Bill Maher Has Always Been A Portrait In Political Cowardice

 

If you saw this happen in the 1990s,...

...2023 comes as no surprise.

What To Do With White People Is Now A Trending Topic

Ayn Rand, white's conservative cultist of selfishness and national irresponsibility - along with all the others - should never have been resurrected

Thank goodness, oppressed culture's don't naturally roam to making slaves, sending people away in cattle cars, or firing squads, because America's caucasians would be in some trouble going forward in history. Of course, TMR (always ahead of the cultural curve) long ago switched to an all-white-all-the-time-call-out format, while Salon's Brittney Cooper has only recently gotten to the point where whites have her "utterly undone." But it's Jezebel's Brit Bennett, who finally confesses what everyone's thinking: "I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People." 

She's got me there, too, because - after my trial-by-fire with emersion in white "culture" - I now have a hard time identifying what "good" even means, in the shitshow that is white America revealed. I mean, considering what hardships whites are saddling blacks with, as I write this, would it be wrong for future generations to subject white's ever-more-unreasonable asses to slavery, cattle cars, and firing squads? White's obstinance (and laughter) in the face of our deaths, coupled with their historical willingness to see others suffer for their benefit, makes it a tough call. "Ethics," as we know it, becomes questionable in their presence - which, in a way, has always been the "good" white people's point. 

Confronting the weight, of living with 4 centuries of white bullshit, I just wrote something like the following, in an email, to a "good" white person a few days ago:

"They decry black Americans for embracing “victimology,” and they disparage women for “playing the victim,” whenever anyone identifies incidents or patterns of racial or sexual injustice. It is of crucial importance to the right-wing project of constructing a society of solipsism to sketch a victimless world of capitalistic purity. If there are no victims, institutions are irrelevant, and there are no victimizers. If there are no victimizers, there is no need for external agitation from democratic organization or government enforcement of fair and consistent standards under the law."

Reading "a society of solipsism" really brings the point home, for me, because that's what TMR's been blogging about this place for almost a decade. This "modern" society that said the late (and suicidal) Spalding Gray was "brilliant" as he talked about pot affecting his "kundalini," and made multiple con men and women rich selling "The Secret," but today calls Will Smith's Scientology-schooled kids "crazy" for spouting the same inherited garbage everyone was applauding as they grew. (Picking on the black kids really brings the cowardice of these people, not to mention their corrosive racial dynamics, into view.) I could say, "make up your minds, people!" but I'm no longer sure many others have one - or ever have. It's just been my slow torture, equal to anything I've read in the recent report that's got everyone so outraged, now. You've all become Dick Cheney, dripping with evil and the stench of death, to me.

And the world turns. By 2044, whites will be the minority and the kids of these monstrosities, who will be spouting THEIR PARENT'S inherited nonsense, won't have the cover of their parent's superior numbers - so what to do? I imagine future generations will be at a loss, because protecting those who've always been hurting blacks, merely to protect their egos, won't be a winning proposition to the formally oppressed. White's perversion of MLK's teachings are already causing non-violence to lose it's currency and, after another 30 years, and faced with this already-heavily-armed white population, I can't see how it'll last. (If whites don't believe in non-violence - and their heavily-advertised and newly-purchased arsenals clearly say they don't - why will anyone else?)

And it's today's remorseless "good" white people, through their open hostility and willful inaction, that will have made it so. They demanded it be this way, and everyone's finally heard them, and these "others" will have no choice but to respond accordingly.

I guess, looking at it objectively, only a very-pre-emptive "congratulations" - for any future carnage to caucasians - are all that can reasonably be offered,...

A Black Man Calls Out Cosby (On Behalf Of Black Men)

The man said he wanted to talk, specifically to black men, so - let's talk 

“If you’re black and over the age of 50, Bill Cosby holds a special place in the world. We listened to his albums, watched reruns of I Spy and kept our mouths shut when we heard the stories about his 'preferences.'

For the last decade, Dr. Cosby has spoken about black people in general and black men specifically stepping up “to their responsibilities.”

But if William H. Cosby Jr., PhD. is serious about what he has been telling us, it’s time for him to take his own words to heart and to stop hiding behind lawyers and silence.”

Bill O'Reilly Tells The Truth: Republicans Are Cowards Who Are Playing Politics With Black America's Lives

“I think [Republicans are] more intimidated than uncaring. I think they’re afraid… I think they’re afraid of, uh, black people,...

...The white Republican power structure is afraid of black Americans. They don’t know how to treat them; they don’t know how to speak to them… They don’t know anything about the culture, and they don’t want to be called a racist bigot, so they stay away. That’s just my opinion.

[The Republicans] feel it’s not worth the trouble, the few votes they might siphon off, to get involved with it. That’s how they feel. I know that for a fact.”

So Bill O'Reilly's racial education continues - good for him. He's beating most of white America in, at least, trying to get real.

This is an interesting admission for several reasons, starting with white's interest in not being called racists. Who is engaged in American politics - who can seriously call themselves a patriot - when they're merely trying to look, or not look, a certain way? 

And how do the the results of white's psychology translate into them not being uncaring? Isn't hurting blacks the results of their actions, no matter their reasons, or how they frame them? Aren't Americans - black Americans - getting hurt? Look at the facts on the ground and try to argue "no" - you can't. It can't be done. But whites will try. For image. For nothing.

O'Reilly is saying whites are participating in a charade, and blacks must pay a price for it, because whites are so confused by their own self-imposed dread. Whatever fear drives whites to do is what whites will do - no matter who it hurts, no matter whether they're right or wrong, or the disastrous implications for America or individuals. It's all imagery, and a noxious self-fulfilling prophecy.

Another thing that interests me is how whites try to project their fear onto blacks. They pretend their anxiety is shared by us, or is our failing, when blacks know better - here's Obama on the subject:

"The question, once again, is going to be whether hope overcomes fear. Essentially, what the other side has decided is that they are going to try to ride fear and anxiety all the way to the ballot box,..."

That seems pretty clear, and exactly what O'Reilly is saying, but it's rejected by whites because - just like the desire not to look like racists - whites also don't want to look like (or admit) they're a bunch of flag-waving, but completely unpatriotic, cowards. 

Unfortunately, until they come to grips with themselves - not as individuals but as Americans - there's not much they can do:

Besides continuing to sully their names and international image, losing whatever little respect they had, and destroying the country from within,...

Lies Of Convenience (America's Number One Export) I

The message is the same from whites across the political spectrum

While studying postwar Europe, Ta-Nehisi Coates took note of a convenient mental trait, shared by whites across the Atlantic:

“Attendant to all of this was something that any student of white supremacy in America will recognize—a strong propensity toward national amnesia,…

…This ‘strength to forget’ notion. National forgetting is always a selective endeavor. Italy had no more intention of dismissing its Roman heritage as ‘the past,’ than Americans have of dismissing George Washington as ‘the past.’ ‘The past’ is whatever contributes to a society's moral debts. ‘Heritage’ is everything else.”

One of these two shot first

I saw a bit of this in John Althouse Cohen’s piece yesterday, which blamed prejudice on all Americans equally, forgetting it is white Americans - alone - who have historically inspired anything like it in blacks. And, especially, by utilising the law.

The signs came down but how whites think has stayed the same

Considering Cohen’s mother, Ann Althouse, is a law professor, one would think she would’ve taught him better.

The hegemony of white women is unquestioned, and - right or wrong - they're proud of it

But, on the other hand, she, too, is known for telling blacks to “take responsibility” under white’s supremacy, so expectations that she or her children will have a grasp of reality - and know to do the right thing - were sure to be disappointed.

White America teaches minorities their morals - while devising ways for themselves to escape them

As Coates has also pointed out, “Laws are not synonyms for justice” but (as the Althouse family practices it) white's most handy “Get Out Of Jail Free” card - and, male or female, gay or straight, they're always looking for new ones.

White's appearance can be deceiving - in the men and women - but only so by so much

One need not wonder about the ethics (or courage) of any individual, people, or nation, that needs law to serve that purpose.

To be cont'd,…

David Petraeus: White Racist's Apocalyptic Thinking Is Driving Them Even Further Into Madness Over ISIS

 Whites replay the same narrative with everything, and everyone, they encounter 

 The general didn't mention The Drudge Report as a cause, though he easily could have, along with whites being killer cowards:

“[ISIS] has nowhere near the roots, the numbers and the structure that al Qaeda in Iraq and the associated Sunni insurgents had when we launched the surge.” 

Fun fact: 

 I'm more scared to walk America's streets (especially where there's a cop present) than America's facing ISIS,...

 

Eric Holder Is In Missouri For Michael Brown: Is It Time For "A Nation Of Cowards" To Finally Learn It's Limits?

How scared - of a single unarmed black man - do armed white males have to be to behave like this?

Whites are sending some pretty clear signals they have no idea what's going on. Nothing they're trying is working. Except for killing people. 

Eric Holder is a classic "Race Man"

And now the Attorney General who said, racially, this is "a nation of cowards" is there - and he's not about to let black people down:

"The eyes of the nation and the world are watching Ferguson right now. The world is watching because the issues raised by the shooting of Michael Brown predate this incident. This is something that has a history to it, and the history simmers beneath the surface in more communities than just Ferguson."

This is indeed "something with some history to it," and that history is exactly what whites desperately want to avoid, seeing America's history of slavery, etc., as their ancestors once saw uncharted waters:

That way be dragons,...

Ta-Nahisi Coates On Ferguson, Missouri: Verser Un Peu de Sauce Blanche Sur Elle et L'appeler Une Délicatesse

How many blacks, no white will hire, are worth millions - needing only investment and a few years? 

The Atlantic's Mr. Coates is apparently back from his french lessons - and hopefully saying "noir" more than they do:

"The politics of respectability are, at their root, the politics of changing the subject—the last resort for those who can not bear the agony of looking their country in the eye. The policy of America has been, for most of its history, white supremacy. The high rates of violence in black neighborhoods do not exist outside of these facts—they evidence them."

I had a dream - but I forgot it after talking different

Nah, he's saying "black" - as always - which is easy to understand: 

Is any of this really necessary - or respectable?

TMR's own training in wee-wee, poo-poo, lah-lah, coo-coo, cah-cah - whatever - just made a nigga sound pervy, ancient, juvenile, and obsessed with bathroom functions:

No Western country - without standardized toilets - is to be trusted or believed

Getting trapped into eating at the same hours they do, too, maybe had something to do with it,...

The Self-Acknowledged Pussy With A Gun (1st Spotting)

TMR had heard this was a mythical creature,...

White's Demand That Blacks Love Them Is Astonishing

A new kind of American "class photo" - smile!

The effort, to wheedle out of doing the right thing, is demeaning to conservative's image - and, I think, even their own self-image:

“'The people to whom reparations were owed,…are long dead.' Only because we need them to be. Mr. Clyde Ross is very much alive—as are many of the victims of redlining. And it is not hard to identify them. We know where redlining took place and where it didn't. We have the maps. We know who lived there and who didn't.

This was American policy. We have never accounted for it, and it is unlikely that we ever will. That is not because of any African-American's life-span but because of a powerful desire to run out the clock. Reparations claims were made within the natural lifetimes of emancipated African-Americans. They were unsuccessful. They were not unsuccessful because they lacked merit. They were unsuccessful because their country lacked the courage to dispense with creationism.

  So it goes.”

The cowards can't win - because their principles never existed.

If anyone wanted to devise how conservatives could destroy themselves, from the inside, watch what sticking to "little white lies" long after they've served their usefulness does,...

Learning How Not To Worry (And Love Discussing Race)

"Most Americans avoid race conversations like the plague, and we often take our ability to avoid it, and use that as a measure of our enlightenment, which is sort of telling in and of itself,…"

A Wave Of Compassion Rarely Runs Through This Land

I've heard whites claim - just like when it comes to what life's like in America for blacks now - they're waaay "too sensitive" for 12 Years A Slave's history lesson onscreen.

We blacks - who have to look at, and live, this American nightmare - we can't help but laugh at even the suggestion that's true.

I can only deduce the many whites, last night, who admitted to deliberately skipping a telecast of the top Oscar going to the black movie they specifically avoided?

They, too, must've suffered some "sensitivity" issues as well,...

Conservative Crazy Talk (First You Need Good Leaders)

“Today, our party’s leaders act like thermometers measuring the temperature of the electorate. We need to be the thermostats and set the temperature.”

Beyonce Doesn't Know How To Make Very Good Videos

She's never convincing - there's doubt in her eyes - and it's deserved,...

Whites: Don't Fight Blacks If You Can't Take A Punch

No, not even if you're French with a baseball bat,...

Aretha Franklin Never Played The Dozier School 4 Boys

He said, ‘Boy, if you don’t get back on that bed, I'll kill you right now!’ He had a belt that had holes in it, and every time he would hit me, it would suck the skin from my behind. All the boys would know you're bloody from the waist down. All they’d ask: ‘Well? Did you hold the bed?’"

Prophets Of Rage: A BBC Public Enemy Documentary

Public Enemy - Prophets of Rage - BBC Special... by dreading 

Like with 12 Years a Slave, England keeps beating us to the punch on covering our own culture and history - why? 

There's a lot of reasons, but one of em's definitely cowardice,…

 

Take A Vote & Get Back To Me (We're Doing It Anyway)

Hear ye! Hear ye! TMR would like to propose America change it's motto of "Home of the Free and Land of the Brave" to something more befitting the experience:

  “It’s impossible to really get comfortable with your wrists shackled.”

There, yes. Right:

That seems to really capture the spirit of the thing,…

 

I Know Why Conservative Whites Won't See 12 Years

Like Phil Robertson's talk of happy slaves, knowing the past is NOT whites' strong suit:

  “Fox News host says Americans don't know their history, then flubs history of Boston Tea Party”

12 Years A Slave would blow their wittle minds,…

Awww: This Phony Benghazi Scandal Is Still This Phony Benghazi Scandal And No One Will Admit They're Wrong

The other political operatives - manipulating and exploiting their viewers - are keeping their mouths shut:

    “The most important thing to every person is the truth and today the truth is we made a mistake. That’s very disappointing for any journalist.

Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong. And in this case we were wrong.”

Yeah, you, Glenn Win-From-Losing Reynolds, and all the rest.

The cowards don't talk about who's been right all along, either.

Because they know - KNOW - it (probably) won't be them,...