Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Orenthal James "OJ" Simpson: Once and For All. Now YOU can determine: ARE YOU RACIST?

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OHHH JAY…

Consider this my obligatory OJ post. Almost everyone has blogged about OJ at some point in time, and thus, I will get ALL of this off of my chest at once.

OJ is NOT guilty according to a prolonged trial that took place in LA some time in the 90s. Regardless of your feelings, the guy, according to the courts, did NOT kill his coke head wife and her very brave boyfriend. GET THAT CLEAR IN YOUR RACIST MIND and I don’t care what color you are, if you can not get that concept through your head, I’m calling you racist.

Now with that understood, lets move to the next thing you need to ask yourself. This is the true test of how you FEEL about people. How YOU feel about people's color. HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE.

Does the image of this man, Robert Blake, evoke, emote, elicit the same feelings in your soul, in your being, in your body

as the image of THIS man, Mr. Orenthal J. Simpson?

IF you hesitated even for a moment, you are sicker than you think and you really need to walk up to every black person you know and simply say “I’m sorry, I’m one of the people who keeps you down. I am THE MAN, I am racist, and I didn’t even know it" (even if you are a woman).

See, regardless of what anyone says, the whole treatment of OJ, post-trial, really continues to remind every single person of color that they are truly second class citizens in this country. OJ and Robert Blake allegedly committed the exact same crimes. THEY allegedly KILLED their wives and the evidence against them BOTH essentially seemed, on paper, to be iron clad. OJ allegedly killed his WHITE wife and her WHITE action sport boyfriend. Blake, allegedly, killed his wife, wait a second, WHITE wife while she sat in her (his) car outside of a bar or restaurant. Both cases seemed open and shut. Both men appeared perfectly guilty.

However, Blake did something that we are apparently very used to. He killed his wife. HELLO!??! Join the club of a few thousand spouses who kill spouses every month Mr. Blake. OJ, however, did something WE ARENT APPARENTLY USED TO, or at least, it seems a MAJORITY of white America is far from accepting. OJ, a nice BLACK MAN, killed his wonderfully beautiful dip-dyed BLOND pretty and sexy as hell WHITE coke-head WIFE, who, as a black man, he apparently shouldn’t have had in the first place ESPECIALLY in the United States of America….. Plus, he allegedly even added the murder of the sexy and studly action hero boyfriend Ron Goldman to his killing spree.

NOW, to get this whole POST straight, I am not DEFENDING OJ, nope, all I am doing is DEFENDING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN.. period.

I have no idea what happened the night little Miss Coke-Head and her biologically equipped dildo were murdered. Not a SINGLE idea other than what I have read and what I was shown by the media. I, as a person of color, have to be skeptical of what was shown to me, and what I was told because I have been mentally abused by the media on more than one occasion in my life, after all, Martin Luther King Jr. was a rebel trouble maker with communist ties, right??,,,, and if you don’t believe me ask Arizona’s “leaders” why they STILL DON’T HONOR him for his selfless dedication to equal rights for EVERYONE!

As an American, aren’t I supposed to accept the results of our legal systems bouts? Arent I supposed to accept that a man is innocent until proven guilty, and having no finding of guilt, aren’t I supposed to respect his innocence? I’m just asking? I mean, Robert Blake's "people" seem to accept his innocence.. Right??

OJ and MLK in the same post --- Yup, I’m trippin.

So, the quick rundown of what I was told, is/was, OJ, a man in his fifties, hid, confronted, attacked two people, each roughly one third of his age, with a regular old kitchen/butcher knife, cut his wife (I’ll put her name here now), Nicole’s neck nearly to the neck-bone, and managed to kill the action-sport-roller blading-waiter Ron Goldman either before or after killing Barbie (Nicole).

At the time this “crime” took place I was studying for my Ph.D. at Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia. I’ll never forget the reaction of my white, and very intelligent professors, especially in view of the way the rest of a more undereducated stupid white America behaved…

They did not believe that OJ did the crime. They did not believe it was possible without some advanced ninja training or at least some sort of military combat training to kill two 2 TWO people 1/3 of his age. However, LIKE ME, they did believe there was a very serious chance that OJ did know who did the crime. They also believed like most MEN, OJ did touch his wife when he “discovered” her dead on the ground and did make his way through the murder scene, clumsily, because he DID at some high level love the woman and would be totally freaked out seeing her with her head half cut off. SIDE-NOTE: this case always bothered me because, A) I’m a black guy, and B) I was married to an attractive woman, whom, if I found her half chopped in half upon returning home, even if I did “order the hit” I would be faced with the reality that she was gone forever and might have, perhaps, hugged, held, touched, groped (LOL) her upon finding her mangled and lifeless… The reason I KNOW this is what most people would do is because our stories, our myths, our books, our movies, always portray the living loved one embracing the dead loved one upon discovery of the dead loved one’s lifeless body. SO, as my professors agreed, and as I truly believe, sure OJ touched Nicole, and was party to contaminating the crime scene. SURE, OJ knew, potentially (see below for more “potentially’) who did the crime, and SURE he didn’t know he would change MY LIFE and other black American's lives FOREVER.

So here we are in 2007 (almost 10 years, if not 10+ years after OJ was accused of the murders). To this day, if a black man, A BLACK MAN, gets in and out of legal trouble he is equated with OJ Simpson. To this day, if you bring up OJ in mixed company (in the company of white people) you will get an almost unanimous look of anger. To this day, the “American legal system” is held i doubt by most Americans because OJ walks around “free” even though the assumption is he got away with murder. Yet, Robert Blake, again, a guy who allegedly killed his wife, or had her killed, gets ZERO affect/effects for not getting found guilty in a court of law.

Let me repeat that shit. ROBERT BLAKE, who allegedly killed or had someone kill, his WIFE, was found not guilty in a court of law, and to this day, I can bring up his name in mixed company, and a near perfect 10 out of 10 times not only do people NOT KNOW WHO THE FUCK HE IS, they do not get emotionally wrapped up with his “not guilty” verdict.

For the idiots and racists reading this post, lets get some similarities out of the way:

  1. both men allegedly killed their wives.
  2. both men were/are at a certain level CELEBRITIES
  3. both men are wealthy and capable of hiring seriously intelligent and expensive attorneys to defend them.
  4. both men had some “reason” to kill their wives.
  5. both men were found NOT GUILTY.
  6. both men had white wives.

Now, for the idiots and racists reading this post, lets work on the differences:

  1. Robert Blake is WHITE.
  2. OJ is BLACK.

Please, rest a second and perhaps re-read alllll of the above because at this point in the post you should, if you hadn’t or haven’t already, be really ready to question the way America treats OJ, or should I say, black people?... and for the sake of REPEATING IT ONE MORE TIME: OJ ALLEGEDLY KILLED HIS WHITE WIFE, ROBERT BLAKE ALLEGEDLY KILLED HIS WHITE WIFE…people kill their spouses DAILY.. and I give you THIS LINK as an example of a white WOMAN who shotgun blasted her PRIEST HUSBAND and is walking the streets to this day. IF you are an American, and IF you aren’t shaking your head quizzically with regard to our treatment of OJ, right now, YOU should just go and get your white pointy hat-hood................ RIGHT NOW!!!!

GEEEE ZUSSSS ----------------------

Without further, doo doo, let me bring you up to modern day craziness.

A young black woman was abducted, held, cut, abused and sexually molested, all while being called nigger, by a group of 6 hillbillies in West Virginia. This was in the news for about a week, maybe.

6 young kids in Jena Louisiana are being tried on charges of assault, battery and even, I believe, attempted murder (look up Jena 6), because they responded Malcolm X-ish (by any means necessary) to NOOSES being hung from a tree in their school yard as an attempt by some white students to claim the shady area of the tree as a “whites only” area. [NOTE: I’m not writing this from the past, it is 2007 where I am sitting and YES, that does say “whites only”] Apparently some fighting took place as a result of the noose-art. Go figure.

The above are two stories from recent news, another one I’ve already mentioned, which is the story of the white woman who killed her priest husband and was essentially let off because of her claim of mental abuse by her husband (who just happens to be dead and can not defend himself!). My recollection is she served about 5 months in prison, about 30 days in a mental facility, and is now making the news because she is attempting to gain custody of her children.

NONE of the people listed above will be denied access to a 5 star restaurant at the Kentucky Derby next year. However, OJ, was denied service at a 5 star restaurant at the Kentucky Derby this year, because the owner didn't want to serve "his kind" (the acquitted murderer kind).

Which brings us back to doe, dough, doe......D'OH!!!

Today, OJ is being held by a Vegas court without bail for attempting to retrieve some of his sports memorabilia from an apparent THIEF who stole said memorabilia. Ok, so its not that cut and dry. OJ was with some dudes, apparently a few of whom, or at least one of whom was ARMED (sort of lends some credibility to those who think OJ "knows" who killed his wife..). They entered a hotel room and, from listening to the audio clip of the encounter (see the crooked dealer actually had a tape recorder running ... don't even ask anyone why), pretty much attempted to retrieve OJ’s memorabilia from the alleged thief/dealer. ALL of the people involved have been on television and in the newspapers explaining what happened. Its my understanding also that everyone involved is walking around enjoying the free air, sunshine, life... Except OJ, who is perhaps the first ever accused robber to be held without bail, EVER, considering most importantly that he has A CLEAN CRIMINAL RECORD. REPEAT A CLEAN CRIMINAL RECORD. OJ SIMPSON a BLACK AMERICAN is being held without bail for a crime involving “guns” (none of which have been retrieved/retained by the police) in which it has been stated more than once that he, OJ, DIDN’T HAVE A GUN. WHY? What is this about? Is it because Robert Blake killed his white wife?

Another issue regarding OJ are the parents of his now dead coke-head beautiful blond sneaking around screwing little extreme sports guys on the side wife. Every time OJ has a chance to make a little cash the Browns and Goldmans try to grab some of the cash saying it is rightfully theirs due to a civil suit they WON against OJ regarding the death of their son and stank ho daughter. YES, I called her STANK HO because for once I’m going to be just as racist as this entire post implies the USA is, by saying her little wayward ho-stank-money grubbing white ass was with OJ because of his cash and in spite of America’s true feelings about interracial relationships.

Lets be honest here people, the average pink American feels NO LOVE or pain for the white woman who is married to an abusive black man. The average red necked American has NO LOVE for any white woman who has any relationship at all with a black man, period. HOWEVER, entire “negro” towns have been laid to waste should a black man (boy) make any comment about how they feel about a white woman. Thus, should a black man be accused (ACCUSED) of hurting/killing his white wife, suddenly, in America's eyes, her precious black snake moaning butt becomes Grade A American BEEF, and our country lynches the black monkey stud. [see the Life and Times of OJ Simpson for the metaphor to be clear]

OJ has been in a state of perpetual LYNCHING since being acquitted (ACQUITTED) of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The Goldmans and Browns took advantage of the post-trial emotions of the country and had a civil suit with a jury of “objective” white jurors, who subsequently awarded them with millions of OJ’s dollars as payment for his direct involvement and relationship with the death of their children. GOT THAT! IF you for any reason make a ton of money, and for some bizarre set of circumstances, your wife is found murdered and you accused, should you be acquitted of the murder, her family may and can go after you for cash citing YOU as the cause of her death. PLUS the dude she's screwing on the SIDE, his family can come after you as well!!! NOW that is some ONLY IN AMERICA SHIT FOR YA.. not to mention, in my lifetime, OJ is the only dude, to my knowledge in HISTORY, who has lost this type of “civil suit” and spent the rest of his life with his people's hands in his pockets. PLUS, PLUS PLUS, the guy who makes the MOST noise, who has his noose the tightest around OJ’s neck is RON GOLDMAN’S father, not Nicole’s.

The dude who keeps OJ in check in the cotton fields is the guy who’s nasty, philandering son was screwing OJ’s wife! THINK ABOUT THAT!!! In most southern states, OJ would have been "legally" allowed to shoot that fool for sleeping with his wife in the first place! (Ok, not legally, but there are many places below the Dixie line that “understand” when a man shoots the dude who is screwing his wife). Understand this carefully, the man who speaks out the most against OJ Simpson, is the FATHER of a child who was willingly taking part in an adulterous relationship. WE are so racist, that WE as a country listen to this man at every turn, WE feel his pain and his loss, and yet, perhaps he is responsible for his son’s death because HE didn’t teach his own child about an essential aspect of life: DO NOT SCREW ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE IT MIGHT GET YOU KILLED. . .. good lord!!! Lets take Mr. Goldman to court in a civil suit regarding HIS responsibility in his son’s death!!!

Finally, I have not written this to protect or honor OJ (I think I've repeated this about three times). He’s a freak who could run a football, played in some goofy movies, dated some BAD ASS white women, got accused of a crime, was found NOT GUILTY, and has spent his ever waking second since being found NOT GUILTY, more guilty than Charles Manson. OJ is the last of America’s true slaves, living as a prisoner within his own country, probably totally confused that he can sit through a 4 hour autograph signing session and feel love from truly non-racist fans, and then in a heartbeat, find himself walking without bail towards the noose again for events in Vegas. From what I've read, the Vegas incident would generally result in any accused people heading home to await their trial dates .. OJ is America’s constant reminder to ALL black people that we are card carrying owners of the “second class” and that anything we think we have, is essentially ALLOWED to us, not a privilege, not a right, but an allowance.

ALL of this because Robert Blake killed his white wife.

Monday, August 27, 2007

1865: On second thought, y'all in the South..can GO!



What a way to come back from the California Bar Exam. Here I am...feeling all good about myself. "wooo, look at me.." Healthy American male. Being all I can be. Oh yeah..I just happen to consider myself a "Black man", simply because that is how I am "perceived" in the good ol' U.S. of A. But, incredibly, I never let that "bother" me, living here in beautifully VACUOUS” Southern California, because, Hell, I'm an AMERICAN and a HUMAN BEING. That whole “Black thing” is a figment of America’s sordid imagination.

Hmmm…ignorance is bliss, aint it..?

Well, well, well.. So, my good friend Ricci is updating me with all of the news I missed during the past 3 ½ months and he tells me about this ESPN article written by Jemele Hill (whom Ricci humorously refers to as: “Jim-ilee”). The story OF COURSE is about our favorite dog-fighter/trainer/killer…Michael “Con” Vick (a professor’s Blog about Mr. Con-Vick WILL be coming shortly you can “belee dat”).

Well, Ms. Hill happened to mention the Jena 6 (pronounced: “Jeeenuh”)in her story about Vick.

Now see.. I “thought” I had heard about this story during my time of Bar-study. But I hadn’t had any time to truly get into the meat of it. Well, I have PLENTY of time now, and I spent half of the day researching this “gem” of Southern Americana”.

I want to take this time before I GO OFF on this story to THANK this “great” nation for officially stirring me from my ¼ year hiatus of pursuing academic endeavors. "Thank you" America..and especially to those of you in the American South. Yes, you lovely, God-fearin’, bible thumpin’, tooth challenged folk down there have done it again. ..And just when I had the unmitigated gall to “think” that you had perhaps run out of racist ideas to come up with to sink EVEN LOWER in the pantheon of human disgraces against the Planet Earth…you went ahead and fooled me again. Shame on me.

The good folks of the AMERICAN SOUTH have come up with the Jena 6 of Jena, Louisiana.

Jena,_Louisiana

Now, I won’t go into the gory details about this case. I ask you all to read the link and then do your own research.

But I will say this about this case: This case is straight out of Nineteen Fifty-F****** THREE [1953]. In this shockingly BELIEVABLE story you have all of the classic ingredients for a good ol’ fashioned American fairy tale of lynching those "ornery naggerrhs". You have:
- the deep south heat, humidity, and tension;
- a gaggle of young, strong, healthy, virulent, athletic black American teenagers, NONE, mind you, over the age of 18;
- a sweaty white power structure;
- some cackling white teenagers who obviously learned their classic race-hatred/fear from their cartoonish southern parents;
- a hangman’s noose;
- the ubiquitous “tree” (of course to string the “darkies” up from);
- trumped up charges;
- a “trial”;
- the obligatory “all-white ‘jerrayhh’”;
- a conviction that only seems to shock the black teenager’s weeping, overweight mother, who OF COURSE, has an un-pronounceable first name (I think her name is “Ceseptla” [I’m not making this up]);
- and the specter of this once promising young man’s future going up in smoke for 20-25 YEARS based on sheer, unadulterated, racist BULLSHIT.

[as you can see, the Professor is about to go into vintage RAGE mode]

As I mentioned I will not go into detail about the facts of the case. And I don’t have to for this blog because I’m here only to make commentary..which is this:

I am BEYOND “sick” of hearing about CONTINUOUS, ONGOING, PERSISTENT, UNRELENTING dumb shit resonating primarily in the AMERICAN SOUTH!

Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t those God-forsaken MF’S L-O-S-E the Got-Damn civil war??!! WHY am I STILL having to deal with their ass-backward, 18th century, slave-ship loving, country ASSES??!! WHY!!!!

You know folks, I’m writing this with the kind of seething, insipid, “anger” that can only be illustrated by the feeling you know an “ALIEN” has when he’s about to bite thru your chest while spewing acid.

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There is no reason for injustice like this, in this little God-forsaken town in backwoods Louisiana, to go unpunished. Why is the Federal government NOT in Jena, LA. You have a case where a WHITE teen pulls A SHOTGUN out, points it at a BLACK teen. And the superhuman, HEROIC BLACK teen somehow wrestles the SHOTGUN away from the gun-toting teen and RIGHTFULLY refuses to “give the gun back”. In this little AMERICAN TOWN, don’t you know they charged the BLACK SUPERHERO TEEN with (I “almost”cant bear to write it) T-H-E-F-T!!!! ANNNNND “aggravated ROBBERY”.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!

When I discuss politics with my Mom I seem to always end the conversation with: “Ma, I don’t care who wins the election..I just don’t want to hear another SOUTHERN ACCENT in the White House!!!” And you know what folks, I absolutely mean that. I don’t wanna hear a Carter, a Clinton, a Bush (Jeb OR George), a Edwards, a Ford (Harold-TN), a Johnson, a Truman, a Jefferson…I DON’T WANNA HEAR IT!! NO MORE GOD-DAMMIT!!! I'm F'n DONE!!
The South LOST. They shouldn’t be runnin’ nuthin! And they damn sure shouldn’t be allowed to let racist District Attorneys run hog-wild in a small, racist, backwater piece of shit town (that actively campaigned for a KLANSMAN [David Duke]) to effectively “lynch” 6 young black CHILDREN for standing up against terrorism. Yes, I said TERRORISM.

Terrorist threats were made, collectively, against these 6 young, prime of life BOYS and the minority African-American population, as evidenced by:

1. The ignorant audacity of the local white population establishing a “white-tree” to use for shade, then: 2. completing the terrorist crime by hanging NOOSE’S (multiple nooses mind you) from said tree as an act of a primal-savage threat to the other sentient human beings (the Black folk) that have the gross misfortune of having to share their living space with insane, nazi-like Neanderthals, who happen to be SOUTHERN and WHITE. You know, I actually apologize for besmirching the “Neanderthals’” good-name. Hell, they probably didn’t have a racist bone in their body, what with all the cave-dwelling and saber-cat hunting..

So, I thank you American South for succeeding in reminding me that, yes, I am Black and that this, in fact MATTERS, in the United States of America.

The good news is that 1 day, being white or black or some shade of hi-yellow or red wont even matter. It will be laughable that people were somehow “this ignorant and uncivilized”.

1 day, folks will say: “I can’t believe how backward people are these days!!! I mean, these people are living in the ‘stone-ages’!! YOU’D THINK WE WERE HOUSE-DWELLING AMERICANS BACK 3000 YEARS AGO, FOR GOD’S SAKE!!

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Nigger vs. Nigga - For The Record



I just want to get on record regarding all the hullabaloo (I've ALWAYS wanted to use that word.. and now I HAVE.. did you know it actually has a definition - "a damorous noise or disturbance or uproar") regarding the trend over the last few years of black folks heading to the media, into courtrooms and into city halls, to demand that lawmakers help them figure out how to stop young black folks (and some old ones as well) from using the word "Nigga" in their daily conversation, music compositions, literary musings -whatever. I'm also trying to get on record to help the 'white man' who in some states has actually acquiesced with this older ilinformed group of black idiiots, and created resolutions to 'ban the N-word'.

First, lets start with a lesson in good old fashion english.

Read this sentence: They're on Their way over THERE and once They're THERE they will be where they are.

Now read this sentence: THERE on They're way over THEIR and once There They're they will be where they are.

Same sounding word, yet it is written three different ways and not only that, has three totally distinct meanings. The words in question in today's lesson not only have different meanings and spellings, THEY DONT EVEN SOUND THE SAME! So to the tone-deaf, to those who hear what they want to hear and not what is actually said, PLEASE learn from this post and lets move on to more important issues.

I'm not going to hold anyone's hand durnig this discussion. If you do not understand the above in view of what follows, GOD HELP YOUR STUPID ASS.

Okay, banning the use of the word NIGGER would be great, however, the only people who use the word NIGGER are white racist assholes who want to desparately condemn a man of color, reminding him that there was a time when his nigger ass was essentially equal, if not of lessor value to a stray dog. People who use the word NIGGER know exactly what they are doing. They are attempting to inflict pain, attempting to terrorize and are not in any way shape or form happy about the presence of black/brown people .. anywhere. People who say nigger will not be stopped. However, it would be nice if there was a resolution created that would allow me to have someone arrested for calling me NIGGER because it is akin to that same person putting a gun to my head or putting a rope around my neck. Nigger, as a word, sends chills through the body and soul of ALL people of color. It is a word of HATE and condemnation. The last time someone screamed NIGGER at me, I was in West Virginia, outside of a McDonalds, a truck full of young white men rolled by me, and the whole phrase screamed at the top of one of the young white males mouths was "GO HOME STUPID NIGGER" -ahh the love.



For the record: NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER... say it so you can feel it!

Now, the current trend, to head into city councel meetings to ban the word which is used in 'pop' culture and amongst many young african American men and women, is both misguided, illinformed and most importantly a true waste of our civic leadership's time because they should be working on health care and educational reform matters. (note: the characterization 'african american' is not one by which I abide. I'm an American. I happend to be a brown skinned American, and I do not mind being called a black American because I would prefer to be grouped with the wonderful people of color in this country who have overcome and performed amazing accomplishments verses the freak screw up savages of Africa who A) sold my people into slavery in the first place, and B) continue to this day to kill more people of color per month than any American hood could ever eclipse)(Note2: I am not calling all of Africa screwed up. I have visited Conakry Guinea and found it to be as nice as East St. Louis or Detroit, maybe even South Side Chicago..? Plus, I know that the other joke about the phrase "African American" is that it totally disregards the fact that Africa is a continent containing MANY independent COUNTRIES.)

The word which is used in 'the hood', in 'the burbs', in ivy league schools, in colleges, in business, in sports, in the bar, in the gym, riding in a car, walking down the street, .. the word which is used amongst FRIENDS and simply as a term, a modifier of a phrase, is NIGGA.



For the record: NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA Say it so you can hear it.

Nigga has NEVER been used six seconds before a lynching. Nigga has NEVER been used one day before a cross burning. NIGGA has never been used to strike fear into the hearts of other men... except amongst crazy NIGGAS who are working their way towards an act of 'nigga shit' i.e. killing each other over drugs, girls, cars, money, shoes, colors..etc. The last time someone called me nigga, we were laughing, joking, enjoying personal conversation and it was said with a laugh about something I did or said. "nigga please.. haa haa".

For one last example, and to hopefully give someone some ammunition with which to HALT this waste of time and tax dollars:

When the great Bull Conner confronted people marching for civil rights, he demanded, with a slight threat for "You niggers better clear out of here before we clear your nigger asses out of here for you"..

Meanwhile, when DMX raps about his boys, his family, the crew he trusts with his life, his children's lives, his 'brother's lives', he says "Just cause I love my niggas, (Ruff Ryders) I shed blood for my niggas. (Ryde or die)" -this is about solidarity, about fraternization, kinship, and THIS WORD WILL NOT BE STOPPED.

Re-read this and practice (especially white people and any black person who is A) older than 55 or B) kowtowing to the media for their own personal gain and have yet to do anything for their community other than preach about Jesus) because one of my niggas is as white as a piece of paper, he's my nigga, I'm his nigga. We have been business partners, roommates, and are linked by friendship and respect. He has a hard time saying 'nigga' because he is white, and it is time for white people to really LISTEN because 'nigga' and 'nigger' are totally different words, with different definitions, meanings and intonations. My boy Wes, has managed to jokingly say the word in front of me more than a few times, and everytime he does, I know we are that much closer as brothers, or should I say.. 'bruthas'.

Finally, Nigga, Niggaz, Niccas, Niccaz.. even, nigger, these are all words, idioms, to censor them, and especially to censor them because some people have found them to be offensive is true censorship, which isnt what I thought the USA was about. Then again, I also didnt think the USA was into pre-emptive strikes, so who knows? Bottom line is, there are certain people who when faced with the opportunity to put down or threaten a person of color, will utter the word 'nigger' because it is the lowest term in our language. At the same time, without fail, you will not be able to stop close friends from sharing the word 'nigga' with each other because it keeps them bonded as 'family'.

Peace

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Things that happen to PEOPLE... part 1


Just thought I'd post a little something that most of us know, but I want to have it etched in the digiverse by my hands:

Things that happen to white people: White people get attacked by bears, mountain lions, back-woods serial killers. Black people never get attacked by bears, mountain lions or back-woods serial killers.

Things that happen to black people: Black people get attacked by their girlfriends wielding an infant like a bat, which also means, black people can get killed by being used as a bat when they are young. White people never get hit by infant-bats.

I'm just sayin. OH. .. THIS is the article that hatched this post.

[NOTE: I tried, TRIED T-R-I-E-D to find a good crowd picture with a nice smattering of white/black/tan/ people........ but I couldnt, and that is both sad and part of the reality of the problem that can be spelled "America".]

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Blind Racism... the scariest kind



One of my most favorite places on the web is ESPN's Page 2. I also find my way to Sports Illustrated online every now and then when, essentially, there is nothing else to read. (well I do like Peter King)

Well, after reading Page 2, MSNBC, and even some international news on CNN (way to go Mumbai, your making India look perfectly INSANE re: vegetarians outing and fighting with non-vegetarians) I found my way to the sports section of CNN i.e. Sports Illustrated Online and stumbled upon an article that was, well, umm bullet points of various things happening in the NBA at the current time.

The article discussed The Nuggets (A.I. and Carmello starting to gel since they didnt get to play together much), Good old Warriors coach the very pregnant Don "Nellie" Nelson and the semi-league wide use of 'small ball', and then this article:

"Accounting for the Celtics' big problem"

Scroll down once the page opens to get to the article. Essentially the author is discussing the Celtics dropping Sebastian Telfair from their roster because his idiotic black ass got caught AGAIN with 'someone elses' gun in his possession. This time he was speeding through one of the New York tunnels, got pulled over, and the cops found the gun underneath his seat. -Blammo , the Celtics let him go.

I have NO PROBLEM with their choice and the fact that, as Sebastian's lawyer will tell you, he supports 18 family members means NOTHING to me. If you cant control the waste of life money-grabbing losers in your own family, to me, that's already a sign that you need to GROW THE HELL UP and a MILLIONAIRE BALL PLAYER DOES NOT, I repeat, DOES NOT NEED TO HAVE A GUN and if he does, he needs to learn to pick his friends and hang out spots better. So sure, FIRE HIS ASS... someone else may give him a chance and then there is always Bill Simmons (AMAZING Page 2 columnist) suggestion, get ready for THROUGH THE FIRE 2: the Milan Years (in other words play ball in Europe).

All of this is fine good old fashion news reporting. However, the author, Ian Thompson, suddenly drops his tone, or slightly lifts the very very thin hood he wears (its really thin, Ian is FAR from a racist.. just not far enough to avoid making the following mistake) and says:

"what will the Celtics do next if Paul Pierce decides to go tearing through the Ted Williams Tunnel at 77 mph with someone else's gun under his seat? Are they going to remove his nameplate and throw it in the trash?"

First, lets say I see what Thompson is saying. You know? Will teams treat all of their players the same...? Do you treat the superstars on the team the same way you treat the crazy YMCA pick up professionals like Telfair? Who knows, but, for some reason Thompson fails to realize that, in my lifetime at least, SUPERSTARS rarely get in trouble... that is sort of why they are SUPER STARS. Paul Pierce is the Celtic's Shaq, Duncan, D-Wade, Jordan... He's the Celtics FACE and has been for a while. He is NOT going to DECIDE to behave like an idiot.

Is Thompson's suggestion that Paul Pierce, a Celtic and a black man, is just as likely as Sebastian (already known to be INSANE) Telfair to act totally stupid since they share a locker room, or skin color (raised eyebrow).

Trust me, Thompson was just writing, he wasnt thinking that what he was writing is in anyway obtuse and perhaps slightly offensive, however, if there is one thing he will NEVER understand -since he is white- its that EVERY TIME a black young man commits or is accused of a crime, I suffer the fate of being lumped in with the entire group of other black young men who have nothing to do with guns/crime/chaos. Having never even been in a police car, I have people 'lock their doors' as I walk by especially after something happens that gets national attention and involves a black man (and I am a non-tennis shoe, non-droopy jeans, non-hoody, oxford, sandal wearing, so un-hip-hop non-thug looking guy that it AMAZES me when the doors lock). Trust me, many black men will tell you during the Kobe trial, if you were a 'well spoken clean-cut brutha' for a few weeks there, we were ALL Kobe... because if Kobe could rape someone ANY black man was suddenly not only capable but willing to do the same thing.

Ian lumped Pierce into a category. Sure he was just picking the big name on the Celtics squad and posting a 'what would they do' scenario, but... think about it.... its very light gray.. .. and considering Pierce's record with crime (he's pretty clean for a former hood-rat/hip-hop baller) how do you even put that name down? Now if he had wondered if, lets say.. Nellie and the Warriors would drop Steve Jackson if ,or when, Steve gets in trouble with a gun.. THATS ANOTHER STORY!! Since Steve "truly insane" Jackson is the only dude I've ever heard of, who has an 8 digit bank account, to get run down in front of a strip club and then fire shots in the air (and there was that whole Piston-Detroit-Fans-fight-in-the-stands affair)! That would have made sense. Anything else is a very 'American' lumping together of two people who happen to share the same skin tone and profession. .. essentially blind-racism, its not done on purpose, its an almost obvious accident.. but it doesnt help anyone.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Quick hit News Flash: April 10, 2007



A guy in Pennsylvania killed a man during a melee that broke out during a wedding reception. The guy hit the other guy in the head and the dude died.

For a change this insanity took place amongst white people (generally these types of events, sadly, seem to be colored 'black'). Sadly, it took place close enough to Philly to add to the madness of 2007 Philadelphia.

The 'killer' faces a maximum of FIVE YEARS in prison for killing another man with his bare hands.

5 years in prison.

I dont really have much to add to this. White guy, kills white guy, and gets a MAXIMUM of 5 years in prison. [for the sake of repitition.]

Oh and guess what, a school in Georgia is having its first non-segregated prom this year.

Happy 2007, America is a mess.