No I'm not going to gloat about Obama's latest triumph. 10-0 pretty much speaks for itself. Hillary is toast and not even worth talking about right now. 
A few days ago I watch the Dame Dash produced documentary, Mr. Untouchable. When I was a preteen in the South Bronx, Nicky Barnes name rang out every where. He was THE ghetto rock star. Everybody knew somebody who had professional or personal ties to Barnes. After watching the documentary twice I decided to check out the DVD extras. There are interesting interviews with some of Barnes former associates, his lawyer, the informant that helped take him down and Thelma Grant, the mother of his two daughters.
His rationale for snitching is iffy. He cites the most pressing reason as being his fellow council member, Guy Fisher, screwing his favorite woman, Shameka. Nicky Barnes views himself as Machiavellian. Hell has no wrath like the fury of 'the king.' His crew left him for dead essentially after they realized he was never going to be released from prison. No money for lawyers. No respect for his word. When his main muscle refused to put Guy and Tito, the guy screwing Thelma, 'in the dirt', Barnes exacted vengeance. Okay. Everybody went down. Guy, Thelma, Tito, everybody. Shameka was murdered.
I was most struck by the audio special feature. There's no video, just Nicky rambling about his life and the people who have been a part of it. He insinuates that Guy Fisher is an open homosexual in prison and has a life partner. When he talks about Shameka is when he really reveals his crassness and coarseness. He disgustingly discusses her female anatomy. I'm surprised this was included. Shameka as shown in the documentary was indeed a very attractive woman. Nicky leaves nothing to the imagination as he asserts the attractiveness of every part of her. His description and tone were sort of shocking to me. I wonder if he knew this would be included. He expresses no real sorrow over her death acknowledging only that it was done to send a message to him as he prepared to testify against everyone he knew. In the documentary he discusses thug love as it pertained to Thelma. The talk of Shemeka is all about her beauty. In the audio portion its all about her vagina. He apparently showered her with expensive things and enjoyed sex with her a great deal. Maybe that's how thugs express love. Associates say as Shameka came on the scene, Thelma faded to the background. "You could see he really felt something for Shameka," the wife of a former associate says. Maybe you had to be there.
I was with Shameka the day before she got shot at the Dunbar. No joke..I am a Barnes myself.
Posted by: Barnes | July 08, 2011 at 07:23 PM