I'm Dreaming of a White..... (Christmas Poem By Paradise Gray)

Ohhh, You better watch out, you better not cry
Christmas is a lie! I'm telling you why,
Give the gift of Christmas, give your woman a gift of ice,
Never mind that the customs of Christmas pre-date the birth of Christ!
Where did it all come from? What's the origin of this scene?
You have to go back to the days before Constantine.
December 25th is a date that comes from Rome,
When they celebrated the rebirth of the Sun God and Saturn in every home.
The Saturnalia celebration was a week long festival of un-punished sin,
Rape, human sacrifice, consuming human-shaped biscuits now known as gingerbread men.
The evergreen tree was a symbol of the essence of life,
It was the phallic symbol of fertility worshiped by every husband & wife.
Red holly was a symbol of the menstrual blood of Diana the queen of haven,
As it was regarded by the Witches and other Pagans.
The holly wood was used by witches to make their wands,
Now Hollywood is serving Miracles to all you pawns.
The white berries of mistletoe represented droplets of the semen of the sun god,
Now you can see men & women kiss under mistletoe, isn't that odd?
And let us not forget Jolly Ole' Saint Nick,
You take your kids to the Mall and you sit them on his Dick.
The God Woden and Saint Nicholas merged,
Re-named by Washington Irving to create Santa's Claus
The "Knickerbocker History" begot the Santa Claus Mystery
Dr. Clement Moore added more to the story for sure,
With his "Twas the night before Christmas" lore.
Thomas Nast gave Santa the North Pole, Elves and a list of good and bad children to make the story last
Haddon Sundblom gave us a coke-drinking, Red suited, Santa with a big fat ass.
Don't forget Sin-terklaas's homie - "Zwarte Piet" aka Black Pete,
Black Devil, Minstrel, Slave That Santa Keeps At His Feet.
Oh you better watch out, for the Krampus with your Santa's,
They'll throw you in a pitt, they may be visiting your campus,
So you better not be naughty, you better be nice,
You'll find everything in Christ-mas, Except For Christ!
Christmas isn't about God, it aint' about God's Son,
It's all about making Cash Money and having lots of fun.
It's about commercialism, marketing and promotion,
Spinned into a World wide web of tradition and consumer devotion.
It's all about sins, it's all about skins,
How many gifts you can squeeze out your family and friends?
It's all about lies and greedy old white mens, Ends,
Be good Americans, fools, Spend, Spend, Spend!
Who cares about the truth? There's none so blind as ye' who refuse to see,
Santa ate all the cookies and drank the milk with glee,
He got the munchies from smoking all the Christmas trees.
And them depressing Christmas Carols is starting to get me,
The kids want all the crap that they see on TV,
Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii,
or Ebay all your money for a Playstation 3
Are you kidding me, I aint' rich, What's in your wallet?
Left up to me, kids aint' getting no expensive bull-shit!
No, No, No, I'm not your Hoe, Hoe, Hoe!
If It's hard out here for a pimp,
Imagine how hard it is for a Hoe.
Christians please read Jeremiah 10 verse 2-4
I wonder do they know that it's Christmas in Darfur?
Forget about the ecology, it's all about the economy
Do-the-math yourself', it's not about Deuteronomy

Twas' the night before Christmas what a night, what a night,
Good VS Evil what a fight, what a fight,
Sweep all the little white lies right under the rug,
Merry  Christmas, Bahh, Hum-bug!

May your days be mellow and bright,
And May all your Christmas's be White!

Claude Paradise Gray
12/24/2006 (Edited 12/24/2011)

Blackface 2009 Halloween Edition.

Blackface By Jasiri X

"This Week With Jasiri X" Episode 22-tackles the issue of Racism in a supposedly "Post Racial" society, highlighted by the recent high profile incidents of blackface. "Blackface" was produced by Diesel and Directed by Paradise the Arkitech Gray of X-Clan.


A white Dallas Cowboys cheerleader decided to dress up as a black person for Halloween http://bossip.com/174078/what-is-wrong-with-this-picture-68/




Aubrey O ‘Day posted this picture on Twitter of one of her friends dressed as Kanye West



Blackface costume of Aunt Jemima gets L.I. teen tossed from school

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/11/01/2009-11-01_blackface_costume_gets_teen_tossed_from_school.html


Northwestern Students In Blackface Spark Outrage
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/blackface-northwestern-un_n_347745.html




Tyra Banks LOVES blackface!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsQRTQ2cVl8



Blackface: Officially A Trend
http://jezebel.com/5393819/



Bamboozled: All Up in Your Black Face with Blackface
http://bryanthomas.com/writing/bamboozled.html


Fashion Photographer Steven Klein Has Done Blackface Before

http://jezebel.com/5383411/fashion-photographer-steven-klein-has-done-blackface-before/gallery/

Particularly disturbing is the fact that they are on on the floor submissive and kind of depicting slavery.


Madonna: "I Did A Photo Shoot With Steven Klein, And I Painted My Face Black"
http://jezebel.com/5384938/madonna-i-did-a-photo-shoot-with-steven-klein-and-i-painted-my-face-black



They make their mark in mug shot history
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/29/iowa.marker.disguise/index.html


More videos by Jasiri X

It's Helloween night - A Poem By Paradise Gray

It's Helloween night, it's a Hell of a sight
In the hood when the freaks come out at night.
Monsters and ghouls embodied by fools
In the shadows and the alleys of shut down schools
Doing the Devils work carrying the Devils tools
In waist bands "Glocks", to protect Hell's rocks
Snaps and fiends are like zombies as they walk the blocks
The Vampires don't suck necks here, they suck c*cks
A buck fifty to your face, snatch your jewels that's fake
looks like Freddie Kruger slashed you, and you was wide awake
or so you thought, the American dream has turned into a nightmare,
Nobody fights fair, you have no rights here
Haunted crack houses missing windows and stairs
Helloween is one long night, 365 days of fear round here
Devils night, Devils night, What A Hell of a night
Get money, get money, there's no wrong or right
Our morals get lost when the money gets tight
Razor blades in the apples, poison the candy
They give to the children, Devils night how dandy
Sweet treats to rot teeth or Turn tricks for nose treats,
If you run to the church you'll have to run from the priests
Run to your bedroom, hide under the sheets
But you'll never escape the evil that's under your bed
Redd up Pittsburgh, Red, Red, Red!

Paradise Gray Oct. 31, 2006

Take Back America Conference 2008 - Davey D Confrontation with Fox News

Davey D is a trooper! This is a blast from the past of him rolling up on FOX News Griff Jenkins:



Take Back America Conference 2008 - Confrontation with Fox News

By Paradise Gray

This years "Take Back America Conference" in Washington D.C. was much more exciting and energetic than the one I attended just a year ago. There were more young people of color present and everyone seemed to have extra pep in their step.

I began the weekend with The League of Young Voters, taking their empowering "Tunnel Building" leadership training program at the offices of The People For The American Way. The training sessions were good, and included veteran and aspiring organizers from all across America, some as young as 17 years old. The new National Director of the League Rob "Biko" Baker and National Political Director Khari Mosley handled many of the training workshops personally. It was a pleasure to work with these brothers and I learned some great new ideas and concepts to use for organizing effective actions and successful campaigns. I was happy to contribute by helping to teach a workshop on using new media and the internet (Myspace and Facebook) as organizing tools.

On Monday March 17th we headed over to the The Omni Shoreham Hotel where Van Jones the President and founder of "Green For All" brought the heat to the take Back America Conference at this morning. Speaking to an overflowing room full of progressive Democrats Mr. Jones passionately explained the benefits of an emerging Green Economy. His inspiring speech informed the diverse crowd about policies and initiatives that could create jobs, efficient energy, reduce carbon emissions and improve local economies.

Mr. Jones received thunderous applause when he noted that by retrofitting American cities with renewable energy sources such as wind, solar panels and other alternate sustainable energy sources it would ensure that we would never have to wage war for oil again! In the crowd I noticed the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Davey D as well as members of the League Of Young Voters, One HOOD, the National Political Hip-hop Convention, Reverend Yearwood and The Hip-hop Caucus and members of The Gathering. Keep your eyes on Van Jones and the concept of a Green Economy and Green-Collar Jobs. Van Jones is a dynamic speaker with a great plan, his final words "I am not here to "Take America Back, I’m here to take America forward" connected and resonated well with this large progressive crowd.

Things got kind of heated on Tuesday morning March 18 when the Rev. Jesse Jackson was scheduled speak on a panel "Progressive Movement In A Democratic Era: The Lessons Of King And The Civil Rights Movement".The energy was already elevated as everyone was anxiously awaiting 10:30 when Barack Obama was scheduled to give his historic speech on race relations in America. As I approached the Regency Ballroom I noticed the Rev. Jesse Jackson being interviewed by Griff Jenkins from Fox News. Griff Jenkins was being very aggressive as he demanded that Rev. Jackson answer the question: "Do you or do you not condemn Barack Obama’s former Pastor Rev. Wright?" When Rev. Jackson refused to answer in the way that Mr. Jenkins was asking, the FOX reporter would interrupt him and ask the same question over and over. Rev. Jackson then accused Mr. Jenkins of using divisive tactics instead of covering the issues that are important to this election, and the American people such as the war in Iraq, health care and the economy, once again Mr. Jenkins rudely pushed his microphone towards Rev. Jackson’s face and forcefully reiterated "Do you or do you not condemn Rev. Wright?"

I did not appreciate the way Mr. Jenkins was treating Rev. Jackson and loudly voiced my opinion as Rev. Jackson (annoyed by Mr. Jenkins un-professionalism) walked away.

Mr. Jenkins then interviewed me and and when asked the same question of whether or not I condemned Rev. Wright, I responded that when you are face down in a mud puddle with someone’s foot on the back of your neck, you should not be judged by the words that come out of your mouth at that moment, anger is the appropriate natural human response to oppression!

I argued that Rev. Wright’s sermons were based on real feelings within the black community and had foundations in fire and brimstone preaching directly from the bible. Mr. Jenkins attempted to cut me off in the middle of sentences but I continued that I could quote him hundreds of statements from the bible that he would not agree with and he would not even recognize that I was quoting the bible unless I told him in advance. I commented on the fact that although we have named a holiday after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and we have renamed streets after him and put his image on postage stamps, America did not exactly love him nor his message while he was living nor did America have a love affair with Malcolm X. In my opinion after seeing the aggressive way that he was coming at Rev. Jessie Jackson, if Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and EL-HAJJ MALIK EL-SHABAZZ (Malcolm X) were alive today, FOX News would have microphones and cameras rudely shoved into Senator Obama’s face, demanding that he condemn and reject them both!

I also questioned Mr. Jenkins about why he was interrogating Rev. Jackson so hard when Barack Obama would be addressing the situation in his own words in less than 2 hours, I suggested that Mr. Jenkins that we should all wait until we have given Senator Obama the opportunity to address it personally before we form our opinions.
I guess that wasn’t enough for Griff Jenkins because as soon as the panel was over, his FOX News TV crew pushed past other journalists on the stage who were asking Rev. Jackson questions about the 5th Anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq. Davey D happened to be one of the journalists who was patently waiting for his turn to ask Rev. Jackson some questions, when Griff Jenkins barged in and started dominating the conversation, repeatedly demanding Rev. Jackson to answer, and diverting from the questions that others were asking about the war Davey had seen and heard enough, he began asking Griff Jenkins why are you here? Aggressively pushing his mic in Griff Jenkins face as he had done Rev. Jackson, and stepping in front of a retreating Griff Jenkins asking, why are you here?

Davey encouraged others to flip the script on aggressive TV reporters that come in and try to set a tone that is contrary to the way that you are coming from, "you have a right to stop them from dominating the conversation and regain control. Fox News has declared war on people of color and puts them in a defensive position, has not given them a fair chance to answer back to salacious charges and assertions. They have one sided conversations by asking you questions and cutting you off before you have a chance to answer them. Fox News creates an agenda and then places people of color within that framework to underscore what they are trying to say.

Davey D said that what they tried to do to Rev. Jessie Jackson was a perfect example of "ambushing someone with the cameras" they kept asking Rev. Jackson over and over "why don’t you denounce Rev. Wright?" ’ And as Rev. Jackson tried to answer they would interrupt him with "why don’t you denounce Rev. Wright?" Davey D thought that it was disrespectful, not as much towards Rev. Jackson (who Davey says can handle himself) as much as it is towards millions of people who can discern what is outrageous or offensive on their own without aid from someone who doesn’t go to the church so they don’t know how to put things in the proper context.

Here is online video of the incident: (Spinned FOX News)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4rznd_foxguy_news