Jay-Z Is Becoming My Least Favorite Rapper

This kind of all for self bullshit is really beginning to annoy me about him. Just like his out of touch song about going to Cuba. Yeah go invest more money into the oppressive Communist regime. Smdh

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To me too but at least people can quit saying I'm biased. I used to be a huge fan, I purchased every album he put out when to every concert since the Hard Knock Life tour but as an adult as a man there are certain positions that people take that reveal who they are and I can't ride with that. I'm ok with making money but this winner take all mentality where if you don't make it to very top you should just bow down and praise your overlords no matter how rigged the system is is bullshit.
Of course we can blame successful business people support this corrupt system. Its not all of them but there's enough out there taking advantage of the hard working for reasonable thinking people to recognize there is something grossly wrong with 5% having half the wealth of a nation. To make it more clear its like getting twenty pizzas for ten people. There is enough for every person to get two pizzas but instead 1 person gets ten pies and tells the other nine to divide the rest even though there is no way that one person can eat all that pizza. There is something very flawed with a system that requires participation from nearly everyone but only benefits a very few.

 

Never ever liked the camel.

 

Is there more to this interview that I missed, because I don't really heaer him talking bootstrap lingo much. I mean, he even made the comment in response to the interviewers question about how real people are at the end of the point. Maybe I'm mistaken, I'm gonna have to listen to it again.

 

i agree.

 

I'm no fan of the Cuban regime. They've made progress on some points, they're a shambles on others, and their social climate isn't exactly free and open. That being said, that hasn't stopped people from running at breakneck speed to do business in China, which jails and kills far more of its people than Cuba does.

This little junket (all done with the proper Treasury Dept. permissions) has been used by the Cuban exile rightwing to create a tempest in a teacup.

Now to listen to the interview.

 

Many things about Jay-Z I don't care about. Going to Cuba ain't one of them. With all due respect...any self-respecting black man who would side with the right wing zealots and the Cuban American community on that issue obviously has no awareness of how Jim Crow-like Cuba was before Castro came to power. Castro is a bad man on many levels and his regime in Cuba hasn't exactly ended racism or oppression of its citizens, but the Cuba that existed before his rise treated its black and its poor like dogs. The vast, vast majority of Cuban exiles that came to America were white and they were immediately accepted not only by the power brokers in American business and the American government, but they were also generally accepted by the racist white politicians, businessmen and citizens of Florida. That tells you all you need to know.

There's a lot of text out there to grab ahold of if you want to know just how corrupt the capitalist-leaning regime of Batista was before Castro overthrew it. However even if that doesn't interest you can we at least agree that the USA government has ongoing relations with a slew of nations with human rights violations as bad or worse than Cuba's. There is no humane, political or strategic reason for America to keep enforcing this embargo for all these decades. All of our American allies, other than Israel of course, trades with Cuba and allows its citizens to visit without all that red tape and special circumstances.

 

O4 and JS,you hit it on the head when the Cuban-American community is concerned. They dissed Nelson Mandela when he came to Miami back in 92 correct me on that. That brought a boycott of the city by the NAACP and other groups. Castro did a lot for Cuba in educating the Cuban people,kept Black-Americans when they fled the US,went to a Black owned hotel in Harlem,had project kids go to Cuban medical schools etc. The Black Cubans should make sure to lead their own destiny since I sad to say are discrimminated against by both sides:No hook ups of jobs in Miami and hotels in Cuban tourist hot spots. The right wingers will make sure that Blacks will not get a chance in Cuba should Castro's government falls so they would still make mountains out of molehills when it comes to visits by Jay-Z and others.

 

You are correct. The American Cuban community in Miami hammered Mandela because of his support for Castro. Why did Mandela voice his support for Castro? Because long before the USA and other western nations came down on the Apartheid system that poisoned South Africa, Castro denounced it. If I'm nost mistaken he trid to aid the blacks in South Africa as well as the blacks in neighboring nations to that country. In fact Castro had a history of sending medical and military personnel to African nations to help in both assistance and training. Mandela never forgot that about Castro. Why should he? For the longest time Cuba was the only ally South African blacks had (outside of other African nations).

 

Many countries had boycot of SA trade of anything that originated from there, such as Sweden. many countries, including Sweden, didn't have much more power that that other than speaking up against it via diplomats etc.
I do remember vividly when these boycots were discussed on Swedish tv. Maybe not much, but much of Europe clearly was opposite of apartheid and were involved in breaking that system down. But you are correct, it took about 2 decades from the 40s when apartheid was introduced, before much of the world started acting on it.

 

Old heads talking about the good old days how cute lol

 

Watch it or I force u to learn how to do start using a slide ruler (not that I ever learned but I couldn't come up with anything else) lol

 

Maybe an abacus lol

 

Hahaha, and a telegraph

 

I've got nothin' but love for jz. The man is doin' his thang....

 

Geek, Olof Palme did a great job in helping Mandela which some said that helped contributed to his death by forces of the Apartheid government. Did you seen the documentary The Black Power Mixtape? It shows footage of the Black Panthers and other groups by Swedish television. Also ,Sweden is ahead of most European states when it comes to Black civil rights.

 

Yeah, I was gonna mention him by name, but I didn't think it would matter. Probably just u and I who knows who he was. Lol.

I never hear thus is what caused his murder, they have always said his work between Palestine and Israel is what lead to it, hmmm. Interesting.

Never saw that documentary...... Now I want to send it.

 

Old head? Not yet. Still some years off from that. But well-read and a little more informed than the average message board poster? Maybe.