The Hip Hop Anthropologist

 Over the past year, my Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts respectively have been either restricted or suspended for short periods of time allegedly because I abridged Meta (parent company of both social media platforms) terms of service (TOS). Since I responded with this blog, the accounts restrict everything I attempt to post. Doubtless a deliberate campaign fostered by some anonymous, pimply-faced, Incel masquarading as a nerd, trying to curry favor with Suckersberg who would not know the employee's name if it smacked him in his smug pusser. In all the instances, I merely responded to either a provocative or implicitly racist post by catfishing settler-colonists masquerading as an original man or woman with a “locked” profile: a profile without a photograph in a space (i.e., group or page) “Kevin Samuels Official Discussion Group” to name one of many targeted to or focused on the issues of Black folks. Once ferreted out, the confederates of these settler-colonists, would ...

Rudy Ghouliani was a monster during his brutal tenure as Mayor of NYC, which was augured in by a riot that he incited with off-duty white cops shouting invectives with reckless abandon: hurling racial pejoratives like "nigger" and "washboy" at the incumbent Black NYC mayor, David Dinkins. The first Black man to hold the esteemed office. The riot grew rapidly with alarmed, risk-adverse, and highly-political, NYPD brass dispatching "white shirts" (NYPD line command staff to put it down by threatening the off-duty cops with arrest if they did not disperse). It was an insurrection before the J6 insurrection that one of his biggest fans during that infamous period reprised during his loss to Joe Biden in 2020. He promptly micromanaged all of his top aids most notably Education Commissioner Rudy Crews, who he initially praised to high heaven, right out of office instituting a "broken windows" approach to law enforcement to curb crime in the largest cit...