see i have wasted my time. thank you.

Ignorant Gay Cracker,

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it wouldn't be so bad if IGC could actually SPELL "DARFUR."

For about the 5th time now, it's D-A-R-F-U-R.

Learn how to spell it and maybe you'll have better luck getting people to be concerned about it.

Ignorant Gay Cracker,

Have you considered helpful articles, special reports and informative videos.

So what's the real difference-

A gay man overhears frat boys saying "princess has a new dress"

A black man overhears white man saying "watermelon is getting ripe"

Do the word's origins even matter in the new context?

Watch out correcting the spelling of minorities. Defining one form of English as standard is now considered racist in the Seattle School district. People can spell however the hell they want, you understand what's being said.

Ignorant Gay Cracker,

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Hey Schola Nigga,

Someone posted a good question that gets to the point of what I want to know.

A gay man overhears frat boys saying "princess has a new dress"

A black man overhears white man saying "watermelon is getting ripe"

Do the word's origins even matter in the new context?

IGC,

Thank you for the public announcement of your problem.

It's actually a trite question.

Now, get yourself over to Target. Only $8.99 for a 24-pack of Aquafina!

because i have a public role, i must answer some of these questions. i have in the past addressed the whole matter of homophobia in the black and african community in this paper:
please read: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=7792

excessive homophobia in the african and black community is a real problem and it has for many years undermined (if not completely invalidated) the whole political project of black rights. any intelligent black person knows gay rights are as important as black rights--that is a fact. neo-nazi thugs see no difference between a black person and gay person--both are preferred dead. And it has always been nothing but a total shame that the great bayard rustin is still not given formal credit for organizing the most important civil rights moment in the history of the USA, The March on Washington, simply because he was gay.
anyway, my public opinion, and one that i have stated before in this paper, is that homophobia in the black community is a real problem that is not addressed enough by black leaders. but i'm glad that the rapper kanye west was bold enough to challenge the crude but dominate black male opinion of homosexuality.

Three cheers for Bayard Rustin, Charles.
Not only did Rustin organize the August '63 March on Washington, but in 1947, as a founding member of CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality), he also organized something called the Journey of Reonciliation.

The Journey of Reconcialiation was set up to test the U.S. Supreme Court's 1946 Morgan decision which (apparently) outlawed segregation on interstate bus travel. A group of 16 black & white volunteers rode from Washington, DC into the northern southern states of Virginia, NC, Kentucky, and Tennessee, getting arrested at some spots along the way.

This was a brave precursor to the famous and monumental Freedom Rides of 1961—also organized by CORE—which, as you know, transformed the civil rights movement into bonafide political force.

IGC is about as interesting as that smug frat boy who keeps telling the same unfunny polack joke over and over again.

the link in my last post does not work. try this one:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=7792

Charles, I'm sorry I didn't see this until now. I'll concede another point to your argument that mankind is exploiter, not exploited in relation to rats. But a species must ultimately be measured by its ability to survive. For all our advances in medicine and science, we remain too biologically vulnerable to compete with rats. Diseases only make them more powerful. We are guests on a planet of rats -- fortunately, it's in their best interest to co-exist; but as selection becomes fiercer they will turn against us. When the last human being perishes, a rat will be at the scene.

Hey Nigga Schola,

But you taught me that young black males are not homophobic? Now you are saying that they are after all.

So is the rampant homophobia in Hip Hop an accurate reflection of young black male culture? What messages about homosexuals are young black males hearing in their homes and churches?

P.S. I'm just an ignorant gay cracker. Your publication used "Hey Faggot" to get famous, you printed those Danish Cartoons the pissed off millions, and you print "Maya Lin" balls on her Chin about one of America's top women designers of color. So where do you get off throwing a hissy fit about "hey nigga schola"? Is it OK to insult everyone but your own minority group? If you are turning into a prissy politically correct cry baby, maybe it's time to go work for Seattle Weakly?

as a public figure, i feel i must offer you an answer:

one, i pointed out homophobia in black culture five years ago: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=7792

two, in my review of D'Angelo's CD, Voodoo, which i wrote 6 years ago, i pointed out homophobia in hiphop.
"..What I think represents the real problem with being a male singer is the willingness to be desired not only by women, but by men. This is what rap wanted to eliminate; it only wanted to offer its male audience men they wanted to emulate, not fuck. But D'Angelo acknowledges the fact that many men will gaze at him as an object of desire, as someone they want to kiss. For example, in the picture next to his sleeve notes, D'Angelo is sitting with five beautiful women, but instead of making the women naked and himself dressed (in something gaudy, as rappers do), he is also half naked, half flesh. He, like the women, is the object of desire, the body we want to hold, to caress with our fingertips."

Finally, the first fucking essay I wrote for this paper on October 16, 1995 was about how Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, was fueling homophobia in black Africa. In the article I denounced Mugabe and politics of homophobia.

So, I have never turned around or said otherwise. That made clear, please attack me for something else.

Hey Nigga Schola,

On of the first things you wrote to me was in my response to asking about the NAACP's possible response to the rampant homophobia in Hip Hop.

You replied "The NAACP should say Fuck You to the gay community" and went on to teach me that whitey is to blame for all those hateful songs about "shoot the faggot".

Now your lesson is confusing me, if we can't blame whitey for homophobia in straight young black males, who can we blame? We certainly can't say that young black males are responsible for their own thoughts, so we have to blame someone.

I personally liked blaming whitey because a couple of years ago three young black males cornered me and beat the shit out of me, breaking three of my ribs and I'm just an ignorant gay cracker without health insurance. I'm probably wrong about this but I'd identify the guys as atheletes on the University's sports teams.

Instead of getting mad, I was taught that ignorant gay crackers like myself have only ourselves to blame when three young black guys beat the shit out of us.

But is it possible those three black guys had no right to beat up a defensless faggot like myself? (After the first blow to my face, I crumbled to the floor and started screaming like a sissy as they kicked me and broke my ribs.)

This is a true story.

You are the African Proust who knows everything and I'm just an ignorant gay cracker who can't hear Hip Hop without remembering what those three black guys did to me. When I say I hate Hip Hop I know that's being an ignorant gay cracker. Please teach me.

The NAACP shouldn't give a shit about faggots. If a young black man wants to hate fags, it's none of the NAACP's business. People can write songs about whatever they want.