Black People Are Reaching Consensus: We'll Speak Up

”There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy.” 

 - Chris Rock

 

So That's What "On The Wrong Side Of History" Means

"What ever happened to the black people who were from down south (who are actually all black people in America)? Ah, they lost their history so they died."

The St. Louis Rams Saluted "Hands Up! Don't Shoot!"

If you come to Oakland, you come correct,...

It's Always Kind Of Hard (To Always Be Losing Nothing)

I’ve got a friend who, in 2014, still won’t cross the United States by car.

He ain’t scared.

It’s just a precaution.

And there ain’t shit you can say to change his mind.

His skepticism of white America’s “goodness” is true.

He don’t need to hear no history.

Conservatives think they invented this message with Bill Cosby

He got a history.

He got a family.

He know what white people "think" is important.

Some of my friends insist on reminding me - since I’d been so thoroughly “integrated” into the white world that I’d been to Yerp - I’m also lucky to be alive.

It was as though I was venturing a little too far, out there, where a phone call is even less of a help.

Together, we’re corks in a violent ocean, bobbing in agreement with history.

Out there, we could be used for target practice.

Be a suspect of whatever.

Traumatized.

Whatever white supremacy rules.

Together, we teach each other what’s out there - how it go - like John Travolta schooling Samuel L. Jackson about Paris’ “Royale with Cheese” in Pulp Fiction.

Or we explain how to get something, or how a word is spelled.

We buoy one another when, inevitably, rocked by government bureaucracy, or it’s results.

Everybody wants to know if “You doin’ alright?”

Children are a common topic.

Weed pushes away despair.

Agreements are made.

An offer extended.

We go on.

I heard a friend died from exposure today.

It was also said he was fortunate it happened that way.

A few days ago, another friend from another state called, to ask what his employer was doing to him: a racist practice we traced back, to the end of the Civil War, not that very long ago,...

How Many Times Can Althouse Call Racism Something Else - Before Her Blog Gets Trapped With The Racists?

According to some, this is a white supremacist "gang sign"

I calls 'em as I sees 'em - and I sees 'em as they are:

"[Scott] Walker’s,...fully aligned against,...the poor, who are disproportionately African-American and other minorities,..."

And all that's left for Miss Ann, now, is denial, denial, denial,....

ADDED:

When it comes to women, too, Wisconsin's got some winners,...

Why's The British Press Saying Bill Cosby's Talking?

The Brits say there's a bidding war going on for an interview with Bill Cosby, who presumably wants to clear his name.

True - or some not-so-friendly overseas prodding?

Conservatives Love The Black-On-Black Talking Point Of Comparing Police's Conduct To That Of Gangsters

They seem to think the black-on-black crime meme is pretty effective.

Until it's mentioned police are held to a higher standard than criminals. 

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Which was a point - despite Giuliani and other Rightist's ignorance - that's been made, over and over again, since a long time ago:

And, it's only because TV allows idiots to be treated as credible, that we're finding it so "exhausting" to keep doing so,....

Ta-Nehisi Coates Finds Ignorance On Face The Nation

"What did you mean by that?"

Push Palatable Paradoxes Producing Prejudice People

“Whenever an unarmed black man is shot by a police officer and the black community protests, whites in the area buy more guns.”

Scott Walker Has An Answer (For Wisconsin's Racism)

Gee, Crack, Get Out Here With Everybody Else, Huh?

An economy consumed with how to land a sucker punch

I hear John Lennon singing Dear Prudence, as William S. Burroughs repeats the phrase, "a nation of snitches":

”Turning Customers Into Cultists 

Why many companies now take their cues from religious sects”

Go for it, folks: you're really knocking life out of the park,...

American Experience: Reconstruction: A 2nd Civil War

"Six [negro] men with their children walked off, using the most abusive language,..."

Police Stop A Black Guy - For His Hands In His Pockets

It was "suspicious" - being winter and all - so they got a call,...