The House Negro Power Rankings.

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 Kicking off Black History month with my latest House Negro Power Rankings. I am doing this because sometimes the damage from within, is much more detrimental to the long-term empowerment of a race of people, than the damage that comes from outside. 

10. Tim Scott: A slight drop for Tim, but still a powerful HN. A black senator who refuses to call out MAGA will always have major house Negro status. 

09. Candace Owens: Still trying to be relevant by shocking us with her ignorance. 

08. Amber Rose: Before there was Nicki, there was Amber. We know why Nicki is shilling for Trump (She needs those pardons), but what's Amber's excuse. 

07. Ice Cube/Snoop: These two rap legends destroyed their credibility with black folks by saying and doing all the wrong things when it comes to Trump and his MAGA movement. "All money ain't good money".   

06. Clarence Thomas: No commentary needed for this one.  

05. Larry Elder: Another Hall of Fame house Negro who has been jigging for head pats his entire career. Larry coined the phrase: "We gotta country to save".  We sure do, Larry. We have to save it from clowns like you.      

04. Stephen A. Smith: Let's give Stephen some credit. As more and more black folks start to realize what a fraud and grifter he is, he is smart enough to realize that he has to start cooning and catering to right- wingers to save his career and stay relevant.  

03. Jason Whitlock: Jason has been wearing a toupee for a minute now. It must be very tight because it's squeezing out all of his brain cells. Jason likes to come out against black folks no matter what the topic. He does it for clicks and white love. Jason is that dude who women always loathed because he is such a disgusting person inside and out. This  makes him angry and bitter, and it shows in his commentary. 

02. Byron Donalds: Byron considers himself a street smart kid from Brooklyn. To his credit, he has taken his hustle game to another level by becoming a United States Congressman and being in the running to become governor of the state of Florida. He got here by being a world class house Negro and jigging to perfection. Let's see if his party elects him to the highest office in Florida. Sadly for him,  most of them still see him as no different than the other black folks he is trying to distance himself from.

01. Nicki Minaj: This one was easy. Nicki says she loves Donald Trump, and he recently gave her one of those Trump Gold Visa Cards. She has been front and center at MAGA events with him, because in spite of what they like to say, MAGA loves when they can get a celebrity endorsement. Sadly for them, though, Nicki hasn't been relevant as a rapper for sometime. Nicki, I hope it was worth it. You are officially "trash" to black folks now, and that's hard to come back from. Enjoy the house.   

*Pic is  Hoppin Bob from the movie, Life. Long before Stephen from Django Unchained, there was Hoppin Bob.         

The Fuehrer Principle

I understand now how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party became so powerful in Germany, and how,  as president of the party, he was able to rise to power through the "Fuehrer principle". In case you were wondering, the Fuehrer principle allowed Hitler to stand outside of the legal state and decide matters of policy himself.  As I watched puppy killer Kristi Noem defend the actions of those who committed another state killing of a United States citizen on live television, I couldn't help but think how lucky Mr. Trump is to have such devoted sycophants who are willing to suspend disbelief and lie on his behalf. The problem is, of course, that these are state actors who have been granted an incredible amount of power within our government.  They have weaponized the justice department, the military, and agencies like ICE against their perceived political enemies to carry out their sick and twisted agenda.    

Most of us know what the agenda is: To make America white again. The problem is, of course, that they didn't anticipate white people of good conscience defying them, and standing up for what is right and just. The gentleman who those agents murdered yesterday on a cold street corner in Minnesota, was a nurse with the Veterans Administration, and a white American citizen. He was trying to assist a woman who Kristi Noem's agents were brutalizing. It was the second such killing of  white American citizen caught on camera in a matter of days, and most Americans are finally starting to realize that maybe the Fuhrer principle isn't something that we want to be living with in our country.  I say most, because there are still those MAGA diehards who refuse to break away from the clutches of their own prejudices and ignorance to see the truth. It's why they voted to put their own version of the Fuehrer in power in the first place. You have heard this before, and it bears repeating: It's a cult! Donald Trump is their Jim Jones, and they will follow him wherever he leads them. The only difference between  Donald Trump and Jim Jones, is that Trump would have charged the people in the temple at Jonestown for the Kool-Aid. Sadly, I'm pretty sure that his MAGA followers would have gladly paid for it before taking that last sip. 

Like the rest of us, they all watched the video of an innocent American citizen being murdered by state actors yesterday. And yet, they still try to gaslight us with the Trump administration talking points about the killing.  You will see their comments on websites and in chat rooms over the next few days. You will see some of them on this website after this post. They will try to give you the FOX News and White House talking points: The victim was armed, the victim was a domestic terrorist, the victim had a death wish, and on and on.  But the video doesn't lie. Believe your own eyes, not what puppy killer Noem tells you. The man was not threatening those agents when he was shot, he was not a domestic terrorist, and he certainly did not seem to have  death wish.   

The next few days should be interesting. I wish I could say that there will be a change in how this administration and what they are doing to America will be viewed, but I have no faith in the American press, the opposition party, or the citizens of this country to do the right thing. What the Trump administration is doing to this country has not yet seeped into the zeitgeist in a meaningful way. This latest killing will be just another story in the news cycle, and then it's on to the next one. 

One thing I do know is that the more we talk and write about everything else, is the less we will talk and write about Jeffrey Epstein. Which sadly, is just the way the Fuehrer wants it.   

*Pic courtesy of Brandon Bell/Getty Images 

 

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR)

 I just dropped the House Negro Power Rankings. So now it's only fair that I acknowledge the Field Negroes holding it down in these divided states of America as well.

Here goes.

10. Jemele Hill: When you discuss race in an honest way it always makes certain folks uncomfortable. Jemele is not afraid to do that on some very high profile platforms. She made fun of my Eagles after the loss to the Niners, but I forgive her.  

09. Don Lemon: See what I wrote about Jemele. The same applies to Lemon. Lemon is slightly higher in the rankings because his profile is a tad bit higher.

08. D.L. Hughley: I wasn't crazy about this brother when he was doing standup, but he has become a fierce and honest  broker when it comes to criticizing and calling out this administration for their blatant racism.

07. Navy Admiral Alvin Holey:  This former commander of SOUTHCOM resigned  and retired from the Navy rather than be led by a Commander- in-Chief who has zero respect for the Constitution of the United States. That is Field Negro behavior. I salute you sir.

06.  Wes Moore: Current Governor of Maryland and hopefully soon to move on to higher things. Holding it down in his state and keeping it in the fields gets him in the top ten. Bonus Field Negro points for having yawdie roots.   

05. Letitia James: All that MAGA hate and Trump still can't touch you. Your office charged Trump with civil fraud and won a conviction. That is Field Negro behavior, and it gets you in the power rankings.    

04. Ketanji Brown-Jackson: Sitting on the highest court in the land, and having to deal with fellow justices who are mental midgets with no business being in the same room with you, makes you worthy of your position on these rankings. 

03. Joy Reid: Some might argue that you shouldn't be this high on the list, but your recent smack down of Stephen A. Smith gets you major Field Negro points in my book. 

02.  Michele Obama: I'm starting to see a pattern.  Black women currently have this Field Negro movement on lock. 

01. Roz Brewer:  You all have probably never heard of this sister. She is only the second black woman to run a Fortune 500 company, the first black woman to sit on the powerful Amazon board, and she dedicated her time to making Starbuck's practices more racially sensitive.  That gets her number one on the FNPR this week.  

The Trump Distraction Machine.

This character in the White House is doing everything in his powers to change the storyline and narrative from Jeffrey Epstein and the Epstein files. The man is literally threatening to go to war with Columbia, Mexico, and an innocent non-threatening autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. If you haven't heard of it already, you will be hearing a lot about Greenland over the next few weeks. He has already invaded Venezuela and snatched the leader and his wife so that his billionaire pals in the oil industry can take and exploit their oil.  All of this to keep us from shining a light on Jeffrey Epstein and the nefarious acts that he could have committed with his pedophile pal. After all, in  the eyes of many, being a genocidal warmonger and a Christofascist  xenophobe is still not as bad as being a pedophile.  

A few days ago a state actor from ICE shot and killed mother of three in the streets of Minneapolis. A tragic and unnecessary incident which could have been prevented if the officer had practiced some restraint. Whether the killing is justified or not is irrelevant at this point. The issue should be whether it was preventable. Newsflash: It was! Of course the one person in America who we know was happy about this tragic bit of news, is the aforementioned character in the White House. This horrific incident has eaten up the news cycle over the past days, and that's good news if you're trying to  distract us from focusing on what is in the Epstein files.  Mr. Trump's easily distracted and cultish sycophants can now find something else to cheer him on about. Whether its Somali immigrants stealing most of our federal funds, or Venezuelan drug dealers killing Americans with fentanyl (both lies, by the way), they need something, anything, to take their minds from the reality of this dystopian nightmare that we are currently living through as a country.  They refuse to see it because they voted for this madness, and to do so would mean admitting that they were wrong. It would mean that they would have to live with the fact that voting for this man to be America's leader for a second time,  might have been the worst mistake of their miserable lives. 

Meanwhile, the character in the White House watches with glee as he plots his next distraction. He does this as we, the American people, and the people of the world, all hold our breaths fearing what will come next.

On a personal note, I am excited to be teaming with some new social media folks, who will be hopefully increasing the profile of my content and helping me to maneuver to some different platforms. 

I hope you will follow me on this journey while we collectively try to work our way through this madness.   

The House Negro Power Rankings.

 

With all the jigging and cooning in America of late, I find myself having to once again call out the  sellouts and slave catchers among us.  I have made some changes to how I rate them, though, because this kind of coonery , and who is doing it, tends to be very fluid in America these days.      

So, without further ado, I give you the House Negro Power Rankings.

10. Marcellus Wiley: "It was all a dream" to visit Donald Trump?  Glad your dream came through for you there big guy, but he will do nothing for you, and your reputation is shot. I hope it was worth it. 

9. Tim Scott: The only reason this Negro is so far down in the power rankings is because he hasn't made any news of late. But Timmy is, and will always be, a top tier house Negro.

8. Byron Donalds: Byron, like Tim, hasn't been in the news much of late, but he has made cooning an art form.  The folks at FAMU have got to be embarrassed every time they see this dude jigging for dollars. 

7.  Eric Adams: Hawk Newsome called him "a "white man in black face".  Eric has been embarrassing himself and the people of New York for the past few years.  He is now beholden to Donald Trump, because were it not for him he would be facing jail time.

6. Candace Owens: No explanation needed. For the past few weeks she has been trying to stay relevant by picking fights with various MAGA factions. Candace is the Queen of Coons. Her unrelenting commitment to jigging will put her in the House Negro Hall of Fame one day.

5. Clarence Thomas: Speaking of House Negro Hall of Fame. Uncle Clarence will have his own wing in that bad boy. His dedication to the destruction of black folks in America is unparalleled.  

4. Van Jones: This is a sneaky one, because every now and then he tries to hide his cooning.  You can't fool us, Van. The Field Negro coon detector is unmatched. 

3.  Sage Steele/Terrence K. Williams: (Tie)  Sage is a talentless has-been who thought she would launch a second act of her career by becoming Candace Owns light. Well if becoming a sellout was her goal it worked.  Terrence is not as well known as some of the others on this list, but his jigging knows no bounds. The MAGA crowd loves him, because he is the type of black man who would tell jokes and dance at a lynching. I am not sure this is true, but I heard that he opened up a head patting booth at the Turning Point USA convention. 

2.  Stephen A. Smith: This dude figured he would take his rants and silly sports takes into the world of politics by criticizing black leaders and politicians. Lately he has been chumming it up with his pals over at FOX and playing the good Negro, much to their delight. 

1. Tricky Minaj:  Nicki is number one this week.  Sadly, she sold her soul in order to grift a pardon out of Donald J. Trump. Imagine building your entire career on the backs of a particular group of people, and then appear at a function and show love to a group of people who wants to destroy the very people who got you where you are today. The good news is that she will have to give away tickets to her next show, and she has lost over ten million instagram followers.  I hope it was worth it Ms. Tricky.  

The Secretary of War Crimes.

 

Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral  (Shout out to Morehouse College)who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea. Good for him. That was Field Negro behavior from where I sit.

It turns out that those politicians who put soldiers on notice and told them not to obey illegal orders from the soon to be defendant at the ICC in The Hague were right.  This administration is lawless to the core, and they have been emboldened by a hand picked Supreme Court that is an embarrassment to my profession, and the American people that they are supposed to serve. Their fealty and unwavering loyalty to Donald trump is both frightening and to be expected given who we knew they were when they were appointed in the first place.

 But I digress. The MAGA Supreme Court Justices are bad at their jobs, but they have a long way to go to catch up to Pete Hegseth,  Here is a man who hides behind the warrior ethos while making a mockery of everything that a real solder stands for.  Of course it tracks. He was handpicked, after all, by a coward who never served a day in his life, and did everything in his power to dodge service. Now they use the might of the greatest military in the world for their own personal enjoyment. As if this is all some type of Call of War video game. 

Can you imagine investigating a  true American hero like Mark Kelly for treason? All because he had the "cohones" to stand up to this lawless regime.   

The sad part is the lack of outrage from all (not just some) of the American people. Most of you don't care because you don't think this will have an affect on your life. Until, of course, it does.  Just ask all those Hispanics who thought they were making a statement by voting for trump.  Now that law-abiding brown people are being dragged off the streets of America and hauled off to ICE detention centers without any due process, they wish that they could take back their votes.  Too late. The man propped up by Project 2025 has already declared himself The King. And sadly, we are all just living in his monarchy. We are nothing more than serfs and peasants who can only sit back and enjoy and be satisfied with the crumbs that they choose to give us.

I guess it could be worse, though. We could have been poor Venezuelan or Columbian fishermen who were perfect targets on a sick video game.   

    

Almost there.

 

" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing". I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other interactions. Sorry, I am going to leave that one alone....Although let me just say this.  (I guess I couldn't leave it alone.) It's ironic that Mr. Kirk was killed by an alleged white guy in the very white state of Utah. Especially after he spent a large part of his career demonizing black criminals and gangs, and blaming them for all the crime in America. 

That's it for now. I have some other thoughts, but it might be too soon. 

Anyway, the killing of Mr. Kirk has only accelerated America's march towards becoming a Christofascist  state. Mr. Trump, of course, will do everything in his powers to make sure that this is the case, and that we get there sooner rather than later.  

But as David Frum writes in The Atlantic, he will have to hurry. (I can't believe I am lifting an article from David freaking Frum. The times they are a changing.) 

"President Donald Trump is worried that Attorney General Pam Bondi is moving too slowly to prosecute his political adversaries on fake charges. Trump has good reason to be concerned. He is carrying out his project to consolidate authoritarian power against the trend of declining public support for his administration and himself. He is like a man trying to race upward on a downward-moving escalator. If he loses the race, he will be pulled ever deeper below—and the escalator keeps moving faster against him.

Autocracies are headed by one man but require the cooperation of many others. Some collaborators may sincerely share the autocrat’s goals, but opportunists provide a crucial margin of support. In the United States, such people now have to make a difficult calculation: Do the present benefits of submitting to Trump’s will outweigh the future hazards?

As Bondi makes her daily decisions about whether to abuse her powers to please Trump, she has to begin with one big political assessment: Will Trump ultimately retain the power to reward and punish her? It’s not just about keeping her present job. On the one hand, people in Trump’s favor can make a lot of money from their proximity to power. On the other, Richard Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell, served 19 months in prison for his crimes during Watergate. If Trump’s hold on power loosens, Bondi could share Mitchell’s fate."

 Right on cue Mr. Trump is prosecuting his political enemies left and right, and Bondi is doing his bidding as ordered.  I'm not sure if he will run out of time. Yes, the country is souring on him, and the specter of Jeffrey Epstein looms over everything Trump does. But Americans don't seem to notice what is happening right under their eyes, and this is perfect for Mr. Trump. He will now be able to follow his Project 2025 blueprint and live out his authoritarian fantasies without fear of the consequence of his actions. 

American soldiers are patrolling the streets of American cities.  And, not unlike the Brownshirts or SAs who were instrumental in a certain dictator's rise to power when they intimidated his political opponents and vulnerable populations, ICE is terrorizing law abiding citizens, whose only crime happens to be their dark skin and accents.   

So Mr. Trump is on his way to getting the America that he wants. The question now is this: how many of us want the same thing? 

Dictatorship Versus Democracy.

I'm baaack. 

It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start writing.  It's been one instance of abuse of power after another. Mr. Trump and his minions are testing the limits of presidential powers and there is no one stop them. The democrats are weak and feckless, and the republicans are sheeplike cult members who have become idol worshipers for the MAGA king who has taken over their party. 

From the killing of civilians without due process, to waging war against American cities with American troops, it seems like no one can stop King Trump. I shudder to think where this is going. 

Mr. Trump has the Supreme Court, Congress, and the American press in his pocket. (And soon what is supposed to be an independent Federal Reserve will be his as well.) It seems that everyone is afraid of offending America's dictator in chief. His ego must be stroked at all cost, and others in positions of power will do just that to get what they want.      

Don't even get me started on this Jeffrey Epstein mess.  

The following is a blog post from the National Women's Law Center:

"Trump’s return to power after the election last fall felt like a gut punch to so many survivors of sexual assault and harassment and advocates. It sent a devastating message: that even in the face of dozens of credible allegations of sexual assault and harassment, and after being found liable in one case, powerful perpetrators can continue to rise—untouched, unaccountable, and even celebrated. 

But this isn’t new. In both his current and previous administrations, Trump has repeatedly elevated individuals accused of committing or enabling abuse, harassment, and domestic violence to some of the most powerful positions in the country. It reinforces what so many of us who work in this space already know: sexual violence is about power. And this administration is all too willing to protect that power—at any cost. "

I’ve been advocating for survivors for decades, and one of the first lessons I’ve learned is that gender-based violence often manifests through control—physical, emotional, and financial. Financial abuse is a powerful weapon: using money to manipulate, silence, and force dependence. And under Trump, the federal government is now wielding that same tactic—not against an individual, but against an entire ecosystem of survivor-serving organizations. The Trump administration’s attacks on survivors are systemic—embedded into politically-motivated policy shifts through executive orders, funding freezes, and administrative chaos that threaten the very groups tasked with supporting survivors of sexual assault.  

Many groups supporting survivors rely on federal funding to provide essential services, such as crisis hotlines, hospital advocacy during forensic exams, and prevention programs in schools.  

Trump’s administration has jeopardized these efforts in numerous ways"

Meanwhile, Americans go on with their lives as if all of this is normal. Most white Americans do it out of racial solidarity, because, he is, after all, one of their own.  And most black Americans, still angry over the Kamala diss, are too busy line dancing and putting their boots on the ground to care. 

*Image from the Las Vegas Sun.   

  

Be careful what you wish for.

 

It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts (whatever you want to call what I do) in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. It's one outrageous thing after another, and scandals are so much the norm that you become numb to all the madness. 

Now comes this sordid Jeffrey Epstein mess. MAGA world all have their collective hoods and sheets in a bunch, because...shocker...Trump and his administration lied to them. They campaigned on exposing the "deep state" and wacko conspiracy theories, and now that their "dear leader" is a part of the "deep state" himself, he is telling them to move on, nothing to see here.  Pam Bondi promised to release the Epstein files, but I am quite sure that when she saw that her boss was (allegedly) on some of those lists, she changed her tune. Funny how that works. Careful what you wish for MAGA world, you might not like what is behind the curtain. 

Now Trump is threatening to sue the Wall Street Journal for an article which further outlined the friendship between himself and Epstein. The Journal is sticking to their guns, and I am pretty sure that the they dotted all of their i's and crossed their t's before going to print. Besides, let's not lose sight of the fact the owner of the Journal, Rupert Murdoch, helped to create Donald Trump with his FOX News propaganda machine.  Why turn on him now? Well,  I suspect that the truth is just smacking them in the head and there is no escaping it. Sometimes you just have to cut your losses and move on.

The thing about this latest scandal with Epstein is that there is nothing here that we did not suspect about Mr. Trump all along. America knew about his sordid past with young girls and his despicable behavior towards his former and current wife, and still they elected him. This Epstein saga is just reminding us of who this guy really is. A lot of the people who voted for him are probably just wishing that it goes away. 

Please don't remind me that I voted for this creep just to keep the black woman out of the highest office in the land. 

  

Another lie!

 Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough to vote for him that he would end all the wars in the world within twenty-four hours of being elected into office.  

Now, here we are, months into his presidency, and the wars have not ended, and thanks to his ego and narcissism (I will explain more in the next paragraph), America might have just involved herself in the mother of all wars. Mr. Trump dropped three bombs on Iran last night, and he did it without congressional approval, and with the advice from a foreign policy team that is quite frankly a joke. But here we are. Now MAGA world will try to scramble and invoke pretzel logic to justify it, and the elected sycophants who bow to his every whim will do the same. 

But here is the scary part as I teased above. This bombing of Iran only happened because Mr. Trump was told by the Israelis that it was the Iranians who tried to assassinate him. Smart move on their part. They made it all about him. They appealed to his ego and sick narcissistic streak, and they knew that once it became about him, he would act. They were right. 

Americans are now on edge, because we know that Iran has groups of proxy terrorists all over the world, and that they could strike at any time. (They spent sixteen billion dollars between 2012 and 2016 supporting terrorist partners.)  I'm pretty sure  they were not pleased with  Mr. Trump's actions. He thinks this is all theater or some kind of game show. It's not. As they say in the streets: "This is not a game". People will die, and I fear that the worst is yet to come. 

Caption needed.

I need a caption for this pic. 

I'll start: 

Thanks for giving sixty of my fellow Afrikaners refugee status Mr. President. 

No problem, Elon.  Thanks for your millions of dollars to help me beat Kamala, and for destroying and disrupting the government with DOGE.