Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Saturday, February 13, 2010

We are the World - Returns!


People have long claimed the sequel can never be as good as the original. We are the World has returned, however, in an attempt to bring peace, stability and hope to Haiti - a nation that was devoid of peace, stability and hope prior to the earthquake.

Before, We are the World gathered to raise money with the hopes of bringing peace and stability to Africa, a continent beset with the horrific problem of being populated by millions upon millions of Black people.

Sadly, although more $60 million was raised, the continent of Africa has not been blessed with stability, peace or hope. No matter that pop culture singers from Michael Jackson to Bruce Springsteen joined in lending their vocal talent to the song, the money and espirt de corps between Disingenuous White Liberals and the Africans didn't translate to poverty being eradicated, war and genocide ending nor Black nations rising to great prosperity.

Now, disregarding the problematic results of We are the World part one, a sequel that was as warranted as Deuce Bigelow II has been recorded:
In 1985, Justin Bieber was nine years from being born, Auto-Tune was 12 years from being invented, and Lil Wayne turned 3. Yet all three are prominent on "We Are the World: 25 For Haiti," a remake of the 1985 charity single that will benefit relief efforts in earthquake-stricken Haiti.

Pink, Akon and T-Pain add ad-libs as well, and then another callback to 1985 swoops in as Foxx channels the late Ray Charles, who was at the session 25 years ago. Foxx won the 2004 Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Charles in the film "Ray."

Hip-hop is a defining part of the pop landscape in 2010, and the new "We Are the World" reflects that. A Will.I.Am-penned verse is performed by a host of rappers, including LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, and Kanye West. Will and Kanye also have solo turns on the song, with each adding brief freestyles. The song ends with Wyclef emotionally toasting his homeland.


Famine, insane crime rates, child slavery and a delicious medley of dirt-cakes were what the Black people in Haiti (one of the oldest Black-run nations on earth) had prior to the earthquake. Now, after the horrific geological disaster struck the island, the 100 percent Black nation has seen those problems only compounded.

Oh, and the fear of zombies overrunning the island in a nightmarish scenario George Romero would be hard pressed to imitate on film, has left the Haitians fearful of visiting the mass graves of those killed in the earthquake.

Money can't buy you love and it can't reverse the cold, calculating indifference of nature. We are the World in the 1980s was an interesting song, but produced absolutely no net positive results for Africa.

We are the World 2.0 is an attempt to "capture the magic" of the the original, with an updated ensemble cast of rappers and other degenerates bent on bringing hope to an island nation that never had any to begin with.

We at SBPDL feel sorry for the current generations of Haitians. They have the unfortunate task of trying to build a nation on par with 1st world nations, a task that no majority Black nation is capable of performing (even when a 1st world nation hands over the reigns of power to Black people, the resulting generosity and head start results in a reversal of fortune and 3rd world status quickly follows).

Crusading White Pedagogues and Disingenuous White Liberals work under the false premise that all people are capable of the intellectualism and with hard work, can all be like white people.

The world is a cruel place and only the cruelty of this egalitarian myth makes it worse. CWP's and DWL's operate with a white supremacist mindset, as they view the world through white culture and progress glasses, never truly understanding why nations with majority Black populations haven't attained nor can attain the same level of civilization that white people have.

They cry when they think of how oppressive their white ancestors were to indigenous populations and they cry when they see how the Black people exist in inner cities of America and in majority Black nations. They pray that with the teachings of white people that these Black people can strive for the white heights of high culture that they grew up with, never asking why Black people everywhere live in the same circumstances (even in America).

Haiti is the way it is because it has a 100 percent Black population. Same thing for other African nations. Zimbabwe and South Africa are quickly regressing to this natural state, even though white people created 1st world economies and nations there, before capitulating power to the Black people in those lands (sadly, the same results are mimicked in Black-controlled major cities and counties).

No amount of money has ever closed the racial gap
in learning among Black and white students in the United States. No amount of money has ever helped Haiti, nor any African nation.

No amount of singing or rapping by pop icons in America helped Africa or Haiti in 1985, nor in 2010.

Stuff Black People Don't Like prefers Toto's Africa, a song that doesn't try and be crusading nor disingenuous but simply blesses the rain down in Africa.

Better to bless the rain elsewhere than try and cover up the problems of nature with money. Not everyone can attain the same civilization that white people have, nor do Black people care for those who Act White. This glaring contradiction is never considered by the DWL's trying to remake Black people white.

One thing is for certain though: THE REGRESSION OF MUSIC IS OBVIOUS WHEN YOU COMPARE THE 1985 VERSION TO THE 2010 CHORUS OF CACOPHONY.



Saturday, August 22, 2009

#297. Toto's "Africa"


The sudden and tragic of passing of John Hughes has sparked a renewed interest in his films and the decade that he immortalized - the 1980s.

Black people came into their own in the 1980s, thanks to MTV, The Cosby Show and most importantly Michael Jackson.

Although they were completely absolved from the casting decisions of Hughes' films, the 1980s were the foundation for the coming Black dominance of popular culture in the 1990s and 2000s. Eddie Murphy and the films he starred in opened up a new era for Black comedians and Black athletes were worshipped as never before, with his Airness, Michael Jordan, assuming the throne of white adulation.

However, the 1980s gave birth to a befuddling song - a Number One Billboard hit - that still garners airplay today and continues to gain in popularity: Toto's Africa.

It is hard to imagine what was going through the bands collective minds when they sat down to pen Africa, as the band Toto is comprised of a bunch of white people. What gives white people the right to sing about Africa, as Black people have been trying to force white people from their ancestral homeland for decades? More importantly, what in the world is the song about?:
"The initial idea for the song came from David Paich, playing on his piano. Jeff explains the idea behind the song: "... a white boy is trying to write a song on Africa, but since he's never been there, he can only tell what he's seen on TV or remembers in the past."
Hmm, if what a white boy sees on TV was the basis for the song Africa, then the lyrics to that song would be entirely different. Black people have done everything in their power to consolidate power into their hands, at the expense of the white people who created the nations they graciously allowed to live in.

Rhodesia? What was once the breadbasket of Africa is gone, replaced with Zimbabwe and widespread corruption. South Africa? No more, the subject of fascinating new movie called District 9. Before white people arrived in Africa, what is now South Africa was just land. After whites cultivated the land, they built a thriving First-World nation - the envy of the world - that Black people could only dream of replicating.

Now under Black rule since 1994, South Africa is like Detroit, Jefferson County or Clayton County, a nation crumbling and nearing dystopian levels of degradation and violence that even the most macabre mind couldn't imagine.

Is this what Toto was singing about?

Toto wrote a song that is ostensibly about the love of a woman and "blessed the rain down in Africa"(lyrics to song):
"Its gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
Theres nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had"

The lyrics to this classic song discuss Africa, but not in the disingenuous white liberal manner in which Black people would like to have a song named after their home continent should. Take "We are the World", another 1980s song that discusses Africa in the only way Black people want the continent discussed: with pity and white paternalistic hope of saving everyone:

"We Are the World" is a song and charity single recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and co-produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the 1985 album of the same name. The idea for the creation of a benefit single for African famine relief had initially come from activist Harry Belafonte, who, along with fundraiser Ken Kragen, was instrumental in bringing the vision to reality.
"Several musicians were contacted by the pair, before Jackson and Richie were assigned the task of writing the song. Following several months of working together, the duo completed the writing of "We Are the World" one night before the anthem's first recording session, in early 1985. The last recording session for the song was held on January 28, 1985. The historic event brought together some of the biggest artists in the music industry at the time."
"We are the World" deals with Black suffering, poverty, starvation and famine in Africa, all byproducts of Black people and peculiar characteristics that follow Black people to wherever they migrate or are found around the world, whether it be in Europe, the United States or in South America. Crusading white pedagogues use this song as their anthem when trying to show how much they care about Black people.

Toto's Africa is a song that brings a smile to the face of anyone who hears it, whereas "We are the World" brings about a look of a disgust of one the persons face who hears it embodies the ultimate disingenuous white liberal fantasy: creating a vast one-world that resembles Africa as it currently is, in all its glory!

Stuff Black People Don't Like includes Toto's Africa, a song sung by white people that has nothing to do with famine, colonialism or white racism toward the indigenous people in Africa or the evils of Apartheid - or for that matter Black people.

It's a happy song about Africa and in Africa, only misery can be glamorized.