My Thoughts For Today

I borrowed this picture from over at jobsangers blog.  I love dropping by and reading his blog because he is a man of few words, but in those few words he delivers a powerful message using images that speak a thousand words every single time.  A newer blog that I like stopping by and checking out is Mack Lyons over at "Different Day, Same Shit."  Lyons exposes the deception, breaks it down, and enlightens his readers. Both are true warriors against injustice in my book, so I just wanted to give them their props.

This post is not about President Bush.  Nope!  However, it is about some of those folks on the right and a little of this and a little of that.  Birds of feather do flock together, so why wouldn't Jigging, Hustling, Uncle Ruckas Cain have a crooked campaign aide for a manager.  After all, Cain is what I would call...well... a venal character who is willing to sell out his own group of people to get ahead...another Clarence Thomas.

I'm reminded of that scripture when I see Cain, "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, but to lose his soul."  Frankly, I believe Cain lost his soul a long time ago when he was affiliated with Enron or maybe even before that.

Some of you folks running around here telling black folks that they are brainwashed and on a plantation because they vote for Democrats had better take note from the case in which the brotha got paid $5.2 million for being called a slave. 

"A co-worker of Johnson’s had said he was Johnson’s “masta” at a company picnic."~~

In another case, a black employee got paid $210,000 for his boss calling him a monkey and gorilla. 
See, I told you black folks are tired!  They are tired of overlooking the dumb feces and dealing with racism every single day of their lives.  This is supposed to be "The Land of the Free, justice and Liberty for ALL, and that includes black folks, red folks, yellow folks, and brown folks too.  It is time to discard and put an end to racism.

When Martin Luther King marched, he wasn't just marching for black folks.  Nope!  He was marching for humanity.  Because racism is one of the strongest forms of hate that smothers the life out of humanity and freedom.  Every single human being on this earth should be entitled to pursue happiness and prosperity without obstructions.  It is a legal right of all Americans.

Which brings me to voter suppression being attempted in Texas the land gun toting governor Rick Perry.  This time it is aimed at Hispanics.  Next, I guess, will be other minorities who are citizens in this country. Folks voter suppression is serious because this was how they eased Jim Crow in after reconstruction.  Suppressed votes helps enable them to get their people in office and keep out the people's choice.

Oakland Chief of Police is protecting his men, and why are we not surprised.  That's normal procedure when those in the blue mess up. However, this statement here was a little too much and tells me someone is trying to avoid a possible lawsuit.

"Fellow veterans say police fired an object that struck him in the head, but authorities say object has yet to be definitively established, as well as the person responsible for the injury."~~Associated Press~~ 

Yup, we know the drill.  What you saw wasn't really what you saw.  Alrighty!

Hustlers & Grifters & Family

Ah hem...Rick Perry hinted around to President Obama's birth certificate claiming it was joke. Yup, I reckon it was one of those good ole boys, good natured "colored" jokes regarding the birther theory.  The birther theory did not sit right with a lot of folks and people thought that we had moved on from that after the Donald Trump embarrassment.

Well... now, Perry has folks wondering about his own family tree.  I mean it does sort of raised eyebrows a little bit, especially with a family ranch called "Niggerhead" and him not to long ago threatening to secede from the union when President Obama (a black man) was elected.

Anyway, the secessionist governor should have left stirring the pot to the women folks because looks like he keeps making a big mess in the kitchen.  Which leads up to why people have a question for Perry regarding his family tree.  (pssst...Gun toting, secessionist governor ought to withdraw now because things is fixing to get ugly).

"...Perry almost invariably touts his humble roots, describing a hardscrabble but wholesome childhood in Haskell County, Texas, the origin of his small-town traditional values. Yet the New York Times has reported the pervasiveness of racist attitudes in Haskell County, where white residents referred to the segregated area on the other side of the tracks as “Niggertown.” ~~Max Blumenthal~~

"But both papers missed an additional important historical fact: Haskell County was home to an active, large and influential chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The genealogy of a prominent farmer and longtime resident of Haskell County, Oran Ewan Webb, refers to the Klan as a central facet of life in the county, noting:“There was a meeting of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at the O E Webb farm four miles east of Haskell on Monday night September 29, 1924. Public lectures were given by speakers of state reputation. Every officer of the Haskell County Klan was present. (Notice from Haskell newspaper).”~~Max Blumenthal~~

Looks like the gun toting, secessionist governor might have some splaining to do.

But now Perry is not the only one that might have some splaining to do.  Nope!  That little sneaky grifter, Representative Paul Ryan should explain to us why he is trying to fatten his families coffers at the expense of Grandma and Grandpa, poor deprived children, and all average citizens of America.  Instead of running around town making up lies and saying that the GOP party is concerned about all us average citizens.  Ryan we know that average citizen to you means billionaires and millionaires.

Shouldn't he be explaining  to us why he is still trying to run a con game and get his "Looking Out For His Family ONLY bill" over on people.  I think that Ryan has gotten so caught up in his own con game that he is actually starting to believe it himself. 

Let's not forget, jigging, hustling, Uncle Ruckas Herman Cain.  Someone needs to look and see if Hustler Cain has some ancestors that owned slaves in his family tree because Hustling Uncle Ruckas evidently believes in free labor. He does not want to pay employees minimum wage and thinks it should be lower.  Just when I thought that Cain couldn't get any lower on the scale of self-hating negroes.  Apparently, Uncle Ruckas likes to be called "Cornbread."  And could one of his latest campaign ads with the slave shack and supposedly slaves be in reality a hint to free labor?

Is Oakland Occupy Wall Street Our Kent State University Moment?

Did the "Oakland Occupy Wall Street" protesters break any windows downtown Oakland or were they looters?   Did they commit any violent act?  Nope!  They did not.  In fact, they were so peaceful you would have hardly knew they were there accept for the signs and the small corner space they occupied.

Did they chant too loud or throw bricks at the police? What exactly did they do to deserve an Iraq war veteran winding up in critical condition?

Back in the 50's, 60's, and 70's people were protesting left and right about the injustices and war.  Black folks were protesting discrimination and unjust laws,  people were protesting a war in Vietnam that should not have been as it is the same with all wars that the rich start, but want the poor people to do their fighting for them.  One protest that remains embedded in my mind that winded up like the one in Oakland was the Kent State University Massacre.

"Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis." ~~Wikipedia~~

The other protests were just as violent and more so, but it was not the people protesting who committed the violence.  It was those who were supposed to protect and serve the citizens of the United States of America who were the violent ones.  History repeated itself yesterday at the "Oakland Occupy Wall Street."
 
What did Iraq vet Scott Olsen do to deserve to wind up like this for protesting an injustice against all of the average citizens of America?
 
"Scott Olsen, 24, remains sedated on a respirator, in stable but critical condition at Oakland’s Highland Hospital after being hit in the head with a police projectile." ~~Jason Cherkis, Huffingtonpost~~ 

Is this supposed to happen to American citizens for demonstrating peacefully against injustices in America?  Our taxes pay those who are supposed to protect and serve us salaries, but we are not paying their salaries for them to commit violent acts against citizens whose only crime is that they are speaking out against injustice in a peaceful manner. 

Are we to believe that "The Land of the free" is not so free at all and that we are to be subjected to a Gestapo like atmosphere where our citizens can be shot down like dogs in the streets and bombed with tear gas by those that are to protect and serve us for speaking up for our rights and justice?

Yesterday, I passed by the "Oakland Occupy Wall Street" and there was nothing out of order, no one throwing bricks through business windows, no one torching a business, no one throwing bricks and bottles at the police. In fact, you would have hardly noticed them if you did not see the signs letting you know what they were there for.

NOTICE TO READERS

I haven't been blogging for the last few days because I hadn't been feeling well.  I came down with the flu, so I've been trying to get some rest and take care of myself.  Apparently, while I was away and hadn't checked my blog for comments, the trolls have been busy.  The trolls came from FieldNegro's blog and they had been flooding his blog with a bunch of  BS.

Trolls over at Field's blog have been highjacking bloggers' handles.  One of the trolls over at field's highjacked my handled and wrote that I was voting for Cain, which is the biggest lie!  The troll who wrote it is bold and has some type of computer knowledge because they signed in with my name in blue to make it look somewhat legit, while I was there.

I would never ever vote for that hustling idiot Herman Cain.  Nor would I vote for anyone on the Republican ticket. 

The Republican party and the Koch Brothers has become so desperate until they are paying people to  flood progressives  liberal Democrat blogs with their assinine games, confusion, and cheating behinds.  They are wasting their time playing that dung on my blog.  I plan to put a quick end to it!  As soon as I am feeling better.  One thing I will not tolerate is a lot of confusion.

The Bribery Brothers

Every time I hear Negroes like Allen West and Herman Cain, I begin to wonder just how many Negroes do the Koch Brothers have on their payroll.   Have you noticed how stunning  statements have become a pattern and trademark of those working for the Koch Brothers?  

For example, first, it was Michelle Bachmann, after her, it was Rick Perry, next Herman Cain, and now Allen West is jumping in with a remark that is totally stupid and insulting to OWL protest, the average taxpayer, and unemployed.

Exactly, how many palms have the Koch Brothers greased with moolah and how much money is it?  Think about how lately progressive blogs have been flooded with trolls left and right cheerleading for the GOP  trying to intimidate and harass folks to vote for a Republican candidate.  Lately, the GOP pick has been Herman the Hustler Cain.

We already know that the majority of the GOP Congress is on their payroll.  Just how much bribery money has the Koch Brothers been spreading around to take control of our government?  There is a lot at stake this time called Democracy and freedom.  Don't sleep through this election did the last one.

The Tales of Two Different Black Men

Amanda Knox is free and will more than likely get an offer for a book and possibly a movie. Her parents and loved ones are relieved and glad that she won't  spend time in jail or be executed or however Italy handles convictions in murder cases.  The media seemed to celebrate her release. All that is grand, with the exception of one thing...what about Diya "Patrick" Lumumba?

Lumumba,the African man, who spent  two weeks in jail, lost his business behind the lie that Amanda told implicating him as the one who killed her roommate. Yet, Lumumba was innocent! In America, we hear about whites accusing Black and Hispanic people of crimes that they themselves committed all the time. Yup! That old "The black guy or Hispanic guy did it" lie. Nothing new there, that's been going on since the antebellum days.

Lumumba was awarded 40,000 euros, which is $55,370.98 in American money for damages, but the man lost his business, which Amanda was employed at.  Because of the lie and notoriety caused by Amanda's lie his business shut down soon after he was released from jail. A black man cannot make a decent living without someone like Amanda trying to tear him down.  Smh!

Now, his lawyer said that Lumumba is barely able to support his wife and baby. More than likely,a good majority of his award went to pay his lawyer's fees. Nevertheless, Amanda will probably become wealthy from some book deal and possibly a movie to tell her story. Another American psuedo heroine...  But what about Lumumba and his family? Will he be offered a book deal to make up for his lost?

The subject of why won't I vote for Herman Cain came up. Well...let me take the time out to answer that question. It has nothing to do with the color of his skin because that's a non issue in my book because the last 40 something Presidents were white and I voted for many of them and would vote for another white one if I like their position on policies. Color preferences for Presidents is a white thing, not a black one. Nevertheless, I refuse to let anyone intimidate me into voting for someone because some of my people died for me to have the right to vote.  Therefore, I take my voting rights very serious.

Nor do I have a problem with people who think different from me.  Anyway, no two people think alike. However, I do have a problem with a black man who jigs and denigrates his own people in order to get ahead in life. Moreover, I have a problem with a black man who mimics the same talking points of white supremacist and those trying to maintain it. We live in a diverse nation, this is not an all white nation. There are no superior human beings. That is a myth!  It goes against the grain of "All Men Were Created Equal."

Cain reminds me of a scene in that movie "The Color Purple" in an odd sort of way. Granny pauses...changes and adds some words to the script. The scene with Celie and Sophia comes to my mind:

"You told white folks] to [denigrate us black folks]!"

"All my life I had to fight[for my civil rights]."

"I had to fight[discrimination]."

"I had to fight[Jim Crow laws]."

"I had to fight[unjust laws]."

"[Black folks] ain't safe in [a land of white supremacist filled with hate]."

"But I never thought, I had to fight my own [black people]!" ~~Alice Walker, edited by Granny~~

As for those who claim that Black folks who support Democrats are on a plantation. Well...I'll put it like this. I'd rather stay on the Democrat plantation because the massuhs on the Republican plantation  flog their Black folks in public for all to see like they did Cain, Michael Steele, and all of their other Black Republicans when they speak up against the right's wrongdoings. On the Democrat plantation they allow us the freedom to speak the truth and are not trying to starve us to death or make us homeless, or do away with grandma and grandpa in order to feed the greed of the most wealthy in our nation.

If a black man cannot stand on his own merits and the only way his party will accept him is if he denigrates Blacks and pushes the white supremacist agenda, he is not Presidential material. He is nothing but a puppet on a string and an Uncle Ruckas.  Too many people, Black and white lost their lives fighting for ALL people to have a right to vote and have civil rights. Martin Luther King said that the fight for civil rights wasn't just for black folks it was for white folks too!  Our nation should be trying to go forward, not backwards!

Skin Deep?

I'd like to present Black Diaspora another blogger and a dear friend of mine. I hope you enjoy Diaspora's topic, in fact, I know you will, and any questions you may have please direct them to Diaspora because he has the floor. Thank you!

In keeping with this blog's recent focus on "race" and "color," I want to extend the conversation around these two volatile topics.

In a previous blog entry, Mr. Francis Holland examined how color and race converge to create what he identifies as "Extreme Color Aroused Disorder," and the social pathology that has emerged around it--that the Disorder manifests itself, not so much as a difference in kind, but as a difference of degree.

I thought I would take a speculative look at the major element in this pathology around race--"color" itself.

What if we could eliminate "color" from the equation, from the racial construct, would this act alone make considerations along the colorline obsolete?

As science progresses, this possibility will become more and more a reality for those of us who would like to minimize "color aroused" responses in our daily lives, or eliminate them altogether.

The obvious question arises: If you're African American, would you undergo an extensive color-altering transformation--or impose it on your children--if it meant less "racial drama" in their lives or yours?

For some, this decision has already been made, well in advance of the science, as this video clip from the Tyra Banks Show so painfully reveals. Warning: Their reasons may shock you!

Growing up in the South years ago, racism in one form or another, was a daily reminder that color (and that primarily) kept me from fully participating in the larger white society--from where I could sit in a theater, if I was able to sit at all, to where I was allowed to eat, sleep, or relieve myself.

As a child, I often dreamed of how my live might be experienced, if such impediments didn't exist.

I wasn't angry with the color I was born with--the color that nature had given me--but with those who used my color to restrict, discriminate against, and to deprive me of the things they enjoyed by virtue of their whiteness.

If color is the determinant that arouses racial bigotry, what if we got rid of color altogether? How many of us would be game for that?

Let me state the question again: Should African Americans, generally, endorse such a plan (to lighten their skin color), if it meant less racial tension? One thing's for sure, whites aren't going to tan themselves much darker than "Coppertone" to rid the nation of varying degrees of "color arousal." If it's going to be done, African Americans will have to undergo this color-altering treatment.

One thing's for sure: With advancements in genetics, it won't be long before Scientists, using genetic engineering, have the means to alter skin color as readily as they "determine a smile or the shape of [a] nose."

"Designer babies," and color-reduction treatments that could forever change the color of our skin, are not things of science fiction, but are in our ever-drawing-nearer future.

On one television program, a video of a preteen black girl with vitiligo was shown. I gaped, as she went, over a period of months, from being a young black girl to a young white girl, much like the young black girl in the illustration at the top of this blog entry.

As a followup, let me ask another question: Is color and racism only skin deep?

Consider a real-life story of how the color of her skin "reclassified" Sandra Laing, a child of white parents, as "colored" in South Africa's unforgiving apartheid system. Made into a movie, Laing's story brings home the insanity of using color to differentiate people, and to use that differentiation to maintain a system of racial purity, and separation.

" 'Skin' is a fictionalized retelling of the true and terrible story of Sandra Laing, a South African woman whose race was classified and reclassified by the government, then in the mad grip of apartheid. Born in 1955 to officially white parents, Ms. Laing...was judged white. But when the child entered the larger world, her darker skin, and especially her tightly curled black hair, marked her as different. At 10, she was dragged out of school by the police because the principal had decided she wasn’t white. The government agreed and relabeled her 'colored.'"