Amazing: People See White Privilege (When Blacks Die)

You Got Nowhere To Run To, Baby, Nowhere To Hide

This is about how honest whites are on race.

The gap - between what white people can't admit about America and what they won't admit - isn't very wide:

"If the shooting of Michael Brown had taken place about 500 yards to the southeast, he would have died not in Ferguson, Mo., but in the neighboring city of Jennings. The court system there, which is overseen by a white judge but has almost exclusively black defendants, routinely sends people to jail for failure to pay minor traffic fines, a new lawsuit alleges. 

Had the shooting occurred three and a half miles to the north, the world’s attention might have turned to the city of Florissant, where in 2013, the police stopped black motorists at a rate nearly three times their share of the population. Less than four miles to the northwest, in Calverton Park, court fines and fees accounted for over 40 percent of the city’s general operating revenue last year,..."

So what's the take-away?

Blacks live in a racist COUNTRY. 

And expecting it's biggest practitioners to admit it is foolish,...

Sean Hannity Used A Racist To Justify Ferguson Killing

"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,..

"Normal" For White People (Is To See What's Not There)

18-year-old Michael Brown was re-imagined as "it," and a "demon," while 12-year-old Tamir Rice miraculously become 20:

And few other white people say, or think, there's anything askew in these portrayals, or how whites perceive the world, generally. 

So they also won't question if the delusional should be in positions of power at all.

They simply can't conceive of questioning it,...

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,...

The Race To Grow Up Fast In The NewAge? (It's Mine)

White Mischief (1987) sums it up quite well, I think, though it's - still - also not the best example

I think, it's pretty safe to say, the new millennium has finally kicked in for America (because it waited too long to define itself) and so, we're at just about the point where our different culture is making it's way into being - mostly because it's not backing down:

  “Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep.”

Witch doctors have just as much dignity 

Yes, I sense the forces of evil making way, so the battle for our cultural wreckage's coherency has begun, with the first of the broken shards being laid just-so:

  “Just how screwed up is Wisconsin?”

"The good life," as defined by others, was always a cheap and crappy cornball concoction 

"The first shall be last and the last shall be first" is the biblical lesson, which everyone's taking from, that's stood the test of time:

  “If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets. If the average person could see the Virgin Airlines first-class lounge, they’d go, ‘What? What? This is food, and it’s free, and they … what? Massage? Are you kidding me?’”

How do you say "Bye-bye, Miss American Pie" in spanish? 

 Another way to say it - just as popular in the modern world - is "Babylon must fall": 

 “There's very strong feelings out there that we shouldn't give people money for nothing.”

The difference, between being "somebody" and "any body", is going to drive celebrities crazy 

 And it must, because few Americans are going to go another hundred years listening to moneyed fools, spouting nonsense:

  “I hate to say it, but a lot of it had to do with the women’s lib movement.”

Those with the blues can smile again

Now other lives will matter - as much as they always did - even when the previous "thought leaders" thought not:

  “The single worst moment in Officer Darren Wilson’s testimony about the day he shot Michael Brown came when he called the unarmed teenager “it,” saying at one point, “it looks like a demon.” He also compared him to “Hulk Hogan” and described him as “bulking up” as if to magically “run through” his bullets. But somehow the word “it” cut through the delusional, self-aggrandizing dramatics and showed the problem at the heart of their encounter: To Wilson, Mike Brown wasn’t human. “It” was a “demon.”

Yet Wilson’s often incredible testimony about the threat posed by Brown carried the day, and the grand jury declined to indict the cop for killing the unarmed teen,…”

This bit should've been a tip-off to where all this was going

 They had all the time in the world to get their story straight:

   “Yeah, it’s unfair that you can get judged by something you didn’t do, but it’s also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn’t work for.”



All of their credibility is gone

 But now they're old, their mind's broken, without even a leg to stand on:

  “No one really wants to admit I exist.” 

And all because of a "demon" race - with it's pants down

Time for them - all - to go:

  "I have always been proud of my association with Temple University. I have always wanted to do what would be in the best interests of the university and its students. As a result, I have tendered my resignation . . ."

Joe Scarborough Takes A Stand: "What Am I Missing?"

The White-Wing media is having a blast watching Joe Scarborough getting flustered over the Ram's salute to Ferguson, since Joe swallowed the police's leaked-bait that Michael Brown stole some cigars, and thus deserved to die. Scarborough ignorantly steamrolls right over respectability politics (because there's no one on his panel who understands it) before acknowledging a lot of differences (but not the urgency) in how blacks and whites live - and are living - even as Joe's (oh so comfortably) speaking. He finally then passes the mic, only to discover only one person in the studio ("an old white guy") agrees with him. It looks like few outside agree as well.

But that's our White-Wing media:

There's no telling what they'll find inspiring,...

A Fair Process? Wilson Washed Blood From His Hands

One black kid down, one to go - no witnesses - no sweat

  ”If Johnson lied, he did horrible damage. What is the (nonpatronizing) argument for not holding him accountable?” 

 - Ann Althouse, joining "close friends of Darren Wilson" in trying to pin a little "colorblind" justice on Michael Brown's friend, Dorian Johnson (above) right after she did a post belittling, both, Ta-Nehisi Coates and President Barack Obama

She only responds to flattery - and Jim is full of it 

 It's not a new thing, Jane asking Jim Crow to dance for white's amusement, though - white's feminism or not - they're still doing that same quick (but graceless) cross-toe step, they insist it'll take decades of black performing "geniuses" to undo:

  ”When Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson left the scene of the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, the officer returned to the police station unescorted, washed blood off his hands and placed his recently fired pistol into an evidence bag himself."

Later, this became a white guy with his ballcap backwards, wearing oversized shorts and saying "Wassaaaap?" 

 Whites laugh and celebrate the aesthetic injustice, clapping their broken beat that confuses black performers, while perfectly matching the grotesque and cynical movements they prefer onstage:

  ...The officers who interviewed Wilson immediately after the shooting did not tape the conversations,...an investigator from the medical examiner’s office opted not to take measurements at the crime scene and arrived there believing that what happened between Brown and Wilson was 'self-explanatory.’”

Jim says TMR's a "hate" site for not standing with those who like this kind of "humor" 

 Somebody says "justice" and the mob roars it's approval, assured by American "law professors" and grand juries alike there's no such thing, and so none need worry: they can party all night - as loudly as they want - under white supremacy, there's nothing to stop them:

  ”When Wilson returned to the police department after the shooting, no one prevented him from driving himself. No one photographed his bloodied hands before he washed up at the station because 'there was no photographer available,' an investigator quoted in the transcript said.” 

Who's watching The Watch Men?

 They'll sway to give thanks for black's lives of misfortune - whether they've "missed fortune" or "miss fortune" brings guffaws - the point being there's nothing funny at all:

  ”One of Officer Wilson's key lines of defence was that Michael Brown made him fear he was going to be shot because he tried to grab his gun while in his car.

But Wilson placed the gun in an evidence bag himself and the weapon was not tested for fingerprints because, an investigator argued, 'he never lost control of his gun', Huffington Post reported.” 

Some people simply "don't care" about the company they keep 

Nothing funny about white folks dancing, without any sense of rhythm, to jealously mock blacks for having it - along with a street-level real-world understanding of whites and what makes them tick:

   “There are so many parts of that transcript that jumped out at me as a trial lawyer that I would want to cross examine him about if I were the prosecutor,” Bloom said. “For example he said he didn’t like the community. He said it was not a well-liked community. It was a community that he said is filled with gangs and violence and drug activity, not well-liked.” 

Of course, Mike Brown is not in a gang, Mike Brown wasn’t doing any drugs, except, perhaps marijuana,” Bloom observed. So the prosecutor’s questions should have been obvious, “Did you not like Mike Brown? Did you have a vendetta against Mike Brown?” Those are the sorts of questions that you’re supposed to learn to ask in law school—if not by watching Law & Order— they’re like a trial lawyers’ ABCs. “That’s just the beginning of what the prosecutors could have done but didn’t do.”

"I don't think like this - I just vote with the guy!"

Sure you're right - him and a whole lot of other people - like crazy white ladies looking for a cheap thrill:

  "The more we assume that the problem of racism is limited to the Klan, the birthers, the tea party or to the Republican Party, the less we understand that racial domination is a collective process and we are all in this game."

 Rest assured: TMR doesn't assume anything of the kind:

The right’s vile Ferguson ploy: Why they really want to focus on “riots”

Supporters of Darren Wilson and apologists for Ferguson officials are desperate to change the subject.

The Althouse Blog: Where Whites Show How It's Done

Not "the most racist" but - when it comes to consistency - giving whites a real run for the money

"You'd better believe I had all the early Kinks albums, Kinks, Kinda Kinks, and Kinks Kontroversy. I still love that kind of [kinda] thing. It still appeals to me more than the anguished bellyaching of soul music." 

 - Ann Althouse, establishing her "white" bonafides in pop rock, April 9th, 2011

Ann Althouse would be steady-as-a-rock if John Althouse Cohen was murdered

“I heard TV news folk say over and over that Michael Brown's family has requested nonviolence, but the video of the mother and the step-father show them directly inciting violence.”

- Ann Althouse, judging Michael Brown's parents - for not upholding a rigid consistency while grieving "bellyaching" - November 25, 2014

When playing cards, this is called a "tell"

"I had never heard 'okey-doke' used like that. I only knew 'okey-doke' as a cute/corny way to say 'okay.'"

- Ann Althouse, again showing her intimacy with blacks - and black idioms - before her judging of us really began, November 16th, 2014

White people are making blacks even more cynical about white people

"I knew that I was tired of good people, that I had had all the good people I could take."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates, considering white racism - without noticing Ann Althouse yet - in The New York Times, March 6th, 2013

Reading Ann Althouse would make blacks more cynical - about living

"My question is: How did some people get to be considered the 'good' people in the first place? It's that question that fires my antagonism to liberals. They think they are good."

- Ann Althouse, trying to get noticed by Coates, March 10th, 2013

Ann doesn't know if traumatized parents of a murdered boy are "good" - or just "bellyaching"

“Everybody wants me to be calm. You know what them bullets did to my son! They still don’t care! They never going to care!”

- Lesley McSpadden, Michael Brown's mother, November 25th, 2014

How to spot those who aren't "good" is easy

”No one cares; take responsibility for yourself. When, if ever, will that cruel, harsh and unpleasant reality sink in?"

- veni vidi vici, the type of regular "colorblind" commenter Althouse caters to - who she identifies with because he isn't trying to be "good" - November, 20th, 2014

Althouse's crowd is fond of saying, "We don't even THINK about race!" - and it shows

"Ann doesn't keep hate sites on her blogroll, no matter who is claiming to be her friend. That's just one of the many things that gives her integrity."

- Meade Lawrence, calling out TMR for the insufficient sensitivity - to the years of "integrity" - I've found on Althouse, November, 24th, 2014

Stokely Carmichael Was Right: White Society's Fucked

American blacks have no chance for a "normal" life under the white gaze

We Are Respectable Negroes' Chauncey DeVega is making a list of things whites can do that blacks cannot, as supposedly-full American citizens, in 2014. His latest addition? Making a citizen's arrest of a police officer without getting shot. Why DeVega is doing so puzzles me - it's not like white people care how racist they are. They revel in it.

"According to a study by the St. Louis nonprofit Better Together, Ferguson receives nearly one-quarter of its revenue from court fees; for some surrounding towns it approaches 50 percent. Municipal reliance on revenue generated from traffic stops adds pressure to make more of them. One town, Sycamore Hills, has stationed a radar-gun-wielding police officer on its 250-foot northbound stretch of Interstate. 

With primarily white police forces that rely disproportionately on traffic citation revenue, blacks are pulled over, cited and arrested in numbers far exceeding their population share, according to a recent report from Missouri’s attorney general. In Ferguson last year, 86 percent of stops, 92 percent of searches and 93 percent of arrests were of black people—despite the fact that police officers were far less likely to find contraband on black drivers (22 percent versus 34 percent of whites). This worsens inequality, as struggling blacks do more to fund local government than relatively affluent whites."

This is no accident, and couldn't happen for decades unless white Americans specifically wanted it so - it is the outright theft, and an open injustice, that undergirds and asserts white's racism and white's conception of "society," which is so ingrained as a long-standing source of white power, they are 100% positive there's nothing blacks can do about it. So they openly rejoice, just as their racist ancestors planned. 

Which raises an interesting question, regarding the news that Michael Brown struggled with the police officer in Ferguson, Missouri:

Why should Michael Brown - or any other black person - respect whites, their so-called laws, or those who defend them, when we know their entire system is, has been, and will be rigged against us?

The answer's "news" only to blacks, and only a subset at that:

Because the racist bastards will destroy anyone who doesn't,...

"Which Side Are You On? Black Lives Matter!": The Inter-Racial Requiem For Michael Brown At The St. Louis Symphony

This is the most beautiful demonstration yet - because we're finally not alone,...

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,....

 

Conservatives Give Killers Big Money (Not The Poor,...)

Oh BOY, being a poor guy running a blog that lives by donations, do I know this scene well - big bite quote ahead: 

It was inevitable that when Zimmerman was arrested and charged with murder, he had only one thing on his mind: how to pay for a private criminal defense lawyer. Knowing that his phone calls were being recorded while he was in jail pending bond (for a grand total of seven weeks) Zimmerman and his family spoke in code. They were all very grateful for the “support from SH”.

You didn’t need a crypto-analyst to figure out that “SH” was Sean Hannity. In July 2012, the Miami Herald reported that the anchor was believed to be financially backing Zimmerman’s defense.

It was kind of true. But Hannity, himself, did not shell out. He got a bunch of other people to pony up. On his nightly TV show, the Fox News man would furrow his brow and rant about what would become of America if we lost the right to shoot and kill people who scare us. Then Hannity would, helpfully, mention TheRealGeorge Zimmerman.com, a website that the real George Zimmerman had set up after he shot Trayvon Martin to death. The site, helpfully, accepted PayPal. Nearly half a million dollars double-clicked right in,....

...Of course, not every accused felon can get Sean Hannity as his personal cheerleader/rainmaker,...MaryJane, in Lansing, Michigan, is apparently fighting criminal cannabis growing charges. She says she needs weed because she has Lupus. She posts a photo of herself out-and-proud wearing a marijuana leaf necklace. She has raised $1,450. Gordon Smith, of Delmar, Delaware says that he has been falsely accused of domestic violence 24 times. He offers a video – “False Allegation Awareness: The Gordon Smith Story” – and he has raised $290. Darren Wilson, of St Charles, Missouri, has done a lot better. He has raised $433,000 ... because maybe some day he’ll be charged with something.

Wilson, of course, is the police officer who shot to death 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr, whose own family’s GoFundMe site has raised $339,000. As officer Wilson’s (currently inactive) fundraising sites promised: “All proceeds will be sent directly to Darren Wilson and his family for any financial needs they may have including legal fees.”

If he ever has legal fees. Right now, all Darren Wilson has is a lot of money because he killed someone.

Yep - as long as I went along with the folks who revealed themselves to be racists, some money rolled in. But - as soon as I called them on it - that shit dried up so fast, it might as well have never occurred. (I've been essentially homeless, for months, but do they care? Nope. They've told me to die - directly - for disagreeing, which is all I need to know to further judge them, and their politics,...) Meanwhile, I watch the Zimmerman's and the Wilson's raking in millions overnight - along with the politicians everyone (supposedly) hates or distrusts.

And they still wonder why I, and others like me, say - as Americans -  they're cruel and their priorities are all wrong,...