Free Fat Nick???
When pressed for a statement in regards to the assassination of JFK Malcolm X responded that it was merely "the chickens coming home to roost". His intention of that remark as most will remember that the demise Marilyn Monroe's creep joint the cause and effect, the repercussions of American Imperialism had come back and claimed one of its own. (Gee Dub you listening?).
So fast forward 40 some odd years... I hope Black America and the hip-hop generation has its coops (and not coupes) ready. Enter Nicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci, or for legal purposes pulls a Puffy/Puffy Daddy/P. Diddy/Diddy name transformation to "Phat Nick" Minucci. For those who don't know ole Nicky Boy is on charge for a hate crime for N-bombing and Louieville Slugging three brothers who were creeping on a come up in Howard Beach, Queens NYC.
With these mitigating factors, Italian kid, in the infamous Howard Beach section of Queens (where a racially motivated attack almost 20 years ago racially polarized and already tense New Yawk City that was already grappling with so many other social ills that dominated that era), assaulting three unarmed bruhs and droppin' the N-Word like an NWA album, this automatically got labeled as a hate crime. But Nick-Nick ain't your average paisan. Blasting G-Unit out of his Caddy-lack on Twennie Toos, heavy on the wrist with his Rolex "his grandmaw laced him with", and some serious "bling-bling" on his neck Nicky couldn't be racist because basically "HE LOVES BLACK PEOPLE!!!!" Well needless to say most weren't impressed, and they hung hate charge on him like a balding Nazi who accidentally stumbled in to a synagogue. Poor Nick, sent off to Rikers where they had to isolate him for his own safety to keep him safe from the people he loves so much until he went up for trial which is coming around the bend...
So somewhere between sips of my morning Old English and my 2 for $2 Sausage McGriddles I read in my beloved NY Daily News that Fat/Phat Nick's lawyer drops a legal strategy that would have probably made the late great Johnnie Cochran stand up and take notice.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/401320p-339880c.html
For those too lazy to click the goddamn link I'll give you an excerpt...
Nicholas (Fat Nick) Minucci is gonna throw down with a hip-hop defense when he goes to trial next month on his hate crime assault charge stemming from a baseball bat attack in Howard Beach, Queens, last June 29.
"Wearing a bright orange jumpsuit and white sneakers in a beige cinder-block visitor's room in the Eugene J. Grogan Correctional Facility in Rockland County, Minucci declared Saturday he was "looking forward to going to trial because I'm gonna prove everybody wrong. I'm no racist. This was no hate crime."
So what's his defense?
"After the three African-Americans tried to rob me, I tracked them down with two friends," Minucci said. "And when I approached them I said to the main guy, Glenn Moore, 'What up, n---a?' I didn't say 'n---er' with an 'er.' But 'n---a' with an 'a' at the end.
"There's a very big difference in the hip-hop world that I come from between 'n---a,' which is a greeting and 'n---er,' which is racist. 'What up, n---a?' is like saying, 'What's up, pal?'"
Well damnit to hell!!! Kris "Mr. I AM HIP-HOP!" Parker called it! "What goes around comes around I figure, Now we got white kids callin' themselves n*ggas!" Move over Nastradamus, your prophet pass has been revoked!!!!
Has our own defense of the beloved N-Word comeback to haunt us like Brother Malcolm's proverbial chickens??? I mean many of us have gone to bed at night comfortable with the exorbitant use of the word as an "insider privledge" which in some circles has extended to our Boriqua brethren and even a few lucky white guys. But I ask you this. What is the real social impact of this defense if it is tactfully employed and absolves Mr. Minucci from the federal charge of hate crime to simple misdemeanor assault???
Well if you ask ole 'Preme here I think its the chickens coming home to roost, and to expand on Malcolm's statement "Being an old farm boy, chickens coming home never made me sad, in fact it made me glad..." So I'd like to thank the current hip-hop generation for this. You've officially done it. You've taken the power away from the word. Thanks for disenfranchising the word that has crippled a people for hundreds of years. I thank you. I praise you for potentially changing the face of relations in this country, albeit completely unconsciously. I wanna thank the modern day minstrels of rap, and all the plantation pimpin' that dominates our airwaves and imagery. Shouts to Damon Wayans who wanted to name his clothing line "NIGGA". Shout out to all the real muhfuckin' niggas out there for keeping it so muhfuckin' real. Just remember the precedent this sets if successful, and don't get mad when that loophole becomes law....
Mighty Drewpreme, 3/20/06.
Happy Born Asia Minor (Mighty Healthy Consortium)!!!!
Free Kenneth McGriff
FISHSCALE IN STORES!!!!!
So fast forward 40 some odd years... I hope Black America and the hip-hop generation has its coops (and not coupes) ready. Enter Nicholas "Fat Nick" Minucci, or for legal purposes pulls a Puffy/Puffy Daddy/P. Diddy/Diddy name transformation to "Phat Nick" Minucci. For those who don't know ole Nicky Boy is on charge for a hate crime for N-bombing and Louieville Slugging three brothers who were creeping on a come up in Howard Beach, Queens NYC.
With these mitigating factors, Italian kid, in the infamous Howard Beach section of Queens (where a racially motivated attack almost 20 years ago racially polarized and already tense New Yawk City that was already grappling with so many other social ills that dominated that era), assaulting three unarmed bruhs and droppin' the N-Word like an NWA album, this automatically got labeled as a hate crime. But Nick-Nick ain't your average paisan. Blasting G-Unit out of his Caddy-lack on Twennie Toos, heavy on the wrist with his Rolex "his grandmaw laced him with", and some serious "bling-bling" on his neck Nicky couldn't be racist because basically "HE LOVES BLACK PEOPLE!!!!" Well needless to say most weren't impressed, and they hung hate charge on him like a balding Nazi who accidentally stumbled in to a synagogue. Poor Nick, sent off to Rikers where they had to isolate him for his own safety to keep him safe from the people he loves so much until he went up for trial which is coming around the bend...
So somewhere between sips of my morning Old English and my 2 for $2 Sausage McGriddles I read in my beloved NY Daily News that Fat/Phat Nick's lawyer drops a legal strategy that would have probably made the late great Johnnie Cochran stand up and take notice.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/401320p-339880c.html
For those too lazy to click the goddamn link I'll give you an excerpt...
Nicholas (Fat Nick) Minucci is gonna throw down with a hip-hop defense when he goes to trial next month on his hate crime assault charge stemming from a baseball bat attack in Howard Beach, Queens, last June 29.
"Wearing a bright orange jumpsuit and white sneakers in a beige cinder-block visitor's room in the Eugene J. Grogan Correctional Facility in Rockland County, Minucci declared Saturday he was "looking forward to going to trial because I'm gonna prove everybody wrong. I'm no racist. This was no hate crime."
So what's his defense?
"After the three African-Americans tried to rob me, I tracked them down with two friends," Minucci said. "And when I approached them I said to the main guy, Glenn Moore, 'What up, n---a?' I didn't say 'n---er' with an 'er.' But 'n---a' with an 'a' at the end.
"There's a very big difference in the hip-hop world that I come from between 'n---a,' which is a greeting and 'n---er,' which is racist. 'What up, n---a?' is like saying, 'What's up, pal?'"
Well damnit to hell!!! Kris "Mr. I AM HIP-HOP!" Parker called it! "What goes around comes around I figure, Now we got white kids callin' themselves n*ggas!" Move over Nastradamus, your prophet pass has been revoked!!!!
Has our own defense of the beloved N-Word comeback to haunt us like Brother Malcolm's proverbial chickens??? I mean many of us have gone to bed at night comfortable with the exorbitant use of the word as an "insider privledge" which in some circles has extended to our Boriqua brethren and even a few lucky white guys. But I ask you this. What is the real social impact of this defense if it is tactfully employed and absolves Mr. Minucci from the federal charge of hate crime to simple misdemeanor assault???
Well if you ask ole 'Preme here I think its the chickens coming home to roost, and to expand on Malcolm's statement "Being an old farm boy, chickens coming home never made me sad, in fact it made me glad..." So I'd like to thank the current hip-hop generation for this. You've officially done it. You've taken the power away from the word. Thanks for disenfranchising the word that has crippled a people for hundreds of years. I thank you. I praise you for potentially changing the face of relations in this country, albeit completely unconsciously. I wanna thank the modern day minstrels of rap, and all the plantation pimpin' that dominates our airwaves and imagery. Shouts to Damon Wayans who wanted to name his clothing line "NIGGA". Shout out to all the real muhfuckin' niggas out there for keeping it so muhfuckin' real. Just remember the precedent this sets if successful, and don't get mad when that loophole becomes law....
Mighty Drewpreme, 3/20/06.
Happy Born Asia Minor (Mighty Healthy Consortium)!!!!
Free Kenneth McGriff
FISHSCALE IN STORES!!!!!
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