Gucci Mane / Stereohyped

Minority Report

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• Gucci finally acknowledges its hip hop supporters. No Mane line yet, though. [NYT]

• "How liberals play race politics" Yes they can. [SFC]

• A new documentary seeks to "[deconstruct] 'the masculinity of hip-hop.'" Good luck with that. [BDH]

• There's many, many questions raised by this condom ad, but the one looming largest is: Why is he being arrested? [MI]

• The Clinton and Obama battle heads to North Carolina. [CO]

Mar 7, 2008 · posted by Cord Jefferson · Link · 3 Responses

Minority Report

Stay in your own country, Mate!

• Australia's not a racist country. The government would just prefer that Africans not live there. [Reuters]

• When bored, reporters at the New York Times might fabricate a rap beef. [Idolator]

• More black male teachers are needed in South Carolina and, well, everywhere else in the country, I would bet. [WLTX]

• A task force is meeting in Atlanta today to discuss a proposed law banning sagging pants. Good luck making this one stick, guys. [AJC]

• Grambling State University Administrators are forcing the student paper to remove images of an elementary schooler with a noose around her neck as part of a really poorly planned racism lesson. [SPLC]

Oct 3, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 1 Response

Parting Shots

Heal The World. But Sell Lots Of Magazines, Too!

All the money spent on Vanity Fair's big, 20-cover Africa issue could have paid for thousands of computers for African children. But those covers sure were amazing. [MG]

Rapper Gucci Mane is launching his own record label. Good thing he's not launching his own clothing label, because he might get into some trademark issues. [SP]

When We Were Queens? Laila Ali's the subject of a documentary about her historic fight with Gwendolyn O'Neil in South Africa. [BV]

Ramona Douglass, a major player in the multiracial movement (instrumental in allowing people to check more than one race on census forms) had died. [RCLS]

The Black Lawyers Association should revoke his membership. A former administrative law representing himself in a $54 million lawsuit against a mom-and-pop dry cleaner that allegedly lost his pants started crying on the stand yesterday as he described the harrowing incident. [AP]

Jun 13, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 4 Responses