Friday Rap

You may not know the name Floyd Brown, but I guarantee that you know his work...

This is the GOP dirty trickster who created the virulently racist Willie Horton Campaign that tanked the Presidential aspirations of Mike Dukakis, back in the day..

Now this fool has Obama in his sights saying he should be impeached because he harbors “malevolence toward the United States of America”

According to Brown....this satisfies the “high crimes and misdemeanors” clause as written into the Constitution by the Founding Fathers...

WTF?

The last time I looked...that clause referred to criminal activity...A crime committed, in other words..like...oh...lying to the American people about going to war against another country....or...giving all your business buddies no bid multi billion dollar contracts to literally rape the country and treat it like their own personal piggyback....while young soldiers.....children of your supporters, by the way... give their lives defending an illegal police action......while your own offspring flaunt their specialness...just because they can....

Oh No....says Brown...The Founding Fathers meant that phrase to mean....gross incompetence...negligence and distasteful behavior....on the part of the President as grounds for removing him from office....

In Ghettoese...Brown is saying the nigra in the White House is pissing us off and we want him gone...by any means necessary...

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Speaking of revisions....Have you heard that a conservative group has formed to rewrite the Bible to make it less liberal? Less liberal?

Does that mean that me and my kind are going to be fitted for leg irons and shackles in the near future?

Wonder if they're going to consult with Mel Gibson on this...

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Meantime....down in the Great State of Texas....you know where they want to secede from the Union, again....

They meant it too....All of their congressmen voted against the stimulus...Their governor said he wasn't going to take the money.....but that was before his mansion burned down...

He's already quietly asked for funds to rebuild his house...

Now comes word that the Texas Congressmen....all of em...have gone shuffling with hat in hand to the White House to quietly ask for some money... you know...to tide them over until payday...

You how it is....um hmmmmmmm!

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Katrina...Katrina...Katrina....still working people's nerves down in Louisiana...

One parish down there is taking advantage of the situation to make sure all their Black residents don't come back....

First off..they're not helping Black and Jewish folks rebuild their homes...

And to keep them from moving back and renting until they can rebuild their houses....The city fathers passed an ordinance that says you can't rent property...houses or apartments to anyone who is NOT RELATED TO YOU BY BLOOD...

The parish is 85% white.....

And, this parish is also not allowing anyone to rebuild multi family units inside the parish, either...

But it ain't about race.....just like those cops on the bridge shooting at Blacks to keep them from crossing the bridge and away from danger of the hurricane...ain't about race...no sir!

This parish has some big named friends, who are helping it to rebuild.....I hope somebody who knows somebody who can pull Oprah's and Alice Walker's coat tails...and hip them to what's going down inside their latest little charity project...

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Oklahoma....has a new law set to take effect on November 1th....This law is going to put personal information about any woman who has had an abortion in this state online....

The law requires Doctors to publicly post the following information...

1. Date of abortion
   2) County in which abortion is performed
   3) Age of mother
   4) Marital status of mother
   5) Race of mother
   6) Years of education of mother
   7) State or foreign country of residence of mother
   8) Total number of previous pregnancies of the mother

This is intimidation...plain and simple....There is no law in this country that demeans men in the way this law demeans women....

This goes hand in hand with insurance company policies that view pregnancy as a pre-existing condition for denying coverage...

This while offering to drive guys to the pharmacy so they can buy their little viagra pills, so the old farts can have sex with their 19 year old girlfriends...

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GOP lawmakers showed their colors today when they voted in lockstep against a must have defense bill to supply the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan...

The measure had an amendment expanding the national hate crimes law to protect the LGBT community...

The GOP would rather gay bash, then fund the troops fighting their war...

The bill passed...by the way..no thanks to the GOP

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Note to City Council Person...Laketa Cole...

I like my governmental representatives to display some common sense once in a while... I know you didn't pay for it...talking about the far away conference on the big island of Hawaii, this week.....

But that is not the point of this rant......Hawaii and that upcoming trip to Asia....can wait until after the election...

How arrogant to assume that the Black community is going to support you regardless of how you disregard us by leaving three weeks before a very important election..

Especially when the city is in such a financial crisis and you are chairman of the finance committee..

and your unions are pissed off...

How arrogant to assume that you have us in your back pocket to bail your ass out again....

You owe Cincinnati an apology for your blatant lack of smarts and shoddy behavior...

Perception is Reality...Ms Cole....Perception is Reality

Shock and Disgust

Four years later and the “shock and awe” of the assault on Iraq has turned to anger and disgust. Those of us who were alive during Vietnam can rightfully say “we told ya so.” This latest quagmire was never about liberation, freedom or the war on terror. It was about politics, religion and rich men’s dreams of getting richer at the expense of the rest of us.

The war platform was built on lies which were shaped by cherry picked intelligence to bolster the prevarications that we needed to liberate the Iraqi people in order to protect our country from terrorism. The war platform was shaped by right wing religious fervor of spreading Christianity to the “heathens.” Bring them to “our” god and making the world a “safer” place. The war was the method that some thought could bring control of the oil rich territories to the west, insuring our energy supplies.

We now know by looking backward that this administration sent our troops over there without proper equipment, armor, and in some cases, training. This administration sent our national guard troops to fight and die in an illegal conflagration that left this country exposed to the elements. Helpless when it came to fighting the natural disasters that have ravaged us in the past few years. There was no one to help those victimized by Katrina except an inept, uncaring group of political hacks appointed by this White House, in order to fulfill campaign promises. There is no one, now, to dig out from under the series of tornadoes and storms that have cut wide paths of destruction across much of the southern half of this country.

Iraq is mired in a religious civil war. We are caught in the middle. Our president is sending more troops while Congress stands around with its thumb up its ass.

3200 dead. We’re running out of troops. The war goes on...........

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“Another N**** Dead, “ So What!

When I was about 11 years old, a three year old cousin of mine, who was named after my mother, was hit and killed by a car. It was her fault. She ran into the street, chasing a cat. She didn’t see the car. The driver didn’t see her. She died instantly.

Three days later she was buried. The funeral was held in Cleveland and while the procession wound down Euclid Avenue, I remember looking out a window as my father drove and seeing a young, skinny white dude, jumping up and down and clapping his hands singing a made up song; “another nigger dead, another nigger dead, another nigger dead.” He didn’t stop until all the cars had past him. It didn’t make any difference that we were burying a little girl who just wanted to play with her kitty cat.

This memory came back to me as I watched the news conference about the indictments of the police officers who executed Sean Bell on his wedding day. They were indicted for first and second degree manslaughter. Serious charges, if they are convicted.

But I wanted to hear the word “murder” somewhere in the official reckoning. This was an execution, plain and simple. There was no equivocation. One cop shot 50 rounds. He had to reload at least once. He knew what he was doing.

Another nigger dead, another nigger dead, another nigger dead. So what.

45 years later and I still can’t get that phrase out of my head.