Men like
Uncle Clarence and Uncle Herman, Uncle Allen and Uncle Ben, and the
rest of the “do as I say, not as I do” class of black men in
Amerikka, make my butt hurt.
These
Type A, too dark to be white wannabes are always trying to rewrite
history by denying that what Blacks and minorities and even they,
themselves have suffered in this country is discrimination and
racism.
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| Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas |
It is
all a figment of our collective imagination.
We
dreamed it. The water coming out of our fountain was the same water
that white folks drank..just different plumbing.. It's okay to walk
in the dirt...supports you the same way the concrete sidewalk
supports whites...dustier, maybe....but ya"ll can still walk on it.
We're
too sensitive...If it happened that way, then ya'll misunderstood
what it was...
And
besides..liberal whites in the north were a 1000 times worse to black
folks than the good ole boys down south.
Uncle
Clarence knows this because he graduated from Yale. They gave him an
affirmative action scholarship which was an insult to his manhood,
and he's been angry ever since...
But he
didn't turn it down or give to some other person who wanted/needed
the help. He's not stupid, right?
And like
all other Black Uncles, Uncle Clarence refuses to admit that the
problem never has been one of geography...it's white people, their treatment
of us and their privilege by being born white. Doesn't matter where
you live in this very big country.
The
problem exists, period, these days exacerbated by the fear of the
Black man in the White House.
Jim Crow
or Institutionalized racism..different name...different era...same effect...
Uncle
Clarence made his latest remarks at Palm Beach Atlantic University, a
school that was founded in 1968 as an interdenominational Christian
university with 50 majors and post grad degrees, right next to the
beach in Southeast Florida where you can explore your faith with
young people of all races,nationalities and creeds.
Except,
like all these other so called Christian Universities, I had to go
deep into the university ghetto of the sports dept. in order to find
another chocolate face besides Uncle Clarence's to smile back at me
and she was, you guessed it, a basketball player, a senior transfer,
probably on scholarship.
You can
check out PBA website right here...
And I
will bet double money that Uncle Clarence was invited during the
month of February because it's Black History Month and the school had
run out of local clown car conservatives to call on to back-handedly
deny history. Even in the shortest month of the calendar, you can run
out of Blacks who speak conservative.
But of
course Uncle Clarence doesn't see it that way. He's apparently too
blinded by the white is right light.
Being
Amerikkka's only Black Justice on the highest judicial bench in the
country, Uncle Clarence could have talked about anything he wanted to
talk about to all those young white people.....absolutely
anything...After all, they were a captive audience, so to speak...
But he
chose once again to talk about race.
Race is
all he talks about, when he talks in public. It's his stock speech.
It's what he writes books about. It's his base point when issuing
rulings from the bench. It seems to be his preoccupation 24/7, 365,
except maybe when he's at home with Jungle Fever Ginni.
Uncle
Clarence is still mad.
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| Clarence and Virginia Thomas |
He's mad
about all those perceived slights and elements of shade hurled his
way when he was a young black man navigating his way through white
Amerikkka trying to figure out which water spigot to drink from.
The
1960's were four decades ago. According to Uncle Clarence, we should
be over it by now.
Okay,
But why isn't he?
Oh I
forgot...Uncle Clarence is a “do as I say...not as I do negro.”
Yep...he
still mad...
Well said, sister.
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