Why I Left The Right: A Preponderance Of Racists, Silly

"He's a Democrat, so it's O.K.: Get 'Em!!!"

It just never stops with these idiots.

Ever since the white conservatives laughter at Trayvon Martin's parents, the defiant attitude of Obama and his supporters has been made clearer and clearer, while the racial corruption of the Republicans (and their ilk) has been beyond a major disappointment. It's like scraping old paint off something that's (supposedly new) only revealed to have worthless, destructive, rust underneath.

”House Speaker John Boehner has thrown his full support behind his embattled ally, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, as more ties between Scalise and former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke—including a nearly-decade long close relationship with the ex-KKK leader’s top aide—have emerged.”

I've pissed off a lot of people but I don't care: they're pissed because I took their ideology seriously and found it, and them, both wanting - and because (shamefully) I was right to do so. If they're not full-blown racists, they hang with racists, or vote with racists, or side with racists, or defend them. Anything but siding with black folks, who they duck behind the word "Democrat" to slander, like a black man wouldn't notice the deception: they "don't see color," so feel they can criticize and/or hurt blacks (myself included) at will - so long as they can say they're fighting the other party. None of America's racist historical context allowed. Except when they sneeringly call it a "plantation," like their hands are clean. My ass.

We've got your number now - just as I always said we would - and events are over-taking you all: racist and not-so-racist whites alike. It's time to change your tune or prepare for your inevitable defeat, the charade is now over - and history will not be stopped:

Because I, for one, will never buy another word, any of you will ever say, again,...

Giuliani Is Proving Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Invaluable

Almost too predictable for mention - but it was

This weekend, when Chuck Todd asked former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani about the preponderance of white police officers patrolling black neighborhoods nationally, what did Giuliani do? He did exactly as Ta-Nehisi Coates said he would,...and changed the subject. Here's Coates in his piece, "Black People Are Not Ignoring 'Black on Black' Crime":

“The pattern is the transmutation of black protest into moral hectoring of black people. Don Imus profanely insults a group of black women. But the real problem is gangsta rap. Trayvon Martin is killed. This becomes a conversation about how black men are bad fathers,...”

And here, sure enough, is a demonstration of that: Giulliani prefers saying anything - literally anything - to staying on-point, because: 

“The politics of respectability are, at their root, the politics of changing the subject—the last resort for those who can not bear the agony of looking their country in the eye.”

Because, if Giulliani was looking his country "in the eye," he'd surely see he's led a force full of resentful, and unrepentant, white supremacists who are incapable of dealing with the problems white supremacy has created for us all:



But he can't say that - he can't face it - so we get this, instead,...

Conservatives Give Killers Big Money (Not The Poor,...)

Oh BOY, being a poor guy running a blog that lives by donations, do I know this scene well - big bite quote ahead: 

It was inevitable that when Zimmerman was arrested and charged with murder, he had only one thing on his mind: how to pay for a private criminal defense lawyer. Knowing that his phone calls were being recorded while he was in jail pending bond (for a grand total of seven weeks) Zimmerman and his family spoke in code. They were all very grateful for the “support from SH”.

You didn’t need a crypto-analyst to figure out that “SH” was Sean Hannity. In July 2012, the Miami Herald reported that the anchor was believed to be financially backing Zimmerman’s defense.

It was kind of true. But Hannity, himself, did not shell out. He got a bunch of other people to pony up. On his nightly TV show, the Fox News man would furrow his brow and rant about what would become of America if we lost the right to shoot and kill people who scare us. Then Hannity would, helpfully, mention TheRealGeorge Zimmerman.com, a website that the real George Zimmerman had set up after he shot Trayvon Martin to death. The site, helpfully, accepted PayPal. Nearly half a million dollars double-clicked right in,....

...Of course, not every accused felon can get Sean Hannity as his personal cheerleader/rainmaker,...MaryJane, in Lansing, Michigan, is apparently fighting criminal cannabis growing charges. She says she needs weed because she has Lupus. She posts a photo of herself out-and-proud wearing a marijuana leaf necklace. She has raised $1,450. Gordon Smith, of Delmar, Delaware says that he has been falsely accused of domestic violence 24 times. He offers a video – “False Allegation Awareness: The Gordon Smith Story” – and he has raised $290. Darren Wilson, of St Charles, Missouri, has done a lot better. He has raised $433,000 ... because maybe some day he’ll be charged with something.

Wilson, of course, is the police officer who shot to death 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr, whose own family’s GoFundMe site has raised $339,000. As officer Wilson’s (currently inactive) fundraising sites promised: “All proceeds will be sent directly to Darren Wilson and his family for any financial needs they may have including legal fees.”

If he ever has legal fees. Right now, all Darren Wilson has is a lot of money because he killed someone.

Yep - as long as I went along with the folks who revealed themselves to be racists, some money rolled in. But - as soon as I called them on it - that shit dried up so fast, it might as well have never occurred. (I've been essentially homeless, for months, but do they care? Nope. They've told me to die - directly - for disagreeing, which is all I need to know to further judge them, and their politics,...) Meanwhile, I watch the Zimmerman's and the Wilson's raking in millions overnight - along with the politicians everyone (supposedly) hates or distrusts.

And they still wonder why I, and others like me, say - as Americans -  they're cruel and their priorities are all wrong,...

 

"Kill The Police!" (Another Black Teen's Been Murdered)

In color, or black-and white, this image always says "To Protect And To Serve"

It looks like racism in the St. Louis Police Dept. just gave that new N.W.A. biopic a much-needed shot in the arm:

"With the recent events of a young man killed by the police in New York City and with Trayvon Martin and with all the other African-American young men that have been killed by police officers ... this is a dire concern to the NAACP, especially our local organization. 

Anytime you have this type of event that's taken place, emotions are going to run high. But for 600 people to gather around an area to see where a man is lying in the street, that means something happened that should have not happened."

Ice Cube's descriptive - and predictive - powers are undiminished

When it comes to this centuries-old circumstance, that continually results in blacks dying - old and young alike - you can say that again:

Like American slavery itself, a lot has "happened that should have not happened,...."

Why Mark Cuban Has A Ghetto Pass And Wingers Don't

A little consideration for the grieving goes a long way:

"In hindsight I should have used different examples. I didn’t consider the Trayvon Martin family, and I apologize to them for that."

And he did not - repeat: NOT - follow that with monkey noises,...

Tiiiiiiiime Is On My Side (Yes It Is!): Frank Taaffe Speaks

"What I know of George and his tendencies and also my opinion is that he racially profiled Trayvon Martin that night because if that had been a white kid on a cell phone, walking through our neighborhood, he wouldn't have stayed on him the way he did and that's a fact and I believe that in my heart.

I can only ask for the country to forgive me and today I believe that he racially profiled him based on the color of his skin.

I'm sorry that you lost your son, I know what that's like and I wish things had been different." 

- George Zimmerman's former Best Friend, Frank Taaffe, confessing his sins after the death of his own sons

 

A Racist Country Without Any Racists (You Can Identify)

This Tea is starting to taste sort of bitter!

"Be black" is the answer, but go ahead and ask, anyway:

What the hell do you have to say, believe or do in America these days to actually, personally, be considered a racist? George Zimmerman, who shot Trayvon Martin for walking in a hoodie while black, was declared "not a racist". The GOP official who passed around pictures portraying President Obama as a monkey was "not racist". People who use the n-word if black people use it are "not racist". Even the Ku Klux Klan declared "We are not racists." 

 The sick part, because we blacks have to live with them, is whites sincerely believe this about themselves, no matter what they say, believe, or do - to others - and they're passing the message on:

Wait until the darkies get a load of YOU!

They're the source of all good in the world - or just their own minds,…

 

The G.O.P.'s Black Charlie Crist (Ass Out In The Cold)

Real Talk

After reading an Atlantic piece, on the the exodus of Charlie Crist from the Republican Party, I can see - in many ways - I'm actually part of a trend, rather than just idiosyncratically outraged at it's revealed racism when stressed. The Tea Party broke what - at one time -  "looked" respectable (They should thank their lucky stars for George Bush's personal decency) but now the G.O.P.'s nowhere multicultural America should want to be. 

I, too, am going Democrat, leaving strict conservatives with their reconstituted John Birch Society.

Real Love

Needless to say, my interests have changed, focusing mainly - not on the interests of black folks (if I did that, not only would there be more gospel, but a lot more Jesus) - but on disrupting Lee Atwater's deeply troubling, white supremacist, in-group/out-group cultism over us "lazy" black criminals "playing the victim" while "we don't see race" and no - though no one asked - you can't make me feel guilty! If even one white person reads this blog and discovers anything that either puts a dent in that line of "reasoning" or, at the very least, adds to it in some substantive way that makes the black experience more real (Slavery & Jim Crow, etc. = a good chance for poverty and crime? Even today? Hmmm) then my efforts and travails will have been worth it. 

Because, like Charlie Crist apparently, I give a damn. Not in the "sunny" way he does, but in the way that says, "Crack, you better put on another layer of rhino hide - and fight, fight, fight through the despair - because Martin Luther King wouldn't give a damn if Rand Paul's out there, or Glenn Reynolds is telling you seaweed is going to get us to the moon, even those crazy sombitches won't be left behind."

Real Bad

Real race shit is uncomfortable. This blog is uncomfortable. I know that. Which is why, I think, the internet is perfect for displaying the art of our age and dealing with it. The privacy, just for starters. No one wants to be openly accused or associated with the doofus' above, but the current conservative line can't be detached from it. It's the Southern Strategy. No racism, no hatred: 

It. Must. Be. Defeated. Here. Now. Today. TMR.

Real Good (Joke)

Just as the tide finally seems to be turning on NewAge practices, I predict white conservatives - not just evil KKK types - will eventually understand how they Fred Phelps-ed themselves during the Trayvon Martin trial, and want to find a new language, and attitude, about the darkening of America. This is serious business.

Real Confused

I can acknowledge Paul Ryan might be "trying". But, after mentioning Charles Murray, he's obviously talking to the wrooong people. If he can walk into a room full of credible black folks, and come out with that same cocky look he shows the world now, well then - brave man - he's onto something. I don't know if he's got it in him. We'll see.

The Real Deal

Finally, I'm trying to hold up a brave face in a dire situation, too - one that can lead to a very bad outcome. I'm talking death or prison. Whether you "get" what I'm doing or not, I'm a human being and need some help. 

Some people hear the heart that beats behind these words and pictures, some don't. As an artist, what I've hoped is that you're moved.

I'm here every day. Knowing, as in all things, the rest is up to you.

 Feel me, one way, or the other,…

 

TMR Got Into Race Because That's Where We Should Be

The Week has seen the sweep of history:

For the good of their party and for the good of the republic, Republicans must genuinely reach out to and successfully attract black voters.

The GOP is not off to a good start. In South Carolina, where blacks make up 28 percent of voters, so few blacks voted in the 2012 GOP primary that it was statistically impossible to find among them a preference for any of the party’s candidates.

Rand Paul and other Republicans have made awkward attempts at appealing to African-Americans — so awkward it sometimes seems their intended audience is not the people sitting in front of them. Speeches by white Republicans at historically black schools and in Detroit have had the whiff of slightly smarmy non sequiturs. "Dontcha know? Republicans were abolitionists 150 years ago."

There are some obvious alterations the GOP and the conservative movement must make to attract black voters. Any project that looks like anti-black voter suppression should be first on the list to go. The Randian rhetoric of "takers" must go too. It not only alienates parts of the existing GOP base, but is pungent with contempt for those, like African-Americans, who view themselves as unfairly held outside and below the sphere of social concern.

Perhaps most difficult of all, conservatives need to bring their well-paid yappers to heel, lest they find another case like Trayvon Martin's death and use it to enflame a totally spurious debate about "the real racists." Such arguments make conservatives look like self-involved idiots and aggrieved monsters.

Or so we've been told,...

George Zimmerman's 15 Minutes For Killing A Kid Are Up

"Fewer than 20 of George Zimmerman's 'fans' ask for a picture and autograph at a Florida gun show where he was the guest of honor"

Dr. Phil Interviewed George Zimmerman's Black Juror

Sorry About The Shake-Down (I Meant To Shake You Up)

So, it's March 1st, and I'm still black - but racism's been over! 

So say my fellow Republicans. 

Yes, my political party admitted to "some problems with race" (which was very big of them) but - by Black History Month - they've also determined their problems weren't nearly as large as blacks'.

Because black's problems are, entirely, of black's own making.

So - out of concern - Republicans have decided to address those first. 

For instance, I've been told to accept that I was a pretty happy-go-lucky anti-cult activist when Republicans first met me online (!) but then I just (sensitivity euphemism) "fell on hard times" and started whining about race, because that's what they saw.

Trayvon had nothing to do with it, since - through their lie-detecting computer screens - Republicans could determine my story so much better than I could tell it, I shouldn't even have bothered to do so. 

They weren't having it, and Republicans say who the haves and have nots are, so I fell out of favor again - literally going "black". 

Of course now, as a "good Republican," I've accepted their reading of history without question (and with good cheer) but, as someone who loves history - and seeing how I apparently missed something as extraordinary as racism's end - I've still been compelled to know when, exactly, that occurred and why.

And I've found a few answers - want to see what I got, Truth Seekers?

"Racism ended when white people said it did obviously."

"Racism ended when Eminem won the rap battle in 8 Mile."

"Racism ended when white people started twerking."

"Racism ended when white folks acknowledged racism existed but felt victimized by the accusation."

"Racism ended when the iPhone came in both black and white."

"Racism ended when Mitt Romney got a black grandchild."

"Racism ended when white co-workers decided the best way to know me was to tell me about their favorite Hip-Hop albums."

"Racism ended when Justin Timberlake got cornrows."

Well alright then - Thank you, Everyone - and now, with that, we should all feel totally prepared to unite as one at CPAC,...