
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.
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.













Laura (Von) Schlessinger and My One Question About The N Word Lover
Friday, August 13th, 2010If you black and you still listen to this fool Laura Schlessinger, you a bigger fool, fool.
Dr. Laura Von Schlessinger uses the N___ Word repeatedly
First let me say these are the moments that are the reason why I’m amazed when people want to start talking about a post racial America. And to the post racial America people I say…
Only in ya dreams…
Huh?!!!! And I do mean What the…. Are you kiddin’ me? If ever I heard all the common racist responses to a demand for respect…. This was like listening to all the white folks who ever thought they could talk to me about racism. In 2010 she jumped back to the begining!
You could hear it in her voice. And I say it for effect…. Just this one time. I do not provide and permission to any one or news agency to repeat it numerous times in quoting me. To do so would be racist. Are we clear? Now you could hear it in her voice…
Shut up Nigger. Whas a matter wit’ callin’ you a Nigger? Huh?!!
Said it like her name was Von Schlessinger and she was sitting at the 2010 New World Order Wanasee Conference conveying to determine policies on the N____s.
I mean did she really just tell the woman she was being hypersensitive? Ya gotta kidding me. And this from a Doctor? Yes a very white Doctor.
Ok there are historical reasons why the use of the N word by a white person is unquestionably wrong. Especially in conversation getween a black person and a white person. Maybe because it sums up years of hatred and oppression in one word, as in it was probably the one word said at every lynching of a black person in through out America’s dark history.
Ok. Dr. Laura was smoking crack 80s style and got caught up in the I got a N__ friend routine to justify her incredibly racist behavior or her racist behavior informed her commentary cause it wasn’t analysis. And that friend’s a N____ she payin’ by the way. And if I’m not mistaken she could call him one to his face and the odds are 50/50 he’d stay cause that’s just what we get at work. Na meen.
Ok. I think her words need little commentary. I truly have just one question to every one…why is she still on the radio and what does that say about what this society think of us…
No lemme say it.
N______s.
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