Joseph's Got No Grain In The Pyramids

Pajamas Media has a piss-poor article called Ben Carson's 'Fall From Grace' Amongst Black Americans, that details all the liberal reasons (they could find) why blacks may not trust the conservative icon, while completely overlooking the most obvious one, which is also what I hear most often in daily conversation:

"How can a black brain surgeon be so stupid?" 

It's a really hard question to get around.
 

BWAAAA-HAHAHAHA: Ben Carson Admits Whites Hate

"Racial based hate is still very much alive as last night so violently reminded us.”

Dr. Ben Carson: “It’s Horrible To See An Execution,..."

Clueless

This makes me wonder where he's been all these years. It's not "horrible to see an execution," it's black life in America.

Ann Althouse is in Wisconsin, where they've got their own nigger slaying to deal with - just as I told her and Meade they would - but, of course, they, too, see nothing. And that obliviousness makes them "happy,..."

Ben Carson & Dr. Oz R 4 Entertainment Purposes Only

Thank you, Republicans: I love popcorn,...

Poor Dr. Ben Carson Has Decided To Change His Tune

Running for president always makes journalists return to what candidates had previously said - which is never good for wingnuts. Especially if they're black, and their claim to fame is saying crazy shit to racist white's satisfaction: The Tom ends up looking like a fool on the national stage, and - after the whites leave his side (as they always do since they were just using him) - he still has to, then, face the black community, alone, to explain himself. Cosby's felt the sting (and the sense of cultural abandonment) so somebody better change their tune - and quick:

"Slavery was a horrible thing and affected many people in horrible ways, some of those effects are still present today. So, no, [ObamaCare] is not the same as slavery.”

So, Dr. Carson - if ObamaCare's NOT slavery - is it you, or other blacks, who are "on the plantation" again?

You can ask the many whites surrounding you - and patting you on the back for opposing the rest of us - before getting back on that,...

The Lies Whites Tell (About Themselves) Are Hilarious

This was totally true as well - just ask Japanese Americans

”I look forward to hearing the calm, sane voice of Dr. Carson, easing us into the new election cycle.”

- Ann "it's time to panic" Althouse, pretending she wasn't a voice of racism during the last election cycle

”Ben Carson: Obamacare worst thing ‘since slavery’”

Ben Carson, adding the "calm, sane voice" of the classic Uncle Tom to our last election cycle

When This Blog Comes Full-Circle The Noose Tightens

Woody Allen once said he wouldn't join any group that would have him for a member. Smart man - doesn't need TMR:

"[Ben] Carson hasn’t ruled out the possibility of a run in 2016, and his cult grows daily. I call it a cult because criticizing him in some circles is tantamount to criticizing Obama to Democrats."

But most people ain't so smart - or artists - so we gotta watch what they fall into, or the fall-out could be horrendous:

"The [Ron and Rand] Discipauls engage in the same unquestioning hero worship that causes them to deride equally enthusiastic Barack Obama supporters as 'zombies,' or the particularly vomit-inducing 'sheeple.'”

Let me clarify, one more time, before the shit hits the fan:

TMR is, was, and always will be, about cults. 

The only difference is, now, since racism is such a huge part of it:

I want to enjoy the spectacle as well.

Get a rope,...

Telling The Truth Doesn't Mean People Will Ever Listen

The death of white supremacy will not be fun - for white supremacists

Warning members of the Republican Party it's getting yanked around by it's interlopers has been a frustrating and fruitless endeavour, and their latest scheme to use libertarians as a wedge for young voters (best exemplified by Rand Paul's trips to Berkeley and Howard Universities after (racistly) trying to manipulate the hispanic vote, shut government, defeat ObamaCare, !BENGHAZI!, etc.) is equally worthy of words of caution. So - for the billionth time - here they are again:

Colorblind is a confession you can't see

Culture Beats Politics.

It's time to get your head out of the sand

If you haven't seen Alan I. Abramowitz's essay, "False Hope: Why Libertarians Won’t Help Republicans Win the Youth Vote," then be prepared to understand why false hope is worse than none at all:

"The Republican Party has a major problem with young voters. According to national exit polls, the GOP has lost the under-30 vote by a wide margin in every election since 2004. In 2012, Barack Obama defeated Mitt Romney by a whopping 23 percentage points among 18-29 year olds. Romney’s deficit among young voters was responsible for his entire margin of defeat in the national popular vote. Based on the exit poll results, Romney actually won more votes than Obama among voters who were 30 years of age and older."

"Check out TMR: The brother knows,...something."

Read the whole thing if you must, but if you're here already, then you know what it says:

"An analysis of data from the 2012 American National Election Study raises serious doubts about the claim that a candidate with libertarian views would have strong appeal to younger voters. In fact, the data indicate that younger voters tend to hold relatively liberal views on social welfare as well as cultural issues."

White and black together, but as criminals

Culture Beats Politics.

   

The Right is over two decades too late

Hip-Hop is America's culture now (It's music is Rap) and it's a culture that thoroughly resists the history, and imperatives, of the culture that birthed it. This will not change. We can not hear you. We will not hear you. Until the Republican Party gets back to it's roots, as "the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety" - not a source of our irritation - they'll get nowhere.

"One of the most important reasons why the libertarian philosophy holds little appeal for most younger voters is that a disproportionate share of voters under the age of 30 are nonwhite. According to the 2012 ANES, nonwhites made up 40% of voters under the age of 30 compared with 25% of voters age 30 and older. Moreover, the nonwhite share of younger voters is almost certain to increase over the next several election cycles based on the racial composition of the age cohorts that will be entering the electorate in the future.

The libertarian philosophy of limited government holds very little appeal to nonwhite voters in general, and it holds even less appeal to younger nonwhite voters. Only 4% of nonwhite voters under the age of 30 were classified as libertarians compared with 23% of white voters under the age of 30. In contrast, 69% of younger nonwhite voters were classified as consistent or moderate liberals compared with 49% of younger white voters. These results suggest that the limited appeal of libertarian ideas to younger voters is likely to diminish further over time as the nonwhite share of this age group continues to grow."

"White Christmas" already has a re-mix

Culture beats politics.

Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the violent fall-out from the show's success.

And it's because your "leaders" don't know this - no matter what color they are - they will never realize as anything of the kind,....

 

Whoops: Dr. Ben Carson Leaves The White "Plantation"

It looks like Obama and the doctor agree on more than some whites think! 

 Yes, TMR looked it up *special* - but it still looks like an ask-and-you-shall-receive situation - with surprising results:

“We must hear from this police officer. You know, they are trained to shoot to kill, or shoot to stop. We need to hear why he decided to shoot to kill.” 

 Yes, in the case of Michael Brown, "must" is just the right word:

And TMR expects every (supposed) Ben Carson-loving non-racist out there to agree with us,...

The Hot Air Primary Poll Is Done (Good Luck With That)

Michelle Malkin's ultra-conservative readers have chosen a slate of possible presidential contenders, and - if you know her panting subjects - it's *exactly* the unimaginative  group of gangsters you'd expect:

“Walker, Cruz, Rand Paul, Rick Perry and Ben Carson.” 

The Right's demons, from the pits of Hell, otherwise known as: 

Scott Walker 

The guy who "worked closely" with Ted Nugent, has a knack for hiring notoriously racist staff, and - together - they all add up to the 2nd worst record for working with blacks in the nation. 

Ted Cruz 

The guy who shut down the government to prevent poor blacks from acquiring healthcare. 

Rand Paul

The guy who thinks The Civil Rights Act needs changing. 

Rick Perry

The guy who has a ranch called "Niggerhead" and recently compared gays to alcoholics.

Dr. Ben Carson 

The Uncle Tom who actually declared ObamaCare was worse than slavery. 

After this crowd, TMR can't wait to see who they choose next,….

Some Black Conservatives Encouraging Bad Behavior

"This hasn't been scientifically proven yet, but some people say Americans lose more brain cells after being exposed to Dr. [Ben] Carson's political views than when they huff a whole tube of glue."

What's Wrong With The Right & What It Could Be Doing

Behind the "Big Tent" mask the Republicans are desperate to be noticed wearing, are groups who honestly think they don't see race, because they need that psychological cover as a license to thwart history. 

You see, if they don't honestly acknowledge what's happened to blacks, then A) they don't have to do anything substantial about it, and B) they can magnanimously imagine themselves as part of a different and more wholesome, and profitable, future.

The "GOP Hipster" Is a Pampered Babbling Sack of Horse Hockey

But, by directing their attention and ire so vehemently on blacks - and especially on this President and his policies - it's painfully obvious to everyone watching, the Republican Party is, culturally, still firmly stuck in America's rearview mirror. And with their image fading fast:

Endemic Corruption: The Ukraine Is Ex-Soviet, But What Excuse Do Black American Politicians Have?

Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, they're blacks of a different era - one the rest of us, now, only want a peek at on film, and not in our daily lives.

“You know what they say: 50th time is the charm. Maybe when you hit your 50th repeal vote, you will win a prize. Maybe if you buy 50 repeal votes, you get one free.” 

And yet, it's here. Dr. Ben Carson - and the adulation he receives from conservatives - could be replaced by Booker T. Washington without even squinting our eyes. American culture's that real. Right down to the Southern backdrop of strange fruit. 

That's because we're a country, with a character, and the sooner we start acting like it, the better. There is no escaping our history. The most we can hope is to learn from it.

None Of These Men Will Ever Be President

How the Republican Party thinks a traumatized and terrorized people - who've never had what they needed - were somehow going to collectively beat the odds, is a question I may not be equipped to answer because, frankly, I don't understand it. But then, I'm not willfully obtuse, as well. 

Unlike the Republican Party (and the other blacks momentarily still in it) I can not look my people in the face and not acknowledge their struggle as a moral one, or frame their plight as undeserving. When it comes to their concerns - vs. the major concerns of even "mainstream" America - theirs wins, hands down, every time. Partially because, as we've seen, freedom and justice for blacks has always had a profound influence on loosening the parameters limiting other's lives as well.

"Where [Mitt Romney] lost was on the question of, ‘Who cares about you?’”

Those slave ships left a lot in their wake. TMR has been calling for reparations and it's time that's on the table. But even more than that, it's the Republican Party that should be calling for a Truth & Reconciliation commission, not only in order to (cynically) assess if, why, and how money to blacks would be warranted and/or distributed, but also so we can get the story in the open and, finally, walk together as a nation.

It is worth noting that it was [Henry] Ford's picture that had pride of place in Hitler's study and not Heidegger's: the origins of nazism and the ideological motives inspiring it were not exclusively German.

The Republican Party freed the slaves.

Ted Nugent Loving Republican Tom Tancredo Getting Crushed in Colorado Governor’s Race

The Republican Party should see to it, as their civic duty, that ignorance on this particular subject will no longer be an excuse for anything.

How the civil rights movement changed black gun culture

The American Spectator's Found Another "Colorblind" Problem With The Fans Who Want Ben Carson For Prez

Carson's got a lot of supporters right now so, if the Republicans are truly trying to market this "colorblind" line, things aren't going to plan:

 "The only explanation they give for why Carson will win in 2016 is the color of his skin and his good-guy persona matched with no political experience,…"

They're capable of raising $3 billion, but not from fooling themselves - in yet another example of how much money in America is simply wasted while people do without,…