Comments on: API Rappers, Interracial Dating & The Garden of Good & Wevils… http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/api-rappers-interracial-dating-the-garden-of-good-wevils/ miscegenated and miseducated Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:51:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: APEX EXPRESSions « COLINRESPONSE http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/api-rappers-interracial-dating-the-garden-of-good-wevils/#comment-517 APEX EXPRESSions « COLINRESPONSE Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:57:15 +0000 http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-517 [...] Project, but spent most of our time in a conversation about a previous post in this BLOG entitled API Rappers, Interactial Dating & The Garden of Good & Wevils. In this post (if you’ve not read it), I spend time discussing the roles that API emcees play [...] [...] Project, but spent most of our time in a conversation about a previous post in this BLOG entitled API Rappers, Interactial Dating & The Garden of Good & Wevils. In this post (if you’ve not read it), I spend time discussing the roles that API emcees play [...]

]]> By: Bliss Henderson http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/api-rappers-interracial-dating-the-garden-of-good-wevils/#comment-506 Bliss Henderson Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:00:36 +0000 http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-506 Well i live hip-hop just as much as the next person who has grown up with the sounds of de la soul to Tu Pac but don't all think hiphop has been taking some down ward commericalized spiral trying to market to whites who think they are listen to music geared toward blacks but it is really to the false ideas that they have about our culture and exsperiance in the black community. And if you really want to see what this brilliant mind looks like come to http://bliss-henderson.livejournal.com/ Well i live hip-hop just as much as the next person who has grown up with the sounds of de la soul to Tu Pac but don’t all think hiphop has been taking some down ward commericalized spiral trying to market to whites who think they are listen to music geared toward blacks but it is really to the false ideas that they have about our culture and exsperiance in the black community.

And if you really want to see what this brilliant mind looks like come to
http://bliss-henderson.livejournal.com/

]]> By: colinresponse http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/api-rappers-interracial-dating-the-garden-of-good-wevils/#comment-505 colinresponse Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:33:27 +0000 http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-505 Mera, Thank u much for your kind words and for dropping by! You seem to have a good grip on your own identity and how you want the world to look for marginalized peoples. Have a blessed day and be well. PEACE C Mera,
Thank u much for your kind words and for dropping by! You seem to have a good grip on your own identity and how you want the world to look for marginalized peoples. Have a blessed day and be well.

PEACE
C

]]> By: Mera http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/api-rappers-interracial-dating-the-garden-of-good-wevils/#comment-502 Mera Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:33:42 +0000 http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-502 Found your blog while looking for bell hooks images and stuck around to check it out. I'm glad I did! Just wanna say thx for the insight and honesty you bring to your posts. This post in particular really hit home with me about issues like appropriation and privilege. I also wanted to comment on the internalization of racial hierarchies that many racialized folks are guilty of. Speaking as a Sri Lankan Tamil woman, I've seen that hierarchy exercised enough times in my community and have had those hierarchies imposed on me and mine by others too. As well as being able to "pass" as white and receive the "rewards" of white supremacy, folks from various backgrounds are also capable of participating in the bullshit that is the hierarchy of the races (created and imposed by the colonizer) in order to receive "rewards" that way too. - hence the "model minority" mentality so many folks are more than happy to take on. As immigrants and racialized folks we should be standing in solidarity with one another in the face of white supremacy - not jockeying for whatever scraps the colonizer sees fit to drop on our plates. Keep up the awesome work! in sol, Mera Found your blog while looking for bell hooks images and stuck around to check it out. I’m glad I did! Just wanna say thx for the insight and honesty you bring to your posts. This post in particular really hit home with me about issues like appropriation and privilege.

I also wanted to comment on the internalization of racial hierarchies that many racialized folks are guilty of. Speaking as a Sri Lankan Tamil woman, I’ve seen that hierarchy exercised enough times in my community and have had those hierarchies imposed on me and mine by others too.

As well as being able to “pass” as white and receive the “rewards” of white supremacy, folks from various backgrounds are also capable of participating in the bullshit that is the hierarchy of the races (created and imposed by the colonizer) in order to receive “rewards” that way too. - hence the “model minority” mentality so many folks are more than happy to take on.

As immigrants and racialized folks we should be standing in solidarity with one another in the face of white supremacy - not jockeying for whatever scraps the colonizer sees fit to drop on our plates. Keep up the awesome work!

in sol,
Mera

]]> By: colinresponse http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/api-rappers-interracial-dating-the-garden-of-good-wevils/#comment-463 colinresponse Fri, 16 May 2008 20:17:46 +0000 http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-463 Daahahaha! Ur the man Phatty. Ill holla at u soon broshot. Happy Friday sir, C Daahahaha! Ur the man Phatty. Ill holla at u soon broshot.
Happy Friday sir,
C

]]> By: djphatrick http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/api-rappers-interracial-dating-the-garden-of-good-wevils/#comment-462 djphatrick Fri, 16 May 2008 19:51:14 +0000 http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-462 THANK YOU! you've articulated exactly how i feel. that's why you emcee and write, and i just dj and yell "NEW SHIT!" THANK YOU! you’ve articulated exactly how i feel. that’s why you emcee and write, and i just dj and yell “NEW SHIT!”

]]> By: colinresponse http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/api-rappers-interracial-dating-the-garden-of-good-wevils/#comment-445 colinresponse Mon, 12 May 2008 18:42:10 +0000 http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-445 LOL. I love you and your big asian brain in your big asian head, brother! Thanks as always for reading, and for inspriing me to think about these things out loud through the blog-squad. I feel like my discovering Blogging in this period in life, was just as important as me discovering writing rhymes/making beats/spinning vinyl as a teen. Ima check that book out ASAP as I have seen it on the shelves of book stores and thought about buying it too many times. API and Black folks are natural allies to each other and it hurts me everyday when I notice the multitude ways we are divided by Amerika. Word to Bruce Lee/Kareem abdul Jabar in "Game of Death" and the entire Wu-Tang Clan. Bless, Senbei LOL. I love you and your big asian brain in your big asian head, brother! Thanks as always for reading, and for inspriing me to think about these things out loud through the blog-squad. I feel like my discovering Blogging in this period in life, was just as important as me discovering writing rhymes/making beats/spinning vinyl as a teen.

Ima check that book out ASAP as I have seen it on the shelves of book stores and thought about buying it too many times. API and Black folks are natural allies to each other and it hurts me everyday when I notice the multitude ways we are divided by Amerika.

Word to Bruce Lee/Kareem abdul Jabar in “Game of Death” and the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

Bless,
Senbei

]]> By: K-Chedda http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/api-rappers-interracial-dating-the-garden-of-good-wevils/#comment-444 K-Chedda Mon, 12 May 2008 18:34:40 +0000 http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-444 I see you already got the dissertation started before you even start grad school, C. Hahaha for real tho, you speak truth man. Have you heard/read "Everyone Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity" by Vijay Prashad? It's really academic but really fascinating too, highly recommended. He basically talks about how the two groups, Asians and Africans, have been pitted against each other in the US, but there is a long standing history of interaction between Asia and Africa that dates back for centuries. API participation in hip hop could uplift and continue that tradition, but we must check the wevils, as you say. Hapa man preach on. Peace, KC I see you already got the dissertation started before you even start grad school, C. Hahaha for real tho, you speak truth man.

Have you heard/read “Everyone Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity” by Vijay Prashad? It’s really academic but really fascinating too, highly recommended.

He basically talks about how the two groups, Asians and Africans, have been pitted against each other in the US, but there is a long standing history of interaction between Asia and Africa that dates back for centuries. API participation in hip hop could uplift and continue that tradition, but we must check the wevils, as you say.

Hapa man preach on.

Peace,

KC

]]> By: colinresponse http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/api-rappers-interracial-dating-the-garden-of-good-wevils/#comment-442 colinresponse Mon, 12 May 2008 18:06:00 +0000 http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-442 Much appreciated brother slavename. I love conversating about things like Hip-Hop, identity, and poltricks with you and dialouging about how they all come together in our crazily similar/different brains. Stuey LOVE going out to O.P.T.I.C. Team. Freedom GOES. Bless C Much appreciated brother slavename. I love conversating about things like Hip-Hop, identity, and poltricks with you and dialouging about how they all come together in our crazily similar/different brains.

Stuey LOVE going out to O.P.T.I.C. Team. Freedom GOES.

Bless
C

]]> By: slavename http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/api-rappers-interracial-dating-the-garden-of-good-wevils/#comment-440 slavename Mon, 12 May 2008 05:57:13 +0000 http://colinresponse.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-440 DAMN THAT WAS A LONG MUHFUCKIN POST! Putting it down as always Senbeez. That white guy in the park was doin 14 much and pretty much tore apart the whole atmosphere of the cipher. I have to read this shit again when i'm more awake, but you're making me think about shit i haven't really fleshed out in a while. Trying to find context with myself in this hip hop thang. Right, G. DAMN THAT WAS A LONG MUHFUCKIN POST! Putting it down as always Senbeez. That white guy in the park was doin 14 much and pretty much tore apart the whole atmosphere of the cipher.

I have to read this shit again when i’m more awake, but you’re making me think about shit i haven’t really fleshed out in a while. Trying to find context with myself in this hip hop thang.

Right,

G.

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