The Hip Hop Anthropologist

  We have been holding "space" in this country since before our forced immigration here over 400 hundred years ago. The generational trauma to our collective psyche has some of US identifying with our oppressor (Stockholme syndrome) in the vain hope that whitey will be less brutal, release some pressure from his size thirteen jackboot on our necks, while others take an opposite stance. I am personally done because my anger is not directed toward whitey for doing what they do to preserve their 200 year headstart. My angst is directed at deaf, dumb, and blind Black folk who refuse to rise up collectively to effectively push back against the oppression because they are "not all that racist," or "maybe tRump needs to come back," or "I had more money under tRump", or whatever other bizarre rationalizations they can conjure up in their pea brain for supporting a documented bigot. The fact of the matter is chump the brain dead comic carnival barker aka ...

  "Q" was in a class by himself. In addition to all the well-deserved accolades, he was also a talented pianist before taking up trumpet and becoming a respected trumpeter in his own right prior to writing, composing and producing, before finding his lane, arranging. His lush instrumentals were notable for their signature orchestration, which had a classical music flavor seeminglessly woven with jazz sensibilities. Like many "naturals," he got his start while still in high school. He went to the "woodshed" mastering his craft with some of the very best "Big Band" leaders in the business before carving out his own niche. Frank Sinatra said he had never seen an arranger score a song a quickly as "Q." Sinatra collaborations with "Q" stand the test of time as some of the best selling albums in the waning genre. His foray into pop with Michael Jackson are the stuff of legends propelling the star to superstardom. Little know fact is...

 I am heartened to see prominent attorneys of all genders, races, ethnicities, and hues rallying to Mosby's defense because while she is a passionate, progressive, and articulate defender of poor Black and brown folks, her outsized impact on criminal justice policy as Baltimore City State Attorney made her a convenient target for the hypocritical "law and order" crowd, who believe like Ghouliani and chump the brain dead comic carnival barker aka klueless the klown, the law only applies to those other "folks." And as these people placed a huge bullseyes on this sista's back, they employed other unconscious Black folks to do their bidding, their dirty work. The US District Court Judge and Assistant US Attorney are both Black. And though if it were any other ethnicity or race, that might mean something substantive, with our people, it does not mean shit. I cannot count how many times it was Black or brown people who screwed up a deal, position, or o...

Having co-opted Negroes in the employ of Baltimore County Police Department that validate the racism evident within this rogue agency by ignoring it does little to dissuade one as a conscious professional Black man from pursuing a full and thorough airing of an extremely serious grievance against the agency. Under no circumstance will I allow an aggressive, wet-behind-the-ears, overpaid, under-trained cop to insult, threaten and humiliate me while a Negro corporal senior to this moron stands idly by divesting his authority because like most if not all Black cops within this law enforcement agency and many others he was more concerned with going-along-to-get-along than with doing the right thing, acting professionally, and exhibiting a degree of responsibility commensurate with his standing as not simply sworn police officer but ostensibly a senior one. 7-11 and the “terrorist” in its employ is going to be dealt with in the appropriate forum. This agency needs to obey the laws it ...