Ghetto Girl Blue Blog — Ghetto Girl Blue Blog
The Art of the Mack: Legacies Lost in Translation
Perhaps, in the wake of public scandals regarding famous Black Men, we should consider that history is being written here. There are lots of famous White men, who have done dastardly deeds, yet their art still sells for millions. Yet, some of the greatest achievements in American entertainment history have been made by men who will be remembered as rapists, pedafiles and drug addicts.
Take for example Walter Richard sickert, whose art piece Nude before a Mirror, Fitzroy Street has an estimated value of $80,000 or so. I know. Who...
A 10 O’clocker’s Words of Wary (Poetry by Jessica Holter)
Certain words make me nervous
like nervous
which creeps down my spine and spreads through my body
infecting all my senses, as nerves are created to do
As a child, I was a 10 O’clocker
Too smart for whatever was being taught
from eight O’clock in the morning, until the first recess
I spent my mornings at The Electric Company
assuming it was somewhere near Sesame Street
where they seemed to have a lot of things
that did not belong there, like me
“One of these things is not like the others
One of these things just doesn't...
The Crack in Our Line by Jessica Holter (Ghetto Girl Blue)
The Crack in Our Line
Come with me as I backslide
to someplace far back in time
when rappers were griots
storytelling urban deities
making bootstraps of rhyme
Welcome to the other side
Before the female fall from grace
into the great crack in our line
that put our sisters on their knees
stole our grandmother’s wings
spoiled the fruit of our wombs
filled our breasts with poisoned powder
before the World found us complicit
in the crimes against us
Before the crack in our line
that...
Birds of a Feather - Why is your name on the Lolita Express Manifest?
id·i·o·mat·ic (idēəmadik) | adjective 1. using, containing, or denoting expressions that are natural to a native speaker. i.e "Birds of a feather flock together."
So um, ok, I know most of us are distracted by the lockdown. So, I just wanted to make a quick blog to get y'all up to speed on what should be the most historic Sex Trafficking Take Down of all time.
THIS BLOG IS ABOUT JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND THE BIRDS HE FLOCKED WITH
I am going to start with a Timeline on Accused and Convicted Pedophile & International Sex Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein
2005: When Jeffrey...
Sinister Convictions II: Private Ownership of American Bodies (A Ghetto Girl Blue Blog Post)
Sinister Convictions II
Private Ownership of American Bodies
Hi this is Jessica, sharing thoughts that may matter to you. It has been 10 years since I visited the subject of the ever-expanding prison system. Let us see where we are in 2020. ~ Ghetto Girl Blue