September 26, 2005

Kanye West Dropped by Pepsi... Or Is He?




You may have gotten some form of this email, reporting that Pepsi has dropped Kanye West as a spokesman:

SUBJECT: Kanye West Dropped by Pepsi!!!

It's Their Loss; Besides, Pepsi is no good for you anyway!!

Kanye West, former spokesperson for Pepsi, has since lost his endorsement deal with the soft drink giant due to his publicized remarks regarding the mishandling of the Katrina evacuees/victims. I mean if you're like me...just SICK and TIRED of being black in America and being mishandled, then do something. Our parents and their parent's SHUT DOWN an entire bus system during the Civil Rights era by CHOOSING to do something. Here is your opportunity. We're calling a boycott on ALL Pepsi products. If they want to drop Kanye,how about we DROP them!

Umm, not to nitpick but I think the civil rights movement involved more pressing issues than the loss of a celebrity sponsorship? Either way, when I looked for confirmation of the story all I found was this reply from Pepsi, claiming it's just a rumor:

Pepsi Says They Didn't Can Kanye

Nicole Bradley, Manager, Public Relations, Pepsi-Cola North America:

"Hello EUR: This note is to inform you that you've received an erroneous email regarding Kanye West and Pepsi. The letter said that Kanye has lost his endorsement deal with Pepsi, which is not true.

Our relationship with Kanye has not changed and our marketing campaign is continuing as planned. In fact, his Pepsi commercial is scheduled to air several times this week. Thanks for giving us the chance to clarify the situation and please feel free to share this note with anyone else who may have received the message."

Probably a good idea to stop drinking soda anyway. (not that i'm capable of doing it)

Posted by jsmooth995 at September 26, 2005 5:18 PM
Comments

yes, we should all quit drinking soda; the phosphates deplete mad calcium from our bones. you go first jay, and i'll follow. ;)

Posted by: leannelovesradio at September 26, 2005 8:18 PM

Hey Jay,
I reported this on my blog this weekend. Here is the link http://www.rachelstavern.com/blog_comment.asp?bi=85&m=9&y=2005&d=1&s=

He talked about it on Wendy Williams on Friday and I saw the commercial on Saturday.

Posted by: Rachel S at September 26, 2005 9:19 PM

I forgot to say...last I heard it is not true, so unless it happened in the last 24 hours, I don't think it's correct.

Posted by: Rachel S at September 26, 2005 11:04 PM

Why Hip-Hop continues to dominate the music scene, and Rock music continues to die out.

I am writing this as a record executive who has been asked quite a bit , "How come the labels are releasing so much rap and hip-hop?"

The answer: Rock musicians are not working the scene!

It's simple. Many rockers that I've talked to who say they want to get signed, feel like it's enough for them to play some shows, throw out some merchandise, some demos, and expect a label to come at them with the "perfect deal." This is not working it. Rockers do not understand the concept of sacrifice. And why should they?


I theorize that the reasons behind rock musicians' lack of work ethic and drive and hip-hop musicians "success at all costs" attitudes stem from both socio-economic and racial conditions. It is not an assumption, but a safe fact to point out that hip-hop performers are predominatly african-american and rock musicians are primarily white.

Many of the hip-hop artists we speak to are clearly trying to "move on up" from their current indigent situations. A job as an entertainer is respected, and a noble way to make money and move into better neighborhoods. Street smarts are applied to business strategy, and they understand the concept of climbing the ladder one rung at a time. Even a slow climb gets you higher than you were yesterday.

Rock musicians on the other hand have more options. Many have to face a decision of leaving their $40k/year jobs to only make $30k a year to follow their dreams. And let's face it, white musicians in the entertainment industry aren't exactly society's "cream of the crop." Most are here because they don't have the work ethic to maintain regular day jobs. They're looking for the easier softer way to quick riches. So unlike most black hip-hoppers, an intelligent and hard working white rocker knows that if he does anything other than entertainment (e.g. go to college, get a corporate job), he will have a better return on investment than if he stuck it out with his musical endeavors; OPTIONS. Unfortunately, that leaves rockers waiting like spoiled infants for things like advances and perks - all of which a record label doesn't care to give, especially considering the stereotype of the arrogant, lazy, irresponsible rock musician (the same reasons why they may not have good day jobs). Thus they don't get signed. And if they do get signed, most rock bands expect the labels to do ALL the work in terms of promotion. Hip-Hop performers on the other hand, have historically shown more dedication and continual focus on the prize regardless of what's going on around them.

Despite personal tastes in music, a label's job is to make money for its shareholders. Hip-Hop musicians are willing to sacrifice perks, their own free time, and their own money to ensure success. They're not afraid to take risks to change their current situation, because their current situation may not be too pleasant. It's unfortunate, because I like rock music. But Hip-Hop is going to continue to prevail due to a sacrifice ethic and true motivation - something a rock musician is never going to grasp.

Posted by: Anonymous Record Executive at September 28, 2005 7:02 PM

KANYE WEST COMMENTS:

WHY FUCK IS THIS DUMB-ASS MONKEY ON TV ANYWAY. HE CAN'T EVEN MAKE A COMPLETE COHERENT SENTENCE.

THIS IS AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE AT IT'S FINEST. A VAST WASTELAND, DEVOID OF ANY SEMBLANCE OF INTELLIGENCE. WHERE THESE NIGGER CRETINS ARE GIVEN VALIDITY BY THE RUBBISH THEY PRODUCE AND MORONS WHO BUY IT...

THIS SHIT FOR BRAINS FUCKING MONKEY IS THE SPOKESPERSON FOR A GENERATION. MY GOD, HOW FRIGHTFUL IS AMERICA'S FUTURE.

WAKE UP AND VOTE FESTLER....

Posted by: FESTLER U COONS at September 30, 2005 12:02 AM

Festler no doubt is a jealous, envious jobless idiotic with nothing better to do. Kanye West grabbed the only opportunity he had to say what many black and white artistes would never have had the guts to say.

The so-called incoherence was due to nerves from a artist I respect not only for his views but how articulate he is. So well done Kanye.

As for the America's future you are so worried about, it has already been written. Any nation built on thievery, cruelty, genocide and greed will go the same.

So make the most of it.

Posted by: Observer at September 30, 2005 1:33 PM

Pepsi did not drop its endorsement with Kanye West. It was aired on primetime the week of September 25th. "Study and show yourself approve". That means to listen to what is said or see what is read and then research its validity. It's great to take a stand, just be sure what you are standing for.

Posted by: tom thumb at October 2, 2005 12:20 AM

Glad to see the Pepsi/Kanye rumor isn't true. I just received it in an email, advising people not to use Pepsi products. I had to look for something to validate that claim before I fwd'ed the email. Since there is nothing, I'll advise the sender of the facts.

Posted by: Monique at October 3, 2005 7:49 PM

If you didn't stop buying Pepsi when they dropped Ludacris(this is a free speech issue, after all), why would you stop buying Pepsi because they dropped Kanye(if true) for looking like an idiot? People need to wake up and realize there are more important issues out there, i.e., how street culture is destroying the black family and community. Why are our leaders Young Jeezy or the hottest star of the moment? Why are opportunist fools like Jesse Jackson and radical Al Sharpton our spokespersons? It's time for black people to reevaluate the situation we're in and stop being apathetic. We need to get into the hood and make changes like the Panthers once did, in their nonviolent stage. Society and governments aren't going to do any more for black people, only a true new leader(s) will.

One

Posted by: Don't be an idiot at October 4, 2005 10:26 AM

yo festler , drop ya shotty .... obviously you dont listen to music!!
Jazz maybe some southern funk, get some culture into ya and maybe some brain cells will follow..... listen to the music...African Americans have something to say at least .. point out a white monkey who says what they think !!!! none . all puppets !!! white culture isnt as strong... dumb punk songs dammit ... aight im out.. peace

Posted by: choinsta at October 4, 2005 11:01 PM

Fellow African Americans, I share your pain for the racism in this country and it it getting out of hand. But out of all the Rasist people I rose above it and treat every one equal white or black, asian or mexican. All Races are EQUAL!
Some of you hate George W. Bush right now but I can confidently say that he does not hate African Americans. WE ARE ALL EQUAL. Can you, my fellow brothers in this world forgive the white man of his sins, because many of them do not hold grudges. Some still do, but then again arent we also racist to them? WE ARE ALL EQUAL WE NEED PEACE! Kanye West is an ignorant fool for thinking this and he has nothing to back up his claims. If we boycott anything boycott Kanye West until he makes amends.

Stay'n Black and Proud

Posted by: Tyrone at October 5, 2005 8:44 PM

Please don't compare Kanye West to Rosa Parks because she served a purpose. I find it hard to believe that he is losing any sleep over the Pepsi endorsement gone bad. Was he planning on giving the proceeds of this endorsement to America's schools to provide books for our children's futures, or to the Katrina victims? If I fully understand he was given this endorsment before the Katrina tradjedy even happened. So that was not his goal for the endorsement money. I understand freedom of speech and yes we all should be able to express ourselves but there is a time and a place for everything. Think about it Kanye and look where freedom of speech has gotten you. Im still drinking Pepsi. Sorry!! Talk about a publicity stunt!!!

Posted by: Speshial at October 6, 2005 10:44 PM

Speshial get the idea! he knows what he is talking about AMEN BROTHER!

Posted by: Tyrone at October 6, 2005 11:25 PM

FOOD:
I WALKED IN THE CRIB. I GOTS TWO KIDS AND MY BABY MOMMA LATE, UHHU, UHHU.

SO I HAD TO DID WHAT I HAD TO DID BECAUSE I HAD THE KIDS.

IM UP ALL NIGHT GETTIN MY MONEY RIGHT.

UNTIL THE BLUE AND WHITES, POEPOE-POEPOE!

NOW MONEY COMIN SLOW BUT ALTEAST THERE GETTIN TO KNOW SLOW MOTION BETTER THEN.

YEAH, I CAN MAKE IT RIGHT IF I COULD JUST SWALLOW MY PRIDE AND PUT MY GUN AWAY.


This clown is a poetic genius...Move over Keats, Pope, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Emerson, etc. you are about to be outdone by the brilliant work of Kanye West.

Sell drugs and do crimes with your kids around, thats good.

Always use a gun and violence to solve lifes problems. Never be responsible for your own actions and place the blame for your life with others(i.e. George Bush).

Kanye has a very creative approach to grammar as well. Ohhh, sorry, ebonics has no syntax.

Yeah, your right! Kanye West is a brilliant man.

Posted by: DUMB NIGGER at October 8, 2005 1:12 AM

stop examining yourself black people, everybody knows that Bush ran on a none black ticket,that's why they put him in the white house. if Bush was for blacks, white people would not vote for him. that; the way it is. this is a racist country and they know it. They think that man can't do any wrong, because he says he is christan. i got news for you, so was the KKK. KOnservative Knights Kristians. Kanye is the man for saying the truth and voicing his taughts, I thought that what america is bulid for free speech. But if you say anything against Bush you are anti- american, so fuck the grammys if they don't let Kanye in. Black should boycott the grammys. don't pay taxes. and all blackmen should not fight or join any military, let him the white man fight his own war.

Posted by: lorenzo starks at October 11, 2005 5:27 AM

I would like to make a statement regarding your posting of Kayne West being droped by the Pepsi Corporation. FIrst off, does anyone remember Madona? In the late 1980's, this songstress was a spokesperson for Pepsi, until her "Like A Prayer" video debuted on MTV. This song, as well as the singer, was to be used in upcoming Pepsi ads, and due to the content of the video, she, along with the song, lost the endorsement contract for Pepsi. Now, all Madona did was take control of her First Amendment Rights and chose to NOT listen to the Pepsi Corporation when they instructed her to not do anything that would hinder the sale of Pepsi; she did not listen. The video, if you remember, had Madona getting close with a black Jesus, burning crosses and depicted numerous sexual inudendos with the above mentioned black Jesus.
I am in complete aggr

Posted by: Katie at October 11, 2005 1:51 PM

FESTLER IS RIGHT!!!YOU NIGGERS ARE WORTHLESS PRIMATES.

Posted by: anon at October 14, 2005 1:56 AM

Fuck Kanye West. He is an idiot. If anyone should take the blame for this it should be Abraham Lincoln. He should've never let "yous" go, b/c then we would've never had to worry about you bitching and moaning about racism for fucking eternity. Its getting ridiculous. All you stupid fucks have to do is learn how to rap and you get rich. So stop selling drugs,shooting each other, and getting women pregnant everyday. Take all your energy and put into the music industry and stop fucking complaining. Give it up already. Stop behaving like assholes and maybe we'll treat you with more respect. Its not all of you but its the bad ones that give you the name and there pleanty of them. You get housing, food, jobs, educations and all this shit for free just b/c your black. And b/c I'm white and my dad went to college and makes a decent living so I don't get dick from the government. I gotta go to school and work and and pay for food and college. Why? It ain't fair and then this dickhead bashes his president that has all of these programs for blacks that dont take advantage of it. I don't understand, what happened had nothing to do with Bush anyway. If you don't like it here, if your all so fucking miserible, leave. And quit with the racism cry its getting old.

Posted by: That guy at October 14, 2005 5:56 PM

As long as white people walk the earth, hatred and misery will remain. They are the world's worst virus. They sweat venom from their pores, and smell of wet dog when they are dry.

Their entire existence on this planet, has been one of, rape, murder, disease, incest, cruelty, theft... and the justification of it through numbers, and power.


But... my black people.... as each day passes, we slowly drive them from the face of the earth. We capture their attention, we cut into their profits, we inflitrate their schools, we master their technologies, and we inseminate their women... stomping out their tainted blood lines.

Within 50 years, white devils will become the minority in this country. Fear and desperation for self preservation will cause the crazy ones to lash out first. The rest will follow out of fear, as we crush unmerciolously the first wave.

It in only a matter of time white man.... until I am you... you become I ... or you simply don't exist.

You will roll over in your grave when your great grand daughters are 2 shades lighter than the color of my dick.
__________________________________________________

:) Beautiful, Strong, Calculating, Black Man, Studying Your Every Weakness....

Posted by: Honesty at October 15, 2005 8:34 PM

And when all "you" rappers, gangstas, and other trash take over the world and no one wants to work anymore resulting in the collapse of all social welfare systems, what then?

Kill each other? Who is the new enemy then? The light skin blacks? The Asian blacks? The darker blacks?

Remember that old saying, "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it."

In other words, Mr. Honesty, if you want America to end up like genocidal Africa, all you have to do is purchase a plane ticket today to your beloved homeland. Genocide is the order of the day in Africa and who is killing Africans in incredible numbers? Why it's your own brothers. So you see Mr. Honesty, race plays no importance in your war against the white man, rather, HATE, ENVY, and GREED are the main factors which ironically are the same traits you display in your message. Hell, you pretty much sound like a KKK grand wizard yourself or at the least, a 1941 Nazi describing how he is going to stamp out the Jewish people.

I however have a better idea, how about you drop your conspiracy theories and learn to co-exist with various people regardless of what offenses others of your own race may commit.

Did blacks loot in New Orleans? Yes.
Did they shoot at rescue helicopters? Yes.

Did all of them commit these crimes? NO.

Was it you? NO. People will behave in whatever matter THEY choose and you can either accept it or deny it and get angry.

Are you ashamed of your own black race? You must be. You don't want to admit that RESPONSIBILITY falls on your own shoulders and not on those of others. You live in a fantasy world where you think the white man is your enemy.

Well Mr. Honesty, I have some rather bad news for you. As of September 11th, some rather fundamentalist muslims destroyed two buildings that genocided many people of all nationalies. 3,000+ Asian, Black, Hispanic, White, you name it. They were not in the least concerned about skin color like you are, they are only preoccupied with waging their holy war against anyone different from them. Guess what? YOU ARE DIFFERENT and they are...

:) Unshaven, lunatic, calculating Islamic men, not concerned with studying your weakness, just concerned with killing and enslaving you BLACK MEN like they have been doing for centuries.

....and when there are no more White men, no more Asian men, no more Hispanic men, no more European men and all that is left are fundamentalist Islamic men and black men as vile as you, who will win the war?

You behind the keyboard spouting your hate, or them behind the controls of an airplane loaded with black passengers headed right into your condo complex? :)

Posted by: Sebastian at October 17, 2005 10:39 AM

And the clock ticks my friend... the clock ticks.


" Tiiiiiiiime, is on my side.... yes it is."

:) Beautiful, Strong, Calculating, Black Man, Studying Your Every Weakness....

Posted by: Honesty at October 18, 2005 12:56 PM

And when all "you" rappers, gangstas, and other trash take over the world and no one wants to work anymore resulting in the collapse of all social welfare systems, what then?

Kill each other? Who is the new enemy then? The light skin blacks? The Asian blacks? The darker blacks?

Remember that old saying, "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it."

Wait wait wait!!!!! Wasn't it THE WHITE MAN, who brainwashed SLAVES into this way of thinking!?!

Sebastian... shut your fear spreading ass up. As you attempt to re-instill, old slavery methods and tactics in the present.

Honesty couldn't have said it better... time is truly on our side. And if the mark of mental slavery still exists to that extent... I would love to see it unfold, if that means that the white man will not be present to see it. And our culture could deal with it, without some pimple popping, GENOCIDE INSTIGATING, lice spreading, AIDS Creating, War Monger Cracker playing both sides to reap the rewards of the blood spilt.

Time is truly on our side... as the purity of your so call race of abominations slips like sands in an hourglass

Posted by: Truth at October 18, 2005 1:05 PM

What is sad is that these white people who are filled with such racism and hate on these postings, are people we may interact with everyday. These are the evil filled pigs that will stand and smile in your face, while they call you a primate and nigger on a website. Stop being cowards and speak your views openly. We should respect a person who is openly racist, it is the passive agressive cowards that should concern us. To make a correction to an uneducated comment, the most people on welfare are white people. Get educated on the stats before you feed into the lies. Also the main people on drugs are white people, the average drug addict is a middle class white woman. The main drug dealers are white people, who do you think black people get the drugs to sell on the streets from. Come on, you ignorant racist stop blaming black people for the problems yall created. Black people can complain all they want because it was the white man who took them from their homeland and brought them to this country to be slaves. African Americans have a history based on this, you racist bastards should think on this before you start talking ignorance.Reflect on our point of view! Also you all are the reason for all the genocide that is going on in Africa, Africa was divided by tribes before the white man came. Each tribe had its own territory and yall came and colonized the place, just focusing on yall own greed not taking the time to understand the system they had in place. So as a result tribes are now fighting to claim land and heritage they had before colonization. It is called tribal warefare not black on black crime. Why don't you racist bastards use that same line of thinking when discussing the situation going on in Palestine? Come racist people why live in hate?

Posted by: Love at October 18, 2005 2:15 PM

If you feel that the whities have done your race so wrong why don't you go back to africa where things are so much like the way you say they should be. Second, you mention how the crackers took your ancestors from their homeland to be slaves here. Most of the slaves that were brought over here were sold by their own people. And no one ever seems to mention that Africa had 25-35000 white slaves so I want my reparations too. Blacks: "It's always someone else's fault." Keep thinking that way and remain at the bottom of the food chain

Posted by: street meat at October 19, 2005 9:41 AM

Ok, Street meat. Once again here is some person talking from a state of ignorance. Please read all the postings before you comment on something I have written.

The things you wrote here do not even make sense, and only a racist person would tell me to go back to Africa. That comment only screams out HATE!!!

I am sure that your whole family line did not originate from America.Why do racist people forget that this land belongs to a group of people called Native Americans? I am not even going to go there.

Also, MOST of the people brought over to America to be slaves were not sold by their own people. That is another lie people try to spread to make themselves feel better. Once again lets stop looking at the issue in regards to race. Africans are divided into tribes. In order to spare the lives of their tribes certain tribes that were settled near that coast went into the mainland and got members of other tribes. Don't use the word most because this was just a few instances. The slave trade went on for years. These same tribes were evetually taken into the slave trade as well.

In regards, to Africans having white people as slaves, I can not verify that number. It sounds a bit wrong though because the number was so small that most history books don't even estimate it. But I can not verify that unless I view your source. Anyway how many people did the white man kill and take away from their homeland.Yes, Africans did fight and enslave people who tried to take over their homeland. THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT THEY WERE PROTECTING THIER HOMELAND. THEY DID NOT GO TO EUROPE AND TRY TO STEAL THE LAND. OR GO TO ANOTHER COUNTRY AND KIDNAP PEOPLE INORDER TO PERFORM FREE LABOR.

DONT BE MAD, WHEN PEOPLE STATE THE FACTS
LOVE, LOVE, LETS NOT Hate!!!

Posted by: love at October 19, 2005 5:12 PM

All you niggers keep spouting the fact that more whit people are on welfare when compared to blacks. Absolutely true ape boys. What you fail to recognize is that whites far outnumber the apes in this country explaining why white numbers are much higher. But, check your stats assholes, 1 in 7 niggers are on welfare compared to 1 in 39 whites. Do the math monkey's or is that too hard for you? I forgot, the majority never finish high school being only 1 in 5 black males do. But wait, there is hope, the hope you will soon make your race extinct by the constant violence you perpetuate among yourselve. So I say get them nigger gangs going and blow each others heads off. You'll save us honest taxpayers so much

Posted by: Ferther at October 20, 2005 11:32 PM

It's alwasy someone else's fault isn't it. I heard some of the theories of how Katrina did some much damage from people like Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan. Ridiculous. If you look hard enough you can always blame your own problems on someone else. Lazy, worthless niggers fire me up so much but I would love to have the chance to vote for Condoleeza Rice over Hillary's evil slut ass. It's just like Chris Rock said: Everyone hates niggers, even black people.

Posted by: street meat at October 21, 2005 1:43 PM

IRREFUTABLE PROOF OF NIGGER INFERIORITY

Chapter 12 entitled Population Differences In Intelligence: from Arthur Jensen's latest book, The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability published 1998.

The relationship of the g factor to a number of biological variables and its relationship to the size of the white-black differences on various cognitive tests (i.e., Spearman?s hypothesis) suggests that the average white-black difference in g has a biological component. Human races are viewed not as discrete, or Platonic, categories, but rather as breeding populations that, as a result of natural selection, have come to differ statistically in the relative frequencies of many polymorphic genes. The ?genetic distances? between various populations form a continuous variable that can be measured in terms of differences in gene frequencies. Racial populations differ in many genetic characteristics, some of which, such as brain size, have behavioral and psychometric correlates, particularly g. What I term the default hypothesis states that the causes of the phenotypic differences between contemporary populations of recent African and European descent arise from the same genetic and environmental factors, and in approximately the same magnitudes, that account for individual differences within each population. Thus genetic and environmental variances between groups and within groups are viewed as essentially the same for both populations. The default hypothesis is able to account for the present evidence On the mean white-black difference in g. There is no need to invoke any ad hoc hypothesis, or a Factor X, that is unique to either the black or the white population. The environmental component of the average g difference between groups is primarily attributable to a host of microenvironmental factors that have biological effects. They result from non-genetic variation in prenatal, perinatal, and neonatal conditions and specific nutritional factors.

The many studies of Spearman?s hypothesis using the method of correlated vectors show a strong relationship between the g loadings of a great variety of cognitive tests and the mean black-white differences on those tests. The fact that the same g vectors that are correlated with W-B differences are also correlated (and to about the same degree) with vectors composed of various cognitive tests? correlations with a number of genetic, anatomical, and physiological variables suggests that certain biological factors may be related to the average black-white population difference in the level of g.

The degree to which of each of many different psychometric tests is correlated with all of the other tests is directly related to the magnitude of the test?s g loading. What may seem surprising, however, is the fact that the degree to which a given test is correlated with any one of the following variables is a positive function of that test?s g loading:

Heritability of test scores.
Amount of inbreeding depression of test scores.
Heterosis (hybrid vigor, that is, raised test scores, due to outbreeding).
Head size (also, by inference, brain size).
Average evoked potential (AEP) habituation and complexity.
Glucose metabolic rate as measured by PET scan.
Average reaction time to elementary cognitive tasks.
Size of the mean W-B difference on various cognitive tests.
The one (and probably the only) common factor that links all of these non-psychometric variables to psychometric test scores and also links psychometric test scores to the magnitude of the mean W-B difference is the g factor. The critical role of g in these relationships is shown by the fact that the magnitude of a given test?s correlation with any one of the above-listed variables is correlated with the magnitude of the W-B difference on that test. For example, Rushtont1? reported a correlation (r = + .48) between the magnitudes of the mean W-B differences (in the American standardization sample) on eleven sub-tests of the WISC-R and the effect of inbreeding depression on the eleven subtest scores of the Japanese version of the WISC. Further, the subtests? g loadings in the Japanese data predicted the American W-B differences on the WISC-R sub-tests with r = .69?striking evidence of the g factor?s robustness across different cultures. Similarly, the magnitude of the mean W-B difference on each of seventeen diverse psychometric tests was predicted (with r .71, p 120 were found to have differed by 0.5s in head circumference measured at one year of age. Also, small head size measured at eight months has been found to interact most unfavorably with birth weight; infants with very low birth weight who had subnormal head size at eight months had an average IQ about nine points (0.6s) lower at school age than did infants of comparable birth weight but with normal head size (corrected for prematurity).

I have not found an estimate of the heritability of directly measured brain size. However, the heritability, h2, of cranial capacity (estimated by formula from head length, width, and circumference) based on Falconer? s formula [h2=rMZ-rDZ) applied to 107 MZ twin pairs and 129 DZ twin pairs ranged widely for different race X sex subgroups, for a within-subgroup average of .19. When the estimates of cranial capacity were adjusted for age, stature, and weight, the h2 values averaged 0.53. The narrow h2 (i.e., the proportion of the total variance attributable only to additive genetic effects) of various head measurements determined in a Caucasoid sample (Bulgarians) by the midparent X offspring correlation (all offspring over fifteen years of age) were: length .37, height .33, breadth .46, circumference .52. All of these estimates of the heritability of cranial size indicate a considerable amount of nongenetic (or environmental) variance, at least as much as for IQ. Moreover, much more of the nongenetic variance is within-families (i.e., unshared among siblings reared together) than is between-families (shared) variance. This implies that shared environmental effects, such as those associated with parents? education, occupation, and general socioeconomic level, are not the major source of variance in cranial capacity as estimated from head measurements. Also, what little evidence we have suggests that the total environmental variance in head measurements is greater for blacks than for whites. (The nature of these environmental influences is discussed later in this chapter.)

Implications of Brain Size for IQ Differences. Chapter 6 reviewed the major evidence showing that head measurements and brain size itself are significantly correlated with IQ. The only available correlations for blacks are based on head length, width, and circumference (and cranial capacity estimated by formula from these measurements); as yet there are no reported correlations between IQ and directly measured brain size for blacks. However, the head measurements are significantly correlated with IQ

Posted by: D. FESTLER at October 21, 2005 11:39 PM

What a hatefull peice of crap. In fact the majority of these postng are filled with hatred and evil.

I came to find out if Pepsi had really dropped Kanye and this is what I found.

No wonder your Wonderful USA is in such a nasty mess!

Posted by: Anna at October 22, 2005 8:25 AM

Don't worry white man. In 50 years, your crainial documentation... which clearly states blacks haven't even been accurately calibrated

"as yet there are no reported correlations between IQ and directly measured brain size for blacks. However, the head measurements are significantly correlated with IQ "

So nice try. I applaud your surpurb ability as a white male, to copy and paste the theorm of another man.

Your intelligence is intriguing....
Riiiiiiight.... - Dr. Evil

Nonetheless... within 150 years, when all white people will become mulatto. (Mixed both white and black or other)

So your incomplete study.... , will mean nothing at all when you are no longer here!

Bye Bye white people!

Black Male, 25 Years Old, MFA Degree (Masters of Fine Arts) and pursuing a Doctoral, Website Development Company Owner (Self Taught!)

Like water off a ducks back crackers. My Day Is NOW.

Posted by: Honesty at October 22, 2005 2:51 PM

All Black People Are Rappers, Gangsters and Drug Dealers....

Right.

Colin Powell
Condalesa Rice
Michael Jordan
Oprah Winfrey
Bill Cosby
Johnnie Cochran

Silly Crackers, dicks are for chicks.

Posted by: 4 Sebastian at October 22, 2005 2:57 PM

It amazes me how full of hate some people are. There are some racist bastards of both races throughout this thread. I can't fucking stand racism. We are all people regardless of the color of our skin. We need to learn to treat others with respect and not hate just because we look different. I always thought racism was just a problem that plagued the minds of just white people, but by judging this thread I can see that I was way off the mark. I've never felt offended by black people before reading this thread. Before this, I have had nothing but good experiences with black people. I grew up in a city with an almost even distribution of whites and blacks. Many of my friends growing up were black or mixed and we didn't treat each other any different than anybody else. I know the majority of white people are not racist and I would like to think that the majority of black people are not racist as well. However, there are obviously a significant number of bad apples on either side of this issue. It seems to me though, that there are some people in this thread that claim that all white people are evil. I'm sure I will get called a silly cracker whiteboy for saying this by those evil people, but I would just like to defend my case. Those whites who are racist are not only a disgrace to all other whites, but to mankind in general. Granted, I don't like being blamed for my ancestors mistakes. I have never owned a slave, have never killed a native american, but yet I am constantly blamed for it. Those atrocities were committed in the past, and I can do nothing about that except to try to lead a good life, set an example for others, and treat all people regardless of race, color, creed and religion with respect. So, say what you want about my post, and I'm sure I'll get flamed by somebody. Just know that we're not all bad people and that most of us would like nothing better to be able to live together peacefully and cooperatively.

Posted by: Silly Cracker at October 24, 2005 6:25 PM

Sorry, Negroes, but it’s true: your race are a failed race because you’re a feckless, unruly, uncivilized horde of feral proto-humans. You never figured out how to live in a society bigger than one or two squabbling families. Starting thousands of years ago, everyone else on this planet without exception did - they invented religion, the idea of law, and the ideas of property and respect for the value of human life. This enabled tribes to coalesce into bigger groups and become organized. The rest is history, or rather civilization.
But your lot never did this, did they? Abstract thought and problem-solving have never been the black man’s strengths, have they? Did they invent a long-lived and intellectually coherent religion? Nope. Did they ever build a city? Nope. Did they even invent bricks? Nope (the reason there’s no Stonehenge in Africa is because it took more than 20 people to move the slabs of rock - clearly a non-starter in Africa, where assembling more than 20 niggers normally results in a war). Did they till the land? Nope. Did they domesticate an animal for their use? Nope. Did they invent a written language? Nope. Did they invent the wheel? Mainly, nope. Were they curious enough about what lay out across the sea to sail upon it? Nope.
And blacks are the only “humans” on this planet of which all this is true. Eskimos are more technically advanced than blacks were, despite the handicap of having no raw materials to work with other than dead fish and snow. Indians managed to domesticate the elephant. Why couldn’t Negros?
So why do you fail everywhere even today? Let me offer a hypothesis. It’s because feral behavior - innate savagery, murderous violence if annoyed, predisposition to rape many women and thus fecklessly father many children - conferred valuable survival advantages on individuals in the backward, Paleolithic milieu of Africa. But they don’t help your kind in a civilized society. Unfortunately for the rest of us, the last few hundred years have not been long enough for these behaviors to have been domesticated out of you all. So you’re all still at it.
Let me illustrate this for you by analogy. Technically, an American pit bull terrier and an English golden retriever are exactly the same species. They can produce offspring, if crossbred.
The former was bred to exhibit certain characteristics - wanton aggression, propensity to fight, physical strength, powerful bite, and so on. The latter was bred to retrieve birds shot and killed by its masters, and to do this, it has to have a docile, placid, unaggressive nature; otherwise it would treat what it found as its own kill and refuse to hand it over.
Now imagine that your small children, aged maybe two or three years old, are going to be locked in a room with five or six of those dogs, and the dogs haven’t been fed for a week.
Which breed would you rather lock in there with *your* children? Hungry pit bulls, or hungry golden retrievers? Or do you figure that, even though they *look* differently, they’re all the same species really, so of course the pit bulls certainly won’t act any differently?
Exactly!
All this PC crap we hear spouted in the media about how “there’s no such thing as race” is just that - crap. A dog has four legs and a tail; a cat also has four legs and a tail, but that doesn’t make it a dog. The superficial similarity between cats and dogs and between whites and blacks is just that - superficial. If there really were no genetic difference between niggers and humans, then presumably my white woman and I could very easily produce a black baby between us at any time, and any nigger and his ho a white one.
Whenever blacks achieve a certain critical mass numerically in a pre-existing non-black society, they start to exhibit their natural feral behavior and to turn their environment back into a recognizably African, essentially Stone Age one. Thus, Africa has the jungle; black enclaves have “da ‘hood.” Native Africans were small wandering herds of marginal animals, one famine away from extinction, and which therefore fought each other savagely for pieces of territory. Large groups of African-Americans?at liberty in the west actually deliberately break themselves down into *smaller*, tribal hordes, because they feel uneasy in and unaccustomed to a larger society. Negro gangs of twenty to fifty individuals assert their rights to tag?other peoples property through gang violence, but fail to co-operate otherwise.
For instance, a 15- or 20-strong horde of Negroes was recently filmed by a security camera inside a London bank they were robbing. Once they had terrified the cashiers into handing over the money, they then fought *each other* for it, in the middle of the cashiers hall, like hyenas fighting over an antelope. Having stolen from the bank, they instantly started to steal from each other. The idea of escaping first, then sharing the swag, was just too complex for them to understand, never mind implement.
And so it goes on. You *cannot* fuse blacks into existing large societies or standalone nations because they are just plain not adapted to it. I’m sorry for you niggers and for your savagery, and I’m sorry you were born a violent black aboriginal savage in a civilized society, but I’m more sorry for the white societies that are having to tolerate all your crime while we try to absorb you.
This is why all black nations fail economically and sink into corruption, civil war, and permanent dependence on the white man’s generosity.
And presumably this is also why you pathetically allowed yourselves to be enslaved: you’re savage enough still to be angry about it long after it ended, but you were too backward to stop it at the time. No black Spartacus, is there? Why no slave uprisings among blacks? Slaves repeatedly rose against the Romans even they knew they’d be crucified for it, when captured.
*White* slaves, that is. They cared enough about their stolen liberty that they were prepared to risk even that. So whats different about the Negro? Why did you all sit there, enslaving each other even in America, and still enslaving each other even today in Africa, until a kindly but misguided white benefactor set you free? Is it because, as slaves, you were fed, watered, and housed, and that you as a race had no ambition beyond that if it entailed doing any work or taking any risks? What are you - lazy, cowardly, stupid, or all of the above?
And you’re *still* bleating about slavery now. If slavery is the root of all your problems, why did Australia prosper? England used Australia as a dumping ground when her prisons overflowed. Within a hundred years, a nation manufactured from convicts in irons had its own autonomous elected government, and barely a hundred years on from then, Australia is now a major economic power in the Pacific. And at no time have *they* niggerwhined for handouts from the mother country - in fact, if anything, it’s mostly been the other way around.
You know what? It’s because Australia is *white*. Oh yes it is. Just imagine if theres been a Black Australia. Look how few aborigines were able to live in Australia’s climate, and now look at how many whites can. If President Monroe had sent his niggers there, they’d be niggerwhining about how Bwana dumped de po?black folks on a desert island in the middle of nowhere, so they never had a chance. Every week there would be news of a new famine or civil war in Australia. The Africoons would be slaughtering the Aborigines, or the other way around, or whatever. The collecting tin would come out regularly, but the money would be stolen and spent on Kalashnikovs, and Black Australia would still owe Whitey billions which we’ll be expected to just forget. If all those unfortunate convicts we sent out there had been black, Australia today would just be yet another Liberia - a crappy failed nation of murderous warring niggers, with one hand held permanently out for money in the general direction of Bwana. And you know it.
So quit whining and thank the white man you live in America, not in Africa.

Posted by: FESTLER U NIGGERS at December 5, 2005 8:55 AM

true daht festler, true daht

Posted by: bill cosby at December 29, 2005 11:42 AM

If Pepsi dropped dumb niqqer pan-head, I might buy one.

Posted by: Reality at May 11, 2006 8:12 PM

kanye west. nigger. sounds right. anyone who hates the people who pay them millions and millions of dollars needs to go back to africa and find out how thankful they should be that theyre not 90 pounds and have flies crawling all over their eyes. he knows nothing. i love black people, but can not stand it when one of them fucks shit up for everyone else. those are niggers. ignorant individuals that act like morons because the white man gave them the opportunity to speak. kanye needs to understand that rapping about women, drugs, and violence does not give him the right to bash a political force that he could never begin to comprehend. all u blacks out there, keep ur head up, way above this bullshit. u dont need some moron making u hate white people. be thankful ur not still in cages and have the chance to make money and be equals.

Posted by: voonga at July 21, 2006 8:07 PM

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why niggers never progress; societal regression


I had the luxury of sharing a train cabin with some obnoxiously loud blacks this morning. Makes it a little difficult to read, and regardless of the blatant looks I was offering them, they did not understand. Some blacks are a little dense like that. Their understanding is that if they are being given looks, their freedom of speech must be exercised, otherwise it is wasted attention. Blacks are big on freedoms, volume is one of their modern day reactions to a history of suppression. Some find it empowering, but as an Asian minority (or majority if you prefer to believe that), I find it ignorant and annoying. If those blacks would shut the fuck up and read a book, the world would be a better place.

These blacks also had a child with them. I pictured it in 3 years, when it's at the age when water in large receptacles makes a fascinating plaything.

Child: [silently groping door to public toilet on subway]
Mom: Tyrone! You're stupid. Sit down before I slap you.
Child: But mom.
Mom: Shut the fuck up and sit. Stupid!
Child: [opens door to bathroom]
Mom: [words to violent to publish, harshly jerk Tyrone back outside]
Child: [smile at mother, walk slowly to toilet... *splash* *splash*]
Mom: You fucking idiot! Here, eat this. [pass snacks to child, no need to wash hands of course]

Tyrone would be a typical example of an ignorant fool who is hardened to any sort of discipline because of his upbringing. He will most likely be a troublemaker in school, for this very reason. A combination of this rougher, and mule-like stubborn attitude, and black-righteous "I'm never wrong, and I'm always free" pride on behalf of the mother will ensure a one way ticket to the ghetto for Tyrone.

Tyrone will be a rap superstar. His English will suck. And mainstream America will idolize Tyrone, place a high value on all of his words, and try to identify with the glorified gangster background. Regression.

When was the last time you heard a nigger freestyle about his education?

If you quote rappers like I quote Confuscious, then I shit on you. You're as brainless as Tyrone.

I hate the name: Tyrone.

Posted by: DAN FESTLER USA at July 31, 2006 9:47 PM

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