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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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
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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© 2008 by Lenton Aikins
All Rights Reserved.
Reproduction is permitted provided credit is given.
Lenton Aikins, Ph.D., J.D.
Attorney at Law, Author
Dr. Aikins has travelled widely, lived abroad in Europe and Latin America, recently spending three years in Costa Rica as Director of a Spanish Language school. He holds a Ph. D. in Political Science from University of Southern California, a Juris Doctor in Law from Western State University, College of Law. His book, While African Americans Slept: Leadership by Parasites, is available at: http://zitpub.com or go to http://lentonaikins.com
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?
_____________________________________________________________________
© 2008 by Lenton Aikins
All Rights Reserved.
Reproduction is permitted provided credit is given.
Lenton Aikins, Ph.D., J.D.
Attorney at Law, Author
Dr. Aikins has travelled widely, lived abroad in Europe and Latin America, recently spending three years in Costa Rica as Director of a Spanish Language school. He holds a Ph. D. in Political Science from University of Southern California, a Juris Doctor in Law from Western State University, College of Law. His book, While African Americans Slept: Leadership by Parasites, is available at: http://zitpub.com or go to http://lentonaikins.com
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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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©All Rights Reserved.Reproduction is permitted provided credit is given.Lenton Aikins, Ph.D., J.D.Dr. Aikins has traveled widely, lived abroad in Europe and Latin America, recently spending three years in Costa Rica as Director of a Spanish Language school. He holds a Ph. D. in Political Science from University of Southern California, a Juris Doctor in Law from Western State University, College of Law. He is the author of many articles and of While African Americans Slept: Leadership by Parasites, now available at: http://lentonaikins.com, and available in all bookstores July 1,
2008. You can read his blog: Go to: http://lentonaikins.com and click on blog.
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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©All Rights Reserved.Reproduction is permitted provided credit is given.Lenton Aikins, Ph.D., J.D.Dr. Aikins has traveled widely, lived abroad in Europe and Latin America, recently spending three years in Costa Rica as Director of a Spanish Language school. He holds a Ph. D. in Political Science from University of Southern California, a Juris Doctor in Law from Western State University, College of Law. He is the author of many articles and of While African Americans Slept: Leadership by Parasites, now available at: http://lentonaikins.com, and available in all bookstores July 1,
2008. You can read his blog: Go to: http://lentonaikins.com and click on blog.
Monday, January 12, 2009
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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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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