tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post2534703205933845833..comments2024-03-28T23:32:05.817-04:00Comments on field negro: Those lucky male Negroes.field negrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-54205054259286248562008-03-16T19:22:00.000-04:002008-03-16T19:22:00.000-04:00What the fuck is up with a few of these white apol...What the fuck is up with a few of these white apologists?? I don't care what era she came out of, what she said was racist. And now she's claiming the position of the victim??? Fuck that!<BR/><BR/>regardsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-40573259939758467522008-03-14T22:12:00.000-04:002008-03-14T22:12:00.000-04:00Just out of curiosity Field. You speak so highly ...Just out of curiosity Field. You speak so highly of having access to Lark, Halle and Tyra. Do you consider any black women who dont appear as mixed race or light bright as being attractive? Just curious. It is your preference. One thing that I love about Barrack is that he does not seem like the typical black man who worships any woman... as long as she does not have African features. Just my opinion. Your preferences are your preferences.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-5445645706788461172008-03-14T19:33:00.000-04:002008-03-14T19:33:00.000-04:00NewGirl:That was a lot to pull from my few comment...NewGirl:<BR/><BR/>That was a lot to pull from my few comments. I guess sometimes people assume that all black people take the view of Dr. King in regards to justice. I respect the man through and through, but did his wife receive justice as a woman and staunch supporter if she was cheated on as suggested by the wire taps? Well, we won't find any perfect people. I'm sure not. But I think I'm entitled to say a few words about somebody when they say cruel things themselves. They opened themselves up to that. Although, I'll say again that I respect Dr. King, I better understand Malcolm X's point of view in the picture where he's standing beside a window with that shotgun, except that I'm not into shotguns or other weapons. <BR/><BR/>Although, I agree to disagree with you, I still respect your comments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-73268214093226869152008-03-14T17:05:00.000-04:002008-03-14T17:05:00.000-04:00I have posted thos comment on another Blog and tho...I have posted thos comment on another Blog and thought that it would be relevent here as well.<BR/><BR/>I so happened to have caught The View and Whoopi Goldberg made an interesting observation. She stated that how White People perceive and Black People perceive are very different. For example, when a White person says to a Black person, "You are very articulate.", for Black people this would be perceived as an insult where as if a White person had said it to another White person it would be seen as a compliment. <BR/><BR/>As Black folk, we look and read into what White folk say all the time especially since Open Racism is no longer accepted. This makes Black people suspect of everything since it isn't as obvious. Ferraro is from that era where being an OUT SPOKEN WOMAN was seen as controversial and in some cases still is. Since the majority of Black folk in America have already BRANDED the Clinton as untrustworthy, hypocrites, liars and racist any one speaking to or about Obama in any way will be twisted and seen as a PLOY and with a Hidden Agenda when if you had heard or read Ferraro's WHOLE interview and or speech she was making an observation that Obama has done what no other Black, White, Woman or Democratic candidate has ever done. Him being BLACK works to his advantage considering American's History and his message of CHANGE. <BR/><BR/>As a Feminist, she also made an observation that since Black folk received the Right to Vote before Women and Women have benefited from Affirmative Action more than Blacks, you would have thought that a Woman would be President before a Black Man. That is a controversial opinion BUT it is a shared opinion for Feminist in America. <BR/><BR/>What twisted Black folk up (and it bothered me as well) is that Ferraro used the word "LUCKY". That was the word that pissed off so many people. Ferraro used a bad choice of WORDS to make her point. Even if she had used the word BLESSED in regards to Obama ... it would not have mattered because at this point in the campaign ... anything said from the Clinton to Obama/Obama to Clinton camps will be seen as an Aggressive Racial/Gender Attack. <BR/><BR/>In Black folk's anger, which is building daily in this election, in my opinion I see folk on the verge of Exploding, even for the simple stuff. <BR/><BR/>If you look at the History of the Women's Movement, much of their philosophy depending on one PERSPECTIVE, can be viewed as boarderline Misogynist, Racist, and Seperatist. <BR/><BR/>Behind closed doors, Obama knows Ferraro isn't racist. he knows that the Clinton's aren't racist nor do the otherside feel that Obama is sexist and or live with a hidde Radical Racial Bias but the media fueling thier BIAS into us will do more damage to the PARTY than anyones words taken out of context.the poet Shazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338037314941958216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-66054605203165689562008-03-14T15:07:00.000-04:002008-03-14T15:07:00.000-04:00Oh Field:Look what I found.And here's Ferraro a li...Oh Field:<BR/><BR/><BR/>Look what I found.<BR/><BR/>And here's Ferraro a little over a year ago, making the exact opposite claim in a New York Times article about whether Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton had a realistic chance of breaking the mold of white male presidencies.<BR/><BR/>...for all the excitement stirred by Mr. Obama, it is much less certain that an African-American could win a presidential election. Not as many blacks have been elected to prominent positions as women. Some high-profile black candidates — Harold Ford Jr., a Democrat running for the Senate in Tennessee, and Michael Steele, a Republican Senate candidate in Maryland — lost in November. And demographics might be an obstacle as well: black Americans are concentrated in about 25 states — typically blue ones, like New York and California. While black candidates cannot assume automatic support from black voters, they would at least provide a base. In states without big black populations, the candidate’s crossover appeal must be huge. <BR/>“All evidence is that a white female has an advantage over a black male — for reasons of our cultural heritage,” said the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, the civil rights leader who ran for president in 1984 and 1988. Still, he said, for African-American and female candidates, “It’s easier — emphatically so.”<BR/><BR/>Ms. Ferraro offered a similar sentiment. “I think it’s more realistic for a woman than it is for an African-American,” said Ms. Ferraro. “There is a certain amount of racism that exists in the United States — whether it’s conscious or not it’s true.”<BR/><BR/>“Women are 51 percent of the population,” she added.<BR/>-------------------<BR/><BR/>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/weekinreview/10nagourney.html<BR/><B><BR/>No major news outlet I know called her on it, not one.<BR/></B>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-21234192256161116502008-03-14T10:21:00.000-04:002008-03-14T10:21:00.000-04:00Aziza:My comments were either unclear or gravely m...Aziza:<BR/>My comments were either unclear or gravely misunderstood. I'm not "chastising" you and I have no interest in your individual moral fiber-as I think your "ruler" reference would suggest. <BR/><BR/>As my husband would attest, my own unadulterated rage with the Clinton campaign these days and the unapologetically deep shade of blue of my own language in discussing it testify to the fact that I am no prude. Black people can get together here or anywhere as far as I'm concerned to discuss/vent about our oppression-with as much passion as our souls require. My issue is whether-when we do that-we are non-schizophrenic in nature. Dr. King made his public statement against the Vietnam war for that reason. You either talk about justice as a principle that applies to everyone all of the time or admit that you have inherited from your master the disease of segregating your moral beliefs when it suits you. I'm talking about that. Our struggle against the system of oppression that is racism is crippled by the bizarre selective reasoning that minimizes the devastation to the lives of black women of the sexism that is alive in our communities. The easy and repetitive use of works like "bitch...hag...whatever" manifests that bizarre reasoning and continues to sew the seeds of our destruction from within. <BR/><BR/>So be nice today or don't be nice. I'll probably be the latter and I don't care. My question is about whether our commitment as Black people to justice can survive a challenge to our treatment of, references to, biases against women in our own communities and in general.newgirl448https://www.blogger.com/profile/08684417151269560603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-61056864176349582522008-03-13T22:16:00.000-04:002008-03-13T22:16:00.000-04:00Newgirl448: I hear you with the high road dialogue...Newgirl448: I hear you with the high road dialogue. You are very much entitled to your opinions. And I respect that.<BR/><BR/>However, there will be no rewrites from me. But I have a question of my own. Why is that we black folks feel the need to chastise each other for the comments that we express? We've been turning the other check for centuries to the point that we have black eyes and swollen cheeks. I speak out of the frustration, disappointment, and the discrimination leveled on my back. Yes, other brothers and sisters have endured the same and more. But please let me vent for that is far as it goes. Neither do I want nor desire to keep others from getting jobs, living in nice neighborhoods, getting quality health care or a great education for their kids. So, I'll pass on receiving the ruler or yardstick spanking today. Maybe I'll say some nicer things tomorrow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-55716084438400455432008-03-13T22:07:00.000-04:002008-03-13T22:07:00.000-04:00According to Ferraro, the upcoming Governor of New...According to Ferraro, the upcoming Governor of New York is doubly lucky:<BR/><BR/>Black and Blind<BR/><BR/>(note sarcasm.)<BR/><BR/>She can kiss my lucky Black ass.rikyrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10982657053583534299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-69713242723909542232008-03-13T21:31:00.000-04:002008-03-13T21:31:00.000-04:00This from the YahooNews article linked above:"UPDA...This from the YahooNews article linked above:<BR/><BR/><B>"UPDATE: Geraldine's latest gem - "I will not be discriminated against because I'm white." And, as of this writing, she is still an official representative of the Clinton campaign."</B><BR/><BR/>I never would have believed that Billary & Co. would stoop so low, into the septic tank realms of the extremely color-aroused psyche! But then, it never occurred to me that Billary & Co. would come to focus their political guns on Black people as the enemy in their fight for the White House. I naively believed that Republicans would be the targets of their calculated and relentless bile.<BR/><BR/>Well, I guess we'll all learn something new before this election season is over!Francis Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862777385923656061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-9115616573559847852008-03-13T21:17:00.000-04:002008-03-13T21:17:00.000-04:00Newgirl448, Thank you for your reminder. I know t...Newgirl448, Thank you for your reminder. I know that we all get so angry and it's all to easy to forget our manners and kindness on the internet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-46126648975821401222008-03-13T21:16:00.000-04:002008-03-13T21:16:00.000-04:00~Are you race baiting, playing the race card, or b...~<BR/>Are you race baiting, playing the race card, or both?<BR/><A>shonufded</A> 7:57 PM<BR/><BR/>Obama curbed his wife's tongue. It is now time for his punk-cry-baby Negroe minions to shut-up, too.<BR/><BR/>We are getting to the point of the story of "The Negroe Who Cried Racism." <BR/><BR/>We are crying racism so often, that when something seriously racist does go down, it will not be readily recognized because we have cried racism too, too often in the past.<BR/><BR/>NSangoma<BR/>`Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-3649977887643804432008-03-13T21:00:00.000-04:002008-03-13T21:00:00.000-04:00@newgirl448Backing you all the way to the Pleiades...@newgirl448<BR/><BR/>Backing you all the way to the Pleiades.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-30087626869034410042008-03-13T20:54:00.000-04:002008-03-13T20:54:00.000-04:00@just-mimi...Curiouser and curiouser. People act o...@just-mimi...<BR/><BR/>Curiouser and curiouser. People act or fail to act to enhance their own egos.<BR/><BR/>I think they're ego trippin' and perhaps a little jealous they're not in the spotlight.<BR/><BR/>They will be now!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-75608480647477490622008-03-13T20:53:00.000-04:002008-03-13T20:53:00.000-04:00For Just-Mimi:Rev Wright and Farrakhan aren't sayi...For Just-Mimi:<BR/><BR/>Rev Wright and Farrakhan aren't saying anything that will MAKE Obama loose the Presidential nomination. Only Obama can loose his Campaign for President. These Community Leaders that he has associated with in Chicago have been speaking this way for YEARS. <BR/><BR/>Farrakhan and Rev. Wright acknowledge and respect each other and I have mentioned on this blog in the past that Farrakhan occasionally is invited to speak at Obama's Church; Trinity.<BR/><BR/>Farrakhan has supported and endorsed Obama in the past so it is only a surprise to THOSE that do not want to research deeper than the surface.the poet Shazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338037314941958216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-75512742818366849122008-03-13T20:44:00.000-04:002008-03-13T20:44:00.000-04:00I agree with you 100% percent. Though I don't thi...I agree with you 100% percent. Though I don't think it was a racist comment. It was an ignorant as hell comment on behalf of her buddy Mz. Clinton. You da "Talking Monkey" in Planet of the Apes speak. Preach On!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-23569979148210670552008-03-13T19:59:00.000-04:002008-03-13T19:59:00.000-04:00White folks aren't going to be happy until Obama t...White folks aren't going to be happy until Obama throws Rev. Wright under the bus too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-18001447980070927112008-03-13T19:57:00.000-04:002008-03-13T19:57:00.000-04:00@NSangoma... Are you race baiting, playing the rac...@NSangoma... <BR/><BR/>Are you race baiting, playing the race card, or both?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-6577114008006361412008-03-13T19:54:00.000-04:002008-03-13T19:54:00.000-04:00Does anyone understand why Rev Wright and Farakhan...Does anyone understand why Rev Wright and Farakhan are saying things that will cost Obama? Surely they must know their support is a negative for Obama.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-26431430029478637072008-03-13T19:52:00.000-04:002008-03-13T19:52:00.000-04:00yliza:You make a good point but the Democrats have...yliza:<BR/><BR/>You make a good point but the Democrats have been throwing its loyal black supporters under the bus for quite a while. Now I am a revolutionary minded brother so I am not suggesting the Republicans as an option. But shouldn't we look at the idea at least of a third party. A black party or an independent working class party that would have as its platform the things that most folks who work for a living want.<BR/><BR/>You can imagine what that is, jobs that pay a living wage, federalized and quality public education, adaquate housing, health care that won't leave you broke, etc.<BR/><BR/>There was once an independent black party and of course it fell apart because many of its leaders ran back to the Democratic party. <BR/><BR/>What happened to our imagination? This going on and on about this campaign which we all know in our hearts, is not in the end, going to help make this nation more humane, is a bad use of all this collected intelligence in my opinion.<BR/><BR/>We are like lovers who hold on to a bad lover hoping that he/she will change when there has been no tangible evidence to continue to hold on to our hope.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-13236248767306555552008-03-13T19:50:00.000-04:002008-03-13T19:50:00.000-04:00West Coast,I agree. If Hillary is the nominee, I'l...West Coast,<BR/><BR/>I agree. If Hillary is the nominee, I'll stay home but none of this other nonsense! Total BS!SouthernGirl2https://www.blogger.com/profile/01829901840187884140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-78105141429869581782008-03-13T19:40:00.000-04:002008-03-13T19:40:00.000-04:00I support Obama and will stay home in November if ...I support Obama and will stay home in November if Hillary is the nominee. But I'm damn sure not going to burn down my neighborhood if Obama is "robbed" of the nomination. People should stay home on election day, and every Obama supporter should withdraw from the Democratic party, if they belong. This rioting in the streets bullshit is for babies who are fine with living in the park until the 'hood is rebuilt by Massa. Puulleeezzz. That does nothing for anyone.west coast storyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16833809632143106334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-20744727238685410642008-03-13T19:13:00.000-04:002008-03-13T19:13:00.000-04:00Black people:“I mean as a black man I would get fi...Black people:<BR/><BR/>“I mean as a black man I would get first dibs on Lark Voorhies, Tyra Banks…”<BR/><BR/>“…That old hag is just one bitter b*tch…”<BR/><BR/>…”she's a rancid racist goat witch…”<BR/><BR/>Now, to be clear, I think that the Gloria Steinems with their sexism-is worst-than racism pablum and the Ferraros with their bizarre racist pathologies are a plague upon us. But, sexism is real, half of us Black folks are women, and I’m curious about where other Black people place oppression of women by men in their discourse on achieving social justice. I’ve been hitting the Obamahol pretty hard this week, but I’m still lucid enough to witness my indivisible self, which makes the misogyny of the above comments problematic to say the least. <BR/><BR/>Now, before you tell me to lighten up, please consider what your response would be to some OTHER black man “calling dibs” on YOUR daughter, the substitution of hag/bitch with coon/nigger, or…well that last one kind of sings so I can’t think of anything but you get what I’m saying:-) Consider those rewrites if you will and tell me sincerely what/if/how you see Blacks factoring the problem of sexism into formulations for social justice. Really, really curious. Thanks for your comments and this blog.newgirl448https://www.blogger.com/profile/08684417151269560603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-73684089396385439812008-03-13T19:04:00.000-04:002008-03-13T19:04:00.000-04:00I like Christopher's Ferraro-as-Klan-seamstress re...I like Christopher's Ferraro-as-Klan-seamstress reference-- said it better than I could. Obama now dominates in every category like people are sayin'-- the pledged delegates, the popular votes, the states overall, the various states of all shapes and sizes, the competitive Swing States (Missouri, Virginia, Colorado, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Delaware, Washington, Minnesota-- about as powerful a lineup as they come). The Hillary campaign is getting desperate and they know they've already lost, so they're trying crap like this to try to push backroom deals among Democrats at the convention. That's what Ferraro's comments were about-- "Blacken up" Obama a bit and try to encourage party insiders to get nervous about him. Obviously, backfired majorly. With Hillary now facing a public and ugly court case brought by Peter Paul (the latest of her fundraising scandals-- on top of Norman Hsu, the Kazakh uranium magnate and whoever else), a court case to hit the media in October no less, it's more important than ever to close down this process and encourage the Party to back Obama, so we can start the tough battle against McCain. Since Hillary is a McCain ally (praising McCain as a commander-in-chief while trashing her own fellow Democrat Obama), it's become obvious that, with the nomination effectively lost for her, she's trying to double-team Obama in bitter frustration for his role in destroying her own wretched, hateful political career.<BR/><BR/>BTW just thought I'd pass on a post that somebody made on one of the Blogs a few days ago, Jack and Jill IIRC (and this was even before Wyoming and Obama's blowout victory in Mississippi). It's been getting Emailed around the block, and it captures the heart of the matter perfectly-- Obama's domination of the primaries and his support by the vast majority of the voters, the catastrophic consequences for the Democratic Party if a backroom deal were to flout the voters' support of Obama-- or continue to countenance Hillary's scorched-earth campaign against Obama, clearly designed to hurt him against McCain, out of her own pique and frustration-- with all the civil unrest and general strikes that would follow, plus the deeper roots of the way "becoming American" has been intimately connected with a community's registering of hatred of Blacks. Word up to that:<BR/>--------------------------<BR/><BR/>I've been busy lately and not checking the Blogs, but a few friends and I were recently talking independently, about the level of rage and civil unrest that would result if Hillary were nominated by the Dems against a clear majority of the popular will.<BR/><BR/>It's out of reach for Hillary now-- Obama has a majority of pledged delegates, of popular votes in the primaries (and that's not even considering his utter domination of the caucuses), and the majority of the states. And note, we're also not even considering the 1 million + "disqualified" pro-Obama ballots in California with that BS technicality, or the Harlem districts where Obama somehow got zero votes, with Charlie Rangel doing his best Stepin' Fetchit routine and rigging the vote machines.<BR/><BR/>By any metric, Obama has out-and-out won the popular acclaim in the Democratic primaries and caucuses over Hillary, and he'll only add to that further with both Texas and Ohio behind us (with all their favorable Hillary demographics).<BR/><BR/>Yet Hillary is still trying to pull this desperate BS with the superdelegates and trying to seat FL and MI, despite Obama not being able to campaign and not even being on the damn ballot there! Failing an actual nomination, Hillary's "Plan B" is to damage Obama enough so that he would lose to McCain despite leading him in the polls-- even though her own political career would basically be finished, she would be doing this out of sheer spite.<BR/><BR/>She's also continuing in her racist campaign. The same one that got whipped up back in Nevada and South Carolina. The same one that encouraged that idiot Hillary Latino backer in Texas to declare that Obama is a "little too black" for Latinos (despite the fact that La Opinion, the country's biggest Spanish newspaper, and a large number of Latino politicians have all endorsed Obama). The same one that pushed 8 out of 10 of the race-conscious voters in Ohio (fortunately still a minority of Ohio's otherwise tolerate and respectful voters) to indulge their racist hatreds and vote against Obama.<BR/><BR/>We are Black, White, Asian and Latino in my group, professionals, academics and working-class of all shades.<BR/><BR/>We all talked about the ugly riots and civil unrest that would take place, almost with absolute certainty, if Hillary were nominated under such corrupt circumstances, or if she succeeds in damaging Obama enough as the nominee (as she is obviously doing, deliberately) to make him non-viable against McCain.<BR/><BR/>We all agreed that the rage and consequences of either Hillary's Plan A or Plan B would be horrible beyond belief, the Democratic Party would suffer irreparable damage requiring tremendous efforts to repair, and the riots would be much, much, much worse and more destructive than what happened even in the late 1960's.<BR/><BR/>Obviously, the superdelegates and/or the MI/FL BS would be appalling in and of themselves, as they would basically be trying to validate Hillary's racist campaign, her disenfranchisement attempts and her divisiveness, while showing that machine politics and backroom deals are far more important than the popular will.<BR/><BR/>However, as our little impromptu seminar went along, we realized that the reasons for such an explosion of rage and anger would be about something much deeper than that. It's not just about Hillary's tactics.<BR/><BR/>It's about the way that Hillary's tactics have lined up with a strain of thought in the USA, that clearly remains predominant, if not widely talked about:<BR/><BR/>That the American Dream as framed and exploited by the Clintons, in its ugly reality rather than the feel-good bromides about it, means social advancement and wealth IN ITS ESSENCE at the expense of African-Americans. Poor Whites, Latinos, Asians are supposed to "become more American," in the Hillary narrative, by the depth of their hatred for Blacks and the extent to which they spit on us.<BR/><BR/>And if the Democratic Party were to validate this narrative by choosing Hillary over Obama, against the popular vote {and delegates and states, I'd add}-- then yes, cleansing riots, rage and civil unrest will happen, and probably out of sheer inevitability. As I'll explain below, all of us agreed that we ourselves will participate in peaceful, though firm and massive protests throughout the country, with all kinds of means to attract media attention. We will also call for periodic general strikes to inflict some economic pain and further ingrain the price that must be paid for flouting democracy. Finally, we will continue all of these things well past the November 2008 election, as I will explain below. Others, of course, will go even further than this.<BR/><BR/>The "true version of the American Dream" as I described above-- becoming "American" by stepping on and hating already downtrodden African-Americans-- has been the actual narrative of the USA since even before 1776. Blacks were worked to death, sickness, poverty and despair as slaves to build the agricultural and industrial infrastructure of the USA, never paid a dime for it, never allowed to do the social climbing that Whites took for granted. (This happened in both the North and South of the USA.) Then we and our labor were further exploited under Jim Crow and sharecropping, then under the corrupt and racist factory systems that arose with industrialization in the cities.<BR/><BR/>In short, we African-Americans have been the "Morlocks" of the United States, despised, scorned, and hidden below ground even as our largely uncompensated labor and efforts have built the rich, first-world, United States of America superpower paradise for the racist White "Eloi" above us. While many Whites have admirably come to our defense, neither their nor our efforts have been sufficient to dislodge the defining narrative of the country, which is this effort to foster a first-world, Anglo, White superpower paradise for the Eloi who spit on us below.<BR/><BR/>Which leads to the second part of the "true American dream," which is that people newly in this country-- even if not White themselves-- gain access to the coveted place of the Eloi, along with the racist Whites, specifically by trampling on and hating Blacks. Indeed, the most constant strain in "becoming American," whether White American or Latino or Asian American, has been defined by this narrative, above all else, as expressing and acting upon one's hatred of Blacks, in public or private.<BR/><BR/>The Irish, when they came to the USA, were themselves despised by the Anglos, just as Anglo Britain hated the Irish in Ireland. But the Irish here were accepted as "American" by the Anglos specifically when they in turn, expressed their clear hatred of Blacks.<BR/><BR/>It is the same today even with non-White newcomers. Latinos and Asians are accepted as "entering the American mainstream" specifically when they go through their "rite of passage" of hating Blacks. This is the narrative that Hillary uses and amplifies to gain votes, rather than a more inclusive, encompassing paradigm that would have us join together.<BR/><BR/>IOW, the American Dream, the one that has fostered this Anglo superpower nation, is defined in large part at the expense of Blacks, and intentionally so-- the American Dream and American identity are achieved, above all else, by hating and spitting on Blacks as one moves up the social ladder.<BR/><BR/>Obama is as tough a candidate as the Democrats will ever have. He is a top graduate of Harvard Law School, an editor of the Harvard Law Review, a successful civil rights attorney {who was working in the trenches for Chicago's destitute and underprivileged while Hillary and other corporate lawyers were selling out and getting rich}, a prescient Senator who anticipated the disaster in Iraq when most politicians on both sides of the aisle were rushing in, and a brilliant campaigner who has taken on the Clinton machine and beaten it, hands-down.<BR/><BR/>If even Obama is cheated out of the nomination (Hillary's Plan A) or damaged so severely by Hillary's continuing hate campaign so that his candidacy is rendered non-viable against McCain (Hillary's Plan B, of spite and pique), then the message is obvious: That African-Americans will never, ever be given the opportunity to stand up for ourselves and hold positions of leadership, aside from some minor crumbs tossed in our direction by the Massas. Also, with the demographics in this country making us an ever-shrinking percentage of the population, it'll only get worse.<BR/><BR/>There can be one response to this, and one response only: A militant, angry, and painful one for the racists who rule this country, including the Democratic Party if it were to allow this.<BR/><BR/>One of my Latino friends actually, whose father had worked with the Cesar Chavez UFW movement, made an outstanding point to us, and I'll paraphrase: Radicalism and militancy may be last resorts, but they have a crucial place in the fight for justice. They are the sharpest sticks if the carrots are rejected, the baddest of the bad cops, to be brought out when it is clear that our racist opponents like Hillary Clinton will stop at nothing, break all the rules, even embrace massive corruption to keep us down.<BR/><BR/>IOW, radicalism and militancy would be necessary responses to Hillary's Plan A or her Plan B. And there should be no hesitation in deploying them.<BR/><BR/>The hard truth, as we all know, is that you have to fight and fight damn, damn hard to win justice. It's never a painless process, for anybody involved. There are too many vested interests who profit from the "true American dream" of profiting at our expense, to allow us to have real power and justice without our fighting and clawing for it. Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King did not win rights for us by being docile and placid, or "waiting their turns," or "being well-behaved Negroes" in the face of injustice-- they fought hard, and they gave it to the racists on the chin.<BR/><BR/>And so must it be for us. Militancy and radicalism.<BR/><BR/>It is the only way to sear the lesson into the American memory and consciousness, that we will not be pushed around, and that you do not mess with us.<BR/><BR/>Since it is again being shown that the true American Dream can only be achieved by hating and spitting on Blacks as non-Blacks do their social climbing, then if this view of said dream were validated, our only option is to destroy that dream-- and to make it clear that the only acceptable American Dream for this country to survive, is one that recognizes us and our construction of this country from the ground up, and which offers us respect. And the country needs to suffer, and suffer bitterly, if the racist version of this were to continue to receive validation and currency.<BR/><BR/>Worst-case scenario, if this hateful narrative continues and the way things are moving these days, the course of events may even be leading to some de facto partition of the country along ethnic and possibly other lines. African-Americans are basically the vast majority in much of the Deep South and growing, as well as in parts of the Industrial Midwest around Illinois, Ohio and Michigan. Latinos of course are in the Southwest and Florida. Asians in San Francisco. Whites of various strains elsewhere. The only way to prevent such an eventuality is to tear down the hateful American dream that has been built and amplified like this, the one that makes people American by hating us and advancing at our expense, and replace it with a new one. Barring this, partition is the only future of the USA.<BR/><BR/>If this sounds like a bit of malice and malevolence-- well, call it what you want, but it has to be made clear that if the "true American dream" continues in the form of this despicable narrative, that America's wealth and superpower status have been and must continue to be achieved at the expense of African-Americans, then America must be ruined as a wealthy superpower. Period. No such wealth and power in the presence of such rank injustice. That if the USA wants to regain and continue as a great and powerful nation, then it can no longer continue the American Dream as it has unfolded with each generation. I'm not so much of a pessimist that I think this is inevitable-- there is the potential for reform, but we have to be aggressive in pushing it.<BR/><BR/>What this means in practice, of course, is that the consequences of either Hillary's Plan A or her Plan B must be extremely cruel and painful, for the party and for the country, to make it clear that there are horrific consequences for pushing this hateful narrative against us.<BR/><BR/>As I wrote above, all of us in our group agreed that we will pursue a plan of action including peaceful, but extremely vigorous, widespread and prolonged protests (well past November 2008). We will simultaneously launch a series of general strikes throughout the nation, to further paralyze (albeit temporarily) the economy. We will of course name names, with Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton as well as any of their enablers getting top billing. They will be hanged and burned in effigy, their names and images brutally attacked with all the media and means at our disposal.<BR/><BR/>Others, of course, will do more.<BR/><BR/>Our aims with this will be two-fold:<BR/><BR/>1. We will naturally be drawing intensive media attention, both domestic and international, to the despicable travesty of justice that Hillary's actions and her enablers' support have brought about.<BR/><BR/>2. We will be precipitating a temporary, though severe and painful economic crisis, that will in turn result in a loss of dollar support and a total loss of international investor confidence in US assets and US "safe havens"-- with an obvious lesson to our own corrupt political classes, and the added bonus of likely forcing a withdrawal from Iraq.<BR/><BR/>As most of you are aware of, the only reason that the USA can continue as a "superpower" even as we sink to more than $11 trillion in debt, to have all these bases worldwide, to fight these imperialistic wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia-- is that rich manufacturing and oil-exporting nations, such as Japan, Britain, China, Saudi Arabia, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Russia, France, Germany and the Netherlands, continue to park so much of their money and savings in the USA. The belief is that the USA has so much "political stability" and protection in US bonds and debt instruments, that they need not worry about the value of their assets.<BR/><BR/>Translation: The White racist massas of the USA continue to keep a tight leash on America's Blacks and keep the whip hand steady if African-Americans get too uppity, with Blacks therefore remaining docile and obedient to their massas, and thus little risk of social unrest.<BR/><BR/>We need to demonstrate to them, conclusively, the error of their judgment.<BR/><BR/>This will give rise to a loss of confidence in the US debt-driven imperialistic warfare state (at home as much as abroad), a further tumbling of the dollar, and enough of a shock that the US's superpower imperialistic arrogance, its active hatred of its Black minority, its chronic warfare and military overextension at the expense of tending to the most basic needs of its impoverished African-American and Latino minorities-- is entirely untenable.<BR/><BR/>Our war in Iraq will also be financially unsustainable, since the total loss of foreign investor confidence will lead to a drying-up of credit and make it impossible to finance our imperialistic wars anymore.<BR/><BR/>Now, I and most of my friends and family aren't rich, we're working or middle-class even those of us in the budding professional group, and we have no doubts that we'll have to keep a stiff upper lip, and tough it out through some difficult economic times ourselves.<BR/><BR/>But we're going to be facing a painful recession regardless, made even worse by the War in Iraq, and if we fail to stand up for ourselves in the face of such obvious injustice, and at a crucial juncture, things would get much worse for us. Respect for us would rapidly wane as we would be perceived as chumps, and the "true American Dream" that is forged specifically at the expense of Blacks, and to our continuing detriment, will only grow louder and even more intense.<BR/><BR/>However, if we stand up for ourselves, then we will halt this downward spiral against us, and with our troops pulled out of Iraq-- and the USA oriented in a less imperialistic direction-- things will quickly turn around for us. There is no other option for us but to stand firm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-46978860467808627612008-03-13T18:47:00.000-04:002008-03-13T18:47:00.000-04:00Nsangoma quoted:"Dude, your Adam's Apple is showin...Nsangoma quoted:<BR/><BR/>"Dude, your Adam's Apple is showing"<BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/>No dude here! <BR/><BR/>Just don't like filthy pigs! They have a habit of wallowing in muck!SouthernGirl2https://www.blogger.com/profile/01829901840187884140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-52893849069365265112008-03-13T18:19:00.000-04:002008-03-13T18:19:00.000-04:00Lt. Governor David Patterson is lucky that he is b...Lt. Governor David Patterson is lucky that he is black and blind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com