Showing posts with label Apology for slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apology for slavery. Show all posts

9.06.2010

White People, The Last Slaves in America

Got a question for you, white people....now that the rich elite have destroyed the middle class, what are you going to do?

There is no middle ground anymore....poor white people are back to being on equal footing with black people....just like back in slavery days in America.

Prior to 1670....poor white people were treated the same as an African slave....Then rich whites got scared.....because when you added black slaves to white indentured servants....the rich guys who owned the plantations were greatly outnumbered...

They feared the po' folks would come in the night and slit their throats and steal their property, in similar fashion to what happened in France during the beheadings in the Revolution....

So they created laws to divide and conquer....stacked the deck, if you will...convinced poor whites they were better than black people....that they were just like rich people...except for the money and property, of course...made them think they could marry their rich daughters and become just like them...wink, wink...They had white skin and were christian....not like those uncivilized non christian blacks from Africa...you can read here

And poor whites jumped at the chance to be seen as the same...not equal....never equal...because who doesn't want to better themselves...the choice is understandable....

But understand.....racism....has always really been about class....not skin color.....

The game they created back in the day is still working today...... rich  people sit back and watch poor white people...the “scum of the earth”(their words for you) do battle for them against the black African “savages”(their words for us)...

An on-going gladiator contest......you against us....them in the stands...

The tea party, the libertarian party, the AIP, the GOP and the Democrats.. for that matter are not and never were grass roots organizations....they are funded by rich people like Dick Armey, George Soros....Liz Cheney...Dick Cheney...The billionaire Koch brothers....or the Rupert Murdochs of the world...

The tea party is led by millionaires named Sarah and Glen and Rush....they don't give a damn about you...they talk for their money...they will say whatever money will have them say...

Think about it.....

They talk about tax cuts.....tax cuts for who....you've already got them....Continuing the Bush tax cuts will add a trillion dollars to the deficit and effectively bind your children and grandchildren into modern day slavery to their off spring for years and years to come....

Reagan quadrupled the deficit....Bush put the deficit into the stratosphere and nearly bankrupted the country and the world....

Spending has been out of control for years....it didn't just happen within the past two years....

Health care.....they've got it or can afford to buy it.....what about you....

Social Security....they want to do away with it.....they don't need it....they have retirement plans and golden parachutes....

Jobs....they don't need them.....they have them......you're lazy because you can't find one...and you don't need unemployment insurance...makes you lazier...

Houses.....yours is foreclosed.....theirs....they probably walked away from a mortgage or two or three...saved em some money...

Schools....they can afford the best education that money can buy....they don't need affirmative action...they have legacies....what do you have poor white people...

Perennial wars.....they don't fight them....you do.....Cheney got five deferments...said he had other priorities then protecting his country.....George W went AWOL for a year....Mitch McConnell got some mysterious discharge...hidden and secret to this day.....

Even when they join they don't serve....they have you as cannon fodder......their kids go to college...yours die in some god forsaken country on the other side of the world...sometimes killed by friendly fire....quietly buried so you never find out the truth....

NAFTA....global trade....outsourced jobs from America....the rich get richer...bigger profits....America dies....middle class disappears....

This didn't happen in the past two years....this has been going on for the past 30-40 years...

That cushion making you seemingly better than blacks is gone...you're in the same boat...as a Mexican swimming the Rio Grande to freedom...

But you'd never know it to hear you talk about it...They control you with fear....nothing more...your fear of being seen as the same as a black or brown man.....

Listen to poor whites....in the same boat as poor blacks....and what do they say.....they admit there are problems...

no jobs....no benefits....too many wars.....but they blame blacks and browns and other things..

To be sure....some whites have awakened and do understand....the ones who went after the Wall Street rich guys in their exclusive neighborhoods...rattled a few enclaves...

Scared the rich guys...but not enough....they still make huge profts while the rest of us flounder...

If we're to take any lessons from history....then it should come from the French Revolution and go after the guys behind the big iron gates....

Time to go band together on our common ground...and go after those who have always had the cake..

Time for us to eat some too...

Isn't it time for you to take the blinders off and to vote for your own self interest...rather than the rich white guy who is spitting at you like he spits at me?

6.19.2009

Friday Rap

Healthcare Reform

While Americans are clammering for reform of a totally screwed up system, Obama's real enemies on healthcare seem to be within his own party. Dismiss the GOP..they can't do anything, really...

However....The Democrats who are working against the President's proposal for a public option...Tom Daschle...you should be ashamed...

Kind of a good thing he washed out of consideration for Obama's Health Care Czar..

His money ties to big insurance and health industry giants show they mean more to him than helping the people..

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Why We Need Healthcare Reform

The House Subcommittee on Oversight Investigations held hearings this week on the healthcare industry's policy of recission...

Recission happens when the insurance company cancels a policy...supposedly for fraud...

However...Insurance giants also use it to boost the bottom line...They do this by canceling policies of the very sick and most in need of help...

In order to keep from paying huge medical bills...even though the families affected religiously pay their premiums on time...The companies refuse to pay...flat out....

Wellpoint, Inc....United Health....and Assurant are the three biggest companies in America...

And when asked if they would halt the practice...

They told the Congressmen....Hell No!

The cluelessness in the room from the insurance industry harkened back to that which was exhibited by the big three automaker CEOs who flew into their congressional hearings on private jets costing hundreds of thousands of dollars...

These three companies canceled 20,000 very sick people to keep from paying 300-million dollars in medical costs...and they rewarded with bonuses the employees who did the canceling...

These companies specifically target women with breast cancer s, lymphoma sufferers as well as a 1000 other conditions.....

We really do need health care reform....

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Put Away the Manolos Ladies

What's up with high powered women falling all over DC. First Sonia Sotmayor..who breaks an ankle...now Hilary..who shatters her elbow and needs surgery...

Ladies...it's time to either slow your stroll....or go back to comfortable shoes while walking...

Think about all those high powered female execs in Chicago and New York....

They wear Nikes on the street or when they need to speed walk, and change into the Manolos in the office..

It's safer...........

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Too Casual Friday

The city of Orlando wants people to start using deodorant and wearing underwear when they come to work...seems casual friday as well as other days have gotten out of control, apparently..

The lone vote against the new code was the mayor...who says wearing underwear...or not...is a matter of freedom of choice....

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PETA

The president of PETA needs some diversion in his life....a new boyfriend maybe...
Any bug...fly, mosquito or otherwise that makes it near me...on my body...flying around my head can prepare to meet its maker...

PETA has way too much time on its hands....

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Shout Out to Ashanti

Who is appearing in The Wiz....baby....There are some shoes that cannot filled....Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, and Stephanie Mills to name a few...

Ya just can't...

When these women step out of their shoes...throw them away because nobody else will ever be able to wear them.....

Impossible..

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Slavery Apology

The Senate has formulated its own apology for the damage done to Blacks by two and a half centuries of slavery in this country...

The Senate Bill now must be reconciled to the one the House passed last year....

No reparations..in fact the bill was crafted with language to prevent future lawsuits seeking payment.

What will this apology do.....

Not a damn thing for those of us who are here....However, it will be good for those yet to be born..

So...Thank you, I guess...

I'm sure those who still suffer from Plantation mentality will celebrate and joyously jig for their masters...

Recently found a good definition of PM...

Plantation mentality: enslaved Blacks who have inherited, internalized, expressed and acted based on a perspective or deference that was most acceptable to those that dominated their view of reality — particularly exhibited by early African American generations recently freed by plantation masters, and sometimes exhibited by some among latter generations of the global Black diaspora.
Dennis Moore — Publisher

thank you Dennis for that definition...He was referring to Shelby Steele....

I can name a few others.....Thomas....Keys.....Blackwell....That fool in California who hates affirmative action....and all those young Black GOP talking heads who have no clue...have grown up privileged and untouched by their Blackness...historical or otherwise..
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