Posted by Pete Chatmon

Obama’s Grandmother passed away one day before the election at 86 years old. The photo above is from a campaign speech he gave announcing the news.

Let’s bring this thing home.

Posted by Pete Chatmon

Pete Chatmon says VOTE! from Double 7 Film on Vimeo.

9am. November 3rd. In less than 24 hours the polls open.
Only one thing should be on your schedule for tomorrow: VOTE!

Email info@double7film.com with any pictures, stories, anecdotes, or concerns from your voting experience.

READ THE POST BELOW TO LEARN A ‘LIL MORE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF VOTING!!!

Posted by Pete Chatmon

We are working on a new documentary (that’s right!) and fully anticipate incorporating footage from 2008’s Presidential Election Day. We are asking the Double 7 World community (and it’s peoples) to participate and support our endeavor by documenting this momentous occasion with home video cameras and photography.

If you are holding an election night party or going to the polls, please take your camera or grab your camcorder. We urge you to document your experience and the experience of others and send them in. We welcome all opportunities to review and possibly include your story. Don’t just watch history in the making, be a part of it!

Please send any questions and/or election day footage to info@double7film.com.

Click HERE to learn more about the documentary we are working on about the GANG OF FOUR!

Posted by Pete Chatmon

This post falls under our newly minted REAL TALK category. No image, no video, just FACTS. I’m asking all of our Double 7 Worlders to take a few seconds and read the timeline below. For ANY amendment to be ratified to the Constitution, A LOT OF FIGHTING has to be done. The few points below illustrate just how important our rights are and just how RECENT they were actually awarded to us. DO NOT let the fighting of those who came before us become an exercise in futility.

– HISTORY OF AMERICAN VOTING: The history of voting in America is a story of ever-increasing voting rights. The rules for eligibility have changed substantially since America’s founding, and continue to change today. When America was young, only white males over the age of 21 were allowed to vote. Some of the landmark changes since then:

– BLACK SUFFRAGE: The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were passed following the Civil War, in the later 1860s. They outlawed slavery and extended civil rights and suffrage (voting rights) to former slaves. The LEGAL right to vote for African-Americans was established, but numerous restrictions kept many blacks from ACTUALLY voting until the 1960s Voting Rights Act.

3 More Important Points After the Jump!!!

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Contributed by Ayinde Howell

I wrote the following on Tuesday Oct 28th. On Thursday Oct 30th 2008 my Grandmother passed away. “Granny” Pauline Scott 1917-2008 Rest in Peace.

The Cycle of Life

I went to Baltimore to visit my mother and 91 year old grandmother over the weekend, my mom was in town from Seattle and not trying to come to NY so being the Good son I hopped the Chinatown bus (I recommend eastern travel) to the wasteland that is West Baltimore, I’m sorry if ur from there or live there but the police cameras above the blue lights abandon houses and hood so hood that white people ain’t even thinking about gentrifying it! that’s bad. anywayz I kicked it with moms, Granny and my ex crackhead (if there is a such thing?!) uncle. Granny Watch’s CNN all day keeping up with Baraak and Michelle and I remember her telling how to this day she would not set foot in a Cadillac because when they first were made (yes she was around before caddie’s) Black people were not allowed to buy Cadillac’s, “so I don’t want nothing to do with one” she says.

Born in 1917 granny has seen quite a bit from segregation, to Dr. King, JFK, having babies at the house, (yep no hospitals just 3 women in a room some hot water and sterile scissors. Granny remembers before Women earned the right to vote, she still calls black folks niggas and white folks crackers. I began to think about all the other 80 plus people with the opposite experience, people who remember when black people were Niggers not allowed to ride in Cadillacs, and pal around with white people and I think how equally deep that imprint must be on them. Like Granny these people are still allowed to vote! All the things Granny who is a great great grandmother says to me behind her closed doors are the exact opposite of what her white counterparts say to there children, and theirs children’s children across town.

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Posted by D7W

A well spent 3 minutes. Enjoy…

No photo. No video. Nothing.

I just watched the 30 minute infomercial from Obama and the speeches from President Clinton and Senator Obama @ the Florida midnight rally. We are witnessing something that does not often come along. I spent the majority of this speech shaking my head in agreement with the points made, the passion through which they were delivered, and was more moved and inspired about what we can become than I have been in a long time.

It all somehow just seems POSSIBLE.

BARACK OBAMA IS THE CHANGE WE NEED … but it cannot and will not happen if we do not exercise our right to vote like a muthafucka.

Real talk.

~ Pete Chatmon

Posted by D7W

Charles Stone is back with the characters that put him on the Budweiser map. Enjoy.

Posted by D7W

A welcome return. Hilarious…

Posted by D7W

We’ve been getting some emails about being all politics these last few days. Sorry folks, this is important! … but we get the point Check out John Woo, Wes Anderson, and Kevin Smith’s take on attack ads for the McCain/Palin campaign. Funny stuff…