Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Bsi 2,059.86 +13.49 +.65%

Good for the Secret Service for taking the Obama poison pen inauguration threat seriously. Still, Somali militant factions drumming up the case to get rivals in trouble can't be good for our index.

Talk about black on black crime, damn. Now you got the Secret Service on your ass.

BUY

BlackRoc

Black Keys + Hip Hop. Yes please.

SELL

Plains, Georgia

President Obama is found hung in effigy in former President Carter's hometown.

Great, something else for the Secret Service to deal with.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Bsi 1,352.95 +41.23 +3.05%

The market responds positively to news that the Writers Guild of America will be picketing the opening of Tyler Perry's new studio Saturday.

Live better. Work Union.

Perry has amassed a fortune catering to the black audience while refusing to compensate his African-American writers at union standards. Perpetuating an already malignant wage discrepancy between writers of color and their white counterparts. Saturday's action will be a step in the right direction.

WINNERS

George Tillman, Jr. (GT2) 6.52 +1.19 +18.25%

Tillman hasn't directed a movie since 2000's "Men of Honor", but if the trailer for "Notorious" is any indication, now's the time to buy.

LOSERS

Black Bluesmen (XRDS) 3.21 -.94 -22.65

Bo Diddley. Dead. Muddy Waters. Dead. R.L. Burnside. Dead. All the blues done gone. So much so that the best blues band around is made up of two guys from Akron, OH.

Not that there's anything to be ashamed of, as these Junior Kimbrough acolytes have found a way to make the music vital again. It's just damn good music.

What, you say you don't know Junior Kimbrough? What kind of negro are you?