Do Black People Really Believe They Are Apes?

I often criticize Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for their non-leadership antics. They have no program, no plan, no strategy, except to wait for some white idiot to give them a platform. The New York Post just obliged.

The Post printed a cartoon of the Chimp, Travis, that had to be shot by Stamford Connecticut police when he attacked and damned near literally tore the face off of a friend of the chimp’s owner. The caption of the cartoon referred to the stimulus plan just past. The exact cartoon caption reads:

“They’ll Have to Find Someone Else to Write the Next Stimulus Bill.”

Now, Rev. Al Sharpton has been given an issue! Many blacks, and white whose support could be better used to support a race-specific full-employment act for blacks, support Sharpton and his non-sense antics--marching to protest this “insult.” With blacks being shot down like stray dogs in the inner cities, you’d think that Sharpton with his one or two member organization, National Action Network, might consider the randon murder of blacks by other blacks and Hispanics in places like South Los Angeles at least as important as the killing of a mad chimp. Apparently not.

More disturbing to me is the fact that American blacks would give such a non-sense cartoon, which is not even funny, any consideration at all. The question that comes to my mind is this: “Do black people subconsciously believe that they are apes?”

Comedians and others repeatedly referred to Former President George W. Bush as an ape for at least six of his eight years in the White House. So, did Rev. Sharpton protest? No! Then it must be because the good Reverend did not believe that George Bush was an ape? Do Sharpton and any pitiful followers believe that black people are apes?

When are we as a people going to grow up? We have an American black President in the White House and we are hyperventilating about a cartoon depicting some white cop shooting an ape!

Al, his black coterie and white sympathizers, will be marching in New York City Tomorrow! How stupid!



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STALKING AND HANDICAPP PARKING

I oppose stalking. I support handicap parking.

What I do not support is defining laws or privileges so widely as to make them meaningless. I use handicap parking to illustrate the point.

Our federal government just released a 12-month report which states that 3.4 million persons age 18 or older were victims of stalking. The government defines stalking with a pinch of specificity, “Stalking Victimization in the United States,” (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Special Report, January 2009) as “a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear.” As definitions got, this sounds like a reasonable definition to me.

Then, the report veers into a definitional quagmire, listing no fewer than seven measurements of stalking behaviors, and states that none of these individual acts is criminal (fudging its categories with “may not be criminal”). It is this definitional quagmire that would let almost any real stalker off the hook if he or she has the money to hire a competent lawyer.

Most of these “victimizing” acts could be readily stopped if the person being “stalked” just had a normal backbone. These acts include:

Unwanted e-mails (now this encompasses about half of Americans!);
Unwanted phone calls (well, now we include robo-calls, unsolicited advertising?);
Following/spying on a person (the report uses the word victim instead of person);
Showing up at a place without a legitimate reason;
Waiting at a place for a person (the report uses the word “victim” So I guess it’s ok to wait for a person just so long as the person does not consider him or herself a victim!)
Leaving unwanted items, presents, or flowers (well, now, guys and gals can no longer leave roses for their pissed-off lovers!);
Posting information or spreading rumors on the internet, in a public place, or by word of mouth. (No more freedom of speech, guys and gals, the truth is no longer a defense if it includes “posting information” on the internet, in a public place or even by word of mouth!)

This is not about stalking; it’s about feminizing conduct. Say what you may, there is a real difference between men and women. Boys like to play with different toys than girls and no amount of “socializing” is going to change this.

The report states that about half of stalking victims experienced at least one unwanted contact per week and about ten percent of victims said that they had been stalked for 5 years or more. The report reveals to us a fact that even an idiot should know: highest incidence of stalking occurred with persons divorced or separated. (Wow! Now a guy or gal pursuing a girl with flowers is put in the same category as a stalker!)

Trying to put an economic face on stalking, the report states that more than half of stalking victims lost 5 or more days from work because of stalking. Well, we should now brace ourselves for a Federal Law outlawing all meaningful contacts between men and women. The federal government has already enacted a statute addressing interstate stalking, 18 U.S.C. §2261A.

Although stalking is a serious matter and should be treated as such, the gross exaggeration of stalking as being widespread, especially when a little common sense by the persons being stalked would put a stop to it, is just another example of the hyper feminization of conduct in United States. Indeed, there are a sizeable number of women (and men too) who want to destroy all conduct that in any way differentiates between men and women. These folks want to criminalize any aggressiveness in men, apparently leaving women free to kill with words while men—who are verbally inferior to women, generally—is left to bear the burden of silence.

Comparing stalking to handicap parking, while both are serious matters, is no exaggeration:

Every mall or strip mall I visit, I cannot help but to marvel at the misuse of parking spaces by over allocation by a factor of three or four to one parking spaces to the handicap. I do not begrudge handicap persons parking spaces. What I am indignant about is the over allocation of vacant parking spaces as “handicap parking.”

Now, see the analogy of handicap parking spaces with defining stalking to as virtually all contacts in our modern world? When stalking is defined to mean almost anything that makes people, particularly women, uncomfortable, that’s when the ugly sin of political correctness rears its hydra head, and criminal prosecution for stalking is rendered a shadowy apparition.

Stalking is not a definitional flip of a coin; stalking is not a nuisance; stalking is a crime. Turning it into a nuisance by having it embrace political correctness and feminization (who hasn’t receive an unwanted phone calls, e-mails, etc.?) makes it harder to effectively combat it.

Why don’t we criminalize telemarketing stalking?

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Get Read 4 a Post-Racial Obama, Part II

Race is a very slippery slope for both blacks and whites in our country, especially since the end of official segregation. Frankly, we are blinded by race.

Note the fetish of some very educated blacks chanting for Reparations for Slavery! You’d think that they are blind to reality or they just want to grasp onto an issue that they can forever pursue without winning.

The more practical pursuits, and potential for success, would be to sue as a class for segregation and discrimination reparations because many victims of official segregation are still alive today. Within two generations, most, if not all, victims of official segregation and discrimination (which ended in the 1960’s) will be dead and gone. Perhaps then those with the fetish to dream will “come alive” and pursue Reparations for segregation and discrimination. Again, it will be too late.

Parasitic black leadership again has failed to pursue a strategy that might result in some tangible results. Once blacks achieved full legal citizenship (ending official segregation, effective voting rights, etc.) black American leaders were as lost for what to do as a blind salamander in the Sahara. With no agenda and no concrete goals, black leadership and leadership organizations are left to beg for crumbs from the public trough, largely, and to wait for some white fool to thrust upon them an opportunity to protest, e.g., Imus….

Despite unheard of opportunities now open to blacks, the black American leadership class (which includes entertainment moguls, activists, black academics who feed the elite black youngsters in colleges and the universities and black publications) have utterly failed to develop ONE, ONE industrial entertainment and convention complex where black folks could go and spend the billion plus dollars that they spend at white owned complexes. Where does the NAACP hold its 5000 plus convention attendees every year?


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Get Read 4 Whitewashing of Barack Obama

Part I of a Two Part Series

Frederick Douglas noted that the white man will make it as difficult as he can for a black man to succeed and then when he does, the white man will no longer consider him black! (I am paraphrasing here)

Douglas was writing in reference to Benjamin Banniker (if you don’t know who he was, consider yourself ignorant of American history) and Benjamin Franklin.

Tragically, the same ugly history rears its head in many conversations that I have heard by whites referencing Obama.

After over 350 years of classifying any person with from one drop (the “one drop theory” the “1/16th theory”) of African American blood as black, all of a sudden when a black man succeeds to the White House, he is no longer black! As many whites have commented, “Obama is just as white as he is black.” This represents over 350 years of continued rank hypocracy.

Now I know what I have to do for my mixed ancestry to be recognized: I gotta run for President and win, or perhaps governor of California would suffice.

Black Americans have been “mixed” for centuries (quadroons, octoroons, half-breeds, zombies, mulattos, etc.) and they have been uniformly referred to as “black” by whites without a blink of the eye, until now.

Suddenly a black man earns the most powerful office in the world and he is no longer black! My, how far we have come! John McCain did not run as a “white” candidate. Obama did not run as a “black” candidate, but that label was place on the latter—at least until now. Nobody in his right mind would ever think that Obama would govern as a “black” (whatever that means) President. But, what does reality have to do with it anyway?

I say, keep him black, black, black! For by doing so, it assuages white guilt that a black man has won the highest office in the land. If we can assuage white guilt, maybe we can get rid of black victimology. As for me, it does not matter how we get rid of black victimology, just as long as we do so. Black victimology is the bane of black progress. There is no intention here to deny the tremendous harm that slavery, segregation and discrimination have wrought on black folks. But, if it “ain’t” working, we have to fix it; victimology is not working, except for the black parasitic leadership class.

Next, Part Two, focuses on race & leadership

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A black man will take the oath of office blocks from where slaves were once housed in pens and sold for profit. He and his black wife will sleep in a house built by slave labor, nearby where Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This moment makes me cry with joy. This moment makes me cringe with shame. I am not gay. I have two grown sons who are not gay. You don’t have to like or approve of the lifestyle of gays; but, as a matter of principle, they are entitled to all of the fundamental rights that other Americans enjoy. Marriage is one of these fundamental rights. The irony in California is that on the same day that blacks were voting 95% to install a black man in the White House, they were voting 70% to deny a group of citizen the fundamental right to get married—a right which the blacks themselves were denied less than fifty years ago.

To deny gays the right to marry is to deny a fundamental right to individuals who possess characteristic that they cannot change—immutable characteristics. This is the very definition of denial of fundamental civil rights. I am old enough to remember when it was a crime in many states for a black to marry a white person. “Christians” and organized religion now make the same argument against gay marriage as they made against interracial marriage in 1961—with only slight variations. When I was growing up as a boy in Texas, these same Christians did not permit me to worship in their white churches—all done in the name of Christianity and religion.

I am old enough to remember Proposition 14, which was on the ballot in good old liberal California, which had as its purpose the denial of blacks to rent and buy property like other citizens. This was in 1964! The same “Christians” and Mormons argued that it wasn’t a question of denying blacks the right to buy property, but rather it was a question of property rights—as if property owners had unfettered freedom regarding their property. Every county in California except Marin approved Proposition 14. The Supreme Court saw through this charade and overruled it. I hope the Court will do the same with Proposition 8. Blacks voted overwhelmingly against Proposition 14; yet they now appear to be deaf, dumb, and blind to the denial to a large group of even a more pernicious discrimination.

Mormons led the Proposition 8 “Yes” appeal and financed it more heavily than any other group. This same group denied black Americans the right to become Elders in their church until the late 1970’s. If my memory is correct, their leader, suffered a revelation” and changed this racist policy when it became obvious that Mormons were increasingly running the risk of loosing their tax exemption status.

Let me be clear: Black Americans are hypocritical; they seem to think that the only discrimination important to oppose is racial discrimination. They are wrong. They mouth Dr. King's "I have a Dream" speech and then proceed to vote to deny a fundamental right to gays Americans, largely on religious grounds. Are not gays all God's children, too? I don’t remember a gay persons ever asking anything other than to be judged by the content of his character and not by his or her sexual preference.

Serial monogamy appears to be more a threat to traditional marriage in California than gay marriage. Over the years, marriage has changed fundamentally. We no longer marry to have children, to adopt or to live together. If the purpose of marriage is to promote family stability, to advance society’s interest in rearing children and to promote respect for each and one another, then it is hypocritical for Christian and religious leaders, especially blacks whose family structure is in ruins, to oppose gay marriage.

Many white gay couples adopt black children and provide them with a far better life and environment than their own people care to. Approximately two third of all foster kids today in America are black. There is hardly a white left to be adopted, but there are many, many black kids who are warehoused in foster homes while blacks oppose, on Christian or religions grounds, gay marriages and gay adoptions.

I am profoundly disappointed with black Americans’, who are just over one generation out of virtual slavery and rabid segregation, voting 70% to deny a fundamental right to such an outstanding group of Americans, who contribute so much to our country in many professions.

Where are the civil rights leaders who have remained silent in this assault on these loyal American citizens?

I will call all of them out by name: To the NAACP, the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Julian Bond, the Urban League and assorted other black parasitic leaders, why have you remained silent in this unprovoked assault on the fundamental rights of the American gay community?

They and we ought to be ashamed to have voted to deny another group of Americans the very right that we fought so hard to attain.


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Tell Me What to Do Now That I've Won!!!

Listening to the Republican Party strategists and “talking heads” you’d think all along they had Barack Obama’s interest at heart. Every "psuedo-independent” talking head from Amy Holmes to Dowd now express the opinion that Obama must “govern from the middle.” They, of course, wish him “success,” as long as he follows their direction. His win now suddenly has noting to do with his agenda!

The republicans having suffered a veritable drumming in the November 4th election, now resort to offering their “crocodile tears” advice on what President-Elect Obama is to do to succeed!

It’s as if to say, “ you beat me, now let’s govern together.”

This reminds me of the American Idol winner, Jordon Sparks, whose nearest competitor, sensing that he’d lost, whispered in her ear, “ if I win, I’ll ask you to sing the final song with me and if you win, you do the same.”

Although only 17 years old, the young lady instantly declined his “kind” offer.

Obama should do likewise.

You win, you get the challenges, benefits, fruits and disappointment of the winner.

You lose, you “come to Jesus” and assess just why you lost.

Republicans, come to Jesus.

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General Colin Powell Gets His Revenge

By endorsing Obama General Powell finally got his revenge. Many narrow-minded old washed up white men will immediately say the endorsement was a “race thing.” They are wrong. Powell has always publicly stated that he’s an American first and foremost. Shame any American has to say that. It should be obvious, but with the likes of the Congressperson from Minnesota calling for an investigation of members of the congress to determine who is pro and who is anti-American, what can you expect?

The very old white men who made the wrong decisions in their youth and early ages that have landed themselves in virtual poverty now during their declining age, (and consequently they are unable to earn 25%, or less in minimum wages, of what they used to earn) are now opting for “conservatism.” Powell, whom they once held out as an example of the “black” that they would vote for, now has suddenly become a “race man.” These very down-and-outers will now turn on a dime and denounce Powell. These down-and-outers have found an easy way to spend the rest of their lives: They let the likes of Savage and Lambaugh (these very rich demagogues) do all of their thinking.

McCain’s campaign represents a bunch of angry white men, not the least of which is the candidate himself, who have been so persuaded by angry white men talk shows who now see their preferences slipping away that they have become rampant racist and misogynists, succumbing to the most vile anti-intellectual thought processes.

“Joe, the Plumber” represents these folks with his simplistic mentality: he makes less than $40 thousand a year; he is against social security (I bet most of these angry white men won’t think of giving up their monthly social security pittance check); he is against welfare for minorities; he blames the current economic problems on minorities, diversity, affirmative action—without s single thought about Palin being the very poster-child for everything wrong with affirmative action, e.g. appointing rabidly unqualified, ignorant, audacious, blabber-mouth liars to positions for which they are not just unqualified but nonqualified.

Three is nothing racial about General Powell’s endorsement of Obama—the General just got his revenge and now perhaps he can sleep a little better knowing that his legacy may be enhanced since Obama represents diplomacy first as Powell tried to do before he was drowned out by W’s neo-cons.

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