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!
7.30.2010
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.
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...
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...
7.28.2010
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.
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.
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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
7.27.2010
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!
7.25.2010
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.
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.
7.22.2010
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....
7.20.2010
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..
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..
7.16.2010
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...
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 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....
7.14.2010
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?
“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?
7.08.2010
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....
-0-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...
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....
7.05.2010
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 HamiltonCounty 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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