Mos Def on Bill Maher Show(poltical related)
Rafa
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Don??t know if this been posted before but Mos Def is 
on that showhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJRetQUTEWA
on that showhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJRetQUTEWA
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i dont know what that youtube video shows. perhaps its him in a few minutes of coherency, but the twenty or so minutes that i saw of him was
This is by far the dumbest shit i've read all year.
serious. he's a rapper. you think he has to get suited up in order to be authoritative? he's there to represent his perspective- mal-adjusted and quite coherent. looking stodgy to appeal to more traditional and conservative minded people is definitely not his aim.
so in what forum would it not be okay to dress like a 15 year old headed to the mall?
a funeral?
but your argument is that he gets a free pass to dress like a kid and sound like an ignoramus...cause he raps? so does cornell west, the guy sitting next to him!! if he wants to be an activist, he should probably learn something about the topics he is preaching on; and if he wants to be taken seriously, sitting next to harvard/princeton professor, how about dressing the part.
if he sounded like he had picked up a newspaper in the past 6 months, i think the streetwear would be okay, its like, by they way, i can also rap! but when you sound like rambling fool, dressing like a kid just adds insult to injury.
you guys are f*cking pathetic btw.
You sound mad that you have to dress up for work every day.
Please be serious.
Well articulated post voicing your opinion on this matter. I assume you disagree?
Mos Def: "People start to realize..um, Yo this is fucked up son"
Plus his overly affected voice (which he took to new levels in "16 Blocks") can be very irritating.
But then he went on some conspiracy theory rants that kind of detracted from his points. "I don't think we landed on the moon either!"
Interesting stuff...
Should he have worn a black tux?
Cornell West is that dude.
Way to sound uneducated!
Ridiculous argument.
Public figures making public appearances should be critiqued as such.
He may be a public figure but performing in front of fans and debating on a political talk show are two entirely different things. No one forced him to be on the show, but do you really think he should be held to the same level of scrutiny as a harvard professor? Or some other expert?
He had some issues with being on the spot/tongue tied is what I'm saying. And he had some interesting points that aren't generally discussed. So on that merit I'd give him the benefit of the doubt and would remind people to consider the setting he was in.
I don't see anyone doing that.
By the way, what were his interesting points?
The US Gov't planned 9-11
We've never been on the moon
OJ is innocent
Obama is too pretty not to win the presidency
It interests me that he so easily gets under your skin.
Oh shit, I've got the lawyers on me.
Faux, when you said "Public figures in a public forum." You don't differintiate between them. Putting them on the same level. I was saying mos should be regarded differently, and allowed some stammering. Sounds like we agree.
Keith, I'd say him compairing our founding fathers to terrorists is pretty interesting, (if inflamitory).
why exactly?
Because Toussaint's accomplishments are so entirely ignored, or when not ignored demonized, by the American establishment...that when he's brought up in a positive light, it's like a slap in the face to those who need one and hopefully a cue for those who don't already know about Toussaint to look further into his most courageous story.
Think about it...by the time that the US finally issued its Emancipation Proclamation, Haiti had already been a free black independent nation for over 60 years.