And it feels like I’ve got something to prove
But in some ways it’s just something to do
My friends turn me around and say,
“You go west, young man.”
Stepping down off my platform shoes
Sixty-nine in the afternoon
And I’m waiting for someone in the know
Like Pirner tells me on the radio
Says “Take it from someone who’s been there before,
You go west, young man.”
here it is, y’all, i know you’ve been waiting. yo, this video is mad theatrical. just kidding.. i like it! i dig the roving camera in the beginning. theyre relevant, dramatic but not overly cheesy. like, they coulda had jeezy dressed in a suit, dapping a michelle obama look-alike in a purple dress (if this was kanye’s video, it wouldve happened). plus, this song just gets me so HYPE. sometimes ill be listening to it on subway and just crack bitches heads and shit! on the real, why is kanye so serious nowadays? do y’all remember workout plan? that was a different time altogether.
Craig Samuel, owner of The Smoke Joint in ft. greene, has opened a new restaurant in bed-stuy called Peaches Market. the new place is located at Lewis and MacDonough, the food is Southern-influenced, but all local (isn’t it a law by now?) most importantly though, samuel is black. we went to the smoke joint last weekend, and the food ok, though the atmosphere was really the better part. i remember the pork tasting chicken-y, but the macaroni was really memorable. worth a second try, and a first at the new joint. peep this video for an interview and preview of the space.
We should probably try to watch this. My grandfather told me about it the other day. CNN Presents: Black In America is a three-part series hosted by Soledad O’Brien. The first part already aired and was a collection of eyewitness accounts of MLK’s assassination, re-told 40 years later. The next segment is, The Black Woman & Family and it airs tomorrow, Wed. at 9pm ET. It will be followed Thursday at 9 by The Black Man. Z you’re the only one with DVR. Get to work. The series comes after a Black In America HBCU tour* that occurred earlier this year. I think the series features panel discussion footage from the tour. I’m not that impressed with the relatively low amount of promotion it’s getting, but it could be good. The website has a more trailers and an up-to-date list of relevant news stories. See main trailer below.
Black In America: The Black Woman & Family WED. JULY 23, 9PM ET
Black In America: The Black Man THURS. JULY 24, 9pm ET
*On a side note, the idea of an HBCU tour makes sense, but I’m starting to feel a little left out as black liberal arts school grad. I support the promotion of historically black colleges/universities 100%, but more and more black kids are going to white-majority liberal arts schools, and they REALLY need help–perhaps in the form of events like this. Programs like Prep for Prep are sending inner-city black kids to elite private colleges, but once they get there, they have no support for coping with being black in a rich, white environment. I think the tendency of black organizations is to consider these kids as black people who’ve already made it, when the reality is it’s just the beginning. They forget that they/we still need the same, if not more support.
