"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,..

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

There's not much evidence whites ask themselves why they fight and exploit black Americans

"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, explaining prejudice in America as a two-way street, October 25th, 2014

There's evidence whites are still so lame blacks even have to decipher their evasions for them 

”It's old-fashioned othering. I thought we were eschewing that,...and by we, I mean, we, the kind of people who shop at Whole Foods.”

- Ann Althouse, going down her son's street and having a head-on collision with herself, October 27th, 2014

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,…

The Whiteness Project Is The Best Civil Rights Tool A Black Race Man Can Imagine A White Person Devising

Let whites have their say.

Let whites reveal their prejudices.

Let whites hang themselves with their own (un-unique) words:

The Whiteness Project: White people - saying what they REALLY think - and totally embarrassing themselves and their culture,... 

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When The Reality Differs From The History I'll Believe It

Today whites claim they have no idea why blacks are poor

"There is a thorough understanding among [whites] in the way of seeing that the colored people shall never have much; they are united one with another to see that that is done."

- Robert Meacham, Jefferson County, Florida state Senator

 

Make Concentration Camps For Anyone W/Complaints

Whites think, if they smile a lot, that changes how their actions are seen

Finding out who your friends are can be a troubling revelation:

“It’s not enough to have expunged all feelings of personal prejudice toward people of color, while still benefitting from systemic racism. That just makes me a kind and passive racist,...”

And, the best part is, when white supremacy is used - in a "kind" and "passive" manner - to demand blacks can't say a word about it,...

Slavery Never Ended (The Overseers Never Went Away)

TMR's pleased whites are content with the lie that is America:

“UCLA has agreed to pay $500,000, including $350,000 in scholarships, to settle a claim by a prominent African American judge over alleged mistreatment and racial profiling by campus police during a traffic stop last year, officials announced Friday”

TMR's also pleased it's blacks who continually show it's a lie:

Reparations for racism await,...

If You Don't Make $130,000 A Year Then America Sucks

In America, this photo is considered more valuable than anyone who'll die on this street.

Money's one HUGE difference, between my life and my friend's, online and off. One white friend has taken a vacation, and is planning another, just since I've been in San Francisco. My blogging buddy, Ann Althouse, is out traveling again, visiting family. Must be nice. 

No free time, no money, no days off - and the expectation we'll be grateful and celebrate it.

Meanwhile, like a lot of blacks, I haven't worked in months but I'm passing other blacks in the streets, pushing everything they own in shopping carts. A sandwich, here, costs almost $10.00. That's a lot of money anywhere but, especially, if you're broke.

Blacks, utilizing government programs to create wealth and equity, like white Americans - NOT.

Most whites don't see a problem - or any connection to the past - or they simply don't want to see it.

He's no longer Canadian, so he's got no government healthcare - or reason to be nice - that's American.

Blacks are lazy, you know - unlike whites, when it comes to understanding the effects of American History and culture on us, today - they're totally on top of it.

Historically, this economic level whites consider a black success, and have ensured we live on.

I wonder how whites would react to living on what blacks do? Or living how blacks have to? (I can only think of a few black friends who make near $70,000 a year, while most make about $20-$30,000, with whites reportedly averaging 20 times what blacks earn overall - but, whites say, there's no discrimination here.) I'd love toy see what Ann's blog would look like then. Would she have time for, or even a concern about, Hillary Clinton's Speaking Fees?

Alternate reality - the day Meade proposed.

Or would her concerns be,...elsewhere?

Whites seriously think they earned their position, and are entitled to it, rather than being killers.

All of my life, white Americans have lived well - while everybody else doesn't - and it's all by racist design.

Shhhh! Don't talk about it, but, we did something to you.

Whites know this and don't seem overtly troubled by it.

After watching "Roots," whites know centuries of pain, and now they're off to new horizons.

Because black nightmares are white's "American Dream,…"

 

Astrology And Racism / Racism And Astrology: There Is Absolutely Nothing Strange About This Particular Blog

"Both astrology and racial stereotypes are based on a framework of belief that basically says: "Without even meeting you, I believe something about you. I can expect this particular sort of behavior or trait (stubbornness, laziness, arrogance, etc.) from members of this particular group of people (Jews, blacks, Aries, Pisces, etc.). When an astrologer finds out a person's astrological sign, he or she will bring to that experience a pre-existing list of assumptions (prejudices) about that person's behavior, personality and character. In both cases, the prejudices will cause people to seek out and confirm their expectations."

Boing Boing Throws Their Hat Into Reparations Debate

Here's a Boing Boing post that won't be on Drudge or Instapundit: 

"The racist violence against black people in America is of a different character than other class war and other racist oppression, and deserves unique consideration."

Isn't it weird how most blacks can predict what will, or won't, appear on Drudge or Instapundit?

 

Plunder: Verb 1. To Steal Goods, Typically Using Force

Pirates, slave catchers - it's all the same to TMR,...

If Bill Kristol's So Cool Why's He Begging ME For Help?

It's Monday: 

"Cop Killed In No-Knock Raid When Resident Shoots Him"

Whites were having "fun" and/or going about their lives.

   "Babysitter’s fake tot kidnapping, theft scheme exposed by child, 4

The Washington state babysitter allegedly let her boyfriend and an accomplice in to steal, then blamed the neighbor — but Abby, 4, told police the truth."

How was your weekend?

Nothing ugly, we hope?

Like France pretending blacks are visitors:

"Shock horreur: Finance minister tells cash-strapped (and perennially rude) French to be NICE to tourists"

Don't leave me.

We blacks can rarely go anywhere.

We get arrested at home.

"I met an emotional robot and felt nothing"

Whites can't believe that's what American life's like:

TMR barely can either,...