Comments on: Quote of the Day

By: johnny utah

johnny utah — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:10:50 +0000

mark, good to find your site. you’re a great writer, i cited some of your work in a law review article I wrote. thanks for the insight.

By: Regkam2

Regkam2 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:02:06 +0000

Logic, it is mainly fueled by the fact that there are very few men in black families who have a spine and the courage to not only raise their children, but assist in the development of their nieces, nephews, and neighbors’ children.

By: Logic

Logic — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:45:09 +0000

It was a classic song precisley because he could put into words, so eloquently, the thoughts and frustrations of so many young men from the ghetto. That feeling of worthlessness and lack of optimism is what is destroying out youth today, and it is fueled by media images.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:12:30 +0000

Regkam2, you have excellent insight. I really enjoy your posts.

The second quote from Woodson expresses exactly what
I was thinking – What a loss! Who made this talented and powerful man, full of potential, believe he was nothing; and how easily he accepted the role.

By: Regkam2

Regkam2 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:52:36 +0000

Tanya, reread the quote from our ancestor, Dr. Carter G Woodson.

also, here’s another quote from Dr Woodson that I think applies to this convo, ““If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.”

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:22:04 +0000

Ditto RegKam2. The lyrics speak loudly!! Tanya, Poverty and depression is dark and lonely..

By: Tanya

Tanya — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:16:59 +0000

PS- I find it incredibly scary that people actually identify with these suffering words of hate. What is really going on???

By: Tanya

Tanya — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:37:40 +0000

I always enjoyed Big, but I had no idea he was so dark. His delivery really did take the edge off his words.

I just get the feeling he didn’t want to be dark, he just felt he had no other choice. Man what a loss.

By: DCI74

DCI74 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:17:55 +0000

Yeah when you actually read the lyrics like this the harshness is unavoidable. I think one thing that made BIG BIG was the way he spit these lyrics, even though they are very jarring BIG had a way of saying things that took the edge off the words.

By: Swiss

Swiss — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:46:09 +0000

These sentiments are so disturbingly sad! I wonder where he is now (heaven or hell) and if his opinion of the two is still the same!