Hey, kids, a hot new video has just hit the 'net (less than 2,000 views!). In it, rapper Mos Def is a guest on Bill Maher's Real Time and starts spouting off a bunch of nonsense about how he's not sure Osama bin Laden is bad. At this, another guest, boozy author Christopher Hitchens, who's never been known to walk away from a fight, is soon talking circles around Mos in a very disgusted tone. Maher and third guest Salman Rushdie look on in bewilderment.
The whole thing is sad, but especially depressing are 1. the part when Hitchens gets visibly testy at Maher mocking his drinking, and 2. just the general sense of paranoia around Mos Def, who's clearly been stricken with the same problem that afflicts a lot of black men from the inner city: a complete distrust of everything white/corporate.
The YouTube commenters are reacting to this video how you'd expect them to, by calling Mos Def a "nigger." This is your modern public discourse, America!
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BRAVO! Mr. Christopher Hitchens for using Intellect, Reason, Logic & Rhetoric (and sharp some wit) to counter babbling, emotional non-sense (Uh Oh, I must be 'racist' then -lol)
So an educated learned man bested an entertainer in a political debate Hooray! Wait why is that surprising again?
@getreal: not just any entertainer, a really dumb one. Kind of fun to watch though. I imagine it would be like Dick Cheney talking to you.
Mos Def speaks his mind. And of course that is the problem.
(I'm just say'n)
@fanofgrendel: Exactly he is an idiot and I love my country, respect it's ideals, and don't shoot my friends in the face.
@Jim Gordon: I'm confused why is that racist. It is annoying when people add that disclaimer for no reason.
@getreal: you have friends?
Mos Def could be used to recruit racism if there were a shortage of racists.
(I'm just say'n)
@fanofgrendel: You crack me up.
Christopher Hitchens is a douchebag, and that is not the scotch talking.
Damn. Mos Definitely served! But seriously, he's kind of known as the intellegent rapper….. You just lost a fan, Mos.
I did find it funny when he was calling MosDef "Mr.Definitely". Can't tell if he was trying to mock his hiphop moniker or really thought it was proper to unabbreviate his last name.
Wow, I thought MOS DEF was a smart man and he turned out to be so ignorant. He says shit and then gets called on it and rewords it?
Lets call it what it is; unfortunatly America is heading tawords a RACE WAR. Its sad how we had BLAZING SADDLES and people were MORE together THEN but blacks have gotten so into "im from africa" and pushed upon whites the "YOU MADE US SLAVES!!!!" bullshit.
Blacks are going to be there own distruction because white people are starting to say "FUCK YOU BITCH, MY FAMILY CAME HERE FROM GERMANY!! I DIDNT OWN ANY SLAVES AND YOU WERE NEVER ONE< DONT KNOW ANY SO FUCK YOUR WHINEY ASS BECAUSE YOUR MOUTH AND LOUDNESS DOESNT SCARE ME"
Shame, people are getting tired of everytime blacks cry foul and it boggles ANYONE else's mind how BLACKS are so stupid and negligent of their OWN actions.
NO decent blacks can get ahead because of their OWN self described "Niggers."
OH WAIT!!!! We elected a black president and blacks STILL said stupid things like "We have come along way but we are still far behind"
BEHIND FUCKING WHAT!!?? Its all cry baby bullshit.
READ THIS AND TELL ME WHY BLACKS ARE HATED (even asians hate blacks because they are loud and ignorant, something they are PROUD OF?????)
Just thought you might want to hear the straight scoop from Oakland. A Motor Sgt. for the CHP there got this info from his Oakland PD friends that were on scene during the shoot out. This shitbird was a real piece of work and a very hardened criminal. The first two motors were really caught short with nowhere to go.
So here is kinda what happened in Oakland, per one of my friends that was on scene during the second shooting.
Dirtbag was stopped for an unknown violation in Oakland by an Oakland PD motor Sgt.. The Sgt made the approach and contacted the dirtbag getting all of his info. The Sgt went back to his bike and began to write the ticket.. As he was writing the ticket the motor officer showed up and for cover but nothing was out of the ordinary. Sometime after the officer arrived they determined that they were going to tow the car for something Probably a=2 0suspended lic. but not sure if they ran him for warrants or not ( he did have a no bail warrant) For some reason the officer(the second to arrive) made an approach on the Buick (an official car of dirtbags). While he was up there there was one shot fired by the dirtbag from a handgun. The officer began to retreat for cover and the dirtbag exited his vehicle and shot the officer in the back of the head as he was running away. apparently he barely made to the back of the Buick. He was never able to get his gun out.
The sergeant began to use his bike for cover when he was charged by the dirtbag and shot twice in the neck. He was unable to get his gun out either.
The dirtbag fled a few blocks on foot into an apartment complex and into his sisters apartment.
The 11-99(CHP for assistaqnc e) was put out and everyone showed up and at some point an anonymous tip was given as to the dirtbags location.
Swat arrived and set up a plan.
2 hours after the the initial shooting they entered the apartment. They entered as a team and had to duck below a window next to the door. This is where things differ from the news. The news says they entered a hallway and he was hiding in a closet and as they approached the closet he shot through the door and struck the 3rd and 4th.
My friend said that they ducked under the window next to the front door and as they were waiting to enter the=2 0door the subject used his AK 47 that he was storing at his sisters apartment and open fired through the wall just as they were preparing to enter the front door. The bullets struck one and as they retreated and dragged the victim toward safety the dirtbag continued the offense and shot the Sgt that was assisting the 3rd officer that was shot.
Massive gunfire ensued and they subject was struck about fifty times according to some.
From what my friend said they rushed the entry due to emotions and were under the assumption that he only had the handgun. I don't think they knew that it was his sisters place. The same sister that has been quoted on the news as saying he was not a bad man but she was storing his AK 47 and another long rifle for her convicted violent felon brother. They were not really sure if the dirtbag was in the apartment and since they are in the Ghetto and no one telles the truth, they wanted to clear it quickly to make sure he didn't escape the perimeter.
Not sure what the dirtbags gun history is but he knew what he was doing on the first two. not center mass due to the vest…. aiming at the head and then had the presence of mind to shoot through the wall as they were approaching. Most people wouldn't think to shoot through the wall.
I'll keep you updated as I find out more.
My predi ction is that Oakland is going to have Watts style riots before the end of 2010.
There were massive parties all over Oakland celebrating the event in Oakland that night. During the interviews on TV there were 20 or 30 people in the the background screaming "F*** the police" and saying they got what they deserved. It was everything the officers could do to restrain themselves.
@FUCK IT: You need to start taking your meds again.
No, he doesn't. The Oakland incident, and his correct depiction proves his point: a race war is coming.
@Skate185: No, that was insane.
There will be no race war although white supremacists who are recruiting a lot of angry right wingers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200.....extremists
As much as it pains right wingers America has become a much more open-minded less racist country. So will hate crimes against blacks go up? Maybe but a race war not a chance because most white people are not racist anymore a large percentage of them voted in a black person as their commander in chief.