tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post9133896929458154741..comments2024-03-28T13:14:09.150-04:00Comments on field negro: Was this man a racist, or just a guy trying to make the Negro voter feel more comfortable?field negrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-20782318830896692672012-10-18T15:09:36.072-04:002012-10-18T15:09:36.072-04:00UPDATE: A couple of weeks ago Tafari Stevenson-How...UPDATE: A couple of weeks ago Tafari Stevenson-Howard posted on his idiot "Mind Spill" that this year he has been badly divorced, lost the relationship with his daughters, AND declared BANKRUPTCY!<br />Wow, amazing! Talk about KARMA!<br /><br />And the really amazing thing is that some people are probably STILL going to keep paying attention to this idiot Stevenson-Howard and his idiot rantings and demands for respect while doing idiotic behavior!<br /><br />-John Barr Jr.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-54351957320254859302012-03-17T16:07:16.255-04:002012-03-17T16:07:16.255-04:00Check out my new blog "Tafari Stevenson-Howar...Check out my new blog "Tafari Stevenson-Howard Is A Big Fat Idiot," tag- Blogger: User Profile: Unknown. This brain-dead troublemaking idiot who has a site called "Tafari's Mind Spill," wrote<br />a blog about me wrongly calling me a racist on "When Voting and Racism Collide," also linked to a dozen other sites. Stevenson-Howard gives a "ghetto disclaimer" on his website which apparently allows him to make as much trouble as he wants and then run away without being forced to take any responsibility for his actions. It reads, "Many of my post(sic) may be filled with typos, ignorant statements, untruths, bad English & anything else that may make me appear to be uneducated. Please note: all of these things combined make my Blog the perfect one, because you know I have issues & I am not ashamed. With this said; enjoy, fuck mistakes & read between the lines. I am a Detroit-raised son, husband, father, student, teacher, and photographer who is a blogging photographer who loves to talk a lot of shit and enjoys exotic libations." I am hoping someone can help join me in a class-action lawsuit against him and get this idiot's site shut down. Interestingly, I understand this idiot is "going through a nasty divorce" and his wife just kicked him out of the house. I am hoping that she takes him for all that she can!<br /><br />Sincererly, John Barr Jr.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14868244730739209418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-37615866789767866432010-11-15T17:47:45.245-05:002010-11-15T17:47:45.245-05:00Sounds like you answered your own question Black M...Sounds like you answered your own question Black Man.<br /><br />"All I got back from my line of questioning was a dumb ass blank stare that only an imbecile could give."<br /><br />Why would you waist time with an imbecile?Blessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-83268985228701922542010-11-13T11:37:36.060-05:002010-11-13T11:37:36.060-05:00Actually this is not surprising. I grew up in Ypsi...Actually this is not surprising. I grew up in Ypsilanti (went to high school with his sister) and this guy is the son of a prominent attorney in Ypsilanti. Ypsilanti <br />is a blue collar town, mostly auto workers (both black and white). So if your parents did not work in the auto industry, you felt some kind of entitlement over those that did. Sadly, his comments are nothing new. Growing up, these type of comments were often made by those who were not part of the auto industry. Honestly, I believe there was jealousy because the auto industry (before the economic crash) was the great " economic equalizer" in Michigan. While his <br />father was a lawyer making six figures, he probably lived next door to someone making just as much as his father with <br />just a high school diploma. There was a lot of resentment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-33573270422473401442010-11-09T06:48:28.935-05:002010-11-09T06:48:28.935-05:00Anon 1:43 am, if you went to the link in the post ...Anon 1:43 am, if you went to the link in the post and checked out the guy's blog you would see his picture.field negrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-90217244498804924182010-11-09T02:02:54.772-05:002010-11-09T02:02:54.772-05:00field negro said...
Pilot X, I agree, that ani-whi...field negro said...<br />Pilot X, I agree, that ani-white crack was kind of laughable. It was analogous to a hooker complaining about motels that charge by the hour.<br /><br />Have to agree with you there, Hookers and the democratic party, seem to go togetherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-40758790276626334492010-11-09T01:43:27.122-05:002010-11-09T01:43:27.122-05:00I have to agree that this is a most idiotic story....I have to agree that this is a most idiotic story. Why so sensitive and then shouting about racial profiling and being an ass?<br /><br />Most white folks behave this way because they're fed this stereotypical stuff daily and how can you blame them when we have some brothers and sisters just waiting for an opportunity to be able to play a coon.<br /><br />When I joined the Navy and went to get a haircut on the base,I was put through the ringer and the bastard had the temerity to drag the machine through my hair. I never went back and because of this experience I learned to cut my own hair. Also I remembered in High School asking a teacher for the newspapers and he gave me the sports section when I actually wanted to read the other part of the paper. Black folks go through this nonsense daily so I just don't get this guy being surprise and calling the guy a racist.<br />Seems to me that the guy was just being a clown and the blogger was taking himself too seriously. Why didn't he put up a picture of himself so we can get an idea of what the guy may have been talking about with regards to his hair since that was the ice breaker!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-5850124613283896852010-11-09T00:19:14.044-05:002010-11-09T00:19:14.044-05:00field negro said...
"Pilot X, I agree, that a...field negro said...<br />"Pilot X, I agree, that ani-white crack was kind of laughable. It was analogous to a hooker complaining about motels that charge by the hour."<br /><br />Laugh all you want, but you know it's true.<br /><br />And PilotX, the only group being suppressed, by official and express policies of the federal government, is of course white males.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-67793923142264019592010-11-08T23:59:17.511-05:002010-11-08T23:59:17.511-05:00Pilot X, I agree, that ani-white crack was kind of...Pilot X, I agree, that ani-white crack was kind of laughable. It was analogous to a hooker complaining about motels that charge by the hour.field negrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-91688602944621973342010-11-08T23:14:17.224-05:002010-11-08T23:14:17.224-05:00I'm sorry but I just had to laugh at the comme...I'm sorry but I just had to laugh at the comment about the Democrats being the anti-white party. Since the founding of this country there has been an absolute bias towards white males and everything legal and illegal was done to keep them in power. Sure, Rush Limbaugh and others of his ilk make millions peddling the myth of white male persectution but since they benefitted from Affirmative Action for so many years the myth of the hard working white male was endangered so they did what they do best, ignore real history and make up their own. You see it now as Beckkk tries to imply it was white conservatives who were really behind the civil rights movement when in reality they opposed it. They tried this crap in the airlines as white males make up about 85% of all professional pilots but they started whining about all the Blacks and women "stealing" their jobs. White males cannot get over the notion that they are just like everyone else, no more intelligent or hard working than me or you. Because they bought into the myth of racial superiority they have to suppress the inate abilities of other groups i.e. women and people of color to perpetuate this myth. It worked for years but then came the day of exposure when we proved to be just as capable and in some cases even more capable than them. This pushback you see from Dr. White and others like him is the natural response to those who fancy themselves superior without cause. I fly with enough mediocre white male pilots to know it is indeed a myth. Keep up the fight UTS! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O01PUOxE5Wk&feature=relatedPilotXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-59307803178519944042010-11-08T23:11:08.150-05:002010-11-08T23:11:08.150-05:00"But we all know this. In the absence of hone..."But we all know this. In the absence of honesty and rationality, race relations in the United States constitute a tightly controlled market of sorts where the humiliation of racial inequality is negotiated using proxies such as these manufactured controversies and their attendant "dialogues." <br /><br />That has got to be one of the most absurd comments I have ever read from someone who seems to be able to put two thoughts together. "MANUFACTURED CONTROVERSIES"? Okaaay, I guess getting pulled over and shot in your own driveway because of the color of your skin is "manufactured". Please don't let me get out my Air R's and start chasing. I would be running all night.<br /><br />BTW, there is really no dialogue. A dialogue would require two people who are BOTH willing to acknowledge a problem.field negrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-83571670391912074782010-11-08T21:26:25.366-05:002010-11-08T21:26:25.366-05:00Sorry Mr. Field, I have no sympathy for the Brothe...Sorry Mr. Field, I have no sympathy for the Brother. He lost me when he was contemplating not voting.Ms. Bunny Easterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00219393797031576690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-42332003768613784742010-11-08T21:06:49.683-05:002010-11-08T21:06:49.683-05:00Mack Lyons said..."I'm not sure how that ...Mack Lyons said..."I'm not sure how that would fit into your meritocratic narrative."<br /><br />Are you really that dense? That was my point: the NBA is a purely meritocratic, fair employer, and it's employees are NOT made up of a workforce that represents the diversity of the society as a whole. One group (blacks) out performs the others.<br /><br />In 2010 America, purely meritocratic employers are the norm. The question is then, why do we insist that their workforces, from top to bottom, exactly represent the percentage of the various groups that make up society as a whole?<br /><br />No matter how hard whites worked at it, it is unlikely that they could earn 75% of the NBA roster spots purely on merit. Right?<br /><br />By the same token, no matter how hard they study, blacks will probably never make up 12% of mathmatics Phd students.<br /><br />As a diverse society, we will have to someday accept the reality that one cannot have equality of opportunity AND equality of outcome. Unless it is restricted artificially (i.e. affirmative action) talent will inevitably rise to the top.Dr. Whitenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-30865861963346731662010-11-08T20:50:11.493-05:002010-11-08T20:50:11.493-05:00field negro said...
D. Dale @ 12:39: "The lan...field negro said...<br />D. Dale @ 12:39: "The language of civil rights has become an affront, no longer condemnatory of practice but of a people and a nation"'<br /><br />Because committing an actual transgression is no longer needed as a prerequisite for guilt; it is enough to be white and american. <br /><br />But we all know this. In the absence of honesty and rationality, race relations in the United States constitute a tightly controlled market of sorts where the humiliation of racial inequality is negotiated using proxies such as these manufactured controversies and their attendant "dialogues." Because the official mandate is an unachievable equality of results, naturally occurring inequality constitutes a continuing, compounding debt that is serviced by such as these conspicuous sacrifices (John Barr, Don Imus, the Duke lacrosse team, etc.); they are interest payments of a sort.<br /><br />But it isn't only the delicate pride of black America that is served; white America purchases something, albeit at an increasing premium. There exists on the part of the majority an ever present fear, sustained by the knowledge that the expectation of equality can never be met but is increasingly expected. The majority lives in a state of continual unease, as violence in the form of riots (called "uprisings" or "rebellions") and street crime is characterized by the culture (through the romance of rap and cinema) as a legitimate means of achieving equity when all else fails (and all else is certain to fail in the end). <br /><br />Thus, as the influential classes implicitly understand and acknowledge, it isn't a question of truth, or, ironically, justice, but a question of assuaging the resentment of one group and the fear of another, thus the ceremonial and conspicuous displays of pilfered wealth, the ritual debasement of "privileged" Great White Defendants, and the reward of status for those who manage this market.<br /><br />But a market based on an increasingly obvious falsity cannot last. The fiction is becoming an industry joke. The divide between reality and the market grows, and is harder and harder to conceal. The posted prices bear no relation to real-world valuations. The market strains. How will its collapse unfold? What will take its place?D. Dalenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-53309324967605252782010-11-08T20:42:57.313-05:002010-11-08T20:42:57.313-05:00"No, there you go making absolutely no sense ...<i>"No, there you go making absolutely no sense whatsover. Do you not think the NBA is a meritocratic industry? Why don't whites make up 75% of the players? There is no affirmative action in basketball."</i><br /><br />Team owners are not recruiting Black players out of some obligation to right a moral wrong. When it became apparent that Black players could outperform White players by an obsurd margin and that any team that wouldn't recruit Black players would end up being crushed, then and only then did Black players flood the NBA, NFL and college sports. I'm not sure how that would fit into your meritocratic narrative.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the only places in the NFL that still have a notable White presence are within the ownership, the coaching staff and the quarterback position. It's funny how White players are still being groomed for the QB job.Mack Lyonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07083048590136176643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-2739109132481022692010-11-08T20:39:40.508-05:002010-11-08T20:39:40.508-05:00FN, you gotta understand what it's like in A2/...FN, you gotta understand what it's like in A2/Ypsi land. i lived there for many years. now, i have light skin, and maybe that made a difference, but my very dark skinned bro in law? no, he and i agree on this one, for all we are utterly unlike in almost every other way. <br /><br />A2/Ypsi is a paradise, compared to much of the rest of Flyoverland. hell, one could even argue they are so, because all those better, smarter, richer people from "the" coasts come here to go to college. you know, the ones who didn't get into Penn or Haavaad or B'kley even tho they folk had the money. Zingerman's, my friend. study it, as a socio-economic example, or Steve's. or the bookstores. you know, all that fabulous culture that only comes from better regions where corn and pigs aren't the basis of wealth, but somehow ended up in enclaves here.<br /><br />anyway, i'm totally not surprised. which is to say, our Klansmen are getting rowdy these days, in these here them good old boy parts. the closet case, i mean, Klansman in the photo? meh. he's all over now, and Large and In Charge, here. shorter me: da white folks, in a depression, shore up and keep all the positions of power and intimidate us, when and 'cause they can. bloggers in MI have for several years now referred to this place as "New DepressionLand" because it is. like, the Great Depression, only uglier and with more killing and less money. or i think the shorthand yall know: "feral detoit." i moved from DC to central MI recently, so i hope you'll trust my perspective when i say i know of what i speak, economically? <br /><br />i left some comments at the brother's blog. he's so young and cute, and gosh i love those red braids of his. so state and main, my friend! /A2 joke/<br /><br />but i told him i don't know why he would think a poor, regular, "nobody" with red braids and a blog would garnish the attention of the en-double-aye, even the local chapters. heh, let alone the "voting officials." plueeze. i guess he's young and has to learn this lesson. the "official" organizations which are assigned to look out for our causes and injustices against us? um, powerless and impotent and unhearing. on purpose. unless one has a billion dollars, like Vern or somebody like that.chicago dykehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/chidy/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-45137324139491562622010-11-08T20:32:13.295-05:002010-11-08T20:32:13.295-05:00"The civil rights movement has moved from her..."The civil rights movement has moved from heroism to farce, and you don’t get the joke."<br /><br />I wonder who is laughing?field negrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-38040600009709642632010-11-08T20:25:00.855-05:002010-11-08T20:25:00.855-05:00"That is quite simply not true. American blac...<i>"That is quite simply not true. American blacks are the richest, best educated, healthiest black population on the planet. They have achieved the highest levels of success throughout american society including, you may have noticed, the Presidency."</i><br /><br />I love it when people mention how a biracial man made it to the presidency, as though that washes away untold generations of Black mistreatment and inequality. Meanwhile, Blacks enjoy the disproportionally highest rates of incarceration, poverty and lack of education. The wealthiest Blacks are not in finance, medicine, heavy industry or mainstream media, nor do they have their hands on the levers of this country's socioeconomic engine -- they're entertainers and athletes, two occupations where they can influence people's perceptions but ultimately can't direct the real flow of power for any geniunely positive use.<br /><br /><i>"Do you really think the only reason blacks have jobs is affirmative action? What a low opinion you have as regards the competitiveness of black America. Companies that don't take the best employees can't compete with companies who hire on merit. That's the beauty of capitalism."</i><br /><br />Wonderful how you reverse the argument by saying I'm the one who has a low opinion of Black America's competitiveness. When you have an entire country that holds a collective vision of Blacks as "physically strong yet feeble minded thugs and buffoons", it's hard for a lone Black American to overcome such a wrongheaded perception and encourage others to disabuse themselves of such. Not when it's constantly reinforced on a day-to-day basis.<br /><br />Companies are no longer competing on any merits other than subterfuge, sheer size and staying power. You'll see this once NBC and Comcast combine into an odious media comglomerate verging on monopoly status. General Motors, pre-Obama, represented the sort of nepotic power structure that left it a literal zombie, filled to the brim with incompetent executives and managers and a largely lackadaisial workforce. The current economic meltdown was caused by sheer greed, plain and simple.<br /><br /><i>"The civil rights movement has moved from heroism to farce, and you don’t get the joke."</i><br /><br />That's the problem. You see the Civil Rights Movement as a joke. Those niggers should never had made such a fuss....Mack Lyonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07083048590136176643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-50871942618143705082010-11-08T20:23:25.631-05:002010-11-08T20:23:25.631-05:00D. Dale @ 12:39: "The language of civil right...D. Dale @ 12:39: "The language of civil rights has become an affront, no longer condemnatory of practice but of a people and a nation"'<br /><br />What exactly is the "language of civil rights"? And why should a nation that was built on unequal practices not be condemned if it repeats those practices?field negrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-39667079914665962542010-11-08T19:53:06.722-05:002010-11-08T19:53:06.722-05:00"But there I go, pointing out historical fact..."But there I go, pointing out historical facts and analysis."<br /><br />No, there you go making absolutely no sense whatsover. Do you not think the NBA is a meritocratic industry? Why don't whites make up 75% of the players? There is no affirmative action in basketball.Dr. Whitenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-33175641304815262052010-11-08T19:48:30.915-05:002010-11-08T19:48:30.915-05:00Mack Lyons said...
"It leads me to believe th...Mack Lyons said...<br />"It leads me to believe that our parents and grandparents had an easier time fighting during the Civil Rights era."<br /><br /><br />They sure did. It must be hell having to try to maintain an absurd level if indignation in the face of miniscule remnants of white racism. Some doofus asked a brother if he was gangsta rapper at a polling place? Why damn, that's just like Bull Connor getting the firehose out on my grandpappy's ass!<br /><br />The civil rights movement has moved from heroism to farce, and you don’t get the joke.Dr. Whitenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-58976372524434028132010-11-08T19:48:27.417-05:002010-11-08T19:48:27.417-05:00*not recruited* - typo*not recruited* - typoLACoincidentalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07529463652136455230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-46168521966075075862010-11-08T19:47:54.029-05:002010-11-08T19:47:54.029-05:00Inequality of opportunity should never be tolerate...<i>Inequality of opportunity should never be tolerated; inequality of outcome is inevitable in an unbiased system (see the National Basketball Association).</i><br /><br />So I guess you buy into the white basketball league meme? First of all, you're recruited to the NBA because you're Black, NBA players are recruited on athletic prowess and height. Now, given the selective breeding during slavery (yes, my people were bred like horse), a focus of athletics as an outlet and cultural reasons, you find a lot of Black guys in the NBA. <br /><br />Also, you once again ignore history. You do realize that until recently, Blacks simply weren't allowed to compete in America's major sports (baseball, basketball, football, boxing). It took great strides by many athletes to integrate American sports. <br /><br />But there I go, pointing out historical facts and analysis.LACoincidentalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07529463652136455230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-74282606109566706542010-11-08T19:43:52.385-05:002010-11-08T19:43:52.385-05:00Once again, you miss the point. Eventually (perhap...<i>Once again, you miss the point. Eventually (perhaps quite soon) whites will no longer be the majority. Do you think the new majority will be as accommodating towards blacks as whites are? I don't.</i>anon740PM<br /><br />why is it only the anon commentators make sense? sheeeeeit!!!!! yall cant see how the messicans be treatin black folk or the indians tryin they best to be seen as honorary white folks sheeeit everybody wanna be a nigga but aint nobody wanna be a nigga eyem tellin yall the messicans the dark skint east indians that hate anything black they will fuck yall up and yall still talk about the white man but his ass is going extinct ya cooholes! we are in 2010 yall wake up and stop this black white shit its obsolete!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-6811399905356970612010-11-08T19:41:22.823-05:002010-11-08T19:41:22.823-05:00and u is slippin off ur game magne what about the ...and u is slippin off ur game magne what about the foul usage of 'your' rather than you're? u can do betta magne bettaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com