Category Archives: race

Pope Reverend Ike I

February 19, 2013 – 8:03 pm

The College of Cardinals is gathering in Rome to elect a new pope after Benedict XVI’s sudden resignation. The Media has been playing a guessing game about his successor, however the cardinals will most likely vote for a prelate in the present Pope’s mold, since he elevated 60% of them to higher ecclesiastical office. The […]

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Peg Leg Bates

February 12, 2013 – 8:44 am

Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates lost a leg at the age of 12 in a cotton gin accident and learned how to tap dance thanks to getting a peg leg provided by his uncle. The other day someone in the diamond exchange mentioned having seen the famed tap dancer in the Borscht Belt. “Everyone went to […]

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PIMPMOBILE Isaac Hayes

January 30, 2013 – 9:51 pm

Great demo derby through LA from TRUCK TURNER, a 1974 blaxploitation film starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, Dig those bongos To view PURSUIT OF THE PIMPMOBILE please go to the following URL

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DISCO INFERNO The Tramps

January 26, 2013 – 8:23 pm

The Phillie group The Trammps burned up the charts and dance floors with DISCO INFERNO in both 1976 and 1978. A friend posted this another white boy’s story on his Facebook page about DISCO INFERNO. Back in the day I went to the Boston Arena to see the Trammps. I went with a friend. We […]

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Black Always Beautiful

January 16, 2013 – 5:34 pm

“Black is beautiful.” was a phrase coined by John Sweat Rock in 1858. Steve Biko resurrected the words during his struggle against apartheid in South Africa and American blacks adopted the slogan for their liberation movement in the 60s and 70s, however judging from the lack of black models on the covers of fashion magazines […]

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