Archive for July, 2011

Ebony and Ivory Live Together… But Off-Key

Monday, July 18th, 2011

The following Facebook exchanges — with the weird period spacing and you’re/your violation — occurred between myself and a fan… an ex-fan. In my knowledge we had never conversed before.

Friday
Ex-Facebook Fan User: Have to drop you from facebook . Your just not funny . Try just being a full on militant or something . Or there is , of course always welfare .
Friday
W. Kamau Bell: Well, we had a good run. I’ll miss what we had together.
Friday
EFFU: Parting is such sweet sorrow my nubian prince .
Friday
W. Kamau Bell: Are you hitting on me?
Friday
EFFU: LOL Bastard . Now the laughs . Fucking black people .
Friday
W. Kamau Bell: Hopefully you have learned a valuable lesson. Good luck in everything you do.
Friday
EFFU: I have not and will never learn anything . Good luck to you as well . WHITEPOWER !
Friday
W. Kamau Bell: Fair enough. Then I hope you feel that you have accomplished what you wanted and also that you got what you needed from this.
Friday
EFFU: I SAID GOOD DAY SIR !

And then all was quiet for 48 hours until…

Sunday
EFFU: I miss you so badly . sigh

Laughter Against The Machine Wants to Make the World Better with Your Help.

Friday, July 15th, 2011

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For a couple years now we Laughter Against The Machinists (W. Kamau Bell, Nato Green, and Janine Brito) have been doing shows in Northern California with a few toe dips into the Pacific Northwest. Warm, familiar, liberal places (except Sacramento) where we were pretty sure most of the audience would welcome us with open arms (except Marin). But the time has come for us to leave our creature comforts and to put our money where our mouth is and wade into the most polarized quagmires in the US, the flashpoints of American ignorance and upheaval. To roam the country bringing humor to the people who need it the most, and trying to answer the age-old question: can they take a joke? Read More…

Get a FREE Download of my CD AND do some good!

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

So you wanted my critically acclaimed CD, Face Full of Flour, for a while now but the current economy has made it such that you couldn’t scrape together the ten bucks. Well, I understand so I have partnered with the awesome racial justice organization Colorlines to come up with a way for you to get my CD FOR FREE and do some good.

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It’s a win, win! I want you to have my CD. You want to have my CD. And we both want the world to be a mo’ better place. Enjoy!

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