Word: disrespective
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...BOOK No Disrespect...
Sister Souljah's voice is loud, vibrant and swaggering in its self-confidence. In her autobiographical first book, No Disrespect, she declares, instructs and makes no excuses for where she has been and who she is. Beginning with her childhood in the projects, she sketches her life, keeping the "essence as true as human memory will permit...
...Disrespect complicates the public perception painted by then-Presidential-nominee Bill Clinton and the media of the woman who suggested that "Blacks take a day off from killing each other and kill whites." Souljah uses the book to reclaim and define her context, one we rarely see up close--what life looks and feels and smells like from inside the concrete buildings of public housing projects, even once those buildings have been physically left behind...
Each of the characters in No Disrespect is featured in a chapter. They are all functional in their roles as exemplars of the problems facing the black community. Souljah's mother's strength and spirit are sapped by a demeaning welfare system. Her roommate, Mona, is revealed to be a lesbian, opening up a veiled political discussion of female homosexuality in the Black community. While each of these character types is familiar, included in the story for political reasons, Souljah reveals just enough of their thoughts and actions to make them human...
...politicized music, there is little room in No Disrespect for human frailty and indecision in her vision of herself. Souljah touches self-consciously on many of the social, political and psychological issues that keep Oprah and Ricky on top in the ratings. She is brutal and exacting in her account of man-sharing; forgiving and indulgent of the friend who collects abortion money from her stable of men to fund a shopping spree; passionate in her love of Nathan, her "strong Black man," but callous in her dismissal of him when imperfection challenges his masculinity. Souljah is overly political, impassioned...