The Baby Boomers Are Sociopaths (Who Will Never Feel Your Pain)

He only studied the white ones,...

TMR Buys Books From People Who Read Enough Science To Know The Sun Is Going To Die (And We Can't Be On Earth Selling Books Whenever That Happens)

It's not enough to read books: you have to know which books to read - and the smart ones do NOT endorse this position.

 

1999's "The Abolition Of Britain" By Peter Hitchens Has Just Been Re-Issued

Harper Lee Did America A Big Favor In Her New Book

"[Atticus’s effort] in “Mockingbird” is not the work of someone working for racial justice. He is not trying to eradicate racism from the legal system. He makes a living off the backs of the poor and people of color. He is the ultimate Southern gentleman – paternalistic and all that,...

There are a lot of studies that show that white people don’t recognize their racism, they don’t recognize their privilege. It’s not complicated – empirical research shows it, but we — white people – don’t want to acknowledge it. White people want to believe that we got everything we have through hard work and talent, that we didn’t get a leg up by being white,..."

Katie Rose Guest Pryal - who's never seen Atticus Finch as a hero - explaining why in "Salon"

A Reason Whites Pretend Black Anger Is Over Nothing

Brought here to be tortured and raped - for our entire lives - to make white America money

"As of 1807, four out of every five people who came from the Old World to the New had come from Africa, not Europe; chained in the belly of a ship, not free on it's deck. Huddled masses in steerage class, yearning to breathe free of the famine and poverty of Ireland, Italy, or Russia's shtetls - they came later."

Cornell University's Edward E. Baptist, in his book "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery And the Making Of American Capitalism"

So That's What "On The Wrong Side Of History" Means

"What ever happened to the black people who were from down south (who are actually all black people in America)? Ah, they lost their history so they died."

Laugh When Whites Say Blacks Didn't Create Anything

His d'Artagnan was always "Dark Tagnan" to black kids

Alexandre Dumas, who wrote two of history's best known works, "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Three Musketeers," was a black man from Haiti. His mother was a slave. But few in America would teach these facts to the white kids who loved his stories.

And those racists who insist blacks have never contributed anything to western culture are, still, the world's most ignorant idiots,...

How White "Colorblind" Fools Work For Racism Daily

Whites, looking for brains to devour, so slavery's past disconnects from America today

I tell you, Louis CK tells you, and even history tells you, but nothing works against angry American whites, being ahistorical:

“It’s symbolic annihilation of history, and it’s done for a purpose. It really enforces white supremacy”: Edward Baptist on the lies we tell about slavery 

Edward Baptist on horrifying truth that we memorialize Confederate soldiers and not Americans who died enslaved

I'd say, "Excuse them, Father, but they know not what they do," but - in the case of "colorblind" white supremacists - they know all too well,...

I Can't Be Wrong (Because I Know I'm Right So Often)

"And we can't stop, and we won't stop,..."

"Culture Beats Politics."

- The Crack Emcee, countless times, on The Macho Response

“Political change is the last manifestation of cultural shifts that have already occurred.”

- Jeff Chang, hip-hop historian, cultural critic, and author of "Who We Be: The Colorization of America"

White Women Are Entitled (To Be Mentally Oppressed)

“I don’t fucking care if you like it.”

Above are Amy Poehler’s words, said to Jimmy Fallon, that made her a hero to Tina Fey and Slate’s Amanda Hess - words that definitely wouldn’t have endeared her to whites, under any circumstances, as a black person - and probably would’ve resulted in the loss of her job.

Fey actually brags about those words in her revealingly-titled book, “Bossypants,“ (For comparison, Indian American Mindy Kaling’s book is called, “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?”) but we’re still supposed to buy Ann Althouse’s blonde bullshit about sexism being as big of a hinderance to white women’s lives as race is to blacks. Here are some of Poehler’s chapter titles:

“Say Whatever You Want”; “Do Whatever You Like”; “Be Whoever You Are.”

I guess, along with everything else they assume about the races they avoid, blonde’s think we still can’t understand that we can’t do any of those things,...without white's interference.

No, you see, what whites understand is, it’s still their place to educate everyone else - as they used to bring us Jesus - for our own good, of course. Their ultimate advice, repeated endlessly to me online and off, is to do as white’s do (“C’MON, WHO HASN’T CHEATED?”) as though challenging white people is in Dale Carnegie’s “How To Win Friends And Influence People.” Check out this quote:

”Women are still underrepresented as writers, directors, and stars of comedy, but the few women who have clawed to prominence on TV can find a comfortable perch in the publishing world.”

Hell, considering how whites have maneuvered themselves since the Grammy’s - putting whites in even Rap’s top spots - blacks can’t be said to have a “comfortable perch” anywhere whites exist. And (here’s the kicker) their dislike increases as long as we mention it. “I don’t fucking care if you like it,” indeed.

“This sounds okay, but not as good as Tina Fey’s book. Why isn’t this more like Tina Fey’s book?”

- Mindy Kaling

“I cannot change the fact that I am an American White Woman” Poehler writes, while Fey filled her book with “practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace.” Is there a writer of color that features such sentiments today? Who could? Women outnumber men, but somehow, the white ones seem to forget I’m-the-minority-who-pushes-people-around-and-you-can-too is just begging for that 6 to 1 white blowback, while white women can, and do, get applause (mostly from other white women) for even thinking it. And now they even demand blacks join in.

“When did you fall in love with Amy Poehler?” Slate’s Amanda Hess asks, as though it’s a given everyone has done so. As though Poehler, or Tina Fey, have done anything as endearing, striking, or influential, as Eddie Murphy’s work on SNL. Even when including 30 Rock, they haven’t. They’re just there - which is an accomplishment - but hardly worthy of the assumption of universal admiration or acclaim.

Like Althouse bragging that the repulsive Rush Limbaugh (of all people) mentioned her attacks on Obama, these white women stand for little besides their own celebrity, causing Hess to say “Poehler’s naming of her nanny is framed as a brave reveal” (revealed: a white woman has a nanny!) while “other subjects are just deflected.” Of course they are, because white women can play it safe. What’s on the line for them? Falling back to #2 in the white world? Heavens to Betsy. Hess also adds “lowered stature frees” white women “for more straight talk.”

Well, there’s no one lower than blacks in America, unless you include “a virginal college-aged Fey scrambling up a Virginia mountain at night in a desperate bid to get laid by a terrible guy.”

Somehow, after all the black books I’ve read - compared to just living in the obliviousness of white folks - that’s rarely been blacks, or even black women’s, problem. As that quote reveals, it’s white’s awful life choices that are. Hess asks a great question at the end of her piece:

“When Lena Dunham inked a deal for her own comedy/memoir/advice book, at age 26, she was criticized for her hubris: Why would such a young woman think she had anything meaningful to say?”

I’ll let you guess what the answer is from where blacks sit,…

The White Feminists Are Just As Bad As Slave Owners

"It's funny, isn't it? Being white and oblivious to the harm we cause? It's funny!"

That ugly fat fuck millionaire who made "Girls" is following in Amanda Palmer's famously fucked footsteps by asking regular people to perform for free on her stupid book tour. 

The willingness of whites to - still - steal other's labor is legendary.

If you wanted an explanation of the difference, between white and black feminists, I'd say we've found it,...

 

American Apartheid Produces Black's Expected Result

Tan suit = used car salesman. Dark suit = Satan? That's so not racist,...

Last week, Matt Drudge reportedly saw "horns" on Obama's head in this photo, making me wonder how delusional must racists get, in public, before other whites admit they're seeing things?

"If you can strike this bargain here. If you can make sure your armpits are odorless. Curl your hair. Be impeccable. Be all the things that the American public says you should do, right? And you do all those things – and nothing happens really."

- James Baldwin

We stay to ourselves - and watch

It's kind of hard to argue this isn't the truth, which is why blacks - whatever our outlook or station - might as well be ourselves. We can't win. Be clean and we're "uppity." Be dirty, and "it figures." We can't fool white supremacy. Listen to a white man, yesterday, regarding my research on slavery and reparations:

“I seriously doubt you have read those books from front to back.”

"Land of the free and home of the slave."

And that's all a white American needs to make me a liar - their own doubt - to determine I don't/won't/can't read entire books. That makes it fact. Reality has nothing to do with it. (I've finished about 6 or 7 this month.) I can be more informed than any white person I encounter but, to them, it's white supremacy that will determine who's correct. This is why Obama's "clearly, deeply in over his head" to whites:

Concern for blacks - even black children - never comes into it.

They still think they, alone, determine the worth of his actions. 

Manhood to the war crowd is an ogre

If Obama doesn't do exactly what they think he should, he can't handle the office - so simple (minded). That he was elected NOT TO DO WHAT WHITES WANT - which would make his presidency successful - doesn't occur or matter to them. They will use their 6 to 1 advantage in the population (and the media especially) to trumpet another black failure where it doesn't exist. 

A white "education" - telling it like it never was - but always is

Because that's what racists do,....

 

Tavis Smiley: There's A Price To Be Paid For Telling The Truth In White America And That Price Is Death

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Prosperity For Me, Not For Thee (And It's All By Design)

Whites don't even THINK about race (as they use it to isolate blacks)

“If you're talking about conversations about race, most people have had very limited experience in having a meaningful or sustained dialogue about racially sensitive topics in a racially mixed setting. If they talk about race, they talk about it with people who share their own cultural background, more often than not.

And a lot of that has to do with the fact that that's where people live. We still live in a society that has a great deal of social segregation. The opportunity to really engage one another in the kind of dialogue that allows me to share my experiences of the world, and allows you to exchange your experiences of the world, allows me to challenge the assumptions that you might be making based on stereotypes, or let someone question my privilege—that kind of conversation is hard to have. And unless you're really willing to engage and move past the point of discomfort, it's hard to benefit from the conversation.

I don't think we are thinking very clearly.

There's a familiar story which is—well, you've seen this movie: You've got a white character and a black character and usually the black character is eliminated before the movie is over and the white guy comes out at the end as the hero. That's a familiar plot. But in the 2008 election, it had a different ending. And it's an unsettling ending for people who have grown up with the assumption that white people are supposed to be in charge.” 

 - Beverly Tatum, psychology professor, out-going president of Spelman College, and author of the books "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the School Cafeteria?" and "Can We Talk about Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation"

 

Whites Anti-Victim Mentality Screws Over Blacks AND The Ignorant White Folks Who Write The Economist

Wow - even in 2014 - it took a total backlash to get these supposedly-educated modern day bozos-with-a-magazine to understand how silly they sound: 

"Apology: In our review of 'The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism' by Edward Baptist, we said: 'Mr Baptist has not written an objective history of slavery. Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains.' There has been widespread criticism of this, and rightly so. Slavery was an evil system, in which the great majority of victims were blacks, and the great majority of whites involved in slavery were willing participants and beneficiaries of that evil. We regret having published this and apologise for having done so,..."

This is great political theatre:

Whites are now victimizing themselves with their own worthless "bootstraps without boots" ideology,....

Jim Crow Will Be Over (Whenever Blacks Say It's Over)

"One of the chief grievances of white ladies since the war has been the way in which house servants who leave them and hire to others gossip about them,…" 

- A former employer in the South, Out Of The House Of Bondage

"I've been telling you, over and over and over, but you don't listen:



You've outted yourselves as racists.



No further explanation,…is necessary. Everybody gets it, but you."

 - The Crack Emcee, 7/31/14

"The more they accuse Republicans of racism, the more GOP leaders seem to tremble and start murmuring,…"

 - Hot Air, 8/1/14

 

Black Blood Is The Fertilizer That Made America Grow

Journalist and author Chris Tomlinson with members of his family 

It can be jarring when whites actually "do the work," and study this country's history, for real - not playing favorites - because that's when their ancestors don't look so good: 

“'George, I'm afraid you've got the Negroes to like you and not fear you. If it is the case, you cannot get on nor take care of anything. They must know when you speak they have to obey. And to do this you have to stand square up to them and show yourself master. You cannot coax a Negro to do his duty. You have to force him. And if they only like you and not fear you, they will soon hate you and get tired of you. That is the nature of Negros. But to make them fear you and like you both, you can do anything you want with them.'” 

 Nasty business - and pretty insane - but here's what's important to know: 

 If you don't hide from it - as we blacks can't - not only do we love you but, then, we're all "Real Americans," too. Just like in the picture above.

So, do "the work" and - eventually - it'll all work out,…

 

America's Racial Truth Comes Out (Whites Hardest Hit)

“When emancipation came, the former slaves had taken our name as their own.”

There's a new book out, about a white American doing what no white American should ever do, which is study slavery:

  "People love to embrace their heritage until they’re asked to confront America’s racist history.” 

"People" also say "ignorance is bliss" but, TMR wouldn't know,…