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Shirley Sherrod, The One Gangsta President, The BP Oil Spill and the wrong discussion about Race and Farmers.

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

How did this even remotely involve him?

Forgive me. I’ve been on vacation from blogging. A forced vacation. My life is changing and I had to live in the real world more than the virtual. I’ve been writing hard–novels. Been living hard and focusing upon the success my inner spirit had to create in the world to make it a better world. I’ve grown so incredibly to overcome my challenges, but now its time and to quote an unknown homeboy

And it goes a little something like DIS

Huh? And I do mean Wha the….

How was any of this news?

White conservatives calling black people racists? Fox News misguiding and fooling any who would watch and listen? No news there. The NAACP knee jerking into a parrot refrain about condemnation of some black person who was called racist? Ok so maybe somebody would be surprised at that, but anybody who has ever read me knows I’m not a big fan of the organization which was created to fight racism which really doesn’t fight racism….

Ok back to the run down.  A government agency fires a black person for being racist because that person supposedly discriminated against white folk. Stop me when I say something news worthy. And why isn’t this news worthy? Cause a black person who gets in the news ain’t got a chance at the J. O. B. what ever the reason. (From Kwame Kilpatrick on down. Right?) But white folk? Hell even wit’ evidence five times stronger they keepin’ their maintain together. You do the math. And I know you been doin’ the math or you wouldn’t be here, readin’ this.

Ok focus. Run down.

Then the Gangsta President calls Ms. Sherrod and tells her to keep the  the stiff upper lip and keep fighting the good fight and all that. And even goes so far as saying that her old boss at the USDA is sincere in eradicating discrimination at the USDA even after he discriminated against her by firing, requesting her resignation, or whatever you want to say. Ok if you wanna fight about it just believe me, if a black family had lost their farm because of white person who admitted discrimination out right let alone in an antidote about how they had grown, that white person would not have been harassed with constant phone calls from the white house or phone calls from anyone…. Hell there are people(police) who keep their job after gunnin’ brothers down in cold blood who keep their jobs longer….But that’s not how I know had this been a white person then there would not have been repercussions so swift, news so hot and heavy…

You see I know this because one white family so called discriminated against by a black person engulfs the news cycle as if there’s a million barrels of oil  pumping into the ocean a day as a result of a perfect storm of recklessness and  greed, but the government  has failed, absolutely failed to pay an agreed settlement to black farmers in a true discrimination case and ain’t no body said a damn word. Whole farms gone. A legacy of discrimination proven. Absolutely proven!! Silence.

White farmers get they money from the government. White farmers get farm aid. They get government aid.

Black farmers get broken promises and reneged settlements. TRUE DISCRIMINATION. White farmers that weren’t even discriminated against get the sacrificed scapegoat Shirley Sherrod and a gizzilion sound bites?

REALLY? Was it that serious? In the truth of all things? Lord there’s only one lens. And shame on you if you paid your money and time to look through it and listen to the wrong discussion of Race and farming these last few days.

Shame on us all.

A Thief in the day Or The Last Air Bender? Where all the White People come from?

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Add this to the huge list of things the dominant culture has stolen

If you don’t understand what I do and why I do it, but wish to, then you need only spend a fraction of your busy day watching The Last Air Bender when it comes to cable. Notice I didn’t say spend your money to see it…more on that later.

For now understand that I watch The Avatar. It’s an Asian cartoon set in ancient China and based upon the traditional spiritual culture of the East. I watch it because of my thirty year love of martial art. Though not Asian, I teach an African style. I live an African spiritual system. The original. The way. And it works for me. But I spent enough time in Asian culture that I am both impressed and intrigued, even overwhelmed at what the makers of Avatar: The Last Air Bender are able to do with the show. It is easily like learning virtual spiritual lessons and true martial art. You could sit and read the I Ching, an ancient spiritual instruction on the Oracle of The East, and understand the images and depictions of the spiritual world upon earth being laid before you in the chapters or hexagrams–after a season with Aang. Pronounced often as Aung–which itself is an actual  word of power in Eastern spiritual tradition…. Didn’t I tell you?

In a word, the cartoon is absolutely stunning and no accolade is praise enough.

You know the story, From Golden Child to Thor to well my Beloved Heru, a child of The God(s) sent to earth to save it. And this is where you understand where I come in.  This particular paradigm originated with the Egyptians and became the Heroic archetype. Literally Heru.But the story itself is not the lesson from The Last Air Bender which  you must understand why I do it. You see there is a great spiritual culture of our ancestors which speaks to us along ancestral lines. My work is multicultural or better said multiracial because our universe was. Dark, light skins, later joined by lighter skins some of whom also lived the culture. Some of whom destroyed the gold which was the culture. These are the truths of an ancient culture of Egypt which survived for 5,000 years and preceded EVERY LAST spiritual culture. Only time took it from the planet. What rose, fell. It is the way. It is nature.

Today it does rise slowly. And I find myself interested in the appropriations without attribution, whether knowingly or unknowingly. I find myself interested in the truth of wonderful ancestral culture which seeded the world’s landscape for humanity’s undying struggle with the spiritual self on the physical plane. I watch in awe connecting the dots. From Christ to the Buddah to Thor to Herucules to Heru.

So I sit there in the darkened theater waiting. It’s an eastern director M.  Night Shyamalan. He’ll stick to the culture I say to myself. See I’m there for the spiritual culture and the art. Movie starts.

Bang!

I don’t see a lead Asian character for the first fifteen minutes of the film.

What?!! I’ve gotta start reading these damn reviews I tell myself. How in the hell could Aang ever, ever, ever, ever, and ever be a little white boy?!!! And all the Asian or Inuit(traditional Eskimo) characters are back ground. And Fire Nation (lead Characters) is Far East Indians?

Where did all the white people come from? Every last one of Aang’s wonderful little band of youth, and even Aang himself, who would save the world…White. The entire Fire Nation bad guy leadership Indian?

Where did all the white people come from? I kept turning to my mate and asking.

Stuck up wit’ out a gun. By a thief in the day.

I don’t know you brother, but Shyamalan, listen to me….It is the height of arrogance to rob a story, such an important cultural story and make it, well, your own in so many sad ways, but especially this way.

Most of the people in this country who want to see this movie are past the reasons missappropriations like this were successful in the past. If you watch Avatar or love Asian culture including martial art, then chances are you are not racist enough to need to see white people every where. In fact it’s just the opposite, you want to see Asians in The Last Air Bender because you want the magic of believability in the magically unbelievable movie. And the fact that neither is a part of this movie because of obviously poor casting choices influenced by racism is the downfall of  Shyamalan’s Last Air Bender.

I mean where did all the white folk come from? In Ancient China?! With British accents? In the frozen tundra. The Indian British accent in Ancient Far East Asia? Come on, now! But I see there was no shortage of down trodden losing Asians in prison camps.

Of course?

Of course.

It’s why I do what I do.

Giving The Devil His Due

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

People are betting that he'll live forever. No, he won't.

Dis Cat Dick? He’s been responsible for virtually every evil the American Government created since the start of the 21st century until his regime was toppled by The Light.

Five heart attacks? And the first one at 37 in the 70s and he’s still playin’ Star Wars Emperor until 2008? Only one entity could make that happen. Say it with me now. Yes, yes. Use the Darkside! Give in to your anger!

Happily, and I do not use this word lightly. The long and dark reign came to an end and it looks like his very wealthy benefactor has come calling for his due. Chaney finds himself hospitalized yet again for swelling, fluid build up etc around the heart. If you use the force you can tell when the light ebbs, like Yoda laying down in front of his young Jedi telling him how tired he is. Reach out now with your own heart and you feel that? The world is lighter, a great darkness recedes.

It won’t be long. And it won’t belong despite every crazy belief he’ll live a good long while.

Seems like the Debil doesn’t wait long, when it’s time. And he won’t wait on Dick.

Thank God.

The Black Bailout, Post Racial America, And A Coincedence

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

No?!! Ya Think?!!!!!! Mortgage Forclosures Hurt Black Folk Worse?

Sittin’ at the rest and I click on this. You have got to be kiddin’ me if you ain’t know. Read the caption of the pic. That’s the point. Sooo my question is shouldn’t there be some kind of ear marked program? Black Bailout? Yeah right. Like that’ll happen. Post racial America right? We’s all equal and the 200% percent of white counter part foreclosure rate is just a coincidence. Right? Like I said. Yeah Right.

Post Racial America my black…

They been stealin' our homes since they took us from our homes

Oh and for my readers? I’m back after a vacation from bloggin’. See ya.Hear?!! For Annuvision.

Hetep.

The Back End: Taylor Mays and Pete Carroll, Josh McDaniels and Tim Tebow In It’s Only Business As Racism Is On Display In The NFL Draft

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

I love you Taylor Mays cause you a Black Beast. And this morning I’m quite sure you understand what that means. And I can say I love you and feel your pain but you gotta remember this and what happened.

Fucked  then. Then fucked again on Thursday night.

It was business to Carroll then when he needed you to stay and talked you out of taking millions by getting you stay. It was business to Carroll when he needed to you to stay. And it was business when he didn’t draft you although you had stayed for him. Don’t blame your self, though I understand the pain and I must say not every body learns a 20 million plus lesson about racism in one day. It’s a lot to take. Blame him.You went to him as a loved and trusted adviser but what you didn’t understand was that he was a powerful self interested white male and you were no more than a Black Beast of muscle and sinew bid win or lose for him. I know this hurts to face, but had you been more, had Pete Carroll been more of a man and valued what he had done to you or what you had done for him, knowing if he didn’t take you, then you would slide out of millions of Dollars, then he would taken HIS GUY. But you were never his guy. You were a Black Beast to be used, nothing more, nothing less.

Let me pause here, because I’m sure our audience is wondering how is this racism. I must give this context.

By now every body knows the story. Pete Carrol tells him last year comeback it won’t affect your draft status. Cool. Only problem is last year he had top 10 hype because of the Black Beast work he put in. Year starts.  USC’s shit is weak. White Male Carroll  needs Black Beast Taylor to play center field and erase mistakes by others. Wonderful, if you’re in the league and ya name is Bob Sanders. Fucked up if you’re Taylor Mays and playin’ center field takes away from your play making.

Wow. Let me first say this. I advise every one to take the money and run. Don’t ever play four years if you don’t have to. Only in an exploitative system would white males say this. Would they say this to a group of white males? A resounding no!!! You see that’s the racism. It don’t matter. Niggahs don’t need money. They get too much of it anyway. So many of them of Pro Athletes.  But white males would always rather give white males the money. Doubt me? Really? How many times you see the white male bring a black friend aboard for a job? It’s the same issue.

See that’s what I’m talking about. That’s the code, the encoding, the truth behind the great white hype. The need to help other white folk be successful because it aids the white collective of which the decision makers are a part. Sociologist once said there’s no racism only soccer sense due to an experiment where colored soccer players kicked to other soccer players more often than to white player as the white soccer players kicked to other white soccer players more often than to colored players. Yeah. Understand?

Break it down a little and apply it. Carroll wasn’t being racist he simply was kicking the ball where it was supposed to go to more efficiently bring about a winner for his boss the white owner of the Seahawks. Or Josh Lil’ Hitler McDaniels wasn’t being racist in over drafting a weak ass quarterback into millions of dollars he was just working with a comfortable situation in Bill Belichek and Urban Myer Coach of Florida recommending Tebow.

These two got together and made sure the great white hyped weak armed QB would get drafted high.

As an aside this is how I now see this as going down. Urban’s getting heat for failing to prepare Tebow for the league. And lord there was a lot of heat because he threw the ball so poorly.(as an aside to the aside, Coach Carroll isn’t taking any heat for failing to prepare and or play Taylor Mays so that he gets drafted high–the White men merely want to say we don’t know that’s the reason he slid. Bullshit the black man says.) So Urban calls up his good ole boy Belicheck and tells him I need some help with this and he has to go very high. I can’t do it, Belicheck says and gives him some excuse but the real reason he can’t is because Belicheck knows Tebows crap on a toasted Bunn. So Belichek picked up the phone and calls all of his disciples or cut buddies. Scott Pioli probably laughed at him. Bill Parcells laughed at him AND said fuck you, jes because…and even if I don’t owe you one here’s another fuck you for even thinking it. Then the call fell to Little Boy Josh who owes Belichek the world. And besides its for a white male. Behind the scenes the Belichek and Urban Meyer are empowered, running from or sense urgency because of public backlash against a system which and a coach who would use a white male for the glory of a school and the coach’s job but not help the player reap deserved rewards after by becoming a first round contender.

Always remember they, the public nor the coaches,  wouldn’t do this for a black male no matter the position. A black male gets fucked and no one cares. Taylor Mays is exhibit A.  And if I sound repetitive I am.  See they the white  men in power and the vocal white masses can  understand the need of white folk to make all that money but simply don’t see it as necessary for a black man to get paid. They pump up a weak armed quarterback Tebow who wouldn’t even make it in Arena so that he gets his money…

But the brother who was going to  be a first rounder slips cause he did what the coach who absolutely used him like a cheap ho tole em to do? We went in another direction. It was business. We had to take Earl Thomas. Pete Carroll says. Jim Mora Jr., whom I’ve never liked and hope he never gets another NFL job, says on NFLN  that Taylor Mays should have kept his mouth shut?!

This cat here shoulda kept his mouth shut instead of trying to tell Taylor Mays to keep his mouth shut. Men don't come between other men and money. That, in this instance, is quintessential racism

How dare Mora come between a man and his money. That’s right Taylor’s a black man and never had a right to that money. NFLN commentator Tommy Waddell says it’s just business. Pete Carroll’s job is to win games as coach as USC, not get him ready for the NFL. Huh? I’ll grant you that Tommy I’m not racist it’s just business Waddell but it’s not just business to Taylor Mays whose Black Beast qualities helped make USC millions of dollars in return for a paltry scholarship. Mays is a student athlete at the time in a trusting, vulnerable position. Yes he should have seen that Pete Carroll had a conflict of interest but he was the less business savy and it was no job for him. The proper thing for Carroll to say would have been I have a conflict of interest and can’t advise you. But he didn’t because he didn’t care. Pete Carroll only cared about himself.

Taylor Mays is only a Black Beast. And this was only business after all.

Fucked then. And fucked again.

And with all due respect to Tommy I’m not racist Waddell, who says make it up on the back end, Black Beast Taylor Mays  can never make back the money he missed because of slidding. It’s the way NFL contracts are right. Start with 20 mill and all the interest. Add to that the endorsement deals and so much more. Shure he can get a larger contract on his next one but he can never go back and make the money he missed. Think of it this way, he gets a thirty mill contract and balls out then gets the even bigger contract next time. Unnerstand?

Not to even mention you’re now one knee injury away from never seeing that guaranteed money, but Tim Teabow ain’t.

It’s just astronomically unbelievable that these white men would tell these lies out of school. But its just not caring about a young brother who didn’t belong to the club of white.

And young brother I don’t often do this but let me speak directly to you. For them it’s a club and they care about each other’s life. You could be the Draft/game plan/ player whisperer, quietly tweaking a team’s performance with well placed words–telling a cat how to do the blitz to help a player becomes a pro bowler, give up subtle info on draft choices who are under performing and instantly make them better, even give him the game plan to beat a team in the play offs which blew out his team only the week before, but they don’t see a need for you to get paid as they count play off game money and generally bask in glory of the profession and they still don’t feel a need to support your player(s) who deserve a shot or give you a muthafuckin’ dime despite being broke and not needing but deserving more than a dollar.

I could go on but jes let me say…They’re your friends when they need you and want you to sacrifice for them, give them the benefit of all your hard work for free and it’s just business when they fuck you. That’s what the NFL means.

Now you can only blame it on yourself. You listened to a white man who manipulated you for his own benefit and then when it came time to pay the check he did what they do so well and didn’t. There is no battle cry here no smart ending. I only pass out tips and evaluations which help make  careers, which have helped win playoff games and never got a dollar and lord I need and I’m hurt if I allow myself to be, which I don’t. I couldn’t imagine losing first round money. Millions. With a due respect to the little fat white man on NFLN Mike Lombardi who said it doesn’t matter anymore go out and play and prove you’re that kind of player, you already have and he’s truly a fat little white man for saying it.

You. You’re a Black Beast and welcome home. Don’t ever forget it, now, or on the back end.

Mrs. Monkey President Obama and A Post Racial America: The Same Ole Monkey Hustle.

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Obama Monkey Pictures is Proof Positive Racism is not dead

Those of us who live in the America of our real world and not the America of our imaginations or desires would like to point out that this cat passing around the Mrs. Monkey President cartoon and all the racist Michelle Monkey Obama images demonstrate that the calls for post racial America are simply that. Just calls. What is hidden in this not so thinly veiled racist cartoon is the truth of main stream America’s leanings.

Monkey Michelle Obama Picture shows us that a post racial America is no more than a dream

Her husband may have campaigned on Change you can believe in and many Obama followers may  have rallied to a light of an idealistic America under his Presidency, but brothers dying in police custody, the incredible unemployment rate of African Americans during this recession (African American Unemployment rates to hit 25 year high at around 20 percent.) all tell us simply one thing. Not one thing has changed. All the tell tale signs of racism are thriving under Obama because only the Presidency changed. America’s population, it’s cultural fiber did not. Apple pie, Chevy, Niggas unemployed, beat by police, and broke and put upon.  Any body telling us differently is just running a con game. You see the only change we can believe in is that now their racism is directed at the highest political office in the land as well as every non white skin in America. In fact, if you look really closely and pay attention to what happens to African Americans daily, you’ll find its the same ole Monkey Hustle.

John Mayer: Waitin’ on crackas to change or the truth about an Obama inspired Post Racial America

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Waitin’ for the world to change?

Nah, brah man how bout changin’ now?

I’m not stunned by this white male using that Nigger word, nor am I stunned by his racist potty mouth. Yes I read it right. I know I did cause I read it 5 times. He said my penis is a white supremacist.

Wow.

Here we have a sociopolitical art icon, damn near, who rode the success of a sociopolitical movement of apathy so common at the time right to major pop success. And when I call him a sociopolitical artist icon, I mean just that. A person made larger than life because of his art about the sociopolitical environment in America. What is so important about this is regardless of his status and wonderful lyrics of a song I never really liked because of its lyrics, this man is simply racist. And before I cover why he’s racist, let me say why I hate this song. This song is simply the quintessential statement of white political privilege. See the people gettin’ they aaaaaaassssssesssss kicked can not wait on the world to change. Usually black folks are gettin’ they asses kicked by the world…

Socially.

Politically.

Economically.

In front the cops, by the cops.

At the job. At the market. At the cleaners.

Whether they know it or not.

And at so many points in their lives, black folk have to make so many decisions to take on greater powers in their lives when believe me, they’d rather not, but their livelihoods or loved ones lives, or greater depend upon their fight on whatever level. See cause we can’t hide when it comes to racism.

Marked by the color of our skin we are forced to force change at so many crossroads since the original ancestor stepped foot in this country…. so difficult is this road that few choose to try to change what is so clearly wrong about the treatment of black people in this country. Even if a black person were to become political leader of this country that person would not try to change specifically the treatment of African Americans. That’s right Obama became President ostensibly by harnessing the social apathy Mayer confronted with his song and so prevalent under the republicans, but he has yet to directly confront clear racism in this country. And America, in every sound bite, and news cycle wants to follow suit as we hear more and more about a Post Racial America which is only media made fiction.

There has always been wealthy black folk since freedom done come. Didn’t stop the need for a Juneteenth. Didn’t stop lynchings. Has not stopped racism. And suddenly we’re supposed to believe racism’s done because a wealthy black male became President? When black folks are hit disproportionately by the recession. Still shot down like dogs in the street by the Po-po? Still gettin’ out(from under the)  jail after hell done froze over and the DNA hearing before the Appeals Court and Mama’s bout to be laid in the ground?

Now as I was sayin’ about Mayer’s racism…Yes he was being a cracka. And you know he’s not alone. Just the one dumb enough to say it. Right? And don’t look at me. He started it. Didn’t he wanna talk about his nigger card…called his penis a white supremacist…

We know about the historic treatment of the ancestors who were the first to hit these shores and endured the treatment as abused sex slaves for white supremacist Master Johnson’s all across the colonies. To call his penis a white supremacist and say he ain’t got a nigger hangout card all in one interview, I think summed up the historic racist slap of the year. Add to that his artistic political icon status and you have more than irony. You got…

Well America…

Truth is, if we were to tell the truth, Obama’s the President in America and if you want to say that this makes it a Post Racial America fine, but with all due respect, and with an incredibly ironic nod to the racist artistic icon of  political change John Mayer,  to a man or woman black folks all across America is waitin’ on crackas to change. Now that’s change we black people would really like to see yet the change we don’t believe in….