The Africanized Bee Analogy

 

Africanized bees are hybrids of Western honey bees born from the crossbreeding of African and European bees.

In the late 1950′s Biologists in southeast Brazil wanted their European bees to produce more honey in a tropical environment. They interbred their bees with bees from Southern Africa. As a result a new hybrid of Africanized honey bees were born.

However, they somehow escaped by accident, and have migrated to the Americas reaching the Southwestern United States by the late 1990s.

Scientists have characterized the Africanized bee as more aggressive, especially in defense and offense. They attack in swarms of greater numbers as opposed to their European kin, attack from great distances, and tend to stay agitated for a long time. They have been given the nick name “Killer Bees.”

In contrast scientists, beekeepers and news reporters consider that the European bee is less aggressive and more gentler and kinder than their Africanized cousins.

Not all colonies of Africanized bees are aggressive and defensive. Some are more quieter and gentler. Brazilian beekeepers have learned to “re-domesticate” African bees to make them more manageable.

Fear of the Africanized bee have been widespread all over the United States. Films such as The Swarm helped to heighten fears of an impending killer bee attack. So far, an average of two people per year have been killed from killer bee attack. Yet, the fear of the killer bee invasion is pervasive among many Americans, particularly if they see a hive in or near their property. 

This information is strikingly similar to the history and plight of African Americans in many ways:

-The African slaves in the past and their descents up to the present have been used for the benefit of other men, in historical and societal terms, the white man. Is is similar to how African bees were shipped to Brazil for the purpose of man’s desire for the European bees to produce more honey.

-Black Americans are usually seen as more aggressive and violent than white Americans the same way Africanized bees are commonly seen.

-White Americans, by contrast, are viewed as less threatening and more kinder and gentler like the European honey bee.

-Many political and judicial strategies have been used to contain and control black Americans not unlike the way Brazilians beekeepers tried to make the African bee more controllable.

-Black Americans are seen with great fear in numbers. It is akin to the fear people have of seeing a large beehive in their area.  Plus, Africanized or killer bees are known to attack in large numbers. The fear of a vicious attack by a group of black people and the noted reports of riots and flash mobs help illuminate that anxiety among white Americans.

-The entertainment and news media help to exaggerate the fear of the black man the same way films about killer bees amplify the panic of a swarm attack.

-It should be noted that in the video, certain body parts of bees are compared just like certain body parts of blacks are compared to those of whites.

-It is most likely not a coincidence that killing Africanized bees for protection on the spot is an option much like murdering African Americans is always a potential option to protect society and lower crime.

Dos and Don’ts

We all know that Hollywood and the Western media is filled with the same old stuff that they produce for the masses. Most of what you see is about white people saving the world, especially people of color, someway and somehow. While people of color are not presented outside the usual, tired-ass stereotypes. Even independent grassroots films are mostly about white people telling the stories of people of color. I know there are those of you who want to see something different.

So, I’m asking all of you for some input. What would you like to see different? What would you like to see gone? What would you like to see that doesn’t make you shake your head in disgust…yet again?

Remember, this topic is for males, females, black males and females, latino/hispanic/chicano males and females, native/Eskimo males and females, Islamic and Muslim males and females, Arabian males and females, Asian males and females, LGBT, etc. You get the idea?

Consider this as an open forum to exchange ideas. This is a post for you to get your two-cents across. So, be truthful, be for real, and be upfront.

 

Notable Links: 5-25/12

BREAKING NEWS! Mitt Romney Touches a Black Person

It happened in my neck of the woods today. Flipper, while visiting a charter school, actually pressed flesh with some little black children. Of course this is something you would not have seen while the republican primary was in full effect. If you did see it, Flipper would never have been the republican candidate for president of these divided states.

15 Year-Old Honor Student Brittany Rowley Roughed Up by NYPD

15 year-old honor student Brittany Rowley has put the NYPD back in the headlines after being “roughed up” by two of its officers in a case of mistaken identity.

Last Friday, Rowley and a friend were walking down the street in Brooklyn near the site of a shoplifting incident involving two young ladies who allegedly looked and were dressed similarly to them. Two plain clothes officers approached them and,fearing they were about to be kidnapped, Rowley and her friend ran.

The Savior Syndrome: Patrick Willis and the Mystique of #WhiteLove

There is an epidemic of white love in America.  From The Blind Side and The Help to Kony 2012, George Clooney saving Africa and countless white celebrities liberating black children via adoption, white love has become the antidote to the race problem of the twentieth century.  Whereas “the race problem” defined the last years, the next 100 years are purportedly to be one of white love.  While racial profiling and the prison industrial complex, persistent discrimination and poverty, education and health disparities continue to plague the nation amid a climate of heightened anti-black racism, immigrant scapegoating, and a rising tide of white nationalists movements, white love offers a ray of sunshine.  Better than Barack Obama’s “hope we can believe in,” in the face of so much injustice “white love” is hope (white) society can believe in each and every day. 

Are These the New John Browns? “I Am Not Trayvon Martin” White Anti-Racists Talking to Cameras on Youtube

Reverend James Reeb. Jonathan Daniels. Andrew Goodman. Michael Schwerner. Viola Gregg Liuzzo. John Brown. These are the names of white folks who lived ethical lives and placed themselves in harm’s way for the freedom of Black Americans. They also died trying to save white America from its own self-destructive racial wickedness.

In the Age of Obama, the Internet, and post-Civil Rights America, where have men and women of this type of iron will and principle gone? Are they on the lecture circuit? Occupy Wall Street? In the academy? Doing community organizing? Working silently in the shadows?

People of Color Finally Appear on GIRLS and It’s the Same Ol’ Fucking Story

After all the talk about the Small White World in which the GIRLS of HBO’s new comedy live, it was revealed Sunday in episode 4, “Hannah’s Diary,” that there are actuallypeople of color living in that pale version of the City. And they come out of the woodwork, all at once, like…a herd of zombies!

Why White Women Keep Silent When Michelle Obama is Being Attacked

When I hear Rush Limbaugh spewing hatred at my favorite lady, I wait patiently to see the barrage of white democratic women who call themselves feminists who will no doubt come to her rescue.

****crickets****

Maybe they’re all waiting for the right time to strike down Mr. Limbaugh. After all, in AmeriKlan, girls are a minority too. Any moment now…..

****crickets****

Hmmmmmmm…….

Perhaps the reason why they keep silent is because they’re happy to see her verbally assaulted.

Serial Baby Daddies

 

There are times where I believe we, as males, have been conditioned to think that our penises are like royal scepters that validate our status as being men. To some that’s all they have if their sexual prowess because they’re basically stuck at the bottom. Others believe that it’s a privilege to have. Yet, despite those conceptions, some of us are seemingly unaware of the consequences of letting our dicks do the thinking for us.

As a result of such carelessness, diseases are transmitted and life is created. The latter is likely seen as a problem than a blessing to some folks. However, if it happens multiple times to where just as many offspring is produced, then one has to wonder – among other things – if those men have ever heard of protection. The clear-cut answer is apparently ‘no’, and young lies are caught in the struggle they didn’t ask for.

Here are two cases that explore that reality:

The first one you’ve probably heard by now. It is the curious case of Desmond Hatchett, the man who – in 2009 – made the news for fathering 21 children by 11 mothers! He even boasted to have several of them in one year alone. He even proclaimed that he was ‘done’ having kids.

Apparently, he’s not. It’s been reported that Hatchett added nine more to his clan! Now, he asks for a break in child support as he is only earning minimum-wage. What he gives to child support is barely enough to pay for a morsel of food (1.49 a month).

Did I mention that this dude is only 33 years-old? Yeah. He’s 33 years-old and was 29 in 2009 when he was interviewed. So, yes. This sounds like an episode Maury Povich would love to air.

It has also been noted that Hatchett has an extensive criminal record which explains why he only earns a minimum-wage salary. After all, companies are least likely to hire a black man with a criminal history. So, Hatchett’s pretty much screwed, no pun intended.

It’s no surprise that Desmond Hatchett’s story is popular in news websites all over the internet. He has set a record in the hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee, and he, as a young black male, has once again confirmed the negative stereotypes of black men with his babies’ mothers solidifying negative stereotypes of black women. In other words his whole case is a stereotype threat that has caused many black people to hang their heads in shame.

It is the kind of news that the news media loves to play with. It is the kind of news that hate sites adore to copy, paste and use as proof of the “inferiority of the nigger race.” And, it it the kind of news that black America is ashamed of.

The thing is he is not the only serial sperm donor that’s around or been around. The next story helps counter the myth that only black people are this promiscuous and irresponsible with their genitals:

Meet Jamie Cumming, a 36 year-old Briton male who apparently also followed the Bible’s instruction to “be fruitful and multiply”. And he did! As a result he fathered 17 children by 15 women!

Cumming’s explanations behind his excessive procreation are:

1. He is repopulating his home city of Dundee.

2. He thinks it’s okay to do what he has done because he is a man.

And, it gets worse. Cumming blames the women for not using protection. He also says that the taxpayers should help him pay for his colony since he is unemployed! Furthermore, Cumming insists that he may not be the father of some of his kids. (Yeah, right.) Still, he believe his babies mothers are all happy to have kids by him.

Something tells me that Cumming will create more kids as he seems that he bears no responsibility for protection. All the women he has slept with, and will sleep with if they don’t discover who he is, has to be the one to provide protection because, like he said, he is a guy after all. Therefore, he’s got to be free to sow his wild oats while he can.

There are other examples of dads, and I use that term loosely, that have fathered multiple children throughout the years:

-Sperm Donor Dr. Kirk Maxey fathered a grand total of 400 kids, and demands sperm bank regulations.

-Trent Arsenault, who is a virgin, fathered 14 children through sperm donation.

-Bertold Wiesnar, a man who ran a fertility clinic in London during the 1960s is said to have fathered around a whopping 600 children.

All I can say right now is ‘Damn!’

One thing I worry about most of all is how will the children be taken care of in the hands of adults that seem to have a problem with protection and sex drives of rabbits. Yes, both Hatchett and Cumming must be held accountable for the numerous children they’ve helped bring into the world. And yes, some of the responsibility lies with the women for making the decision to have unprotected sex with them. But, what seems to be missing in the conversations and blame games are what is to become of the children involved?

The children are the only true innocent parties in these and other similar matters. One can say that the adults are victims of a national culture immensely irresponsible with the concept of sex.

While we gripe and moan that we, as taxpayers, will have to pay for illegitimate kids born from hypersexual males, we tend to distance ourselves from the obvious reality that we live in a culture where sex is all around us. It is in our faces nearly every day, and it is hard to resist especially when those from religious groups condemn all material forms of protection more so than they do sex itself.

Plus, we live in a society where individualism is celebrated especially when it becomes convenient. People are shaking their heads at the thought of part of their money going to people who are at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Yet, we always use that familiar African “village” proverb in speeches as an attempt to win social points and political votes. In the end it becomes nothing more than an empty sentence as it is seldom put into action.

We hardly consider that the families need help and support any way they can. We barely ponder on getting some kind of help for the adults. And, for whatever reason, most of us feel we shouldn’t have to care for other people’s kids. Instead, we will likely decide that they can all can eat cake.

This is why I fear for the children of these and other hypersexual unprotective males and females. If the mothers and fathers are not mature enough to take responsibility for their actions, then what hope is there for the next generation?

Even though the children of Hatchett, Cumming all other sperm donors and their babies’ mothers are the innocent parties in these matters, they will likely be the first victims of society’s carelessness and callousness.

Deserved To Die

It’s a miserable and frightening feeling whenever you hear about the murder of people of color. For me, it’s especially aggravating when the victim is black and the murderer is a cop.

The police are supposed to “serve and protect”, according to many adults. They are seen as this nation’s finest always upholding the law. Some people would go on to say that they are our knights in shining armor, honorable guardians and friends who are always there.

There are – at most – some who fit those images. However, for communities of color. There are certain cops who search and destroy. They are among the community’s most corrupted and dangerous, people you hope not to run into especially if you’re a black male.

The police are there to keep a close eye on you. They want to make sure you don’t commit a crime as suggested by your skin color and attire. After all, you being black is a sign of an inbred criminal element you inherited since birth. Your looks alone is an automatic red flag to them, and you better not be seen in a middle class white neighborhood as was the motivation behind the murder of one, Trayvon Martin.

And if you are murdered and you’re a black male, chances are that you had it coming. According to mostly white Christians, whenever a black male is murdered by police, then they were obviously up to no good. Plain and simple. Therefore, that black male deserved to die.

Deserved to die. Let those words sink in.

Some whites, especially those who claim to be good, God fearing, bible reading, Church going people, will existentially support the police murders of black males. They believe in the positive images of police to the point where murder is justifiable, and since the victim is a black male, whom they automatically believe is guilty of something – anything, then that black male had it coming to them. After all, most of these same whites have a dichotomous thinking regarding white people and black people, whites are good and blacks are bad. End of story.

This is why whenever there’s news pertaining to a police killing of a black man or black woman in several cases, you have white people coming out like cheerleaders screaming their lungs out to try to justify the murder no matter what! If it takes citing the police records of the victims, they will use it! If they have to find any hint of criminality, or rather anything to fit their definitions of criminality, they will use it! And if they have to make up – Yes! Make up anything to justify the police murder of a black person, they will use it!

This sickness and insanity is a direct result of society’s culture of puritanical beliefs, racist idealogies and an “eye for an eye” explication for fighting crime. This year alone has been rocked with the murders of black, mostly unarmed, males in several cities alone! And many of those murders have not only gone unpunished, but are supported by institutions and individuals alike.

The underlying message of this nation remains clear: The only good black person is a dead black person.

Notable Links: 5-18/12

Alan Blueford

Alan Blueford (1993-2012) was gunned down on the streets of Oakland, California by the police in the early hours of May 6th 2012, his body left to lay there for four hours, his family not informed. Like he was some stray dog. He was to graduate high school in June.

Alabama Passes Revision to Anti-Immigrant Bill, Waits For Gov

Alabama’s HB 56 was already the harshest state immigration law in the nation. But in the waning hours of the state’s 2012 legislative session and above the din of protestors’ interruptions the state passed a revision to HB 56 on Wednesday which took new steps toward making life for the state’s immigrants even more difficult. HB 658, the revision bill, is now on its way to Gov. Robert Bentley’s desk.

He’s Got Betty Davis’ Eyes

Look at Mr. Zimmerman’s eyes. See the intensity? I see it. I saw it from day one. The eyes have it. No sorrow or remorse. Folks, this is going to be a hard post for me. I have men in my family whom I love intensely. Black men that could’ve been a certain young man we all heard scream for help. That fateful night will be forever etched in my mind as I heard wails of terror in the background followed by gunshots. What if that was a member of my family? Or my mom, who loves to wear a hat to cover her head from the sun, rain and snow? Or me? I wear hoodies all the time. In fact, I’m wearing a gray one right now with Penn State written all over it.

Rethinking How We Think About Voting

You aren’t going to get progressive change if you continue to be stupid enough to sit out elections because you’re not happy with how it’s gridlocked at the moment.   You peeps sitting out and not voting is a contributing reason why it’s fracked up.

White Criminal of the Week: White Police Officer Assaults Fair Maiden, Kicking Her in Pregnant Belly

Stop the presses! We have been so overwhelmed with reports of White Crime that it is impossible to give proper attention to this most earnest and wicked plague that has beset itself upon this country from coast to coast. Could it be the economy? A cultural flaw? Poor behavior that is trickling down from the criminally inclined white role models and elites in government, finance, and religion to the rank-and-file members of white society? We at WARN are flummoxed by the deluge.

‘Time to live my life’: Sick tweets of teen who ‘killed grandparents after telling friends he hated them and wanted them to die

The grandson of an elderly couple who were found slain at their home over the weekend has been arrested and charged with their murders after he allegedly told friends he hated them and wanted to kill them.

Police captured Isaiah Sweet, 17,  from Iowa, in Cedar Rapids after a short chase on Monday. 

They had been looking for him since they found the bodies of Richard Sweet, 55, and Janet Sweet, 62, in their Manchester home on Sunday after relatives arrived for Mother’s Day celebrations.

Police believe they were murdered on Friday. Since then, the teen used his Twitter page to post a number of cryptic messages which police believe are about the murders. 

The Race War

With more and more reports pertaining to police murdering black men and women, to racial profiling continuing at extreme rates against black and brown men, to the continuous mass incarceration of black and brown men and boys, to the corrupt justice system’s continuous assault against people of color (PoC), it seems that America is falling harder and harder into a demon hungry for bodies of color to strengthen white male supremacy.

However, is America truly regressing back to it’s overtly and destructive racist past, or are we just witnessing the awakening of its sleepers? Ever since the election of Barack Obama, hate crimes have increased substantially (And almost all are not hate crimes against white people). It is a hysterical reaction to the election of a black male in the highest office in the land, something most of white America feared.

In no time at all the fear of a historical revenge for slavery arose. Many white people wet their pants at even the slightest suspicion that President Obama will order reparations for the black community.  So, what happened next? White Americans began banding together with their fears saturated by rich white men who used them to put together what would be known as the Tea Party Movement. Soon, racial depictions of President Obama and First Lady Michelle exploded upon the masses of white folks who wanted to “take their country back from an evil, socialist, racist, Islamic Kenyan who hates white people!”

My guess is that the kind of racism disguised as political correctness rose up out of the latent fears white folks in this country have. One of those fears is losing their livelihood which includes the privileges they object to have. Obama’s election exposed this fear.

But this goes far beyond the Tea Party Movement. Continuous systematic racism against black and brown communities are still in full steam, and it appears that there is more coal for the fire. “Illegal” immigration and mass deportation is the order of the day. Ethnic studies become school violations in certain states. Racial profiling continues to be a policy for justice. And, the media continues to horribly stereotype black and brown people.

And yet, when this truth is revealed, or when whites become victims of an attack by some random black male, that is when many whites accuse blacks (mostly) of inciting a race war. Apparently, the black community has become a militant entity of hatred against whites for no reason at all other than they simply hate whites. According to certain people who can only be classified as ‘retarded trolls’, this is why we mention racism and slavery all the time. This is why most crimes are committed by blacks against whites. And, this is why racism against blacks is reasonable. After all, we are all alike.

However, the only people who really want a race war are the white racists who yearn for it. They mention it all the time! So, they must want a chance to kill blacks without worrying about inevitable consequences from the very government they hate.

The reality is most blacks don’t want to start a collective beef with white people because at this point in time, most have other priorities that takes precedence above their unfounded hybrid of fear and obsession.  Most are trying to live in a nation that used their people for years to help create it only to be repaid with the usual “If you don’t like it, go back to Africa!” backlash. One could say that we are better than those insane white racists. Not to mention that the odds are currently stacked against us.

However, that doesn’t mean we’ll be silent and complacent. We get frustrated and tired having to deal with the usual instances that remind us that color still matters. But, most of us will not resort to murder, rape and robbery on a massive scale such as the kind those of African descent have been victims of at the hands of the European white man for centuries.

Still, one can not ignore of the strong possibility that this society will end up like Chernobyl. This nation is sitting on Reactor No. 4, and one day there will be a spike in power so great, a massive explosion will occur, radioactivity will be released into the air and all over the area, and the fallout will remain radioactive for years to come.

What will be that power surge that will set this country off, and when will it happen?