Why Baltimore? (Questions Blacks Ask About America)

There was a plan and structure - for today.

Black people can be found in some seemingly-random places, in the U.S. and Canada, but - if you read our history long enough - it all starts to make sense in the end: 

"Between 1815 and 1860, traders in Baltimore made the port one of the leading disembarkation points for ships carrying slaves to New Orleans and other ports in the deep South. Interstate traders in the domestic coast slave trade found Baltimore's excellent harbor, central location and position in the midst of a developing 'selling market' attractive incentives in which to build their slave pens and base their operations near the bustling port."

Stop right there.

Because slavery existed for most of the country's history, it actually makes more sense than some want to investigate,..

ADDED:

Because there's a Maryland mention,…

SURPRISE!

"[The] slave manifest for the brig Orleans, which includes Solomon Northup listed as Plat Hamilton on line 33, is now on display at the National Archives."



African Bee In The Microwave (Ready To Blow It's Mind)

The Great White Hunters Find Their Prey Again (Praying)

It would be nice if whites could get off this for the holiday season but, since they're whites who are stuck in their ways - and think they have the inherent right to do ANYTHING - there's little chance of that, so here's to a whiter-than-White Christmas:

"'Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!': Blonde PR executive's racist tweet causes outrage on social media... as her bosses react with fury"

Do you ever notice there's rarely anything so blatantly racist coming out of black mouths? Oh sure, whites will take advantage (!) of bad educations, and howl with laughter over some descendent of slavery ignorantly tripping on the word "niggardly" or something - which can make whites look, both, evil and (since they know what they're dealing with because they caused it) as stupid as the person they're laughing at. But I'm talking just out-right picking on white people? That's rare territory. Even in private. No - only my racist-as-I-see-it ass does that:

"Now that Justine has safely landed in Africa, she deleted her twitter account like it never even happened"

"Like it never even happened" - I think that's the name of white people's private anthem, to be played exclusively for themselves, until white supremacy is reborn. You know the words - "We didn't do shit / We didn't see shit / And We don't know shit / Shut-up and lick your wounds,...like it never even happened."

"Sacco is the head of IAC responsible for websites like Vimeo, OkCupid, and Tinder to name a few"

OkCupid? Of course she is - "to name a few" - while other whites get their more subtle race-baiting, like tales of The Knockout Game, from the likes of Drudge and Reynolds. (Yesterday, I almost clocked myself, in hopes they'd report a Republican black-on-black crime,...) 

"IAC commented on their employees behavior and said they would take, 'appropriate action' and that this is a 'very serious matter'"

They must not be an all-white company, or haven't been one for long, because - unlike my other white friends online - they don't understand abandonment, attacking, marginalization, or any of the other white supremacist tactics used to silence criticism. Bizarre. I thought everybody knew them by now. Everybody black does. Almost.

"Sacco also made jokes on her twitter about skinning animals next to #PETA and about 'Hurricane Season' even though she went to college in New Orleans"

Fugettaboutit:

The likes of Lem's Comment Home will find her posing with Sarah Palin tomorrow.

And all will be forgiven or, at the very least, too-easily forgotten,...

 

Night Of The Living Dead

Long before many other genres, African-Americans found a place in horror. Perhaps because the origin of the word “zombie” itself is rooted in Haitian Creole, with the very concept tied to Vodou or Voodoo, as it is more popularly written. While popular culture has turned “voodoo” into a freak show, it is actually a religion with deep West African roots that is believed to mingle those roots with the Roman Catholicism that was forced upon enslaved Africans from there. In this country, New Orleans is the “voodoo” epicenter, with the practice taking rise in the late 1790s and 1800s as those fleeing Saint Domingue, the one-time French colony, during the tumultuous Haitian Revolution sought refuge there.

The Gods Must Be Crazy

"We're in a period of neo-McCarthyism. Everybody is running for cover, it's everyman for himself and somebody turn out the light. How you can go from the Obama moment less than a year ago to a period now where a hardscrabble Taliban-in-the-cave, right-wing Republican movement is able to intimidate people to cut and run is beyond me. I have no friends, until this McCarthyist moment dies down. If you're walking down the street and see me, cross the street and keep walking. I understand."

-- Wade Rathke, the former chief organizer of ACORN, after telling reporter Jonathan Tilove "he expects large and well-rooted chapters, such as the one in New Orleans, to survive" - but before discovering the New Orleans chapter will be uprooted - which will probably isolate him further, from NOLA.com.

That Does Appear To Be The Plan, III

"Everything that was broken before Katrina is now magnified, and the mayor has to be held accountable for it,...these things were broken long before Katrina."

-- Edward J. Blakely, executive director for New Orleans' recovery management, on Bush-blaming Mayor Ray Nagin's pre-Obama attempt at Hopey-Changey, in The New York Times.