Race Fact & Fiction

Three white men murdered a black man in Brunswick. And three black kids murdered a white girl in New York. Are either of these because of the race of the people killed or doing the killing?

Are black kids taught from childhood that "white people hate you" just look at history. 

If so, why would anyone want to work for people who hate you. And why would anyone want to hire people who believe that you hate them? Or more specifically, why would anyone want to teach kids that they are hated?

You can't have any respect for a society that doesn't value your life. And you can't possibly respect the law, if you think "law and order" is how society keeps you oppressed. So if Bell and Crenshaw are correct, laws are the enemy of black people in America. 

One solution is to admit that America is an evil racist country built on the oppression of black people through slavery and Jim Crow laws; and the systematic killing of Native people so their land could be stolen and given to white colonizers. 

Then we could start dismantling this "systemic oppression" of "white supremacy" by teaching children the evil truth of America so that everyone's aware of what this nation really is. And we can all be "Woke" to what "whiteness" really means.

We could teach school kids that Lincoln didn't free the slaves, Frederick Douglass did that. And that the Civil War was won when black soldiers led by Shaka Zulu defeated the evil Southern slave holders.

We could teach kids that Native Americans never enslaved people; and Native tribes never fought each other for control of the land. And once we've convinced people (since childhood) that these are facts, we can then replace all white business executives with black people (preferably women), and all elected officials with black people (preferably women). Then defund the police and do away with all jails and prisons.

But of course, there're obstacles to this approach. For one, nearly 90% of Americans aren't black. So it's a hard sell to suggest that the concerns of this small minority should be the focus of American life. And for another, it's simply not true: Lincoln actually did "free the slaves" and white Yankee soldiers actually did win the Civil War. And while Jim Crow laws oppressed black people for a century, it was white US Congressmen who passed Civil Rights laws to end Jim Crow.

And the most basic of lies is that "all white people hate blacks." Because factual history (and everyday experience) prove otherwise.

 

Tearing It Apart

Black Lives Matter is an anti-American movement intent on dividing our country by race. Together with Critical Race Theory, it seeks to make every aspect of our lives hinge on the "evil of whiteness." 

Its success depends on incriminating the people who built America and Europe; and forming a coalition of the "guilty" and their "victims" to dismantle Western Civilization and traditional American values. 

To be clear - those who divide us by race - are Racists.

And those who ally themselves with anti-white racists are aiding and abetting self-destruction.

The fundamentals of America & Western Civilization rest upon freedom of speech, freedom of religion, self-reliance, hard work, and above all, traditional family structure. BLM & CRT aim at eliminating all of the above. And doing so in the name of righteousness.

You cannot speak out against CRT/BLM without becoming an outcast.

You cannot go to Church without being ridiculed.

You cannot oppose the lazy who won't work or learn; or the homeless who won't or can't even feed, clothe and house themselves, without being branded as the evil one. 

Worst of all, you can't even marry, and raise your own children, without being a traitor to "the cause."

Clearly, even a fool can see something's wrong with this. Even a fool can see that America and Europe have better living conditions for their people than any place else on earth, or at any time in history. Proof of this abounds - none of the anti-white Racists who so desperately hate America are fleeing to Canada or Africa. Yet every refugee who wants a better life for their kids, wants Europe or America as their new home.

People the world over need to "woke up" to reality and common sense. And stop those who are trying to destroy what's best about our shared planet.

Biden Our Time

In a time of global insanity and national buffoonery, Joe Biden is exactly what we need. 

Lunch Pail Joe near hunert year old and a multiple loser running for President, isn't witty, clever, or charismatic. 

He's just plain old Honest Joe, a decent guy with a big heart. And right now there's nothing we need more than decency and normalcy.

He aint no radical and they got no hold on him. When it comes to agenda, the Progressives will have wait in line alongside Conservatives and hope for compromise, i.e., Americans coming together to work out our differences. 

Biden doesn't hate minorities, women, or even Republicans. In this "worst of times" he is the best of us. And that'll do. We'll get used to the gaffes; in fact it'll be refreshing after the long national nightmare that was Donald Trump.

DC can finally be boring again, and we can all get on with our lives, sans the drama queen that was the Donald Dumpster fire. A breath of fresh air will sweep in and take that giant weight off our shoulders, like a slumbering bear in the warm glow of spring, shaking off the stagnation of long cold winter.

America will awaken with burst of energy and national pride as working men and women lead a charge we haven't seen since post world war: to rebuild highways, rail lines, on-line communications, and most of all, our imperiled communities that have long suffered under the strain of Trump divisiveness. 

There's a bold new wave ahead of us, and a bright new future. A brave new world that has good people in it. America is ready to lead, all we need is a leader - Joe Biden, a man who believes in the people.

The President's Men Called It "Rat-fucking"

 

A review of Steve Ely's "Ratmen."

Amazingly good stuff. I'd finished Sick City by Tony O'Neill, so of course was worried there'd be nothing else that well-written. But greatly pleased to find my copy of Ely's book. 

Which was sent to me by the publisher Geraint Hughes with the message "whadda think of this?" I'd ordered a Ridgwell, and asked if he had anything else that good.

Also mentioned he wasn't aware I lived in the States and shipping charges are outrageous! Told him to thank W Bush for destroying US Postal Service by trying to privatize it, as he'd done to the military. 

Whereby all entry level jobs in food service, carpentry, personnel, heavy equipment, and so forth, are now done by private contractors like Bush's friends Halliburton (which Dick Cheney used to run) and Blackwater (run by Betsy Devos' brother).

Anyway, I regress. So Hughes sent me the book ten year ago, and I began reading after finishing the Ridgwell and fearing there'd be nothing that good left to read. But "Ratment" was so excellent, I started reviewing it at The Guardian whilst halfway through the book. (I used to send my reviews as comments in their reader section 'til they got wise to that.) And then all this stuff happened, and I quit reading and writing for lotta years.

So, back to the book. You know all those shows on Netflix, Amazon, HBO, that are 'sposed to be so clever? I betcha Steve Ely could write screen plays 'bout an eco-warrior that'd raise the hair up off the back yer neck down to yer arse. Cuz he writes that good, and seems to know exactly what he's writing about. So if everyone would read the book, we could all discuss it at Sam Jordison's discussion group, and try to figure out what it means.

I asked all these questions a decade ago: who're the rats? Immigrants flooding to Europe, minorities in other parts of the world, anyone who doesn't look like us? Or just filthy little vermin at war with humans for control of the planet, re: Bill Ectric's story 'bout Easter Island. If so, could be a metaphor for the Covidicus wot currently gots us in its grip.

But you see why we need a big discussion group for to input everyone's opinion. And so Hughes gotta re-publish it so everbuddy gots a copy. Anyway, I oughtta say something about the the book. Ely tells a great story - he's good at it. And writing like you're not gonna find elsewhere. The tone, the mood, is quiet deliberate desperation like ticking before it all blows up. One scene I'll mention: the kid on the bus going to work, sees the goth girl fondling her pet rat. She smiles and lets him hold her pet. He drop kicks it down the aisle and into the bus window. And the boss tells him "settling little scores got nothing to do with settling bigger scores."

Yeah, seriously good stuff.

Cancelling Culture

Ever been to confession? "Forgive me Father, I've had impure thoughts." "Yes, my child, that's about the only thing nature wants us to do." 

So...how's that a sin? Worse yet, how can anyone tell us what to think. These are the basic questions of existence. 

And if you wanna trash Columbus for being impure, please consider plucking out thine own eyes. (Just do it, you'll feel better being blind deaf and dumb.)

Better yet, get some Inquisition-ers to decide what's okay to think, and what isn't. "Works for me" Uncle Joe Stalin, Mao Zedong (Mousie Dung), Heinrich Himmler, et.al. Them boy wrote letters too - sign on, if you don't approve of free thinking.

I feel like I'm wasting my time with the intellectually defective. But I always feel that way. That's the trouble with a lifetime search for truth and the knowing of things. It's a lonely path. But we gots a theme song "I don't wanna take advice from fools..." So, wot the fock, methinks I'se better off.

Even though the sad fact of idiots is their numerical superiority, I take comfort that they never amount to much. They don't run things, build things, or really get anywhere in life. Their only power is that of a mindless mob. Like Hitler's crowd. 

It's troubling when they find a false god to lead them. But even Adolf didn't last, or Jim Jones, or Joe McCarthy. They can wreak a lotta havoc though. Mao destroyed China, Pol Pot murdered two million people.Others have done worse.

And if'n y'didnt know, folks came to America to get away from that kinda shit. Quoting Santayana "history can be a bitch." Especially since "Scotty doesn't know." So...look at yerself and tell me "are you Scotty?" Or you got the balls to try & find out wot life's about? 

It's a free country...for now. Don't fuck it up, just cuz you can. The search & rescue folk at Howard AFB told me it was a foul rotting mess, removing all them bloated corpses from Jonestown.

Just Get Along

A review of Thomas Chatterton Williams' Unlearning Race Self-Portrait In Black And White

Race is artificial nonsense. And it all depends on who's selling what - cuz people will believe anything. Example: we know what we see with our own eyes. Whether you live to be ninety, or die young; that was your limited share of forever. But we're told from birth to sacrifice this life for the rewards of an unseen unknowable "afterlife." And most people believe that shit, either wholly or in the back of their minds. That's why soldiers die in battle - they've been conditioned to think others matter more than them. Conditioning works, but never in our own interest.

The author was told by his father that he's black and "don't you forget it." Even though his mother's white. Which I guess is the same for Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and many other people. Williams uses the great soccer player Neymar as an example. In Brazil, if you're mixed race, i.e., part white, than you can't be black - which is the opposite of the American color rule. Now if this all sounds quite stupid, believe me, it is. About as intelligent as children trying to find the right crayons to color black and white people. But like I said, people will believe anything cuz they're just too dumb to think for themselves. Or too conditioned as "followers" to even try.

But let's back up and take a closer look at a couple things. Why would Williams senior tell his sons they're black...and warn them against the evils of white people. Well, he'd seen racism with his own eyes. And despite getting a PhD and sending his son to Georgetown, he was conditioned to believe that success for black people depends entirely on one's own doing. That it is accomplished in spite of the "repressive system" and not because this system, imperfect as it is, still has room for anyone to achieve whatever they set their sights on.

Reminds me of a story my friend Gene told me when we were in high school. Gene's dad had fought for America in the Korean War (as young men are conditioned to do). But while in the Army, his best friend got in a fight with a black soldier and was killed. So Gene's dad forever impressed upon him the evil of black people. I argued this with him and he responded "how would you feel if your dad's best friend was killed by a black man?" Death, you see, is pretty much an end to someone's eternity. So it's rather final.

And fifty years later, here we are, unconvinced still. But the author decides not to be black anymore. After the soul searching angst of renouncing "the long struggle" against oppression; as well as all the greatness of black people - he's decided that these and all other facets that made him black for thirty years (or thirty centuries) no longer define or limit him. Seems simple enough since by all appearances, Williams is viewed by others as Mediterranean or Arab or whatever "the other" sees as similarity.

But is this the blueprint for how we should view race?

I've an analogy. In the movie Odds Against Tomorrow Harry Belafonte and Robert Ryan hate each other because of race. It's part of the plot, but needn't be. Belafonte and Ryan could hate each other because they're so different: Belafonte, the handsome young carefree night club singer with the pretty wife and beautiful little daughter. Ryan the older, bitter, uneducated loner. Belafonte is loved and admired by all; Ryan isn't. They're opposites who despise what the other represents. But it really has nothing to do with race.

No doubt the ability to push this hatred on camera is made easier since Ryan and Belafonte were friends off camera, so no worries about acting out "hate" in a movie. Their mutual friend in the show, Ed Begley, doesn't care about race. He just wants them to get along so they can all rob a bank together. And that's the whole key - to work together for mutual success. It's a great film, but with a very gloomy title.

Back to Williams' story. Cinematically, Williams' father should have failed miserably just to prove the point of "systemic oppression." And (in the movie version) should've made sure his sons continue a tradition of failure. But he doesn't. He ensures his own success and that of his children. But sadly, not everyone does. It seems we're so conditioned to accepting failure, we instinctively act out these roles - accepting how others define us instead of being bold enough to define ourselves. If that's the message Williams wants to convey - read & heed.

Won't Get Fooled Again

With of without corinavus, Americans are a sick stupid people. Faced with the choice between an exceptional leader like Bernie Sanders who stands for the "dignity of all people" and somebody else - Hilree Clinton, Donnjay Trump, Joey Biden - we always make the wrong choice. 

We vote against our own best interests cuz we too fucking stupid to know better.

We're the parable Jesus told about choosing the free ski boat or...what's in the mystery box. We take whatever crap the salesmen sell us, every goddamn time. How can we be so fucking dumb? Are we innately stupid, so easily duped, or just suckers just waiting to be conned? Duh...fuck yeah! 

Nixon v McGovern - let's take the crook. Carter v Reagan - gimme the Corporate shill. Bush v Kerrey - I want the draft dodger, not the war hero. Fokking morons. You want the fool who most resembles your own pathetic failures. Mindless little mice following the pied-piper carnival barker who sells you poison cuz he convinced you it's just what you need.

Okey dokey - you get what you deserve. Donnie Trump - the worst piece of self-dealing crooked malignant dog shit ever to host reality TV. Hopefully the Duck Dynasty guys will try to primary him.