"Time for new flava in ya ear."

The Internet Is Not a Safe Space - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "Twitter is not a safe space (nor a semi-private one). The Internet is not a safe space. And college campuses are meant to prepare students for the world at large. Because the world at large is not a feminist blog comments section, attempting to apply the norms of one to it just doesn't work—nor should it. There's simply no way we can take into account all the ways individuals in society can be traumatized and all the factors that may be triggering. Because this is the case, some triggers and traumas wind up getting a lot of attention while others are hardly mentioned. Why am I not surprised that people mostly worry over triggering memories of sexual abuse and rape, rather than memories of war and combat? Old, sexist ideas about men and women's comparative levels of emotionality and resiliency are alive and well in trigger culture. And this is perhaps the most insidious effect of all this excessive empathy. In the push to legitimize feelings of residual trauma, some have made this trauma both central to the mission of feminism and unassailable when proffered as explanation. And this—what Nair referred to as the "constant drumbeat of trauma"—has an infantilizing effect on perceptions of women, the discourse around them, and the discourse around sexual harassment and assault in general..."

 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:

Throwback Thursday #TBT - The Golden Age of Hip-Hop.

"Peace to the preacher  - I'm talking about a verse without a curse, that's how I reach ya
 I can rock a party without a swear or a harsh verb
 Backwards, no curse words Heavy D prefers
So swing, swing to the silky clean rhythm
Before I say goodbye let me tell you how I hit 'em: C.L., Pete Rock, G. Rap, Maxwell Big Daddy, Q-Tip and, uh, me as well..."

"Better than something brand new cause this is radiant
And in a while
the style’ll have much more value
Classical too intelligent to be radical
Masterful, never irrelevant
Mathematical"

"Microphone check one, microphone check two three
You can't see what I can see"

"Spittin' facts and ain't afraid to pull a trigger back
Let 'em come step to a real mutha-fucker
 [Boom, Boom]
Mama ain't raised no suckers""

"I'm not a hippie but yo B I'm hip" - dat Pete Rock beat, tho'.

"So much game in a Too $hort rap
Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black
Why you wanna act like someone else?
All you gotta do is just be yourself
We're all the same color underneath"

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