Due to budgetary constraints, “Tanisha” was my only purchase at the Wagon Wheel flea market today: 25 cents! I’m going to put her up on a shelf, rather than let Cricket murder her. It would be kind of racist, plus I don’t want Cricket and Squeak to start thinking they can bite black babies (and other babies as well, I guess). Check out the video I shot, some of my kinfolk gettin’ they groove on.
This film follows William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American teenagers who are recruited by a scout from St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominantly white high school with an outstanding basketball program, whose alumni include NBA great Isiah Thomas.
Agee and Gates are both from poor, African-American neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois. Gates lived in Cabrini–Green, while Agee and his family reside in West Garfield Park.
Taking 90-minute commutes to school, enduring long and difficult workouts and practices, and having to acclimate to a foreign social environment, Gates and Agee struggle to improve their athletic skills in a job market with heavy competition. Along the way, their families celebrate their successes and support each other during times of economic hardship caused from the school change.
The film raises a number of issues concerning race, class, economic division, education, and values in contemporary America.
This film also lets us see the ugly underbelly of the AAU circuit and their shady recruitment practices. For example, Agee was found and recruited to St. Joseph by a “scout” who found him on a playground in the hood, when he was in the 8th grade. Too bad nobody recruited me, 205 ya heard?
They ain’t talkin’ about me…wait, maybe they are..? I do love the theater, dahling
The ATLAH Worldwide Missionary Church is led by Dr. James David Manning, a man who has been outspokenly critical of the Obama administration and the progression of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights over the course of the past six years.
“This is devastating what Obama is doing to the black man and the black woman, and how the white homo is now moving into the black neighborhoods looking for black men that have been converted into homosexuality. But black woman let me say something to you: you have a very hard time competing against a white homosexual male. He’s usually got money — a white homo usually has an American Express card. He usually has an opportunity at the theater — homos love the theater. They love to go out to dinners, parties, they love that kind of a thing… black people need to rise up in mass and recognize the utter destruction that Obama is going in to destroy the black family with these homosexual statements that he has done and release of demons.”
Jordan Bowers @BowersIsTheBoss
Call me heartless, but I won’t support Michael Sam. I won’t discriminate, but I also can’t praise a man who has disregarded God’s laws.
Mary Fords Grandbaby @MaryFordgb
It saddens me that black male role models now are either homo or in jail.College football star Michael Sam: I’m gay
Pastor Jeff Earls @PastorJeffEarls
New Fag League – The Doom of a Great American Game
Spirit of Truth @SpiritofTruth1
Michael Sam I’m gonna cast yo fag fucking ass to hellz!!!
Smokey Dope @TokeyDope
Who gives a shit if Michael Sam is a fag I dont wanna hear it everytime I turn to @ESPN
sam palmer @sampalmer14
No one care if Michael Sam is gay. Be a homo in private. I want to watch sports center not a gay guy who plays football.
NBAInsider @wesleym80
what a wacko Michael Sam lol says hes atracted to guys WTF thats fucking gross haha @espn #SportsCenter that should be Not top 10 lol
Randy @RandalldaCandle
That queer Michael Sam needs to go home. No one wants gay people on there football team.
Dub @DawgsAreInAnI
Michael Sam bringing smear the queer to a whole new level #corksoaker
Gopis dead @Gopisdead
MLK is ROLLING in His Grave. Did He DIE 4 This? Who is going 2 follow this guy w/o the liberal elite?
Pariah’s Child @Lakeshow_248
Michael sam. Hope u die
Al Hannum @AlHannum3
Michael Sam’s don’t ask don’t tell brotha.Now I can’t watch sport center for the rest of the week ,you ruined it god damn
Alek Aker @AlekAker
Why are people praising Michael Sam & acting like hes greater than God just because hes openly gay?!? Its a sin! #ThisWorldIsGoingToHell
Semmes, Alabama, is named for a Confederate admiral. Shockingly, the people of Semmes, Alabama, felt a little weird about an “all-male, African-American gay dance team from Mobile” impersonating sexy Santa gals at their annual Christmas parade. If by weird, you mean irate.
The 3,000-strong population of Semmes apparently likes its Christmas parade the way it likes its nooses: straight. And the Friends of Semmes, who put on the parade, feel just awful that the town’s upstanding citizens and children were forced to see the young African-American gentlemen of the Prancing Elites in action, according to Mobile’s Fox 10:
[Prancing Elites] Group Captain Kentrell Collins said he had every reason to believe the routine would be welcomed at the Semmes Christmas parade. After all, they were invited.
“I said, ‘we’re all over 21 and we’re guys.’ She was so excited. She was like ‘I didn’t know they had any groups like that in Mobile,'” Collins said.
However, instead of applause or cheers group members said they heard lots of jeers.
“Some of them were saying stuff like ‘Oh my God, what’s that?'” dancer Adrian Clemons said.
Claudia Davis, area white woman, spoke to the TV station on behalf of wide-mouthed concerned citizens everywhere. “I was outraged and appalled,” she said, as she stood shaking beside her presumably now-warped daughter:
“I never expect anything like this at the Semmes Christmas parade!.. If they were gonna put this… kind of… activity in the parade, they should have notified the people of Semmes so that we had a choice whether we wanted out child to attend and see something like that.”
Indeed. Besides naming its fair town in honor of a secessionist who was arrested for treason after the War of Northern Aggression, Semmes’ other claims to fame are that it has its own zip code and Walmart.
This flea market had a lot of guns, rebel flags, and taxidermied animals…unfortunately they didn’t have the stuffed raccoon I’m still looking for. I didn’t buy anything, except for a bbq sandwich, funnel cake, cajun boiled peanuts and some fried pork skins.
