Damn, what a brilliant idea!! What's going to happen when anglos everywhere in the next generation start to have some rhythm???! Hard to conceptualize really, like some bizzarro world.....

Hmmmm. Lesssee. Honestly, I am embarrassed to be anglo when I see dweebs of that calibre...untalented, uninteresting....like guys at the company office party whose job it was to make an impromptu script to entertain the cubicle mates....

In reply to your comment:
“Hey Choggie, what's with the downvote on "Hey Africa!" ? I didn't understand what you meant...I'm not being cranky, just asking.
("white folks apparently into counter productive masturbation...... ")
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I'd argue that it leans towards old. Videosift itself is a place for "the best of".

But it's on old clip (us non-Anglos were thrown off by the "this morning" part, thinking it happened in the very morning of... until realizing it's the name of the show).

Ertha Kitt has always been an earthen trip, that voice, how to describe it?!?? Here perhaps, remeniscent of the Lolly Pop Kids from The Widard of Oz......

..."the little oil wells that slurp slurp slurp into the barrels"....what a fuckin' line!!!!

Guaranteed, there has been no other Black songtress of jazz, and only maybe two sucessfull angloes ever touched this shitty song, hell, never heard it m'self...that, in and of itself is a trip....

Firstly - the issue of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). This is an appalling crime, and one that is sadly prevelant in some parts of the Islamic world (I have studied FGM under the leading expert on women's rights in Africa - Dr Fareda Banda). However, it is important to be clear about the position of the Shari'ah with regards to FGM - and to do this I am going to have to provide a detailed explanation of some aspects of Islamic law.

Male circumcision is advocated by Islam - as it is by the Jewish faith. There is no dispute about this. However, there is a great deal of dispute about FGM. There is nothing in the Qur'an which advocates FGM. The most important source of Islamic law after the Qur'an is the hadith - sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. The hadith were compiled about 300 years after Muhammad's death. While some are authentic and beyond dispute, others are not and have been held by scholars of Islamic law to be weak. The only possible justification for female circumcision is the following hadith:

"A woman used to perform circumcision in Medina [Madîna]. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said to her: 'Do not cut severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband." (Sunan Abu Dawûd, Book 41, #5251.)

It is important to look at the authenticity and strength of this hadith. The hadith is found in the Sunan of Abu Dawud - an important collection of hadith. However, the compiler himself - Abu Dawud - classified this hadith as "weak". A hadith can be classified as weak for a number of reasons - but normally it is because the chain of transmission (isnad) from the Prophet to the compiler is broken or incomplete. When this happens, it is often suspected that the hadith could be fabricated. Consequently, one cannot derive a legal ruling from a weak hadith. Therefore, the vast majority of experts in Shari'ah law believe that there is no justification for FGM in Islam.

However, FGM still exists in parts of the Islamic world, and the above quoted hadith is sometimes used to justify it. What is important to note is that in those countries where Muslims advocate FGM and justify it by reference to Shari'ah law, Christains also practice FGM and justify it by reference to the bible. In reality, FGM is a practice who's origins lie not in the religious texts of the major world faiths but in the barbaric traditions of traditionally male-dominated societies.

Secondly, I will try and qualify what I think Farhad means when he says that "Sharia is no in no way representative of the religion of Islam." Shari'ah in many of its modern manifestations is not representative of the rich traditions of Islam. Much of the rigidity which people associate with Shari'ah law is a relatively recent phenomenon brought about by a number of factors. For example, there was an inherent flexibility in classical Islamic law. For example, there were five schools of law (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, Hanbali, Zahiri) who differed in their opinions on certain issues, and this gave Shari'ah an inherent pluralism. Judges could choose between the positions of the various schools, and exercise their own judgment in order to reach fair judgments. However, in the 19th Century there was an enormous amount of pressure put on the Islamic world by the West to reform its legal system - either directly, in the form of colonialism, or indirectly in the form of economic/military pressure - to change its legal system in order to facilitate trade with Europe. The result was that the Ottoman empire, during the Tanzimat reforms, instead of working within the rich Islamic legal tradition, simply got rid of Islamic law in many areas and replaced it with European style legal codes. The Islamic law which was kept was that which would be called in Western legal systems the law of personal status - family law, inheritance. But, what the Ottomans did was codify this law - they codified one of the key Hanafi manuals of Islamic law. A similar codification occured in India under the British resulting in what was referred to as Anglo-Muhammadan law.This codification - which has continued in recent years throughout the Islamic world - has removed the inherent flexibility and pluralism in Islamic legal thinking. It has meant that judges only have one opinion to choose, and it has also meant that many judges have stopped practising ijtihad - deriving the law from its sources. All progressive scholars in the Islamic world agree that the Islamic tradition of ijtihad must be revitalized. Scholars must turn back to the sources - Qur'an and hadith - and derive Islamic law which is appropriate for modern times, and which is flexible.

There are some important examples of ijtihad worth mentioning. In the sub-continent, the prevailing legal tradition is Hanafi. Under Hanafi law, the grounds on which a woman could apply for divorce were limited. However in a landmark case, the judges used ijtihad to ensure that women could divorce much more easliy. What they effectively did was adopt a position from Maliki law and extended it. In Tunisia, women have complete legal equality with men - in marriage, divorce, no polygamy, etc. Morocco has also made important advances similar to those taken by Tunisia. In both cases it is important to note that instead of replacing Islamic law, scholars instead embraced the flexibility and pluralism inherent in the classical Islamic legal tradition. They derived new Islamic law - based on the Qur'an and the hadith - which provided full equality for women.

Living in a southern US border state, one can see the argument for snapping the border shut to Mexico, thank's GW. The Bush Push for Nafta....language,border,culture....disappearing, will net the US 3rd world status quicker than likker.

The equiv. of opening the Canadian border to the northern US, those newbies without cash, skills, or obligations to anyone but their relatives who, sit back and wait for the tax-free dollars to come in care packages......Today in America, shit, just get pregnant in any country, and drop it here.....BOOM U.S. Citizen.....this is death to any Nation...Canada stopped that shit real quick with Chinese influx, the legeslation drafted in Parliament by a Chinese legislator, who became a citizen the CORRECT and LEGAL way

Love Mexico, but love the US more. In the last 30 years, this state has been shat upon by Mexico, its peoples who demand entitlement without even the responsibility of learning english....it's fucking wrong, and will mean a race-baiting opportunistic clusterfuck for the future, brain-dead and sensibility-free, generations of fodder....doomed are the anglo, indian killers, one day I'll no doubt wipe my ass with my US passport, and head back to the land of volcanoes......or stay here and learn to read maps, menus, and media, en espanol, while looking at pastel stuccos and lean-to's, and a landfill in every cul-de-sac and parking lot.....Thanks Mexico!! You guys Rock!!!

Latex alien fembot extravaganza!!!....What mooooovie is that that would cause some pre-pubescent teen to want to be tortured by anglo-island-of- Lesbos lassies????

Yes, if you consider an average white person an Anglo. When i think Anglo Saxon i think of me, because I'm 4 generation American. Family is from Ireland, and the other half is from Scotland. Thats not really Anglo Saxon is it, its more like angry Saxon.

These other people are Caucasian, not Anglo.

Anglo-centric, is that as bad/good as afro-centric??

Public display of insanity, or PDI, is common amoung practically-challenged, sexually frustrated anglo males.....

"Here, is a classic Motion Picture Trailer, worthy of chronicle, this is part of the same , History of anglos in USA. oh, and the unfortunate history of a native culture, victimized by the spectre of genocide....wow, fewer numbers than the Jews, too.....gotta love the synchronicity!

Thats not fair, that motherfucker can really dance! These tips are really great-realizing this is satire, the narration actually works for a novice, that has seen good dancing in varying styles, and can follow directions...with one exception...-The cracker-ass, no rythym-havin', anglo-only, melanin-deficited lost soul, of never bein' able to not embarrass him/herself, on the dancefloor, whitey!

....too bad-One Live Jew, bombs....
no-vote for anglo-wannabees.......the message,ees Kinder aufbereitet und ermüdet....

...To be young, sifted , and white........oh what a tired, re-hashed thing....

Alberta Hunter, was a contemporary of, though not as successful as ma Rainey or Bessie Smith, but she did work hard at it, like they all did to make a living...she traveled with the USO, and performed for inlisted men, all over the world-Became a Nurse at the age of 40 sumpthin' When Hunter retired from nursing in 1977, she was 81 and ready to go back on the road. By this time her voice was gritty, down and dirty, and her fans loved her for it. She made four albums for Columbia between 1977 and her death in 1984.She was dicovered again, and this time, a whole lotta anglo folks got to hear her....she enjoyed a swan song of revived popularity , performing around the world, once again, to the delight of a new generation, skipping a couple, at least, of fans........
Born:
Apr 01, 1895 in Memphis, Tennessee

Died:
Oct 17, 1984 in Roosevelt, New York

...Perhaps its' the sexually repressed, anti-drug, anti-anglo, types that won't vote for, or comment on this......."snapshot of "B" film trailer history".....they probly' called this "X" rated in the states when it was released.....