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Monday, April 14, 2008

The NOIS Message Extends Beyond Sports

Just wanted to take a quick moment to allow our cherished readers the opportunity to understand just how far reaching the NOIS movement that they support truly is.

The influence of our righteous teachings is taking on the look of an undeniable grass roots movement. While we have chosen our vessel of outreach to be that of sports to conduct our mission; clearly others have been reading our message and are now confident in using their celebrity to reach audiences even beyond our own formidable voice.

To wit: Alicia Keys.

Alicia Keys, 27, said she's read several Black Panther autobiographies and wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck "to symbolize strength, power and killing 'em dead.

While we aren't 'Black Panthers', we do undestand that a misinformed, mainstream AP wire writer can make an error. And while this is a blog, in a way, it is an autobiography of the NOIS movement.

We don't advocate violence of physicality, but we do condone the appreciable symbolism of Keys' AK-47. We advocate violently attacking the intellectual status quo and institutionalized closed mindedness that attempts to shackle our brilliance and artistry. A brilliance and artistry shared and appreciated by Keys.

"`Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. `Gangsta rap' didn't exist."

Think about this statement.

Certainly, it falls in line with much of what we profess here at NOIS. That the mainstream media is but a weapon aimed at the Negro by the establishment. The Negro is sighted in, the trigger is pulled...and center mass is often hit squarely. The damage has been great and the casualties have been many. But, all in all, though much blood has been lost, the soul of the Negro has not been extinguished.

And, as long as artist-philosophers like Keys are able to get the message out, the movement survives.

"the bicoastal feud between slain rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. was fueled "by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing.""

Indeed. What better way for the establishment to rid itself of great Negro minds than to turn them on each other. To pour kerosene on the fire. To ensure that these young up and coming leaders of the Negro community felt disrespected and threatened by each other. And, to ensure that weapons were readily available to them on the streets.

And, out of the poetry of the streets. Out of the attentive and sensitive stories told about the plight of the American Negro in the American ghetto. Out of the emotion. Out of the heartbreak. Out of the shame. Out of the sunshine. Out of the rain. Gangsta Rap!

Thrust onto us by the media. A term used to shackle the underclass. A descriptor meant to wholly castrate the message of the artist. Meant to take attention away from the poetry and the message of the struggle for self betterment and unity.

Our government built monuments in this country. Monuments designed to commemorate the horrid treatment of a group of people in Europe. They called it a 'holocaust'. People were tattooed with ID numbers. Labelled. Identified as different, and systematically they were processed for destruction. And the world remembers them and vows not to allow it to happen again. To happen anywhere.

But it is happening. Alicia Keys sees it happening. She sees a generation of people labelled and lined up for destruction. And she speaks out. Loudly.

Two potentially great leaders. Gunned down in their primes. Labelled as victims of their own creation. But gangsta rap wasn't their creation. It was created for them. It was created to terminate them.

It didn't exist. It doesn't exist. It can't exist.

Reality is what exists. And gangsta rap isn't reality. It is a made up term designed with a two fold purpose:

i. to contrive a criminal association in the minds of society between the poverty and the struggle that the artists communicate and the artist himself. By demonizing the artistic movement, the mainstream media effectively demonized the artist. Turning poets into inmates. And turning poverty and lack of opportunity into crime.

ii. to saddle the artists with what would become unmanageable personas. Treat a man like an animal. Tell him he is an animal. And he will become an animal. Or criminal. Then lock him up.

As Keys clearly insinuates, the mainstream would have us all believe that Negro poets are violent and carry weapons. But, Keys cleverly turns the tables on this: She has her AK pendent. But it doesn't symbolize the crime or violence the mainstream has forced on the movement. Her AK symbolizes her mind!

Certainly, a powerful mind is something that threatens White America.

And, certainly, a Negro with a powerful mind is something that the mainstream media makes sure sounds foreign to White America:

"Keys' AK-47 jewelry came as a surprise to her [white] mother, who is quoted as telling Blender: "She wears what? That doesn't sound like Alicia."

Yet another instance of proof positive that White America has no interest in understanding the Negro.

But the day will come.

For, we believe, Alicia Keys' mother can change.


Obama '08.

15 comments:

lgf said...

Say what you want about NOIS, but the man is a master poet.

Dave the Wave said...

i don't blame her mother for not being interested in her.

if i had a jig for an offspring, i wouldn't be interested either.

ZEKE said...

when did anyone ask Alicia Keys what the hell she thought?

ZEKE said...

"Say what you want about NOIS, but the man is a master poet."

that white girl in your pic sure must be making her father proud. carousing around with a dumbass who thinks NOIS makes any sense...

RighteousReasoner said...

http://www.theethanshow.com/2008/04/12/alicia-keys-blames-white-people-admires-black-panthers/

What a beautiful picture of Miss Keys. Ignore all the words above the paragraph though, they're just the illogical rants of the forked-tongued ones.

Sebastian said...

Dave,

So you're saying your grandmother and your mother didn't get along?

Sebastian said...

Sorry for the dig and Dave, but it was a belt-high hanging curveball. I had to hit it.

Which is what they said about Dave's–––no, I'll stop.

Dave, I expect payback, but please make it funny; otherwise what they say about you may actually be true.

NOIS, great post.

one fish two fish red fish blue fish said...

Has anyone seen Common's vid "I want you"? A little more than halfway through the video we get a backshot of Alicia Keys. Mami has body for days!

She is easily in my top 5. I don't care if she was ridin me eatin a pork sammich and holding a picture of GW Bush, I would still tear that ass up.

censored said...

"the bicoastal feud between slain rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. was fueled "by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing.""

Not true...Biggie was a leader...i followed him once and ended up right in front of the McDonalds line.

censored said...

lgf...that tranny you took a picture with looks like she would have a bigger penis than you.

Malcom Hex said...

"ended up right in front of the McDonalds line."

come on now, fry guy...you used your employee priveleges to get that choice spot.

Al_Sharpton's_Banana_Hammock said...

"that tranny you took a picture with looks like she would have a bigger penis than you"

you sound jealous.

censored said...

"ended up right in front of the McDonalds line."

come on now, fry guy...you used your employee priveleges to get that choice spot.

here we go again...a brother displays leadership ability and what happens? another brother is right there to try to knock him down...Biggie was a leader that day, and if it wasnt the bullets that killed him surely high cholesterol would have done the fat bastard in.

censored said...

"that tranny you took a picture with looks like she would have a bigger penis than you"

you sound jealous.

only a dopey headed brother could
come to that conclusion..and with a name like "al sharptons banana hammock" you couldnt possibly be a dope..right? you are so dumb it is scary but i am sure lgf would be willing to share the penis with you.

Al_Sharpton's_Banana_Hammock said...

" i am sure lgf would be willing to share the penis with you."

yea, if he can pry it out of your cock holster mouth...