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 TIMING: "I would kill my best friend, just to not see Smash Mouth live" 

   

 Homer's Enemy is #1 

   

 The Beatle's search for a guru was one way they (and the culture) went wrong 

 

 If what this says is true, while the original Republicans were funded by abolitionists, trying to end slavery, the original Democrats were funded by gangsters, trying to help a culture of crime.

 

   

 Thomas Sowell fans love to hear him outlining everything blacks were "never taught," while insisting we aren't harmed by the omissions.

Muslims are already excluded from French political life

 

The Crack Emcee's Top 10 Things That Are Wrong About Thomas Sowell

1. His last name don’t end with “ul” 

 2. He makes whites feel too good when blacks copy the worst whites 

 3. NEEEEERD! 

 4. He makes white people sound like the good guys 

 5. He makes Martin Luther King sound confused 

 6. He don’t talk about Jesus 

 7. What happened to his afro? 

 8. He won’t tell us where crack came from 

 9. He’s never sold a single book on Oprah 

 10. A Professor of Economics should flash a little cash

 

Self Reality Check

Intelligent Black American is a hopeless title to hold. If you don't think like Thomas Sowell, conservatives won't give you the time of day. And, if you don't want to be Malcolm X, liberals won't either. This reduces you to a target for the pleasure of both camps. And they're both illegitimate for it.

Thomas Sowell: The Right Is Stupid And Late (On Race)

The Sowell of The Republican Party has a few choice words, for a GOP hoping to lure blacks, that aren't what they expected:

  "Recently former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice added her voice to those who have long been urging the Republican party to reach out to black voters. Not only is that long overdue, what is also long overdue is putting some time — and, above all, some serious thought — into how to go about doing it."

Trying not to mention blacks being on the Democrat's "plantation" might be a good place to start,….

 

Stupid Blacks (Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell, Don Lemon)

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I just did three posts, featuring three different idiotic black men, saying three different idiotic things:

And all three of them is a favorite example of white people's attempt to bring a "diversity of thought" to blacks.

It's no wonder whites are "open-minded" about homeopathy,...

The Republican "Message": Be Happy You're Punished

"Republicans have got to want to learn, and to be willing to do some thinking, in order to get their message across." 

 - Thomas Sowell, March 25, 2014

"I refuse to deal with how our culture and society treats people of color because it makes me uncomfortable. I don’t want to understand how having a different skin color or ethnicity affects other people because that means I would have to think and consider other points of view. What I want is to not have to think. I prefer to believe I live in a fantasy land where no one ever pays attention to skin color, ethnicity, culture, or religion." 

 - Stuff White People Do, March 23, 2009

 How do you reconcile those two positions? I ask "you" because I can't. Don't even want to try. 

Look at the dates - that's five years whites haven't learned anything, so what would be the point of further effort? For me to die of hypertension, and that's all. 

Instead, I've accepted I live with unrepentant racists, and must lie to their faces, or keep my mouth shut - those are the only available options. Needless to say (as Uncle Tom doesn't seem aware) whites have already got "their message" across in 2014:

The privileged hear only what they want and, through white supremacy, punishes what they don't.

So, since blacks and whites know that's why we were brought here - as far as I'm concerned - there's nothing more needs to be said,…

 

Thomas Sowell Sees Ted Cruz, For What He Is, As Well

Sowell's not agreeing with my idea - to reverse Lee Atwater's Southern Strategy, and go back to saying "Nigger, Nigger, Nigger" (because the results were better) - but Ol' Tom is saying this:

"The most charitable interpretation of Ted Cruz and his supporters is that they are willing to see the Republican party weakened in the short run, in hopes that they will be able to take it over in the long run, and set it on a different path as a more purified conservative party. Like many political ideas, this one is not new. It represents a political strategy that was tried long ago — and failed long ago."

Well, if we're looking for new things to try:

Let somebody who ain't a straight-up black conservative run things,...

Chris Christie Is A Fat Man (But The Right Eats It's Own)

If you won't listen to me, listen to Thomas Sowell:

"If anything good comes out of this shabby episode of political vindictiveness by Governor Christie’s staffers, it showed what a skewed sense of perspective most of the media have on what kinds of issues are important. It is not that the media consider traffic jams more important than human lives. But the fact that Christie is the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 — and is ahead of Hillary Clinton in the polls — makes him a target for a partisan media.

Given that blatant partisanship, the need for a Republican candidate in 2016 who can make his case to the public, in spite of the media, is especially acute — even though it is much too early to try to predict who that candidate will be.

Whatever the political fate of Governor Christie, he has provided an example of the kind of articulation that is needed — indeed, imperative — if the Republicans are to have any chance of rescuing this country from the ruinous policies of the past few years."

And Bill O'Reilly smells the coffee:

"Democrats are trying to destroy New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. That's because they see him as a threat to Hillary Clinton in 2016 in the Presidential race.

The Democratic Party does not fear hard right conservatives like Senator Cruz and Senator Paul. The left believes there are not enough committed conservative voters to elect those men,...

But again Governor Christie is at this point the biggest threat to the Democratic Party. So we are seeing a personal campaign lodged against him that will not calm down any time soon."

TMR's conclusion:

The Tea Party's anti-Christie intransigence is killing us again,...

Sowell (Putting Something In/Leaving Something Out)

"Thought is long overdue. So is honesty."

National Review: Two Conservative Magazines In One!

THOMAS SOWELL:

  Like other truly talented phonies, Barack Obama concentrates his skills on the effect of his words on other people — most of whom do not have the time to become knowledgeable about the things he is talking about. Whether what he says bears any relationship to the facts is politically irrelevant. A talented con man or a slick politician does not waste his time trying to convince knowledgeable skeptics. His job is to keep the true believers believing. He is not going to convince the others anyway.

JONAH GOLDBERG:

Ted Cruz, the GOP’s Barack Obama

Sowell On Racism In America: We Screwed Ourselves

Even Thomas Sowell can't cut through where this started:

There are no winners in the trial of George Zimmerman. The only question is whether the damage that has been done will be transient or irreparable.

I'll let the grand old man ask somebody else for a change:

Just 29 percent of Americans as a whole think race relations are getting better, while 32 percent think race relations are getting worse. The difference is too close to call, but the fact that it is so close is itself painful — and perhaps a warning sign for where we are heading. 

Is this what so many Americans, both black and white, struggled for over the decades and generations? To try to put the curse of racism behind us — only to reach a point where retrogression in race relations now seems at least equally likely as progress? 

What went wrong?

He knows - he answers his own question:

We the voters are not blameless. Having chosen an untested man to be president, on the basis of rhetoric, style, and symbolism, we have ourselves to blame,...

Only to leave us with the quote that clarifies it all:

“We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.”
— F. A. Hayek

The Cops Hear "There's A Black Man In My House" Much Too Often For The Message Not To Be Get Crystal Clear

I find it fascinating when looking at blacks conservatives really like - Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Allen West, etc. - their popularity is in direct correlation to their public rejection of what most blacks find important. That idea's been the basis of this entire rant I'm on - that I was told I can't think, for instance, that George Zimmerman acted in self-defense but still like the Hip-Hop culture Trayvon Martin was immersed in. For me personally - facing the ferociousness of the anti-Trayvon attack - that was a step too far, kids. 

Don't get me wrong - I love you and black conservatives. Everybody has made me think, long and hard, about the issues facing blacks and the country. But here's the ugly truth: 

You don't listen to me (We had to have Romney, right? Savior of the Party?) so I no longer expect you to grasp why that handful of conservative black outliers don't define or represent blacks to me, not even a little bit. 

This Trayvon experience - which I was completely unprepared for - has made it clear we are "black" Americans, with Africa as our mother and slavery as our father, trying to make a home for ourselves:

The problem with integrating into the mainstream is that it’s not very embracing of ethnicity. Cultural food, clothing, language, hair styles, and other elements that make a people unique, don’t always have a place in what many consider the ‘American standard’.

And let’s be real, by mainstream I’m talking about an idea of White America.  The reason I say ‘idea’ of White America is because many families that now consider themselves white shed their French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, Polish, British, Irish, Scottish, Portuguese and Spaniard ethnicities in order to embrace that ‘idea’. And not to generalize, some still celebrate their ancestry, but many treat ethnicity as something foreign or ‘old world’.

Not quite the case with African-Americans. Though we’ve been in America for centuries, our ethnicity is as much a part of us as the heavy dose of melanin in our skin (everybody has it, we have a lot).  Part of it is by choice, but most of it is probably because ‘Our Skin don’t fit In’.   Don’t get me wrong, we have made our way into the mainstream, but  we as a people love our food, dress, linguistic flavors, hair styles and other aspects that make us unique.  So African-Americans aren’t going to shed their ethnicity anytime soon like other groups have in this country.

Here it is, plain:

When denied the ability to even stay in a house, you'd better be comfortable in your skin.

You know, like once a year, when I'm supposed to run around screaming, "Kiss Me - I'm Irish!"

 

Slavery: I Put A Spell On You - Because You're MIIIINE!

As the old saying goes, You have questions - We have answers:

"I think you're great, but throwing the bullshit flag on this one. WTF does slavery have to do with a half-white, half-African dude, who grew up in Hawaii, and went to exclusive private schools for his entire life, whatever his melanin? Maybe slavery in Mauritanian has an impact on his story, but this is one cat who never caught a whiff of Jim Crow. Fuck! I'm more black than that guy, and I'm Irish clear."

I think you're great, too but, as rude as it is, let me begin by answering your question with a question: 

Why was it so important to this country (and other blacks, especially) that we have a "first black" president?

Because we all understood the history of our home. Hell, I wanted nothing to do with Barack Obama, but even I knew the score. (Rather than the sweep of history unfolding, the Obama cult was going to "make" it in an Easy Bake Oven, and anybody who didn't like it was going to have to eat it.) And all because of a past we're trying hard to ignore.

Even me. I went for years without writing about race as I am now. And I was praised for it by the same people who, later, still pushed me into doing it. Forced to choose. But it's like the conservative take on Obama and Syria - I know it's mostly bullshit, but they're making it real. A self-fulfilling prophecy.

I don't like it, but I've accepted it. Cognitive dissonance, here I come! Conservatives have demanded it. Even Thomas Sowell would do the same thing, I'm sure. Especially in my current situation. You want to be in the streets and have a problem with black history? Good luck.

And what says a half-African dude, raised by a half-crazy white American leftist, is somehow going to miss out on The Black American Experience that, even I say, trails from Africa and the beginning of time to right here-and-now? I mean, tell me if I missed something, but isn't the fact of Obama's bizarre heritage (African/American, white/black, seller/buyer, subject/object) part of the hope he supposedly embodied - that a person, infused with some of the details that produced our troubles, could possibly end them?

I said from the beginning he was the wrong guy, and knew I was right when he started repeatedly flipping the bird to whites on the campaign trail, making it obvious - and making it obvious the media was white and liberal and timid. Even conservatives were cowed. Afraid to show outrage. All because of a past that shall not be named.

Guys, even trying to escape the subject of slavery still means it has a hold on us. People without it, in their past or present, don't have to do that. They're observers, not another weirdly-spotted family member, showing up at the door with something to discuss. Like who's "Dad"?

I personally find it maddening, because it's like we've been cursed. Being a young country (something we don't consider a lot as we bellow) we're close to the past, almost without knowing it. 500 years ago is yesterday in Europe, but it's generally outside of the entirety of America's scope. Unless you include indigenous people as having history. And the blacks I know certainly think of themselves as indigenous. As having history. Somebody just took an eraser to part of it on the blackboard.

The rest of it - as even Martin Luther King explained - is about us kids finding our way. There's just one little problem, and only I take it seriously. There's this little thing called the NewAge, and in it - unless they have a gun to their heads - they no likey leaders so much.

"Most of the people who graduated in the 60's, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them. You can't get through to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. 

The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years,...Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards,...exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it.... That's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization."

And you can bet, Putin - the KGB agent - knows what he's working with,...