♆ The Macho Response ♆: Bumbaclot

Cultural cues (or a lack thereof) in America are wicked, man.

Wicked insane - like the San Francisco Chronicle did an article on Congresswoman Jackie Spear's investigation of poverty, never once mentioning she was one of the people shot rescuing blacks from The People's Temple Jonestown cult commune, led by that crazy white man, Jim Jones.

HUGE American cultural blind spot.

“I’m still kind of reeling from the experience. Every member of Congress should be required to do what I did. It would help us appreciate who we are talking about. We rattle off numbers, but it doesn’t speak about the people themselves.”

Or like blacks having had less than 50 years of actual freedom - though a lot has happened - but it hasn't been the long time, or the clean cut, white people seem to think. They also don't seem concerned it ends well.

Police Facebook 'shows trainees blacked-up, wearing Nazi uniforms and making racist and homophobic jokes'

Because, whites, only being honest ends well.

“America is much more willing to acknowledge what happened in the past: ‘We freed the slaves! It’s all good!’ But to say: ‘We are still unnecessarily killing black men’ – let’s have a conversation about that.”

Only being honest brings understanding.

Almost every single song we put out it was a struggle and a fight. Le Freak, our biggest single, we played that record for the record company and every one of them tried to talk us into changing it or releasing something else. And that's the only triple-platinum single in the history of Atlantic Records! They couldn't hear it, and the reason was, they couldn't compare it to anything else going on.

Only by being honest are whites the folks blacks can trust.

“Those who opened an email from former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) on Wednesday expecting an announcement that he is running for Senate in New Hampshire received a surprise instead: a message from a doctor and noted vaccination opponent claiming that vaccines, and even too much exercise, lead to Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease.”

Even with the whites who are nice and understanding, "whites" becoming nice and understanding doesn't happen overnight.

“Officials at a Northern California private school are apologizing after a controversial lunch menu option to celebrate Black History Month. …a menu of fried chicken, cornbread and watermelon,…”

Some didn't have to, obviously, but a lot still insist on being a major pains in the ass, culturally.

“Subway said it will stop using azodiacarbonamide, a chemical used in the production of foamed plastics like yoga mats and rubber-soled shoes, in its bread.”

We live in the shadow of "the peculiar institution", and it gets no less peculiar as time goes on - mostly because those whites keep insisting there's nothing going on - when they've got all our money and we've got all their problems.

“The institution of slavery and colonization has had many adverse effects on Americans of African descent. The psychological toll that institutionalized servitude and oppression has had on African Americans, can partially be blamed for the sub par success rate of many African Americans.”