The following is based upon and a response to Kartina Richardson’s Salon article “How can white Americans be free?”

Many of my posts address what it means to be a person of color (POC), specifically a black person, in America, a land dominated by whites for a few centuries. Over the years, a few of my posts have been declared racist by a handful of racist trolls. I’ve learned quickly that to put white people and their racism on the spot will invite anger from whites and POC who think ‘white’. Most responses are filled with any and all things wrong with black people. Some will include the inevitable statistics ploy as white people need raw numbers to tell them how bad the black race is. 

Since I’ve been a blogger, I’ve learned a few things about America and about white people. Among them were the following:

-White people hate it when you call them out on their racism.

-America is a heavily racist nation.

-Whites are addicted to “feeling good” especially when they put nonwhites down.

I also learned that as screwed up as many POC are because of whiteness, white people are screwed up themselves due to whiteness. How so?

Well, we need to understand that whiteness has become the default, a standard by which it is the objective that is set against everything outside its views and definitions. The white man’s view of the world is considered the default. The white man’s definitions on the world and how it works are the default. Anything and everything else has been reduced as insignificant. Lesser than. Inferior. Wrong. And that’s the way it goes.

Simultaneously, this default setting of whiteness also prevents white people of learning anything outside of their “worlds”. Instead, they tend to assert their whiteness onto others, permission granted or not. They feel the need to tell POC how they are “wrong” and why even if facts are staring them dead in the face. They end up insulting the POC and will put up a shield to deflect their venting back unto them to keep from looking ignorant and rotten. White people will get upset, but will get over it quickly without taking anything worthwhile from that experience while the POC are frustrated and stressed because the white people refuse to “get it”.

The mindset of whiteness keeps white people feeling like shining examples of moral values despite their psychopathic and sociopahtic behaviors. They can not – will not recognize their own moral flaws, past and present. They will continue sinning without any regard for others because whiteness tells them they are “basically good”. Conversely, whiteness will identify non-whiteness as the opposite, anything that must be controlled or “civilized” or put down immediately. Whites with this mindset will not see it as anything other than a positive motive no matter how much it destroys others. In fact even challenging whiteness is seen as a sin worse than murder itself.

Whiteness defines that is “normal” in today’s world. Whiteness is normal while anything else is abnormal, including discussing race. Race is considered a problem only POC deal with and must fix. Whiteness keeps the notion that it – in fact – is the center of racism, the reason why POC deal with so much on a daily basis. It removes any truth and responsibility for (most) white people to actively and effectively examine, cease and prevent personal and systematic racism, not to mention reveal that fact white people benefit the most from racism.

As such, white liberals believe they are progressive non-racist, but they tend to fall into the trap by reinforcing it. White conservatives, on the other hand, embrace whiteness -including its racism – as their identity.

Whiteness is filtered into the minds of POC every day to the point where they reject their identity. And the same thing happens to white people in America. Most whites in America have rejected their origins in order to be simply white. Richardson describes her experiences:

White people frequently ask me what my ethnicity is. I like to ask them back and they preface their answer with a sheepish expression, “Oh, I’m just regular white” they say, or “Oh, just plain boring white.” They don’t believe they have an ethnicity because The Default has erased European ethnicity to absorb people of European descent (and a few lucky Middle Easterners) into Whiteness.

The default of whiteness can make it complicated for white people to embrace their ethnicity let alone make them realize that they are ethnic themselves. Most liberal white people believe they are “regular”. They do not admit or realize they have privileges over other groups due to their white skin. To acknowledge their whiteness is – to them – racist. Yet, everything else is categorized based on color and ethncity (African or black American, Native American, Asian American and so on). White Americans are not called ‘white Americans’. Instead, they are simply called ‘Americans’.

Whites with racial pride, who mostly side with conservative values, often juxtapose it their hatred for nonwhites, non-Christians and non-heterosexuals. White pride is usually associated with Southern or Nazi pride, both have bloody and violent histories. Yet, this overt racism is embraced by a segment population of white people who believe they are dying off the face of the Earth. They can not cope with the fact that the world is diverse, and they have a hard time knowing that those of white European descent are the true minority.

But whiteness keeps them from opening up to possibilities. They prefer to stay in their own collective and hate the rest of the world. A white world to them is like a dream come true.

The article in which this post is based upon asks, “How can white Americans be free?” Can they be free? Do they want to be free? Do they even know that they are lost?

POC have told white people what’s wrong countless times. Each time we are told how incorrect we are. Thus, racism and white supremacy continues to this very day. Some people would conclude that white people are unaware of the damage whiteness has caused. Some would argue that they do know, but don’t care. After all, telling a group of people something so obvious, you would think they would know by now. That is not the case. So, you have to conclude that they could care less.

Yet, I suspect that they are blind to what whiteness is doing to themselves. It keeps them in a constant struggle for peace and relevancy. It prevents them from advancing their humanity. Maybe one day, they will realize their self-implosion happening around them, but right now, they seem fine with it. And that is part of the problem.

Youth in the Oakland community had the opportunity at the “OAKLAND NAACP Youth Leadership Conference” to ask adults the tough questions about what is happening in their community.

This was not only a stage for youth inquiry, but it was also a space for youth voice to be amplified and heard.

Charges Dropped Against 16 Year-Old Kiera Wilmot For Science Experiment Gone Wrong

A few weeks ago we told you about Kiera Wilmot; a 16 year-old Florida high school student facing felony charges for a science experiment gone wrong on school grounds.

According to MSNBC News, the charges against Wilmot have officially been dropped.

Wilmot – widely considered an outstanding student with a clean record – was facing up to 5 years in prison.

To All Afraid of the ‘Ghetto’

I cannot count the number of times I have heard comments equating majority poor black neighborhoods (“ghettos”) with exponential violence this week. Most, however, do not understand the clear problems with these statements. While the majority of these comments are from my classmates at the University of Chicago, a school that actively others the surrounding black neighborhoods, discourages students from entering into these spaces and seems to have a culture that nurtures blatant racism, this sentiments represents one of the larger American populace. I would like to take this time to highlight how our country’s exclusive association of violence with the “ghetto” often ignores violence in other perceived “safe” spaces. It is important to note that my usage of the word “ghetto” is solely to represent it’s vernacular usage.

IQ and the Nativist Movement: Richwine’s Report

The academic and policy worlds have been roiled by last week’s announcement that a Heritage Foundation study on the cost of immigration reform was co-authored by Jason Richwine, who wrote a dissertation on the purported low IQ of immigrants. It beyond belief that, in the year 2013, there are still some that want to posit that there is a genetic basis for race. Even more surprisingly, these arguments come endorsed with a seal of approval by some of the nation’s top universities, like Harvard in this case. As an alumnus of the Kennedy School and a scholar of race and Hispanic identity, I feel obliged to provide a response.

If there is so much as the tiniest hint of discussing white racism in any way by nonwhites, you will inevitably be confronted by whites telling you why you’re the one who’s wrong and racist in a sad attempt to argue against your point while proving it at the same time. Crime statistics are ‘cited’ or manipulated to prove an incorrect point. Articles and news reports are thrown in your face to prove your race’s recumbent drive for violence. And it is all served with a possible side dish of the tasteless “I’m not racist” crap as if it is to expunge their douchery.

Most of the time, the point they want to get across is that people of color (POC) racism is just as bad or worse than white racism, hands down. Any report of black-on-white crime salutes the notion of a hate crime. Any white person not accepted to the college or career position automatically assumed to be the result of affirmative action. To many whites out there, it’s hard being a white person. The POC are taking over.

Racism is based on the notion that nonwhites are the same. They are monoliths with no individuality. Thus, they are all to be treated the same way, very poorly.

Try and say how white people are all alike. Say how they’re all racist. They all have a problem with POC. They all have privileges. In no time you will get checked by whites. You will get called a racist.

To top it off, you don’t have to call whites anything to get them to dislike your people. But someone will do something that will live up to the white man’s expectations like an armed robbery, a bombing or even work. That one person sets off the alarm to tells the white male that that individual is typical, a representative for his or her whole group. And if that white male has power, something will be done, and you will likely not like it.

Let’s look at it this way. What would happen if you believed that all whites are like that? Nothing. But if you say it to a white Christian, person. The worse that would happen are hurt feelings. They would feel offended, pissed off and sad. For the most part, that’s it!

Now, what would happen if white people thought that all blacks are stupid thugs and criminals, all Latinos are invading this country illegally and stealing American jobs, all Native Americans are unruly savages, all Asians are weak, also stealing American jobs and threaten America’s prosperity and all Muslims and Arabs are terrorists? Here are some summaries of what has happened thus far:

Native Americans were, and still are considered, savages. In the past they were enslaved, assaulted, raped (which still occurs today) and even massacred. In time the remaining tribes were forced off their land into government sanctioned reservations with little or nothing. Today, their plight is largely ignored and even reverted into a self-induced problem, “Their poverty is their own fault.” Sadly, the assault on their lands continue due to government, corporate and individual racism, and the assault on their identity continues in popular media and sports avenues. 

African Americans has had the distinction of being slaves to serve white people. Then they were criminalized, mythologized as less-intelligent brutes, and are not worthy of any respect. It still continues in the 21st Century. Black people are seen as a broken monolith of laziness, violence and stupidity in American society. One or a few blacks are representatives of the entire 40 million population. The black community – as it’s called – is under the watchful eye of white America. One wrong move by one individual African American could send repercussions throughout the black community, and it has happened many times already. There are millions of blacks in prison today, millions are under or unemployed, many of us are killed yearly, and society doesn’t give a damn.

Latin Americans are always suspected as being in this nation illegally or being a part of a drug dealing cartel or street gang. Even if they have a job, they are still accused as criminals, stealing jobs from hard-working Americans as they are seen as collectively lazy. But the main issue today is whether they belong in this nation or not. If they are in this country “illegally” or is suspected as such, then they must be deported. The less Latinos in this nation, the better. 

Asians have been depicted as “sneaky” in American society. Today, they are regarded as mostly weak and vulnerable. Asians are bullied because of those images. Some have even been murdered or have committed suicide. They are stereotyped as being highly intelligent, but lacking any guts. And even intelligence is seen as a bad thing in American society, if you’re not white. As such, people will try to use Asians or run them over.

After any attack on American soil that involves bombs, explosives or extreme violence of any kind is assumed to be enacted by Muslim or Arab terrorists, even if it turns out to be a white guy in some cases. Measures are taken to keep watch over Muslim and Arab communities in America. Those communities become suspect. Anyone that appears “suspicious” is detained, questioned (severely), waterboarded and even deported. The most extreme possible retaliation could involve a war with suspect Arab/Muslim nations.

There are hundreds, possibly thousands of examples of white racism against POC. Too many of them are victims of white racism whether it is interpersonal or institutional. It is because those with the power in society, largely white males, see POC as groups of 2-dimentional paper cut-outs with no soul or humanity.

Yet, none of that matters. It doesn’t compare to the feelings of white people.

Over 20 years, ago there was a very big brouhaha when Clarence Thomas was picked by then president George H. Bush to be a new justice on the Supreme Court to fill in for the outgoing now late Thurgood Marshall. There were already many on the left, and in the media who didn’t like that choice. So, it was quite a Godsend for them when a woman by the name of Anita Hill stepped forward and accused the soon-to-be judge of sexual harassment. So, they took that ball and ran with it like possessed psychos overly eager to find any excuse to rip Mr. Thomas a new one, and they seemed to have found it in spades. But what still gets me to this day it’s not just the reaction of white people on the left. It’s also how many black people were acting, particularly black women.

A lot of black folks reveled at the chance to join white people in vilifying a black male. Not to say that race was the only reason for their criticism, but I do feel personally that it was the main one. And since so many other blacks didn’t like Mr. Thomas either, they saw nothing wrong with jumping on the white led media bandwagon even after most of the white feminists leading the attack have proven to be downright blatantly hypocritical as well as just flat out racist.

Let’s not kid ourselves here. It’s NOT a coincidence that the man they later defended was white. Although, some of those on the left said that the only reason the right wing media went after former president Bill Clinton after his accusations was merely playing tit for tat. Maybe, to those of us who know better, it was calling out a very racist liberal elite. You can’t tell me that Mr. Thomas’ race was never a factor to the predominantly white feminists on their supposed crusade to make sexual harassment in the workplace a national issue, especially when have gone out of their way to ignore that same behavior when it’s alleged in white males.

They were very silent when blowhard and king of fake noise rhetoric Bill O’Reilly had a harassment lawsuit filed by a female ex-producer or when former governor of California Ah-nuld was free and loose with his groping hands for the past three decades. It was the same thing I saw with one-time pizza place owner and former candidate for office Herman Cain. Black people were in a big, fucking hurry to denounce him for being the world’s biggest pervert without ever once taking a step back and questioning why white folks were so quiet about white males accused of the same thing, and why they – themselves – never say a bad word against white males either. The worst offenders were some black women.

The same females who whine about ‘Becky’ not giving a shit about women of color seemed to have actually bought the notion that this ONE time white woman were showing anything not equaling condescension. One woman even had the nerve to tell me on another website that just because their motives were less than altruistic, it didn’t really changed anything. That is a complete and utter crock of shit.

First of all, white feminists carrying Anita Hill around on their shoulders motives weren’t the least bit altruistic. I have said it before and I will say it again. They didn’t give a rat’s ass about Ms. Hill. She was nothing to them but a pawn. If you can’t trust the messenger then you damn sure can’t trust their message, nor can you take them seriously if they are so outright selective in who they persecute.

Like a certain TV producer by the name of Linda Bloodworth Thomason, one of the main voices calling for Clarence Thomas to be hung by his jockstrap upside down on the nearest tree. Not only did little Ms. Thomason’s attitude completely change when her good buddy Bill was accused of several bad acts with women, but she got very haughty and defensive when those on the right called her out on her bullshit. And rightfully so.

Same thing with notoriously racist and arrogant head of the largest feminist group in the country Gloria Steinem. This is a woman, who bent over backwards, sideways and did front end flips to defend to the death dirty old man Clinton. That is a far cry from the song that she was singing when this was Clarence Thomas. She had him tried, sentenced and convicted before the gavel was even slammed.

Now, for those of you who want to harp on Mr. Thomas’s views on affirmative action or anything else that has absolutely nothing to do with the white feminazis crucifying him without a shred of evidence. Any time you have an accusation such as this, it will always be her word against his. No exceptions. So, who are the white feminists brigade to say who is or isn’t truly guilty, and why should I agree when they have proven themselves to be racially biased as all get out?

Sexual harassment is only one example of how many whites in America will call themselves bringing attention to an issue, and yet single out black men exclusively all with the very willing approval and even aid of black folks ready to throw any fellow Negro under the bus that white people tell us is unacceptable. At this point, I don’t know or frankly even care if Mr. Thomas did it or not. What I do care about, however, is how happily blacks will engage white people in tearing down another black person. And not at one time ever complaining that their position changes the minute the race does this is why it confuses me to no end when I hear black people in the media say one word about racism. Don’t celebrate a pattern of behavior you freely welcome and cooperate with every chance you get, and then, bitch about it later. Most of the time, I can’t figure out why we even whine at all about racism the way we carry on by continuing to align ourselves with racist white people.

Every time I see the CBS show “CSI Miami” episode entitled ‘Whacked’, I’m reminded of those white people who piss and moan that the white European slave traders who stole black people from Africa had help from other Africans. The reason why it reminds me of that show is because in the episode, guest star Eric Roberts plays a serial killer whose lawyer wants a new trial because he found out that killer had an accomplice which causes the character of lead detective Horatio Cane played by David Caruso to say that just because he had help doesn’t absolve him of what he did.

BINGO! That comment right there should be a required answer to any and all white people that bitch about the aid given to white slave traders. He makes an excellent point, just because someone assisted you doesn’t let you off the hook for the part that you played in the situation in the first damn place, something that many white people in this country will do every chance they get. Either that, or they will break an arm patting themselves on the back because some white people were allies of black people throughout time to change racist laws.

As I have said before, I’m not giving my 8 year-old child a standing ovation for cleaning up grape juice that they spilled all over the floor. You are supposed to clean up the messes that you make just as you are supposed to correct your mistakes. Yet, try telling that to many white people who keep dredging up the same old tired lame excuses like the one about not being responsible for what their ancestors did. Granted that’s true, except they insist on continuing the mindset and behavior from 150 years ago.

I would use an example, but there are so freaking many I don’t know which one to choose from. The one that seems to get under white folks’ skin the most is James Byrd. He was a black man who lived in Jasper, Texas several years back that was falsely befriended by some white males at a bar there. Then, he was lured out to their truck where he was savagely beaten then lashed to the back of their truck with chains and dragged to his death down a country road. To the point where his head was almost decapitated. Still, with that sick, sadistic, heinous crime there are many whites who will claim that not only is racism a thing of the past but that it all started with other black people in Africa. And the bullshit truck keeps right on rolling!

I have even heard a number of dumbasses on websites say that slavery was never an idea constructed by Europeans until they saw it being practiced in the countries of the Dark Continent. I can’t even begin to imagine how someone can be so unbelievably arrogant and full of shit as to flat out refuse to acknowledge their own violence or brutality and so perfectly content to always preach to others what you would never practice yourself. There’s such as a little thing called accountability or responsibility, something that is impossible to accomplish if you continuously live in your bullshit world of complete and utter denial.

Those Africans who aided white people were NOT the ones who committed countless decades of lynchings nor did they create Jim Crow laws or deny black folks basic fundamental rights like the one to vote and make it hard to get jobs, go to better schools, get fair housing, harass innocent citizens with a Gestapo police force. They are not at fault for separate bathrooms and lunch counters and drinking fountains. It wasn’t because of other Africans that there was a need for National Guard troops to protect the first 8 black students at a Little Rock, Arkansas high school, also James Marshall the first black student at the University of Memphis.

That was because of bigoted white assholes, the same ones who produce the offspring that now want to claim, ‘not only were our folks not really even that bad but that we ourselves would never continue the pattern of their hate filled behavior.’ Right, and I still believe to this day that some fairy lady flies around at midnight handing out free coins to little kids who put a lost tooth under their pillow.

I could very easily go there with those stupid Negroes who also like to aid white people. Only in this case, it’s their being totally unwilling to face their current or past wrongs [cough LL Cool J cough]. However, that’s not what this post is about. It’s about saying one thing and doing another. It’s about a group of people so in love with their own decadence and arrogance that they can happily go through life oblivious to all the pain, anguish and misery they heap upon others. That’s the attitude of a bully. It was so important at the time to treat someone else like shit but remind them some years later and well, they just can’t remember. How convenient yet when it comes to bully racists, those who are their daily targets don’t get that luxury. So, don’t harp to me how you can’t be held accountable because people that looked like me assisted you.

No bullshit rhetoric you try to spin will ever change the part you played in the slave trade. And the part you continue to play to this day in making the lives of those you consider inferior as difficult as humanly possible. All while you hold up your hands and shrug saying ‘hey it wasn’t me’. Well, it has to be somebody still making racism happen.

I recall a comment by late night host and Scottish comedian/actor Craig Ferguson one night when he told a story about the Queen of England. After the story, he made a snide quip about her which caused the audience to voice their disapproval and Mr. Ferguson responded by saying ‘Oh, for 300 hundred years we’ve been oppressing ourselves’ then he repeated himself.

Talk about taking the words right out of my mouth! Cheers to Mr. Ferguson for putting things in their proper perspective and in such a distinct matter that his words make complete sense. To the point where they can’t be disputed, especially by those folks who live for their denial.

Famed movie critic Roger Ebert, the surviving half of beloved movie critic duo Siskel and Ebert, has passed recently and I for one certainly won’t be shedding any tears about it.

That may sound terrible but let me plead my case. First off, the guy was an arrogant, snobby, and was an exceedingly bigoted blowhard who – like many whites that like to imagine themselves above racism – was many times just as guilty as the ones that he acted so high and mighty with. Here are a few examples of why even though I appreciated the lively debates, I wasn’t that big of a fan of either him or his partner Gene Siskel.

He was very vocal in his dislike about the popular 90’s ‘hood’ movies that Hollyweird was so fascinated with making by saying that it would be refreshing to see more ‘positive’ depictions of Negroes. Oh really? Is THAT why he spent most of his career praising the vile and disgusting Klan celebrating film from D.W. Griffith “Birth of a Nation”?

This is also the same asshole who praised the 90’s film directed by Kevin Costner “Dances with Wolves” for finally showing Native Americans as fully developed fleshed out characters and not just stereotypes that were actually played by Native actors, not just white people in semi brown face [funny how he doesn’t bring up the fact that the two leads are still white though].

Then this prick turns right around and continues to gush over the countless John Wayne films from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s that made Native people look so damn bad in the first place. These films were very hateful and negative in their portrayals of Native Americans. Yet, he loves those films and “Dances”, even though one is positive and the others are negative as hell. Okay, pick a fucking personality, Sybil!

I have said it before and I will say it again, you can’t have it both ways. Either you are grateful that these people of color are finally getting their due, or you were perfectly fine with the shitty images we have had of American Indians for many years now. It can’t be both, just like he can’t act like he was so little Mr. down with the darkies while he behaves in the same racist and condescending way as other white male critics.

When the Oscar winning hit “Driving Miss Daisy” starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy came out, damn near every white critic in describing Miss Tandy’s character used as least 20 adjectives for her. Yet, when it came to Mr. Freeman he was labeled as nothing more than the, and I quote, ‘black chauffer’. Roger Ebert did the same thing as all the other white males. He reduced Mr. Freeman and his character in the film to little more than a servant.

He also thought very highly of any film that followed the same blueprint as that shitfest “The Help”. Keep in mind, this is the same mother heffa that was married for many years to a black woman. Still, he had the absolute gall to question as to whether or not a black female actress could ever dare set aside her prejudices long enough to kiss a white actor. Really?

One time this hypocritical little shit actually had the nerve to suggest that the reason why there were few love scenes between white male actors and black females is because the black woman in that equation would have a hang up about interracial romance. Granted, he was playing devil’s advocate, but come the fuck on! You are married to a black woman yourself, and you have the ball balls to speculate that the ONLY reason you don’t see white males on screen hooking up with black women is because they have a problem!

Maybe somebody should have asked this cuntbag’s wife if she has any problems with kissing a white man and see his reaction seeing how he would even broach the subject in that way, and God forbid, he ever believe that a white male movie star would be less than objective about doing a love scene with a woman of color. There has been an attempt for the past 23 years to do an American re-make of the French indie hit “Diva” and there only snafu has been that all the white actors they approached said no. Yet, according to a dumbass like Ebert, it just has to be because black women are so unwilling to step out of their comfort zone. Good thing he found the exception to marry his ass huh?!

Another thing that pissant once said that really rubbed me the wrong way was when he was reviewing the disastrous Kim Basinger film “I Dreamed of Africa”. While I appreciated him broaching the issue of the lack of African people being represented, he preceded the comment by saying he wasn’t trying to be ‘politically correct. Asking why there is such an utter lack of representation in a land of the people who actually live there isn’t being politically correct, shithead. It’s a valid fucking question that should have been asked! But he seems to think it’s about following some code that white people have been forced into by those whiny Negroes.

Speaking of whining, I thought it was hilarious that Ebert could lament about the fact that heroes and villains in most Hollywood films are racially coded and how he will never see in his lifetime a bad guy of color. Has this asswipe ever even seen many of the movies that the rest of us have, because if he has, he sure as hell wouldn’t be making such a straight up false, bellyaching flat out bullshit observation. Right, because you just never see white heroes or good guys like in those politically correct movies I guess.

On top of that, Ebert like many of his colleagues was very harsh in his critiques of the films with black actors in the leads. I saw some of the movies they seem to hate so much, and some of them really weren’t that bad. It has to be because of the actors and not the film itself. Jack Black, Adam Sandler, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, along with countless other white big names A-listers have made more than their fair share of stinkers. But I have yet to hear them even take half of the criticism that black actors get like the white movie reviewers who complain endlessly about the 70’s ‘blaxplotation’ movies, but see very little wrong with monstrosities like Stepin Fetchit, Rochester or Butterfly McQueen. All of those bitches couldn’t stand Will Smith until he played a gay man and a supposedly former slave. It’s ok if he’s a subservient or the ultimate white male’s idea of a weak man, but he – without fail – can’t be the lead or the hero. OH HELL NO!

There is an expression from black folk going around lately that I think described the late Mr. Ebert to a tee and that is hipster racist. So while Brotha may say RIP I say FUCK ROGER EBERT.

A lot of times, I really don’t get black people. We always say one thing, then do the complete and utter opposite. We complain about how white people are. Yet, we then turn right around and indulge in the same behavior. If we can’t stand the way they act most of the time, then we shouldn’t keep emulating similar patterns.

For example, many black folks will whine about how white people like to monolith us, but we do the same thing our damn selves. Memo to the high minded Negro crowd, if you hate hip-hop and rap so damn much then STOP using it as a precursor to describe the life of every single black person walking, stupid asses! Not every fucking black person listens to Tupac.

While I’m on the subject, can black people for once please finally let sleeping damn dogs die? It’s one thing to quote Brother Malcolm and MLK because their words held a tremendous amount of truth and wisdom and can be used as blueprints to live one’s life for the better. But let’s still keep things in their right perspective.

Both of those men have long since passed on. So let’s quit all the damn speculating on what they would say ‘if’ they were alive today. Well, guess what? They ain’t! So, not only is the ruminating pointless, it smacks of desperation.

Now, while I’m on that topic why is it that black folks will piss and moan incessantly that the supposed black leaders aren’t doing enough yet continue to elect white males into office? Aren’t the white people in charge are leaders as well? So, they should be held just as accountable for their lack of service too. Fat chance!

I have never seen black people give the same crap to white politicians that they do black ones even when they are attempting to be so holier than. I can’t even begin to count the times that the same high and mighty black folks who are quick to attack black people in power for their distorted morals will defend to the death any boozing, womanizing, sleazy, crackhead, cheating, lying white person.

Don’t get me started on black folks in California who voted in Ah-nuld despite the fact that he was a groping slimeball. And big shock was he was also very ill equipped to handle the job of running one of the largest states in America. He was an actor, dummies, not a political force! Like that old saying goes, “You get what you pay for.”

The goes triple for the haters of big time black preachers like Eddie Long. Correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t there a shitload of black people in the Catholic Church and didn’t some of their hard-earned pennies go toward paying off the millions to the many disgruntled families of abused minors that the church looked the other way years for. Yet, expecting black people to target a white run organization like the Catholic Church is like believing that I can sprout wings and soar like an eagle. By that, I mean most black comedians who seem to be perpetually stuck in a time warp circa any era before 1925, especially the stupid cackling morons and purveyors of coonery such as those on the Doug Banks, Rickey Smiley and Tom Joyner shows respectively.

Recently a member of the Smiley show brought up that grumpy old man Clint Eastwood had fathered 8 kids by 7 different women. Then a loudmouth idiot on the show named Ebony remarked that Eastwood ‘must’ be black. Excuse me? First off, it’s one thing for asshole white people to support the stereotype that only black men have multiple babies by multiple women, but when stupid ass black people agree with that bullshit it makes it even worse.

Interesting how black women never notice the black women like Halle Berry and Mel B from the Spice Girls who have children out of wedlock by different men but getting back to stupid black shock jocks.

It’s as if these people have some genetic deficiency that makes them incapable of talking shit about white celebrities like many black comedians. You must not break the sacrilege ever! Just kidding, but I find nothing funny whatsoever about the way a lot of black comedians, particularly jizzwad Paul Mooney, are. This is a Negro who goes on every talk show within a five foot radius and bitches to no end about how racist this country is. Then this dumbass turns right around and selectively targets other black people on his stand-up shows. And I have seen many of them. So, I know where of I speak. If you are that pissed, then why are you attacking the VERY people you pretend to defend?

That brings me to the blogs run by black women on the internet, the same ones who claim to be so outraged about the deaths of young black males like Trayvon Martin, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, etc. You could have fooled me! Please. They say that, yet never miss one opportunity to vilify and demonize black men exclusively under the disguise of fighting the good fight for all women of color. B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T!

If that is truly the case, then why is it they happily ignore any story that doesn’t involve a black man. For instance the murder of Peruvian woman Stephanie Flores by Joraan Vandersloot, who is also the main suspect is the disappearance of missing American Natalie Holloway. How about the case of Bruce Redman, a former producer for the show “Survivor”, who is the only suspect in the murder of his Mexican wife? None have been rushing to yack about Harvard medical student Annie Lee who was said to have been killed by her lab partner, a white male. But let there be a story about a black male celebrity they can crucify and they are right there.

These are the same heffas that join many white people in the media in their never ending bash OJ chorus. I rarely hear them spending that much effort to continue attention on the black men that they pretend to care about so much just like they rarely pillory white males or criticize white people in the media for being so blatantly racist and hypocritical.

They also like many whites will use ANY lame ass excuse to bring up OJ even when it doesn’t have shit to do with what they are bitching about. The sad part is that they certainly aren’t the only black people who do it. You can’t have it both ways, black people. Tearing each other down while hating on white people for the same exact thing makes no damn sense.

That’s another thing about black women’s blogs. They will whine like crazy about ‘Becky’ and how ‘Becky’ is not down for us. Yet, whenever little miss Becky is telling them what they want to hear, then they are madly in love with her. And that’s precisely when some snotty, huffy, white female is criticizing black males like self-righteous hypocrite Ashley Judd.

Some black women were all over her with praise when she called herself going after rappers for promoting a ‘rape culture’. Bitch please! She works for one of the most sexist industries on the planet, and she has the absolute gall to say something about rappers all with the loving approval of black women. Probably the same ones who hate misogyny sooooooo much yet supported that dirty, old pig Bill Clinton. However, any time I bring up that little factoid, black women on the blogs get very defensive and deny that they ever defended him. So, what was it some phantom black folks from the planet Negronis?

The point is don’t keep whining about the ways of white folks if you insist on following in their foot- steps. When what should have been a feel good story about former radio announcer Ted Williams who fell on hard times due to drugs came out black people couldn’t wait to be on the attack. Most were saying that he wasn’t the only homeless person, and why was he getting so much attention. Well, no duh! He’s not the only homeless person ,asshole! What the hell was this man supposed to do, reject what was probably a once in a lifetime chance to get back on his feet because some jealous hating Negroes feel the need to be crabs in the barrel at every fucking turn?

Funny how those same people never do a damn thing themselves to help another black person. I wonder if any of the haters have ever actually gotten off their ass and volunteered in a shelter or helped anyone besides themselves. Doubtful. It’s much easier to hate on one another than get off your ass and do something productive for a change like the black women who bitch like bitches about overnight internet sensation Antoine Dodson. He is a young man from the projects who rescued his sister from an attempted rape despite looking like a stiff breeze would blow him over. The black female hate brigade was in full effect when Mr. Dodson was able to capitalize on his heroic act after an autotune version of his angry TV rant went viral.

Two things they fail to mention while screeching like angry birds: First, he was the one who saved a family member from a traumatic event. And second, because of the internet video, he acquired enough money to help her and his family move to a better neighborhood. Of course, that bit of information doesn’t register while they are squawking. Nor do they mention how many times they, themselves, have worked a rape crisis counseling center in a poor black area. Maybe that’s because like every other time, black people who complain and vilify other black folks don’t do much besides flap their gums. They sure as hell can’t ever be consistent. That’s for damn sure.

Every time – and I do mean every time I see a white singer with a black choir doing back-up vocals behind them, I cringe. Not because I think that the performance will suck or that the chorus of black voices won’t be up to snuff. No, I get disgusted because it’s such hackneyed, clichéd bullshit like the one black boy way at the back in a John Hughes movie. And while I’m on the subject can I please get into what an obnoxious pandering asshole he was?

I was watching a show with commentator and former Rolling Stone writer Toure who questioned why there were no black people in his films. Well, I say who gives a shit? The guy sucked as a director and more so as a human being. Also, there were black folks in his films, but they were represented in the most stupid, insulting, insipid way imaginable. Need I go there with that whack ass scene of black teens in “Ferris Buehler”? Didn’t think so.

Then, there was the crapfest starring CSI’s Elisabeth Shue called “Adventures in Babysitting”. The black people in that mess were either extra ‘cool’ darkies that knew how to especially get down all while showing the hapless blonde white girl and her charges how to actually step out of their comfort zones old school style. Okay, where is a damn barf bag when you truly need it?

They were just one gang of thugs that the plucky white kids from the suburbs have to stand up to in order to save their necks[rubs temples extra hard]. I guess that just proves that if we aren’t into music or sports then we just have to be up to no good a.k.a. criminal activity. He might as well had a neon sign above the black people’s heads saying ‘only qualified to be entertainers, athletes or hoodlums’, or in the case of your average awards show the back drop prop for some white artist that really needs to prove their soulful side.

Funny how none of the black entertainers require anything even remotely like that. Oh right! We are just naturally gifted with soul. White people, however, must have our aide. It’s similar to the magic Negro stereotype Hollyweird parades around when it feels the desire to once again paint the past with a rose colored brush and break both arms patting each other on the back by saying “See? Some of us were not that bad” despite the fact that many of those same people stood idly by and did absolutely nothing to put an end to the sadistic brutality of their brethren.

But why should we still be mad? After all, we should appreciate the chance to sing behind a famous white crooner or be pandered to in the worst way possible. It has a black face in it, and that’s good enough. Not for those of us who have the displeasure of actually sitting through their shitty ass films.

I can’t say that have ever watched one time when there is a white person with a group of black people behind them. What gets me even more than that is the whole token in the background designed to show some semblance of diversity from a white person so that they can feel better about themselves. It’s always the same “See? At least I got one of you in the shot or in the room” crap.

Case in point an episode of insufferable blowhard hag Roseanne where she had moms from old TV shows on having a gabfest. Now, apart from how excruciatingly obnoxious and painfully unfunny it was, having an elderly Barbara Billingsley remark that she would kiss a chick for a lot of money was beyond deplorable. Having former “Lost in Space” star Jane Wyatt embarrass herself by coming off as a bitter old whiner was the fact that Isabelle Sanford star of CBS’ classic hit “The Jeffersons” was there also.

My problem with that was that she was only there for show. She didn’t say anything, was kept firmly in the back and wasn’t acknowledged by either Roseanne or anybody else. She might as well have not even been there for all the good her presence served, which is why I think the term token was created in the first place. It’s just so a white person can say, “Hey, one of you was here so shut the fuck up stupid darkies, and quit complaining.” It sure as shit isn’t because white people have some strike of conscience and actually want to include a black person, especially not when it comes to TV.

I have always said from day one after seeing an episode of David E. Kelley’s dreck ABC show “The Practice” that Lisa Gay Hamilton could have been replaced by a mannequin and nobody would know the difference. So, I guess Lisa Nicole Carson on his FOX hit “Ally McBeal” was supposed to be step up even though she came across more as a prostitute than a lawyer. Mind you, she was not an object of desire, just some ho you bang in the backseat, then pay to get rid of them and hope they are at that same corner the next time you stroll past. Sounds harsh, I know. But that is usually how black people are viewed by TV executives, creators and producers, particularly creators.

Remember that this is the very same David Kelley who made came up with that shit pile from FOX called “Boston Public”, a program which I can’t spend enough time expressing my complete and utter disdain for, least of all reasons was that stupid, offensive, asinine little so-called ode to the all- black girl singing trio The Supremes. It seemed like that asshole couldn’t let one nonsense opportunity pass to have the three black females doing some singing act. Even on the show “Glee” the white teachers don’t hop up in front of everybody to belt out a tune all the time. And the white female teachers on “Boston Public” damn sure never showed their pipes by doing a song number.

What makes it even more idiotic is that one of the women in his little singing act was actually bi-racial. Your guess is as good as mine as to why any of those females would subject themselves to something so blatantly racist and pandering especially top notch actress Loretta Devine. Seriously homegirl, just what the fuck were you thinking? But I guess it’s like one commenter on Brotha stated when talking about superstar actor Samuel L. Jackson even calling him racist director Quentin Tarantino’s ‘ace boon coon’. A line that had me rolling. I couldn’t have said it better. problem with that is that far too many black folks in Holly-white have no issue sacrificing their dignity for a paycheck.

I get that these people have to eat, but selling your soul just to make a name for yourself doesn’t sound like a very promising way to make a living to me at all. It’s like my boy Robert Townsend once said, There is always work at the post office.” And even if there’s not, there has to be some occupation out there that’s more rewarding than being a monkey to a white person’s organ grinder. Leave the leashes and dancing to the real monkeys on the sidewalk.

Sighs! I found out yesterday that Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of  Malcolm X, was murdered in Mexico City. News reports say that he was a victim of a violent robbery. He was reportedly robbed, shot and thrown off the roof.

I honestly don’t know what to say about this. I’m still speechless. We all knew the brotha had it rough growing up. Still, he was an activist following in this footsteps of his late grandfather. He was a man who struggled with so much. Yet, he still kept going not just for himself but for others.

Talking Points Memo (TPM) gives some details as to what happened as to who Malcolm Shabazz was:

Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of the late civil rights leader Malcolm X, has died while in Mexico. The news first broke when a family friend named Terrie Williams announced his death on Facebook and Twitter. TPM has independently confirmed his death through another source with close knowledge of the situation. According to an associate, Shabazz was beaten during a robbery Wednesday night in Mexico City.

Like his namesake, Shabazz, who was 28, was actively engaged in politics. Juan Ruiz, a member of the California-based labor organization Rumec, told TPM Shabazz was in Mexico City with one of the group’s leaders, Miguel Suarez who had been deported from the United States last month.

“He’s a supporter of our organization” said Ruiz. “He went to Mexico to meet with Miguel.”

A posting made Wednesday evening on Rumec’s Facebook page said Shabazz was in Mexico City with Suarez and wanted to share their story with local media.

Multiple members of Shabazz’s family did not respond to a request for comment from TPM. Officials with the State Department would not confirm Shabazz’s death.

“We are aware of the death of a U.S. citizen in Mexico City. We have been in contact with family members, and at their request we have no further comment at this time,” a State Department spokesperson said in response to an inquiry about Shabazz.

According to Ruiz, Shabazz died after being beaten during a robbery. Though Ruiz is currently in the United States, he said he had been in communication with Suarez who was with Shabazz at the time of his death.

“He was murdered. He was in Mexico City and I believe they attempted to rob him and he didnt allow it, so they beat him to death and he died on his way to the hospital,” said Ruiz. “This is all I can confirm, everything else is under investigation for the meantime.”

Shabazz had a troubled youth. He moved between France, California, and New York with his mother, Qubilah. In 1995, Qubilah was charged with planning to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan with her boyfriend, who was an FBI informant. She was allegedly motivated by a belief Farrakhan was involved in Malcolm X’s 1965 assassination. The charges were subsequently dropped with support from Farrakhan and Qubilah agreeing to undergo psychiatric and substance-abuse treatment. In a 2010 interview with this reporter, Qubilah said she did discuss killing Farrakhan with her boyfriend, but “it was a joke.”

In 1997, when he was 12-years-old, Shabazz was living with his grandmother, Betty Shabazz when there was a fire in her home. Betty subsequently died as a result of injuries sustained in the blaze. Shabazz plead guilty to setting the fire and was sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile facility with possible extensions. During his trial, Shabazz was described in psychiatric testimony as a paranoid schizophrenic with psychotic episodes.

Shabazz was released after four years. In an interview with the New York Times he admitted to setting the fire and said he did so because he wanted to be sent back to live with Qubilah. In a 2011 conversation with the Amsterdam News, Shabazz would not discuss the fire that killed his grandmother and implied he was not responsible.

“I was coerced,” said Shabazz, who added that he was working on a book about his life.

After being released from juvenile detention, Shabazz became involved with the Bloods street gang. In 2002, he was arrested for allegedly robbing a man after a party. Shabazz was convicted of attempted robbery and spent several years in prison.

In 2011, Shabazz told the Amsterdam News he was working on a book. He also said he believed his family was being persecuted “by select businessman and government officials.”

“I’ve been a target my entire life. My family is targeted,” he said.

Last month, the Iranian state-owned news outlet Press TV published a lengthy statement attributed to Shabazz in which he claimed he was being harassed by the FBI and police in upstate New York due to time he spent in Syria and his attempts to travel to Iran. Shabazz had appeared on Iranian television in April 2012. In the statement published by Press TV, Shabazz accused multiple U.S. government agencies of having “set the climate for my grandfather’s assassination, and made my family a long-suffering casualty of COINTELPRO, and other anti-Black repression programs.”

Part of me is still in disbelief that he was a victim of a horrific robbery. Part of me believes that there is more to his assassination. With someone like Malcolm Shabazz who carries the legacy of his family, particularly of his grandfather, it’s hard to be believe that some violent thugs just wanted his cash.You wonder if there weren’t other forces behind his murder. You even wonder if that’s what really happened.

However, the possibility that Shabazz was indeed robbed and killed is still open. Mexico City is a violent place due to its drug war.  Shabazz could have been a casualty of that war.

Whatever the case, Shabazz was murdered. Let us take the time to reflect on the life of this young man, a man who despite his troubled past was still a soldier to the very end. Rest in Peace and freedom, Brother Malcolm.

White Americans bought at least 455,000 black slaves in the Transatlantic slave trade, mostly in the 1700s, mostly from West Africa. They also had some Native American slaves.

What does this racist video have to do with recycling water?

Oh hellll no. Racist video alert. This one doesn’t come from dumbass frat dudes or a ditzy college gal. This one comes courtesy of the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works: City Of LA Department Of Public Works Under Fire For Producing Controversial Video Mocking Asians.

The video, shot at the Japanese Garden at the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys, shows a guy in yellowface dressed as a geisha, doing the usual tired-ass Asian accent mockery. This is all somehow supposed to teach viewers about using recycled water — and is paid for by taxpayer money. Yeah. Watch…

Malcolm Shabazz, Grandson of Malcolm X, Killed in Mexico

The Amsterdam News has learned, and the U.S. Embasy has confirmed, that Malcolm Shabazz – son of Malcolm X, was killed on early Thursday morning, May 9, 2013. He died from injuries sustained after he was thrown off a building as he was being robbed in Tijuana.

“I’m confirming, per US Embassy, on bhalf of family, the tragic death of Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X.Statement frm family 2 come,” wrote close friend of the Shabazz family Terrie M. Williams on twitter.

What Terrorism Means To Me, A Native American

The general public doesn’t like to see pictures from the past. Pictures of the American holocaust, the massacres, the mass graves, the slavery and the lynch mobs. But the pictures exist and the fact that they do shows us part of the true history. This happened to many, many American citizens ancestors. This country was built on terrorism that they never will own up to and/or make reparations for. And then they have the audacity to think one has to leave here and go to another country to become “radicalized.”

Please. Don’t Let It Be One of Us

If you are a member of a marginalized community, at some point a crime, or a ludicrous action will become public or go wildly viral and the first thought that will go through your head is, “please don’t let it be one of us.” We will follow up on the story, find out that it is indeed one of us, shake our heads and think about how the action of one individual will come to reflect upon us. If you are privileged, you have never had this experience.

How the Music Industry Monopoly Really Works

The truth is that big business controls the types of music and artists that get exposure and become popular. The record industry is a $14 billion dollar business. The five major record labels; Sony, Universal, BMG, EMI and Time Warner dominate 85% of the market when it comes to sales of Compact Discs. Leaving only 15% for the hundreds of independent record labels and thousands of artists out there. And when indies get too big or an artist starts making noise these major companies usually pick up the artist or label. This way they control the artist/label, get a percentage of the sales and keep competition to a minimum.

Examining White Supremacy and Heroism: When Both White and Black People Value White Lives More

From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Gone with the Wind to The Help to The Butler to the evening news, most whites can only see us as only subservient to their needs, nursemaids to their well being, necessary for their superiority, or dangerous to their acquisition of property. The more selfless for their own benefit we appear, the more they believe things are just the way they’re supposed to be. They don’t allow us the complexity of a full human life; they would rather that our lives remain in the margins, expressed only in the most distorted and inaccurate of extremes.

Media Assumes Best of Police and Worst of Low-Income Neighbors in Cleveland Kidnapping

The harrowing story of three Cleveland women—Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight—held captive by Ariel Castro for a decade seems to reach new levels of horror with each emerging detail. But one of the most disturbing developments of all—that Cleveland police potentially ignored repeated calls from Castro’s neighbors about violence against women at and around his home—was quickly buried and dismissed after police vehemently denied the allegations.