TRIO Twenty-three: Raheem

G21 Staff Writer

Palace Coup

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - Yeah, you read it right on Rod's page, Homes. There's gonnah be some changes around here at the GENERATOR 21.

[Photo= Bust of the Roman Emperor Caligula. --- Ed.] You see, me and some of the writers got to talking, and there was one thing we could all agree on. Especially after reading his "confession" about the model for this magazine being the film "Network," it was clear to us that our former Managing Editor, Rod Amis, was trying to make this here rag all things to all people. His entire model was built on bringing the greatest possible number of people to see us every day. By my thinking, as you've read in this space before, that was too broad a mandate for one little web magazine to assume.

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Besides, again in my opinion, there are too many electronic magazine's out there filling that particular slot: you got Word, you got Salon, you got Suck, Slate, and Feed.

So we took us a vote, you see, and decided that what the World Wide Wait really needed was a more specialized magazine. We needed to target just one audience segment and stick to that. And I figure I'm just the man for that kindah chore. So say good-bye to Rodney and his Big Tent and welcome to the new regime at the GENERATOR 21: All Black, All the Time!

From now on you're gonnah see a lot more Oaktown and a lot less San Fran in these pages. I'm gonnah bring in the Wayans Brothers as my new editorial assistants. Yeah, the Minister Louis Farrakhan is gonnah be my promotional director. We gotten start advertising Bean Pies instead of some old okie-doke software. Old Dirty Bastard is gonnah be in charge of the new Gangsta music section. All the other writers are fired except Jeff Winbush. Starting Sunday, with the next issue, "Queen of the Swamp Boogie," ain't nobody writing here who can't pass the at-least-80%-Negro blood test. We gonnah have

• a Bob Marley Righteous Ganjay page,
• a Booty Call page,
• an Awesome Sensual Lips page,
• an Advice for Tired Negroes page,
• a Yo' Mama/Dozens page,
• a Mackin' page,
• Nawlins, Dee-troit, Harlem, Watts & Oaktown pages,
• a Laquita the Root-worker page,
• Places-To-Hang-Once-You-Get-Outtah-the-Joint page, and
• an I-kicked-Mike-Tyson's-ass page.