From: owner-god-shiva-digest@smoe.org (god-shiva-digest) To: god-shiva-digest@smoe.org Subject: god-shiva-digest V2 #71 Reply-To: god-shiva@smoe.org Sender: owner-god-shiva-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-god-shiva-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk god-shiva-digest Sunday, September 19 1999 Volume 02 : Number 071 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Me'Shell Article in L.A. Weekly [Patrick Saunders ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:30:53 -0400 From: Patrick Saunders Subject: Me'Shell Article in L.A. Weekly >Last week's L.A. weekly had an interview with Me'Shell Ndegeocello. >See http://www.laweekly.com/ink/99/42/music-hardy.shtml > >Selected quotes (touching on stuff that's been discussed recently on >this list): > >"As far as the queer thing," she says, "it just bothers me, period, >that white gay males define how a lot of homosexuals or lesbians see >themselves. Queer? I'm not feeling that. I can't really embrace that. I >can't embrace lesbian, either. I hate the way the word sounds; it's not >an attractive word. It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, >whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect >you to just represent their agenda." > > >"It hurts me to my heart," she says. "I mean, there is some gangster >rap or darker hip-hop that is absolutely relevant and needs to be said. >But so much of it is just jumping on a bandwagon with nothing to say. >You know, I'm a big Nas fan, so I went out and bought his last record >[I Am . . .]. Now, the CD booklet opens with a sura from the Koran. But >the actual record begins with a rant: 'Fuck all y'all faggot >muthafuckas.' And it just killed me. I don't know what to do. Do I take >my record back, you know? I mean, he talks [in interviews] about black >upliftment and all the stuff he's read, and I'm like, 'Well, you >callin' people faggots. Did you ever read James Baldwin, one of the >great intellectual minds of our time -- who was a gay man?' It's just >really difficult for me to embrace and have an understanding of my >brothers -- and they are my ã brothers and I will love them till the >day I die -- but I just don't understand what they're doing." She >shakes her head and sighs. > > ------------------------------ End of god-shiva-digest V2 #71 ******************************