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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Genteel White Woman Lie and America is the MOST Racist Country in the World

A finger in the face should get you maced!
 

Threatened??? The white privileged face of America setting the standard for ignorance.

This picture has been circling the internet for almost a week now and I have resisted posting on it because I wasn't calm and there have been some really great posts referencing it and what it implies here, here and here.  My initial reaction to seeing this wasn't any different from any other time that I have seen disrespect, towards Black people, born from the ignorance of white privilege and racism.  I want this post to be plain and direct and to include enough honesty and truth to choke the white privilege out of every white person that subscribes to that mindset.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

No more B*****s, H**s or Tricks for Jay-Z.

Can you say hypocrite!!! 

I couldn't help but to see all the praises that are being lauded on Jay-Z (Mr. Black Community Pimp Extraordinaire) for realizing now that HIS daughter will be affected that the derogatory language he has used to demean women is no longer acceptable.  Give me a break!  Never mind the fact that he spent well over twenty years destroying generations of young minds by being verbally abusive to other people's daughters for pay. No, no, no.  Now that HIS daughter has entered the world he makes the pronouncement (through a song no less because he has to get paid) that he is done with verbally degrading women.

Oh, the benevolence of it all.

Jay-Z spent far too many years using women as the object of his vile verbal attacks and now we are to believe that since the birth of HIS daughter he has been enlightened enough to stop his twenty plus year career of verbally abusing of women.  What if he had changed course many years prior to the birth of his beloved daughter then maybe our daughters could have been spared his disgusting words.  If he had, there might have been less carnage and it might have been more believable that he cared about the damage done.

This jerk has blazed a path through the black community helping to destroy it for profit.  What part of your redemption should I believe to be real when every part of what you put forward stinks of a marketing strategy.  You carefully planned and perfectly timed your daughters introduction to the world for profit of course.  Folks, make no mistake Jay-Z is still the same opportunistic threat to the betterment of the black community that he has always been.

Maybe money can make the man but it can also make monsters.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Music Saturday

The times have changed in music continually as I suppose it should but I have to admit that I have never missed the music I grew up listening to as much as I do now.  So, here's to great music from back in the day!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Colorism vs Racism: Should we view them differently?

Picture courtesy of Google
I have heard many black people say that it is different and that it is not the same thing.  Colorism was born from racism to accomplish the same goal of establishing superiority based on a sense power over those deemed inferior solely based on skin tone.  When black people decided to participate in colorism (the idea that the lighter black person is the better black person) it negatively altered how all black people felt about themselves and what they could do for themselves within their own race.  I will never understand a black person participating in this behavior considering the damage inflicted on all of our lives because of racism. 

The idea that colorism is only regional in the United States is laughable.  As if it is so impossible for colorism to majorly exist in more than the much talked about Southern region of the United States and not the others.  And considering the fact that we have allowed our popular culture to shape our views in very destructive ways we should all know that it is everywhere.  Southern people ain't got nothing on America as a whole.

I have seen colorism in all of the regions from many ethnic groups (as designed) and it at times seems unbelievable when you experience it even though you know it exists. Spending the second half of my formative years growing up in Northern Louisiana put me in a position to experience colorism often but not so often that it was able to damage my views on the issue.  It was frustrating to hear older people, boys, girls and even family members discuss the lighter skin/darker skin issue in a way that gave it more importance than it should have had. 

Colorism is something that I hate more than I hate racism because it is coming from not only the people that benefit from racism but it is also coming from the people that experience being negatively affected by racism everyday.  Black people destroying themselves with the very thing that their ancestors fought against is the definition of sad.  Wouldn't they be so proud that their sacrifice has brought about our slow and (at this point) certain destruction? 

We feed the monster, our current societal power structure, with our lives by choosing to support anything or anyone that tries to make this okay.  It is not okay for a person's self-worth to be defined by their skin color and for that skin color to be seen as anything other than God's plan for a beautiful and diverse society.

What do you think?  Is colorism and it's damage different from what racism creates?  Is colorism among black people self-hatred in practice?

Monday, January 9, 2012

The obsession and objectification of the black female for social, political and financial gain

As the First Lady of the United States of America, Michelle Obama, is not even protected from the disgusting abuse of the black female in this society.  Racism is a ridiculous institutional concept that when combined with sexism is an unrelenting choke hold on black women with little relief.  Subjecting the black female to a life that is less than it should be and therefore creating a need to always be on the defensive for our own preservation.

People have written about how insulting and inappropriate it is for this man to objectify the First Lady in order to supposedly express his disagreement with her healthy eating initiative.  I could personally attack him for his deplorable behavior (but it would be way to easy) or I could detail the historical obsession and objectification of black females by white males and white society at large.  But I won't because those things would detract from what I think is really important.   

The black woman being continually attacked for the sole purpose of enrichment through black female degradation is a practice that needs to be abolished. 

The methodical efforts to permanently devalue the black female and their image in the minds of most people in society began long ago.   Those efforts have hindered black females being seen as human beings that are worthy of respect and protection even among the men of our own race.  It is precisely the reason why lost black men have no sense of urgency to ensure that black females are protected and the reason why lost black women have continued to submit themselves to the degradation.

To attack the First Lady in this manner screams fear and the masses are running scared because she is the epitome of black womanhood annihilating stereotypes with each step she makes.  I am proud that Michelle Obama represents us on a national level. 

The lost have been so desensitized like the majority of society and it has become expected and therefore a conditioned state of being to tear down black women.  Unfortunately, too many of our lost permeate popular culture creating a national level of dysfunction and disrespect for black women that has proven difficult to overcome.  Too many refuse to have higher expectations for those they choose to support and emulate.


What will it take for there to be complete solidarity in the fact that our success and future lies with the respect and protection of black women?

Monday, January 2, 2012

2012 is here!

Well, long story short...  Illness and family concerns prevented me from caring for this blog the way that I have wanted to and now with the new year arriving (so fast that my head is still spinning) and health and family on the rise I am going to try this again!

This blog has primarily been a place for me to vent about things that really confuse me because they are so ridiculous and/or quite simply piss me off.  There will be more of the good things that are happening being shared in posts and not simply digested in order for me to maintain my congenial spirit. 

I want to try to approach this blog with the same level of passion for what is right while vehemently speaking against what I consider to be wrong.  I hope to do this with more temperance so that my words are not misconstrued and my message is not lost.  I will however maintain the same level of directness but I am deciding not to allow anger to take the lead.

Action matters and I plan to be more active than I already am in my personal life towards helping black people ascend and in realizing that we are better than "the little" that too many are willing to accept.  The action I take in my personal life extends to this blog.  I will be stepping on a lot of toes because we really need to get a grip on reality. 

So,  let 2012 be the year that you care more, do more and expect more!