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Monday, January 20, 2014

George Washington Was A Man, Thomas Jefferson's A Punk & The History Of This Country's A Fucking Joke


Cash Rules Everything Around Me (C.R.E.A.M.) Get the money - dollar-dollar bill, y'all:

"From the early 1790s, Jefferson quite bluntly advances the notion that slavery presented an investment strategy for the future. He writes that an acquaintance who had suffered financial reverses 'should have been invested in negroes.'


The irony is that Jefferson sent his 4 percent formula to George Washington, who freed his slaves, precisely because slavery had made human beings into money, like 'Cattle in the market,' and this disgusted him.


And this world was crueler than we have been led to believe. A letter has recently come to light describing how Monticello’s young black boys, 'the small ones,' age 10, 11 or 12, were whipped to get them to work in Jefferson’s nail factory, whose profits paid the mansion’s grocery bills. This passage about children being lashed had been suppressed—deliberately deleted from the published record,..."

I bet it was - my favorite quote about J:

“Never did a man achieve more fame for what he did not do.”
The Crack Emcee at 6:56 PM
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The Crack Emcee was born in Los Angeles. His mother had a thing with Jazz legend Charlie Mingus (producing a sister). Crack served in the Navy before settling into the Punk scenes of Los Angeles and San Francisco. He went on to join the Beatnigs (1988) Consolidated (1992) Broun Fellinis (1995) and then started his own band, Little White Radio (1998). The Crack Emcee has also been releasing a series of critically acclaimed solo mix tapes - starting with 1995's Newt Hates Me - that have solidified his reputation. This output morphed into his solo album, the anti-war Rap's Creation (2002) which was nominated for Album Of The Year (in, both, Rolling Stone and the Village Voice) and that year's list of Hip Hop's Best Anti-War Songs. Crack is listed (twice) as `an artist dedicated to integrity in Donnell Alexander's memoir, Ghetto Celebrity, and is featured on the CD, Just Payin' The Rent: The Amoeba Music Compilation, Vol. II.
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