Obama hoopin, round the way girls, and short bus candidates!!

People always focus on the dirt brothers do. How can you tell when your women is cheatin’? A new hairdo is the symbol of a new man and if you ain’t seeing her in new clothes or underwear you gave her the money for, only the dispatch in Houston can help you.

Pimps don’t always congregate on corners. They often reside in pulpits, NAACP Conferences, corporate board rooms, and university classrooms. Being a leader comes with perks, and sadly, some men of power and influence feel entitled to pimp the trust and adoration of women to their sleazy self interest.

To answer your question, at best, racism in America will remain the same. At worst, there will be more calculated attempts to push us further into the margin…if that is at all possible.

Give a camera to a notorious rebel hell bent on reframing womanhood and black cultural production, and the end result is the left of center wonderland orchestrated by lens master/wordsmith Carla Aaron-Lopez. The sassy sista has an opinion on everything from outlandish gas prices to the trite themes watering down hip hop. So much so; that I had to share her heady response to our column Ask Ed & Sugar: Do Women Own Their Issues? Peep or exclusive rap session on crybabies, self hating Negroes gone wild, and third wave feminism.

Hayes music will still be the soundtrack for a groovy Friday night with your foxy lady, a funky good time at a modern day juke joint, or theme music to your Saturday afternoon cleaning ritual. He is still our past and present all in one. Future generations should take notes from Black Moses’ ability to let the music speak, even though he no longer can.