Am I the only one who finds it laughably hypocritcal that the guy who lets white people call him "Scholar Nigger" is playing the race card?

Hey Nigger Scholar,

That white man just called you lazy. White men always call niggers lazy, it's part of racism.

One thing for certain he's not calling you lazy for choosing to write about boybands on magazine covers instead of tackling problems like the starvation in Dafur.

This is no tempest in a teapot. It really does matter a lot which boyband goes on the cover.

Don't write anything about the tens of thousands of starving Africans in Dafur until this whole boy band magazine cover issue is resolved.

Us white microsoft liberals are counting on our very own nigger scholar to keep us distracted from the very real racism in our world by stirring up nonsense news about boybands.

Boycott Seattle Weakly! Fight Racism! Distract attention from real problems like Dafur!

you should tell him that there is a difference between writing a stories about a band and giving a band a front page spread.

there is. really chuck, there is.

and if you've written about them sooo much why haven't you put them on the cover?

and if they've won substantial awards in your music poll two years and counting why haven't they garnered a front page photo op?

hm?

if you say it's an editorial decision, you might want to consider firing whoever is making those decisions right away.

Tell me more about this "Dafur." Is it located in Afica?

I'm w/ you, Charles! Chuck is obviously a racist. Why, just _look_ at him! Notice the pale, pink skin tone? He's obviously white, and it's Proven Fact that all whites are racists. End of story. You go, Charles!

Also, as has been pointed out by Sasha Frere-Jones at The New Yorker, if whites don't GET DOWN AND SUCK HIP-HOP'S DICK RIGHT NOW!!! then that means that they're all KKK Grand Dragons _at the very least_. They probably got their nooses out right now, goddamn 'em.

You see, Mr. Mudede & me, we 'get it.' We know white people are scum, they're the lowest form of humanity. Indeed, they're probably not even human! Just look at Tom Cruise! An alien-bred monster if I ever saw one.

Now, please, a moment of silence for a brutha who was recently arrented, and thus has taken the Fight directly to The Man, DJ Star. He's being hassled for Speaking the Truth on-air, "I finally got the information on his slant-eyed, whore wife." Here's a guy who knows how to stand up for his race!

Right On!

Conscious black man, here is my clear position on the n-word, which was published in this story http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=31797 :

"When...asked what I personally thought of the word, I told [the head of NAACP] that it was a very bad word and should not, in theory, be used because black Americans, in reality, still suffer from poverty, underfunded and overcrowded schools, police violence, job discrimination, and so on. But despite all this, I felt the word was out of my control because it's used everywhere—in pop music, on the street corners by my apartment, and by my neighbors, who are mostly black Americans." And so, if it is used by a white or black person it is because they themselves have decided to use the racial slur.

Hey Scholar Nigger,

Please tell Audrey that I ain't no "real writer" like you so I make typos.

The TV says Darfur is someplace in Africa where real bad things are happening. But nigger scholar teaches us that much worse is happening in our own town, on the cover of the Seattle Weekly.

Since nigger scholar never mentions it, perhaps Darfur is just another thing invented by the white controlled media to oppress us?

The real story is that Faggot and nigger are now OK to use . Charles' own editor got famous using the moniker Faggot. Fag and faggot make frequent appearances in this publication.

We're in the process of desensitizing readership to nigger. After initial opposition by PC types, eventually everyone thought faggot was funny, and the same will eventually happen with nigger.

Surely, Student, you don't think that Charles' post constitutes a lifelong dedication to the Weekly issue and a cover-up of Dafur.

For all your smarts, you're not very wise.

aw c'mon, the divorce are just a better group anyway. black musicians do pretty well in the free market. don't infantilize 'em.

We're in the process of desensitizing readership to nigger. After initial opposition by PC types, eventually everyone thought faggot was funny, and the same will eventually happen with nigger.

Oh, well, in that case...

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love live robert gordon

dammit, BS is not a black band.

Hey Nigger Scholar,

Please tell those people that I ain't smart or wise, just a dumb student.

The TV says things in Darfur are so bad that people die every hour the West ignores the genocide.

That must not be true because our own nigger scholar has spent forty eight hours telling us that boybands on magazine covers is the most important thing at the moment.

If a lot of people could die in forty eight hours why would anyone in their right mind waste time worrying about which boy band is on a magazine cover?

So it must be that TV is wrong, and it's fine to ignore Darfur. Nigger Scholar says he's from Africa so he should know.

All I know is I just want to feel good about my Microserf job designing internet software so people can see how much organic yogurt they have in their referigerator.

When I read Nigger Scholar he makes white liberals like me feel smart and informed. All I have to do is tell my Microserf coworkers about the racist magazine cover and they'll know I care about our world.

Of course, Mr. Mudede is the ONLY reporter out there who can singlehandedly fix Darfur, which I had never heard of until Student brought it to my attention. Why Mr. Mudede? Well, because he's BLACK, and therefore responsible for all ills anywhere in the world that befall BLACK people. Not all the ills, really, just the SUPERLATIVE ill of the moment. Any smaller ills, indicative of any low-level racial bias in the media, can be safely ignored, because there are always BIGGER WINDMILLS TO TILT AT.

Hey Scholar Nigger,

I'm glad other readers agree you don't have to write anything about Darfur simply because you are a black African writing for "Seattle's only newspaper".

After all the reason genocides happen is because white male media elites don't tell the world what's happening. It's all the white reporter's fault...or something like that.

And the reason black Africans don't write about a huge story like Darfur is because white median elites don't hire black African writers?

But you are a black African writer in a major US city and you don't write about Darfur either. You write about the same things the white media elites wrote about, silly nonstories about boybands on magazine covers.

So if even black African writers are not writing about Darfur, it must not have anything to do with white males preventing them from writing about genocide.

It must be that even African writers find it easier to write about boybands on magazine covers. Low-level racial bias in the media takes less energy to think about than an entire race of people disappearing forever. Genocide.

I'm sure people dying in Darfur now will agree that nigger scholar is the last person that needs to be writing about Africa. Make the white people write about a place they've never been, and let nigger scholar fret about white boybands.

Makes sense to me. Maybe I am learning something?

Ah, I was wondering if anyone would rise to Student's bait.

slog needs an ignore function so I don't have to read trolls' comments.

maybe the Weekly can write about the Black Eyed Peas song "Humps" to show their street cred ...

Hey Nolar Schigger, aka Student the Racist:

Shut up.

Signed,
Not A Student

Also, Chuck Taylor continues to miss the point, or is throwing out Red Herring after Red Herring to sidestep the fact that a hip hop act of color won his paper's contest, yet he insisted on putting a runner-up on the cover BECAUSE THEY WERE A WHITE ROCK AND ROLL BAND.

I'm just gonna call him Grand Wizard Chuck Taylor from here on out, and the rest of you are welcome to join me.

I remember when there used to be an advice column titled "Dear Faggot" some time back. Dan Savage took the idea, watered it down so as to make it marketable, and adopted it as his own.

Not to disparage Savage Love, which is good in its own way, but Dear Faggot was *funny*.

Hey gomez, I'm down, as long you'll join me in calling the SW the Seattle Whitey.

Pleeeze Student,

There are always children dying in Africa. Cry me a river.

Cute boys who play music are just as important. I luuuuuv hip hop and am so glad the Seattle seen is getting hotter!

On a hardly related note (the use of "man...aging" in the header made me think of it), did any of you see the Belltown Messenger's little story on the aging Stranger leadership?

Charles, that was some funny fucking shit right there.

Kimberly: "there are always children dying in Africa. Cry me a River" statement was completely unnecessary and horrid at that. I would hope that it is not the general assumption that those who love hiphop are that uncaring to issues such as Darfur. Although I do not agree with what the Student is saying in regards to SW Weekly, he is making a point about the lack of visibility on other issues that are of extreme importance. : whether or not it has to do with the issue of hiphop and the lack of coverage for the Scene in Seattle.

Huh. You don't look black.

Goddam, I know people will use just about any excuse to slag off stuff they don't like, such as rival papers, musical groups, fuck, whole musical genres even. But Jesus, racism? It just seems like exploitation of a hot-button issue. Either way, YOU don't like pop-rock? Here's a tip no one cares. YOU don't like hip-hop? No one cares. Just remember, the SW has no obligation to anybody to put anything other than what they choose on the cover, nor has never been stated or implied that getting the most votes overall entitled any act to a cover shot.

Codename Really?: Didn't the editor openly admit that they put the white band on the cover this week because they had put two acts of color on the previous two colors?

So he used racial discrimination to justify what you claim was an arbitrary decision. Nice try.

mudede, you definitely are a hack. and an embarrassment.

chuck taylor is a hack. he'll assign anyone to cover the times/ pi debate, which he thinks is the biggest issue of the century, which shows how fucking out of touch he is. uptight fuck. the weekly has been comatose under his sorry ass watch. just as the new union record was the sorriest union paper in the history of organized labor in america.

Chuck Taylor seems to have an issue with anyone who has as issue with his leadership.

Which reminds me, Yo Dick C., how's your hunting buddy coming along?

Charles, please see my comments re: Erica's assertions over in the fool post your pal Josh Feit put up. As for putting up, Charles, why don't you back your shit up? Go count the number of words the Weekly has printed on Blue Scholars versus how many we've pritned on the Divorce. Then, if you've got further claims to make, you know where to find my Blue Scholars/Divorce-listening butt.

And for those of you creeps taunting Charles with the N word, go fuck yourselves. And as for you WF, why don't you track me down and back your assertsions about our coverage of the JOA to my face? Otherwise, you are a chickenshit.

Dear God, how could I let that aging gibe go? Dan Savage is a 40something just like me, although he's given to lying about his age in print as he's given to lying about things he did/didn't do in Iowa. Keck is loosely his equal in age and Feit is right up there too...and has the gray hairs to prove it. I wonder how old Charles is. I am 43.

Please, philip, tell me how come, if you've given the scholars so much print, why haven't you given them a front page spread in either this past issue or the issues that garnered them album of the year or top hiphop?

2004 cover:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/diversions/0419/040512_cover_big.php
2005 cover:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/diversions/0519/050511_cover.php

somethings getting over spread, and it aint' the blue scholars, and it ain't hip hop.

I mean, why if they are so popular amongst your readers, are they not every featured on the front page. the divorce is interesting sure, but whenblue scholars one best hiphop album you didnt' throw them up on the cover, now did you.

I guess they'll have to recieve less than overall votes, and win in the pop/rock category before you guys would ever consider doing that.

Has anyone ever noticed that "Chuck Taylor" the managing editor of SW and "Charles Taylor" the bloodthirsty former dictator of Liberia HAVE NEVER APPEARED IN THE SAME PICTURE???? I don't think _anyone's_ ever seen them in the same room together.

It's obvious. They look & act exactly alike. They're the same person. Didn't think I'd catch on to your clever name change, did you _Chuck_???