So, now what's next. We have Glen Beck University where you can go an get your pseudo conservative, so called non racist cred on, complete with diploma suitable for framing. Is the Glen Beck virtual online crystal cathedral next for the shock jock?
He already has enough acolytes, if his “I have a scheme” rally from this past Saturday is any indication. A CBS head count said there were 87,000 people in attendance. But Beck and company were pushing the number closer to half a million or 500,000 if you like zeros, and feeding the lie that the main stream media would downplay the true numbers, no matter what.
Whatever...there were a lot of people there....and it wasn't political, unless you count the appearance of a certain Snowbilly from Alaska braving the heat in the lower 48.
Note to Glen and Lady Sarah....since Sarah was half a governor....a vice presidential nominee...and is now playing kingmaker during the current political campaign season....you can't say your FOX funded rally and your appearance at said rally is not political.
Note to MG...Sarah, dahling...every day that you wake up is political....when you go for a run...it's political...your down syndrome baby is political....your baby momma-kid on Dancing with the Stars is political....your son in the military....who you trot out when convenient, is political.
I would quote Shakespeare, that old....Rose is a rose...happy horse pucky....but I doubt Momma Grizzly has heard of the Bard of Avalon. (note to Snow-Bard is another way of referring to good ole Will )
Good ole Beck has found god, apparently, and he wants to bring him to America with an office in the White House right next to the Oval Office, complete with yea or nay say on legislation....Saturday's gathering in Abraham Lincoln's lap was an old fashioned tent revival, the likes of which would have made Sister Aimee Semple McPherson proud.
Elmer Gantr- er Beck....was pacing and talking and talking and pacing...the only thing missing was the long unruly locks of hair that Burt Lancaster used to punctuate his Gantry portrayal in the movie....and every sentence segue way started and ended with god.....Whose god.....well....let's just say it wasn't the dark skinned Muhammed or even a loving, all inclusive tanned and curly haired Jesus of the bible, who was being invoked on Saturday.
These folks are still stuck on white man jesus, that hangs in every black church in America.
I'll be honest....I kept waiting for Maceo to run in from the wings with one of James Brown's old capes and throw it on him, so he could throw it back, grab the mic and implore the crowd to “git it on the good foot, good gawd! Uhn!”
And it was a visibly multi racial gathering this time. Beck was able to con a number of black coo-, uh conservative preachers, bent on keeping the Black community ignorant and locked in the 18th century to come onstage with him.
Beck even materialized a King...as in Martin Luther....to come, too. Only it was Alveda King....I think she is a reverend.....she's another one who misreads the Bible and doesn't understand what Jesus said. Her website preaches that prosperity gospel of grab all you can, so you can buy your way into heaven....unlike Jesus who was about owning no possessions and living off the kindness of strangers.... Given the way she butchered the reading of her uncle's “I have a dream speech,” she is probably an undiagnosed dyslexic or not comfortable with teleprompters, that tool of the devil and democrats.
But what really ticked me off was her attempt to get white people to sing “Lift Every Voice.” That was an absolute embarrassment...If you were gonna go there...why not get some crowd participation chanting going on with “say it loud, I'm black n I'm proud.”
It was a travesty that mocked the very legacy that this woman claims is hers by birth, and gives credence to the lie that the rally was not political or an attempt to hijack the civil rights movement...If it wasn't a hijacking...why invoke MLK at all.....
As we say in the ghetto...ya'll know ya'll was lyin'.....
Note to Alveda (I will not call you reverend, because you are just as much of a shyster as the Shock Jock) It's not the name or the legacy that makes you great...it's what you do with that name and your actions that elevate you. We don't need you to interpret the words of your uncle and your aunt, because their words are carved indelibly on our hearts.
You can't change their words or their meaning, no matter how many times you try. And don't think we didn't notice that direct insult and slap in the face to Coretta Scott King...She was his wife, whether you like it or not.
Rest assured, baby girl...if Jesus does comes back...he won't be looking for you or your boy, Glen. So take a seat and try to be quiet until Rapture time.
So, now what? The problem for people like Becky is that the next stunt has to be bigger than the last.
So, is walking on water next? Or some miracle cure?
What cha gonna do, Reverend Becky.....pray the ignorance out of the snow-billy and her/your followers?
Now, that is one miracle I would tune in to see....
8.27.2010
Friday Rap
Whut I did fer Sumer Vakation
by
John G. Bigott
Now I no whut it means when folks say “dawg daise of sumer.” Jeez itz hott!. Maid the tics on my dawg Bull Conor jump right offin his back n go unnergroun to keep cool. I got my bes sunburn this sumer when I got to go to my furst protest rally in R-rizona whur I waz away vistin fambly. Ya see ma unkle is the shuriff and he don' cotton to no Mexcans in his town. Hiz town is only for good pipple and good imigrants, u no, the onez hoo look like us n got papers n don spek Mexcan n not so dark complekted. I no that dark thing is hard cause they do work in the sun a lot, but mebbe they could use some tan oil and not git so dark, then mebbe the good pipple would like em beter n my unkle n his deputiees would not have to rrest em.
After the protest rally me and my momma went to Walmart. We had Mike Savage on the radeo talkin bout imigration az we wuz drivin to the stor. I like whut he said n u said use at leest one quote from somone real, so here goes..
“The scourge of illegal immigrants… are running rampant across America, killing our police for sport, raping, murdering like a scythe across America. The Statue of Liberty is crying, she’s been raped and disheveled. Raped and disheveled by illegal aliens!”-Mike Savage.
That Mike Savage sure nose how to talk even if he is a jew and gay, too. But thas his bizness.
Me n Momma had ta git some writin paper n som pens so we cud writ leters to tha socilist gubmit in Washton DC. Thatz why we wen to Walmart. Long wit raizin our taxes they playin favritz wit them black panther party pipple. U'd think that Husane Obama wud no beter than to play favritz wit his own kine. Dem to black panther people wuz scarring pipple tryin ta exerciz their constitutional rite ta vote. We gud pipple don do it n neether shud he.. He sposz to represen all a us, equally. Glen Beck, gawd bless im is right, he iz a racist agin white pipple. Me n momma waz goin to go to DC to help Mr. Beck reestorr th honor of our country, but we had to go home cuz we run out a money, ain't worked in a cupla years, thanks ta them dam socilists in Washnton. 'Sides, we cudn't take our guns to the rally, som kine of stoopid commie law in DC. Jus proovs how twisted Washton is, when gud pipple caint carry their weapons in public.
On the way home me n momma wuz listnin to tha radeo n Dr. Laura talkn to that nigra woman hoo maried to that race traitor huzband of herz. She mad cuz his friens keep callin her the N word...Leest hiz friens git it rite. Don't see no problem with that. Just cuz her huzband wants to step outside his race don means his friens got to go long wit it. Like Dr. Laura said, “gro som Nigger!” or somthin like that. Not xactly tha same words, but clos. U no whut i'm sayin'.
It wuz a mitey gud thing gubnor Sarah Palin spoke out in deefens uf tha gud Dr. Laura. Sarah tellz it like it is. She don minc no words. Sarah gon be prezident come 2012 n then tha country will git rite, jus like Alaska. Sarah n Dr. Laura, they ain't rasists. They gud pipple, both of em! These gud wimmin tell it like it is, that Obama n his kine r the real rasists in Amurica, dam rite! Always tryin ta make us pay for slavery when we ain't got nothin to do wit it. That wuz a long time ago. Itz over! So git over it! Git a job n stop whinin, for gawd's sake!.
Momma tole me we wuz gonna campain for tha tee partie candidates at home. Well, we ain't got one of those on the ballot, but we got a guy who wans to emprove the Constitution n make it beter for the gud pipple of Amurica. He wans to take out some amenments like the 14th n tha 17th . N then he wans to put som teeth nto tha 2nd n 10th. Momma sez hez the rite man for Washton. He will go there and tell Barak Husane Obama a thing or too. Yessir, he will n we will take bak r country and make it honorable agin. Jus like Glen Beck said.
Me n momma innded our sumer protestn aginst that groun zero mosque in NY. Now that's an abomination. Itz aginst gawd n a insult to the pipple who died on 9/11. the pipple who wan to build this mosque ain't real Amuricans. No real Amurican is muzlim. All real Amuricans is Christians jus like the founding fathers. They wan to build a mosque, then go home an build one.
Thatz how I spent my sumer vakation. The end n Gawd Bless Amurica.
-0-
"This is going to be a moment that you'll never be able to paint people as haters, racists, none of it. This is a moment, quite honestly, that I think we reclaim the civil rights movement. It has been so distorted and so turned upside down. It is an abomination."-Glen Beck
The only abomination in this whole charade is Glen Beck, FOX's Bozo the Clown...We're all being played by this fool!
And you know what...he's winning....he's winning because we keep reacting to the stupid shit that is coming out of his mouth.....
It goes like this......Mormon Boy or his partner in crime..the newly married, still closeted Limpwrist says something they feel is provocative....notice they never move their lips in the same week...so as not to step on each other's thunder...
The feckless mainstream media picks it up.....loops it thru the 24/7 news cycle til somebody responds..then it's on for another day or two or three....
We are being punk'd ….Beck ain't in it because he believes what he says...He is a radio host....a shock jock on the grandest scale....this high school drop out has stumbled upon the biggest audience of his career...did he ever get his GED?
And he is getting paid to say shit....not stuff....not anything that makes sense...but shit...to stir the pot and to piss people off...and right now....it's working...
Same with the Snowbilly from Alaska.....that's going to be some love fest on Saturday. She thinks she's a provocateur ( oops! did I use another big word she won't understand, again?)....maybe...but a clueless one...
Bozo the Clown meets the Snowbilly under the watchful eyes of the National Rifle Association...
“Beck to the NRA...leave your guns at home”....as if the fat boys with big bellies and automatic rifles on their shoulders can really react fast enough to be a threat...
MLK never had to tell anybody not to hurt people..even as the civil rights marchers were getting their heads bashed in by self proclaimed god fearing Christians with guns and dogs and fire hoses, whose descendants will undoubtedly be standing at Bozo's feet come Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial
Somebody please hip these fools to the truth...which is that you really have to say dangerous.....status quo busting stuff to get killed in America...
kind of like the stuff that comes out of Obama's mouth...
Nobody is gonna shoot Bozo...unless he pays them....because the truth is....his shit is not worth listening to....much less dying for...
-0-
I am so over Laura Schlessinger.....I've got her right up there on the shelf next to Anita Bryant and Phyllis Schlafly....
By the way....Has Schlafly let her son come out of the closet yet?
Got to figure the GOP queens will now all come marching down main street now that Ken Melman is officially out and kinda proud....
He's rich, white and male....gay doesn't change his world...ever....
-0-
Bristol Palin on Dancing with the Stars...
The end times may not be upon us...but the death of reality TV is just around the corner...
Bristol Palin on Dancing with the Stars...BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
And no....I'm not gonna watch just to see if she falls on her ass....
by
John G. Bigott
Now I no whut it means when folks say “dawg daise of sumer.” Jeez itz hott!. Maid the tics on my dawg Bull Conor jump right offin his back n go unnergroun to keep cool. I got my bes sunburn this sumer when I got to go to my furst protest rally in R-rizona whur I waz away vistin fambly. Ya see ma unkle is the shuriff and he don' cotton to no Mexcans in his town. Hiz town is only for good pipple and good imigrants, u no, the onez hoo look like us n got papers n don spek Mexcan n not so dark complekted. I no that dark thing is hard cause they do work in the sun a lot, but mebbe they could use some tan oil and not git so dark, then mebbe the good pipple would like em beter n my unkle n his deputiees would not have to rrest em.
After the protest rally me and my momma went to Walmart. We had Mike Savage on the radeo talkin bout imigration az we wuz drivin to the stor. I like whut he said n u said use at leest one quote from somone real, so here goes..
“The scourge of illegal immigrants… are running rampant across America, killing our police for sport, raping, murdering like a scythe across America. The Statue of Liberty is crying, she’s been raped and disheveled. Raped and disheveled by illegal aliens!”-Mike Savage.
That Mike Savage sure nose how to talk even if he is a jew and gay, too. But thas his bizness.
Me n Momma had ta git some writin paper n som pens so we cud writ leters to tha socilist gubmit in Washton DC. Thatz why we wen to Walmart. Long wit raizin our taxes they playin favritz wit them black panther party pipple. U'd think that Husane Obama wud no beter than to play favritz wit his own kine. Dem to black panther people wuz scarring pipple tryin ta exerciz their constitutional rite ta vote. We gud pipple don do it n neether shud he.. He sposz to represen all a us, equally. Glen Beck, gawd bless im is right, he iz a racist agin white pipple. Me n momma waz goin to go to DC to help Mr. Beck reestorr th honor of our country, but we had to go home cuz we run out a money, ain't worked in a cupla years, thanks ta them dam socilists in Washnton. 'Sides, we cudn't take our guns to the rally, som kine of stoopid commie law in DC. Jus proovs how twisted Washton is, when gud pipple caint carry their weapons in public.
On the way home me n momma wuz listnin to tha radeo n Dr. Laura talkn to that nigra woman hoo maried to that race traitor huzband of herz. She mad cuz his friens keep callin her the N word...Leest hiz friens git it rite. Don't see no problem with that. Just cuz her huzband wants to step outside his race don means his friens got to go long wit it. Like Dr. Laura said, “gro som Nigger!” or somthin like that. Not xactly tha same words, but clos. U no whut i'm sayin'.
It wuz a mitey gud thing gubnor Sarah Palin spoke out in deefens uf tha gud Dr. Laura. Sarah tellz it like it is. She don minc no words. Sarah gon be prezident come 2012 n then tha country will git rite, jus like Alaska. Sarah n Dr. Laura, they ain't rasists. They gud pipple, both of em! These gud wimmin tell it like it is, that Obama n his kine r the real rasists in Amurica, dam rite! Always tryin ta make us pay for slavery when we ain't got nothin to do wit it. That wuz a long time ago. Itz over! So git over it! Git a job n stop whinin, for gawd's sake!.
Momma tole me we wuz gonna campain for tha tee partie candidates at home. Well, we ain't got one of those on the ballot, but we got a guy who wans to emprove the Constitution n make it beter for the gud pipple of Amurica. He wans to take out some amenments like the 14th n tha 17th . N then he wans to put som teeth nto tha 2nd n 10th. Momma sez hez the rite man for Washton. He will go there and tell Barak Husane Obama a thing or too. Yessir, he will n we will take bak r country and make it honorable agin. Jus like Glen Beck said.
Me n momma innded our sumer protestn aginst that groun zero mosque in NY. Now that's an abomination. Itz aginst gawd n a insult to the pipple who died on 9/11. the pipple who wan to build this mosque ain't real Amuricans. No real Amurican is muzlim. All real Amuricans is Christians jus like the founding fathers. They wan to build a mosque, then go home an build one.
Thatz how I spent my sumer vakation. The end n Gawd Bless Amurica.
-0-
"This is going to be a moment that you'll never be able to paint people as haters, racists, none of it. This is a moment, quite honestly, that I think we reclaim the civil rights movement. It has been so distorted and so turned upside down. It is an abomination."-Glen Beck
The only abomination in this whole charade is Glen Beck, FOX's Bozo the Clown...We're all being played by this fool!
And you know what...he's winning....he's winning because we keep reacting to the stupid shit that is coming out of his mouth.....
It goes like this......Mormon Boy or his partner in crime..the newly married, still closeted Limpwrist says something they feel is provocative....notice they never move their lips in the same week...so as not to step on each other's thunder...
The feckless mainstream media picks it up.....loops it thru the 24/7 news cycle til somebody responds..then it's on for another day or two or three....
We are being punk'd ….Beck ain't in it because he believes what he says...He is a radio host....a shock jock on the grandest scale....this high school drop out has stumbled upon the biggest audience of his career...did he ever get his GED?
And he is getting paid to say shit....not stuff....not anything that makes sense...but shit...to stir the pot and to piss people off...and right now....it's working...
Same with the Snowbilly from Alaska.....that's going to be some love fest on Saturday. She thinks she's a provocateur ( oops! did I use another big word she won't understand, again?)....maybe...but a clueless one...
Bozo the Clown meets the Snowbilly under the watchful eyes of the National Rifle Association...
“Beck to the NRA...leave your guns at home”....as if the fat boys with big bellies and automatic rifles on their shoulders can really react fast enough to be a threat...
MLK never had to tell anybody not to hurt people..even as the civil rights marchers were getting their heads bashed in by self proclaimed god fearing Christians with guns and dogs and fire hoses, whose descendants will undoubtedly be standing at Bozo's feet come Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial
Somebody please hip these fools to the truth...which is that you really have to say dangerous.....status quo busting stuff to get killed in America...
kind of like the stuff that comes out of Obama's mouth...
Nobody is gonna shoot Bozo...unless he pays them....because the truth is....his shit is not worth listening to....much less dying for...
-0-
I am so over Laura Schlessinger.....I've got her right up there on the shelf next to Anita Bryant and Phyllis Schlafly....
By the way....Has Schlafly let her son come out of the closet yet?
Got to figure the GOP queens will now all come marching down main street now that Ken Melman is officially out and kinda proud....
He's rich, white and male....gay doesn't change his world...ever....
-0-
Bristol Palin on Dancing with the Stars...
The end times may not be upon us...but the death of reality TV is just around the corner...
Bristol Palin on Dancing with the Stars...BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
And no....I'm not gonna watch just to see if she falls on her ass....
8.24.2010
22nd Annual Black Family Reunion
Pristine porta-potties.....that's what I found this past Sunday when I went to the 22nd Annual Black Family Reunion. The port-o-lets were clean...smelled good....and each had two rolls of toilet paper...
Which, despite sounding so wonderful....was a bad sign because it meant that nobody was using them...One of the best ways to gauge the success of an outdoor event is to check out the condition of the port-o-lets...if they stay in good shape all day long....chances are the expected number of people did not show up....Sawyer Point as a number of permanent public restrooms that were near the portable restroom row....but they weren't overworked either..
The party was laid out....the booths were in place...the food was cooking and smelling good....there was plenty of room to throw out a blanket for a picnic....the Universoul Circus Stilt Walkers had room to jump rope and didn't have to clear a space to do it...... nobody turned out for the 22nd Annual Black Family Reunion.... Local media trumpeted the event beginning on Friday starting off the newscast, by predicting a crowd of 100,000 expected for the two day event.....Prior to those Friday newscasts however, I didn't hear or see anything about the yearly event..
The information on the event given out by two of the television stations that I checked out were wrong....this could have been incompetent news producers....or it could have been an incompetent publicity machine for the event...Don't know....Probably a combination of both....but no pub means no nobody showing up, which is what happened.
I don't know who was keeping count, but the Family Reunion could have continued on all week and never hit the 100,000 mark in five days based on what showed up this past weekend...Nobody seemed to be counting...there were absolutely too many ways to get into the park and none of them secure, except for the main entrance.....There were men scanning with metal detectors at the main entrance...but no where else...and they weren't counting...they were scanning for weapons....which is something else that bothered me....
In the past, there were events within the community which were considered neutral ground...you checked your ego at the door and left your weapons...if you had them....at home....The Black Family Reunion was one of these events.....You went with family and you left with family and friends...safe...
Men wielding metal detectors and tons and tons of police officers testify that it's not safe to go anymore....Considering how many people were expected....the police should be there to handle the crowd......However...going into a park and having to be checked before you go....is a bit disconcerting....
Saturday the low attendance could be blamed on the rain....the day was overcast and threatening....no way to get comfortable on wet grass when you want to hold a picnic...But it didn't rain all day..nor in fact, most of the day......Sunday was a perfect day. The sun was out. The wind blew. Mother Nature turned on the AC and weather-wise it was a wonderful day for a party in the park.
But there were no crowds....there were people.....just no crowds of people. The general thought was, well Cincinnati is a church town, they will turn out when church lets out. They will be here in time to hear Regina Belle his that first note from the stage. But by 3 in the afternoon, the expected hoards of people had not shown up. The people were a late arriving bunch on both days. Many dressed as if they intended to start their evening at the Reunion and then roll into other late night activities. A number of people were seen to be very ticked off at finding out that the Reunion ended at 6pm leaving them with nothing to do for hours. Maybe it was a lack of publicity about the hour change. But people weren't happy.
My volunteer day started at 11am, I thought to give us time to set up, because in the past the Family Reunion kicked things off at noon and went until late into the evening. However upon arrival I found out that the hours had been cut. The event began at 11 and ended at 6pm, while it was still daylight. When I inquired about this, the shortening of the hours was blamed on the economy.....that the city no longer donates anything....major sponsors.....Duke Energy and Proctor and Gamble....no longer participate....although Kroger....Children's Hospital.....Fifth Third Bank....US Bank......Meijers.... and McDonalds.....seemed to find a way...I was there with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Museum....the only museum to show up, of the many museums that call Cincinnati home.
The Black Family Reunion felt like a shadow of its old self.....…..hollow....empty...perfunctory...not the family gathering envisioned by Dr. Height when she created it so long ago....
There were booths and booths filled with volunteers passing out information for the family, even the gay and lesbian community was represented by at least two booths which is a major accomplishment considering how usually homophobic the Black Community is Local radio station The Buzz even had a conversation going about the need for young people to get tested for HIV/AIDS, another welcome change from the normal orchestrated homophobia that dominates black talk radio as well.
I walked the whole concourse twice, from the Serpentine Wall, where the youth concert was taking place all the way over to the tennis courts at the other end, under the bridge....It was an easy walk past vendors selling stuff.....the health organizations basking in the shade of the tunnel as they checked blood pressure...gave out information about diabetes and checked people's feet for circulation problems....Stop AIDS was also in this area.....another good sign....
The Fine Arts Fund with music was also in this area.....heard some blues and reggae as I strolled here...
However with all the talk about getting healthy and the information about how to feel better in life...there is a disconnect in the Black Community that no one seems to be addressing....the food available....was mainly fried.....
Fried fish and fries.....or shrimp and fries.....or a combination of both and fries....and fried chicken wings....big wings and fries......jumbo hotdogs....corndogs.....polish sausages......fried funnel cakes.....
Found ribs and a taco truck....found two booths doling out giant smoothies....they looked healthy but portion control was obviously a problem...what I thought was a large was actually a small...big, big drinks..
I had a piece of a friend's funnel cake, because it was the biggest funnel cake that I had ever seen...the vendor could afford to be generous since the crowds and anticipated buyers were light...but that one funnel cake was shared among four people easily...
All the fried stuff was dished out in humongous portions....enough to feed two to three people off of one meal....
The smoothie booth was the busiest however...there were lines of people lining up for the drinks...which is a good sign....even if they did pair them with the big fried food entrees....way too many calories...
Overall, The Black Family Reunion was okay....that's right....just okay....an easy day for us volunteers....not a whole lot to do except sit and talk amongst ourselves...and wonder about how much longer the event will go on....
Which, despite sounding so wonderful....was a bad sign because it meant that nobody was using them...One of the best ways to gauge the success of an outdoor event is to check out the condition of the port-o-lets...if they stay in good shape all day long....chances are the expected number of people did not show up....Sawyer Point as a number of permanent public restrooms that were near the portable restroom row....but they weren't overworked either..
The party was laid out....the booths were in place...the food was cooking and smelling good....there was plenty of room to throw out a blanket for a picnic....the Universoul Circus Stilt Walkers had room to jump rope and didn't have to clear a space to do it...... nobody turned out for the 22nd Annual Black Family Reunion.... Local media trumpeted the event beginning on Friday starting off the newscast, by predicting a crowd of 100,000 expected for the two day event.....Prior to those Friday newscasts however, I didn't hear or see anything about the yearly event..
The information on the event given out by two of the television stations that I checked out were wrong....this could have been incompetent news producers....or it could have been an incompetent publicity machine for the event...Don't know....Probably a combination of both....but no pub means no nobody showing up, which is what happened.
I don't know who was keeping count, but the Family Reunion could have continued on all week and never hit the 100,000 mark in five days based on what showed up this past weekend...Nobody seemed to be counting...there were absolutely too many ways to get into the park and none of them secure, except for the main entrance.....There were men scanning with metal detectors at the main entrance...but no where else...and they weren't counting...they were scanning for weapons....which is something else that bothered me....
In the past, there were events within the community which were considered neutral ground...you checked your ego at the door and left your weapons...if you had them....at home....The Black Family Reunion was one of these events.....You went with family and you left with family and friends...safe...
Men wielding metal detectors and tons and tons of police officers testify that it's not safe to go anymore....Considering how many people were expected....the police should be there to handle the crowd......However...going into a park and having to be checked before you go....is a bit disconcerting....
Saturday the low attendance could be blamed on the rain....the day was overcast and threatening....no way to get comfortable on wet grass when you want to hold a picnic...But it didn't rain all day..nor in fact, most of the day......Sunday was a perfect day. The sun was out. The wind blew. Mother Nature turned on the AC and weather-wise it was a wonderful day for a party in the park.
But there were no crowds....there were people.....just no crowds of people. The general thought was, well Cincinnati is a church town, they will turn out when church lets out. They will be here in time to hear Regina Belle his that first note from the stage. But by 3 in the afternoon, the expected hoards of people had not shown up. The people were a late arriving bunch on both days. Many dressed as if they intended to start their evening at the Reunion and then roll into other late night activities. A number of people were seen to be very ticked off at finding out that the Reunion ended at 6pm leaving them with nothing to do for hours. Maybe it was a lack of publicity about the hour change. But people weren't happy.
My volunteer day started at 11am, I thought to give us time to set up, because in the past the Family Reunion kicked things off at noon and went until late into the evening. However upon arrival I found out that the hours had been cut. The event began at 11 and ended at 6pm, while it was still daylight. When I inquired about this, the shortening of the hours was blamed on the economy.....that the city no longer donates anything....major sponsors.....Duke Energy and Proctor and Gamble....no longer participate....although Kroger....Children's Hospital.....Fifth Third Bank....US Bank......Meijers.... and McDonalds.....seemed to find a way...I was there with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Museum....the only museum to show up, of the many museums that call Cincinnati home.
The Black Family Reunion felt like a shadow of its old self.....…..hollow....empty...perfunctory...not the family gathering envisioned by Dr. Height when she created it so long ago....
There were booths and booths filled with volunteers passing out information for the family, even the gay and lesbian community was represented by at least two booths which is a major accomplishment considering how usually homophobic the Black Community is Local radio station The Buzz even had a conversation going about the need for young people to get tested for HIV/AIDS, another welcome change from the normal orchestrated homophobia that dominates black talk radio as well.
I walked the whole concourse twice, from the Serpentine Wall, where the youth concert was taking place all the way over to the tennis courts at the other end, under the bridge....It was an easy walk past vendors selling stuff.....the health organizations basking in the shade of the tunnel as they checked blood pressure...gave out information about diabetes and checked people's feet for circulation problems....Stop AIDS was also in this area.....another good sign....
The Fine Arts Fund with music was also in this area.....heard some blues and reggae as I strolled here...
However with all the talk about getting healthy and the information about how to feel better in life...there is a disconnect in the Black Community that no one seems to be addressing....the food available....was mainly fried.....
Fried fish and fries.....or shrimp and fries.....or a combination of both and fries....and fried chicken wings....big wings and fries......jumbo hotdogs....corndogs.....polish sausages......fried funnel cakes.....
Found ribs and a taco truck....found two booths doling out giant smoothies....they looked healthy but portion control was obviously a problem...what I thought was a large was actually a small...big, big drinks..
I had a piece of a friend's funnel cake, because it was the biggest funnel cake that I had ever seen...the vendor could afford to be generous since the crowds and anticipated buyers were light...but that one funnel cake was shared among four people easily...
All the fried stuff was dished out in humongous portions....enough to feed two to three people off of one meal....
The smoothie booth was the busiest however...there were lines of people lining up for the drinks...which is a good sign....even if they did pair them with the big fried food entrees....way too many calories...
Overall, The Black Family Reunion was okay....that's right....just okay....an easy day for us volunteers....not a whole lot to do except sit and talk amongst ourselves...and wonder about how much longer the event will go on....
8.21.2010
Random Thoughts....
Ground Zero Mosque.....no such thing....the planned community center has a space reserved for prayer...that doesn't make it a mosque...any more than having a cross with Jesus on it nailed to your living room wall makes your house a church....
No one is asking that NY forget what happened at the World Trade Center....but it is time to move on...because others died and were lost in other places in America...
Being Christian or being Jewish...does not make you more American...than say an Islamic American or Buddhist American...or even a Scientology American....
The Constitution was written by men who believed in a higher power, but were not necessarily Christian...by today's definition...many of them in fact would be considered atheists...
They were okay with diversity.....
What you call that higher power is up to you....not mandated by the government...or the so called majority that is no more...
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DISCONNECT...the word that is dominating my thoughts right now....the need to unplug....take a break....turn off....pay no attention to the man pulling the strings behind the curtain....
There is too much information.....too much misinformation....too many lies....purposeful, deceitful lies...meant only to inflame the unthinking masses.....needlessly....making people crazy.....
The 24 hour news cycle is a sham.....it's not news....it's not even good gossip in most instances...it's fill....fluff....puffed up to seem like it's important and worthy of attention...
Fluffers...otherwise called news anchors....breathlessly delivering snippets of nothing....”details as they become available” ….never heard again...because it was not really news that's fit to print or broadcast...or repeat....in the first place
The MSM is neither....conservative nor liberal....But it is bought...paid for....owned and squeezed for profit by Corporate America...
The bottom-line rules!
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Walking on water......not yet....But Obama's track record in less than two years in office is beyond belief.....Combat troops are now out of Iraq....never should a been there...probably headed to Afghanistan....shouldn't be there either...
Palestine and Israel coming back to the table to talk peace...
I don't care what religion Obama espouses.....He is acting like a man of conscience, compassion and intelligence...that's all I want in a leader...
Will the so called Christians cut him some slack....probably not...remember they're the ones who are still peddling the picture of a light skinned, blue eyed, long haired Jesus, when the King James Bible describes him otherwise...
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Black GOP finally speaking up about the Alaskan Snow-billy...worried about her support of Dr. Laura....telling Laura to “reload”.....And the group asked Michael Steele to talk some sense into her about her diarrhea of the mouth...HAH!
Hope she chokes on it.....
8.13.2010
Friday Rap
C-ya Later Slater
Can't believe the MSM has spent an entire week talking about a frickin' flight attendant who took a diva turn because he was tired of working. Good Morning America even interviewed his ex-wife...AND SHE WAS A GIRL! Who knew!
Well, lesbian relationships come in all forms these days....anyway...
Can we get back to that jobs thingey...as in no one has one...no one can find one...because Big business is playing screw the black guy in the White House and sitting on their cash rather than investing in the country...so much for all that phony compassionate conservatism...
hmmmmmmm...
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Newt for President in 2012....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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“Black guys use it all the time. Turn on HBO and listen to a black comic, and all you hear is n****, n*****, n*****. I don't get it. If anybody without enough melanin says it, it's a horrible thing. But when black people say it, it's affectionate. It's very confusing. “-Dr. Laura
The most surprising thing about this story was the fact that Dr. Laura Schlesinger was still on the air in the first place. I thought the woman was retired like the orange juice lady, Anita Bryant who popped up a month or two ago.
Shows the right is getting desperate rolling out their old school anti-phobes to try and take over the public conversation..
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John Boehner
Capital Hill's Oompa Loompa played 119 rounds of golf last year? WOW! Figured he was too busy trying to take back his country and rescue the government from those dirty Dems, while becoming Speaker of the House...
Somebody message me Boehner's handicap....I need a laugh today...
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Gay marriages set to resume next week in California. Cool! If you want to be married...just do it...otherwise...nevermind..
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From the" why is this news" department....Mikael Moore is Congresswoman Maxine Waters grandson..He is also her chief of staff...So what...his colleagues describe him as a smart, politically gifted workaholic...graduate of Morehouse....doing his job exceedingly well...
From what those in the article, which you can read here say, he deserves his job...
So.....why is this particular Nepotistic move news? It didn't set a precedent....I mean. there are a lot of Kennedys, Bushes, Pauls, Quayles, Cuomos, etc, etc, etc.....I could go on and on... and most people didn't know he was her grandson in the first place...
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IT'S MY BIRFDAY!...IT'S MY BIRFDAY!...
It's my birthday weekend...I've been here for six decades ya'll...damn!...living in the moment while traveling forward..still smilin' fo sho!
Jon Lucien
Pharoh Sanders
8.11.2010
Glen Beck-The Divine Miss G
Maybe we should just call him Sybil....
This week, the ex suicidal substance abuser- junkie-failed radio DJ-serial religion shopping-ex catholic-current magic underwear wearing Mormon-ADHD diagnosed-commie red hunting McCarthy lite wannabe-Mocker of all things MLK-racist for the money only-teabag pinup boy-20 million dollar a year phony conservative talk show host...
Is now apparently sliding into televangelism...I say this because the August 28th rally in DC that was originally to take back the civil rights movement from the apparently clueless Blacks who invented it and give it to its rightful “owners” the good white people of America...has now been changed....
Beck has renamed his upcoming rally the “Glen Beck Divine Destiny” Rally.
We already have enough Divines.....The Divine Sarah, Sarah Vaughn...The late drag queen Divine and the Divine Miss M., Bette Midler....
We don't need no more stinkin' Divines....They were/are Supremely talented and deserving of their Divine appellation....
Beck....well you can decide to be as Divine as you want...but what you are really is nothing than a boy in a dress.....
This is the latest description of his rally on his website:
"Glenn Beck's Divine Destiny is an eye-opening evening at the historic Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C that will help heal your soul. Guided by uplifting music, nationally-known religious figures from all faiths will unite to deliver messages reminiscent to those given during the struggles of America's earliest days. The event will leave you with a renewed determination to look past the partisan differences and petty problems that fill our airwaves and instead focus our shared values, principles and strong belief that faith can play an essential role in reuniting the country."
I mean....all faiths....REALLY?....does that include Islam, too?
Glen Beck is going to save my soul on August 28th
OIC...this is KUMBYAA, Glen Beck style....He's not a Televangelist.....he is a Uniter....a Divine Uniter.....”all faiths”......”develop a renewed determination to look past partisan differences and petty problems that fill our airwaves?”
The only problems on the airwaves these days are named Beck, Limbaugh and FOX...
All he has to do to solve that problem is to shut the fuck up....
Simple!
Simple!
8.09.2010
Dog Parks and Swimming Pools
Access...or lack thereof...is one of three reasons why Black people don't swim. In most cities of America...there are no pools in the ghetto...or if there are pools...access was limited to white people...who either made it a private club...or posted sentries at the gate to keep certain people out...
I'm not talking about way back in the day...well maybe a little...when I was born...Black people weren't allowed to swim at Coney Island...not until it was desegregated due to protests led by Marian Spencer back in 1957.
By 1967 my family had moved from Cincinnati to Mt. Healthy and I was taken out of Walnut Hills High and forced by my parents to go to Mt. Healthy High....
Even though our move was only ten miles, Mt. Healthy is a city in its own right and had its own parks and pool system.
Shortly after moving in to our new house...my sisters and I were turned away at the gate of the pool and told the park was only for residents...
We were residents....just not white residents...that apparently was the difference...Even with proof of residency, we could not get in...which is why I have never, ever been to a park in Mt. Healthy, to this day....
70% of all accidental drownings in America are Black people....The most recent having taken place in Louisiana where seven members of one family drowned in a horrific accident a few weeks ago.
You can read it here.
Access to swimming pools is pretty good in Cincinnati. There is or was at least one pool in every neighborhood. There are also the YMCA pools all over the city.
The more recent problem has been money to keep the pools open all summer. Cincinnati has done a pretty good job of finding the funds to keep them open most of the time, too.
So with obvious need for swimming pools in the ghetto and all the common sense surrounding swimming pool access in Cincinnati, why the hell tear one out and replace it with a dog park?
I'm talking about what is going on in Washington Park, where the renovation calls for putting a dog run in the space where the kids swim. In a nod to the children, the plans call for a water play area, but that is totally different from having a place to swim, or learn to swim.
You don't learn water safety from a moving hose squirting water at you.
Why are dogs more important than the neighborhood kids? Or is the plan to move the kids out of the neighborhood along with their more impoverished parents?
You can't make me believe that there are enough foo-foo dogs moving in to justify getting rid of a swimming pool and playground...
Because what is happening is that Washington Park is being changed from a kid friendly place to a gathering place for the upwardly mobile and their four legged friends...
The pool and basketball court....are gone...or soon to be gone....The city has signed off on this travesty..and nobody seems to give a damn...
Progress...new and better ways to segregate...
I'm not talking about way back in the day...well maybe a little...when I was born...Black people weren't allowed to swim at Coney Island...not until it was desegregated due to protests led by Marian Spencer back in 1957.
By 1967 my family had moved from Cincinnati to Mt. Healthy and I was taken out of Walnut Hills High and forced by my parents to go to Mt. Healthy High....
Even though our move was only ten miles, Mt. Healthy is a city in its own right and had its own parks and pool system.
Shortly after moving in to our new house...my sisters and I were turned away at the gate of the pool and told the park was only for residents...
We were residents....just not white residents...that apparently was the difference...Even with proof of residency, we could not get in...which is why I have never, ever been to a park in Mt. Healthy, to this day....
70% of all accidental drownings in America are Black people....The most recent having taken place in Louisiana where seven members of one family drowned in a horrific accident a few weeks ago.
You can read it here.
Access to swimming pools is pretty good in Cincinnati. There is or was at least one pool in every neighborhood. There are also the YMCA pools all over the city.
The more recent problem has been money to keep the pools open all summer. Cincinnati has done a pretty good job of finding the funds to keep them open most of the time, too.
So with obvious need for swimming pools in the ghetto and all the common sense surrounding swimming pool access in Cincinnati, why the hell tear one out and replace it with a dog park?
I'm talking about what is going on in Washington Park, where the renovation calls for putting a dog run in the space where the kids swim. In a nod to the children, the plans call for a water play area, but that is totally different from having a place to swim, or learn to swim.
You don't learn water safety from a moving hose squirting water at you.
Why are dogs more important than the neighborhood kids? Or is the plan to move the kids out of the neighborhood along with their more impoverished parents?
You can't make me believe that there are enough foo-foo dogs moving in to justify getting rid of a swimming pool and playground...
Because what is happening is that Washington Park is being changed from a kid friendly place to a gathering place for the upwardly mobile and their four legged friends...
The pool and basketball court....are gone...or soon to be gone....The city has signed off on this travesty..and nobody seems to give a damn...
Progress...new and better ways to segregate...
8.06.2010
Friday Rap
Black Farmers and Native Americans screwed again by Congress, which is still haggling over how to pay them. You can read it here.
Blame both sides of the aisle...the duplicitous GOP is evenly matched by spineless Democrats..
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Post racial America
We're all now living in post racial America...we know this because the negro members of the Tea Party movement met this week in DC to tell us so....
Glad it's over...now I can go find a new white neighborhood to integrate...
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Justice Kagan
Congratulations are in order for newly minted Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. She was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday and will be sworn in tomorrow, becoming the third woman to sit on this Court, and the fourth in history.
Kagan, who has never been a judge clerked at one time for Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
With three women on the bench....let the Supremes jokes commence....and you know they're coming!
Which one is gonna be Diana...
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Prop 8 jettisoned
This was good week for the LGBT community with a federal judge in California striking down Prop 8. The battle is not over, however. There is an appeal in the works which will send the issue to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which will probably send it on to the United States Supreme Court for final determination.
Wonder how our President really feels about this...Obama is on record as supporting civil unions for gays, but not marriage. His congratulations on this past week's decision was tepid at best.
Yet, he needs the votes....so what's a guy to do? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Stand on perverted principle that denies the rights of some citizens relegating them to second class....or agree to disagree and join the push for equality....
Only time will tell.
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Frankenfish
This story confuses me. According to the article, the government is deciding whether or not to allow genetically modified salmon to be sold to the public as food.
The salmon grows to maturity in 18 months rather than the normal 36 months.
Well, we've been eating chickens and turkeys for years that grows in half the normal time and the human population is suffering as a result...........this poultry is altered so that it grows so much white breast meat that the birds can't even walk...
yet the government is hyperventilating over fish....
Frankenfood has been with us for decades...what's new about that...
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God Hates fags and so does Target
Seems the ACDC big box store loves to look very festive in its national advertising...however....it takes all that disposable gay income and channels it to right wing nut job organizations...
Including helping the Mormons fund Prop 8 which was struck down earlier this week..
Not nice Target!
You been busted....never see me darken your door again...or Best Buy either...for that matter.
Your sorta apology....not accepted...
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Sylvester kicking off the weekend....feeling very festive!
8.02.2010
Sarah Palin Can't Even Spell Cojones-Print that on your T-shirt!
Sarah Palin accusing President Obama of not having the balls to do something....anything …..is beyond hypocritical...
COJONES!? From Palin....the one who quit four times through college...once in that land of diversity known as Hawaii because there were too many brown people around her....who...having won the governorship of Alaska....quit halfway through her first term...to seek fame and fortune...elsewhere...
Who....refuses to talk to reporters not from FOX because she fears how they may portray her......Is that what she calls having cojones?
I thought having balls meant you did it anyway...whether it scared you or not...you pushed on through the fear and grew some.....
If she'd read anything besides the funny pages in the Wasilla Chronicle...she might have run across this......”Without fear, I die only once”
Or maybe this.......”I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain”
Both quotes uttered by some really, really powerful women, known as the Bene Gesserit Nuns...from the Novel Dune by Frank Herbert. The book may be a work of fiction....but the words and thoughts are very real.
I first read those words when I was 12 and they stick with me to this day....
Bene Gesserit Nuns...by the way.. would eat Grizzly Bears for lunch if they weren't vegetarians...
Lady Sarah must really like dying....over and over and over and over....with her foot planted firmly in her mouth...
And enough with the snow-billy teleprompter...it was cute the first time...now it's merely tiring...
Por lo tanto, por favor Sara, que puta ignorante ... no más ... por favor......no mas!
COJONES!? From Palin....the one who quit four times through college...once in that land of diversity known as Hawaii because there were too many brown people around her....who...having won the governorship of Alaska....quit halfway through her first term...to seek fame and fortune...elsewhere...
Who....refuses to talk to reporters not from FOX because she fears how they may portray her......Is that what she calls having cojones?
I thought having balls meant you did it anyway...whether it scared you or not...you pushed on through the fear and grew some.....
If she'd read anything besides the funny pages in the Wasilla Chronicle...she might have run across this......”Without fear, I die only once”
Or maybe this.......”I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain”
Both quotes uttered by some really, really powerful women, known as the Bene Gesserit Nuns...from the Novel Dune by Frank Herbert. The book may be a work of fiction....but the words and thoughts are very real.
I first read those words when I was 12 and they stick with me to this day....
Bene Gesserit Nuns...by the way.. would eat Grizzly Bears for lunch if they weren't vegetarians...
Lady Sarah must really like dying....over and over and over and over....with her foot planted firmly in her mouth...
And enough with the snow-billy teleprompter...it was cute the first time...now it's merely tiring...
Por lo tanto, por favor Sara, que puta ignorante ... no más ... por favor......no mas!
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