tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59868134755244679822024-03-14T11:11:19.000-04:00PostRacialBSWriting while Black, Female and QueerJo Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03201023111774829711noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986813475524467982.post-3489427033950548322014-06-30T20:38:00.000-04:002014-06-30T20:38:13.689-04:00Hobby Lobby Wins, Women Screwed..
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Today's
Hobby Lobby ruling just pushed all the Buddhist out of me. There is
no peace in me tonight. No compromise. No understanding. No empathy.
No seeking explanation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">No...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Today, I
just want to whip somebody's ass. Somebody being Roberts, Scalia,
Alito, Thomas and Kennedy in any order they choose to present them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In case
you missed it, the male majority of SUPCO, having already created the
Frankenstein monster by making corporations people, have once again
unleashed that bitch on women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Seems
that since corporations are people, they can have and practice
religious beliefs. In other words, if the corporation strongly
believes that women don't need certain birth control, because it
constitutes abortion in their mind, they can ignore federal law
requiring them to offer it in their health programs to women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Wow...just
wow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The all
seeing, all knowing SUPCO Five say there is no danger of this kind of
thinking spreading...their ruling was narrow...really....REALLY?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sounds
like a repeat of what they said when they struck down the Voting
Rights Act last year.. Narrow ruling...Blacks don't need protection
anymore...white people are no longer racists at heart....people won't
run with it...and turn back the clock on voters...NOOOOOOOOOOOO!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So now
what?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If it
was me... last night would be the final night that every man in
America got some pussy..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If women
can't plan their families, or regulate their cycles without
permission from their boss, or take care of other womanly
necessities.........I say it's time to plug the pussy...close up shop
until men come to the their senses, get the message and beat the crap
out of any man who wants to take choice away from women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Reality
check....rich women are not going to have a problem with this ruling.
The ones married to the Roberts/Scalia/Alito/Thomas' of the world
have never had to worry about paying attention to laws passed by
their men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It's
poor women who will always suffer. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Add this
ruling on top of recent laws to deny food stamps, cut lunch programs,
shut down public schools....end after school programs and
daycare...well...after you're done babymaking ...what do you do with
them...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Better
question...what do women do.....stay home and be breeders for the
bread winner?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Oh
wait...the breadwinner is usually Mom these days....damn...</span></div>
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Jo Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03201023111774829711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986813475524467982.post-18732825210781637142014-03-25T11:30:00.001-04:002014-03-25T11:30:22.799-04:00Hobby Lobby is People!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Make no
mistake about it, the Hobby Lobby lawsuit before the United States
Supreme Court is about more than<a href="http://www.kimatv.com/news/national/Supreme-Court-justices-tackle-health-law-birth-control-coverage-252241241.html"> birth control rights</a> for women. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">On the
surface, the question before the High Court is whether or not a
company can deny contraception coverage to women based on religious
beliefs. In other words, the Green family which owns Hobby Lobby
says forcing them to provide health insurance to employees with
contraceptive riders goes against their religion and they should not
be forced to do it. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Further,
the Green family says that since Hobby Lobby is their business, their
family religious beliefs should prevail for their corporate entity as
well. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In other
words, “my company/my house, I can do what I damn well please!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Maybe. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What you
do in your house is usually your business. Private. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Your
company however, is a different matter. Or used to be until Citizens
United four years ago. Citizens United was a very bad Supreme Court
decision that granted corporations personhood rights equal to people,
meaning corporations have the same rights as people in the public
arena.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In the
four years of its existence, the Citizens United creation has become
a 21<sup>st</sup> century Frankenstein monster of SUPCO making. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">US Supreme Court Justices</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If
successful, the Hobby Lobby lawsuit will give that Frankenstein
monster the right to exercise religious beliefs against anyone or
anything that dares to darken their corporate door. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Think
Arizona Law HB1062 vetoed by the governor a few weeks ago on
steroids, and in force nationwide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It is
not just about birth control. This lawsuit is about the right to
impose personally held beliefs onto people within the public arena.
On any given day, you could walk into an ice cream store and be
denied service because the guy behind the counter doesn't like your
haircut/hair color/shoes/ skin color...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Whatever,
doesn't matter, their personally held belief about you prevails,
legally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">People
who don't like Black people, or women, or lesbians, or Muslims or
Jews wouldn't have to serve or wait on them or even allow them inside
their establishments simply because they can. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This is
what the Hobby Lobby lawsuit is all about. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
right for bigots to legally discriminate and get away with it. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There is
no way to know how the High Court will handle this lawsuit. They
upheld Obamacare which seemingly created the situation, elevating
women to equality in healthcare with men, while at the same time,
giving us the very opposite leaning Citizens United by a narrow 5-4
decision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Extended
oral arguments will be heard today with a decision expected just
prior to the June recess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ohio's
war on Black people takes center stage this afternoon as State
Senators take up proposals to change the wording of laws governing
self defense. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Having
already passed laws to suppress the Black vote, the <a href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/11/20/stand-your-ground-vote.html">proposed changes</a>
on the table today, would bring Ohio in compliance with Florida
stand your ground statutes, which basically declare perpetual open
season on young black men by some fearful gun toting whites. No, I
didn't stutter...talk at me when white guys with guns start killing
wiggers (hasn't happened anywhere these laws are in force)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Now,
bear in mind, there is nothing wrong with the Ohio law as is. It
ain't broke. It's working as it was written to work. Police and the
courts are happy as is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So why
fix it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the “fix” changes Ohio’s self-defense law so that as long as a
person is in a place he or she is legally allowed to be, the person
has no duty to RETREAT before shooting someone to protect himself or
his property ( note: using deadly force to defend property is
illegal in Ohio-another law governs...not sure if this “fix” will
supercede.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Those in
favor of this “fix” say it benefits the victims of violent
crimes who should not be obligated to retreat when and if someone
attacks them. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In other
words as long as they feel afraid, they can justifiably shoot to
kill. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Couple
that with the fact that Ohioans already have concealed carry in the
streets, in their car, in bars, in arenas, and coming, in schools,
you may as well say, welcome to Dodge City. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ohio,
like Florida, becomes an open air shooting gallery for the mentally or fearfully unhinged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The man
who chooses to pull a gun is not just protecting himself..he is
putting those around him at risk as well. What about people caught in
crossfire. Michael Dunn didn't even care that there were other people
around when he opened fire on the car that was driving away from him.
In some respects, he's lucky he only killed Jordan Davis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Said
State Representative Alicia Reece; <i><b>“We cannot, should not and
would not accept a law that allows someone to follow someone who has
done nothing … and hunt them down, and then hide behind the law..”
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Rep.
Matt Lynch, R-Chagrin Falls,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i><b>
“We are making smart changes that allow people to properly
exercise self-defense.”</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But then again, the problem with these
laws is their interpretation by the police, by the courts and by the
jury, if it gets that far. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">All
of these fixes is like building a house of cards....add the right
card in the wrong place...and it's gonna tumble...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Law
of averages...Law of probability...Ohio law based in fear...some
innocent person is gonna get hurt or die as a result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yep...fear
of a Black planet..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">DWB</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">WWB</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">VWB</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">___(insert)WB</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Oh
high O....vote responsibly in November</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">According
to American Spectator, the magazine, the movie 12 Years a Slave is
propaganda while Gone With the Wind, is only presumptively false and
that presumption comes in the mind of 12YAS director Steve McQueen.</span><br />
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James Bowman says of course there were happy slaves during slavery,
McQueen chose to focus only on the bad. It's not the truth...<a href="http://spectator.org/articles/56909/propaganda-not-%E2%80%98reality-or-%E2%80%98truth">it's politics...</a></span></div>
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there was much cruelty and hardship in the slave-owning South, as
there has been in most of the rest of the world most of the time, and
Mr. McQueen’s camera is al-l over that. But it strains ordinary
credulity to suppose that there was nothing else.” -James Bowman</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Surely there must have been contented
slaves somewhere in the Old South, surely, he asks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Maybe. Many Black people believe that
Jesus was really white, too, so I guess there may have been some
slaves somewhere doing the happy dance at the first sight of ole
massa risin' up in the mornin.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Bowman, who is the magazine movie
critic, by the way, did like actor Chewitel Ojiofor's performance as
Solomon Northrup, but likened Michael Fassbinder's portrayal to that
of a comic book Simon LeGree, of Uncle Tom's Cabin fame. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">No mention made of the female
acting....women not necessary then or now, it seems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And as for White Jesus, another paean
by Hollywood was released last week to much acclaim. This one was
actually made up of outtakes or unused tape from a TV series from
last year that played on cable...same story, same actors, and same
footage, same hype.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Nothing new here, except this time
believers were asked to pay $10 for the privilege. The same will be
true for the upcoming NOAH starring Russell Crowe..loved me some
Gladiator, but NOAH? (are we gonna finally see why the children of
Ham were cursed and turned Black?) But I digress.........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It did get me thinking about what
happened the last time somebody tried to portray Jesus as a Black man
in the national arena...it was Madonna in her famous Pepsi commercial
that was shown once and then yanked because it pissed off Christians
of all creeds and colors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Girlfriend even had to give back her
$5 million paycheck because of it. You can<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7922129.stm"> remember it here.</a></span></div>
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the Oscars was something I did with my grandmother. We talked about
the nominations, discussed the clothing, whether or not she could
remake them (she was a professional seamstress), and how wonderful
they would look on me, if I were old enough to wear them and walk
down the red carpet. She taught me from birth to assume that I would walk the red carpets of the world, not sweep them when I grew up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">When we
watched, the red carpet was just that, a rug to keep the Hollywood
heels from getting dirty. It was not an event, just ground cover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We watched
in tandem for many, many years, until she died, our viewing fueling
conversations in the days that followed, until something else caught
our attention. My music tastes and movie preferences closely
mirrored my grandmother's so much so that when she died, I stopped
watching the Academy Awards for a while.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Other
things were expanding my consciousness by that time. I had grown up
and had ripped off the blindfold that had been installed at
birth. Instead of ignoring white people and their very obvious
obtuseness toward people of color as I had been taught to do, for the
sake of survival, I looked at the world in it's phoney pale glory and
got angry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">My anger
wasn't a nuclear explosion. It was more like lighting a fuse, a long
fuse to a dynamite bomb, that took some time, and traveled some
distance, before exploding, with only the sizzle noise of the fuse
speaking of the coming danger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Detonation
time was 1968 when I was taken from school to view the movie, Gone
With the Wind, at the Valley Theater in Roselawn. The mini shopping
mall is still there on Reading Road, but the Theater is long gone
replaced by a liquor store, while Roselawn flipped from a Jewish
neighborhood to a Black one. No traces of the theater exist today, except in
my mind's eye as I drive past sometimes.</span></div>
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a big deal in 1968 because it hadn't been seen in a couple of
decades, the negative destroyed by fire or some catastrophe. Most
people alive at the time had never seen the movie, and only knew of it
from the Hollywood hype machine, the surviving snippets shown during
Oscar ceremonies and the memories of the film from those old enough
to have seen it after release in 1939. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Restoring
and re-releasing Margaret Mitchell's masterpiece was a very big deal.
It was the biggest and best of blockbuster cinema, we'd been told. GWTW became a field trip for my high school, considered a history lesson of the the way we were for real.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Seated
midway back in the dark, I remember going from jubilant anticipation
to feeling like somebody was making me suck lemons. The rest of the
audience was silent, remaining jubilant, cheering and talking back
to the screen, which I thought was funny, since I had been led to
believe that only happened in colored theaters. Some girl sitting
down front was so overwhelmed at the sight of Scarlett O'Hara that
she cried out hysterically, causing the rest of us to laugh out loud.</span></div>
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quickly returned to quiet so that the historical narrative of the vibrant Old
South could continue. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I felt
like I was drowning. My anger was simmering, choking me, not that I
could do anything about it. I was the only colored female in the
graduating class of 1968. There were only 4 of us out of 293 seniors.</span></div>
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remember if the other 3 were there that day. We didn't sit together,
so I was uniquely aware of being the only Black female in the Valley
Theater that day watching Gone With the Wind. I went in happy and
came out pissed off, and there was no one to talk to about my
feelings except my grandmother. Later that night after her long day
at Tall Fashions fitting taller than average white women in tailor
made dresses and suits downtown, she listened while I vented and then
told me to be cool and to stay “lady-like.” It would pass she
always told me. She probably used the word "calm" instead of "cool." Cool was not in her vast vocabulary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But it
didn't. I tried reading the book thinking maybe the people in
Hollywood had gotten it wrong by interpretation. Couldn't get past
the nigger, nigger, nigger litany on the first page. Still haven't
read it to this day.</span></div>
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same token, 12 Years a Slave changed nothing except it made me
wearily angry. I haven't seen the movie and honestly don't know if I
will. I have read the book. It was a difficult read. It was journey
that I could not make in just one sitting. Had to read and then cool
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">By now,
I am numb in my readings be they fact or fiction, because I've
covered a lot of ground in my personal search for my peoples'
history. An American story that should be learned in school, but is
still omitted purposefully from public curriculum. Our history
exists in special museums or special displays in public libraries, in special order from bookstores, or in badly made Hollywood
spectacle where magically, the white guy somehow ends up becoming the
Darkie Savior by the time the credits roll, The End. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In my
adult mind, I know that white Hollywood makes Black movies to make
white people feel good about themselves and I assumed that 12YAS was
just another example. It was, on one level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But it
was something else too, a movie about slavery, directed by a black man,
with a screenplay adapted by a black man, with black people in the
leading roles who really were black. Not African American black, but
close enough. All Black people born in the western hemisphere fall
from the same slavery tree anyway, so no biggy. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hollywood
stayed true to form about being by and for white people with 12 Years
a Slave because they would only hand over the money to a white man to
get the movie made. Enter Brad Pitt as the money man and bit part
player in the film. No Pitt, no 12YAS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
whites started bad and stayed bad, as in monstrous, to the point that
some people said it was too brutal to be real. Personally I don't
think Hollywood can make a movie that is brutal enough to show the
true story of slavery in America. The real story still waits in the
wings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In the
afterglow of the Oscars, !2YAS was named best picture of the year,
and Lupita N'Yongo was given the Oscar as best supporting actress,
and belle of the ball. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At least
for this year, Hollywood swapped out Scarlett, a ballsy, man-pleasing
southern belle ready and willing to do anything to save her
plantation for Patsy a small colored slave woman trapped between her
deviant white owner and his very jealous and vicious wife. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It's
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Jo Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03201023111774829711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986813475524467982.post-76837381790685315302014-03-03T10:32:00.001-05:002014-03-03T10:32:54.515-05:00 Obama's Latest Greatest Crisis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
Ukraine is jumping off. Looks like Russia has invaded <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/world/europe/pressure-rising-as-obama-works-to-rein-in-russia.html?_r=0">Crimea</a>,
apparently bent on resurrecting the old Soviet Union.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Despite
the NeoCons doing the happy dance at the possibility of some Cold War
tension, World War III is not gonna happen. They will have to content
themselves with throwing shade at President Obama for his apparent
weakness and inability to lead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It's
always something. Obama is too weak. Obama is too indecisive. Obama
has no foreign policy chops. It's Monday, crisis at the White House.
What Obama gon do today?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney can see the potential crisis from all the way back in 2008, why couldn't Obama? (answer: Obama wasn't president, so I told you so, doesn't work)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
President was elected to get us out of war, and he is doing that.
There is no Iraq and soon there will be no Afghanistan. War with
Russia over Crimea is not gonna happen. Nobody wants it, especially
with a demonstrably nuts Vladimir Putin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Well
maybe with a few exceptions like Walnuts McCain and Ms. Linsey
Graham. They still don't mind sacrificing other people's children to
satisfy their vampiric appetite for foreign blood. Nevermind that they are also as batshit crazy as Putin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Putin
probably pulled the trigger on Ukraine and Crimea because he too
thinks Obama is weak with no stomach for war. He is listening to the
wrong Americans. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The one
to fear in a fight is not the loud mouth. It's the quiet person who
stands there waiting for you to throw the first punch. Then they
finish the fight, usually by mopping the ground with your ass. Obama is
the quiet one. He never tips his hand until he slaps you in the
mouth. That's why John Kerry is doing all the talking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And another thing, the talk of reducing our military might is just that....talk...hasn't happened yet. We can still kill everybody on the face of this earth 12 times each. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Putin
is reminiscing about the power days of the old Soviet Union and has
overreached himself. He will soon find that present day Russia is
not the old USSR and he will begin looking for a graceful way <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-putins-error-in-ukraine-is-the-kind-that-leads-to-catastrophe/2014/03/02/d376603e-a249-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html">out of the mess</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Obama
should keep steady regardless of what the NeoCons are saying/implying
and quietly push Putin to see that moving toward a better
relationship with the European Union would be better for everyone
including Russia. </span></div>
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Jo Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03201023111774829711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986813475524467982.post-55411797620583777442014-02-22T08:51:00.001-05:002014-02-22T08:54:55.934-05:00Juror #8 Half Right<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creshuna Miles</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i><b>Creshuna Miles</b>: “I never once
thought about, ‘Oh, this was a black kid, this was a white guy.’
Because that wasn’t the case.”</i></span><br />
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<i><b>Alicia Machado</b>: “So, for people who say, you know, here’s
another white guy who got away with shooting and killing a black kid,
what would you tell them?”</i><br />
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<i><b>Miles</b>: “I would tell them that they really should knowledge
theyself on the law.”</i><br />
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<i><b>Machado</b>: “If this case wasn’t about race for you, what was
it about?”</i><br />
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<i><b>Miles</b>: “It was about justice. When I walked into it, I just
wanted to bring justice to whoever it was. If it was Michael Dunn, I
wanted to bring justice to him. If it was Leland, Tevin, Tommy or
Jordan, I wanted to bring justice to them.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Creshuna
Miles may have some knowledge of the law, but she don't know jack
about justice. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
young woman was juror #8 in the recently completed Michael Dunn
trial. Dunn is the guy who was convicted of attempting to kill three
young men who were playing “rap crap” music in a car with Jordan
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jordan Davis</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Davis
was the only one to die during Dunn's attack on the young men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/justice/florida-loud-music-case/">Miles told CNN</a> that Dunn was adjudged to be within his rights when he
opened fire on the car because he “thought” he saw a gun and was
therefore in fear of his life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Miles
said Dunn messed up by chasing the car as it was attempting to get
away from his rain of bullets. He went past his limits...the law
limits, she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At the
worst, Dunn was guilty of second degree murder, not first degree
murder, and that is what hung the jury, according to Creshuna Miles.
Three people on the jury who also <b><i>“knowleged theyself in the law,”</i></b>
felt the whole situation was self defense and that Dunn was justified
killing, someone he claimed was attacking him. Hung jury.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">According
to defendant Dunn and also implied by Creshuna Miles, Jordan Davis,
and Leland, Tevin and Tommy were at fault.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They
started it. Michael Dunn finished it. That's okay according to the
law says Creshuna Miles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It was
the law. She is right about that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But that
is the problem...the law...how it is written...how it is
interpreted...how it is applied..and to whom it is applied. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The law was not written to protect Jordan, Tevin Tommy or Leland. Even in the eyes of young black women who <i>"knowledge theyself in the law"</i>, these young men are predators...guilty until proven otherwise.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They are the reason law is written.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
Michael Dunns and their sons and daughters don't ever have worry
about any of the above, if they find themselves at either end of a
Glock 9mm. They will always be judged “victims” when somebody
shoots at them or even when they shoot and or kill somebody.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael Dunn</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They get
the benefit of the doubt, from the police, from the prosecuting
attorney, from the judge, from the court, from the jury, regardless
of racial make up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
Michael Dunns of the world will always be the victim.</span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">That is
the law...</span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It's not
justice...</span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But it
is the law...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Michael Dunn is going to jail and that is a good thing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What bothers me is the way Creshuna Miles rationalizes Jordan Davis' death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If a Black woman can see justice in the death of Jordan Davis, then I'm wasting my time worrying about the plight of Black people in America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We're already lost.... </span><br />
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Jo Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03201023111774829711noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986813475524467982.post-11401365942934793402014-02-18T08:50:00.000-05:002014-02-18T08:50:02.868-05:00George Zimmerman's Pity Party..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
tragi-drama that is George Zimmerman is apparently coming to a
painful end. He's homeless, or so he says, and despite his fat little
cheeks, he says nobody will make him a <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/george-zimmerman-laments-to-univision-i-am-totally-homeless/">sandwich</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Awww
poor baby. Guess his fake white privileges have run out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Don't
see his Judge-Daddy or arrogant big brother riding to his rescue,
which is usually a clear family sign in most instances, that the
troubled one really is a fuck up, despite what they said in public,
and they just want him to go away, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Georgie
says he is also suffering from PTSD but how would he know that since
he told reporters his doctor no longer allows him to schlep in
through the back door. He's so famous now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Man..homeless,
no food, suffering PTSD, and so famous he has to wear a bullet proof
vest, because he can no longer afford body guards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Everybody
wants him or wants to do him harm...victimized for life.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What a
life...what a life.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Of
course Trayvon Martin is just dead.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Think
about that for a moment.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Trayvon
the candy-loving kid, who forced Georgie Z to get out of his car, led him
into a dark place, where Georgie had to pull his gun and shoot
because the candy loving kid was beating his ass.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ass
whippin' from a kid.....makes you wonder how George suddenly found
the balls to announce that he was willing to climb into a boxing
ring with a Black man to make some money to pay off his massive
lawyer debt from trial.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Georgie
Z wants ya to know that he is not a racist either. He has black relatives, and he is the real victim here and he's not sorry for
pulling the trigger. He was exercising his god-given rights as a fake
white man in the United States of America, and only God will judge
him.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yep..Calling on God...true
sign of a guilty man.</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Georgie
Z...may you live long and never prosper...</span></div>
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Jo Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03201023111774829711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986813475524467982.post-26477612856054848582014-02-16T09:13:00.002-05:002014-02-16T09:13:21.453-05:00Michael Dunn Verdict- Message in the Madness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ah, the
nuances of American Justice.....</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">How the
hell can a jury find Dunn guilty of attempted murder for shooting at
the victims who survived, but can't come to agreement on why or how
Jordan Davis died.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyTjr5B8brBk2DilsOFgvO0cZG5S43rCwKGKT9-v1AcZlXJ5Adc-XyYpv8PESACblem20P8_dyYUJXJp7o4QUz0Ex9XahL6lUV7sYMDcUx_qXSZuSkL2-3qs89DLr1FhsadEkrtf1N5CM/s1600/1390301218000-Dunn-Davis-3-copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyTjr5B8brBk2DilsOFgvO0cZG5S43rCwKGKT9-v1AcZlXJ5Adc-XyYpv8PESACblem20P8_dyYUJXJp7o4QUz0Ex9XahL6lUV7sYMDcUx_qXSZuSkL2-3qs89DLr1FhsadEkrtf1N5CM/s1600/1390301218000-Dunn-Davis-3-copy.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael Dunn and Jordan Davis</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It all
happened in the same hail of bullets from Michael Dunn, disrespected
white guy, ticked off because four black kids told him to “piss
off” when he demanded they turn down their loud “thug music.” </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">He
pulled out his legally concealed gun and opened fire. The kids
answered by trying to drive away out of the rain of bullets because
they weren't packing...they were out looking for girls when they
found <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/15/michael-dunn-jury/5501117/">Michael Dunn</a>.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It
played out on public property, outside a store and all parties had an
equal right to be there, sorta..</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Everyone
knows that one master of the universe even without a gun is no match
for 4 black kids in a car, under our Justice/Just-us system. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Doesn't
matter the circumstances, MOTU is gonna win, period. It's his
system, his world, his universe, his jesus created solely for Black
mothers to pray to when they lose something or want something. Black
kids, usually male, are here for target practice.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But I
guess maybe we should pause a moment and thank <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/15/george-zimmerman-is-now-a-sad-homeless-veteran-of-the-florida-stand-your-ground-war/">George Zimmerman</a> for
the Michael Dunn verdict, because if Zimmerman hadn't walked, and the
ongoing outrage been so loud, Dunn would not have been convicted,
considering how clueless Florida law and juries are these days.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">George Zimmerman</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Even the
media bought a clue and instead of labeling the story as the Jordan
Davis killing, it was called the “loud music” trial, making it
less personal, because if you want to get people riled up, put a name
and face on it. Works every time (see Trayvon Martin or Cincinnati
race riot of 2000).</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It's no
wonder Dunn is confused as his attorney stated after the verdict. To
his mind he should never have even been charged. After all, what did
he do? He is the only “valuable asset” in this argument. All he
did was take out the garbage, so to speak.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Shoot at
some thugs...kill one of them...what's the big deal? That was his
demeanor during the whole trial. No remorse for taking the life of a
man-child. Jordan Davis wasn't even legally a man, yet. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">No, fake
white guy Zimmerman mucked it up for real white guys like Dunn, and
is now claiming to be homeless and suffering from PTSD. He's also 2.5
million dollars in debt and wants his old life back.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Maybe
Georgie Z can volunteer to be Michael Dunn's cellmate and keep him
company for the next several decades. They can commiserate
together...swap war stories about their successful “thug hunts.” </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Because
Dunn is going to jail, probably for about 60-plus years, thanks to
the convoluted Florida crime laws.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So I
guess that is something, isn't it...</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">No it
isn't, because the unrestricted “license to kill” issued to white
men is still in force, and no one is safe as long as that license
remains in effect.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">On to
the next case/hunt/controversy.. Alfred Wright....Different Black
man...different state...different white man...<a href="http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Feds-take-over-Alfred-Wright-case-244482311.html">same result...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alfred Wright and son</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</a></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(insert
Crickets singing, right here)</span></div>
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Jo Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03201023111774829711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986813475524467982.post-38307017018375663042014-02-12T09:24:00.000-05:002014-02-12T09:24:08.219-05:00Clarence Thomas HNIC (house negro in charge)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It is
all a figment of our collective imagination. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We're
too sensitive...If it happened that way, then ya'll misunderstood
what it was...</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And
besides..liberal whites in the north were a 1000 times worse to black
folks than the good ole boys down south. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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...</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But he
didn't turn it down or give to some other person who wanted/needed
the help. He's not stupid, right?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
problem exists, period, these days exacerbated by the fear of the
Black man in the White House. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jim Crow
or Institutionalized racism..different name...different era...same effect...</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Uncle
Clarence made his <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2014/02/11/clarence-thomas-race-issue-jim-crow-georgia.html">latest remarks</a> 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.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You can
check out PBA website right <a href="http://www.pba.edu/">here</a>...</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But of
course Uncle Clarence doesn't see it that way. He's apparently too
blinded by the white is right light.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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...</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But he
chose once again to talk about race. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Uncle
Clarence is still mad.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clarence and Virginia Thomas</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
1960's were four decades ago. According to Uncle Clarence, we should
be over it by now. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Okay,
But why isn't he?</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Oh I
forgot...Uncle Clarence is a “do as I say...not as I do negro.”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yep...he
still mad...</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
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Jo Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03201023111774829711noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986813475524467982.post-28670472455699919312014-02-09T22:49:00.000-05:002014-02-09T22:49:15.798-05:00Black History and Malcolm X<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I am so
glad that I don't have kids in public schools these days because I'd
probably end up being locked up for murder, convicted of physically
throttling some of the ignorami who pass themselves off as teachers
and principals these days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What's
wrong you say?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Well,
it's Black History Month and fourth graders at Public School 201 in
Queens New York had to do papers on a prominent Black person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Many of
the kids chose Malcolm X. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Their
teachers, backed up by the principal told them they couldn't write
about Malcolm because he was a bad man who advocated violence and
therefore was not good subject matter during Black History Month</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
inference being he wasn't “good” black civil rights leader
material. Translation, he wasn't a house negro, trusted and not
dangerous to white people. therefore little black kids should not revere or know about big black rebellious men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This
would never have come to light if the kids hadn't started complaining
to their parents who in turn demanded answers from the principal, who
said she'd look into it. Didn't say she'd fix it, only that she'd
look into it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You can
read the whole story <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/queens-school-barred-reports-bad-malcolm-x-parents-article-1.1607362">right here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Malcolm
X a bad man? Denmark Vesey was bad....Gaspar Yanga was bad..The
dudes who led the Stono Rebellion were bad...John Brown was
bad....Nat Turner was bad.....Madison Washington was bad...some of
these dudes were field negroes, one a crazy white man and another a crazy
creole....All a part of Black History..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Malcolm
X bad? He never picked up a gun...but he did say the rest of us
should take our equality by any means necessary. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Know
your history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Martin
Luther King Jr advocated non violence yet he found commonality with
Malcolm X..They were walking the same path..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Know
your history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Good or
bad ain't got nothin to do with history..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It just
is...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I vote
we fire some dumb ass teachers and principals....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">History
without holes...Learn it and free yourself... </span></div>
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Jo Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03201023111774829711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986813475524467982.post-50030921954455526132014-02-05T08:46:00.000-05:002014-02-06T18:56:33.263-05:00Hey Seinfeld, Even Sinatra Had Sammy Davis Jr.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jerry
Seinfeld the comedy god pissed his panties yesterday when somebody
called him on his bullshit for not having Blacks on his iconic
Seinfeld show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Said,
“who cares?” </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Said,
“it's PC anti-comedy nonsense.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Said,
“he doesn't care about gender or race and all that happy
horseshit..leave it to the census or somebody who gives a damn.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You can
read it <a href="http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/02/04/comedian-jerry-seinfeld-pissed-over-diversity-questions-concerning-all-white-cast/">here</a>: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Well, at
the risk of pulling on Superman's cape, it does matter Mr. Seinfeld.
It really does matter a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Seinfeld
and other shows on TV created all white worlds for folks to tune
into. Worlds that bare absolutely no resemblance to reality, then or
now. I mean NY without people of color? Omaha maybe..Owsley County
Kentucky, maybe...But NY? GTFOH..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There
was no color in the main ensemble, which is believable since most
people rarely have/had friends of another color outside of work. I
understand that many whites don't have a Black friend or two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I could
have lived with that, if in fact Seinfeld's show had really been
funny and relevant to anybody except 20 something white girls and
boys just entering the workforce.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But
Seinfeld didn't have people of color as background..no shop
clerks...no police...no co workers...no doormen.... no next door
neighbors...nobody sitting at the tables in the restaurant or being
run into as they enter or leave. Didn't hear any Black people laughing on the laugh track either (I'm kidding.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Honestly
can't comment on what the conversations were about on Seinfeld
because I didn't watch because the spots were too lilly white and not
funny enough for me. So they may have talked about Black people or
Latino people or Asian people during their many conversations about
“nothing..”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I more
than missed it, due to all of the above. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Because
if the commercials don't show people like me, I ain't watchin past
the first episode, if that much. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So I've
never seen Seinfeld except in commercials or Friends or Sex in the
City or Dynasty until I realized Steven was gay and Dominique showed
up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Why do I have to get my funny on from guys like Key and Peele, relegated to chitlin circuit cable TV instead of prime time which they more than deserve? I don't have cable. Comedy is as segregated as most of America. Still! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It
matters Jerry Seinfeld, because your very apparent disdain for
diversity manifests in lesser lights in shows such as ABC's Agents of Shield which does
have a Kung Fu Asian woman who kicks ass when needed. But the
sub-villains are nearly all black and evil in a “fear of the Black
man” kind of way. (A sub villain is one who answers to an unseen
all knowing white guy or gal super baddy, with an English accent, who
gets hunted all season and maybe killed by the all white sorta
super heroes who work for the titled organization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If
Seinfeld or Friends had had Black people (Aisha Tyler) in the show, we might not be where we
are today in the 21</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">st</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
Century playing a colored version of “where's waldo.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Seinfeld's
color/gender blindness is a cop out. It's the road taken by cowards
caught wallowing around in crap when they actually had the ability
to effect some change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Seinfeld
is no different than Lorne Michaels and Saturday Night Live or a lot
of what still comes out of Hollywood these days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">No,
Jerry Seinfeld, the right answer to the question of diversity on your
show would have been; </span>
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“<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What
was I thinking, huh?!”</span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sorry!”</span></div>
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Jo Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03201023111774829711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986813475524467982.post-58290021907681564942014-02-01T11:04:00.000-05:002014-02-01T11:04:34.402-05:00Black History Month-Whoopi Tie Yi A!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It's
February 1<sup>st</sup> ya'll. Somebody break out the Hennie. Time to
celebrate being African American again. Have to be quick, though
since this is the shortest month of our 12 month calendar. Go head
and bust a move. Just don't twerk. We don't own that one no more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I don't
celebrate Black History month. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I will
admit that I used to, just like I used to sing “We Shall Overcome”
when circumstance called for it to be sung. But not anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Going
back about 25 years or so, I got tired of begging white folks for my
dignity and asking them to put their stamp of approval on my ass as a
human being. My disgust directly correlated to the time spent being
the only Black in the room for 99% of my adult career life. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It's
hard to fake that smile after a while...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
thought we would be done with this ish by the time we entered the
21<sup>st</sup> Century. The delusional Pollyanna living within me
incorrectly believed that white people would see the error of their
ways and apologize and stop acting like dicks all the time when a
Black or brown person entered the room. Not me, I was supposed to be
there. I was the chocolate drop allowed in to flavor their
buttermilk. There is always one who is allowed so they can pat
themselves on the back to show how post racial they are. Back in
the day they called it being color-blind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
thought white Christians would finally by now have read their bible,
thereby knowing and understanding WWJD. I thought Black Christians
would have figured out the hoax that is King James and see it as the
ultimate joke/control mechanism perpetrated by the Masters of the
Universe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I
thought Black History would have morphed into American History by now
becoming just History and that there would be no need to remain
separate and unequal. The next most segregated place in America
after Churches and cemeteries are libraries and bookstores where they
still exist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Instead
of integration we have assimilation-our businesses, schools,
churches, neighborhoods dry up and die...our culture our music, our
hairstyles, clothing and dancing disappear, renamed, re-attributed,
made blond, pale and neutral.</span></div>
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has returned to the cities with urban neighborhood gentrification
and the relaxing of affirmative action, school busing and voting
rights regulations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We have
a Black President. Yep, we do. However, he is so busy fighting Jim
and Janie Crow, now sitting in Congress and his own political party,
he ain't got time for us. And we so happy to have him that we applaud our first Black President,
knowing that he is not doing our bidding, while praying to white
Jesus to give him strength.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And what
do we do? We celebrate Black History Month. We pause to sing “We
Shall Overcome” instead of “To Be Young Gifted and Black.” </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We sit
back and don't vote, believing the BS that voting really doesn't
matter because most Americans watch, support and rely on Fox News
for the truth. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Well,
voting is like the lottery..you don't win if you don't play. They
win because we choose not to play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">That
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">So Happy
Black History Month to those who celebrate February. </span>
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Jo Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03201023111774829711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5986813475524467982.post-47467302936228085212014-01-31T09:32:00.000-05:002014-02-01T06:54:07.214-05:00George Zimmerman, Sit Yo Punk Ass Down!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDSsGc7FBJ676nxRNg9qhey_E4NqgwpH3q9QX4MAtM-yI6kS1KunDia-YmJMbNB4smcvXGAgB9FtUdsnTFCR9PSLxGLYNGjtXxp5nCIRGzH8fcgzRyZ__zo2tec0tvVQQc-4SW8RBs9S0/s1600/report-a-george-zimmerman-juror-has-already-announced-her-plans-to-write-a-book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDSsGc7FBJ676nxRNg9qhey_E4NqgwpH3q9QX4MAtM-yI6kS1KunDia-YmJMbNB4smcvXGAgB9FtUdsnTFCR9PSLxGLYNGjtXxp5nCIRGzH8fcgzRyZ__zo2tec0tvVQQc-4SW8RBs9S0/s1600/report-a-george-zimmerman-juror-has-already-announced-her-plans-to-write-a-book.jpg" height="239" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">George
Zimmerman is willing to step into the boxing ring and take on all
comers. According to TMZ, Georgie says he's even willing to fight
Black people. Well bless his post racial little heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">How
inclusive of him to be willing to step into the ring with a Black
man. His people say it has nothing to do with “the incident.”
No, it's not racial at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">He's doing it for charity and the money to be made from turning
himself into a media connected punching dummy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Did
anyone tell him he can't take his gun into the ring? Did anyone
tell him that his judicially connected father won't be allowed to
cover his ass in a one on one confrontation in front of everybody? </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They may
let his brother be at ringside in the corner, but he can't cross the
ropes to help out either. Bro looks like he does more talking than
fighting anyway...More Bundini Brown to Georgie's Ali.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Has
anyone explained to him the difference between a fair fight inside a
ring instead of a street fight on the front lawn with an unarmed
kid?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Now
according to the article, which you can read<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/31/george-zimmerman-willing-to-fight-anyone-even-black-people-in-celebrity-boxing-match/"> here</a>, Zimmerman says he
is comfortable in the ring, because he's boxed before. He likes it
like Mikey likes it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Helps
him drop the weight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Game
has already answered the challenge, says he's willing to beat his ass
for Trayvon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I'll bet
there are a lot of others willing to step up too. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Oh, and
did I mention it's a pay per view event. We don't know which charity
is gonna benefit. We do know that George is gonna get paid, but he
won't say how much.</span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Float
like a butterfly</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhis9X4BUufHpFENuQvIv_QsDz-ePilciL_HNG-CXXa_r3vpLxx7YBADh49RRH5KiI7hytVaIM_JhXRgxXL3AcmuEOV3BBHtCgDuCAdMZaJ00wtmItMbEigHL6HzLPRTugUblxnM5og0xw/s1600/zimmerman_latino-thumb-640xauto-5775.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhis9X4BUufHpFENuQvIv_QsDz-ePilciL_HNG-CXXa_r3vpLxx7YBADh49RRH5KiI7hytVaIM_JhXRgxXL3AcmuEOV3BBHtCgDuCAdMZaJ00wtmItMbEigHL6HzLPRTugUblxnM5og0xw/s1600/zimmerman_latino-thumb-640xauto-5775.jpg" height="200" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sting
like a bee</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I'll
take a punch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If you
pay the fee”....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">If this
happens, somebody please...please knock that smirk off his face and
beat the Black, brown or yellow off his sorry brown, yellow, white
ass..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Trayvon
still needs some justice...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Man, I
really hate sounding soooo, well, Republican, but The President's
State of the Union speech was basically SOSDS (same ole shit,
different speech). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I'm not
gonna lie. I want him to show some emotion. I want him to show that
he understands. I want him to get mad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I would
be absolutely hysterical if he would just turn around and knock that
silly ass smirk off John Boehner's face. Just once...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It all
sounded good after all it was an Obama speech. But it doesn't pass
the smell test when you get closer. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">For
instance raising the minimum wage. It wasn't for the entire country.
It was for FUTURE federal contract workers. Not even the ones working
now. And that is what ticks me off about President Obama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">He
always has a “but”, “maybe” or “next year” built into his
“change” and the only reason for it, is to try and placate
Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Screw
em..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It
should be apparent by now that Obama's very existence in the White
House is the only reason for the obstruction and behavior of the GOP
and their lapdogs the Tea Party. Obama has spent the past five years
putting in place or signing into law Republican programs and
policies. The only Democrat stamp on any of this is from Blue Dog
Democrats selling out their constituency.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Obamacare
is Romneycare created by the Heritage Foundation. NSA spying/Drone
warfare is the Patriot Act in action. Supporting for profit charter
schools is privatizing education and killing the public schools.
Keeping troops around the world is a Dick Cheney wet dream. Allowing
rich cats to become richer cats is as Republican as you can get.
Those dudes continue to laugh all the way to Wall Street. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Obama
has saved the economy. He is paying down the debt. He has secured
health care for most Americans. Companies are returning to our
shores to work, which means that jobs are coming back. He saved the
auto industry. The country is becoming energy independent thanks to a
number of moves by the current administration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yet
because of who he is and how he looks, The President is being stymied
with many people refusing to see or to give credit where credit is
due. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">History
will deify Obama after the fact. But right now, no matter what he does, it
doesn't seem to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Amidst
all this success, We the people are still broke, tired and jobless.
Somebody's priorities seem misplaced. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I mean
where was ENDA in all this? Never mentioned it at all. Almost made
you wonder why Jason Collins was invited to the speech. Even the
gutted Voting Rights Act got short shrift. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
President was still saying “please,” seeking bipartisan
governance while the people have shown they ain't got time for that.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And the
GOP? It's a miracle they can mount any challenge at all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">There
were no less than four rebuttals to Obama's SOTU. Two by white women
mouthing the same silliness that old white men expect us to take as
gospel. One of them spoke English, the other spoke Spanish in order
to capture Latinos. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Teabagger
Mike Lee spoke to other Dumb asses, and Rand Paul talked to other
Hobbits while leaving out dwarves, elves, wizards, orcs and men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Congress
is only scheduled to work 113 days this year. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Expect a
miracle because that's the only way change is gonna happen..</span></div>
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