Sunsara Taylor on that motherfucker Nick Cannon

[1949]

I hope somebody hasn't already posted this article. It's been out for a while and I have not been paying very much attention to Revolutionary Left recently, so I don't know if it has already been posted or not. I just finally noticed this article on Sunsara Taylor's blog (http://sunsara.blogspot.com/) tonight and felt somebody needed to mention this. -1949

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Thursday, June 23, 2005
Nick Cannon Dances With the Devil!

In case young Black women, and women generally, needed more guilt-tripping: Nick Cannon's powerfully anti-woman/anti-choice song ("Can I Live?") was #7 on the Total Request Live countdown.

It starts off with a young Black woman going into a clinic and Nick Cannon singing from the point of view of the fetus!! It ends with her giving birth and Nick Cannon hugging his own mother!! He's also selling t-shirts that just read, "Can I Live?"

Before Nick Cannon decides to jump in bed with the fundamentalists on anything, he ought to be asked the question Bob Avakian so aptly posed:
"Ever noticed how the Bible Belt is also the lynching belt?!"

Traditional values in this country are so not good for Black people! If he really wanted to do a song about "Can I Live" coming from actual Black people, including children (rather than a some developing fetal tissue), then he could start with at the police who kill regularly and with near immunity, at the politicians cutting social services like welfare, and at the exact same Christian fascists who are defaming condoms (AIDS is rising among young Black women the fastest in this country!) and advocating the death penalty for many more - even minor - crimes (which, of course, will hit hardest those whose conditions of life have forced them into criminal life - thinking here of the fact that half the Black men in NYC are unemployed!!!)!




http://www.ncannon.com/index.asp
"Can I Live"
(feat. Anthony Hamilton)

[Talking]
Talking Ma
I know the Situation is Personal
But it something that has to be told
As I was making this beat
You was all I could think about you heard my voice

[Verse 1]
Yeah Just think Just Think
What if you could Just
Just blink your self away..
Just Just wait just pause for a second
Let me plead my case
It's the late 70's Huh
You Seventeen huh
And having me that will ruin everything huh
It's alot of angels waiting for their wings
You see me in your sleep so you cant kill your dreams
300 Dollars thats the price of living what?
Mommy I dont like this clinic
Hopefully you'll make the right decision
And dont go through with the Knife Decision
But it's hard to make the right move
When you in high school
How you have to work all day and take night school
Hopping off da bus when the rain is pouring
What you want morning sickness or the sickness of
mourning

[Chorus]
I Will Always Be apart of you
Trust Your Soul Know it's always true
If I Could Talk I Would Say To You
CAN I LIVE
CAN I LIVE
I Will Always Be apart of you
Trust Your Soul Know it's always true
If I Could Talk I Would Say To You
CAN I LIVE
CAN I LIVE

[Verse 2]
I am a child of the king
Ain't no need to go fear me
And I see the flowing tears so know that you hear me
When I move in your womb that's me being scary
Cause who knows what my future holds
Yo the truth be told you ain't told a soul
Yo you ain't even showing I'm just 2 months old
Through your clothes try to hide me deny me
Went up 3 sizes
Your pride got you lying saying ain't nothing but a
migraine
It ain't surprising you not trying to be in Wic food
lines
Your friends will look at you funny but look at you
mommy
That's a life inside you look at your tummy
What is becoming ma I am Oprah bound
You can tell he's a star from the Ultrasound
Our Sprits Connected Doors Open Now
Nothing But Love And Respect Thanks For Holding Me
Down She Let Me Live...

[Chorus]
I Will Always Be apart of you
Trust Your Soul Know it's always true
If I Could Talk I Would Say To You
CAN I LIVE
CAN I LIVE
I Will Always Be apart of you
Trust Your Soul Know it's always true
If I Could Talk I Would Say To You
CAN I LIVE
CAN I LIVE
[Repeat 2]

[Nick Talking]

It's uplifting foreal yall
I ain't passing no judgement
Ain't making no decisions
I am just telling ya'll my story
My love life
I love my mother for giving me life
We all need to appreciate life
A strong woman that had to make a sacrifice
Thanks for listening
Thanks for listening
Mama thanks for listening

posted by Sunsara Taylor at 4:28 PM

read moronic trolling comments from reactionary assholes here (http://sunsara.blogspot.com/2005/06/nick-cannon-dances-with-devil.html)

[Hampton]

Granted it is a stupid song, I don't see why the issue of his race has to be brought into the equation. Just because he is a black man he has to talk about police killing people and welfare? That isn't just a black issue, those are issues for everyone to talk about. Although it is a nice thought, every black man is not going to be socially conscience just like every white person or every hispanic person is not going to be.


Traditional values in this country are so not good for Black people!

This lady really needs to check herself.

[SonofRage]

I love when white people tell people of color what they should be doing. :rolleyes:

[redstar2000]

I'm inclined to agree with Hampton about this; Ms. Taylor assumes that "only" young black women can be "guilt-tripped" by songs like this into having a child that they cannot raise or support. But that happens to young white women and young Hispanic women and young Asian women, etc., etc.

Ms. Taylor was right to attack this reactionary woman-hating piece of shit...but "race" was not really relevant to the matter.

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[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2005, 11:57 PM
I love when white people tell people of color what they should be doing. :rolleyes:
A friend of mine met Ms. Taylor at a speaking engagement in New York once (he is hispanic). He said she spoke proper English the whole time she was speaking, but after wards when he approached her to talk to her she through out some "street slang". I don't remember the exacts, but it was somthing like 'yo thanks for being down," and some other uses. Needless to say this was very patranizing (sp?), and so, in retaliation, he asked her when she was going to leave the Chairman Bobby and become a communist, :lol:

He said she walked away looking very mad.

[redstar2000]

I've since learned that the video of this trash consists entirely of African-American participants...so that may explain why Ms. Taylor went off on the "racial" tangent.


Originally posted by CompaneroDeLibertad
A friend of mine met Ms. Taylor at a speaking engagement in New York once (he is hispanic). He said she spoke proper English the whole time she was speaking, but afterwards when he approached her to talk to her she threw out some "street slang".

:lol: I remember that happening back in the days of the old civil rights movement...some white guy invariably tried his best to "sound black".

I have to say that some guys were really good at it...they'd learned it from actual experience in rural Mississippi or Alabama.

And there were even some middle-class African-Americans who also did this.

I can understand it in a way...no one wants to come off sounding like some upper-class twit. But I think it would be better just to speak in "common English" that pretty much everyone comprehends.

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