Nice…I like him!!

…and it’s real stalkish like that Paris Hilton is dating the brother!

LOL!! This will be the first and last time y’all will see this dude on here. Only reason he’s on here because he has on a ridiculously ugly Malcom X tee on. Malcom deserve better.

Thats shirt is the BUZZZZNEZZZZ! I love that it has his face on both sides. Let me Find Out Joel’s down with Equalitiy.

The tee is cute.

Naw, he’s been on here before. Peep the event photos. And that shirt is far from ugly (in my opinion of course)…

i dont really like the shirt
if it was all black or white it would be better.
Lol
i just dont know what all of the colors are about.
LMao

I remeber when they had shirts like that out around the time that Spike Lee made the movie X. you could find those shirts at the flea market a dime a dozen! anyway I think that it is cute for him to wear it. he knows that he is with a sista!

BTW I love that Obama t-shirt you had on couple months back Angel.

He has, oh well I take that back Ms.Angel. LOL!!

I dont fancy him too much but Im loving the Tee!

Dope hes a cool ass dude I met him b4

The crazy colorful patterns is whats in this yeat I can see some of my Bay Area fam wearin somethin like that. I like it.

LOL! Angel, that looks JUST like a Malcolm X shirt I had back in the day. Either they have recycled the design or it’s vintage.

I like the shirt and I like Good Charlotte

There’s no interpretation for that shirt.except powerful!

I went to high school with those Maden twins….
The shirt looks alright….at least it is reppin Brother Malcolm

Wow, Joel seems more in touch with Nicole Ritchie’s black side than she does. lol

I’m sorry but who the F*$% cares???!!! OOOooo! A white punk rocker with an ugly, cheap looking, bad caricature of MX t-shirt!!! I love that his band is from Waldorf, Md cuz I rep Md and I enjoy their music from time to time but that shirt does not impress me and who the hell says dope anymore! I mean, really people????

He is engaged to black women. lol Wait til the baby start to get some curls or some color out of no where.

DOPE! I say it all the time. Love that word.

AHHH…I LOVE IT!! PLEASE FIND OUT WHERE I CAN FIND ONE!!!!!

The shirt is dope, i like him he seems like real people

I wonder how Malcolm X would feel about hipsters walking around with his face on their shirts just because it “dope” or it looks “cool” or it makes them feel like a rebel…do people like Joel Madden even understand what this man stood for, aside for the limited bullshit that they may have learned about his from a couple of rap songs or a movie….there is s discussion going on at another blog talking about the commercialization of socialist activists now….how the images of liberators are being used to see everything from high priced t-shirts to liquar…what’s really going on?

From the 90’s the shirt. Look on ebay or go down to ChinaTown to find stuff like that.

@ #19 aka SWEETPEA

Chill the fcuk out…if this post dont interest then why didn’t you skip it??

LOL @ everybody starting to like Good Charlotte after one of them wears a Malcom X shirt.Ok??

I WANT IT PLEASE FIND OUT WHERE YOu CAN GET THAT SHIRT!!

@ 24. I agree with that somewhat. I rock message t-shirts all the time though.

example: http://concreteloop.com/2...ve-backstage-w-kanye-west

Not sure if Joel is genuine with his, but I know I will be when I rock mines.

That’s a good debate though, because I know a bunch of people rocking these types of shirts don’t know two shits about the person or what they stood for. I call it the Bob Marley standard because many people only rock Bob just because he smoked weed and don’t even know about his struggle to spread unity, etc..

Joel seems like he his a cool guy and I kinda like the shirt. Maybe one day he’ll teach Harlow about Malcolm X and some many of our black heros and the history.

Are These Shirts Custom Made/ One Of A Kind? I Doubt It, Recycled Ish! I Want I Want Blah… Get Off Ya Butt And Get It. Hussle Man Probably Right Outside Ya Window.

That’s an old tee shirt form the 90’s. They had shirts like that with other black figures faces on them, with the same colors.

Shirt is cool…

its dope alright

#24 (Sarah) needs to take a couple deep breaths and relax. “What would Malcolm think?” “Beware of the commercialism of social Activists!” Shut the f up please. People (of all races) keep the memory of great revolutionaries alive through t-shirts, tattoos, etc. and there’s really nothing wrong with it as long as they realize what the person stood for.
Even Malcolm (toward the end of his life) understood the value of understanding white people. I respect this Madden cat for actually listening to “a rap song” or watching Malcolm X. You cant say that about most white people in this country.

lol Angel I love how you get on here to turn away the people who have nothing nice to say

I mean I could careless about him wearing the shirt, to each his own but when did Nicole Richie become African- American.

Malcolm X would’ve called the man the damn devil to his face. Gimme a break.

Here comes Judah. Are you aware of Malcolm X’s later work after he traveled abroad? Have you even read his autobiography?

That is a very cool t-shirt..

he has an italian flag on his right arm, and we all know how Italians feel about black people…..

I like the shirt regardless of who is wearing it. Joel seems like a pretty cool dude anyway.

That shirt is HOT!!!! I absolutely love it.

@39

Here comes the bodyguards. Were you waiting for me? I don’t care that this man is wearing a Malcolm X shirt. No one really believes in anything or stands for anything anymore anyway so if he wears it, it bears no more significance than the average black person wearing it. I knew when I made the comment that some negro that read his book or took an Afro-American history course in college would get vexed. If you think that Malcolm X stopped believing after all those years that the white man was the devil that either reflects a weakness in 1)His doctrine 2)The man himself. I don’t believe that he was weak at all. I believe that he changed his doctrine because he no longer had the backing of the Nation of Islam and needed to justify the alteration of his message. Any man with two eyes can see that racism transcends religion and Islam is no different. I don’t believe that Malcolm went to Mecca and saw things that changed his mentality concerning the course of action of blacks in America. Any discussion regarding his view on whites as opposed to his religious beliefs is a two-fold argument that has to be addressed in that manner.

#14, i was saying the same thing. my uncle used to have the same one.

That Shirt is Dope and so are the Bapes….

Yeah Angel,
I think that anonymous is right, thats benji!!LOL!!!!

Bapes are so ugly, I dont get them. They cost so much, and they are so bootlegged that you don’t know the real from the fake!!! IMO…

From what I’ve seen (on tv interviews) he seems like a smart guy…not the type to just wear a historical icon on his back w/o having any knowledge of what that person stood for….go ‘head on Joel, wear that tee!

Anytime a black person say something meaningful on this site they get attacked and the funny thing is, the attacker is always cursing and carrying on and end up making a complete ass of themselves because their commentary was a waste of space . (reference post 35 ). Just read that entire comment . Just an idiot beyond measures .

I agree with #24 .

um…why are people on here spazzing? I think that Angel just wanted to point out the shirt, it’s cool…so what? And Malcolm X would NOT have called that man the DEVIL to his face after his pilgrimage! SOME people need to understand that!! Brother Malcolm learned that bros and sis came in all colors. Some of y’all need to read up on Brother Malcolm ya selves! So maybe you should pick-up The Autobiography, instead of feeding off of what you may have HEARD about Malcolm.

Peace

…and nice shirt!!! geesh….

@ Sweetpea, if you have nothing to say don’t say it all honey. If someone wants to say dope as a way to express then let them. geesh some people come here with their moods and try to hate smh! Anyway that’s a cool shirt!

lol at Angel… Like it when you come here and prove people wrong!

Nicole Ritchie has always recognized herself as being African American even though she does not know her biological parents. She sees the features in herself and was raised in a multi-cultural environment.

@41 - That’s a gross stereotype to say how all Italians feel - it can’t be true if the dude is Italian and he’s married to Nicole. Doy!

@ 19- And i like the shirt too - it’s DOPE, FRESH, BAD, FLY, FIIII, SWEET, UGLY, RADICAL, PHAT…Did I mention DOPE?

Lolol. Go ‘head girl.

ugh the haters disgust me….

anyway…i love both benji & his bro…they seem like genuinely nice ppl and i was a good charlotte fan back in high school…he looks good.

#18, I watched an interview one time, and he said he and his brother grew up in a very mixed neighborhood in Maryland, I believe. #20, I’ve seen a picture of that baby, and she already has a little bit of curl, lol. #37, she became black when it was revealed her REAL father (not Lionel) was Sheila E’s brother.

#53, I agree w/ you about the Italians. Where I’m from, there are soooo many people who are black and Italian.

#44 IS RIGHT,BUT WHY ARE PEOPLE SAYING THAT MALCOLM CHANGED HIS VIEWS AFTER HIS PILGRIMAGE? THAT WAS NOT HIS FIRST TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND NOT HIS FIRST PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY CITY OF MECCA..HE SAW THE SAME THINGS THEN THAT HE SAW THE LAST TIME HE WENT, HE JUST NEEDED WHITE PEOPLE ON HIS SIDE BECAUSE HE NO LONGER HAD THE NATION.BUT ANYWAY ITS AN OK SHIRT

@57- Absolutely - my nephew is black and Italian and much of his daddy’s line is mixed with black. Those blanket statements about any race are just out of order and reveals the ignorance of the person who wrote it.

SMH…..you people always find something to moan about if the man had on a hilter
t- shirt you would curse him out until you were blue in the face, and when he wears a t-shirt with a significant black icon on y’all find something to moan about.

For those of you youngin’s on here, the shirt is actually vintage. This shirt along with many others were rocked hard in the early 90’s along with the Africa symbol shaped hats, necklace/neck gear etc….The shirts came in many colors/styles. Joel and Benji are from Calvert County, MD (DC in the house) which has more black folks living there than you can shake a stick. When you are from a metropolitan area such as MD/DC/VA, you are just culturally in tune. This is nothing for him to rock the MX shirt, not just cuz he is with Nicole. Hint: She is not the first African-American/Latino chick he has been with. There are a lot of “rockers” who have seen what brown can do for them.

@51

Let me ask you something. Do you think that the doctrine of the Nation of Islam attracted Malcolm X because they wore bow ties? You cannot teach someone that the white man is the devil. They have to already be imbued and inclined to see these type of things. To the average negro, it’s ignorance to even think something like that. This is why I said that if you’re going to discuss the man, it’s a two-tiered argument. You first have to address the differences between two false doctrines, the Nation of Islam and actual Islam. Then you have to address the climate surrounding Malcolm X after he left the Nation of Islam. Furthermore it bears noting that Malcolm X’s biographer, Alex Haley, fabricated his “Roots” story and was affiliated with the F.B.I. Once again, you don’t teach that the white man is the devil for 10 plus years and then come back and actually believe that he is not because of a pilgrimmage. Malcolm X knew that his time was short after he left the Nation, he knew that Elijah Muhammad was a government agent and a pedophile who’s doctrine was formulated to deceive black people, and he was looking for a message to teach that was disparate from what he had been propagating. I gurantee that if Malcolm X could’ve foresaw what black people would become 40 plus years after his death, he would’ve scrapped everything and started from scratch. His message was based off of spiritual and mental discipline which black people have NONE of today, so spare me please. Our generation is a generation that associates clothing with making a statement (Prov 30:12,13).

@ Judah First off who you doing sir,
Second I completely agree with your comment. Nobody change there views like that in one day. It’s next to impossible. It took him a long time to get the Muslim religion thing down, there’s no way after one trip he had a “change of heart”. Good comment.

OMG! I had that shirt like 15 years ago! ha!

I guess growing up in a majority “black” neighborhood equates being able to identify with us and there is no way you could ever become a racist . That’s a very weak argument . I’ve seen it tie and time again .

@53 & 59

There are also entire Italian communities that will beat a negro with a baseball bat if they see one walking through. They will then go back home and listen to Jay-Z or DMX. I’ve seen it numerous times in Howard Beach, Crown Heights, and Bensonhurst here in NY. Don’t act so damn incredulous because of what #41 said. What the hell does a caucasian injecting semen into a black woman have to do with his feelings about black people? There are white men and women that will sleep with and even marry a choice negro and still have hatred in their heart. Do you know how many caucasian men are having “illicit affairs” with these simple-minded black women in corporate America and despise black people? Many white women will cry rape to this day if found to be in a sexual relationship with a black man. Many of them, especially the younger ones, get their babies aborted and use rape as an excuse at the clinic if the father is black rather than bring that child home to her parents. All that being said, Joel Madden can at least know that he has his “ghetto pass”, lol. I see it in Harlem all the time. Negroes will usher the white man in right before he ushers them out.

@58

Thank you. Someone with some sense.

so, the only way malcolm can get a mention on this site is if some cornball whiteboy wears a shirt with his likeness on it? It’s interesting how his birthday was may 19th and there hasn’t been one mention of it on here but because joel madden wears a t-shirt with his likeness on it, concreteloop finds the time to mention malcolm as a side note.

thank you #66!

@66 &67 Agree

Damn, I’m learning alot more than I thought I knew. Thanks Judah

@67

Thank you brother. I found that interesting also but we’re heading into an age where everything and everyone must be open and accepting of everything and everyone. The most ridiculous thing that black people believe is that the brother came back from Mecca not believing that the white man was the devil. There’s no way in hell that you can teach that for 10 plus years and then stop believing it.

@67

I’ve mentioned Malcolm X on this site numerous times. So you need to stop tripping and start using the search engine. I’m happy some people took the post as it is, a post about a t-shirt that I thought was dope. But y’all can debate it out if you like.

I had that exact same tee in the 90s when i was a good 11 or 12 years old. hope he’s not just perpetrating with it on though.

@ 35 (embark) you must have some serious anger issues…where is all the hateful language coming from (”shut the f up”)..and no where in my post did i say that it had anything to do with him being WHITE…and this isn’t just about race…as it was pointed out the same thing happens with the images of Marley (which could be excused to certain extent because he was an artist and an activist) and I think we’ve all seen that classic image of Che Guevara wearing the beret plastered on everything from T-shirs to various ads too….

I just think it’s ironic that people who stood against the supremacist capitalistic patriachy establishment (as bell hooks would say, embark you clearly need to read one of her books) are now being used to sell stuff..thus being exploited in death and image by the same system that they fought so hard against.

And thanks Divainva for getting the point, i hope i clarified a little more what I was trying to say for embark (who clearly misunderstood what i was saying and tied it back to race out of nowhere).

That being said it is a cool shirt…i would not wear it however because I view a man like Malcolm X as a modern prophet and it’s just disrespectful to me to plaster the image of a prophet on a tshirt to sell or wear.

@ 66/Judah Dang, dude you on role today.LOL!!! I was just having this conversation on the phone with my mother the other day. She was telling me how there’s this white woman she work with that say a lot of racist things about black people all the time. Once somebody get tried of hearing it and tell her about herself, she gets mad and say she isn’t a racist. You know what her excuse is? My mother tells me that she says: “I ain’t a racist because my kids are half black and I love my kids!” What does that mean? Just because your kids are half black doesn’t mean you can’t be a racist. SMH. She probably don’t even see her children half black subconsciously so that she can love her kids. Everything you said on your last post is the truth for a lot of people and it’s sad. SMH.