Today’s photo of the day is the cover of Nas’ upcoming album, Nigger. Thoughts?

Today’s song of the day is “Congratulations” by Vesta. This is a classic!

Less than 72 hours after the release of a video accusing Chris Stokes of molestion, Raz-B has issued a public apology for his remarks. This smells fishy…

For the past few days, Will Smith has been under fire by the media and Jewish Defense League for his comments to a Scottish newspaper:

Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today.’ I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good.’

In response to Smith’s comments, the JDL has demanded an apology and publicly called for a boycott of Smith’s latest movie.

This is getting ridiculous.

In his quote, Smith accurately pointed out that people rarely view themselves as the living embodiment of evil. Instead, all of us are shaped by ideologies, traditions, and regimes of knowledge that shape who we are and how we view the world. As such, Hitler likely didn’t see himself as evil, but as an agent of what he viewed as positive social change. This doesn’t justify the massacre of Jews, it merely explains how individual identities and practices are constituted by coherent (though often deeply problematic) worldviews.

While I’m sensitive to Antisemitism — I supported the ADL’s boycott of Mel Gibson– this is going too far. Every time someone does more than call Hitler the devil incarnate, they aren’t supporting the Holocaust. Every time someone challenges the Zionist occupation of Palestine, they aren’t antisemitic. This type of thin skinned and reactionary media grandstanding on the part of the JDL does a radical disservice to the legitimate work against antisemitism that is being done around the globe.

LEAVE WILL SMITH ALONE!