Ladies and Gentlemen, our first 2016 post has a message from Wu-Tang's RZA.
It goes a little something like.....
Dear Young Black Men,
Stop wearing hoodies so that white cops don't get scared and pump 50 rounds into your UNIQLO-adorned asses.
Love,
The Man That Be The RZA! Wu-Tang in effect.
P.S. It's racist to say, "Black Lives Matter.""ALL LIVES MATTER!" Oh, and I wanted to wield a n-word beater when I was a youth.
Okay, actually, those last few lines may have been an extended typo. But what he said isn't that much different anyway:
“Look, I wanted to be in law enforcement as a kid. You wanted to be these guys, you know what I mean? But the image has changed. In the old days, a cop, you’d let him in your house and give him a cookie and milk. Now you’re like, 'Yo, Yo Yo, Yo.'
I love what the police do for our society, I love the idea of it, to serve and protect. Those who are upholding that idea, then they are beneficial to society. But those who lose that focus, whether they lose it through fear, through stress, or through not being properly trained—and they are allowed to go out on the streets—how can you enforce law if you don’t understand law?
When you think about some of the brothers who are being brutalized by the police, you also got to have them take a look, and us take a look , in the mirror, at the image we portray. If I’m a cop and every time I see a young black youth, whether I watch them on TV, movies, or just see them hanging out, and they’re not looking properly dressed, properly refined, you know, carrying himself, conducting himself proper hours of the day—things that a man does, you’re going to have a certain fear and stereotype of them. I tell my sons, I say, if you’re going somewhere, you don’t have to wear a hoodie–we live in New York, so a hoodie and all that is all good. But sometimes, you know, button up your shirt. Clean up. Look like a young man. You’re not a little kid, you know what I mean? I think that’s another big issue we gotta pay attention to. Is the image that we portray that could invoke a fear into a white officer, or any officer.”This is usually where we insert out "Sighs" and produce a carefully polished rebuke of the latest shameless, bougie garbage to hit our airwaves.
Not this time. For the rest of 2016, we're replacing those "Sighs" with "Arschloch." It's the German word for something you're constantly spewing bad things from. Kinda like RZA is spewing bad things from his mouth here.
So, say it with us now: Arschloch! By the way, if we forget about this new rule in future posts, let us know. We'll beatdown the stupid intern who made the mistake, and maybe even give you half of his very handsome $100/year salary.
But enough Arschlochery. Back to RZA.
Mr. Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, please don't give any more credence to these gat-happy cops. Black men
should be able to wear whatever clothing they desire outdoors, without police getting all "Shoot The Thugs" on them and....ah, what do you care? Your crew sold the single copy of its latest album for millions to some racist pharmaceutical fuckboy.
Carry on then, arschloch.
Management Note: "In the old days, a cop, you’d let him in your house and give him a cookie and milk. Now you’re like, 'Yo, Yo Yo, Yo.'”
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RZA, where they did dat at, boss? WHO has EVER let cops into their house on the regular for cookies and milk? Please let us know at your earliest convenience.
Thank you.
Credit for picture goes to http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/movies/for-rza-hip-hop-was-just-a-prelude-to-kung-fu.html?_r=0