As we reported earlier this week, Nas joined ColorofChange.org and MoveOn.org to protest the racist antics of the Fox News Corporation. He is pictured above speaking to the crowd of fans, media and random new yorkers on Wednesday afternoon in front of the Fox News Headquarters. They also delivered more than 600,000 petition signatures to the offices. (keep reading to view video from the protest..)
The rapper, whose album is currently number one of the billboard charts, released a single and accompanying video entitled, “Sly Fox” to bring light to Fox’s unprofessional antics.
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@ Judah….
But brother, any intelligent human being will be able to rebut that point. The fact that they have to have all these special clauses in place to guarantee that some Black people will be given a chance indicates there is problem. Why do Black people need a signed document for us to be considered human beings when white people are human beings the moment they are born? Affirmative Action is tokenism, it is not real. It’s a pacifier. When your baby is hungry and crying and you want him to stop crying you stick a pacifier in his mouth. He’ll suck that pacifier until he turns blue thinking he’s going to get some milk but the milk never comes. Affirmative Action is like putting a bandage over and amputation. It doesn’t help. All it does is embolden the Willie Lynch syndrome instilled in us. It makes us compete against each other and fight for something we’ll never achieve. As long as we as a people keep depending on this white man to solve our problem our dreams will be like chasing the horizon….we’ll never reach it!
can’t wait until they put the black in america blog on here…i’m sure there will be a lot said on that one lol
@61 – Preach!
“Affirmative Action is like putting a bandage over and amputation. It doesn’t help. All it does is embolden the Willie Lynch syndrome instilled in us. It makes us compete against each other and fight for something we’ll never achieve. As long as we as a people keep depending on this white man to solve our problem our dreams will be like chasing the horizon….we’ll never reach it!” powerful statement I totally agree Dukesman
I DON’T WATCH FOX NEWS. I WATCH CNN & TODAY @ 9:00 PM THEY’RE AIRING THE SECOND HALF OF BLACK IN AMERICA. I WATCH THE FIRST AIRING LAST NIGHT ; I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO DO SO. ITS REALLY GOOD.
i think by Nas taking an active stance against this issue is also a call to all those other rappers that are so-called “conscious.” I wanna see them come out to back my brotha Nas. It’s one thing to write and rap about the changes we need in society but it’s another to MAKE change and physically work to effect the changes we wanna see. Kudos to Nas for bein arguably the only rapper true to hip hop left around these days. We need more like you bruh
Nas is off balance lately . I’m beginning to questions his intelligence as well .
* Off topic * Please post on “Black in America” that show was some straight BS !
@Dukesman
Brother, I don’t believe that there are many people that know how to deal with the white man and his tricks, in all honesty, not even many so-called “intelligent” people. If they did, whites would not be in power. If they did, they would know that to petition whites or attempt to use diplomatic means with them to get them to “respect” you is futile. The fact that the white man has to draft so many clauses to enforce a semblance of rights for the negro is symptomatic of a minor problem with the system, but a major problem with black people. We really have to analyze the situation that we’re in and ask why is it that races that do not speak English can come to America and establish businesses and flourishing communities. Races that ARE NOT clamoring for a perceived member of their race in the White House, nor are they petitioning the white man for “respect” or “equality”. These races obviously understand the nature of white people, America, and black people better than black people do. They understand that America is the Great Whore and you do not make a spiritual commitment to a whore like black people are trying to do (Rev 17th chapter). You use it for what it’s worth (Rev 18:15-19).
Analyze why the white man is producing and televising so many of these shows that allege to depict the conditions of the negro in America, as if he cares or ever has. This is another trick to get blacks to believe that he’s ready to make a commitment to our people. Obama is the culmination of this ruse. They’ve played good cop/bad cop with these liberal politicians that pretend to care about our community as opposed to the conservatives that are upfront with their disdain for “minorities” for the longest time (Isaiah 32:5-8). Now they’re bringing it home with black America’s god/savior, that h*mosexual, cokehead Obama (Prov 26:24-27). This is why I have NO RESPECT for any black man that attempts to build anything substantial with these caucasians. It’s an insult to our ancestors and a trap for our children. So I’ll ask you brother, what is the horizon? What is the ultimate goal that black people hope to achieve through these so-called movements? Is it “equality”? What equality are our people hoping for? The white man respects the other races more because they’re not always kissing his ass for respect.
Like you said, we shouldn’t be depending on the white man to solve our problems, so then why would anyone support this petition nonsense? That’s exactly what our people are doing. It’s like trying to bargain with a bully.
WOW! I love this man, Bring real issue to the table, point ‘em out get them.
Demand difference and change.
i get both points for Judah and Dukesman, but I think there should be a balance in between, but yeah i honestly don’t think we should try to get respect from the white man for trying to get his “approval” on things or our existence…it is unfortunate that FOX News depicts us the way they do but we should put more energy into our own and uplifting each other instead of hating on one another. you don’t see the other races doing that as much as black people, damn why can’t black people get their sh*t together.
I noticed that Nas was doing the “manu cornuto” with his left hand throughout the video. He also admitted that FOX would not accept the petitions, lol. Whatever man.
what is the solution??? the solution to the epidemic of black america, black culture, black success??? THATS WHAT I WANT TO KNOW, when are we going to start taking responsibility for our own….how can we stop this ongoing vicious cycle and poisoning of our people…ugh its so horrible
See that’s what I’m talkin bout. Yes Fox is a right wing news channel whose audience isn’t black people, doesnt mean they’re doing is acceptable. I mean how can u go about saying that you wish someone would assasinate Obama, the later apologize saying it was just a slur. What they are doing is just reinforcing racism.
As a Briton, I’m appalled you could have a news channel like that. What Nas is doing may not change things automatically but it certainly brings awareness, if not anything, make youngsters engage in what’s gong on around them.
BTW, the album is coold
@ Judah..
These other nations can come to America and be respected because these people know their history; they have an identity, they know who they are. Unlike us, we have these imposters running around calling themselves Jews, and Black people have accepted it. If you were to meet a Chinese and person and that person said his name was James Farmer or Timothy Johnson. You would look at him as if he had two heads. You would think he was lying or that he is confused. How do you think we as Black people look to these other races when we say our names are Smith, Johnson or Bell? We have no history, even worst we hate our history. Majority of black people have disassociated themselves from Africa. I hear them all the time. “Don’t call me African American I left nothing in Africa!” You know what I tell them? You left your mind in Africa. You are just a walking zombie. African is who you are, America is where your mother pissed you out.
And my brother, this is not by default. Blacks in America have been maneuvered into oblivion. We have been fighting for respect for eons and will never get it. And I use the word fight loosely, because Black people always want to love the enemy, they want to overcome the enemy with their capacity to love; they don’t want to bleed. They want to leave everything to God. They call on God to “forgive thy enemy, for they know not what they do.” For as long as they’ve been doing it, I think they know what they hell they are doing by now. And when you call on God, they are calling on the same God while they put the ropes around your necks.
Like the Right Honorable Minister Malcolm X said “Only the Negro revolution is a bloodless revolution.” But the white man shed blood for this power that they have, if you believe they are going to give it up or share it without a fight – then I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.
Lmao . Oh lord .
@ Judah…
And to answer your question about the “our goals” – what I want for Black people is complete segregation from white people. That way we can concentrate on strengthening our race.
As soon as you incorporate white people in anything you’re doing, the movement seems to loose direction. If MLK was alive today he’d tell you. The march on Washington started out as angry people demanding answers and were bent on getting it. Once the white got gist of it, they called up MLK and gave him 750,000 and promised more if he allowed Kennedy and his boys to organize it. Even the people in the audience who came with blood in their eyes, ready to blow shit up, couldn’t understand what they hell was going on. That march showed more clowns than the Ringling Brothers Circus. A disgrace.
And one more thing brother, I am not gonna have you call Obama out his name. Respect the messiah…..
IF WE ALL THINK AS THOUGH NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE IT WONT….. IM NOT SAYING NAS IS A LEADER OR HE DOESNT HAVE OTHER MOTIVES BUT WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS??? WE DONT HAVE ANY!!!!! AT LEAST SUN STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE UNLIKE MOST!!! JUST MY OPINION!!!!
I do agree with Nas intentions but lets be honest people, black people are our own worst enemies, whos the first to tear us down or say something about use doing something positive? Who’s more likely to shoot a brother (other than NYPD)? Who complains the most about black people? In response to #5 I really dont think the people that needed to watch a show like that watched it. I really see it as raising more problems and issues than solutions.
@Dukesman
You started off correct brother. We are the Israelites but you can’t have it both ways. Either you are the real Jew or an African. Either one or neither, but not both. The Africans are not our people and they are the ones that sold us here into slavery to the Arabs and the white man. This is why the Africans will not form a league with our people in any way shape or form. The white man knows who we are and this is why the white man teaches us that we are African because the African culture is totally disparate from ours. Almost no black person that claims Africa will go to live there. The Africans do not have our spirit, they do not have our charisma, they do not have our lustre, and they do not have our talent and beauty.
Brother, names like Johnson, Jackson and Smith are black names not caucasian. We gave the so-called white man our last names when we ruled over them during the Middle Ages in Europe in what the white man calls the “dark ages” (which is a play on words). “White” names are names like “Cassius”, “Julius”, “Septimius”, etc. Roman names. We are the descendants of the so-called “barbarians”, “celts”, and “germanic tribes” of medieval Europe. Why do you think in school, we spend months on Greece and Rome, and then a week on the medieval period? That medieval period was us. We came here as indentured servants when our empires in Europe fell and the white man gained the upper hand because it was his divinely stipulated time to regain rulership of the planet earth. Get “Ancient and Modern Britons” by David MacRitchie and it will show you that the knights, princesses, queens, and kings of medieval Europe were black.
I will have to respectfully disagree with you brother. Black people will get respect, but only when they respect themselves and stop licking the boots of devils. In the process many people will die when this society collapses for the same reason that Rome collapsed; governmental corruption, the acceptance of h*mosexuality and l*sbianism, rampant military wars, race wars, and overpopulation. Except in the midst of all that, this time, Christ will come back and set our people back in power as He promised. Blacks worship a corrupted image of the Most High and Christ. Their belief system was crafted by the caucasains to maintain their subservience. The “religion” practiced in the churches is not real, and this is why those people do not know or understand the scriptures. Those pastors are going to be used to make the sheep of our people accept things like h*mosexuality, interracial dating, patriotism, and eventually, the RFID chip.
So now for all that, once again, if you understand that there MUST BE BLOOD, which the scriptures tell us, why do you support petitioning (Ezek 35:6, Rev 13:9,10)? It is contradictory to what you claim to represent and believe in brother. Simple as that . How can you want segregation and yet you want to petition this white man? That is an unstable thought process. Furthermore, for the negro to separate, the white man must agree to parcel out a piece of this defiled land. That will not happen, nor should it.
In regards to MLK, that is a whole other topic. That man was a supreme black devil and the most destructive force to the black community in the history of America. A true super coon. I hope you’re joking about Obama being a “messiah”. Obama’s platform is to bring all races together. You want segregation.
The civil rights march on Washington, the Million Man March in DC, and now this….have done nothing to change the course of black American in this country. These marches are nothing more than social gathering, temporary mental uplifts that provide a false sense of hopes.
The problem with many of these high profile marches and protest is that once they are done, everyone goes back to their daily routine. No planning or strategies are implemented after the march to achieve any real results. We need planning, people who are willing to do all of the dirty work behind the scene to push force these panning.
Feminism has its clasped every aspect of American institution…and white women have progress 10-fold more than any black person in this county…and I have yet to witness a million white woman march in DC.
Judah….very well said.
correction:
We need planning, people who are willing to do all of the dirty work behind the scene to push forth these plans.
Feminism has its clasped on every aspect of American institution…
Natural changes are violent and abrupt: i.e., volcanic eruption, tornadoes, typhoons, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, and fire. These are nature’s way of getting rid of the trash and starting anew.
I truly believe, the state of blacks in this world can only change through some violent abrupt force…and yes, blood and lives will be shed.
I am soooooo proud of Nas. And for those of you who judge, clearly you don’t know this artist! Nas is sincere and genuine about this and I can’t believe some of yah who have the audacity to question his motives…This is not some Souljah Boy rapper, your talking about the greatest of all-time, the one who made it cool to use “Big Words” in his rhymes,lol. I swear Black People get on my nerves sometimes, makes you want to say, why even bother? Yah should be applauding Nas’s efforts to bring awareness for such a cause…He is trying to be more than just a ‘flashing nigga bragging on a song’…Yah should command that and hope to god that more artists like him whom have such talent and grace will do the same! Some of yah literally need to try to get out of that barrel and stop acting like Craps!
Alright, people really need to quit the bullshit. Just a few weeks ago, even months, just about everybody on here was cussing Nas out because of his proposed album title. According to most of yall, he was just an asshole that needed attention and wanted to sell records.
Now that everybody is SO INFATUATED with the “lord and savior” Obama, and all of the recent propaganda on Fox news, everybody has Nas on their good side all of a sudden. How soon we forget huh?
And FYI, I believe that Nas did the “sly fox” song, mainly because he was annoyed by the that stunt that Bill Oreilly tried to pull (look it up). Obama and Fox’s racists antics are secondary.
WoW!!! @dats_da_truth and Judah. Seems like the good old days with the 2 of you in here. Always an interesting read.
Judah, you are so on it its scary. Why dont you have your own blog? Or do you?
go nas!!!
DAT_DA_TRUTH. ARE YOU PRETENDING TO BE POSTER #86 MANDY , TO GARNER ATTENTION FOR YOURSELF ? NOTHING YOU EVER SAY IS INTELLIGENT . GTFOH !! JUDAH IS OKAY SOMETIMES BUT YOU HAVE NEVER SAID ANYTHING ON THIS BLOG MEMORABLE ,SO WTF ???
Umm…no I am not cosigning with myself. I’ve been coming to this site since donations. I just hardly ever post. Yes, Dats gets heated and he will cuss you out in a hot second but he is not stupid. You must be female@ SMH.
I commend Nas……….@ least he’s DOING sumthing! ! GO cop the album its REAL!!
@smh
I understand your anger towards me. I might have told you something in the past that you didn’t want to hear. The truth can never be compromised.
As for me posing as another user…I don’t understand the logic in that. Have I ever shy away from telling anyone my opinion?
Do you honestly believe I care enough about you fucks to carry a disguise or engage in other juvenile games?
Fuck outta here….seriously, you are as relevant to me as the “right click” tab at the corner of my screen. When I depressed it, you no longer cease to exist.
Nas is lookin very fine in these pics, Kelis is one lucky woman…
Nas Great grandfather is obviously an igbo man. That is just the old biafran war spirit comin thru. Thanks dude for another great album. I represent being black by taken care of me and mine. Simple as that. End of story.
46#,Judah,my brother! I really want to say something to you,man to man,I know that you are mentally retarded but that must not,however,be viewed as an excuse for you to confuse and twist my words.You must be delusional and hallucinating,because even someone with the lowest level of intelligence can see that I did`nt say anything about racism having left America.That`s how your low level confused and twisted mind took it. There are three ways that you can tell if a person is retarded: 1.Do they wear inappropriate winter clothes during the summer 2.Does the individual move awkwardly as if poorly coordinated 3.Does the individual have a strange and bizarre tendency to twist and confuse what you say See,Judah,I hate to break it to you,brother,it`s not other people that are wrong! Take a look in the mirror, my brother, because it`s you and that strange and bizarre tendency you have of twisting reality to fit your retarded agenda.Your running around on CL twisting, sabatoging,and doing a driveby on people`s comments like your the CL police or something.But,I got to go,cause I got a pizza in the oven and besides that, the workers from that Mentally Retarded group home that you escaped from are looking for you.
Puhleeze!
Let’s see how vocally he is 8 mos from now when he’s no longer promoting an album
“Puhleeze!” to you for being so cynical. As far as sales go his albums are always in the same range. It’s not like Nas will go diamond just for doing something like this. Anyway, instead of downing the brother and questioning his motives, you should be commending him for at least doing something positive. No one said this Fox news situation would change overnight. Anybody with a brain knows that. The point of the protest was to at least bring attention to an ongoing problem and even though Fox rejected the petition, the protest served its purpose for now. It got people talking and more aware of Fox’s tactics.
Well said # 84. My exact sentiments!
@ JUDAH
“The white man respects the other races more because they’re not always kissing his ass for respect.”
deep
IT’S SO SAD WHEN OUR PEOPLE IN THE SPOTLIGHT ARE DOING WHAT WE EXPECT OF THEM AND WE STILL FIND A WAY TO CRITIZE THEM. JUDAH AND OTHERS ARE QUICK TO TALK ABOUT THE WHITE MANS POWER OVER OTHER BLACKS BUT FAIL TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR. DEVIL’S ADVOCATE, WHY? HOW DOES DISSING NAS HELP YOU??? MAYBE HELP YOU RUN YOUR MOUTH BUT WHAT ELSE????
IF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE LEGAL, IT’S IRREVELANT WHAT DRIVES NAS AS LONG AS IT’S FOR A GOOD CAUSE. IF SELLING RECORDS MOTIVATE HIM TO SPEAK OUT MORE POWER.
AND IF THE CRUSTY, FLOUR LIPS GUY RUNS THE ORGANIZATION GOOD FOR HIM. DONT KNOCK HIM WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR GLOSSED LIPS???????
PLEASE LETS SUPPORT EACH OTHER
@Bullets
Brother calm down, lol. No more tantrums from grown men please. I just disagreed with your assessment that racism has changed from the 1950′s, which by saying that you’re implying that black people have progressed. Change is not always progress.
@Dats Da Truth
Thank you brother for bringing your mastery of common sense to this forum. The whole feminism thing is something that deserves a post of it’s own.
@98
Sis, let’s get to the point. Why are you and many other people agreeing with Nas? Like another poster brought out, most of you negroes were ready to tar and feather him for the white man when he was going to call his album “N*GGER”. Now you see that he has officially co-signed Barack Obama and is ready to use the tried and true negro tactic of licking the white man’s boots and begging him for love, so now you love him. How can what drives a man be irrelevant? What drives a man will directly affect what his plans and goals are. If you want to get behind a man that has been compromised then do so, that is your prerogative. What a “good cause” is, is subjective to each person.
***OH PLEEZ….AIN’T THIS THE SAME DUDE WHO WANTED THE NAME OF HIS ALBUM TO BE “NIGGA”????? GET THE FU@K OUTTA HERE. I CANT STAND NAS.
THE BEST WAY TO PUNISH FOX IS TO MAKE SURE YOU DO NO WATCH THEIR CHANNEL. DON;T WATCH HANNITY, OR O’RIELLY, OR ANY OTHER FOX NEWS SHOW, OR ANY OTHER SHOW ON FOX, THAT IS HOW YOU GET YOUR MESSAGE ACROSS TO FOX.
IF YOU HATE WHAT FOX IS ABOUT, BUT YOU WATCH IT ANYWAY, THEN YOU ARE STILL GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT. YOU ARE IMPROVING THEIR RATINGS, AND THAT ENDS UP WORKING IN FOX CHANNELS FAVOR, AND DOES NOTHING TO PUNISH THE RACISTS FOR THEIR BEHAVIOUR.
JOUST AS YOU DON’T GO SHOP IN THE STORE OWNED BY A RACIST, YOU SHOULD NOT WATCH A T.V CHANNEL WHICH EMPLOYS RACISTS!
I am so proud of our brave young warrior rapper men, who are barely out of their boyhood standing up like the heroes they are. It is so unfortunate that the so-called upstanding, so called respectable old fools with money are nothing but lackadaisical, selfish cowards who care nothing about the suffering masses. They stand for nothing except enriching themselves, and it is a disgrace they are allowed to critique the entire black community. That ignut charles barkely had the nerve to be talking about blacks being irresponsible, and this fool loses more money in vegas than most black families will save in a life time. He could have fed hundreds of homeless children for a year on that $50,000 he lost in Vegas. Now who is the fool??? I hope Bush strips all of the fools of that affirmative action money before he gets out of office.
@ Pop
If u got the CD you’d understand why he wanted to call it Ni@@er. The man is allowed to express himself and call a CD what he wants. The name of the album does not take away from the fact that there is a message behind the music, which is what really counts.
It is about time that someone stood up to Fox News… and expeciallly Hannity he is the worst… you can tell he don’t like Obama and he should be called out.. the only thing he can come up with Obama is Rev Wrigh, Aries, and what Michelle said. By now if there was something on Obama it would have came out now
But you go Nas and all the other organications, I wish I could have signed the pepetiion…
Good Job