The Cult Of North Korea Defeated The Cult Of SONY

The fox is out of the hen house and setting the couch on fire

I'd been writing about the cult of North Korea for so long I got sick of it, and naturally, once I stopped, they've gone and done something that actually gets Americans attention: not killing people by the thousands, Silly, but killing a bad movie. No, not the white Sci-Fy "thriller" always set in a dystopian future for some reason, or the Rom-Com featuring unlikable white folks who have to mate onscreen for some reason, or any of the ones that feature white people who all automatically know Kung-Fu at the drop of a hat for some reason, but white America's traditional cheery Christmas fare, built around the comedy styling of singling out someone for assassination. I told you those North Koreans were crazy.

North Korea could've retaliated by threatening to kill America's imagination but, by the look of things, Hollywood's already beat them to that by a long shot,...

Reasons White Supremacist America's The Greatest I

 

How whites are obsessed with recycling inanimate objects while trashing black citizens:

The Nazis would be impressed with such,...efficiency,..

 

TUSK

Land of the wha? (And the home of the brave "a nation of cowards") 

So, looking at the artwork going around (above) whites have figured out one way to give blacks what we want. TMR would prefer reparations and backing-the-fuck-up-off-me but knows, whites never part with what they steal (including us) so, "no go" there. Here's another guy who almost finally got outside their reach - after they reached him, of course:

Black guys and their bald heads - it needs to stop!

"Ferguson police 'mistakenly arrested an innocent man before viciously beating him so bad he was taken to hospital and then charged for bleeding on THEIR uniforms'" 

 Of course, whites missed this 2009 injustice, because who was going to win American Idol was of the utmost importance, and anyone who was so shallow as to mention the country's outrageous racial problems, then, was a nationally uncool party pooper who just wanted to talk about "serious shit," but didn't know what was really going on, right, white people?  It's only been that way, on and off, for the last 400 years. No big deal, right? 

America's been great under your leadership.

Clowns to the Left of me, jokers to the Right,...

Speaking of which, TMR thinks Salon is right - the Kenyan still has enough time to kill an elephant and prove he's a man. Here's hoping he does, and sooner rather than later: 

Whites seem to have their hearts set on meeting one,...

 

Answer To The Question "Why You Gotta Be So Mean?"

On You-Know-What (That You-Know-Who Did What-For)

"How times change, and not in a good way. In 2013 we are allegedly past race, which means we are past slavery and therefore have no need to look at it at all. That's how the thinking goes, anyway. Psychologists would say such denial makes perfect sense. Since the '70s -- as the racial gap in income and other areas has widened, not narrowed -- we've become so racially averse, to even call yourself 'black' now is a radical act; to invoke slavery merely as a subject of conversation is to risk howls of protest that you are being a victim or playing the race card. All of which means that a hundred a fifty years after the end of slavery, we are still determined not to give it its due, but to forget it,...The entire struggle of black people after the end of the Civil War has been shaped by one long marketing campaign that casts the South as noble, and blacks as undeserving. Can't have one without the other."

“Perhaps they can only do the best they can with the dross they have to work with.  Perhaps the lack of substantial topics and forensic interrogation are products of the absence of principle and passion in political debate.

There is the obsession with retail.  I like a bit of shopping myself but retail trends and their reflection of wider society and their impact on the economy are reported with mind-numbing and repetitive banality.  If I hear more bland stories about ‘cash strapped families shopping around’ I’ll cry.

Why aren’t the world’s best journalists digging underneath these seasonal superficialities?"

"Vermont’s founding family — the Ethan Allen clan — is generally extolled as a collection of freedom fighters embodying the qualities of courage, independence and tolerance that have come to characterize today’s state.

Aspects of that image — the freedom-fighter and tolerance parts, anyway — need revision, according to a new study of slavery in early Vermont by UVM historian Harvey Amani Whitfield."

“During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder.

…Breeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed 'forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.' In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company."

“Two Charlotte used-vehicle dealerships and their operator charged inflated prices to black customers and offered them 'predatory' terms from 2006 to at least 2011, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday."

Woke Up Wondering (Where I Am & How To Get Away)

I'm a sucker for a Tea Party photo from Madison, Wis. - wildly over-stating Obama's racial intentions - when that state's terrible civil rights record easily colors why a Tea Partier, specifically, would think that way. I got the photo from this post:

  "How the GOP Became the 'White Man's Party': Dog Whistle Politics - Coded Racial Appeals Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class" 

I often wonder if white bloggers read blacks, beyond The Root, because I rarely find whites linked to them - that includes Instapundit & Co. If they did, they'd find more to discuss than the shallow pursuits they do cover, or even how they talk. They make me think they don't understand, blacks talk amongst ourselves, as well:

"Annually, my grandmother recounts my Uncle James' Christmas Day birth, explaining that because the hospital was understaffed and didn't execute his birth certificate until the next day, his birth date is listed as December 26.

As in past years, someone asked my grandmother why she didn't point out the mistake. Her eyes grew wide, and she shook her head violently. "No! You don't understand," she tells us. "I was at Charity Hospital! Those white doctors didn't talk to us, and we didn't question them."

While my grandmother was in labor, her mother and aunt would wait in a closet-size room reserved for Negroes. Once a black child was born, a nurse would enter the room with her back to its occupants and write on a chalkboard the mother's name, the baby's sex and weight, and whether the baby was dead or alive. With a frown, my grandmother added, "The only thing they ever said to me was, 'Guurl, what you gon' name this baby?'"

That my grandmother would not point out such a mistake is unfathomable to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We only know of her strength. To us she is the lifelong domestic who birthed nine healthy babies, buried two grown sons and slept in the bed her husband had died in hours earlier. But in her eyes, when she tells this story, I can see her vulnerability, her fear that "they'd send me home and not let me come back."

Shannan Hicks, a researcher and storyteller who focuses on the Northern Louisiana post-Jim Crow era, is not surprised that black workers shielded their true feelings from [Phil] Robertson.

"This was the age of black lynchings. A black person would never have reveled their true self to a white person who looked and talked like Robertson," Hicks said before referencing the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem that opens with this stanza:

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,

And mouth with myriad subtleties."

I'd like to see Ann Althouse apply her writing skills to that poem's meaning today (Curiously, she didn't say much about Phil Robertson's racial comments,...). Does she think about it, in regards to her black friends? Or, Lee Atwater's ghost, haunting the  conservative language used most frequently by her readers:

 

Avoiding black issues by avoiding blacks is a strategy - and tactic - that's easy for whites. (I have many a white friend for whom I was the first black person in their life. I don't know a single black person for whom I can say the same about whites.) I don't think whites comprehend what that means, usually, when they make judgements on things like crime. 

 But what do I know, right? I'm just another black guy, put firmly in his place (We don't want to hear that!) but still carrying on in the country of my birth - which I know very, very well:

"Let’s conduct a little thought experiment. First, for the sake of this thought experiment let’s assume that you have no morals, ethics, or conscience. You are comfortable lying to people, even if they are sick, and even if it will harm their health."

Yep, that much is clear:

"You are comfortable" with it all, I'm not, and slavery's over. 

Slavery's Over. 

And that last link, above, is describing my American Dream,…

No One Listening Is O.K.: I Don't Have To Win Elections

"We have the Ani DiFranco drama. Yes, public outrage shut down her ridiculous retreat at a slave plantation. Yet Nottoway Plantation remains open, emerging from the PR wreckage largely unscathed. The plantation was even able to continue portraying itself as a benign educational site, despite the fact that it’s nothing more than a racist shrine to the “good old days”. For Nottoway Plantation, a successfully managed scandal is just free publicity.

I don’t want people to stop talking about these issues, they are important. However, are these discussions providing us with real analysis of oppression, or is it just shallow posturing? I’m not entirely sure."

“Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) transformed the way we understand the legacy of slavery and colonization in Sub-Saharan Africa,....

...The premise of Rodney’s historical socio-economic analysis,... is that the poverty and inequalities of Sub-Saharan Africa are reflections of historical relationships of exploitation. This exploitation, he argues, was total: countries were dispossessed of all resources deemed useful to Europeans, including human labour.

In his assessment of pre-colonial and colonial European systems of exploitation, Rodney demands that readers confront the historical roots of ‘underdevelopment’ and he challenges us to rethink global history through Africa, self-emancipation and the politics of domination and resistance.”

“The old Frank Luntz was sure he could invent slogans to sell the righteous conservative path of personal responsibility and free markets to anyone. The new Frank Luntz fears that is no longer the case, and it’s driving him crazy.”

True (But Don't Worry Your Pretty Little Head About It)

STATEMENT:

"It’s a Man’s World, And It Always Will Be"

WHY:

"Health: Yoga With Your Dog"

Our White Society: Always Tackling The Important Issue

[Peter O'Toole, 2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013, good guy) 

 Almost 150 years and, the more things change, the more they remain the same:

  "It was one matter to believe slavery wrong and want it abolished; it was another to know what to do with,...freed slaves. Most whites adhered to racial stereotypes that viewed slaves as docile and childlike or savage and uncivilized—either way, they didn’t want them as freedmen anywhere near them. Racism permeated the North,…Identifying the imperative question of the day, one minister in upstate New York asked in a sermon, 'What Shall Be Done With the People of Color?'”

I know what they've decided so far:

They'll let me know of any new decision, eventually, I'm sure,...

 

I Still Love You (You Just Make Me Call You Names)

"The important thing is to see your hands in a dream,...in the dream in which I saw my hands, I looked in the mirror and my face was black, I'd turned into a nigger,..."

 

Life's A Mystery (Especially The Part About This Stuff)

 

 Paris Jackson's recent suicide attempt is causing a bit of, shall we say, "soul searching":

“There is a high incidence of suicide attempts and cutting among [Jehovah's Witness] children. They’re told to go to all the meetings; they’re told Armageddon is coming; they’re told they need to go door-to-door to hand out materials. Kids with minds of their own develop problems with these demands and act out in various ways. Suicide attempts are not uncommon.”

 

 The poor kids. "Suicide attempts are not uncommon"? Not as "uncommon" as an education on cultism, but nice to know anyway, huh? And only in Cult World™ can Americans "with minds of their own" be considered "problems," because (correct me if I'm mistaken) but, as far as I know, raising independent thinkers was supposed to be the goal of the American education system, right? 

Instead we're churning out pierced and tattooed freaks, obsessed with shallow (and really bad) sex, coupled with a pointless sense of rebellion, until - like a time-released capsule - they give it all up to Jesus (or another suitable replacement) in an attempt to fill their empty, ignorant, inner lives with more of the same,...just spiced differently. 

And we're not supposed to notice. We're targeted if we do, like in Logan's Run: 

That's the real "problems with these demands" that "develop" out there.

 That, and the fact - once they're after you - you've absolutely no protection from them what-so-ever because everybody's become so damned "tolerant" of why they're after you to begin with. 

Look at how they write this stuff. Or even that they write this stuff. Like it's the most normal thing in the world to have fanatics coming to American homes, trying to convert us, so all we need is a little more education about them to make it understandable - and we more "tolerant" - as the kids keep trying to kill themselves in the shadow of their glory. (That was the Left's argument at the start of the war, it's now their argument for gay rights, and it's always been their argument for cults of every stripe - quite the trifecta.) 

So we find ourselves hiding under the couch with the blinds drawn when they come around, big deal. What we won't do - under any circumstance - is stop their fanaticism. 

They'll try to stop what they see as mine, though, but that's obvious:

I already know what "under any circumstance" really means,...

We've Got Two Cold Dishes (Choose, Confused Person)

I've made no secret of my admiration for President Bush. Part of that grew from watching his many opponents - both foreign and domestic - misread the man by a country mile, to their lasting shame. 

This one surprised me:

A personal note: When I served as a communications intern at the White House in 2007, I had the privilege of sitting in on an off-the-record Q&A session between President Bush and a small group of entrepreneurs under 40.  It was closed to the press.  For nearly an hour, the assembled group peppered the president with questions on myriad subjects — from granular economic policy, to war, to his relationship with his father.  I must admit that I was taken aback by Bush’s performance.  He was sharp, deeply informed, self-deprecatingly funny, and serious.  In short, he was in total command.  Even as someone who voted for him and who respected him greatly — despite several disagreements on policy — it instantly dawned on me that I’d never encountered that George W. Bush before.  Perhaps I’d doubted he even existed; call it the soft bigotry of (unfairly) low expectations.  I wondered why.

 

 Another part of Bush I like is, in the face of such true incompetence and (sometimes) pure hatred, how gracefully he's played his hand. 

   

 He's got a lot of good parts, but the thing is, they've added up to what I recognize as a normal human being, from this century, and these United States.

   

 That I saw one rise to Leader Of The Free World is still thrilling.

   

 Now - about that quote above - I still don't know why, say, Hot Air would give anyone that clueless a platform. (They're probably as emotionally stunted as he is.) White House background or no White House background, I don't get why these people are foisted on us. His comments mostly remind me that - if President Bush's term exposed anything - there's an astoundingly shallow vein running through America, if not the entire Western world. 

Is that now the standard?

   

 While Obama has redefined "The Emperor Has No Clothes," everyone knows who that's in comparison to - the man who didn't allow anyone else to dress him. And, for that reason, too many people actively resisted actually seeing him. ("Perhaps I’d doubted he even existed.") A delusion that's resulted in too many years spent shaking my head. 

I'd like to stop.

   

But - along with a growing understanding that it takes a long time for people to fess up to their problems - even worse, I've discovered, are the problems they make for others.

   

 In Ken Burns' documentary, Central Park Five, he shows that a murderer had more integrity than the judiciary, law enforcement, or the general public - the killer being one of the few insisting that innocent men not suffer for his crimes. 

You don't see that much, for everyday offenses, and that's the tragedy.

   

 I hear President Bush's new digs allow the public to be "The Decider" on the issues he faced.

One of which has to include them.

Which brings up another part of Ol' Bushie Boy I admire:

The one that really knows how to stick it to 'em,...