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There's Something About Wisconsin That's All Wrong

Mikwaukee County Supervisor Deanna Alexander's (.@DAforMKE) Racist Tweet http://t.co/BtEm5gnh3q #ICantBreathe pic.twitter.com/zslIQPECx7
— KHARY PENEBAKER (@kharyp) December 24, 2014

They seem to think they're being so damned cute,....

"You Don’t Have No Ankle, And You Can’t Walk": Part II

”Free black people grew, ate, and sold watermelons, and in doing so made the fruit a symbol of their freedom. Southern whites, threatened by blacks’ newfound freedom, responded by making the fruit a symbol of black people’s perceived uncleanliness, laziness, childishness, and unwanted public presence. This racist trope then exploded in American popular culture, becoming so pervasive that its historical origin became obscure,…”

Turning wine to water. Whites DO things to us. Damaging things. Long-lasting things that, because whites don't want them to (because whites don't want themselves to ever be told what to do) might never go away. America's history of white racism is centuries old, and only recently riding shotgun to the lying, white-picket-fence, Mom and apple pie narrative they're desperate to now maintain, with the psychological torture they claim to deplore. Their idiotic pride is such, they must never change, especially when wrong. "Massa" and "Miss Anne" must live.

“Even among these there are prejudices of which I as a Jew am clearly conscious, but they are unimportant in comparison with the attitude of the ‘Whites’ toward their fellow-citizens of darker complexion, particularly toward Negroes. The more I feel an American, the more this situation pains me. I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out.

I am firmly convinced that whoever believes [Negroes,...are not our equals in intelligence, sense of responsibility, and reliability] suffers from a fatal misconception. Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man’s quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.”

- Albert Einstein

I'm not sure why whites still believe they're fooling anyone, with their sick attempts to turn the oppressed into the oppressors, when we tell them - directly - it'll never work. We will press on. Until no one buys this bullshit but themselves:

"A lot of people have an impulse to be prejudiced. But at the same time, they're like almost everyone...in that they want to avoid being socially unacceptable. So they want to vent sexism and racism somehow — but only in ways that are considered socially acceptable. 

And how can one do that? It's obvious: by expressing sexism/racism against men and whites only. If they'd been born long ago, they might have vented against women or blacks instead. That's why when I hear people expressing shamelessly anti-man or anti-white views, it doesn't strike me as a dramatic improvement over the expression of anti-woman or anti-black view...."

- John Althouse Cohen

Very hard for people to get that nice, well-intentioned people are racist all the time.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) December 9, 2014

My taking conservatives seriously on race was a major mistake, because (among things) I found myself surrounded by people who openly ridicule blacks (after 400 years of openly ridiculing blacks) while admitting they go along with the most obviously trivialising racist tropes, like race as a "card" blacks play and historical Civil Rights figures being "hustlers". Whites, outnumbering blacks 6 to 1, are comfortable thinking they can wave their hands and declare reality (and morality) doesn’t exist except as they say. That it's normal to see a boy as a demon. That "loosies," or cigars, are crimes worthy of death. That they must rarely seek justice, stay as ignorant to history as their own bliss allows, and - because they're uncomfortable with the truth - stay so openly hostile they never have to hear a word of it. But we won't stop. We know this evil. Eric Garner’s “Please, just leave me alone” are words that could’ve been spoken by MLK.

”The differences in [Michael Brown and Eric Garner’s] cases are almost completely because of whites.

In both cases, nine in 10 African Americans say they disagree with the decision. Although just 25 percent of whites disagree with the decision in Ferguson, a majority (52 percent) disagree with the decision in Garner's case.”

No matter who is pulling the trigger, white America is killing black men. Not Democrats or Republicans (assisted by Libertarians) but the country itself. This is what it was made for.

But that's probably how it's going down,..

Come On, Baby, Light My Fire (Then Kill Me 4 Burning)

“David Clarke, black Milwaukee sheriff: Eric Holder has ‘disgusted’ me”

Gee: shouldn't the Washington Times have added what color Eric Holder is? You know, just to balance it out? And why, since I'm sure they're "colorblind" and all, did they highlight David Clarke's race? And why - in a media environment filled with racial mind games - do white people hate being called "white" so much? If it's good enough for a "black Milwaukee sheriff" (and I've heard no complaints) why not Ann Althouse, white Madison law professor? Oh yeah: I've been told it's racist to do that.

"I was never taught that American democracy and African American destruction are not substitutes but complements. I was never taught that the relative wealth of America is derived from theft. I was never taught that state sanctioned violence was not a residual piece of American life, but the core of it. I was never taught that the fulcrum of the American criminal justice system was never justice at all,..."

You left out Ruth Shalit, lazy black people, welfare mommas, and Ruth Shalit writing about lazy black people. @jamescdownie
— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) December 4, 2014

I don't know what they're doing to Wisconsin's water but, whatever it is, it's wrong. A lot of right-of-center white people are talking about the break-up of The New Republic, but the most fascinating thing about it is their sincere concern for what was now a historically "sloppy" and racist publication, best exemplified by the crazy career of Wisconsin's own Ruth Shalit. Really, white people, you don't know how good you've got it - especially in Wisconsin: black sheriffs who feel disgust for black people. White women who feel disgust for black people. It sounds like paradise, for everyone but black people.

"In the first Justice Department action against an insurance company under the federal Fair Housing Act, American Family Mutual Insurance Company has agreed to pay over $16 million for allegedly providing Blacks with inferior policies than those offered to whites and in some cases for simply refusing to insure homes of African Americans,...the case was filed in 1990 when eight Black Milwaukee homeowners backed by the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union sued the company in federal court,..."

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Many white people, continuing to deliver the wrong response, seem to have locked onto cigarette taxes for the death of Eric Garner. See, if the tax hadn't been so high, he wouldn't have had a market for loosies - simple, huh? Not as simple as, if the government and white people didn't practice multiple centuries worth of discrimination against blacks, the Eric Garner's of the world wouldn't need to sell loosies to begin with. But then, history's rarely white's strong suit these days. Passing the buck is what's "in":

"Police union: ‘We don’t believe it’s an issue of race. We believe it’s an issue of poverty’"

"No, it’s not a race thing. It’s a Ray Kelly thing. That man singlehandedly ruined this department."

”The NYT and Rush Limbaugh have a similar take on the NYC chokehold incident, but there's a key difference.”

"What happened to Eric Garner was nobody's fault but his own."

White people have got the situation down:

Which all explains why blacks, nation-wide - and while, supposedly, looking at their own country - are now lit up like roman candles,....

Rand Paul Is Proving Why He's The GOP Frontrunner

He crawled out from under his rock to speak, as another callously-clueless politician of the Right; which is certainly more credible positioning than when he said, “I don’t think there has been anybody who has been a bigger defender of minority rights in the Congress than myself.”

Or, if it wasn't, it sure is now,...

Jon Stewarts Understands Why I Call America A Place And Will Never Again Call It Either United Or A Country

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"We are definitely not living in a post-racial society. And I can imagine there are a lot of people wondering how much of a society we're living in at all."

"This Is About What The American People Need To Do"

Blaming Blacks For What Whites Do? It's Nothing New

I was reading about how whites are spinning Eric Garner's death, right after they did the same to Mike Brown, and came across this factoid:

"Indicting the black population for their own deaths is a tactic that’s been employed disingenuously for 50 years,…”

It's not really a "factoid," because whites have been doing this much, much longer than just half a century. This is still my favorite example:

"On the morning of April 6, 1880, an officer found Whittaker unconscious and bound to his bed suffering from slashed earlobes.  His hair was cut in several places.  West Point Commandant, General John M. Schofield, immediately investigated the incident and concluded that Whittaker had inflicted these injuries upon himself and then tied his legs to the bed,…”

It's tragic that black Americans have always had to be maimed, or die, for whites to be happy with themselves, but also that whites can't see the racist script their lives - and this horrible place they made - are based on:

Their historical efforts, to avoid that truth, would be comical if they didn't point directly to a huge population that's, still, as determinedly clueless - and homicidal - as their lynch-crazy forefathers,...

Eric Garner's Death: As America Finally Unclinches Her Hands (She Laughed In The Faces Of Her Biggest Fans)

Well. This rich. People even seem a little,...shocked. Like all this talk of "thugs" and death-for-petty-crime wasn't, both, inhumane and actually leading somewhere.

Another cop walked. In a filmed event, just like the president's new initiative is supposed to prevent. Weak:

"That is what America does. It is not broken. That is exactly what is wrong with it.”

Yep. And if you say it often enough, and loud enough, people will hate you for it. Ridicule you. Feel superior. You, black man, are "playing the victim." They can take it. Well they can have it: 

Two black guys are dead and the two white guys walked. 

In America.

How does it feel?

Jordan Davis' Killer, Michael Dunn, Is Found GUILTY!!!

We'll miss you

Happy Birthday, Baby Boy - and damn them all to Hell: 

 "Nineteen years ago, Ron Davis and Lucia McBath celebrated the birth of a son.

Sunday, they should have celebrated Jordan Davis' birthday with him,..."

Cry, for yourself, you pathetic white child-killing bitch

Instead, this asshole got a guilty verdict - which will have to do:

Next up will be Darren Wilson, who shot Mike Brown, and Daniel Pantaleo who choked Eric Garner to death.

Damn them. Damn them all to Hell,....

 

The Reason Al Sharpton Is More Popular Than The GOP

Here's always there - while whites are always not

He gives blacks the support we need - when whites won't - which is usually when whites make problems for blacks,...

 

Spike Lee Makes The Cop Killing Of Eric Garner Explicit

It's About Time: America's "Mr. Choke Hold" Has A Face

Only police would find the required intelligence law enforcement requires reflected in that face

Daniel Pantaleo looks like one of those wannabe Soprano jack-offs, looking for trouble, until he found it. Now he's killed a man. Eric Garner. Allegedly over bootleg cigarettes. 

 Yeah - that was worth it.

Then again, if you read slave narratives, whites have gotten used to killing blacks - for a long, long time - and over a whole lot less.

TMR loves slave narratives:

There's simply no way to understand America without them,…

Cop Assaults Man In A Wheelchair And Gets Suspended

ADDED:

"COVERUP: Internal NYPD report on Staten Island dad does not note chokehold, states man was not 'in great distress' even though he said he couldn't breathe”

The Conservative "Race Hustler" Is Where He's Needed

Al Sharpton, taking advantage of Eric Garner's widow, as conservatives always charge

WE NEED CLARITY: ERIC GARNER WAS MURDERED

Whites have been supporting stop-and-frisk from Day One - well, here's their desired result, after what the man said was a lifetime of harassment

We all - literally - watched the NYPD kill a man:

Just as blacks, there, have always said they did,...