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At 7.30pm on 31 March 2007, we are inviting Sydneysiders - businesses and individuals - to turn off their lights for just one hour ...
Aboriginal rap artist and Socialist Alliance candidate for the NSW election Jakalene X-treme:
“I want to switch the lights on ...”
I’m with you, Jakalene! Fight the power!
(Via Peter Kerr)
Jakalene X-treme -lol- if only all leftards were as committed to truth in advertising.
what chance would precious kevvie crybaby have of winning anything?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 03 14 at 06:00 AM • permalink“Jakalene X-treme describes what she wants to get out of the Socialist Alliance campaign for the March 2006 NSW state election.
Do we know if she’s running in the 2007 election as well? Or did she run last year (in a non-existent election) for the practice?
Posted by Crunchy Peanut Butter on 2007 03 14 at 06:33 AM • permalinkAl Gore won’t be able to make it, but as a gesture of solidarity, I understand will be staying up late at one of his homes on the big night.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 14 at 06:48 AM • permalinkA little O/T, but it looks like the lights might be going out in Britain permanently.
Tony Blair is perhaps the biggest warm-monger currently in charge of any country, but the most distressing part is that the “opposition” are quite possibly even worse.
I’m not sure how much more of this I can take.
Posted by Don Charleone on 2007 03 14 at 06:56 AM • permalinkPoor Jakalene suffers terribly, not only because of racism, but because she doesn’t look like an Aboriginal.
(Look for Jakalene’s quotes near the end.)
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 14 at 07:03 AM • permalinkThanks for the link Margos. I just had a look at Jaq’s visage and wak! This may well explain:
JAKALENE: I suddenly felt, when I came on the Block, I just felt normal. For the first time in my life I fitted in somewhere, you know? I fitted in. There was dysfunction in my family. There was drugs, there was crime, there was police, there was this, there was that. There was spirituality, there was love, there was, you know, that sort of thing. So I really did feel quite at home. So I started thinking, “Jeez, I don’t know - I don’t think my grandmother’s Spanish at all.” So I studied my diploma in Aboriginal studies, and we were doing family trees as part of the course. And so I started doing my family tree, and evidently that led me back to Nan in Melbourne, where she was sick in a nursing home and confronted her about “Are we black?” And you know, got told yes.
MIRIAM COROWA: Since then Jakalene hasn’t looked back. Through her rap performances as Jakalene Extreme she’s gained a growing profile as an Indigenous artist. But she says acceptance from the wider community is sometimes lacking.
JAKALENE: As an actor I would never get picked to go for black parts, ‘cause they are looking for somebody who…on the outside. So what they’re promoting in their media of what actually black is, we get lost. We get lost. So why, why should we be any less because of the way we look?
What is the person’s ancestry? So we’ve got to tick…what’s our bloods. Well, I’ve got Irish. Aboriginal. And Serbian. That’s not on there. I’ll just put that - Serbian - for my dad.
JAKALENE: I refuse to go to Aboriginal Housing to ask for a house. I refuse to go to the medical centre. I refuse to get any Aboriginal Government funding.
So that’s why you get gigs purely on your obvious talents, rather than the fact you identify as “Aboriginal” rap artist.This dingbat’s a walking example of Sir Leslie Colin Patterson’s definition of an Aboriginal Activist:-
“Some Yugo ratbag whose great grand-dad once stunned a numbat with a stick”.
Never be short of a quid while we have the Australia Council, SBS, the ABC and idiot state and local governments who are more gullible than Al Gore fans.
I might be a Serb an’ my name is Jaq,
But vote for me ‘cos I pretend to be black.
Got no rythm, am def to rhyme,
Elect me an’ I’ll have a fat time.
So come on sistas, come on bros,
Even tho I won’t call y’all bitches an’ hos,
I got cred, I’m badass, I rap!
(Even though all my material’s crap).
So get y’ass to the pollin’ place cuz,
An’ stick it to Howard, Bush an’ the fuzz.I forsee a distinct chance of a Deadly.
#11 #14
Jeez, you guys just don’t get it do you? Jak’s blak because she feels her blakness. Don’t you know she has lost her family over this?
I’ve lost 10 brothers and sisters and, and a mother. My father is the only person who speaks to me in my family and he’s a full-blood Serbian man. The rest of my family do not talk to me.
And don’t forget she refuses to accept any help either!
I refuse to go to Aboriginal Housing to ask for a house. I refuse to go to the medical centre. I refuse to get any Aboriginal Government funding.
And she’s doing her bit to help other blak-feeling people.
...if these people that are coming up and telling me in my ear that, “Yeah, I’ve got a bit of black,” or “I’ve got a little…” If they, you know, are following their identity and, and thingo, we could be even a higher population.
Habib, I’d forgotten Les’ apt description, I had tears coming out of my eyes when I read it. I was thinking her rap would be more like this:
My name is Jaq,
don’t call me man,
found out I’m a darky
had to squeeze it outta gran.Won’t take a house,
Like to scream and fight,
Gonna fight black issues,
like turning off a light.Might just be a case where a full blood came up to her at a rally and said “got any blackfella in you?”
The rest was history….
BTW Jakalene is probably as Aboriginal as I am, my great grandmother on my fathers side was full Aboriginal. Yet I dont feel the urge to portray myself as oppressed, marginalised or (shudder) socalist.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 14 at 08:10 AM • permalinkJakky’s Rap ( tune Without Me- Eminem)
Guess whos black, jak x treme
Jakkys black, tell a friend
Guess who’s black, guess who’s black,
guess who’s black
Guess who’s black…na na na
Now this looks like a job for me
so everybody just follow me
and turn off your electricity,
cuz the light makes me look oh so whiteyPosted by eeniemeenie on 2007 03 14 at 08:31 AM • permalink#8
You have to laugh at the headlines on the Pommy newsrags here right now. Stuff like:
“Gordon Brown’s Plan to Save the Earth”
“David Cameron’s Planet Saving Airline Taxes”
I mean, if all the Poms drop what they are doing and climbed back in the trees, it would not make an ounce of difference.
They still think they control a third of the planet!
Hello Britain…knock knock…hello you stupid Pommy bastards…wake up…it’s no longer 1846!
TGGWS is certainly popular, however, it’s not popular enough and the argument lacks the momentum required to drown out the BBC/Murdoch propaganda machines.
OTOH, I’m firmly convinced that Brown and Blair are setting a trap for Cameron.
Cameron is too fucking stupid to see how badly he’s alienating his natural constituency.
My name is Jak
and I live in the back
of the Greta Garbo home,
with friends I will remember
wherever I may roamAnd my name is Jak
and I rap out the back
of the Greta Garbo home
for wayward boys and girlsWe love you Jak,
But don’t smoke the crack
at the Greta Garbo home
for wayward boys and girlsPosted by Whale Spinor on 2007 03 14 at 08:33 AM • permalinkIt has been proven to me time and time again, in today’s world all that is required for fame is a loud mouth that spews stupidity. This girl is a nitwit of the first order. Not only is she without talent, her ridiculous views are screeched with a shrillness that would make a banshee cringe. To achieve the ends she seeks she’d be much better off expending her energy to reform welfare and affect social change by motivating the teet-bound loafers to get an education/job. I work pretty dang hard for my money (as I am sure most of you do) and I am more than fed up with forking over way too much of my income to feed, house and intoxicate a multitude of freeloaders.
Looked in our diary tonight - my lefty SMH reading partner has actually written in for the 31st March “Turn off lights at 7.30pm”
I crossed it out and wrote “Turn on all lights at 7.30pm”
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 03 14 at 09:50 AM • permalink“JAKALENE:…I started doing my family tree, and .. that led me back to Nan in Melbourne, where she was sick in a nursing home and confronted her about ‘Are we black?’ And you know, got told yes. ...
“...if these people that are coming up and telling me in my ear that, ‘Yeah, I’ve got a bit of black,’ or ‘I’ve got a little…’ If they, you know, are following their identity and, and thingo, we could be even a higher population.”
Oh, yawn. Yet another self-appointed black urban activist. And every time not even original - hasn’t the “X” been done before, many decades ago in another country? Time to bring in the DNA testing.
We in NSW really do have a magnificent set of candidates and parties to choose from in the upcoming state election. Just what have we done to deserve them?
The US went through this a couple of decades ago, when it was trendy to claim you were part Indian (or Native American for the purists), usually Cherokee. Those Cherokees sure got around, btw.
The most egregious example was Cher, in her 80’s warbonnet phase, when in reality she’s more Armenian than anything else.
The modern US equivalent are those ridiculous little suburban white boys who wear baggy pants and sideways ballcaps, talk ghetto slang (you have to hear it from their mouths to believe it) and flash faux gang signs at each other. People like this are wannabes, and they’re pathetic, because it means they have absolutely no sense of who they actually are.
RebeccaH
I believe they are reffered to as “wiggers”, short for wannabe n*ggers.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 14 at 08:00 PM • permalinkUnfortunately Jakalene doesn’t really look “X-treme” to me. Her look is more “young suburban mum in the frozen food aisle at Woolworths”.
Time to work on your bling bling and hair extensions, girl!
Posted by blandwagon on 2007 03 14 at 08:26 PM • permalinkThe US went through this a couple of decades ago, when it was trendy to claim you were part Indian (or Native American for the purists), usually Cherokee. Those Cherokees sure got around, btw.
Um, yeah, they did:
This is a very complex subject because the Cherokee Nation once encompassed parts of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, western West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, western North Carolina, northern Alabama, northwestern South Carolina and northern Georgia.
The issue is further complicated by the infamous removal of the Cherokee to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears in the late 1830s.
During the 1800s and 1900s, there was much inter-marrying between Cherokee and non-Indian settlers which makes the genealogy research process even more difficult. Some Cherokee desired to retain their Native American lineage and others did not.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 03 14 at 09:07 PM • permalinkAt least Jak has a soul mate.
(I often wonder why Aboriginal society* embrace these poseurs and wanna-bes, whereas at least other ethnic minorities have enough pride in their geneology and culture to treat them with well deserved ignomy and contempt).
*I refer to the perpetual victim/sense of entitlement milieu, most of whom would be hard pressed to prove any actual heritage themselves; most tribal types I know refer to them as “coconuts”, being brown on the outside and white on the inside.
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In HK there is a similar campaign, except here its for 5 minutes, snigger.