There's A Reason For #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen

White women live in their own little dream world, forcing their views on everyone, while oblivious to the concerns of those around them:

”We do not see ourselves as feminists. We see ourselves as trapped."

There's a reason for that, too:

"The people who get in trouble are those who forget they are Black." 

 - Spike Lee 

 Like when I tried to be "colorblind" with the white folks around me,...

A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words (I've Got A Few)

My dreams are better than MLK's

My pal, Azeem, got photobombed by Mookie

Keep telling me what a great place America is:

I'm into Sci-Fi and fantasy, too

Not true, but *so close* everyone believed it

Fuck The Police

You Heard Me

We learn to hate (and are being taught well)

The only thing greater than yourself

A short history of white America

White's excitement over the iPhone 6 is off-the-chain

This is the only way white guys admit slavery's baked in the cake

White children are prepared for life as executives over blacks

Blacks are prepared for lives as criminals, prisoners, or statistics

The man criticized for failing to do what whites didn't want anyway

(as expected)

One's named "United" and the other "States" 

but they rarely work together

"Leave us alone!" has never been a black statement whites thought they had to respect

KISS is not led by a white man - HA! (Neither was Thin Lizzy - HA!)

The American "experiment" was actually an evil quack's sick homeopathic concoction

Spike Lee Makes The Cop Killing Of Eric Garner Explicit

Open Thread: "Do The Right Thing" Is Now 25 Years Old

"We’re all in this together, until we’re not."

Also - here's TMR's favorite:

Da Mayor: Doctor...

Mookie: C'mon, what. What?

Da Mayor: Always do the right thing.

Mookie: That's it?

Da Mayor: That's it.

Mookie: I got it, I'm gone.

Blacks are one of the most ethical groups in America,...

Free Speech For Blacks (Isn't Really "Free" In America)

Two days after Spike Lee's anti-gentrification rant, someone spray painted "Do the Right Thing" several times on a house next door to Lee's old home in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn.

The homeowner told NY1 he thinks the vandals were targeting the home next door, where Lee's father still resides. The homeowner said his door's windows were also smashed during incident.

Spike Lee "Kills" A White Guy On Gentrification In NYC

An epic rant.

"The motherfuckin’ Christopher Columbus Syndrome. You can’t discover this! We been here.

You just can’t come and bogart. There were brothers playing motherfuckin’ African drums in Mount Morris Park for 40 years and now they can’t do it anymore because the new inhabitants said the drums are loud. My father’s a great jazz musician. He bought a house in nineteen-motherfuckin’-sixty-eight, and the motherfuckin’ people moved in last year and called the cops on my father. He’s not — he doesn’t even play electric bass! It’s acoustic! We bought the motherfuckin’ house in nineteen-sixty-motherfuckin’-eight and now you call the cops? In 2013? Get the fuck outta here!

Nah. You can’t do that. You can’t just come in the neighborhood and start bogarting and say, like you’re motherfuckin’ Columbus and kill off the Native Americans. Or what they do in Brazil, what they did to the indigenous people. You have to come with respect. There’s a code. There’s people!"

I Black, You Black, We Blackity-Black-Black-Black, Black

Since I felt forced into that little series on blackness, I'm trying to figure out how to elegantly get out of it (homeopathy!) but post-Trayvon, the stream of stories keep it hittin' - here's where I sit on 'em:

I don't give a fuck about Paula Deen or Riley Cooper because I live in America, and know how we talk, and don't think Americans should be punished for it. You want to reprimand an employee at work, fine. But firing somebody? Fuck you. 

This shit ain't that bad, if it's bad at all.

Everybody knows I don't like Oprah, but right now conservatives are wrongly "playing gotcha" with her because she said millions of blacks were lynched when, by the strict definition of the term, there were merely thousands. I guess it's somewhat to their credit that - even after watching her fall for every NewAge character and concoction ever invented - no one considered the possibility Oprah's uneducated. One of those blacks, like Obama, who's allowed to slide by for whatever quality white's appreciate seeing in them. That's what I see. 

I see a whole lot more, too, but I'm typing with one finger, so fuck it.

I see The Root says Spike Lee compared Tyler Perry's work to Amos n Andy. 

In light of that, I don't think The Root, Spike Lee, or Tyler Perry are worthy of two sentences.

I think a "Dummies" version of the Trayvon Martin trial should be produced, and replayed everywhere, until the Black Muslims are begging George Zimmerman to come home.

Charlie Rangel is a liar, a crook, a troublemaker, and a fool. 

And he's not alone.

And finally, all Don Lemon said is what anybody's grandmother would say. So he's gay, big deal. 

Calling him a "Professional Assassin” seems a bit much,...

 

Black Artists/White Audience: The Big Grey Area

When this whole cult clusterfuck busts wide open - and it will, because it's in the world of politics now, and I'm no longer the only dog in on the hunt - I'm expecting everyone I've discussed it with online (Orac, Ann Althouse, Glenn Reynolds, etc.) to step forward and admit I was there first, so I can be eligible for the Medal of Freedom or some shit. That so many others in the business of spreading information are ignoring the influence of NewAge on current events involving the Left (like they all did with the John Edwards scandal, which also has a deep NewAge component, through Rielle Hunter) all because it's in the realm of religion/spirituality is nothing less than criminal. At the very least, they're allowing others to steal my thunder:

"The latest episode of 'The Boondocks,' the satirical animated TV series that airs on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim slate, takes brutal aim at Perry and his brand, which blends melodrama, raucous comedy and religious themes. Coming under intense ridicule is Perry's portrayal of Madea, the gun-toting, foul-mouthed grandmother at the center of many of his films.

In 'Pause,' an episode written by [creator Aaron] McGruder and executive producer Rodney Barnes that aired Sunday, a thinly disguised version of Perry named Winston Jerome is positioned as a closeted, cross-dressing cult leader whose love of the Christian faith is a mask for his true sexuality. Though the character bears little physical or vocal resemblance to Perry, the reference is obvious to those familiar with Perry's work. The dancing Ma Duke is a clear parody of Madea.

The Jerome character wears a pink sweater, is surrounded by bare-chested muscular men and constantly proclaims his love for Jesus even as he attempts to seduce Granddad ( John Witherspoon), the guardian of the two boys, Huey and Riley Freeman, at the center of the series. The fame-hungry Granddad is trying out for a part in Jerome's new play, 'Ma Duke Finds Herself a Man.'

Near the end of the episode, Jerome bluntly asks Granddad for sex; the old man responds, 'Do you mean to tell me that this whole cross-dressing Christian cult crap is just so you can sleep with men?' 'Uh, pretty much, yeah,' says Jerome.

The episode marks one of the sharpest public criticisms of Perry. Huey Freeman calls the script for 'Ma Duke' 'terrible.' The Perry brand has also been blasted by some critics and entertainers such as Spike Lee, who say Perry's projects perpetuate negative stereotypes, and present a narrow view of African American life.

McGruder and executives for Turner and Adult Swim declined to comment on the episode. Representatives for Perry did not return phone calls."

Anyway, here's a big shout out to Aaron McGruder - a Hip-Hop fan - for also speaking up:

We'll show them yet.

Growing More Post-Racial By The Day

"We need a real Chocolate City."

-- Spike Lee, commenting on the effect of a Barack Obama presidency, in the New York Times

Lee added:

"It's going to be before Obama, 'B.B.,' and after Obama -- 'A.B.' -- and some folks need to get used to this. And I'm going to be at the inauguration -- getting my hotel reservation now."

TMR's Political Opinion (Freshly Brewed)

"The new year’s twin resurrections of Bill Clinton and John McCain, should they not evaporate, at last give the G.O.P. a highly plausible route to victory."

- Frank Rich, finally getting a whiff of the coffee, in the New York Times

Yes, Siree, things are moving along swimmingly in the world of politics. In other words, just the way I always said they would. (It's like he's psychic! Or he's controlling us with his mind!?! No:)

See, if there's one thing I know, there is such a thing as The American Character and - when the facts are known - almost without fail, Americans can be counted on to "do the right thing" (as Spike Lee so eloquently stated). The problem is, despite the protests of the many New Age idiots indoctrinated on the coasts, it's they - not Middle America - who don't remember what "character" or "right" mean anymore; confusing them with the part an actor might play and the immediate lead-in to the word "wing".

Fortunately or unfortunately (depending on your perspective) it looks like it'll take Obama's embrace from pre-Flower Power Caroline Kennedy (director of the Legal and Education Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People - that would be "me") to remind all our dreamy-eyed space cadets of the current political reality embedded in the United Negro College Fund slogan, "A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste.":

It's John McCain in a walk, Folks.