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Re: "White People Like To Buy The Drink" - Personal - The Atlantic

nubiansoul — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:59:26 -0000

Zambooki - is not a mis-pronounciation of Samboka

Samboka can be had straight - white samboka is more commonly made as a zambooki (add coffee to liquers). You can do this with rum, other flavours of vodka e.t.c.

It seems Katt knew what he was talking about when he said it, but you assumed he meant something else based on your lack of knowledge of the term - Zambooki.

Re: I See a Trend

nubiansoul — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:36:49 -0000

wow!.

So, A man gets killed and you compare hid story to that of rapist and a murderer.
seriously?. Seriously shakers?.

72 comments and not one person raises any objection to this?. Wow!. Not a soul says anything about this person not being a murderer or a rapist or why a man dying during by falling off the back of a truck driven by his fiance is beyond tragic.

This is beyond sickening, it is repulsive.

Re: In Which Bronson Pinchot Makes Me LOL

nubiansoul — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:23:36 -0000

oh and to the person who said they could tell he wa a jackass just from watching him on screen.. wow! How utterly ridiculous. Everytime he is on screen he is in character, it's okay not to like someone, or simply just be turned off by someone just ... well just because.. there's absolutely no need to grasp at straws to explain not liking someone.
It's enough to just not like them.

Re: In Which Bronson Pinchot Makes Me LOL

nubiansoul — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:20:40 -0000

I'm calling bull on the Denzel Washington thing.
I recall quite afew actors saying with admiration how Al Pacino stays in character during an entire movie, (whilst on set and off set).
So if you played a person who he didn't get on with whilst in character then forget it. He didn't switch out of character and he hated you.

So, why are things different with Denzel? Did anyone even stop to consider that maybe he stays in character?, or maybe just maybe something about dude turned him off?.

I mean Dezel has beeen in quite a broad range of films, yet we are only hearing about him being a jackass from 2 people?. Just not buying it.

Re: Hey Hey It's Blackface

nubiansoul — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:34:15 -0000

Melissa...
Can I just say again that I appreciate the fact that you get it.

And if I hear one more time that those doctors were minorities I think I'm going to hurl. Need I remind people that great though gandhi was, he didn't exactly think black people were equal.

Re: Hey Hey It's Blackface

nubiansoul — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:37:16 -0000

what I find hilarious abou tall of this is that the host apologised not to the black people who might have been offended...but to Hary Connick Jnr.

He apologised to the white person who pointed out that this is not a nice thing to do.

See this is the problem with raciosm and racist attitudes, racists can be aggressive, they can be virulent, but they damn near deman that we handle them with kid gloves and coax them into treating other people with respect.

There is absolutely nowhere on theis planet where black face done by white people is not offensive one of the reasons for this, is because there doesn't seem to be any black habitat on the planet that white people have touched where they racism/colonialism and oppression has not been emerged as a result.

People point to the old days when things like this were okay, they were okay because black people had even less power in those communities, what would have happened to an aboriginal complaining about being called 'abo' or someone in black face, when they were busy being arrested, split from their families, randomly being picked up and beaten or killed.
The idiocy of that angle never fails to amuse me.

In addition, can anyone even begin to imagine if it had been a black personality who had complained?.

Re: Assvertising

nubiansoul — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:40:32 -0000

@goldengirl...
I get that a lot when I visit the south. I get waiters asking me to repeat myself all the time. Sometimes, I forget what a 'novelty' I am in these situations and get slightly irritated.. cos you know.. I'm freaking starving and I want to order some food like NOW lol. and you are wasting my time by asking me to repeat over and over again and then calling your manager over and ask me to repeat the same thing with a smile/grin and spending 5 minutes telling my accent is cute and how you didn't think there were black people in England.

Seriously, I laugh it off a lot when I'm abroad, it just gets annoying when I'm hungry and trying to eat.

Re: Kanye West Ruins VMAs for Two Colleagues

nubiansoul — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:32:54 -0000

@kathy,
The difference in what I am saying and what Melissa is saying is that you are willing to 'hear' Melissa and not me.

It's now no longer about what Taylor didn't do, because she is 'only 19/flustered/put on the spot/et.c...
It's now about me 'refusing to see her as a victim/expecting too much/ beating up on her/condemning her/ projecting/ calling her extremely ungracious (when it was her action I referenced as extremely ungracious).

See here, right here, is where I am supposed/expected to be extremely gracious to you and take the time to not only go over what Melissa said, but to pull out quotes from my post which show that I did indeed empathise with and not condemn Taylor.

And like you've done twice already, there's a possibility that you'll introduce another strawman/new dimensions or accuse me of some other 'mean spirited thing' in order to refute this very simple point :
Taylor Swift should and could have been just as equally as gracious by THANKING HER ON THE MIC, IN FRONT OF THE AUDIENCE AT THAT PARTICULAR POINT IN TIME.

Did Taylor Swift thank Beyonce on mic?. Nope. So I am not assuming anything.

I'm quoting Melissa as you seem to be able to accept what she is saying (even though we have pretty much said the same thing)

Melissa wrote:
'But that's not the same thing as saying on the mic in front of the audience that she appreciates Beyonce having given her that opportunity. And it's not the same thing as thanking her afterwards'

The cynic in me adds the following disclaimer
*okay, yeah I get it, it's the way I type, or the 'tone' of my post and just the general 'attitude' you can feel coming off the words, yu know it reads in such an aggressive manner, and the structure of my posts isn;t clear or my prose isn;t standard or easy to understand or the general vibe of my posts causes them to be interpreted by you in that way*

Re: Kanye West Ruins VMAs for Two Colleagues

nubiansoul — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:19:51 -0000

Melissa....
I'm soo glad that you get it!. Honestly, you really cannot begin to imagine by how much.

Usually I tend to just give up on issues like this because opinions like mine get put into the, oh 'you are beating up on her' / 'you have a chip on your shoulder'/ 'that's not the issue here', 'you are racialising everything thus trivialising it'.

I did say that I couldn't see the video so the transcript is all I have to go on, and yes.... pointing out the omission by Taylor does not disqualify her from being the victim of an injustice, it's just pointing out what should have happened in the situation.

Re: Kanye West Ruins VMAs for Two Colleagues

nubiansoul — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:22:23 -0000

@Kathy...
Yes, she is 19. An adult!. Old enough to have kids, old enough to fight in a war, old enough to have some damn common sense and some type of graciousness.

Being 19 is not being a baby, nor an adolescent. She is a woman damnit and not a child.

What you are doing is simply making excuses for her lack of reciprocal graciousness. You are infantilising a grown woman. Since when were 19 year olds children?

And this is what really irks me, loadsa people have excuses for Kanye's behaviour and now loadsa people are having excuses for Taylor's as well and in the midsts of all of this. Beyonce still gets left out in the cold.

This is all to familiar in reality, a black woman is gracious and it gets taken for granted, it's what she should have done and she becomes an after thought even to the person she was gracious to.
Instead of pointing it out, people make excuses for it. Oh, you know person X was having a bad day, was just upset, was having an anxiety attack, was flustered, was in the limelight, couldn't maintain control of themselves.

One can criticise Kanye, and state that what happened to Taylor Swift was appalling and at the same time say admit that she still did not do the right thing.

She didn't do it when it mattered, even though Beyonce gave her/was induced/coerced/ whatever into giving up her spotlight the most natural thing to do for anyone would be to immediately thank that person there an then.
You are definitely not a black woman, because most black women will tell you how common this is and how it plays out in their daily lives.
And it's always the same excuse, X was flustered, confused, in the spotlight, blah blah blah..

A simple, thank you soo much Beyonce would have sufficed and wouldn't have been too much.

I find it completely baffling that people are still soo willing to overlook it and excuse it.

Re: Kanye West Ruins VMAs for Two Colleagues

nubiansoul — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:10:24 -0000

I have to say this again
Taylor Swift should have thanked Beyonce immediately Beyonce handed her the mike. No one is saying it, but that was extremely ungracious of her and there is no excuse for it.

Why am I pointing it out?. Well because again, Beyonce got taken advantage of by both of these people. Kanye has no excuse and neither did Taylor Swift.
Imagine if the roles were reversed and Beyonce didn't thank Taylor for giving her a second chance?. To me, that is just the epitome of ingratitude and bad manners.
It's seems that black women are always expected to be patient, wait, give up the limelight even by our allies (white women) and that ish is ingrained.

*Disclaimer* Obviously, this is a generalisation.

p.s.
And I still haven't seen any apology from Kanye directed at Beyonce.

Re: Kanye West Ruins VMAs for Two Colleagues

nubiansoul — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:34:00 -0000

unfortunately I can't watch the video (not playing for me) so I don't know if what I'm about to say is simply missing from the transcript provided.

But I would like to highlight, how it would have been equally gracious for Taylor Swift to have immediately thanked Beyonce for giving her the opportunity to start over again.

That's not even something you think twice about when someone has given you a major opportunity to 'shine'. I don't know it all seems a little bit expected of Beyonce to 'be classy' or a 'class act'.

She lost either way, and nobody was there to make it up to her.
That goes for the person who caused the incident (Kanye West) and for the person for whom she fell on her own sword for (Taylor Swift).

Whilst I don't think anyone intended for this to happen or for Beyonce to 'fall on her sword' for someone else, I think the problem is all too often it is expected for black women to do so. Failing to do so garners criticism as not being enough or being trashy e.t.c.

I seriously think if that happened to someone like Pink, she could easily have gotten away with giving her speech first and then saying let's give a shout out to Taylor or 'Taylor get up here' and we would have heard about her graciousness and willingness to share the limelight all damn day.

If beyonce did any less than she did she would have gotten ridiculed, abused and declared greedy or selfish.

It's a shame, but that's the way the cookie usually crumbles in these cases.

Re: Future of Web Apps

nubiansoul — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:42:03 -0000

I'm actually going to be at this conference and I think it's gonna be really cool to hear you speak considering I've been reading following your blog for almost a decade.

Nice!.
Looking forward to this.