The Hip Hop Anthropologist

  By Dennis Shipman  Th ere's a brutal, undeniable truth echoing across the American landscape, a truth that cuts deeper than any political pundit dares to admit: the only thing Trumpty Dumpty got right was saying we're a stupid country, because we are. Not because of a lack of intelligence in our individuals, but because a pervasive, self-destructive racism has blinded a significant portion of the electorate, leading them to vote against their own material well-being in a grotesque theater of racial spite. This isn't theory; it's the daily lived reality for millions, and a pathology that threatens to be the ultimate undoing of this nation. We are witnessing, in stark and horrifying clarity, how white citizens will vote to perpetuate white supremacy anywhere in the world, no matter the cost to themselves. They will vote for policies that cause their own families to suffer, to starve, to go without healthcare, housing, or other basic needs. Why? Just to deprive those ...

By Dennis Shipman In the annals of American jurisprudence, few decisions cast as dark and enduring a shadow as Dred Scott v. Sandford (60 U.S. 393, 1857). This ignominious ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, under Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be citizens and thus possessed no rights that a white man was bound to respect. It was a judicial act of profound dehumanization, a stark embodiment of white supremacy wielded not by brute force, but by the very institution charged with upholding justice. Fast forward to the present, and a chilling echo reverberates through the hallowed halls of power. The Supreme Court of the United States, particularly its current conservative majority—what can only be called the Clarence "Uncle Tom" Ass Supreme Court (Chief Justice John Roberts)—has increasingly rendered decisions that, while cloaked in the language of constitutional interpretation and original intent,...

 By Dennis Shipman Wilmington, DE – June 25, 2025 – Behind the veneer of "mutually beneficial relationships," Seeking.com, a platform wholly owned by Reflex Media, Inc., headquartered at 3250 Pepper Ln., Las Vegas, NV 89120 and founded by Brandon Wade, stands accused of highly questionable business practices and, more alarmingly, has been referred to federal, state and local authorities for allegedly operating as a digital clearinghouse for prostitution. My recent experience, beginning with an unauthorized debit and culminating in a wall of corporate silence, offers a stark look into the company's operational ethics. The Unauthorized Charge: A Breach of Trust Despite my explicit written instruction sent on June 1, 2025, to support@seeking.com, clearly stating my desire not to renew my subscription and specifically forbidding any debits from my Bank of America checking account, Seeking.com proceeded to charge $109.99 on Sunday, June 22, 2025. This unauthorized transaction ...

 DEI always has been a canard, a red herring; a race-based grievance by under performing, under educated white ethnics envious of the immense strides made by educated racial minorities, who achieved upward mobility white ethnics presumed was their birthright, in spite of the huge ball and chain Black folks carry on our way up the ladder to success. Trump's entire administration is riddled by and infected with photogenic, camera-ready mediocrities who could not collectively manage their way outta a wet paper bag. If their immigrant dad was a trade unionist, they were admitted to the craft, guild, or trade. If their parents attended a prestigious college or university, they received preferential admission treatment. There was no bar exam for lawyers in many states until Blacks began graduating from law school. No exam to practice psychology 'til '65. No tuition at public colleges. The retirement age used to be 65. Ronald Reagan changed it to 67 parring back and ...

  Ten Democrat senators broke voting for cloture advancing a draconian spending Republican bill, which the Democrats had literally no input in drafting and, worst, offered no guard rails to curtail or constrain Musk; an illegal South African immigrant, who has been busy as a bee, rummaging through secured, sensitive federal databases, compiling personal, confidential banking information on regular American citizens, harvesting proprietary [read that: trade secrets] information on competitors, which the courts had already told him hands-off. We have already gotten sporadic reports that at least two Social Security recipients have had their benefits stopped, and monies debited (unlawfully clawed back) from their approved personal checking accounts. The same with NYC. It's Citibank checking account was over-drafted to the tune of $15,000 when US Treasury acting on behest of Musk somehow managed to reverse an eight million dollar transaction. No one (including the NYC Comptroller) even...

The hostility has always been there, simmering slowing beneath the surface. It takes little provocation to bring it to a rolling boil. Kendrick Lamar managed to do just that, though. His half-time show was a brilliant admixture of talking word, allegory, symbolism, and pagantry liberally seasoned with notable cultural icons like Sam L dressed as Uncle Sam with 16 stars on his jacket and Serena crip walking unapologetically ... He spanked whitey. And they weren't feelin it. https://tenor.com/view/foghorn-leghorn-spank-beat-beating-gif-12866723695374477811

I sounded the alarm about chump the braindead comic carnival barker aka klueless the klown getting back into office, and exerting control over the entire Executive branch through an untested political-legal concept called the "unified executive" theory, during the election. Scared-outta-their-wits, cowed, and cowardly bicameral Congress members were already in the bag. Many (if not all) refused to condemn J6 or, worst, say that Stinky without the Brain had lost the '20 election. The same hypocrtical law and order types who without even the wink or the nod defend trumpty dumpty's unilateral, unconditional pardons). The Supremely Corrupt Court's get-out-of-jail-free-card grant of absolute immunity solidified tRump's tenuous grasp on the body politic. Now firmly ensconsed back in the seat of power, emboldened by unmerited favor, deference, and as reckless as ever, tRump is poised to become the first president to overtly defy the courts as they attempt to reign in...

  I just love it when some OCD Magalomaniac or Libertarian dupe decides to play human on social media... It is no longer shameless to be shameful. Anti-intellectualism has become a superpower. And with it there goes the slippery slide to moral relativism with trumpty dumpty soiling the slide on his way down into the rabbit hole with his lemmings in close pursuit.

...chump the brain dead comic carnival barker aka klueless the klown has directed the USDOJ to sue colleges and universities that teach "Black History." The patently unlawful order abridges a fundamental tenet of the academy, which is "academic freedom": A raison d'être of higher education at PWIs since their inception in the states in the mid 1600s. Stinky without the Brain stole a page from a worn playbook written by Ron DeSantis, with little or no pushback from Florida based HBCUs like Bethune-Cookman University, Edward Waters University, Florida A&M University and Florida Memorial University. Well-fed, well-heeled, not on welfare; fat, sleek, and comfortable Black PhDs plying their trade in the hallowed halls of the academy, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, apparently did not get the memo, however. They were too busy supping greedily at the slop trough of white liberal guilt to lift their professionally coiffed locks, wigs, or weaves, lips g...

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5281162/fcc-npr-pbs-investigation?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us With CBS in "settlement" talks over the Kamala Harris interview, poised to capitulate to the Trump administration, the NYTimes and other legacy media outlets have been ousted from their coveted perches in the Pentagon (replaced by right wing tabloids such as the NY Post, and radical right ring media outlets like Breitbart and OAN) the coup d'état is practically complete. Now the Trump infested Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is flexing its authority by falsely accusing NPR and PBS of commercial advertising, which violates their charters, and threatens federal funding streams. The die may be cast. Although tepid in their push back against the steady torrent of falsehoods emanating from the Trump administration, PBS and NPR are still too "liberal" to pave the path, grease the slide, into the dystopian blackout conservatives want to keep Americans in the d...

Television commentator and podcaster Cenk Uygur of Young Turks (though he hardly looks "young" to me) was recently on with Brian Tyler Cohen. They reprised an earlier debate Brian had with Cenk. One where Cenk broadstroked all Progressives as living "in a bubble" because they were not sufficiently deferential to chump the brain dead comic carnival barker aka klueless the klown: a convicted criminal, con artist, rapist, and a traitor. If we give any thift to a report done by the NYTimes in an October 7, 2021, piece the "likes of which we have not seen before." Cenk was dismissive, disrespectful, feigning incredulity that anyone could believe there were no voices of dissension in trumpty dumpty's camp simply because Steve Bannon was not in lockstep with Elon Musk. The controversy stemmed from Cenk decision to appear at a conservative conference attempting to marshal support for an ill-fated run for President though he is not a natural-born American citiz...

Looking at one or two Black female anchors with their $1,000 sewn in 8' long cadaver weaves strikes me as being as tone deaf as professionally employed Black females sporting tats (they self-consciously cover up with long sleeve blouses or pants depending on where the tatoo artist affixed their particular mark of shame. What is worse, I know a lot of them. To a person they all live in or around Prince Georges (PG) County, MD (which comprises affluent suburbs Southeast of DC, over-indexed by print, broadcast, and television journalists on the DC beat, government workers, skilled trademen, and other associated professionals living in suburban bliss between the two large urban centers of DC and Baltimore) and otherwise known as the "DMV." I swear I sometimes wanna ask 'em when I run into 'em in Bowie or Washington heights what tf is wrong with y'all? You cannot claim that you are conscious when you are doning an expensive, Eurocentric standard of beauty on your n...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJfbdqigLQc&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3sea5-0Cr1v12L4m1gH2GN9LR0oq_fOu-dJaAUeMHV7i2LD6prLWSywLE The point being missed here is that dangerous animals are subdued without injury after wandering into populated areas all the time. The bottom line is that from the video, it clearly shows the cops are untrained. They allowed an inebriated suspect to disarm one officer. And turned a routine arrest into a deadly altercation. You being untrained and unable to subdue me using hand-to-hand combat is your fault; and, that of the agency who employs you. I believe all police should be disarmed and made to become proficient in hand-to-hand combat. Dr. Jerry Beasley, 9th Dan, and one of the world's foremost martial art educators at Radford University (VA) developed such a curriculum, which is highly regarded in the federal law enforcement communities. But law enforcement agencies can return to the old marine corp hand-to-hand combat field manual. The te...