tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-197212152024-02-06T22:11:18.828-08:00If you White you alright, brown stick around, black get back!.......but "black don't crack""I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonInvisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-3916907052663796792013-09-02T09:07:00.003-07:002013-09-03T06:59:52.016-07:00Charles Dickens is now About America's "Bleak House"<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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When I was much younger, I really enjoyed reading Charles
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Dickens' semi journalistic and literary old world prose combine ironic descriptions of the
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Back then, I'd just reached my teenage years and my mother and I had just moved to a new neighborhood, worse than the one we left, factoring in that I didn't know any one and instead of the one gang that dominated my old neighborhood, this one was dominated by another gang at war with the gang I knew from my old neighborhood, that I had some loyalty to. In retrospect, today this neighborhood, now called <i>Terror Town</i> is far worse then the streets I walked as a teenager. I also began my freshman year at a new high school that I describe now as the United Nations of gangs, which is where I was introduced to Charles Dickens by my freshman English Teacher. </div>
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Charles Dickens helped me negotiate my unstable and seemingly uncertain teenage years by widening my perspective with historical context and solidarity, which connecting me to a larger stream of humanity. </div>
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the disparity between rich and poor is greater in American than when Dickens
penned his classics like "A Tale Between Two Cities", David
Copperfield,and Bleak House. And todays tragedies are far more horrifying,
especially the violence so prevalent in America, producing headlines like the one below from DNA Info Chicago which reads like Dickens narratives of ironic tragedies updated for America
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Avalon Park Man Loses Friend, Nephew to Gunfire Within 24 Hours<br />
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"AVALON PARK — After a friend was gunned down on Kevin Woods'
mother's front porch Wednesday night, the Avalon Park man told police he
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Soon after he pleaded with police to do something, his
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"[Three] hours later my nephew was gunned down,"
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Anthony was killed Thursday afternoon, three blocks from
where Dwan Long, 35, was shot while having after-work drinks with a group on
Woods' mother's front porch. A young man walked up, opened fire, and killed
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Anthony was killed about 1 p.m. in the 7900 block of South
Avalon Avenue after several people opened fire on him as he stood on a porch,
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<!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-7257880387887638322013-07-31T07:17:00.003-07:002013-07-31T22:41:38.958-07:00JP Morgan ( this time) Caught Stealing from Detroit, the Rest of Michigan, and California. <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Yep, The infamous JP
Morgan gets caught </span><i style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">again </i><span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">stealing from the American public and why shouldn't they continue to steal? </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Bankrupting America isn't treason. But being a whistle blower is. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If President Barack Obama went after "banks" like JP Morgan like he went after Bradley Manning, then our economy would be growing as oppose to an economy that's lucrative only to Corporate America, and to America's top two percent. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This time JP Morgan was found guilty of purposely manipulating energy markets in California, and in one of America's poorest states, Michigan. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That's right, Bankrupt Detroit being over charged on electricity by a Bank that America bailed out, after robbing America.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">JP Morgan's Capo behind this robbery is an "influential leader of the banks commodities business", Blythe Masters, who then lied about it to federal authorities. Blythe Masters, is a known international financial criminal, who was behind the modern credit default swap of the famed 2008 financial meltdown, earning her the distinction of being labeled by London's Guardian News Paper, as </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"the
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Earlier this year, After </span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Blythe and her crew were caught in</span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">yet another brazen</span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"> public </span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">heist, </span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">JP Morgan was warned</span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"> that the government would go after them personally if they got caught stealing again. But this crime family is headed by Jamie Dimon a close friend and advisor to the President. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Is it any wonder why the government decided not to go after Blyth and her crew for energy market manipulation, obstruction of justice, and perjury,</span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">and then struck the criminal acts from the final report? </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">In the end JP Morgan was fined 410 Million which for this global crime family is akin to a parking ticket, so much so that JP Morgan Spokesman Brian Marchiony stated in a public gloat </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">“We are pleased to put this matter
behind us,” said Brian Marchiony, a spokesman for JP Morgan. “Due to reserves
previously set aside, this settlement will not have a material impact on
earnings.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Translation? It's only a matter of time before </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> JP Morgan's hands</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> in our pockets, again, until we've finally had enough. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> <span style="font-size: large;">A</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">fter his last weeks smokescreen speech about our "improving economy" that should have been entitled "Rising Tide Lifts All Y</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">achts, Capsizing Little Boats In Their Wake", President Obama i</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">n an interview in todays New York Times entitled, "Obama Says Income Gap is Fraying U.S" added insult to injury</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">by </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">waxed </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">philosophically about his worries </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">that "years of widening income
inequality and the lingering effects of the financial crisis had frayed the
country’s social fabric and undermined Americans’ belief in opportunity."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This coming from President who spent the last five years placating </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Wall Street and the
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">that are now raking in record profits, yet sharing none of it with America. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">This coming from a President who was elected in a landslide by a National and International Movement, ready to be activated to battle for the soul of this country lead by President Obama from the White House. Yet</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"> instead of
harnessing this Movement, President Obama immediately slammed the door on it, </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">and turned the government over to the very same evil cabal that he pledged to
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">President Obama is like a farmer who lets the </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">wolves into the chicken coop and into the barn,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> then tells his staving family that he's worried about their health. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">I believe this President's legacy will be having blown the biggest opportunity to
change America and the world for the better. Shame on him and shame on us for allowing it</span></span></div>
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I’m not sure if President Obama, who’s been at best "MIA" from
Black America since he was elected, made his "unprecedented" remarks about race, to assuage Black
people-still reeling from the Trayvon Martin verdict- or, to reassure white
liberal America- who because of the verdict- for the first time had to directly confront the elaborately
sophisticated, mostly stealth, and always updating mechanisms of white supremacy,
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In his speech President Obama situated himself as a victim of race, when as a candidate for U.S. Senate, he was mistaken for a waiter at an
exclusive party in New York. But what he's really doing is mitigating the true oppressiveness of American White
Supremacy on Black males, as if the U.S. Presidency is just as much in the possible trajectory
for Black males as winding up in jail, or dead on the side walk like
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What's ironic about President Obama's "waiter" comment isn't just that he has allowed the predatory international bankers and corporations to continuously loot the American economy, thereby creating only service sector jobs like waiters and waitresses. But also the fact that President Obama ran and won the Presidency as a progressive change agent, but in fact turned out to be a "caretaker president" or "servant" for the continuation of The American Empire of White Supremacy. In fact I think it's accurate to view President Obama's presidency as a " head waiter" taking the dwindling resources from America's kitchen and serving them to the 2 percent elite. </div>
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<!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-41409499553920191872013-06-09T13:17:00.001-07:002013-06-09T13:18:58.525-07:00President Obama's phony jobs report to hide the stench of our decay<br />
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Last night/morning, I had a dream that I was watching an artistic performance piece. A young Chinese women, mending from an operation and dressed in a completely red body suit, stood before a card board refrigerator box with black windows drawn on it- with magic marker- to appear like a large high rise building. She began walking around the box screaming "Pay me my Mother fucking Money American, Pay Me What You Owe!" in a thick exaggerated Asian accent. Finally, after getting no response she set the box on fire while another figure dressed in a black shroud played "America The Beautiful" on a violin. <br />
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Today two items sum up the fall of the American Empire and it's "rejuvenation" into a third world nation tourists attraction.<br />
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One, finally American"officials" not including in the radical and progressive class are telling the truth ( although self serving) about what's really going on with the failed economic recovery, that cannot produce real and sustainable job growth.<br />
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Former Assistance Treasury Secretary( under Ronald Reagan) Paul Craig Roberts, wrote that President Obama's May job numbers -touted by white liberal media sources as an improvement- are in fact nothing more than a few low wage domestic service jobs of a third world country. Jobs such as retail, healthcare gambling, hotel maids, summer seasonal help, servers and bartenders dominate, and have become "competitive" given the high number of college grads with no access to the former jobs that once made America powerful, which have now moved overseas. While Robert mentions nothing of the fact that Ronald Reagan began this dismantling of the American Industrial Empire, he does point out that our economic profile is that of "India 40 years ago"<br />
In a final twists of irony President Obama continues to call Ronald Reagan his favorite president. <br />
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Finally the disparity between America's rich and poor has grown to the extent that U.S. inequality in the <br />
International
Labour Organization "2013 World of Work Report" couldn’t be graphed against the formula with the other 25 developed countries. Further while the levels of inequalities are either stabilizing or falling off for most developing countries, except for South American and a few Latin American countries, America continues to grow.<br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">For </span><span style="color: red;">Chechnya </span><span style="color: blue;">Americans</span> Who <span style="color: yellow;">Have</span> <span style="color: lime;">Considered </span><span style="color: red;">Suicide</span> By <span style="color: magenta;">Terrorism </span><span style="color: orange;">When</span> The<span style="color: red;"> American</span> <span style="color: yellow;">Rainbow </span>is <span style="color: blue;">Enuf</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">The worst coverage of the "Boston Bombings" Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was National Public Radio's Robin Young, ( surprise, surprise) who reported this tragic event through the typical NPR gaze of elite white liberal privilege, amplified from her chance meeting of Tsarnaev.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Had Young been more objective, she probably would've ( like most NPR journalists) somewhat camouflage, her privilege and appalling lack of insight. Instead, she almost bragged about, meeting Tsarnaev, like a bartender enjoying their "twenty minutes of fame" by boasting publicly of serving whiskey to Jesse James, before he shot up the town and got put down for the last time. Clearly Robin Young must be a "Blue Stocking Bostonian", as she gushed about hosting a "pre-prom party" in her back yard for her popular nephew ( I'm thinking gigantic gazebo action with a large pond stocked with rare Japanese Koi) where she "gathered dozens of kids and "rented a trolley car so the children could party in the back yard" and take the trolley to the prom. Tsarnaev was one of the lucky invites by her nephew, who then joined the interview to demonstrate more elite white privilege. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"> Some of the comments made by her nephew are funny in the way of white liberals with wealth, like when another reporter asked if he knew Tsarnave's father. The nephew replied, "no", but he saw him often fixing cars on the street. I'm sure the "Robin Williams crowd" certainly don't patronize 'side walk mechanics', a thriving industry for the poor and working poor. Indeed in most cities like Chicago, it's illegal, but the demand is too great, so mostly it goes overlooked by authorities. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"> Tsarnave also had college scholarships, yet did poorly, which speaks to isolation as opposed to how William's nephew described him like a man about town, because he was at their party. The fact that he was at the party was mentioned several times by Young and her nephew as if it were a "high bade of honor" for him, which it is now for them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">ostracization arises not just from race, but also class. We know what it means to have to scrape, borrow, and beg and steal, while others rent trolley cars and have decadent lawn parties thrown for them by their families. We know what it means to exist in the halls of privilege while our family and friends suffer hardships back in the ghettos of our home cities or countries. We know what it means to see the few of those like us who get accepted, fail, not do to intelligence, but do to the resources( and the added stress) taken for granted by the majority culture. More importantly we learn quickly not to talk about our homes and hardships to our affluent -so called- friends, if we want to keep their friendship</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">The picture above is of Robin William's nephew, Zolan. He of course is the one smiling. At first he was not named during the interview. But this opportunity was to big to go to waste, so he is now a major media source for the curious American. Zolan is a sophomore at Dartmouth and an intern at the Boston Globe. What's interesting is, he seems to have some Arab of even Black blood in him. But Frantz Fanon's "white mask" that he seems to wear so well- which is prevalent with those like him in his economic class, precluded him from forming genuine solidarity as cultural minority </span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">with Dzhokhar Tsamaev, that could have provided possibly moored for this sad young man that clearly had major problems with America, that went ignored by his elite associates because they did not have to confront them and like Robin Young are complexly desensitized to them. Zolan, a sophomore at Dartmouth and an intern at The Boston Globe, is now an up and coming journalistic celebrity because of his "association" with Tsamaev and his aunt during the interview gushed about how his voice is much needed as a journalist. I beg to differ, clearly Zolan's voice is not that different than his aunts. The voices, we need to hear are the voices who don't have access, those left outside the halls of privilege or those who get in and refuse to wear the white mask of assimilation and even those who end up cracking up and going insane under the pressure. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Make no mistake, the deeds done in Boston were beyond horrible and I in no way embrace or support, such actions. But I find it pathetic, that NPR gets public dollars, while offering such white elitist coverage of these issues while masquerading as an "alternative voice".</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">For two years, my older cousin was immersed in high school theatre, providing distinction from the rest of us until her dreams died along the way,
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<span style="color: cyan;">It was a fall evening, with winter almost fully encasing Chicago, that my family along with similarly dressed Black families, -equally proud and invested by their loved one's participation, filled in a Black church gymnasium, settling in with grave dignity, -as if we were taking our places at a great table for a crucial board meeting, instead of in small uncomfortable metal and wooden folding chairs. </span></div>
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N<span style="color: cyan;">ow knowing what to expect, -my school didn't have plays, only talent shows performed on large plywood boxes in the lunchroom, - I fixated on the stage. The lights were cut, plunging the room into a dark and silent abyss. I heard the sweep of the curtain, across the wooden stage, as the stage lights pop on with focused intensity, revealing a "dining room" setting for a “TV" like drama but with “ real Black people” on stage, that immediately formed a symbiotic connection between the families in the audience and the actors, who first made us laugh with the Black tragic-comic humor, we knew so well from the beauty and barbershops, family holiday dinners, the front stoops and the corners, to the unemployment lines, to the funerals, grave yards, and the repasses, after the "mortal coils" of our beloved and no so loved ones have been left alone to settle and began their own journey of decay. During the second act pure tragedy was introduced, domestic violence, death, economic ruin, then in a bedroom, the women brought to life by my cousin, was both brutally beaten and raped, winding up in the hospital. </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">At the end, our applauses "magically" made the curtains open again and again and again, demanding the actors take yet another bow until finally we could clap no more. Coffee, punch, and cookies were served until finally our "stars" now dressed in street cloths, appeared joining us mortals on the ground as we applauded, once more. Our individual stars came to us, then immediately left to our disappointment, for they did not "belong" to us yet. In smaller groups that changed depending upon the questions -of our families- based upon their characters, they spent time with each family, who proudly fell into the ceremony of greeting all the actors and automatically asking each, to point out their own families, brining all of us, closer together. </span></div>
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generation, during the "optimistic" time of the Black Bourgeoisie "George Jefferson Moving On Up” Era, which also represented the secrete an not so secrete yearnings of the Black “lucky poor”( my mother and I) with strong connections to the middle class, (my school teacher aunt) who hide their anxiety to maintain stability by conspicuous consuming. My uncle the cop, today still remains a Black Nationalist, and still lives in my long deceased grandfather's house in Englewood.</span></div>
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<!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-23894291389850463072013-04-03T13:06:00.000-07:002013-04-03T13:08:13.026-07:00Notes from a Post Race Society NPR( National Privilege Radio) again getting it wrong Post Race Coming of Age Story<br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">NPR's"Playing the Race Card" is described as a series inviting listeners to send in "six word stories" about race, "....people take a complicated and controversial subject and boil it down to six words, what it means for them..</span><span style="color: lime; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;">" </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In my mind, red lights
flashed, loud alarms sounded, and a mechanical voice blared, "Warning!
Warning! Beware! Banal Yet Dangerously
Specious National Conversation To Erode And Erase The History and Consequences
of American White Supremacy, Directly A Head, Warning! Warning! Beware </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Inviting America to "tweet" about race is highly problematic, trivializing an already increasingly marginalized emergency, that's stranded atop a frayed and thinning high wire rocked to and from by angry and
uncaring winds of both; white conservatives and (subconsciously and now
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very much doubt that NPR would solicit tweets about the Jewish Holocaust, nor
would NPR described it as simply "complicated and controversial",
like a bad basketball call, especially if Jews were still deeply suffering and traumatized from
it. But such is the direction of Post Race America and that's what this series
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story begins in North Carolina with George Washington III. When I heard the
name, I assumed he was an "ancient", as it was once common for
enslaved Black folk to be named after philosophers and presidents by
their captors, as jokes. Therefore, I was shocked when George Washington III spoke, he was much younger than I thought .
His name wasn't discussed for context. It also wasn't discussed for context that
both of his marriages were to white women. His current marriage, added their mixed children to his wife's white children from her previous marriage, along with Washington's previous mixed children from his first marriage, including18 year old Jordan.</span><br />
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Post Race Coming of Age Celebration as George Washington III, both humbled and proud, admits his error to
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race" or to allow people to check multiple boxes. But he did later go back by himself to the optometrist and requested his son's paper work, so he could recheck "mixed race". I'm
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Michele Norris completely white washes the crisis of Black </span>identity in America, rejecting Chole Ardelia Wofford aka Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, DuBois, Frantz Fanon, and every other intellectual who struggled to examine what it means to be Black in a country of white supremacy that since it's inception has equated Blackness with every thing negative and evil. Indeed in Wofford's brilliant novel the Bluest Eye, the sad and doomed preteen Pecola Breedlove, is raped and ultimately driven insane for "blue eyes" In Michele Norris's post race world, to escape Blackness all one has to do is check a box.</span></div>
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the 1960's, when very light skinned Blacks sometimes turned their backs on their
Black identities to "become" white, combined with George Washington III's marriages and
his remarks in this piece, makes me think this story is far more complex than
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<!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-18526794631406225842013-03-22T14:12:00.000-07:002013-03-22T14:14:40.372-07:00The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, Smoking Sambo "A Wash in a Cultural Deluge"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> I attended my first Chicago art show in the 1990's, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">in a walk up loft. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">One artist, a short perky white women with spiky blond hair, a</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> midwestern farmer's build, in overalls, approached me. Clearly I was spell-bound by one of her pieces, so </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">she </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">proudly and </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">cagily </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">introduced herself.</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> The day was hot and I'm sure she could </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">sniff</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> the scent of a sale. It was a 1920's card board "Smoking Sambo" sign,</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> she </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">matted in a black frame. Classic Old Black Sambo dressed up to sell cigarettes, still rooted </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">in racism and shame,</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> which I thought</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> was </span>her idea behind it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">When I said something about, being deeply moved, she </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">eyed me strangely throwing me off balance. This occurred long ago, but the conversation came down to her having no knowledge of Black minstrel entertainment and commercialism in America. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> Smoking Sambo was just something "cool" she found in her great aunt's Alabama home. When I gave context she seemed put off, like I'd tainted a good memory. In turn, I was floored that she'd </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">completely white washed </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">the </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">representation of great suffering and oppression, replacing it with her sanitized version.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Out of both feelings, a sale was made. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">I "liberated" "Sambo" for 100 dollars, more than I'd ever spent on one item. I can still feel the tension, confusing, and bad feelings, -that continue to divide Black and white America-, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">as she carefully wrapped it and thanked me, clearly happy for the sale, yet confused and disturbed that I wanted it. As the other ship passing in the night, I want it, not in my home, but buried in sacred </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">ground, after a Mambo or Bokor, performed rites of cleansing, removing evilness that created it</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> and bad spirits in </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">which it lived . Instead, I buried it in a closet. </span></span></div>
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In America the "formalities" of historical Black oppression are sometimes taught. Yet the deep psychological <span style="line-height: 22px;">methods furthering </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">white supremacy, get ignored, continuing to </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">create, control, promulgate, and perpetuate, the negative cultural narratives of Black people. </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">I'm always amazed at the amount of white women today, who still love </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">Gone with The Wind</span><span style="line-height: 22px;">, which perpetuates the happy, docile, and dumb slave myth, at the foundation of arguments still made, that slavery wasn't always a bad experience for Black people. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22px;">The terms "aunt" "auntie" and "uncle" were pejorative familial terms to </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">address older Blacks by whites.</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">Aunt Jemima, created in 1899 , off the violent reversal of the progressive Reconstruction Era, represented the return of the "happy Black slave" who gladly put the white master and his family, first. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">now "into" this art, including China which now mass producers fakes sold on eBay. The fake Smoking Joe sells for up to 100 dollars. It's impossible to tell new from old card board on eBay. Also on the back of the authentic ones are instructions in setting up the cigarette in the figure's mouth. The name of the company "United" is also printed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Over the next two hours, he described his mothers"famous" restaurant, that never obeyed prohibition, in a original creole colony, that soon thrived as a trading village along the Atchafalaya swamp, because of his father, the mayor, who died of a heart attack while eating at the restaurant. His mother married the next mayor a Cajun who in one night gambled away the restaurant, and the village's finances the next, then disappeared forever into the swamp. He cried when describing the ruined village with only 300 people left. I purchased beer and crawfish which we ate in three lawn chairs for sale. </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What brought all
this to mind, was an article in last Sunday's New York Times entitled "<i>A Wash in a
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"<i>conceived</i>" and "<i>orchestrated</i>" Charles Wong's art for the exhibit. The
article stated that the award's overlap "with Asia Week is fortuitous". Which I guess is why the museums associate curator, Katherine Brinson, who</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> seems to have preformed the same job as Vo, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">only got a
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, the article doesn't get into his life, tragically shortened by AIDS, that forced</span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> his return to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> San Francisco to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">spend his last days with his parents</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. Equally notable is that Wong was primarily a painter, but the Guggenheim seems only concerned with his collection of ethnic figures, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Less well known is the
fact that he seems to have been an obsessive accumulator, with an omnivorous,
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But what does this mean? Because by themselves these figures are politically meaningless at best. The writer states that "<i>One of the show’s many subtexts is the
frequency of racial stereotypes — in this case African-American and Chinese —
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This seems far more speculative platitudes, to head off any possible criticism of racial insensitivity about presenting the collection at the Guggenheim. And as most of these figures are produced in China as Americana kitsch, I'd say Wong collected these figurines, not to liberate or present them as a cultural critique, but as a Chinese immigrant who adopted the playfully non political gay thespian white male kitsch culture that mirrored the non political considerations of the women who sold me Smoking Joe. Especially given, both </span><br />
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to dusty campaign buttons; from Disney characters in various materials and
scales to original cartoons by Clay Wilson and Victor Moscoso; from sheets of
Chinese, Arabic and Tibetan calligraphy to numerous printed cards, booklets and
books. There is a circular feng shui compass as well as Wong’s drawing of one;
an ordinary lamp with a ceramic Chinese sage for a base that appears in a very
early painting of Wong’s that is also on view; and a white-glazed porcelain
figure of a many-armed Indian Hindu goddess, a Mother’s Day gift to Mrs. Wong
Fie, still in its box, which her son inscribed to “A little lady that always
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-75491962686906807162013-03-12T09:19:00.000-07:002013-03-14T12:33:10.069-07:006 Month Old Jonylah Watkins, Victim No 66. Don't Hate the Hustle, Hate the Game. More Inner City Blues. <br />
<span style="color: lime;">"I was trying to help, I was trying to help, I was trying to help her" </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">said Jonathan Watkins, from Northwestern Hospital, after being shot once in his hind section and grazed in the face last Monday on the 6500 block of S. Maryland, while changing his six month old daughter Jonylah's diaper, who would later slip away from the five bullets, shot into her small body.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I'm not going to get into how concerned I am about the violence that will be unleashed this summer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">At this moment, I'm focused merely on the hopeless "lifelessness" of Black men existing at the center of an immense and growing vortex of violence-that is often tragicomically cartoonish, pain, suffering, and death, now easily accessible to the world via social media sites. Actually, without Facebook, some of the murders they either commit or that will claim them- depending on the day an hour- wouldn't be solved, due to the deeply intrenched "no snitching" code of both fear and honor. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">After these shooting, adults closest to the victims might cry for the cameras, yet proffer little to no evidence to solve the shootings. In their world, the lines of shooter and victim- generally all bound together by a few blocks- are easily crossed and confused, especially because these Black men are simply carrying out their "assigned modern rolls. The factory and steal mills are gone. And the job training programs are little more than patronage hustles for the democratic Black political class, including Black ministers- the republicans have their own hustles off this misery another level above.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Meanwhile in the hood, drugs have filled the void to such an extent that marijuana use is more common than aspirin, which means like Outkast said in that song Spottie Ottie Dopaliscious "<i>Caint gamble feeding baby off that dope game, might not always be sufficient, but the United Parcel Service and the people at the Post Office aint called you back, cause you got, cloudy piss, so now you back in the trap, just that</i>". But Black men in the hood are still expected to make "that paper" and in the hood, admired for doing so. Cause this is still be, America. And the only real opportunity to do so, is by being in a gang. And in the Black community, gangs like babies are part of the very fabric and it's expected that gangs will be constantly at battle and ever body in the hood mostly "willingly" picks a side, which means backing a institutions six generations old that become more entrenched every day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> And in these worlds, Black children are just as expendable- but for vastly different reasons, as they are to white Chicago. On that side of the wall, adults have been socialized to expect nothing from life than energetic and communicative bursts of violence inside their banal and mundane "neighborhood social prisons"- confined to a few blocks- that most never really leave, except to being shipped off to the real USA Prison Industrial Prison Complex, or in death.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">The first and perhaps only break in this tragedy didn't come from "gum shoe" dingy bleak apartment to bleak dingy apartment door banging" and throwing corner boys against the hood of cop cars, but from the comforts of the station house. Right after a -probably- white detective signed onto a police computer, perhaps first checking his email, maybe writing a quick racist update about this very case on the sewer CPD blog "Second City Cop, ( if you really wanna know what white cops think of Black Chicago, check it out) then updating his own Facebook page with the same racist comment, before finally getting down to police business, entering "Jonathan Watkins" into Facebook's "find people"window.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> The police didn't need Facebook to tell them that Jonathan Watkins plays "dual roles" in his community besides for grieving father. In the Woodlawn neighborhood, he is clearly a committed and ready-for-what -ever, upper level street soldier, dedicated to doing what needs to get done, on behalf of his organization. The 30 arrests on his jacket, including his most recent three year bid for aggravated use of a gun three blocks away from the shooting that claimed his daughter, proves this. And the fact that his daughter's mother, was shot two blocks away while she was 8th months pregnant with Jonylah, demonstrates the isolated confinement of residents with high intensity violence in these communities.</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">Jonathan Watkin's Facebook Page photos, might appear menacing to mainstream white America, but are tragically ubiquitous through out the Facebook world of inner city Black America, representing the only thing these men can lay claim to:</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">And demonstrating their ability in the mist of grinding poverty inducing despair, to get high and stay high. These are just a few of the bleak photos of many on Watkins's Facebook Page, of him doing the exact same thing, gang signs and smoking weed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">But the major evidence of motive to this murder, was not from a Facebook photo, but an angry comment detectives saw posted earlier before the shooting, suggesting that Watkins was targeted for participating in an earlier gang drug robbery. Again details of some many crimes are posted on Facebook, that detectives view them first.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Who ever did this, of course needs to be in jail. But on the streets they say, don't hate the hustle, hate The Game. No body, would ever chose this Game over real opportunities. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> The problem is America doesn't care enough about ending The Game by providing real opportunities, especially when there are so many ancillary profits to be made outside Black America off the game and the hustlers.</span><br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-2513880283439971712013-03-03T20:30:00.000-08:002013-03-04T00:54:22.502-08:00Fried Chicken, from West Africa, Traveling from Black Celebrations During Chattel Slavery, Throughout the Americas, Including The Barbados, to Southern Roads as a Gris Gris, to My Humble Kitchen on a Cold Winter's Night. <br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I finally managed to properly make fried chicken. Ive been attempting it for years, only succeeding in producing "nuclear explosions" that dismally coated my stove, counter tops, and floor, with thick grease and flower, that I'd immediately clean up as if I were hiding all traces of a crime. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Fried chicken was common in West Africa using batter and palm oil. But it's first introduction to America came from Scottish immigrants who used lard to fry small diced pieces of chicken as a fritter in the mid 1700's. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Enslaved Black people reformatted it, frying whole pieces of chicken and adding spices similar to how it was done in West Africa. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I used a Bajan recipe from the vendors who fry chicken and fish in huge cast iron pots atop </span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">provisional braziers fueled by wood fires along Baxter's Road in Bridgetown, Barbados. Some people compare Baxter's Road to the backstreets of New Orleans in the 1930's or an Afro-Caribbean version of Porgy and Besse's" Cat Fish Row".</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">The Bajan way to fry fish and chicken starts with fresh; scallions, red onions, and garlic, sliced so fine as to be art, combined with a mixture of spices and herbs, that produce a spring green swampy looking mixture, (all in a small mason jar I purchased especially for the occasion), with a "tip" of sea salt added to preserve the concoction in the refrigerator for long term use, which is good because I want to put it on every thing. I let it sit for about a week before I scored and then marinaded the chicken over night, in the pungent highly aromatic secret concoction.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I am proud that on this could winter's night, my home has the good smell associated with the frying of chicken and that I finally mastered the loud crackling hisssssss as each piece of the chicken, coated with flower, <i>and </i>this time mixed with<i> Blue Corn Meal </i>( preferred by the Afro Caribbean's and the original non spanish natives of Latin America) is laid in bacon lard. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">For me fried chicken is not just comfort food in-bedded in the memories of my child hood memories. It's a link to resistance of my ancestors who were able to coax intermittent joy out of the terror, pain, and insanity of chattel slavery. Unlike cows and pigs, chickens though expensive for enslaved Black people, still was affordable enough to be purchased, raised, and eaten, for special occasions. To be ready for these celebrations, the cooks honed their skills by experimenting on the chickens they fried for the white families who in slaved them. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">During segregation, traveling for Black people was fraught with the deadly hazards of Jim Crow laws that changed from town to town and state to state, as well as local racists customs unknown to weary travelers, so often, it was simply best, not even attempt to eat at roadside food shacks. Therefore fried </span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">chicken became not just a hold over meal to keep stops to an absolute minimum, but as sort of </span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">gris gris where Black folk at the beginning of their journey, by either bus or car, prepared a batch of fried chicken, (which traveled well because of the spices) in a shoe box for the long journey generally to visit family, who then prepared for them another shoe box of fried chicken for the the long journey home.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">James Baldwin's essays are brass mechanisms in my compass, guiding me through The Rise of:</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">Military Industrial Complex Drones, Corporate American C<i>onsumer Human Drones,</i> our Government's transformation to S<i>hock Doctrines </i>that fosters P<i>redatory Capitalism</i>, while dumbing down the citizenry.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">James was a true <i>American Optimis</i>t, ( a rare breed), it's deeply unsettling that perhaps I am too?</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">Black folks are America's most valuable, profound, -more American than Apple Pie- yet despised creations, labeled as "distinct hybrids" by James. Intrinsically, I understood this, hence I resisted the "African-American"classification. Yet like most Black folk, I situate my<i> history</i> in Africa, but clearly I'm no immigrant. The only real <i>American Optimism, </i>is not born out of white supremacist myth,</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">but of acceptance of, as James states, our "past of utter alienation from self, from [our] people and [our] history. Of having "a mother that sang 'Sometimes I feel like a motherless child', accepting the reality that being American is a matter involving integrity and [our] greatest hopes, for only by accepting this reality can [we] hope to make articulate to [ourselves] and others, the uniqueness of [our] experience and to set free the spirt so long anonymously caged."</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">James's realization instilled courage, to express Black political anger in his writings and legendary confrontations, including with U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy who stormed out of his own penthouse apartment meeting, because of James's aggressive challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">The expression of <i>Black</i> <i>political anger, </i>is a dichotomy for the most abused people in the world. </span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">To perpetuate American chattel slavery, those in slaved were programed with violence, not to express it, so southerners could maximize production, while being vastly out numbered. In states like South Carolina, Blacks were 90% of the population. <i>Black political anger,</i> is still thoroughly controlled and regimented, furthering white supremacy, while exploiting it's underbelly, <i>Black rage</i>, to fuel predatory economies, like the growing <i>Prison Industrial Complex</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">American Jews, after WWII, issued the mantra "Never Again". Latino's recently galvanized to reform the immigration system, to primarily meet their needs. Black people, now trapped in political and social crisis of economic depravation and violence, are responding with <i>political pacifism, </i>swaying like old trees in winds of specious opinions, ignoring the systematic roots of what's destroying our community, shrugging our shoulders unintelligibly, attending church for the negro spirituals, with bibles held high. We drink, get high, fester, yet dare not express<i> Black political anger</i>, as the first step, in political mobilization.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">The Black masses didn't elect President Obama out of <i>Black political anger</i> for political empowerment, </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> It matters not that he ignores us, we make excuses, bearing outdated beliefs, from slavery, in <i>the mysteries of faith</i>. Obama is our manifestation<i> </i>of the power of <i>Negro Christianity</i> that the <i>meek shall inherit the earth </i>just as Obama inherited the white house. Therefore, there is honor and dignity in our suffering for a delayed reward that we cannot know, until it arrives. We also expect nothing from the rest of our Black leadership, who keep us penned in as their political capital. Former Congressmen Jesse Jackson is exemplar of this. The behavior of he and his wife was outrageous, yet for Black Chicago, simple sadness prevails, for a celebrity Black family, that has gone, dark.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">But anger does not magically dissipate without some form of equal expression.<i> </i>From the continued brutalization of white supremacy and the<i> </i>abandonment by the Black middle class,<i> </i> poor Black adults and children are expressing <i>Black</i> <i>political anger</i> in the only <i>language </i>they know, <i>Black on Black Crime/Violence</i>, that further destabilizes Black America, along with the economic violence of white supremacy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">White America continues to make it highly taboo and non normative, as witnessed by the personal attacks against Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, last summer for their public anger over the neglect of the Black community by President Obama and the rest of the country. Generally white America uses Black surrogates or rightwing whites to attack Black truth tellers that threaten the status quo. The <i>Post Race Era </i>emboldened white liberal WBEZ Radio to punish the two political miscreants. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">James Baldwin wrote that white America operates constantly off a myriad of readily accessible "American myths" personally refined and adjusted, to their level of education and political sentiment, to block them from <i>being forced </i>to "apprehend their true individual relationships" with Black America. "Radio, press, film, and, personal anecdotes considered to be illustrative of American life guide them."</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">If Black people are at all present, they've been <i>preselected</i> to loyally support the myths. James labeled them the "Negro who's forced to say "Yes" to many a difficult question, and yet to deny the conclusion to which all answers point, which is that his past has not been simply a series of ropes and bonfires and humiliations, but something vastly more complex, which is far worse." </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">There is no braver American, than the American Optimist, crashing the back yard parties, not to set them aflame, as the term crash isn't particularly accurate today. From James's writings, a Black women or man understands that they've "crashed" when they just <i>happen </i>to<i> </i>be the "only one" in an environment where they should not technically be alone. And unlike Baldwin's "Negro" who supports the myth, they will speak the truth as casual as one speaks of the weather, yet go to match point with those in abject denial as a point of honor and a burden, to speak on behalf of those rendered at best invisible and at worse demonized by the perpetuators of the myths. </span><br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-70262074046989589752013-02-21T19:37:00.002-08:002013-02-21T19:37:38.193-08:00One Speech + No Resources = More Death/ The Hurricane Sandy of Black America Continues <div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-19378616587399700342013-02-18T15:25:00.001-08:002013-02-22T01:02:03.633-08:00Christopher Dorners, Bigger Thomas, and their Native Sons, merged into a "perfect" storm during the Presidency of Barack Obama and global warning. <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: lime;">Beleaguered, Black America wanted him captured alive so he could talk to the world, for he had a lot to say. And by the time that he would have been executed by the state of California in San Quentin Prison, he would have been transformed into Nat Turner Rising in the Black Community</span>.<br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Years ago, like most works of Black fiction, I read Richard Wright's Native Son, outside the classroom. It was far different than Ralph Ellison's <i>Invisible Man</i>, which I loved.</span><br />
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<i>Native Son</i> left me cold, substituting literary value, for brutal shock. Unlike protest novels, painstakingly lists the sins of the oppressor, Native Son simply tells a bleak story of the "trigger"</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">of every white man, the rape and murder of an attractive white women by a big Black male, unknown. I am equally sure, most Black men, to varying degrees intrinsically feel this connecting if they have frequent interactions with any white women. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I call it "Emmett Till moments", when you're laughing with a white female neighbor while walking your dogs, or spiritedly debating an issue left unresolved from the classroom outside the doors of the library, and all of a sudden, it comes over you, wow I could have been brutally murdered for this, not that long ago. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">James Baldwin's essay <i>Notes of A Native Son</i>, taught me the importance of Richard Wright's novel <i>Native Son</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><i>Native Son</i> answered the question of what really happens to Langston Hughe's "Dream Deferred", that's deeply rooted in our emancipation from 400 years of slavery, when the Federal Government:</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">implemented Reconstruction policies that began to inject full Black representation and participation at all levels of government,</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">After slavery, Black people wanted to be left alone, so we could begin to heal, while doing for our selves with <i>our </i>land what we did for white America for over four hundred years as objects of labor and toil. Because these "objects" instead of being wood and steal, were made of flesh, blood, and bone, we had to be "managed", by whip, bible, rape, castration, mutilation, torture, etc, to make round pegs fit into the triangular pyramid of American Chattel Slavery. Then, smashed back in, when we popped back out, due to this highly unnatural fit.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">The process of being"managed", has created an organic and highly toxic cancer inside us today, which is what Langston Hughes meant when he said "sags like a heavily load" It is also the question of "does it explode"</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> Once my 145 pound French Mastiff, Truth, and I watched over my neighbors house cat while she went home for the Christmas holidays. Twice a day, Truth and I would trek through the snow to her house. I would take care of the cat's needs, while Truth explored the house, followed by the cat at a safe distance, every day coming closer, once it discovered that the only interest Truth had in it, was as a source of smells.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">My neighbor knowing of my love for James Baldwin, brought me back an itching of his grave stone located in the Fern Cliff Cemetery in Westschester County, New York, where she's from.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I was surprised that not only does James's mother, Emma Berdis Jones Baldwin's mortal coil rest beside his- and that she'd outlived him-, but also, there are no other words marking the grave stone of this Black man of infinite literary ability, who was also a radical Black activist, that bore the burden of both Blackness and homosexuality, with so much amazing grace, humor, and courage, that it deepened the roots of his love for Black people.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">It's therefore not surprising when James Arthur Baldwin wrote about Bigger Thomas, he combined his socratic literary gift with deep love, which in this rare case weakened an otherwise brilliant analysis. James's love, liberated Bigger out of the dark dungeon, that Richard Wright created him in, as America's Frankenstein Monster.</span><br />
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<i>Its' an idea which is the frame work of the novel, presenting Bigger as the herald of disaster, the danger signal of a more bitter time to come when not Bigger alone but all his kindred will rise, in the name of the many thousands who perished in the fire and the flood and by rope and torture, to demand their rightful vengeance." But it is not quite fair, it seems to me to exploit the national innocence in this way. The idea of Bigger as a warning boomerangs not only because it is quite beyond the limit of probability that Negroes in America will ever achieve the means by wreaking vengeance upon the state but also because it cannot be said that they have any desire to do so</i>"</span><br />
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<i>Native Son does not convey the altogether savage paradox of the American Negro situation of which the social reality which we prefer with such hopeful superficiality to study is but, as it were, the shadow. It is not simply the relationship of oppressed to oppressor, of master to slave, not is it motivated merely by hatred; it is also, literally and morally, a blood relationship, perhaps the most profound reality of the American experience, we cannot begin to unlock it until we accept how very much it contains of the force and anguish and terror of love. Negroes are Americans and their destiny is the countries destiny</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">James Baldwin, writing is all too current today, yet he was writing at a more optimistic time</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">for Black America. Martin Luther King's Civil Rights Movement was gathering strength in an era of legendary Race men and women. Malcolm X was just released from prison where he converted to Islam, Angela Davis was talking back in high school, and Congressman Adam Clayton Powel was using his office (the only politician to ever do so) to mobilize and organize the whole American Black Community. DuBois and Robinson were still around, along with numerous other progressive, great Black Artists, and activists . James Baldwin was angry enough to "get all up" in Attorney General Robert Kennedy's Face, but he was also part of a wave of radical change sweeping the land, and yes it would bring lot's of death, lots of blood and loss, especially in the Black south, but white violence could not stop it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Today, like that Biggie Smalls song "Things Done Changed"</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Richard Wright was a lot less optimistic than James Baldwin even though James was more vocal and confrontational. Maybe it was because, unlike James who group up in the north, Richard was born on a plantation in Roxie Mississippi.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">James was right that we've not risen up against white America, nor shown any inkling to do so as a group. But unfortunately, America being a purposefully optimistic nation, mostly chose James's side, over Richard's gut feeling, which now bleeds out all over urban Black America today</span>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't forget, unlike Bigger Thomas, Keef isn't one dimensional, <br />
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<span style="color: lime;">More alarming is that James was wrong when he said "Negroes are Americans and their destiny is the countries destiny" Like a rubber band, contraction and expansion are natural to our economy. The various levels are debatable, but clearly our economy was not designed to be systematically looted </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Finally, James writes that Native Son doesn't convey "the savage paradox of the "American Negro situation" which we prefer with "hopeful superficiality". What it does conveys, James says, is "the shadow" that is too constricted as a "black and white relationship of oppressed to oppressor, master to slave, motivated merely by hatred".</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">What he seems to be saying is, not only is Wright missing the Savage Paradox by focusing solely on it's ethereal shadow, but that "America"<i> does </i>prefer his savage paradox although with "hopeful superficiality". It seems like James is speaking for himself as an optimists. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">James makes the case, often made by both Black and white liberals today, that this relationship is symbiotic and and what will save us "literally and morally, a blood relationship, perhaps the most profound reality of the American experience", that "we cannot begin to unlock it until we accept how very much it contains of the force and anguish and terror of love." This the deeply moving prose, chocked-full in every paper he put ink on. it's wrong</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Further I think James Baldwin's "savage paradoxes with hopeful superficiality " has become a well paying part of the Non Profit Industrial Complex, which continues to status quo while exploiting poor black people. Of course James could not have foreseen this part.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Bigger Thomas was the Black Shadow that Brother Richard set loose upon America as a clarion angry baleful warning of things to come if we did not heed to what white America was building. We failed numerous times to listen and the dark shadows have been released from the vast urban dungeons, Ironically merging into a perfect storm during the during the Presidency of Barack Obama and global warning. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Shadows in real like are more damaged than those of fiction. These shadows "say fuck it", and gleefully roll the dice of life and death every day on the block. They are American child terrorist, who unlike child soldiers in Africa did not have to be kidnapped into it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"> They are now the shadows you feel following close behind (be you white or Black)</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">We will not face these Black shadows let alone admit our culpability. When we see them we cross the street or pass them quickly head down between hope and prayer. Richard warned us. Now they don't give a fuck cause you never really did. And I know he could not have predicted they would first devastate their own communities.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">The late great Manny Marable in his ground breaking biography "Malcolm X A Life Reinvention" wrote about a meeting between Chole Ardelia Wofford aka Toni Morrison and Malcolm X</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">at a coffee shop in Harlem. He had just returned from Africa and she needed his help and influence with a struggle she was engaged in with the Pan African Community in New York. Today Wofford is at Oberlin College and this is a good thing. But Oberlin is far removed from the diminishing organic Black radical left in America partially because ending segregation did opened doors of opportunities in academia and the philanthropic world. Yet a price was to be paid. To be there a silence was demanded when you first walk into the door. The problem then comes when you get big enough to challenge the silence, you have forget what it was that you originally came to do. </span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-66445512730073512912013-02-09T22:20:00.003-08:002013-02-10T11:27:11.487-08:00I got them Bessie Smith Blues. I need some of that good Potlikker <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This year she looked me up and down and said "boy you aint drinking enough Potlikker!" She's the only person besides for my late Grandfather ( my mother's father) to call me boy. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Boy, don't bullshit me! I'm talking about yo life force, it's all gray. You need to drink your Potlikker once a month in the summer and twice a month during the Winter. Didn't you learn nothing from Englewood?" Yes she's part of the old Englewood crew, some good people gone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I put the large pot on the stove and as</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> soon as I turned up the heat high, she </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">snapped. " Niggah you free! You aint cooking for white folks.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Turn that dame flame all the way low. The fire needs to be blue just </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">dancing around the burner, boy, just flickering. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And you gotta keep watch on it to make sure the flame don't go out on that old stove of yours. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the first time my greens cooked for four hours, which is the difference between </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">regular greens and greens with </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Potlikker. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">My Aunt and mom only stuck around for the first two hours because they had a card game to hosts and Aunt V had already diagnosed the problem ( I was cooking them for around an hour and a half on high heat as oppose to four hours on very low heat) </span></span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">while explaining the history and importance of </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Potlikker, while teaching me to make corn bread. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> V n</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ow informed me that corn bread is generally served as part of a meal along with just the </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Potlikker, but she wanted me to know how to make both. </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The rest of the history I filled in with old New Orleans and African cook books</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> that I've been </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">purchasing on line as part of my collection.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When they cooked the greens for their captors, they took the Potlikker back for their own families to supplement the often meager and poor quality rations provided them. Potlikker is the most beneficial part of the greens because it's loaded with vitamins including A, B, C and E and nutrients like potassium and iron, that flow from the greens to what becomes with regular tap water an elixir at the bottom of the pot, that is generally stored in the refrigerator or frozen for later use.</span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-68685745199699390152013-02-06T11:56:00.000-08:002013-02-06T11:57:26.991-08:00The Obama Campaign & The White House, A Segregationists's Dream / Where Do We Go from Here, Community or Chaos? <span style="color: lime;">As death circled closer, Martin Luther King Jr, shifted from integration to the disparity of wealth and the Vietnam War.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">He just left Chicago reeling from the shock of entrenched racism and violence of the white "northern" community, calling it "worse than "Bombing-ham", (Birmingham Alabama).</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">The poverty and internalized oppression of Black Chicago unsettled King far more than the most terrified southern tenant farmer and there was a hopelessness on the south and westside that he'd never seen before.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Black politicians and Black ministers joined together, publicly attacking him almost daily, telling him to go home. And he knew the "polite" Mayor Daley who welcomed him to Chicago was behind it. King considered Chicago his first and only defeat. Deeply humiliated, depressed, and unmoored, the organic intellectual, penned a sermon at the Air Port entitled "<i>Those Strange Negroes Up North</i>".</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">It was the first of his second most untraditional sermons. After deeper reflection, King rose from his spiritual abyss and wrote "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community.</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">Black Chicago and most of Black America have failed to answer the question, choosing chaos by default. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">We are a both a modern day Chekhov play of the tragic, the comic, and full of pathetically sad irony; and an updated version of Ellison's Invisible Man. In this play the curtain opens with deafening cheers from Black middle class America, euphoric because we have just elected a Black President and as we listen to his inauguration speech, standing next to him are James "Jamie" Dimon, Larry Summers, Rahm Emanuel, Timothy Geithner, and William Daley.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Some begin to wonder who is this strange cabal of white men? And a few even recognized some of them and were disturbed. The President had studied the Black race and indeed had immersed himself in their culture, and they adopted him, as they were generous this way. So the President understood them better than they understood themselves and knew just what to do. Obama flashed that smile and presses a red button under the podium, labeled "Black America", and the song "Electric Slide" blasted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">And the Black people begin to dance to the Electric Slide in perfect sync, for we have been practicing for a very long time</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some say it's mystic<br />
It's electric<br />
Boggie Woggie Woggie</td></tr>
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You can't see it<br />
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Come let me take you on the party ride<br />
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<span style="color: lime;">And for the next three years, no matter how bad it got in the hood, We danced. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">The Foreclosures Draining Black wealth, (we danced),</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Black Unemployment, (we danced),</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Blacks Recycled Into the Prison Industrial complex, (we danced),</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Public Schools closing/ Charter Schools as Patronage (we danced)</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Black on Black Shootings ( we danced).</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">We danced, We danced, We danced, because the image of a Black President in the White House with his Black family, for us was worth dancing for. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> Those who disagreed and tried to interrupt the dancing, were labeled "sell outs", "haters". They were called "disconnected" and stuck in an outdated era, unable to compete and afraid to let go of the security blanker of race and forge ahead, in our new Post Race Society that the election of President Obama created.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Months leading up to the last election, a minority of progressive Black voices ( marginalized further into the political wilderness) complained about President Obama's neglect of the Black community</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">and his foreign policies that differed little from those of George Bush(s) and it got worse.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> President Obama became politically abusive to the Black community. Tearing a notorious page from</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"> then 1st time presidential candidate Bill Clinton's political note book, who pimped Rev. Jesse Jackson's invitation to deliver the key note speech at The National Rainbow Convention. Instead of being gracious for the invite "into" Black America, Clinton demonstrated to white voters his willingness to" stand-up" to Black leadership. Clinton began by lecturing a shocked Jesse Jackson, then turned to face progressive female lesbian Hip Hop artist Sister Souljah, (who Jesse Jackson had just given a leadership award to), and called her a racist on national TV.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Obama, did the same last spring when the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) complained about his unwillingness to address the 40% poverty rate of Black children and the 14% Black unemployment rate ( more than double that of white America), and the Black on Black violence that began to climb in urban cities.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Like Clinton, Obama waited for a national Black event to strike, selecting the Black Caucus's very own dinner dance. Obama repeated their charge and then said with laughter, that the CBC needed to "quit complaining, quit whining, and quit crying"</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">President Obama's message received wide support, not just among conservative white America, but liberal white America too, who saw Obama as their savor. Finally they too were free to express their latent racism against poor Black people and those annoying "race matters this" and "race matters that" "professional Black complainers".</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">The real sad thing was when the confused and rudderless Black people in the audience gave Obama a standing ovation, demonstrating the self loathing and internalized oppression of the Black bourgeoisie class along with mainstream Black America.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">More unfortunate was that Black politicians were put on notice, President Obama was not to be criticized.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">It was like the Twilight Zone. Had George Bush uttered those words accidentally within recording range, a political riot would've ensued, let alone, had he said them at an all Black event in front of national TV.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">As the Black murder and poverty rate spun out of control, people like Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, Rob Redding, Reverend Al Sharpton, Professor Michael Dyson, Bruce Dixon and Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report, stepped up their criticism. Now was the time, before the election, they argued, to push Obama, to be more responsive. Yet Obama skillfully played us like a yo-yo.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">To score political points, Obama dropped the the Black community and pulled us back up with even cheaper stunts, like at the Apollo Theater, when Obama sang ( to the Black community) Al Green's hit song "Lets Stay Together" and most Black people who began to question his commitment to the Black America, got silenced again, bushed aside by the Black middle class, who because of that one stunt, re-upped their loyalty to Obama like crack fiends.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I've never seen the Black community in Chicago so ecstatic as when Obama crooned the words "We belong Together, Let's stay Stay Together, in any Sort of Weather". It was almost as he announced that Black folks would be receiving reparations for slavery, momentarily.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Of course while Obama was singing, the Obama Campaign was draining the steam from the Black protest movement. Tavis and West lost two stations for their nationally syndicated radio show, including Chicago's WBEZ a major market. Clearly white liberals made their choice based upon their interests.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> And Obama employed drones in the Black community. Not lethal military drones, but hungry scholars and activists, looking for a platform and certainly willing to knock West and any other credible black voice out of the trees. West became entangling in so many public beef's that he began to tire and his righteous thunder diminished as his own people turned on him, accusing him of being petty and jealous of Obama, as oppose to brave enough to risk his career on behalf of poor and imprisoned Black people.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Reverend Al Sharpton, meanwhile, got called to The White house, emerging with his own syndicated national TV show in which to support President Obama and himself of course. He claimed he didn't understand the "big picture" until it was explained to him at the white house. Typical of today's Black "reverend".</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Ironically Before Obama even ran for President Arron McGruder in his cartoon The Boondocks predicted the rise of Al Sharpton whom he lambasted as Reverend Rollo Goodlove.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">And Professor Dyson seemed to go the cheapest, all he got was a ticket with complete access to the Democratic National Convention as a White House Press Source for the Black community. Interestingly enough every time he was pulled aside for an interview( which was often), he always seemed to have a plate of food and a drink in hand. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Blacks as expected, voted overwhelmingly for the President, 94% with a 12% turn out. Obama did surprisingly well with hispanics with 71% with a 9% turn out. What really helped Obama, however, was the 7 million white voters who just stayed home. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">The Hispanics, were the first( even beating big labor) to immediately swoop in and claimed credit for the Obama victory. Unlike the Black community, Hispanics demonstrated their new ability to play hard ball national politics as skillfully as they play it in Chicago.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I wrote in a previous post, about the political negotiations and unprecedented campaign spending ( that didn't happen in the Black community), from the White House being fast and furious with the Hispanic Community beginning early last spring. Immigration became a focal point for Obama, and Hispanic deportations which had grown ( like Black unemployment) under Obama, in a mistaken attempt to get middle class white male support, suddenly ceased.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Hispanics are now on the fast track to be the first immigrant group to become incorporated into the fabric of America, like the Irish and Italians.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">If Obama had equally focused on the Black community, he could have jumped Black voter turn out</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">easily. He had the money and equally important, a larger support base. Obama's grassroots organizing credentials are more suspect than the book "Gang Leader for A Day", but real grassroots organizers in</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">the hood were begging to be put into the game, in order to make a name with the Obama. This was one of the reasons why they held their criticism against President Obama, who in the end completely ignored them. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">The Black community never considered that Obama (from Hawaii to the ivy leagues), had strategically made Chicago his home and the Black community was a vehicle for ascension. Upon his arrival to the oval office, Black people collectively should've been asking if Obama actually consider himself "Black" as oppose to "American" (from white and African heritage) and therefor did he in fact hold, long term political calculations for the empowerment of the Black community? Because when he swung hard for hispanics, the Black community was not in the equation, which was reflected on the whiteness of the Obama Campaign. Ironically enough, the National Headquarters located in Chicago, (the most segregated city in America) was the whitest of all the major offices, including New York and Washington D.C. Many Black politicians referred to it as "The Apartheid Inn of Chicago"</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> The campaign, like all liberal white organizations, was equally clueless at just how white they appeared. One morning they tweeted the below photo to demonstrate how Obama's senior staff ( Top Picture 2011) built one of the strongest Presidential organizations in history ( Low Picture 2012). But what it demonstrated was just how white the campaign was. the Black Nationalist community in Chicago howled in outrage. Hilariously someone posted on the Huffington Post that the below picture was a "Next Generation Tea Party Leadership Meeting"</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Toward the end of the election,the Black middle class finally began to concede that Obama had done little for Black America, and even the Republican obstructionist argument wore thin, as Obama continued to distance himself from Black people. He started dropping major events scheduled in "the hood" for white events and elite fundraisers. Obama for instance agreed to serve as the grand marshal of the famed, Black, Bud Billiken Back to School Parade on the southside of Chicago, which is also Obama's home. The parade is the largest in Illinois and the second largest in America. The question of his attendance became a national media story, due to the Black on Black gun violence on the west and south side, which Obama refused to address. To end the speculation the parade's director announced Obama's agreement to attend as grand marshal, months before the event.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Not only didn't Obama show up, but his campaign's use of numerous white campaign workers to work the all Black crowd again strongly suggested that the Black community was an after thought to the campaign. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Yet the Black middle class, never quick to anger, unless it's at the expense of Black poor people, reverted back to a sad and less sophisticated expression of hope and optimism used during slavery, that god would take care of the Black "people of Moses". The popular mantra of the Black middle class became, that President Obama was just waiting to get his second term as President, then once freed from the constraints of having to run for election again, he would come to the rescue of the Black community. They described him as a sad prisoner in the white house, just waiting for his chance to break free.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I would ask some of them on what assumption was this base on? In return I got that quizzical, patronizing look and smile that older Black folks give that says they have some inside information based upon the their wisdom of their age, just wait they would say. Ironic because know one has spent so much time waiting, for nothing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">But at that point it was too late any way, to mobilize Black people to respond to the current conditions of our lack of empowerment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Unlike the previous Obama campaign, this one was like rotten corpse reanimated by the Black middle class's endless search for fools gold, big corporate money, fear of Romney, cynical political manipulations of the democratic party to protect the political status quo of race and class and a subconscious fear of real Black empowerment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">And because the campaign lacked a true moral rudder, it mirrored our strange and bizarre hyper consumer culture in ways that should have been offensive to the Black community. Not only was it run by an all white TV sitcom generation of Friends, Seinfeld, and Girls, but it also became the first campaign that recognized, idolized, and fetishized young white males as an elite group dedicated to social, cultural, and historical retrograde and reinvention, i.e. white hipster culture that stresses the "golden" age of the 1950s and white male supremacy and masculinity. This was so prevelent that combined with the triumph of white liberalism over the American progressive left, that so called progressive political magazines trumpeted these white male hipsters on the Obama campaign.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">In a<i> Mother Jones </i>article<i> </i>entitled "<i>Inside The Obama Campaign's Hard Drive</i>", Tim Murphy lovingly describes how Harper Reed went from peddling ironic Obama T shirts to white hipsters, to chief technology officer for the Obama Campaign. Reed, who describes himself as "pretty awesome" and a "certified hipster" has the prominent white male hipster waxed handle bar mustache, from the bygone</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Joining in on the fawning of Reed's rugged Americana white maleness, was the Atlantic Monthly's Alexis Madridal who had the "privilege" of hanging out with Reed, and sycophantically describes his rock star treatment at all the latest trendy hipster clubs. "<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He may be like you, but he also juggles better than you, and is wilder than you, more fun than you, cooler than you. He's what a king of the nerds really looks like. Sure, he might grow a beard and put on a potbelly, but he wouldn't tuck in his t-shirt." </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">There was never any discussions about the while maleness of this team. Seriously, while I did find two white women on Reed's team, I could not find one Black person and I challenge you to. More irony of the Obama Campaign, it was a segregationist's dream. Racism that would have sunk other democratic campaigns was unchallenged on the Obama Campaign. No careers of unknown Black people were made, they fought for crumbs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Now some of the Black establishment have finally awoken and are telling the truth about our Black President. Ben Jealous, NACCP President, told MSNBC host David Gregory on “Meet the
Press”, that “White people in this country are doing better, but Black people are
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the growing chorus of voices criticizing President Obama, although from a Black middle class perspective. At the National Newspaper Publishers Association Convention, (NNPA) a Black news organization, Hastings said Obama continuously disrespects the Congressional Black Caucus, the Black
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<span style="color: lime;">So we are in the chaos and it is rising, although most are not aware, but that is by design. Lots of shiny objects dance in front of our eyes keeping us entertained. And the leaders who would have historically reacted, who would have previously mounted some challenge, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Michael Dyson, etc, have now accepted different roles. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Perhaps they know that all is lost. I am not hopeful, there are to many holes in this ship, it's evident every where you turn. State and city governments are collapsing onto it's citizens, which means the Federal Government is not too far behind. Last summer and the globally warmed winter have adjusted us far more to violence, which I guess is a "good thing" in that we have less police and the ones still on the job are reverting back to violent palace guards. I'm predicting Chicago going carry and conceal, which is becoming popular in Black America</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> I'm not saying America will look like some Apocalyptic fantasy from Hollywood. After all those movies are suppose to be "romatic", but I know this, because we are so unaware, so ignorant, and so selfish, the collapse our economy will be combined with the increased tragicomic insanity of the American public, that will make the pain much worse, but we will not know it, until we are completely submerged, like frogs placed in water slowly heating to a boil.</span><br />
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<!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-20350917745389542242013-01-28T13:21:00.000-08:002013-01-28T21:29:16.727-08:00The Pox on me, Midnight Cowboy, Midwest vs New Orleans fashion, The return of the Fringe Suede Jacket???<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Another thing that sucks about Chicago is it's bland uniformity. A few weeks ago I wrote about today's "white boy beard and flannel movement, representing the threatened id of white male masculinity.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">One reason why I love New Orleans is that so many of Her denizens of every age outfit themselves in lagniappe of all manners of cloth and color schemes, combined with kaleidoscopes of the most garish accessories, top hats, bowlers,vests, chains, boots, gloves jewelry, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">I remember meeting one women who fancied hight top Chuck Taylors and white prom dresses dinged and yellowed with age and numerous machine washings and dryings, at Igor's Check Point Charlie where one can drink, eat a spicy sausage sandwich, dance to Zydico, and do laundry all at at the same time. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">New Orleans second stores are also literal time machines to retrieve some of the most interesting garments from eras long long faded and gone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">The east coast, although considerably downscaled compared to Nola, also like Chicago has their share of white hipsters and scenesters. But there are also a lot of people, straight-up doing their own fashion things. And generally these people start trends often times borrowing from the other continents including, Africa, Asia and Europe.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">In terms of fashion, Chicago just stumbles behind at best. And if a trend gets embraced, Chicago will run it into into the ground, which says something about midwesterners. Indeed, Chicagoans are typically far more comfortable in beige pants and a polo shirts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Besides for Chicago, I've never walked into a bar or restaurant where damn near every one is wearing the same "uniform", which I find really creepy. Logan Square's own Long Man and Eagle ( I call it The Hipster Hunting Lodge) is an exemplary example of this. Personally, I like Long Man and Eagle and was there last week, but it's ridiculous how many adults feel so comfortable in the same fashion uniform as every body else. I remember looking around at every one basking in their own conformity safe and sound.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Besides for grammar school, Iv'e always embodied the New Orleans mode of doing my own thing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Two years ago I brought a brown suede fringe jacket that I always wanted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Thinking back on it, I think it was connected to when I had a serious case of the Chicken Pox as a child. I don't remember the rash, except two red bumps on the instep of my foot that looked like they were made by a child vampire. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"> What I really remember, was the full on hallucinatory dreams that occurred several times a day and night where a small malevolent dark pebble appeared before me, hovering in the air. Soon, It would begin to vibrate while growing slowly. As the vibrations increased with greater intensity, the whole room would shake with it. And the virus also created some weird sensory distortions inside me were I could taste the pebble in my mouth. I felt some bizarre symbolic connection with the pebble that continued to vibrate making a mechanical droning sound until it reached the the size of a large boulder still floating air were it would bounce while making a smashing sound. It not only wrecked my mother's bed room ( now became my sick room because my dreams caused me to fall out of my smaller bed that she then slept in) and caused all the surrounding buildings to collapse on my block.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">I could see the deviation outside by looking out from a collapsed wall on of our third floor apartment, and would have to be restrained by my mother as a screamed and fought, knowing that I was responsible for countless of deaths including my friends due to the "earth quakes" I caused by the malevolently pebble that I was some how connected to mentally. Once my mother even called my younger cousin who lived downstairs to appear before me to show she wasn't keeping his funeral from me that I claimed she attended after he died in the rubble. Afterwords he promptly went down to the corner and told every body that his older cousin had gone insane and was dying. Then my mother had to fend of the neighborhood coming to "check in on me". My mother didn't admit them to contain the virus, but I learned later that my best friend even worse his suit that he wore to his cousin's funeral.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Finally my Mom , deeply exhausted, called my very southern aunt Murk. Murk still lived in Englewood and had been "doctoring" me by phone- as she always had since we moved off her block. My Mom told her she was taking me to the emergency room. Murk told her that Cook County Hospital's weighting room would only make things worse and that my uncle Mike was driving her over directly. Murk had never been wrong so my Mom apprehensive agreed to wait.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">When Murk arrived, she carried me into the bathroom, although she was very attractive with a gold tooth and shapely figure, she was at least six, all most as tall as her giant of a husband Mike, and she had man's strength. She placed me into the bathtub that she and my Mom had already filled with hot water and cooked oat meal. After I soaked a bit, she added a strange brown pouch filled with some mixture that turned the water dark green and pinkish, and smelled really really bad. Afterwords she oiled me down with something that smelled both sweet, tar-ish and like cedar wood that made my skin tingle. My uncle Mike arrived again. He had dropped my aunt off and went to get provisions, Harold's Chicken, whiskey and some other medicinal ingredients. While we all ate, my aunt lectured my Mom on the ills of "white folks medicine" while my uncle Mike made faces at me getting me to laugh. My aunt then told my Mom that I needed to stay up for a few more hours but that she -who hadn't really slept for a week-, should go sleep in her own bed and that I would be fine in the morning. My Mom wouldn't budge so Murk escorted her to her bed room.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">I -starting to feel better- got to watch TV in the living room all by myself. The only thing on was Midnight Cow Boy. It was the first real "grown up" movie I'd ever seen and it haunted me. And I remember being greatly puzzled by Jon Voight's strange suede fringe jacket </span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">A couple of hours later my aunt brought in what turned out to be one of her famous hot toddies, that immediately put me to sleep. That night I dreamed of the dark New York City that I'd seen in Midnight Cowboy. It was both mysterious and melancholy. But for the first time, the pebble and it's destruction were gone although I can still "taste" that rough and metallic pebble even today. I awoke around noon in my own bed. My aunt and uncle were gone and had cleaned all traces of their visit. I watched cartoons while my Mom slept for a few more hours. She'd taken the last three days off from work and was able to go back the next day. I had one more day off of school to make sure I was completely cured.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">From time to time I would see that fringe Jacket and think back on those crazy days when I was so disconnected from the world and felt surrounded by death which for some reason the fringes of the jacket remind me off, dangling seemingly precariously from the body of the brown skin jacket.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"> The people who wore it always seemed cool and mysterious. Two years ago I brought one. I really liked it. It reminded me of a blanket made of buffalo skin, not that I'd ever seen one before.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">The last person I'd actually seen wearing it was this feminist women from Colorado who I went to school with on the east coast years ago. When I showed my purchase to the women that I was with at the time, she looked at it alarmed with a slack jaw. She hated it and called it "gay". This led to the jacket being banished to my back closet for another year. My next girl friend was equally dismissive, she told me it made me look old and silly. I came really close to cutting the fringes off because the suede was so cool, but I just couldn't bring myself to deface my jacket like that. The fringes seemed to be a necessary part about it. So it sat for another two years.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">The funny thing was had I lived in Nola or New York I would have thought nothing of wearing it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">I've been wearing this jacket for the last six months and I love the way it hangs on my shoulder and the way it sounds like a large tarp when I lay it down. My friend who owns a bar in my neighborhood told me he has a black one that he use to wear back in art school, he said he was going to start wearing his but his wife who happened to be at the bar roundly and soundly rejected the idea so he said he was gonna give it to me, which she immediacy approved.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">I get lots of compliments and the cool thing is I have not seen any one wearing one. Until two weeks ago.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"> As we were sitting at his bar a regular who I never really spoke to walked over wearing "my" jacket, clearly new. I gave her a dirty look and she just smiled at me. My friend laughed and told the bartender to give her a free drink I gave him a dirty look too. But I guess if my fringe jacket does catch on to these drab midwestern plains then so be it at least I can say I did my small part to make people seem less drab in Chicago</span><br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-83346938481070702832013-01-18T18:18:00.000-08:002013-01-21T03:13:55.369-08:00 The Space Created by Django, The N Word, The Niggarati,<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: lime;">I'm looking forward to seeing <i>Django Unchained</i>. I wanted to see it Christmas Eve, but it was
pulled in the wake of the Newtown Massacre.
It will be at the new Logan Theatre soon. I'll walk there and have a drink at the new snazzy bar inside the theatre afterwards, which seems the proper way to go about this. But oh, how my neighborhood has
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<span style="color: lime;">There's been a lot positive reviews from Black
intellectuals and activists. Others, lead by Spike Lee </span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">( who stated he has no
planes of even seeing it) have been caustic and inflammatorily negative, outraged that a white man would dare trespass with movie cameras into
the collective memory of chattel slavery to share his perspective. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">What's really behind this "outrage" is the shame of
the Black communities's inability and lack of political will to finally force
ourselves and America, to phycological process slavery as a collective. Which is why Spike is bucking off shots wildly at every aspect of <i>Django
Unchained </i>while opening old wounds of division in the Black
community. Like the use of the word "Niggah" or "Nigger", depending on the user's color. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Now, what should be a
much needed debate on the legacies of Chattel Slavery in America, has been reduced to
stereotypical Niggahs "Beef'n", </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">1967 Chicago Mayoral Candidate, 1968 U.S. Presidential Candidate, Black Activists, and Comedian Brotha Dick Gregory, came out of retirement to defend <i>Django Unchained</i>, demonstrating his continued relevance by effectively using modern urban warfare tactics ( gleamed from Gangsta Rappers) by uploading a You Tube video to the general public dissing Spike, calling him a "Punk" and
interestingly enough, a "thug".
I'm just glade Dick is starting to</span> <span style="color: lime;">get up in years, cause it looked like he was about to assemble his crew and "come see" Spike. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Holding Spike down, is Black progressive radio talk show host Brotha Rob Redding Jr of "The Redding Report", who flagellated himself and his callers, to the point of such high pitched frenzy and thick foamy froth, that while</span><span style="color: lime;"> </span><span style="color: lime;">castigating those of us who use the "N word", </span><span style="color: lime;"> the generally nuclear charged Redding, ran out of steam, during the last hour of this three hour show, barely crawling past the finish
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<span style="color: lime;">This "Battle Royale" caused Quentin Tarantino- who is a unique combination of cinema-graphic wizard and
intellectual Wigger- to lace up his Timbz and with relish jump in the ruckus, saying among other things that his "use of the word Nigger was historically accurate". His utterance of the actual word Nigger ( in
the white form) incited even more hysteria amongst the belligerents whom have now now
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effectively, the gambling, hotels,
booze,and drugs, etc, to take back half of America, while addicting a good twenty
percent of the white population to the above vices, (payback for the blankets with the small
pocks), those knuckle heads chose to mimic the very same capitalistic behavior, which placed
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<span style="color: lime;">Now illegal Hispanic immigrants and their home countries are getting their Reparations, in the form of American citizenship. I call it payback from Uncle Gringo Sam's use of war to snatch half of Mexico and it's gun boat diplomacy that stripped Latin
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<span style="color: lime;">Abraham Lincoln, before being assassinated, planned to
monetarily "compensate" Black folk for our 200 years -plus- years of
toiling as chattel. He also anticipated the bottomless gusher of hatred that
would be directed against us, as a free
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<span style="color: lime;">Immediately post slavery, white and Black leadership demanded we forget slavery in the
hopes of lessoning white rage and violence. Yet, this violence continued from slavery as a form of the maintenance and furtherance of Jim Crow Segregation. Today we remain shackled and mired
in Slavery's legacy, because of the lack of phycological, emotional, and intellectual processing, combined with historical "forgetting" that has occurred over the years, and continues. This has disconnected most Black people from the image of our bodies having ever been in slaved, while the ugliness continues to fester and grow inside, over coming us, as we blindly pick at the wound, not knowing
why we hurt. Yet we act out our hurt, filling up the graveyards and the jail cells, turning the Prison Industrial Complex into a major growth industry.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Quentin. Hell, he not only has a Black name, but a Black Chicago westside name, and, he's given Black people the first
open space to talk about slavery since The Movie Roots. He also created this space big
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<span style="color: lime;">But Quentin's been in training for this Moment ever since he
dropped "Pulp Fiction", which drastically changed-up the portrayal of
Black people in Hollywood movies. In Pulp Fiction, the "Leading Man" was both a
Black, Sam Jackson, ( semi famous then) paired with the famous John Travolta,
who instead of the being the lead man, was the dopey side kick. Jackson was articulate, funny, and equally
lethal. He also lived through the movie's
end and turned over a new leaf in life. Travolta got wasted walking out of a bathroom. Even today, Black men in movies very seldom live as in life. </span></div>
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rape of Black crime boss ( another strong Black Male Character) Mr. Marcellus
Wallace by a white supremacists named
"Zed". Mr. Marcellus had his brutal revenge by escapting and then " calling some hard pipe hitting Niggas" to "get the pliers and the blow
torches" to get "medieval" on Zed.
As a feminist, I'd never make light use of the word "rape" as a metaphor. But in this
case Quentin used it as commentary on the Black male experience in white
America, and I think his use was highly apropos and creative as an outsider looking in with care. And as you can see the use of the "N word" was frequent in this and his other movies with Black characters.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Then Quentin dropped "Jackie Brown". Pulling the
great Pam Grier out of retirement to star as a Black women who's deep beauty and
intelligence, isn't enough to insure her happiness in white America. So there she is, an aging stewardess stuck at a discount third rate spring break two way shuttle Mexican Airline, caught between a ruthless murdering drug and guns dealer ( played by Samuel Jackson), who pays her to
occasionally smuggle drugs into the country, and a ruthless DEA Agent who sets her up to catch Jackson.
But Jackie Brown aint no body's fool.
She plays them both and escapes free and clear with
enough cash to buy a new life in the tropics with the assistance of Max, and honest mellow bail bondsmen with a soft
spot, also getting old in the game. Max originally was paid by Jackson( so he
can kill her) to bail her out and ends up falling in love with her the moment she walks out of jail. Quentin uses another major leading white male character as a minor character, Robert De Niro, who's not only is a bumbler, but also an old dumb stoner who spends more time in prison than out, he also gets wasted. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Mostly "space" in the Ivy tower ends up being like those brotha's in the hood, putting fancy rims on hoopties and personally I'm a lot more sympathetic to the brotha's with them hoopties. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">The space to talk about slavery is both rare and extremely difficult to create. Black folk at best have been conditioned not to process and contextualize the experience. At worse we consider it a necessary evil that allowed Black people to "escape" from a barbaric land called Africa, which of course this is both specious and insane. While many Americans continue to live in ignorance, still it's common knowledge how slavery and then colonialism stripped Africa of it's greatness living it as the wreck it is today. The actually creation of a genuine "space" is a painstakingly complexed processes, especially in America that systematically creates spaces for consumerism and violence, racism, sexism, poverty, etc.</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"> Space also cannot exists for the sake of space, space that is not used does not exist. A shelter for abused women is not a safe space if abused women are not able to access it. Space that empowers is finite and often times the oppressed and the manipulated have to be tricked and forced inside of it, for their own good. Too often the movies about slavery do not get the Black people who need to be empowered, inside their for totally different reasons.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">For instance, I'm a double fisted reader, two books at a time. But for me, movies, (also as opposed to dramatic theatre), only have entertainment value, i.e. horror, action and maybe Sci-fi. I didn't see Beloved because I read the book. The same with the Secrete Life of Bee's. Personally, most movies about the Black experience, especially slavery, are overwhelmed with catastrophic sadness, which is the Black experience. But because of the necessary shortness of movies, little time can be spent creating what necessarily goes with the catastrophic, deep dark wells of faith, love, and humor, which without, we wouldn't have survived slavery. And as fucked up as this sounds, I bet in the Hellish hauls of the slave ships some Richard Pryor mother fucker was making a joke about the food and the rats. Cause that's what Black folks do. It's in our soul. And there was prayers and songs. And on the deck when those evil whites made us dance to get circulation, we turned it into the "Ring Shout" creation a space for the ifi which is the reason why most of us were able to go back down to the Hellish hauls every time we were were brought up on deck. As oppose to the few, who for equally good reason made the decision that it was time to journey on to Orun, flinging their mortal coils sometimes with babies, into the sea for the waiting sharks who followed these boats all the way to the new world because this happened frequently.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">But the visceral experience of catastrophic sadness created by movies are good for white people. They need to get these "spiritual baptisms" as well as and they need to read the books. I was born into the baptism so I don't need the soaking any more. But I need the books to be able to write, speak, and translate it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">A lot of working class and poor Blacks also need to see these movies, although, they've e also been baptized into it the catastrophic. But like most of Black America, they've never been given the intellectual and culturtual space to process it. With these movies they'd be able to both stand on the outside of themselves and see themselves as part of the Black collective. Most Black people, from the Ex cons and the street entrepreneurs, the baby mamas, the janitors, the cops and nurses aids, bus drivers, and preachers, as the poor and the working class, know very little about slavery and think it has little bearing on their lives. Again, this is the process of forgetting that began as soon as we were free. But in these movies there is no action, no sex appeal, and no graphic violence, so they don't go see them and they would be the primary beneficiaries.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Quentin changed all this. As oppose to the hero, being the Black person who's abel to suffer stoically through the most abuse, in Django as Ice Cub sang "Freedom Got an A.K"( AK-47 assault rifle). And these Blacks are not hapless victims of history but people who rose
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<span style="color: lime;">Another part of Spike's beef with Tarantino that white male access draws major Hollywood money.</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">This is more Niggarati bullshit. Poor Black folks and working Black folks end up having to cry broke when they go broke. Spike Lee is Spike Lee is not broke as an artists. He's just allowed himself to be come a petulant lazy Black man who's lost his vision as a once powerful voice. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">What's ironic it that it was Spike Lee who popularized the concept of Black Reparations by naming his film production company and his Afro-centric clothing store "Forty Acres and A Mule".</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Instead of being petty, Spike should use Django as the starting point for a New Black Movement calling for Reperations.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Today we have a Black President that gives the Black community, nothing but symbolism and like the rest of our Black political leadership, he continues to us as political props, instead of advancing our interests. Now Spike wants to get all up in Quentin's face for doing something positive? </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">needs to join ranks under one banner and proclaim it's time for Black people to cease being "America's Problem" and that imprisoned Black bodies, will not, be the solution, to the America's economic decline as part of the Prison Industrial Complex. Therefore it's time to give Black America Reparations, </span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">We need to rush into this space created by Quentin and expanded The Reparation's Movement based upon Three Hundred Years of Slavery and One hundred years of Jim Crow. Spike needs to request that Obama show Django in The White House. If Woodrow Wilson can show Birth of A Nation in the White House that helped codify Jim Crow into national politics, why can't President Obama show Django? </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">We all know Obama's not going to show it, but the request will generate heat on him expanding the space. He will have to respond if the Niggarati get behind this. I say lets drag President Obama into the space. Lets get Quentin who's spoken at length about The Prison Industrial Complex as the New form of Slavery, on board. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">We have to be resourceful, like when a Dave Chappelle got the "pretty white girl" to sing all the true things about race that he wanted to say to America, but no one would listen precisely because he's a Black Man. Quentin can be our white voice. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Middle/upper middle class white males are 30% of the population yet commit 80% of mass public shootings. Because of them, the term "<i>going postal</i>" has now expanded to grammar schools. </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yet, political and academic silence nullifies <i>their </i>direct<i> </i>responsibility, tripping a default switch, that equally distributes blame amongst the rest of the 70% non white male population. This blocks urgent conversations about the
growing problem of <i>white male terrorism</i>, arising out of their historic
insecurity over their masculinity in the context of white supremacy. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This insecurity can be traced back to slavery, and especially, the post civil war era. White men lived in rabid fear, angst, and hatred over the thought of Black men coming into contact with "their" white women, despite the fact that white males commonly raped and molested Black women during and beyond slavery. They also </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">promulgated myths of Black male sexuality being highly aggressive accompanied by an instinctual desire to rape white women. In fact, </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">white men exhibited a puerile fetishistic interest in Black male sexuality. After 1877 when white males reversed the equality and gains made during Reconstruction- the most progressive era in America-, Black male lynchings became a common form of not just political violence, but violence with sexual sadistic undertones. Many of these lynchings concerned the "honor" of white women. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The torture death of 14 year old Emmett L. Till was a text book white male response to perceived threats against their masculinity. Similarly, during the Jim Crow Era, before or after a Black male lynching, it was common for white men to "ceremonially" castrate the victim in front of audiences of thousands, including women and children. This was so common that William Faulkner wrote a castration scene of a man rumored to have Black blood, in his novel, "Light In August". Besides for the castration, pieces of the victims body were cut off and kept as souvenirs. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p>I've
been following Dr. Ann Little's blog, Historianann.com</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">for a good minute. I dig the
combination of history and sexual politics. But now I'm starting to think that first wave </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> feminism</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> wed to white liberalism is still the dominant feminist strain in America.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">After The Newtown Massacre, I checked back, to get
her take. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sadly,
her thoughts were benedictive of the dominant and insular
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;">Two
weeks later, I was pleasantly surprised to hear Dr. Little as a guest
on the the irrepressible “We Are Respectable Negroes” Blogger Chauncey DeVega’s podcast,
speaking at length about the Newtown Massacre, against the back drop of White
male masculinity insecurity, privilege, paranoia, and American gun culture</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Last summer I and DeVega repeatedly clashed about his fawning over President Obama, so I'm in no way a sycophant. But now that Obama is safety installed back in The White House to insure that the multi-national banking class is protected, DeVega has expanded his range, demonstrating skills of a Black Salman Rushdie in terms of cultural critique(s) with the intellectual agility similar to those kids in the Boogie Down Bronx and Harlem hooping hard on the back top while putting up money through chain link nets that make that sweet jingly swisshhhh Ka Chink sound.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It
was an enlightening and brilliant conversation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Yet something troubled me, some rub under the rug. It seemed that Dr. Little's</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> "new" second and third wave feminist enlightenment fit her like an uncomfortable wool sweater, seeming "out of range" with her blog.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For instance she repeatedly said her book "Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England." was about "guns and guys". Again "guys" as oppose to white male slavers and white male killers of First Nation People. Meanwhile DeVega kept using the term guns and white males in colonial America. She then spread the blame of violence on First Nation People, almost implicating them as the original initiators. She said that the white male colonialist learned to build their forts from the First Nation People. I did not read her book. but I've studied First Nation People and while not all of them were nomadic, the ones in the areas where the original colonist settled were. I also saw no records of forts being used by First Nation People at all. But fences were used to keep live stock contained. Her logic seemed of the same speciousness used by white males to mitigate chattel slavery by saying that Africans were participates as well. The truth of course is far more complicated as a fact. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Sadly, this isn't the first time I've witnessed this and I think it's the norm for most white liberal feminist. </span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, DeVega followed the first rule when discussing gender, there is no protection, every thing goes immediately on the table. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The white women of this generation are the first generation since the 1950s </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to largely shun politics while embracing retro idolization of the myth of the 1950's housewife. The white Hipster male and female work subconsciously in tandem to recreate this kindler gentler time for white people. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Although </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Affirmative Action barely impacts while male </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">privilege, it has opened the door to further incursions. Young white women who've benefited far more from Affirmative Action than Black people, have actually , steeped up to challenge it, based upon race. The last two Supreme Court challenges to Affirmative Action were and now, are being waged by young white women claiming that they as white citizens were denied admission into universities due to affirmative action. This was a smart strategy in service of white male supremacy. Not only are white women viewed as more sympathetic, they also deflect white men from appearing as racists. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Then there is the white pioneer spirt of tree chopping land clearing flannel. Harking back to the good old days when the white man was at the top of the food chain. First Nation People were removed to the reservations by the United State's Army and Blacks were shackled as slaves in far away plantations down south.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;">The badge of Hipster dedication is the growing of the classic teamster or handle bar mustache, side burns, and the accompanying beard that represents the old world European masculinity of a Prussian War General, or the myth of the gentile, honor bound, brave Southern Confederate Colonel, to the pug ugly brawling ability of the original America Teamster.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Growing this type of facial hair is a time commitment and takes work. In other words its an initiation process. Also those sorts of beards and mustaches are distinctly white male, which is part of the subconscious appeal. I'm not even sure if Black men can grow a teamster mustaches. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What's equally deep about the white male mustache craze is its embrace by young white women to bolster the wounded masculinity of their white male counter parts. On Facebook and yelp, pictures of white women displaying their solidarity and support are </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">ubiquitous. </span></span><br />
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<!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-54019412333771975152012-12-30T14:14:00.002-08:002012-12-30T14:14:25.861-08:00Chicago The Black Murder Capital of America<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: lime;">Anonymous Nathaniel Jackson ( above) was shot yesterday, by an anonymous man, on an anonymous westside corner, in front of an anonymous ghetto store, named Noah's Foods. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">So why all the anonymous's, when there is so much information about what is being described as a Chicago milestone? Because, the corner, the store, Nathaniel Jackson, will not be remembered outside their 15 minutes of fame at the top of Chicago's murder chain. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Tomorrow as sure as the sun will rise, there will be another murder, more probably, murders ticking the body count up to 501 an above. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Tomorrow, there will be no TV Cameras from Japan. The British Broad Casting Company (BBC) will not intone with serious British accidents about conditions in Black America and President Obama, will not tearfully address the nation about the need for us to come together as Americans to end the carnage in Chicago and Detroit. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> Tomorrow President Obama will not use the tragic fact that America's Black population is 13% yet 80% of those killed in Chicago, and over half those murdered in America, to launch The White House Office of Urban Policy. A promise he made to Black people when he launched his first campaign for President and thought he might actually have to campaign for Black votes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"> More Black people have been killed this year than troops killed in Afghanistan, yet there will be no resources or resolve to end this carnage except those brought to the Black community by the prison industrial complex who continues to thrive of Black on Black violence.</span> <br />
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<span style="color: lime;">My fellow Americans, in our silence, we acquiesce that not only is Black life highly expendable but violent Black death is a profitable segment of the New American Economy, like the production of American steel until the 1980's.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I just wish we could be honest about it, to at least give Black children proper notice. In fact every day at the beginning of school, instead of a pledge of allegiance, all Black children should have to stand for a </span><br />
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<b>Black Poets on Death's Corner </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p>-By Tyehimba Jess</o:p></div>
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Black boy bears diamond studded<o:p></o:p></div>
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black cap bearing legend of<o:p></o:p></div>
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black life spray painted<o:p></o:p></div>
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on brick corner wall: </div>
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RIP L.C.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is something that throbs there<o:p></o:p></div>
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where L.C.'s blood ran<o:p></o:p></div>
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on Flournoy and Spaulding<o:p></o:p></div>
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with the boys selling stones,</div>
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with the poets making poems,<o:p></o:p></div>
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with the wide eyed crack kids,<o:p></o:p></div>
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with the sky about to break,<o:p></o:p></div>
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heaved city at our feet,<o:p></o:p></div>
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broken world in our eyes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bruh, I never met you,<o:p></o:p></div>
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but I see you everyday still.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A streetcorner Eshu splitting<o:p></o:p></div>
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life and death in each deal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Maybe you got capped for this one moment:<o:p></o:p></div>
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a circle of poets and mothers and bangers<o:p></o:p></div>
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and druglords holding hands<o:p></o:p></div>
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like a prayer would ease you into the concrete<o:p></o:p></div>
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a little more graceful than bullets.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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So we could pause and understand<o:p></o:p></div>
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for a moment, and then say:<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don't understand.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hold each other<o:p></o:p></div>
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a little tighter as the rain comes, <o:p></o:p></div>
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washes us away.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-5472239440866162952012-12-26T18:20:00.002-08:002012-12-26T22:28:50.665-08:00On Being Haunted by Carson McCullers/ The Black Experience as the Origin of Southern Gothic<span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: blue;">"Lou'siana, Lou'siana</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Mama's got the low down blues</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Lou'siana, Lou'siana</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Moma's going on a cruise"</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">-Bessie Smith</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Lou'siana Low Down Blues</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I keep trying to figure out, some clever way to explain how I stumbled upon Carson McCullers, a mostly obscure southern female blues writer born into the world with a rapidly deteriorating body and a May Fly's life span, but with a fire raging inside her.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But there is no literary flourish to make a wanna be writer sound profound. The simple fact is, it's been less than three months since I've learned of her work and I can't recall how.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The only straw I can grasps at, is that she came through the doorway created long ago when an ex lover dragged me to New Orleans, kicking and screaming. I returned permanently altered. Yet I isolated New Orleans/Louisiana completely outside the south because I was uncomfortable feeling so at home in the south.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Of course this was immature. New Orleans/Louisiana exist in dual worlds, one physical, out of which the name "The Big Easy" arises. The other, is darker more ethereal with porous boarders between past, present, and future, sensed only by those with developed "antennae". The American South is are far more in New Orleans/ Louisiana's gravitational pull than the midwest, especially for Black people. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I cook and eat gumbo, chitlins, and greens, not just because of my connections to Nola, but because of my connections to the whole south including Mississippi. I can no longer ignore, the south's history, because like an insane mad scientist, it made me. For most of America's history, It kidnapped, in-slaved beat, chiseled, carved, raped, murdered, hung, burned, garroted, drowned, etc., the flesh of the African painfully reconstructing it into the Black race. And here I am. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There is also no place in the south where the soil was not completely drench by the juice of the Strange Fruit who are my ancestors, which is the foundation of Southern Gothic. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The doorway that now connects me with Nola also connects me- as my ancestors did- with all parts and spirits of the south, good and bad. This is a haunting</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In this southern town, a deep and toxic main of desperation, regret, and terror, runs through it. </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most have succumbed under it’s putrid influence. But brief glimmers of innocents, hope, and, dreams, still exists, and though often mislaid, there is love. </span><br />
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A small band of social and cultural outcasts sense the darkness, but know not enough to identify it. </span><br />
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Jake Blount, a wandering itinerant worker, angry drunk, and communist sympathizer, trying to figure out the secret to getting the masses to rise up against oppression. </span><br />
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Antonapoulos, an obese mute, thought dimwitted, for years lived placidly and seemingly content, with his best friend John Singer. One day he rebels, going from kind and gentle, to brazen acts of petty thievery and minor public violence, that get him committed -by his uncle- to an insane asylum, in a far away town. </span><br />
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Dr. Benedict Mady Copeland, a Black doctor who allows (to borrow the term from Samuel Beckett) “the mess”, to pull his family apart. Years later he rebels by simple acts of personal dignity and humanity as a Black man, and professionalism as a doctor, to educate the Black community.</span><br />
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At the center of “the mess” connecting and fortifying these renegades, which includes, Mick Kelly, (who a character Carson McCullers based off herself), is John Singers. Singer is a gentle and deeply empathetic mute who keeps the door of his boarding house rental room, always open even when he leaves (in which case he leaves a note on the table) to visit Antonapoulos, who’s well being is connected with Singer’s ability to sustain the outcasts and himself. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">McCullers, does what many white writers attempt, to give real and original voice to Black characters. While most fail miserably, she connects. In fact, her use of Black southern vernacular actually give their words more power, as opposed to sacrificing their dignity, which is the problem with Zorna Neal Hurston’s work, including “Their Eyes Were Watching God” and “Mules and Men”. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Hurston, unlike the rest of the Harlem Renaissance writers, wrote primarily for her white patron, Charlotte Osgood Mason, who called those she assisted financially, her "God Children", and demanded that they at all times call her “Godmother”. Their God Mother also shackled their artistic freedom, demanding they fixate their artistic work in the primitive speak and child like behavior that represented one of the common Black stereotypes of the time. </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mason also demanded to approve all work before it was published and made "corrections".</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This caused Langston Hughes to leave the financial comfort Osgood provided and strike out on his own during, The Great Depression.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">brilliant and classic tragi-comic novel, "The Bluest Eye" when Soaphead Church drives the sad and already traumatized, fragile child, Pecola Breedlove, insane </span><br />
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At twenty-three-years of age, McCullers, was far more clumsily than Wofford, which induces a far more painfully and raw shock in the novel, such that my first visceral response was anger at this dead white southern women. How dare she mutilate him that way!? Why did she do this!? What right did she have!? Indignantly I thought , she only got away with this racist bullshit because she wrote this novel in 1940. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And she's wasn't even finished with her trespass. </span><br />
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the hospital to haunt us with his unchanged simplicity and the simplicity
of his yearnings. His family and friends gather in the southern winter darkness, around the fire to welcome him home, passing around jars of fruit flavored moonshine that sympathetic neighbors leave at the front door in sympathy. He, "feels the stumps of his
legs with his strong dark hands" and says "I just wish I knowed where my f-f-feets be. That the main thing worries me. The doctor never give em back to me
after what them men done did. I sure do wish I knowed where they at. I certainly
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> When I got over the shock of the brutality, I knew why, Carson McCullers “went there”. The same reason why "the caged bird sings" cause it has to. The problem is more people can’t and don’t want too. And the fact that she did so in the 1940's in North Carolina is simply amazing. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I blocked out the full scope of America’s latest massacre.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Wrought by a twenty-year old white male. Armed, locked, and loaded, with his Momma’s multiple guns. She trained him, you see, and became his first victim. I think is was a blessing for her not to be left alive.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I pride myself on staying well informed. Yet, this time, I only absorbed bits and pieces. I knew a white male of relative privilege did it, like always. But I thought it was in Ohio, just because I think one happened there awhile ago.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Yes, I"dismissed” it, cause lets be honest. Why should I pay attention to them any more? No one really cares about another's community. These are the days of western miracles, achievements, and comforts. And we've all acquiesced to the cataclysmic and unprecedented suffering of others, including periodic mall and school shooting followed by increasingly shorter periods of “national mourning". A couple pounds of flesh, in exchange for our new social contract, so we can go back to thousands of channels of patriotic programing, keeping us comfortably entertained and consuming.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">As always I read the New York Times cover to cover ( excluding the sports section ) yet avoided The Massacre. I switched to autopilot. I didn't even realize until days later, that before bed, I stopped turning on the soft drone of WBEZ that when I’m alone, lolls me to sleep at night, least the news of this nightmare leak into my dreams. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"> It was through Facebook, that the extent of the carnage slowly permeated my defenses. And from Facebook, I experienced the horror through the lense of angry Black Nationalist and</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">white liberals in their safely gated communities. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">In Chicago, America’s most segregated city, I use Facebook primarily to stay current and engage in dialogue about the <i>Politics of the Hood</i> where I'm from. They're difficult to follow unless you live in the hood because they're largely ignored by mainstream media and the economic implosion has substantially strangled the Black press further. Secondarily, I also use Facebook for progressive and radical political information and commentary as well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">I m also able to trace racial trends, because I have white liberals, white progressives, Black bourgeoise</span><br />
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Liberal whites use Facebook more narcissistically, showcasing their achievements and their children, and to impress others with their wit and humor. Black's use it more genuinely. Personal problems are posted for communal cyber prayers and anniversaries of departed loved ones are marked. Jokes of the common every day "things that make you go humm", small daily triumphs, ( yesterday some one posted they found three dollars on a crowded bus) and that which keeps us "keep'n on" gets posted. </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Most people I "know" have hundreds of Facebook friends collected seemingly out of a latent adolescent need to be social and popular. I have 140 "friends" and at every chance, I'm looking to "thin the heard" to protect my privacy and fine tune this method of communications that I find most helpful for my very different needs. It's a balance not to alienate some of my liberal white acquaintances who "found me" on Facebook. For my own peace of mind, I've learned to be particularly selective in whom I accept as Facebook friends. As I mature intellectually and spiritually, I don't want to get sucked into conversations from which I cannot learn.</span></div>
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When I joined Facebook three years ago, out of political expedience, I'd accepted a friend request, wait a bit, then delete the person. This bounced back on me, when I deleted the director of a local arts organization for his obsessive sports rants. He's actually Black yet sounded like a sports addicted "white frat bro". He grow up in an all white suburb, married white, and had little to say beyond sports. He also posted lots of pictures of his children. I saw him recently at an event. I've been an original and long time supporter of his organization, so generally he was overly gregarious to me. This time he was purposely rude. I've since learned how to block updates with out deleting "friends". </span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">On Facebook there are so many people who post dumb shit from their cell phones or office computers, all day. This means I have to scroll through the most ridiculous and banal posts to find what I want to read. And you have to look carefully least you miss something, all because some one thinks it cute to post ten pictures of their baby or a "cute" cat with with a stupid comment written above it, as if it were speaking.</span> </div>
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I generally end up blocking my white Facebook "friends", because of their twee and redundant comments arising from their white liberal privileged and their insular world.</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">But this isn't just about race as noted above and I also I blocked a Black women. She also lives in Logan Square and is trapped in a stereo type of the sassy, prickly, and shrill female minstrel character. She constantly launched vitriolic attacks at any one or organization who dared criticize President Obama. She called Cornel West a poverty pimp and was hyper ecstatic when President Obama in front of America told the Congressional Black Caucus to “stop complaining, crying, wining” when they finally raised rebuked his inaction in addressing the deep needs of the Black community. Then there were her continuous posts of those annoying patriotic glamour shots of President Obama, especially the John Wayne-esque ones of him wearing shades after he killed bin Laden.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Ironically she should be far more critical of the President. She like numerous Black folks, posted her</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">who works for the only real major progressive political organization in Chicago, that this time it was twenty young children killed. Shocked, from my keyboard, all I could do was scrawl </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">under his comment</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Jesus Fuck! Twenty fucking kids! Are you fucking kidding me!!!" </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Later, I emailed that I wound't be offended, if he removed my post for civility sake. He thanked me and said it was the realist response he's gotten and accurately reflected his mood. H</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">e's got young kids and told me he was keeping them home for the weekend.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">My Facebook friends of the white privileged liberal bent, immediate fell back on their "superior" Democratic Blue Team default narrative, with great verbosity. Like they’d been personally dispatched from a late night meeting at The White House with President Obama and Senator Dick Durban to spin political PR from their lofty Facebook perch on half of the "good guys in blue"</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"> Facebook Friend II,who's far more progressive than most and actually recognizes his white privilege, still grandiosely began with "If the gun lobby had any decency at all, they would step forward right now with initiatives that would keep guns out the hand of people with mental illness or domestic violence histories..."</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><br />He then listed a litany of standard gun control reforms that continuously fails to get traction. But caught up in the Blue Team Democratic narrative, it was all about the "Evil Republican Red Team". Not the Evil System that turned both parties into little more than sports teams, and now pulls the strings of both, which is the real reason why these horrors continue to happen. .</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span>"Im gonna step out onto a limb on this, ( I wrote). The gun lobby is gonna be, what the gun lobby’s gonna be. Choosing a time like this to call one side indecent over the other, falls a little flat. As a person who's voting patterns can be described as "democratic", I'm far more concerned with the "decency" of the elected officials ( democrats) who say they're "representing" me. What are they doing to courageously represent our feelings about gun violence? It seems they're doing the same thing they're doing to address systemic poverty in America, little or nothing. Yes it's a legislative battle, but as most things, I don't see from them the courage to wage a strong progressive fight, which includes grass roots mobilization that should start with them in these precarious times. What I do see is a willingness to vacuum up corporate checks while talking a good game to us ( which we allow) but not get into the daily muck of a pitched battle. The problem I think boils down to this, the bold voices of courage and conviction in American politics are long gone, replaced by political merchant princes and princesses who are slick negotiators of equivocation, with a wet finger always in the win, which we allow. So maybe we should also start with our own decency as well"</span></div>
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Facebook friend II "Facebook liked" my comment. One of the reasons we get along is we both know it's easy, especially in today’s world to get caught up and buy into bullshit. But when you learn to recognize you're full of it, most times, it immediately transforms into potent fertilizer for intellectual and spiritual growth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">Later I posted the above a picture at the request ( Facebook Activism) of Facebook Friend One.</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">Victoria Soto was the teacher who heard gun fire and responded by hiding her students in closets and cabinets in her classroom. When the gunman arrived she told him her students were in the gym, so he killed her and moved on. Generally I criticizes people for trading real activism with Facebook Activism. But as Facebook Friend One is an actually activist, I consider Facebook Activism and important tool in concert with other actions.</span> <br />
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<i>"( my name) you may not remember me but we meet years ago at a human rights conference in Atlanta when you worked for Amnesty International. As a human rights advocate committed to The Universal Declaration for Human Rights I cannot fathom how you would allow racist and hateful comments to go on challenged. I originally intended to respond directly to them, but thought that it would be more far productive for YOU to address what is clearly bordering on hate speech to reaffirm your commitment....."</i><br />
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These reactions played out showing the wide split between Blacks and whites and of course it extends the boundaries of my Facebook page.</span><br />
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That next night I listened to the Salim Muwakkil Show on WVON Radio. Salim is a Chicago rarity. A journalist who intellectual cross trains and reports from various social and political camps; from the </span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">Black Muslim Fruit of Islam and the Middle Eastern Muslims, to the Black Nationalist and Pan Africanists, to the Internationalist and Progressives, all the way to the Humanists. Across the airwaves comes across he as one of those rare Black men who's seems to have been through the ringer and has emerged to a level of a separate peace. His show is a Black Cyber Barbershop and when he swings the door open twice weekly on Wednesday and Saturday nights, all are welcome and are respected no matter their view points. And indeed, calls come forth from all over the country and one fellow calls in from India. On his Facebook page the conversation moves from radio to the written word. When Salim posts an articles, through out the Black community synapse fire opinions back and forth and things are agreed upon and not, but Black people become connected and come to know each other, which is sadly too rare in these days. Especially in this age of fragility, uncertainty, despair, and fear throughout America, but more amplified in the Black community. I've also noticed the Salim in the only Chicago journalist that engages in this much robust debate with the public, which says something about Chicago journalist.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">That night I was on edge, so while I listened to the show, I opened a bottle of Springbank Scotch and began cooking up some shrimp & grits as comfort food.</span><br />
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That night all the callers seemed on edge as well. It started with Brotha Jay checking in from Harlem. On Salim's show every body is "Sista or Brotha". Brotha Jay, with a rye NewYork City inflection with such precession and power behind his words that they seem to jump a bit while always moving his thoughts forward. He's one of the show's most prolific truth tellers. That night he set the tone using the famous and infamous quip made by Malcolm X when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, that "The chicken's have come home to roost" meaning any society that relies on violence as an international policy tool and as a domestic tool- any public policy that causes undo harm to a great number of citizens- the same violence will strike that country at it's core. A lot of Black progressive folks believe "9/11" is a text book example of this boomerang effect. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">A number of calls were not particularly sympathetic to the plight of the victims. No one celebrated their deaths or felt any sympathy for the shooter, but complained bitterly about the same politics of race that the Nationalist posted on my Facebook page. Centering on a nation that becomes transfixed when white children are murdered, but lackadaisical and dismissive about the constant murder of Black children, who are judged less as helpless victims and more as feral animals in some distant urban jungle running wild.</span><br />
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My favorite caller is always Sista Sarah who also resides in New York. She's an older women with a thick Caribbean accent and is fearless in her progressive critiques of President Obama and America.</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">She chimed in about how Blacks have been suffering ecmonomiclly for the last four years and President Obama has done nothing for us. And that Black children continue to be killed, yet as soon as something happens to white children "Obama jumps on the plan to go mourn with them, yet will not do the same for Black children"</span><br />
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Salim repeatedly countered with the subject of my last blog post, the deep tradition of humanity in Black people that we have relied upon to cope during slavery and Jim Crow. He added that Black people need to use this tradition now no matter the injustice we face. He said "We cannot become like them" He also said that twenty children being killed at one time is a lot more traumatic and symbolic. He seemed to grow somewhat emotional at his inability to get real traction on his argument, which is uncharacteristic of him, but the show was uncharacteristic in itself. </span><br />
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It was kind unsettling because while Jay and Sarah are Black Nationalist, I've never seen such a disagreement between them and Salim. And it continued on through out the show, which was again unusual. It's Salim's show, but together the three of them are the intellectual Trinity of Black talk radio. And though I love The Cornel West & Tavis Smiley Show, this is my favorite because it's far more communal.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I stated in my last post, that the deep well of humanity embedded in Black people as a collective has always been the positive magnetic poll of America. But venerable traditions are vulnerable if they're not replenished and it's even worse when they're repeatedly harmed. I think the reaction of Black people on WVON that night and on my FaceBook page, is harbinger of things to come. </span><br />
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Black people have lost vast amounts of economic ground over the last eight years and there has never been any attempt to make the Black community whole after slavery, from which we continue to suffer major damages. Salim talks about Black people needing our own Marshal Plan, just like America provided Europe after WWII. He says nothing less will do because our afflictions are so deep and embedded in our culture. </span><br />
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I think what we are seeing is a harding in the Black community as institutions ( including the Black Church) and elected officials ( including Black ones) continue to fail us. I think President Obama's failure to address our plight and his cynical manipulation of the Black community has gotten him elected and reelected, but I don't see nearly the amount of support for him now. And frankly as sympathetic as I am to the plight of those children, tragically killed last weak in a school, so young, </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I cannot help, but post this last picture. Ana was buried yesterday. And needless say she's erased from the insanity of racial hatred that divides and further eats away at this country. I can point fingers and will continue to. But for her it's meaningless. Except that she just arrived to America from Canada two months ago, were it is far safer than America. I know a lot of dark skinned people in Canada are decedents of escape slaves or Blacks who fled America after white terrorism destroyed Reconstruction and reinstituted another form of slavery that was terror and economic based. I keep wondering of her story. Yet I don't want to know, as it's too painful especially when I look at her family picture. That was the only picture I was gonna post.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">I just like looking at her picture because for what ever reason it gives me hope. Maybe it's the African in me, they way I believe somethings are far greater than us and unknowable, yet still close and warm.</span><br />
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<!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-66251953529127043582012-12-13T20:18:00.002-08:002012-12-14T20:20:23.477-08:00From Black Moral Giants to Black Merchant Princes and Princesses <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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A few weeks
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Derrick Smith was arrested for taking a seven-thousand dollar bribe in exchange,
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Smith, was newly appointed to the seat by Cook County Committeemen <br />
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room deal of musical chairs ) to fill a leadership void, left after The Honorable State
Senator Ricky Hendon, - pre cursing The Honorable Congressman Jesse
Jackson Jr’s "national depression saga"-, abruptly resigned due to
"exhaustion" right before federal investigators arrested several of his legislative and campaign aids for bribery, whom are all singing to
the Feds in exchange for leniency. Cook
County and State Democratic Party leaders privately and publicly asked Smith to resign. Upon his refusal, he was impeached. Already on the ballot for
reelection, Smith continued to campaign and won in a landslide against both a white Republican who assumed the
image of a Black construction worker on his campaign bill boards, and an insider lobbyist who didn't live in the district, yet was selected by the Democratic Party to run as an
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Two weeks
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four years ago then Congressmen Jackson posted these pictures on his congressional website </td></tr>
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Four weeks
ago Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned from office, amid pending federal
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His wife, 7th Ward Chicago Alderperson Sandi
Jackson is now under an ethical cloud after receiving hundreds of thousands of
dollars as his campaign consultant based in D.C. She many not even live in her city as
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Jesse Jackson's former 2nd District Congressional Seat if infamous. The last
Congressmen, Mel Reynolds ( a Harvard and Oxford Man) went to jail for sexually
abusing a troubled fourteen year old. After Reynolds's was released from prison he went to work for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr who also helped engineer a pardon for Reynolds from then President Bill Clinton. Which means he no longer has to register as a child sex offender.</div>
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Mel Reynolds's is now a candidate for his former office running on a platform of personal "redemption" and to "finish the job he started" </div>
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The Congressman before him, Gus Savage, lost the 2nd District seat
after being censured by Congress for trying to force himself on a female Peace
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The strongest
candidate is the powerful and long time
State Senator Donnie Trotter who announced he was running last week then promptly got arrested on a
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The second strongest candidate, Alderman
Anthony Beale represents one of the poorest and isolated districts on southside where only one out of ten residents even walks though the doors of a college, let alone graduates.
Yet Alderman Beale arranged for his daughter a free four year state legislative scholarship from one of Illinois's more unsavory white state representatives, Bob Rita, who also employes Alderman Beale's wife's. The Alderman's wife, was also an employee of the secretary of
state's office, until she resigned when it was revealed that she falsified her own
time and milage sheets for a state vehicle she was allowed to
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Cornel West
talks about Black people having always been the strongest moral force in America, starting with
the Abolitionist Movement that then the Civil Rights Movement which in turned sparked the Women's, Latino, Indian, and the Anti War Movements.<o:p></o:p></div>
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These morals forces where lead by individuals like Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas, Booker T.
Washington, W.E.B DuBois, Martin King, Malcolm X, Fanie Lou Hamer, etc., who transcended their
mortal coil to reach the highest peaks, expanding and extending humanity that also forged a tradition of moral greatness and depth in the the foundation of America that is still admired through out the world.</div>
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But traditions die unless they are constantly reinvigorated and replenished. I think we are precariously close to the death of this tradition.
The Black community has transitioned, gone from creating Black moral giants to producing Black merchant princes and princesses who mostly inherit modern day political plantations of poor and working class Black people. These people are more modern selfs than constituents, to be traded and leveraged for political and material gain.</div>
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The merchant political class therefore does not empower, but continues a tradition of political and social stasis and controlled chaos in the Black community, that benefits as a poverty shock doctrine </div>
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This condition thrives and grows stronger in combination with hyper and unfettered capitalism that creates mechanisms, characteristic of a supernova and a typhoon the sweeps from American industries which once created unparalleled American economic well being and success, and indiscriminately vacuums up and strips away every source of wealth, leaving nothing behind but devastation. The Military Industrial Complex was the first example of this. Then came the outsourcing of industries like the Steele industry, leaving urban wastelands like Gary Indiana, and Detroit, Michigan. </div>
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Now mechanisms have been created directly targeting American citizens. The Prison Industrial and Non Profit Industrial Complexes targets poor and working class Black people who resided in those very urban wastelands. And venture capital investment finance guised under the American banking system targets every body else except the One Percent and the rest of the small elite class who drives these mechanisms. Of course the Black community, which has always been the proverbial canaries in the coal mines, are the first and hardest hit.<br />
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Right now, I'm reading, a southern write, Carson McCuller's "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter".<br />
In it are two deeply wounded and dispirited men. One, white who works at a carnival and drinks heavily to ease his pain about American injustice and the inability of those most affected to respond in a meaningfully way. The other is a formerly well mannered Black doctor who was just released, having been beaten and jailed for attempting to get recourse for his son's permanent disfigurement and mutilation at the hands of the authorities. Both men discuss the deep issue of injustice and "what can be done". The Black character , says "the only solution is for the people to know. Once they know the truth, they can be oppressed no longer."<br />
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<!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-57845977358185388962012-12-08T13:21:00.001-08:002012-12-09T18:35:47.532-08:00Being Human/ Being Black/ Experimental Essay<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My cousin, five-years younger, always knew what buttons to push to
irritate folks, especially mine as we lived in the same building until I was thirteen. He was like water, searching for a minute crack to settle, awaiting a freeze, to expand, causing the concrete to crack. Coming up he had it rough but grew into a good man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />I hadn't seen him in years. As we sat around my dinner table, he surveyed the room and asked, as always slightly mispronouncing my name, "Why you the only one in the family that lives up here on the north side?, raising an unspoken issue between my family. My Mom always told them, I'd move
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My much younger cousin(A) whispered to her strict Christian mother, "is
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My mother excused herself, asking if any one needed a Mimosa?" I said yes, knowing she wouldn't bring one back for me. Her "ask" singled to her brother and his wife to join her in the kitchen. None of them would drink in <i>my </i>dinning room in front of the Christian Moral Majority, after my Christian cousin -who asked her mother to say grace when I wouldn't- had left a message on my answering machine- one week ago- hinting It would be appreciated by her, her children, and her mother, if I didn't serve wine or beer, so I served Mimosas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"I was joking, I'm not a vampire” I said. Cousin A, didn't seem convinced as she stared at my African masks covering the dining room wall. I turned to my cousin who started this mess and said "First of all this isn't the north side, this is west. And I like Logan Square because it has more restaurants than out south. My uncle, a retired cop, with a strong Black nationalist bent, excused himself, his wife had immediately followed my Mother, but not before lobbing a Molotov cocktail, not because he particularly cared, but because he's my late Grandfather's son. "I patrolled the west side for ten years and this aint the west side" he said innocently, as if we were arguing simply over geography. But I understand you liking different restaurants, that's why I love visiting your momma in Hyde Park because they have all those restaurants, and it's only ten minutes from Englewood where every one from this table is from. My cousin (B), came to my defense by saying where is Englewood? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Frustrated I said o.k. I'll sale my house tomorrow and move to Mississippi. Cousin-B who's actually fascinated by my masks, she questioned me about each one, asked "what are you gonna do in Mississippi?" My favorite teacher is from Mississippi and she taught us how to spell it "M.i.s.s.i.s.s.i.p.p.i." I want to go there, but Mommy said they're ignorant down there and don't worship the Lord properly. Mommy says you don't believe in god, is that why you're going to Mississippi? " I heard my Uncle laughed in the kitchen and his wife "hushed" him. Can you ask my Mommy if I can come visit you in Mississippi?" "I certainly will" I said "and you can help me pick cotton on a farm just like the good old days". "I can, she coed in delight, "can I Mommy, Can I go pick cotton in Mississippi? </span><br />
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Slavery and then Jim Crow racism was violence in it's purest form which transformed the Africans who survived the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, into Black Americans who for the majority of our time in America, were considered subhumans and monsters. Deep Humanism keep us going through the deepest depths of white supremacy and violence. The three characters in various ways, resist their slated roles, arising from their violent histories, by separating themselves from their "tribes" in an attempt to fully explore their humanity by situating themselves outside the burdens which transformed them.</span><br />
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During Jim Crow Segregation, certain light skinned Blacks passed for white, not to explore who they were as humans, but to be released from the stifling and constantly oppression, and the violent burdens of Blackness. Then, when progressive Black activism significantly beat back legal segregation, too many Blacks with economic means abandoned their communities out of an inferiority complex, because living amongst whites was and still is a status symbol. This abandonment began the deterioration of the Black community. My family know me as a long term activist and a radical "race man". But my leaving the south side, lingers in their minds as a betrayal, especially because I am a Black male.</span></div>
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But, the good and the bad must be equally measured. Much of my childhood was immersed in violence. Looking back now I was a south side child soldier. My summers were defined largely by fights, as rights of passage, tests, and entertainment. I was a good fighter, so I established rank, but lots of kids were good fighters and wanted to move up. So we fought each other to maintain our precarious positions or move up the chain. The better fighters suffered far less abusive and generally no serious abuses came to us, unless we got caught outside our territory alone. During the school year the same held true, which made concentrating on academics difficult. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">For them I used my older friend who always looked after me, but didn't mind playing the part of hard drug dealer for my out of town female guests. One of my visitors was Palestinian who's famous father had been my professor. She got the full treatment. My older drug dealing friend took us to a reggae club owned by his more powerful supplierm for the VIP treatment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Unlike Hyde Park, Wicker park in the 1990's was gritty, artistic, and culturally diverse in an organic and unplanned/ unsupervised way, which reminded me of New York. I felt lighter. I discovered a Polish bar on Division Street that not only didn't mind me as a Black man, but the owner sold me bundles of thick wool socks for cheap. The best part of Wicker Park was unlike college there was a radical Black Hip Hop culture centered around an Afro-Centric book store named "Another Level Literary X" ( Lit X) in the center of Wicker Park, located in a windowless basement where now a Starbucks sits. Several nationally renowned poets like Chuck Perkins regularly preformed there along with some local legends like Marvin Tate who's then widely popular funk band played across the street at the Hot House. The Hot House was an international music space with a bar in the front. There was no cover to sit at the bar and it was always packed with radical activist drinking. </span><br />
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<!--EndFragment--><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-42747005617344317782012-11-30T14:52:00.000-08:002012-11-30T14:52:54.087-08:00New York Police Officer Lawrence DePrimo's Act of Charity Sparks President Obama to Declare a War on Poverty in America!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Wow, I can't believe it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And would not have
believed it, had the New York Times, not reported </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">that President Barack Obama, standing next to a
homeless man "steps from the White House in Lafayette Park" declared
that New York Police Officer Lawrence DePrimo's actions of giving boots to a
homeless man with no shoes has lead him to declare an, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"all out war on
poverty in America". </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Recognizing that this war would be "unpopular in certain elite corridors of power", he called on "every
patriotic American to join him on the front lines of what is the biggest moral
and economic issue confronting America in our times"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">President Obama stated, to demonstrate his
seriousness about this war on poverty, he would unveil a ten point plan in an
unprecedented address to the American Public, this Christmas at a homeless
shelter in the hills of Western Virginia, where "the ruinous clutch of
poverty inspired Senator Robert F. Kennedy to run for President".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">President Obama said, nearly 40 years ago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. understood that previous efforts to address poverty failed
because of a fundamental failure to grapple with the systematic issues of
poverty and coordinate a solution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">President Obama then read a statement aloud
made by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">when he started his "National Poor
People's Campaign" in 1967, one year before he was assassinated on a
balcony in Memphis Tennessee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“In the treatment of poverty nationally, one
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States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive
from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and
black alike.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">President Obama ended this outdoor press
conference by saying,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"The action of charity by Officer Lawrence
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and we will"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today I officially apologies for every negative
remark I made about President Obama. Clearly those people who said that Obama
would use his last term to be the candidate of change, he promised to be when
he first ran for President, were right and I was wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I am thrilled to live in this amazing moment in
history.</span><span style="color: #dbe5f1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />
<!--EndFragment--><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</div>Invisible Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615524438949539565noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19721215.post-38945588516031763422012-11-28T09:45:00.002-08:002012-11-28T09:45:57.861-08:00Fiscal Phantoms, The Myth of the Fiscal Cliff, & Other Political Skullduggery
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President’s Obama’s parasitic Bankers remind me Richard
Nixion’s White House Plumbers. A group
of modern day highwaymen, so single minded in advancing Nixion’s political
fortunes, that no form of skullduggery was beneath them. But at least the Plumbers were committed to
Nixon. Obama’s parasitic bankers are singularly committed to increasing the
wealth of the One Percent at the expense of every one else, especially the poor
and the working class, because they're the most defenseless. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is why they’re allowing the Republi-creatures and the
corporate lobbyist muscle, to frame the debate about the myth of the fiscal
cliff, in the same way they peddled wolf
tickets to the Publius that if “we” didn’t bail out the Multi National Banking
Conglomerates, they would stop lending, effectively cutting off the money
supply to America. We never asked why the smaller banks and credit unions, if
backed by the Fed Reserve bank(s) could not fill this role quickly. We just opened the public spigot, pouring
trillions of tax payer dollars into them and we are still ruined. Yet, their
wealth has been vastly increased and they continue to destroy our country by
not only failing to extended enough credit to lift the economy, but doing the
same short term “grab the cash & dash” by investing in the very financial
shell games, three-card –monte hustles, and ponzi schemes, that collapsed our
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Our political handlers, using the same "Leibnizian
Optimism", ridiculed by Voltaire's character "Candide"in 1762,
tell us had we not bailed out the banks, It could have and would have been
worse. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We don’t question our “betters”, so we don’t require detailed explanations,
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President Obama has been reelected, and it's back to
business for them. With massive and unprecedented unemployment and poverty in
this country, they’re now calling for drastic social service cuts, least China
and other foreign interests, supposedly fearful of their investments, show up
at the “American Pay Window” demanding full payment, similar to what happened
to Greece. What they're not saying is
Greece, as part of the European Union doesn’t control it’s own currency.
America does, so in the extremely minuet chance that China did demand payment,
we would just print up what we owe them, which they know.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Republi-creatures, as always, falls back on the
inflation argument. But we are in a depression- at least. So a weaken dollar would help rejuvenate our
economy. American goods would become more desirable to foreigner consumers,
creating jobs and lifting wages. And frankly, if the banks are not making
loans, then they’re the only ones who benefit from lower interest rates.
They're able to borrow, (at an even cheaper “window"rates than we receive
) which they reinvest in ways that do not help the economy. Meanwhile all the public gets is junk
pensions and pathetic c.d.s rates. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Pulitzer Prize winning author and Professor of Economic at
Princeton University Dr. Paul Krugman, provides a more detailed analysis in his
OP-ED entitled "Fighting Fiscal Phantoms", published in the Nov. 25, 2012 edition of The New York Times. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The sad thing is that Paul Krugman will never be appointed
by President Obama to any position let alone Treasury Secretary. And a budget deal is in the works. Senator
Dick Durban, called on "fellow progressives not to fight", but to support a budget deal that includes major
cuts to entitlements and social programs. Durbin said, “We can't be so naive to believe that just
taxing the rich will solve our problems. Put everything on the table. Repeat.
Everything on the table.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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It seems that the next four years will be like the
last. While there will be political
co-option and shallow pacification, targeted toward the white liberal and tiny
Black elite, there will be no critically needed efforts to restructure our
government that continues to fund and protect a mammoth mechanism created 40
years ago that continues to constrict the flow of necessary political
information, communication, and cooperations between the poor and working
class, while draining our wealth and redistributing it, to the One Percent. </div>
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