Their Tamales Are So Hot They Can Stop A Party Cold

"I don't care that you're a kid." 

 It's becoming waaay easier to spot "white hispanics" for the GOP,…

 

The Republican's Big Guns Can't Hit The Side Of A Barn

  "Cliven Bundy has officially left the Republican Party herd"

The GOP could've won major points if they'd chased him out: 

 Oh wait - chasing people away from voting with Republicans is reserved for non-supporters of Mitt Romney - not racists,…

 

My God Mother Died 2 Weeks Ago & My Baby Sitter Now

Maya Angelou changed my diapers

I'm still grieving for my beloved dancer, Vivian Gandy:

They were girlfriends - an example of true Best Friends Forever.

Meanwhile, life - and death - are determined I get a work out:

I so miss their strength and wisdom - and those lovely black faces,...

Mitt Romney Didn't Want Power & Money (But 2 Kill You)

Can "the most honest Republican" follow Joseph Smith's depraved path?

The Mormon Medicine Man's shrinking support base might have more to do with "the takers" than he originally let on:

  “Think antioxidants will make you live longer? Think again: We spend millions on them but now researchers say supplements may make our bodies age FASTER”

So his wife uses her MS to help him sell harmful "supplements" to healthy people - big deal.

Oh well - whether politically, medically, religiously or "spiritually" - when it comes to quackery, the dead can't complain,...

H/T - EBL

The Best Cultural Icons (Can Reject What Birthed Them)

"Judas!"

“Shaman? I don’t know. I don’t like that scene.”

Here's two reasons white supremacy can't produced any prophets:

They're usually concerned with the truth - and what's wrong,….

The Beastie Boys' King Ad-Rock Grew Up To Be Normal

Rap? Sex? Booze? Drugs? No harm done.

With his wife, after testifying against Monster Energy Drink,...

Always Made To Feel Different In Every Way Possible

The New York Post Hasn't Learned Anything Since 1991

A Funny Thing Was Happening While You Criticized Rap

The new look of "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?" type art.

Country is music's Affirmative Action for white supremacist culture, evidenced by the fact there's no black act on the planet allowed - by blacks or whites - to be this devoid of cultural ideas and live. Which makes TMR wonder:

Is our black, but organic, "bad culture" really worse than totally-contrived, cookie cutter, white culture - really, no culture at all? 

White artists and fans, not knowing the diff, speaks volumes,...

Why Do Whites Discuss Blacks - And Not Themselves?

Like Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chauncey DeVega is always good for dissecting white culture. Here he is, on the Santa Barbara shooter:

"When the bad behavior of white people is publicly called to account, said person’s relationship to 'Whiteness' is rarely discussed.   

To be forced to include white mass murderers, madmen, and Right-wing domestic terrorists as part of the tribe is very uncomfortable and disconcerting. 

This is understandable: what reasonable person would not want to excommunicate them from their community and affinity group? 

Only white folks have such a luxury in the United States: a black rapist, thief, or murderer is de facto a representative of 'the black race' with its 'bad culture' and 'pathologies'. There is no parallel for whites. The white murderer, thief, rapist, or mass shooter is an outlier, 'mentally ill', or some type of deviant whose behavior reveals nothing about white people en masse. 

The boundaries of Whiteness and white privilege are heavily policed: bad people are 'them'; good people are 'us'."

Which made TMR wonder, considering the profound effect whites have (and have had) on black lives, why don't whites generally discuss themselves - as a force - in public?

Do their obvious hypocrisies, and advertised insecurities - as they do their self-policing - appear normal to them, as they don't to TMR?

And how do they feel, about the "luxury" they've afforded themselves, at the expense of others?

Like having secured a place for such behavior while vehemently telling anyone, who will (still) listen, it isn't so?

Is there ever a twinge of recognition it's all a lie?

And don't they ever want to start over?

Clean?

If I was white - and not TMR to cultism - that'd be the way I'd go,…

 

If We Sell The National Center For Complementary And Alternative Medicine We Can Give The Money To Blacks

Think about it: This nice white lady will have to get a real job.

TMR proposes renaming it The National Center For The Study Of How White Folks Can Pay Off They Debts!

Reparations Ain't The Only Thing Said To Never Happen

I'm getting a special thrill these days, from conservatives, saying blacks should be "grateful" to be here: 

"No matter how much a black family tried to emulate the values and virtues of the middle class, that family was still likely to be punished, humiliated and to falter. Against that history, the claim of conservatives like Charles Murray that the crisis of black poverty can be explained as the moral failing of individuals is the worst kind of smugness."

Has anyone ever done a study, on the level of harm  misinformation might inflict, on the lives of black folks? Since whites are the majority, what happens when another racist meme - like blacks having "bad culture" - smears us? Is it amplified in proportion to white's numbers? FOX News'? 

And what physical effects, if any, manifest? Does violence go up? Domestic violence? Interracial attacks? Police? How long does history say it *usually* takes for white people, to come to their senses, after they've truly lost it?

Wait - stupid question - let's just move on,…

 

Why Mark Cuban Has A Ghetto Pass And Wingers Don't

A little consideration for the grieving goes a long way:

"In hindsight I should have used different examples. I didn’t consider the Trayvon Martin family, and I apologize to them for that."

And he did not - repeat: NOT - follow that with monkey noises,...