Friday Rap

My new favorite Congressman..the gentleman from New York.  Wish Obama could express this kind of fire without paying the price for being Black...





Another peaceful outreach from one of our upstanding Christian ministers....The Reverend Terry Jones...he of the Dove World Outreach program....wants to mark the anniversary of 9/11 by burning a Quran.

That will teach them 1.4 billion muzlims, he says..that they can't knock down our buildings...

Great way to get their attention anyway.....what ever happened to sitting down over a cup of something and talking out our differences?

Oh...I forgot.....we bombed Iraq....mindlessly support Israel....and can't seem to get out of Afghanistan, while keeping our nukes pointed at Iran, another quagmire of our making...

Who needs the lesson...and who's the bad guy again?

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O-M-GEE!

Ellen and Kara leaving American Idol.....Following Simon out the door.....oh what a world...what a world!

Like we didn't already know it was a popularity contest anyway to see which shaggy haired sorta talented cute boy was going to win as voted by all the prepubescent 14 year olds with speed dial cell phones and text messaging...

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Chelsea Wedding

Chelsea's Clinton's getting married to the tune of $3 million and folks are hyperventilating about the cost....WHY? It's not taxpayer money....

This is not somebody's baby mama marrying a high school dropout while shopping a reality show deal, being celebrated here...

Chelsea never got caught misusing drugs or being drunk in public like a certain set of twins who occupied the white house... nobody batted an eye about that wedding down in Crawford, Tx...or how much it cost..

This is the only child of one of the most successful power couples in the known universe...and she's marrying a kindred spirit...

What is the problem?

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Obama snooping

One of my biggest problems with the Obama Administration is it's wholesale embrace of all things Bush when it comes to curtailing our civil liberties...We lost a lot of freedoms under the Bush Administration....

Obama campaigned saying he would restore them.....he has not...

In fact....he is asking that the powers invested in those National Letters that Bush used, to be expanded...

Bush used the National Letters ...which are nothing more than “no knock” search warrants without prior court approval.....to bully libraries into turning over lists of the books we read...bully banks into turning over private banking records...and phone companies to look at phone calls....

Now they want more power to go after all of our emails and web browsing history...

This from the man who said he wouldn't do this kind of stuff....When in fact...the death of our freedoms has speeded up under Obama..

The problem with expanding the powers of the Executive Branch is not with the President who made the expansion...it's the presidents who come after and refuse to relinquish the increased power and authority.

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BP Oil Spill

Is it just me.....or was there too much unfounded and overblown angst over the BP oil spill.....Mother Nature seems to have taken care of the problem pretty much...nothing's ever perfect..

Let's open the waters...why don't we....so the fishermen can get back to work …

On to the next blown out of proportion catastrophe..

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Feds take down two very rich white guys known for funding swift boat attacks on democrats...550 million dollars in fraud alleged....Read it here..

Given their age, bought and purchased political connections, as well as their natural complexion hidden under those Texas tans..they probably won't a spend a day in jail regardless of how many people they swindled..

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All the Right Moves

The GOP is filibustering aid to small business and health care to 9/11 responders...

This after holding up unemployment benefits to those out of work...calling them lazy and shiftless and telling them to get off their asses and go find a job...

Yet...they still think they are going to win in November....

hmmmmmmm..I'll take that bet...

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Al Jarreau..Shout out to Mr. Jarreau who was taken ill and had surgery this week. Get well soon....He is one of the nicest guys in the world who I was privileged to meet several years ago...

Drug Relief

The House voted today to narrow the gap between punishments for possessing crack cocaine vs powder cocaine. Obama is expected to sign it once it hits his desk in the next week or two.

The war on drugs should have been called the war on black men given the devastating effect on the Black community since the laws were enacted more than two decades
ago. Congress, led by President Reagan enacted the unfair legislation based on the lies that crack or rock cocaine was more addictive than powder cocaine.

This lie was coupled with another lie stating that those hooked on crack were more violent. There was no science backing up these beliefs, just raw emotion and bigotry, some
of which continues percolating today on Capital Hill.

Crack was cheaper, became a street drug. Powder remained the drug of choice for the upwardly mobile, primarily white community. But instead of busting them...they chose
to bust us....

Get busted with crack and you were sent to jail and the key to the cell was thrown away. Get busted with powder, you ended up with probation and community service and sent
home to write a book, once you got out celebrity rehab.

According to the United States Sentencing Commission, in 2008 80% of all offenders locked up, were Black. Just 10% were white. Powder cocaine offenders were 52%
Hispanic, 30% Black and 16% white. In 2010, those statistics have not changed much. Blacks and Hispanics are still being locked up disproportionately.

However, when the drug of choice was crack those convicted spent an average of 116 months in jail vs 91 months for powder cocaine users.

Despite knowing that there is no difference, essentially between powder and rock except for who can afford to buy it, Congress refused to totally do away with the disparities in sentencing. They narrowed the gap down from 100-1 to 18-1, meaning rock is going to draw a stiffer sentence...just not as bad as before.  Also means powder users will walk from jump, straight to celebrity rehab. 

Separate and unequal prevails...still...

The new bill also is not retroactive, so that those folks who got screwed and jailed are still screwed and will remain in jail. Those folks are primarily Black and Hispanic
nonviolent possession cases.

The big users and dealers continue to go free.

It is a step forward, one that President Obama could expand upon, by issuing a blanket pardon for those small time fish who got caught up, after he signs the bill into law sometime in the next couple of weeks.

But I'm not gonna hold my breath for that one.

However, I am grateful for the progress that was made today. 

Thank you, President Obama.

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

Shirley Sherrod lied and we can thank Jeffrey Lord for setting us straight......

Who is Jeffrey Lord, well he writes for The American Spectator and is a former Political Director in the Reagan White House, which means he is just this side of dead by now. However he still has enough life in him to roll out a convoluted defense of Andrew Breitbart and Fox News for their hatchet job on Sherrod.

You can read his column, here in its entirety. 

According to Lord, Sherrod lied about her relative, one Bobby Hall, who she said during her now infamous NAACP address, was lynched. Not so, says Mr. Lord. Bobby Hall was beaten to death by the County sheriff and his deputies with solid bar blackjacks and their fists, while he was handcuffed and defenseless. The beating went on for 20-30 minutes. The case went all the way the United States Supreme Court, and in their ruling cited by Mr Lord, the Justices agreed that Hall was beaten to death.

To bolster his argument Lord points out that all of the Justices, or most of them anyway were put on the court by that liberal jack-a-napes, FDR, including the lifetime membership KKK card carrying Justice Hugo Black.

Therefore Mrs. Sherrod is a bald faced liar who is attempting to stir up racial hostilities by invoking terrible lynching images. She should have told the truth and said her relative was beaten to death by a group of white police officers.

Why is it not a lynching? Well in most minds, including Mr. Lord's apparently, lynchings only happen when you string somebody up with a rope and choke the life out them after you've brutalized them in other ways. After all, we've got all kinds of pictures of some 4700 people hanging from trees or light posts in America.

However, the dictionary definition of a lynching is simply this: Putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law..

Don't need a rope to have a lynching. That is why the 1998 killing of James Byrd Jr, a Black man who was tied to the back of a truck and dragged to death is considered a lynching.

She did not lie. But then we knew that. And what the hell difference does it make if someone is beaten to death with iron bars or hung from a tree....Does it really...really matter?

Lord also takes issue with how Mrs. Sherrod described the killing of her father, as a means of questioning her veracity.

His senility really becomes apparent when he tries to defend Breitbart. According to Lord, it must have been some sort of mix up.

In other words, Breitbart had the tape and he edited it, creating two tapes...one good one and one bad one. Somehow this expert blogger...I refuse to call him a journalist....managed to post the wrong tape on his website...and....it was the wrong tape that was used to indict Shirley Sherrod.

Further, according to Lord, Fox News didn't know that Breitbart screwed up when they looped the wrong tape in their 24 hour cycle. It was all a mistake, no harm, no foul...especially since Shirley Sherrod and her Obama-lovin' ass is such a liar to begin with.

If she hadn't lied all this never would have happened. This old white guy swallows his foot even more when he says the only reason she worded her speech the way she did was out of her obsessive love for  Barack Obama. She was merely protecting him, like all good Black people do, along with  his liberal agenda.

So, it's all her own fault that she got fired....just like all this talk of racism and the stuff that happens to Black people is our fault as a people...we just love kicking ourselves in our  collective black ass...so we can stick it to the masters of the universe to make them look like big bad men.

Right!

Hey Homes, You Messed Up, Man-Another Open Letter to the President

You left that sista hangin', man. You didn't help her. In fact, you let your boys beat her up worse than those fools at Fox News. And, then when the shit hit the fan, man, you ducked, hid out in the White House and sent your mouth piece to talk for you, when you should've apologized personally, as soon as it turned around.

This lady runs deep in Civil Rights history, man. She has walked the walk all her life before you was Barack Obama. You messed up man. Messed up. Never should a happened in the first place. You didn't have her back, when you should have.

And now everybody's mad at ya.

But you know, I think some of it's our fault too. We expected so much of you. We assumed so much of you. We assumed you had our back, that when we called you “Homes” you knew what that meant.

You were honest, dude. You told us about how you was raised up. How your black daddy left your white mother to raise you in her world. You told the truth. You didn't try to fool nobody. We just saw what we wanted to see and made it happen. We got a Black President.

The thing is you look black, man, like your daddy, but you react to the world the way your mother taught you. You don't really know what it's like for black people in America, because you ain't never been there.

You been to Indonesia and around the world. You learned how to play hoops realistically, however if Reggie told the truth, he would probably say you play like a white boy, steady, effective, but no MJ flash.

Your journey leading up to this point took you through the white world, through the real Harvard instead of Illinois college of higher learning for Black men, otherwise known as the Cook County Jail. You spent more time with your mother's people than you have with us and it shows.

Look at any black looking person who has spent his or her life being the “fly in the buttermilk” and you will see a person who is not really comfortable around other black people. They can't help it, and neither can you. It's what they and you are used to. The internal understanding of Black America is simply not there.

You can sit down and share a beer with the Skippy Gates of the world. He is just like you, always reveling in the lack of black genes in his own gene pool. He looks black, but as he so often reminds..he's three quarters white. You seem to want to relate differently than Gates, but you don't know how. You are at least trying.

No disrespect, but you can't dance, man. You ain't got no rhythm, no moves, no empathy for your father's people. You weren't raised with black consciousness. Viscerally, you don't understand Blackness. You're like that wild animal rescued by humans, who can't be released back into the wild because he's never been wild or totally free in the first place.

When we put you in the White House, we figured you would have our back, that we could trust you to instinctively know things, black-things, and that finally there was a President who understood and would work it out for us, even while he was placating the man. No, we weren't looking for change overnight, far from it. As the godfather of soul said...we just wanted someone to finally open the door and let us in...we can serve ourselves.

We refused to believe, despite what you handed us by way of your cabinet and by the stances that you continue to take, that you not only work to placate the man...you are he and he is you.

No offense meant, Homes. You look like us, but you ain't us.

C'mon Homes, you know nobody really wants that chump change welfare check. You can't live off that shit.

We was expecting a massive program to put people to work immediately, not after you get out of office. You policies are worse than the voodoo economics of Reagan. We was already in deep doo-doo from Reagan and the mismanagement, lies and wars created by Bush the younger, and now you're putting stuff into place that you say will make things better...we just have to wait until 2014 or later...

2014 ain't gon be no middle class, or regular people, man just rich people and the poor who serve them.

Homes, we elected you because we like you, because you're smart, because you really are the best of America at this point in time.

But you got to do better. You got to stop flinching every time the Right fakes a sucker punch. You need to learn how to counter punch.

Rather than simply breaking bread with our people, you need to sit down on the stoop ….go visit the hood....go check out the unemployment lines....cop a seat at the welfare office and play with the babies.....talk to old black people....have you really listened to your mother in law...engaged her in a conversation about blackness, because if you have, it doesn't appear that you really heard her.

You've done a lot... accomplished a lot in a very short time and we really, really are proud of you.

But you're missing the big picture, Homes, and it may bring about early foreclosure and eviction from the beautiful big White House that you're currently renting and calling home.

It's not too late for change.

When Blackaphobes Attack

The country is entering day three of the Shirley Sherrod fiasco. Will she take the new job offered by Agriculture Secretary Vilsack? Is she okay with the apology by proxy of the President? Or will she demand a rose garden tea party at the White House with Vilsack and the Prez handling the pouring duty? Will they invite Andrew Breitbart, too? Or Roger Ailes of Fox?

Inquiring minds, really don't give a damn at this point.

Personally, I'm drained by this story. I was tired and looking for something else to occupy my mind by late afternoon yesterday, right after the “I'm sorry” press conference with Gibbs doing the presidential mea culpa.

So first thing this morning, during my search for other news, I stumble across this...Black man who has a problem with the Black National Anthem. The official title as we all know is “Lift Every Voice” written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson.

You can read the story here.

For the record, the poem was written in 1900 to honor the birthday of Abraham Lincoln and to introduce Booker T. Washington during a segregated school gathering of children.

This step n fetchit doesn't have a problem with the song, per se. He has a problem with calling it the Black National Anthem. Says it never refers specifically to Black people with its uplifting message. In fact, he says, you can apply it to all races and should.

He comes right out and says, the song should not be called The Black National Anthem because it prevents “racial cohesiveness.” He attacks as if something uplifting and good can't just be Black...it also has to be white, too, in order to be acceptable. He questions whether it should have been used at Obama's inauguration, where it was quoted by one of the Reverends in attendance.

He also says Martin Luther King would not be happy with calling it The Black National Anthem, either.

Obama himself doesn't know the words to the song...saw him and his wife attempt to sing it one time on TV...... most Blacks living today don't know it either..They recognize the music...but nobody knows the words anymore...

Yet, for some reason, CNN chooses to put this story on its online front page today...Why?

Is this some not so subtle coded message to screen our songs and gospels hymns because they might scare white people some more and therefore make them less amenable to “racial cohesiveness?”

My questions is...what DON'T we do that doesn't scare white people?

Why all the attacks on Blackness?.... to make it look like we're the ones who have the problem...you know...that “racism” problem....like we invented that “racism” problem....It's our music...it's our hair..it's the way we dress...it's the way we talk....it's the way we do our jobs when dealing with white people......or the neighborhoods where we choose to live....or the way we interpret the bible...on and on and on....

We may have a “reactionary” problem.. an inbred genetic tic, so to speak....as in we are forced to live our lives “reacting” to whatever white people throw at us and fear from us....We've grown up learning how to literally dodge bullets, mentally and physically...

You know what I'm tired of.....I'm tired of having to neuter my blackness to make white people feel more comfortable in their own skin....I'm tired of having to be the one to change within a system not of my making, that was stacked against me at inception...

I'm tired of being told that I'm the broken one inside that system....I'm tired of being told this is not my country....

I'm tired of being told that my attitude is bad, because I don't accept my place in second place, ten paces behind.....

I'm tired of being told to wait for it, because racial cohesiveness is just around the corner, and the proof of that is because “we put a Black man in the White House.”

What's this “we” shit kemo-sabe? White people elected Obama...let's get that out....And yes, 90% of Black people voted for him, too. Me, included.

But 90% of all the Black people in this country don't amount to enough votes to send Obama to DC..

So we have the Black man in the White House that white America wanted, and given his current track record with Black America...ya'll should be dancing a happy jig with the job he is doing on us....

Black-a-phobes...both Black and White versions.....are busy running away from Blackness in fear...that it will change their world....

But then again...isn't that what they said they wanted when they elected Obama?

Change?

Still waiting....

What's Worse Than N*****

Okay, so the Tea Party Federation has expelled the much larger Tea Party Express Group because it refused to fire the bigoted Mark Williams, the guy who's been figuratively talking in black face with the likes of Abraham Lincoln, no less.

Williams was set off by the now infamous NAACP resolution calling teabaggers a racist organization, and like all bigots over-reacted big time to the resolution.

He resorted to using the term “coloreds” in his diatribe this time around, rather than the term “nigger” since he proved he couldn't spell it on his tea bag rally placard (Williams spelling-niggar)


Canning Williams and his bigoted bunch is just a start. There is still the problem of Rush, Glen, Mike, Ann, Laura, Sarah, Tom, Mitch, Michelle, Michelle...well you get the picture..

These “leaders” should also be disavowed if the Tea Party is seriously looking to eject racists and attract Blacks and other minorities...that is if you're serious about bipartisanship...which I truly doubt...

Oh, I know there is a rally in the works called Uni-Tea...catchy...it's a rally scheduled for next month to bring white teabaggers and black teabaggers together into the open air to hold hands and sing Kumbyaa for all the world to see....

But Uni-Tea seems nothing more than a tribal conversation among like minded individuals...what about reaching out...

I also have my doubts because you're not really a nebulous grass roots organization that you pretend to be either...too many corporate, right wing rich people calling the shots....Dick Armey, Lyn Cheney or Virginia Thomas ( uncle Clarence's wife) ring a bell?

And there is that other sticking point.....All this talk about “taking back your country..”

That one phrase is the most racist thing that you folks keep saying...over and over and over again...like it's true...

I can handle being called a nigger better than I handle hearing that phrase coming out of your mouth every time you open it to speak...

If you “take back your country” what about the rest of us...

Want to stop all the talk of racism.....white privilege...get others to listen to your side of the story...then drop the bullshit about it being “your country”

It ain't......never was.....never will be..

Friday Rap

The ink ain't even dry on the parchment yet and already the orange colored peril is wiping his ass with it. Talking about John Boehner calling for repeal of the Finance Reform Law as soon as it was approved by the Senate.

Boehner even arrogantly stated that when he is Majority Leader next year, everything President Obama has accomplished will be rolled back.

Why? Because the people don't want it, he says.

What people...didn't talk to me...and last I heard there is an election coming in November.. and Boehner's seat is on the auction block...

I don't realistically expect him to lose his seat considering where his home district is located in Ohio..no minorities in his area...or women who think for themselves...so he is safe having won nomination in the primary by 85% of the GOP vote...

Personally, I'm happy Financial reform is being put in place....I'm happy Healthcare reform will mean that I can now get health insurance being one of those folks with a pre existing condition...

I like the Ledbetter equal pay act, guaranteeing that women will finally be truly compensated for their work...

I like that DADT is on its way to being repealed...and that the Hate Crimes Bill was strengthened...and that LGBT senior citizens are now being recognized as people....

I like the tax breaks going to the middle class instead of the wealthy in hopes they will trickle down jobs for those who don't have them...

I like credit card reform.....I like stem cell research.....I like that BP is being made to clean up its mess in the Gulf.....

I like the fact that President Obama is cracking down on business which ships jobs overseas...they are losing their tax breaks going forward...means corporate America must make jobs here in America for Americans...

I like that Goldman Sachs has to pay back some money in penalties for lying to the people..

I like that Financial reform means no more Bank Bailouts paid for by taxpayers.

I like the fact that the country is pulling out of Iraq and is dialing it down in Afghanistan....

That's a helluva track record after only a year and a half in office...

So, who is the Congressional Oompa Loompa talking about when he says the people are not happy? Besides teabaggers, that is...

Must be the folks who gave him $890, 321 this cycle to talk shit..

People like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Home Depot, Wendys, Walmart, Walt Disney....to name a few...

You can read the top 100 list of Boehner leash handlers here...

If you live in Ohio then you will recognize the likes of American Financial (Lindner Family), Duke Energy, and Castellini (owners of the Cincinnati Reds)

Boehner officially raked in 1197 contributions of $200 or more this cycle...that's a lot of drinking money...

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Run Sarah Run

Personally, I hope Palin runs for president in 2012....She of big ambitions and overwhelming arrogance is slowly revealing her desire to move into the White House...like we hadn't already seen the lights in her eyes at the possibility in 2008..

Her SarahPac is raising money like crazy. She's hired advisers to keep her feet out of her mouth when she speaks...note to adviser-guys...you're not doing a very good job....need to improve...

She's apparently made a pact with the devil in the form of Levi Johnston to make an honest woman of his baby mama, so grandma Sarah won't have to deal with any snow-billy drama come election time..

Palin's reaching out to minorities by proclaiming that her husband is interracial and therefore we should cut her some slack since she has “one” in her family, too...

In fact....she only has two problems that I can see.....She quits or runs away when it gets too hot in the kitchen...

and.....There's that “brain” thingey.....It's tough being president or running for president when space between your ears is empty...literally....

But then all those advisers she now has on staff have probably convinced her that all she needs to do is to rely on them...they will do her thinking for her..

After all...worked for eight years for Dubya, right...

Question is....what self respecting macho GOP guy is going to play Cheney to Palin's Bush?..or can she draft Todd as Vice President?

Maybe the GOP will give us the dream ticket.....Palin/Bachmann Overdrive....bitchin!.

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Vonetta McGee...1945-2010

I fell in love when I saw the movie MELINDA, the crush continued through The Eiger Sanction, Blacula, The Mack...

RIP, Ms McGee

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Teabagger Smackdown

Anybody who has read me knows that I have no love for the NAACP, however better late than never they finally spoke up about the teabaggers. The group may not be made up of all racists...but until the group stops allowing the Tom Tancredo's of the world to keynote their sessions and speak for them in the media...they will be labeled racists....

You are known for the company that you keep....

Mouth of Teabagger Talks

Goes on the attack against racist Black people, puts NAACP in their place...

“Here we have the Tea Party, one of the nation’s most organic, Athenian, democratic movements, being attacked by a political organization—the NAACP—that is among the most sclerotic, dinosaurian, and cadaverous of America’s political groupings.

Colored: Who the heck says that in the America of today, unless you’re a very, very old friend of the late highwayman (as in dedicated asphalt, not armed robbery) Robert C. Byrd? Which is why no member of this once-courageous black organization will spell out its full name. Everyone says, instead, “N-double A-CP”: To elongate the abbreviation is to expose oneself to derisive—or, worse, baffled—inquisition. (“Dad, Mom, what’s with the ‘colored’ thing?”)”-Tunku Varadarajan writing in The Daily Beast

Uhhhhhhh....Tunku, darling....Black people are Americans...Americans, both Black, white and other, shorten everything...not because they are ashamed...but because it is the American Way....

Hence....NCAA, or National Collegiate Athletic Association becomes....N C 2A....or Congress for Racial Equality becomes, CORE.....The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People becomes....N-A-A-C-P in old Black peoples' parlance and N double A C P in younger peoples' talk..It is a matter of speed when talking....not embarrassment...

There is a difference between writing a name and speaking a name...and that is what this really is all about...

When fake conservatives don't have a valid response, they kick up peripheral bullshit to cloud the air and sap off the energy of the people attempting to find real information and debate...

This peripheral bullshit should be ignored...but I got nothing to do today, so I'll give Mr Varadarajan a couple of minutes of my time and waste some space on another phoney intellectual...You can read him here..

There is no need to feel bad about the word “colored” ….there are worse words out there to be concerned about...

Hell, I'm colored officially according to my very American and government issued birth certificate..right there in black and white ink...written on a typewriter above the red officially embossed seal....”Colored”...parents...both “colored”....

Maybe not heard as often..as nigger...for instance...but still in rotation and heard periodically...

Instead of looking at the NAACP argument, Varadarajan proceeds to attack the organization...Dismissing the argument as a way of climbing into the headlines by being falsely hysterical...This old accusation dates all the way back to 1619...

Black people have been told since slavery that we should be beholden to white people for rescuing us from Africa....this is being resurrected today by the revisionists of which Varadarajan is one...

We should be grateful because they always take care of us and provide for us whether it be in slavery or in welfare, or in the prison system or public school system....

And any insults from lynching on down to spitting on our person is usually always a figment of our very active imagination...just like the insults and signs and guns of the Tea Party movement...

It's not racism....it's us....It's always been us.....white people good....black people bad!

According to Varadarajan, the Tea Party is an Athenian or “god-like” organization....not political like the N double A Colored People organization.

For those needing definition...Athena was a Greek God in their mythology..whenever pseudo scholars want to compliment something or someone, or bolster their bogus arguments, they compare them to the Greek and Romans gods, said to represent the highest classical attainments of white man society ignoring which continent the Greeks stole their “civilization” from...

Besides....it's Obama's fault that Black people are still suffering according to Varadarajan...the NAACP isn't attacking the real root of their problem because he is one of them...

In other words...”we has seen the enemy and it is us” so to speak...

And there in lies the big problem in America....We've got a Black man in the White House causing trouble..as Black men always do..

Got to get him out...quickly....take back our country and return “our” people to sanity...

Right?

So Much S***, Can't Wait for Friday

Another one Bites the Dust....

After dithering around for weeks on end building up the suspense, the twice divorced Governor of Hawaii stood tall in defending the sanctity of heterosexual marriage and vetoed the same sex marriage proposal that was wilting on her desk....

This, as a judge in Boston declares the Federal Defense of Marriage Ban...DOMA for those who like acronyms.....unconstitutional...

His reasoning...the Federal ban interferes with states rights...

And the beat goes on....doobie doobie do...the beat goes on........

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Meantime...down in Loosiana...Little Bobby Jindal took time out from haranguing the Feds about the Gulf oil spill to sign a measure allowing all his good Christian buddies to carry guns in church...

I'm still trying to figure why someone who claims to be Christian needs to carry a gun in the house of their Lord...

Maybe it's so the Christian men can protect themselves from all the women pissed off because Governor Bobby also signed a measure banning insurance plans from carrying riders to pay for abortions and birth control pills for women....ya think....

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The tanning tax is Reverse Racism....Huh?

Some white people are upset because they say only white people who want to look like John Boehner have to pay the tanning tax at salons and that does not afford them equal protection under the law and is therefore violating their constitutional rights....WTH?

First off.....there is NO SUCH THING AS REVERSE RACISM....DOES NOT EXIST...look up the definition of racism and get back to me.....

Now....

Repeat after me....Or for those of you who can write...take out your chalkboard and write this down....

Here are some examples of racism....... African Slave Trade (no Texas, not the Triangle Trade) Slavery...Jim Crow...White Flight....Redlining......forced to fight in wars for a country that refuses to recognize your humanity......lynching parties to prevent people from voting....hanging chads in Florida.....Stolen votes in Ohio....

Using vouchers to kill the public school system..... Teabaggers......threats of physical violence against America's first Black President and his family....openly seditious statements by right wing bloggers, radio and TV announcers and so called pundits.....carrying guns in public....

being shot 55 times as you exit a club the day before you're due to get married and having the cops who pulled the trigger be exonerated, and the one who shot and reloaded 31 of those 55 lethal bullets, sue the family of the dead man because he said he got hurt in the process of executing their loved one, who was not carrying a weapon of any kind.....

Glen Beck's “I have a scheme” fake ass rally in DC next month...his bigoted attempts to insert himself into the civil right movement of Blacks is overwhelmingly offensive and racist...

Arizona...the whole fucking state....

the refusal of the federal government to give me my 40 acres and a Volvo (don't need no damn mule) okay I'm kidding...

Nobody makes you be Black, people...Nobody makes you patronize a tanning salon...

When you're poor, you make due.....so jump into your SUV drive to Walmart...buy yourself a spray bottle...some orange dye and DIY....presto...you're an Oompa Loompa.....

Altogether now (pretend you're Sarah Jessica Parker)...SING!....”the sun a come out too morrow...bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow...there'll be sun........2 morrow! 2 morrow! I love you, 2morrow...you're only a daaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy aaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!”

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Rush Lump-ass

Will some conservative please explain to me how the so called Obama manufactured recession is payback for historic white racism?

I know Obama's good...he's damned intelligent....but I'm still trying to figure out how he got this recession going on in America and he wasn't in office when the shit hit the fan...

Even if he somehow is Barack the magic negro and worked a spell on America...

My second problem is that Black people and minorities are still holding the shit end of the stick...do we look happy at how things are going in the country...Are we all employed and making 20 million dollars a year to talk stupid stuff while our collective ass grows ever larger, on the radio?

Can we afford all the hill billy heroin we want without twisting the arms of our live in maids?

Just askin'

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Lady Sarah...

Don't know what to think about this woman...she's got this bestiality thing going on, always invoking analogies to huge and dangerous animals....

Now she is talking about Mama Grizzlies and how all her conservative women folk are like bears...

Last time somebody called me a bear I was ready to kick their ass....

And....does Sarah realize that a female bear is called a Sow...as in pig...

So...in effect the girl is now a self avowed pig.... so go ahead and slap on that lipstick, girl!

Ya'll need to stop talkin amongst ya selves and pick up a book....inbreeding, non diverse activity of a singular race....makes you stupid....

Equinox Cincinnati Pride Aftermath

Mayor Mark Mallory led off the parade. Earlier he'd walked down the sidewalk toward Sentinel where the session was forming through a totally oblivious crowd.

He was just another Black man in a suit, walking with a guy dressed in yellow. No body guards, nothing to indicate that the Mayor of the Queen City was among us.

It would have been nice to see a placard on the side of his car, telling those who didn't know...and seemingly most didn't, who the man in the convertible was......

Jim Tarbell, who is now running for Hamilton
County Commissioner and Congressman Steve
Driehaus also took part in the parade, while
every other local politician managed to be
somewhere else on this festive day..

There were no protesters in evidence which was a marked change from past celebrations. Did see one tall thin Black man dressed head to toe in hot black wool, it looked like. He was turbaned with a black scarf to cover his face, standing in front of the Fountain with a massive and very worn copy of what appeared to be a Bible of some kind. He was just standing there, doing a slow motion twirl, seemingly trying to decide whether or not to approach anyone. He never did while I watched him.


"Queers!" erupted from the mouth of one homeless guy talking to another as I crowd watched. It wasn't bigotry, it was more like a guy trying to make his deaf companion hear above the noise and the word Queer was the shorthand to understanding. Once understanding was reached the pair decided to take their naps this day in Lytle Park.

The overwhelming feeling of this pride was how normal and non controversial it turned out to be. The parade was fun, and the people were there for a good time. The crowd was mixed, singles, couples, couples with dogs and families with kids....looked like any other holiday in America...and that was cool...

Entertainment kicked off the Cincinnati Mens Chorus, followed by a Janis Joplin sound alike, local great Tracey Walker, another singer, obviously a crowd favorite whose name I don't know and finally the lady everyone was waiting for....Deborah Cox...who did not disappoint...Lady can sang....no lip sync...all voice...all real....Beyonce...Janet...Gaga...take note...real pipes cannot be replaced with studio magic...

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Cincinnati Pride

(Friday Rap will return next week)

Cincinnati is coming out of the closet this weekend like a drunken GOP congressman caught driving his boyfriend home after a night at the bar.

It's Pride Weekend in Cincinnati! Happy Pride!

Of course it wouldn't be Pride without some cat fighting and controversy.

The activities being moved downtown has some upset...Well girlfriends....it's supposed to be downtown...that is where it began in 1973.....Downtown...on Fountain Square.....where everyone...the entire city was invited to join in....Cumminsville....OOPs!....Northside....was the backup plan...

If the bar owners of “Northside” wanted it to stay in “Northside”....they should have jumped in and taken over the Pride organization when the Community Center said it could no longer do the parade and festivities..

As it were....The rich white guys of the Gay of Chamber of Commerce stepped in, and you know, the only stage they want to showcase their fabulous-ness on is on the main stage.....and in Cincinnati...that is Fountain Square....

Others are pissed off that the rich guys have not included enough diversity...In fact I read an interview with the HWGIC who admitted as much...not enough diversity and we will do better next year he said...

Well, it's always next year for diversity....after hearing that lame bullshit for 40 years now...I turn a deaf ear and just get my own party on anyway....I've said it before....the LGBT community is no more inclusive than the still nearly all white patriarchal society that continues to rule America...even with a Black guy in the White House....

It is changing....but not yet....

Now that Cincinnati is truly growing up...maybe the Black LGBT community can stop hiding and get together like Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, and Los Angeles to name a few....and put on their own Pride Celebration...Black Pride in these cities usually happens simultaneously with it's paler and more official version...

Everyone goes to the same parade...but then it's we party ova heah with family and friends, ribs, kool aid and potato salad, ya'll ...while the white folks go to the bars and pub crawl and get drunk...

Black Pride celebrations...especially the one in Chicago reminds me of the Black Family Reunion...just a little more festive...so to speak...

Frankly....I'm a little confused about the slam of not enough activities for poor gay people to take part in....HUH!...what's the fukin parade and festival? Nobody is charging admission to stand on the street...There is a whole weekend of stuff happening on the Square...free....

I don't see anything wrong with having a Ball or big dance...Fabulous Fun...something to look forward to...save your pennies...buy new shoes....dance the night away! Fun!....

The world does not revolve around poor people.... It doesn't give a damn about middle class people even.....hasn't this current economic recession taught ya'll anything?

The point is to have fun this weekend and to remember the drag queens at Stonewall who stood up and put their asses on the line so that rest of us would no longer have to worry about getting our heads busted in just because...

So...Quityerbitchin and Dance!

Now Stand up for the National Anthem!

Happy Pride!