JUNETEENTH? PLEASE COUNT ME OUT. Juneteenth makes absolutely no sense. It's a chump holiday. Celebrating what? Getting stolen lives back from a bunch of kidnapping criminals? Seriously. Feels like Negroes suffering a bit of the Stockholm Syndrome. It's a bad joke. How about "ANCESTORS DAY" instead to HONOR those who came before(and leave Government Blessing out of it). If anything, let those White folks whose direct ancestors go back to slave days(*not post-slavery recent-arrival immigrants) celebrate "Juneteenth" for THEIR ancestors becoming human.*I observe ANCESTORS DAY every December 12--to HONOR what they suffered, survived, fought for, overcame, contributed and passed on to us...and ALL Americans. AW 9-26-20
STARTING A "NATIVEBLACKAMERICAN" PODCAST. Put up first broadcast at 5:00 am this morning. No words to start. Jus' some "off beaten path" very original music--created from top to bottom by ONE PERSON. A fitting intro: Piece is called ALIEN JANE--
Native Black Americans are a people who share a unique and specific history and culture that developed over centuries of being in this land called "America". Music, food, language, shared collective experience distinguish them.
The Native Black American can be identified by the centuries of lineage, known and unknown, that is long-standing/deep-rooted/held in common--in "America".
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The folks you see in the video below don't seem to be very well represented in the higher levels(or appointed positions) of American Government, today. "Roots" have been replaced by ? (you tell me).
All you hear and see on the largely "owned-biased fake news spin propaganda" media--from left and right is how we DON'T get along. No question, we have problems still bedeviling from past.
But who's the manipulator of all the discord? Playing it up? Playing all sides against? Is it a foreign power? Some coordinated group from within?
One way to counter? FIND THE MOST DECENT FOLKS YOU KNOW--FROM DEEP-ROOTED LONG-STANDING AMERICAN FAMILIES... AND "RECRUIT" THEM TO RUN FOR OFFICE. "Regular folks"--not moneyed down infestors seeking POWER.
IF THOSE "RECRUITED" ARE PART OF THE "QUIET MAJORITY" CIRCA 2021? I SUSPECT WE'D GET A PRETTY GOOD(much better) MIX OF "TRUSTABLE" REPRESENTATIVES.
"ROOKIES" ARE BEING "DRAFTED" BY ?--TO RUN/REPRESENT THINGS AT HIGHEST LEVELS.
THE SHALLOW-ROOTED MAKE GREAT PUPPETS.
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Email: BlackAmericanTv@gmail.com
A FAVORITE Family-Member sent the below-link to me. 'Knows well my small town Western Pennsylvania roots. 'Knows I wouldn't want to be from anywhere else.
Grew up diggin' Smokey, Temps, James Brown, Cream, Traffic, Sam Cooke, Sam & Dave, Crosby-Stills-Nash-and Young, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix(writer on SHOWTIME movie "HENDRIX"--but considered taking name off final "tinkered" product)... Loved American Music from one end to the other.
Food and Culture, the same way. Chitlins, Pickled Pigs feet(called 'em "trotters"), collard greens 'n cornbread, Italian, Ukrainian(pierogy/pirozhki?), Mdiddle-Eastern/European from next door neighbors and beyond--AND FRIED CHICKEN on a Friday Night?! --and any other night I could get it. ALL KINDS of American Folks--steel mills, coal mines, 4th of July and Football--workin' hard and workin' it out.
While I advocate for Native Black Americans to take pride and build on their common long, deep American roots--my buddies, best friends--have been from one end of the racial and economic spectrum to the other.
God's Truth: It hurt deep for close White Friends forever gone and on that Vietnam wall in DC--as for my Black Brethren. None of them ever to be seen again from that young time.
Don't know how city-folk did it back then(and yes, I know the history of America WELL). BUT... I also know who's had MY back from childhood 'til present--and they are a motherf''n -- Rainbow of Humans. Male and Female.
Personally? I could NEVER join any group who TOTALLY closed their doors and their hearts and minds to all of any other.
'Didn't meet my first Asian-American 'til I came to California. 'Have had a few who became solid, trusted friends. Drives me nuts ANYONE would jump a fellow American based on "THEIR" OWN moron bullshit.
Cool is cool. Moron is moron. Period.
Damn, this song brings back memories...
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↑↑↑ GOT IT...
HUH? ↓↓↓
"HUMANS"...other stuff we do...
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I played myself for the exact kind of sucker I've pointed out that a fair number of "talking head"/owned-media featured Black Folks sometimes get played into.
Simply. I was wrong in cavalierly dismissing Mayor Lightfoot as "whacky". I was wrong in championing Ms. King in her media spun interview on FOX... at Mayor Lightfoot's expense. My wife is the one who bumped my head on how I was missing a key piece of information.
Mayor Lightfoot was mainly, apparently, addressing the lack of "solid" Black and Brown(minority) Reporters getting serious interview time--in press rooms and even at times when Black American/Other Minority American issues are being discussed. And she has a point.
Ms. King was used to add heft to the condemnation of the "look" of Mayor Lightfoot being independently reverse racist. My wife explained that the issue for Mayor Lightfoot had to do with lack of access by "solid/independent/professional" Native Black American/Minority reporters/journalists/interviewers.
My apologies to Mayor Lighfoot. While I still think there was a better way--I "get it". Live and learn.
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Dr. King's kin, below, offers helpful thoughts. No need for a comment on Mayor of Chicago's counterproductive whacky whatever...
**Must point out--Newscaster tries to conflate Ms. King's perfect response with other very separate issues--that need discussed in their own right. Happens a lot. 'Conservative AND Liberal "cabal-owned/influenced" owned media are damn near always working THEIR (often shallow, manipulative and limited scope/understanding) "spins".
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Don't agree or disagree with the above Aussie fellow. Jus' makes me wonder how others around the world regard Biden/Harris--this administration. As all who visit here, know--not a fan of Harris--an anchor born-baby(neither parent was a US citizen when she was born, here) who spent her developing years in Canada(graduated high school there)--and was curiously picked over a bunch of better qualified, historically rooted Native Black Americans--and generations-rooted other American-women candidates.
Apparently only 35 countries on the planet(out of 195) allow for an "anchor-born" to hold highest office. My question is "why" and who's behind choosing her? 'Know damn well it was not Native Black Americans with "real" better qualified deep-rooted Black women in the mix. How and why did it happen? Apparently even Biden's wife and sister were not trusting "fans". Politics? You tell me. **(with that honesty expressed--I, obviously, still wish Biden and Harris well--and tremendous success. As they go? So goes America) AW 5-15-21
Arnold Shwarzenegger was not eligible to run for higher office. Is he become any less "American" than she?
*out of 195 countries on Planet Earth, only 35 allow for "anchor babies" to become full citizens... and hold highest office in government--there's a reason for it.*
*In full honest disclosure of what I realize REALLY bothers me about Ms. Harris? It's the casual way she USED Native Black American historical reality for her own political maneuverings. "I was that little Black Girl"...wrapping herself deep in Black American "long" History of struggle, overcoming and centuries of contribution. It was TOTAL bullshit. Bottom line? Like Hollywood--'trust nothing about her.
It ain't all about "Black"--'wouldda been cool with Elizabeth Warren, or Tulsi Gabbard.
Young Man below is well worth listening to. A HUGE chunk of what he passionately expresses is EXACTLY how MANY Native Black Americans feel. The downtrodden, can't do, always afraid victim portrayals that saturates phony-friend liberal propaganda media, movies, news, POLITICS--is more to advance THEIR ends--than to be of value to Black Americans. Yes, there are problems--some cops DO express their dangerous prejudices daily across America. And on and on. BUT... it ain't ALL White folks bad and hating. It ain't all Black folks failing because there is NO WAY to succeed.
My own HUGE problem is with what it does to the minds, self-image, confidence of the young coming along.
Now, I probably disagree with the heavy criticism of Michelle Obama expressing her feelings, fears--per her kids. She wasn't ALWAYS in the White House. And frankly I know NO Black American who hasn't been bullshit-hassled by one of the ill-equipped sub-pars who somehow manage to become a cop...(And then there's the other bullshit that pops up here and there)...
I don't doubt Ms. Obama's had her own experiences. And only a fool would assume they are "beyond it". She's no fool.
My own personal approach? This is MY gotdamn country. ' Been here longer than those who show up and try to play my people down.
I've worked in youth lockup. Taught and lived in so-called "dangerous" neighborhoods. And just like everywhere else in America? There's decent folks just trying to be as cool as they can by others--and, unfortunately--human deficient MFs... who need to be helped/tended to...dealt with. Unfortunately, some of the "Deficients" manage to become cops.
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I'd bet money the young fella above has been stopped on a humbug or few in his lifetime. I GUARANTEE he has friends who've been questionably hassled.
On REAL real? I feel he HAS to know he went overboard in condemning Michelle Obama...per her concerns for her children.
While I agree with the "weak/loser/victim" overkill spins by the cabal controlled media--in Truth, damn near every Black Person(Male) I know--has had cop interactions that were "bullshit". Hell, I've had Black Cops relate THEIR dealing with "bullshit" stops--when not on the job. And my own experiences? Defies belief. It is sooo strange. And full of potential danger.
I can understand why most White Folks have no concept of how ubiquitous unequal "bad cop" bullshit is. We shot MacGyver up in Canada... and the biggest thing I noticed? Cops didn't eyeball, hassle, pull me over--BUT I did see a number of First Nations folks pulled over. Coincidence?
"Nothin' better than a Good Cop. Nothin' worse than a Bad One." Hell, same with Human Beings...
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SOLUTION FOR THE COP PROBLEM?
...ONLY THOSE WHO ARE THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST AMONG US SHOULD BE ENTRUSTED WITH THE POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH AND KEEPING OF THE LAW--OVER THE REST OF US...
THE QUALIFICATIONS TO BE ACCEPTED INTO OUR FUTURE "POLICE ACADEMIES OF ONLY THE MOST GIFTED AMONG US" SHOULD BE NO LESS EXACTING THAN THAT OF OUR BEST MEDICAL SCHOOLS.
THOSE EXCEPTIONAL HUMANS SHOULD BE COMPENSATED ACCORDINGLY...
THE QUESTION SHOULD BE..."DO YOU WANT TO BE A BRAIN SURGEON---OR AN OFFICER OF PEACE AND LAW"
WHEN YOU SEE A COP, YOU SHOULD BE LOOKING AT THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST AND MOST WELL-TRAINED AMONG US.
AND THE MOST "BALANCED".
FOUR YEARS OF HIGHLY CHALLENGING POLICE ACADEMY TRAINING--WITH AN ADDITIONAL THREE TO SIX YEARS OF SPECIALIZED INSTRUCTION...AND VETTING.
THE ROAD THEY TRAVEL TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOAL SHOULD BE NO LESS THOROUGH AND DEMANDING THAN THAT OF OUR MOST EXACT MEDICAL DOCTORS--
AFTER ALL, BOTH DEAL WITH LIFE AND DEATH SITUATIONS...
NO SUB-STANDARDS ACCEPTED--ONLY THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST OF THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST NEED APPLY.
SHOULD BE EASIER TO GET INTO HARVARD THAN TO A POLICE ACADEMY...
"THAT" IS WHO OUR POLICE OFFICERS SHOULD BE.
nothing less.
Simply put? No yahoos, unnexceptional and wanna-be's need apply. *(the problem as of today)
*realize the idealistic stuff above is highly unlikely--and even if it came to pass, there are built-in potential pitfalls--like a bunch of folks succumbing to their power--a feeling of superiority---and bingo---NAZI bullshit...
BUT unless we raise standards, vet better, weed out weak-minded, bent-minded--substandard clowns with guns and power will continue to do careless killing and crime against folks they are "supposed" to serve and protect.
BLACKSTAR 13
The Perfect place for Aaron Rodgers? OAKLAND/
NOW LAS VEGAS RAIDERS... Don't you jus' love the smell of fresh cut grass in fall? Smells like FOOTBALL...
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Don't agree with all the condemning images inserted on this post. Don't agree with the incidental broad-brush painting of everything by what is said here. BUT... there's a TON of Truth well said, per pitting and using folks against one another. Malcolm X PERFECTLY nails the "cabal inner sanctum" manipulations, maneuvers, and deceits that continue to be very much in play, today. It ain't, per my own Life and experience, EVER "ALL"this or that when it comes to Human Beings.
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Honest American History yet to be made:
...in spite of all the false posturing and clever/deceitful implying? To date there's been no one who's roots originate with these folks who helped build the White House-- --anywhere NEAR living there in elected office. Closest to date? Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
...and per Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.:
"Keep The Faith, Baby"
*Keep Rollin' Strong
PLEASE take a listen to the Brave-Woman video, below. Before or after reading my bone-honest response to "Black Lives Matter":...
"Black Lives Matter" has NEVER made sense, here, from the first time it was heard/read. Simply--There were many less pitiful ways to express REFUSAL to accept continuation of evil, ugly, naked-biased treatment of a contingent of American folks by systemic underlying race-based bullshit. It's an historical ongoing "American Problem". Presently, Asians are experiencing their own brand of the crap. Irish, Italians, Jews and on and on...ALL have had their turn upon first arrival. Native Black Americans(been here from git) have a unique set of circumstances that make their "trip" more challenging. THE ORIGINAL INHABITANT "NATIVE PEOPLES/TRIBES" have had their crap to deal with first and foremost...and it is still messin' with them.
Damn near ANY protest/rallying sign we saw held up in historic past and present is better than the weak-ass BLACK LIVES MATTER.
HERE'S my simplest way to put it upon first hearing: "BLACK LIVES MATTER"
YOU DON'T PETITION FOR SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE ASSUMED PER YOUR "BEING". ...WHAT AND WHO YOU ARE. "BLACK LIVES MATTER" FELT /FEELS CLOSER TO "PETA"(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)...THAN A DEMAND FROM AN "EQUAL" FOR WHAT SHOULD BE "ASSUMED".
Better: After the "assumption"--NOW, let's get it right.
"NO EQUAL TREATMENT FOR ALL, NO PEACE FOR ANY" (or something like that--works for Asian-American "hate crap" and any other targeted group bullshit that pops up) *lotta good minds out there--YOU come up with something*
But "BLACK LIVES MATTER?" It's stupid and demeaning. At least that's how it is seen, here.
Now comes the PETA part/relationship. Raising money for the "portrayed helpless/mistreated" creatures--in this case, apparently--has some "scam" up in there. Seems not all about it is cool. SEE BELOW:
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THIS 27 year veteran former cop turned Florida Congresswoman is who should be Vice President (click picture to read a today article) April 20, 2021. *husband was a cop, too...
...not yet against the law to express an opinion like this--I hope. Wish present folks nothing but the best--as America needs for whoever is in the White House to succeed. But... maybe next time. President...?
Tulsi Gabbard as her VP?
Here's hoping. If Cam doesn't get Julio? Russell Wilson does...
UPDATE: WISH you Good Health, man. But not back to the Super Bowl--that wish is for SEAHAWKS OR CARDINALS in NFC. Outside of that? ANYBODY but you guys. Hell, I hope the Cowboys beat your butts.
AFC? #1. Chiefs #2. Ravens #3. Patriots (but only if Cam is the Quarterback)...
Antonio! Okay, you left my Hometown Steelers--'after kicking a good man in the butt and biting him in the back--'same man who made sure you had shoes on yo' feets an' gold teefs in yo mouf (Mike Tomlin)--you were young and...
*"shoes/teeth" quote loosely borrowed from Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. /per someone he helped who...
...but now? Look---Gronkowski pretty much said they're lookin' for Edelman to show for the Post Season/Super Bowl/or sooner("69%"). Newsworthy stuff.
Don't get chumped, man. If Chiefs make you a respectable offer? Boom! You kill a BUNCH of birds with one move...
Chiefs get back to the Super Bowl--and win? And Tampa Bay doesn't? YOU ARE THE NEWS, my Brother. And the BEST news would be to PLAY the Bucs in Super Bowl! Aw buddy! Barnburner! Revenge is a dish best served AFTER A SUPER BOWL WIN.(Brady got Belichick stumblin', mumblin...an' fumblin' ) Good luck--and here's hoping you end up in KC , Seattle, or Baltimore. AW 4-20-21
PS. ...ain't Chiefs in AFC? Pullin' for Cam...or Lamar... NFC? - Russ cookin' or Jalen/Kyler rising...
Brown against the Ravens in 2015 Keith Allison - Flickr Steelers at Ravens 12/27/15 ————————————— CC BY-SA 2.0 File:Antonio Brown 2015.jpg Created: 27 December 2015
THE WORLD IS DROWNING IN DECEIT AND BULLSHIT! (AND ANY ONE OF US WHO HAS HALF A FREEGIN' BRAIN KNOWS IT...)
I know of NO Native Black Americans or recently arrived REAL "African-Americans" who are not aware of EXACTLY what the young fella below is saying.
*Can expand to Black immigrants from other places who are recently(last couple-few generations) arrived.
Take a listen. TRUTH you already know.
BUTTTTTT... as isOFTENTIMES... (if notmost times) the case--there's a WHOLE lotmore to take a look at...
The 2 women, below? What do YOU think?
"SAMPLIN'" IS MUCH BETTER than the "BRAINWASHING" CONTROLLED/OWNED MEDIA.
"FAKE NEWS" AND BIASED BULLSHIT is the one thing Trump got right.
TURN OFF THE CONTROLLED/SALARIED TALKING HEADS AND HEAR FOLKS WHO SEEM TO BE "FREE" THINKERS/SPEAKERS... speaking COMPLETELY in their own voices...
'TREMENDOUS" respect and appreciation for the man below, W.E.B. Dubois--he is a giant--and his "Talented Tenth" idea could well be of great value today--
BUT--I am not fully in accord with what he says, here--for the present time in Native Black American history.
Simply--the price for "American" has been paid--many times over--by MANY of my blood kin and fellow Native Black Americans.
Ain't no "we shall overcome" in me. It's about this is MY gotdamn country. Period. I will not kneel before the flag, but I will stand for and behind the right of anyone who chooses to do so. Too many kin and friend have served and died defending it.
*And that's Black AND White and every other kinds of American who've fought for/believe in the dream...*
When you look in my eyes, you will not see a man "wanting" Black Lives to "matter"--as I KNOW that--like all folks' lives--who pass through here--ALL damn "lives matter"...to the best brand of Human Being. Getting the deficient assholes to RESPECT ALL OTHERS... different story.
Keep Rollin' strong--to those who ain't "human deficient". ALL lives matter. THAT I and YOU KNOW.
We jus' need to get the slow developers to figure it out.
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Sent by a Friend who always puts good stuff in front of me...
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“What
do we want? What is the thing we are after? As it was phrased last
night it had a certain truth: We want to be Americans, full-fledged
Americans, with all the rights of other Americans. But is that all? Do
we want simply to be Americans? Once in a while through all of us there
flashes some clairvoyance, some clear idea, of what America really is.
We who are dark can see America in a way that white Americans cannot.
And seeing our country thus, are we satisfied with its present goals and
ideals?
“If
you tonight suddenly should become full-fledged Americans; if your
color faded, the color line here in Chicago was miraculously forgotten;
suppose, too, you became at the same time rich and powerful;--- what is
it that you would want? What would you immediately seek? Would you buy
the most powerful motor-cars and outrace Cook County? Would you buy the
most elaborate estate on the North Shore? Would you be a Rotarian or a
Lion or a What-not of the very last degree? Would you wear the most
striking clothes, give the richest dinners and buy the longest press
notices?
“Even
as you visualize such ideals you know in your heart that these are not
the things you really want. You realize this sooner than the average
white America because, pushed aside as we have been in America, there’s
come to us not only a certain distaste for the tawdry and flamboyant but
a vision of what the world could be if it were really a beautiful
world; if we had the true spirit; if we had the Seeing Eye, the Cunning
Hand, the Feeling Heart; if we had, to be sure, not perfect happiness,
but plenty of good hard work, the inevitable suffering that always comes
with life; sacrifice and waiting, all that--- but, nevertheless, lived
in a world where men know, where men create, where they realize
themselves and where they enjoy life. It is that sort of a world we want
to create for ourselves and for all America.” W.E.B. Du Bois
delivered at an NAACP meeting in Chicago in 1923
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Bay Area Community Leaders
Say Many Attacks on Asian Americans Go Unreported
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IF YOU SEE SOMEONE BEING ATTACKED---DO WHATEVER "YOU" CAN TO STOP IT...IMMEDIATELY...
"BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY/AVAILABLE"...
If can't handle alone -and no "help" available*--
SPEAK ON IT, YELL ON IT!!! from safe distance/cover or...
you'll know...
If you hear of, know of a moronic fool who gets his kicks or robs and
hurts for--hell, you tell me--REPORT HIS ASS! IMMEDIATELY!
Messin' with Folks who ain't done nothin' to you ain't jus' criminal
and wrong... it's SICK--and sick folks need to be put where
Kidnapped into slave-servitude to start things off. Lotta work for no compensation. Others built generational wealth while you get mentions here and there for...
COURAGE, BRAVERY AND DECORATED SERVICE in helping to create and maintain "America" from the very beginning-and all along the way.
There's plenty of "on-the-record" HISTORICAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of valued contributions you made in taming the very land that suppressed you, while fighting and suppressing the indigenous peoples OF that land(arrogantly misnomered "Indians").
So the multi-purpose used Black Americans made safe places for the very people who worked to keep them down. (watch BUFFALO SOLDIERS, BELOW)
The irony that IS "been here" Black Americans is...butt-crazy "bizarre".
If you think about it--so much about it--makes absolutely no damn sense.
AND...
BLACK LIVES MATTER? -- is an indication of just how
comparatively weak some would cast the descendants of the
Buffalo Soldiers and Tuskeegee Airmen...and others who came before.
It is the epitomy of surrender to other folks assumptions about
who and what THEY are--and who and what YOU are in
comparison to them.
The Buffalo Soldiers who went to town when one of them was mistreated/disrespected--did not go to beg that "Black Lives Matter".
They went to represent the Truth of it.
They laid the foundation with their lives. Don't give it up so cheap.
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Icing on the cake for "THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS" documentary, below, would be
to have a presence like HARRY LENNIX
in full dress Buffalo Soldier military uniform
as the on-camera personage with a bearing becoming one of the legendary proud band
of "Brothers". The present on-camera "guide"? Cool...but...
Watch the movie, below(writer-AW/uncredited-ACPIII):
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
is the last true/savvy
"Native Black American"
political-power difference maker.
Powell worked "inside" the system
with Kennedy and others and "outside"
the system with Malcolm X and
others of the time to make historic
gains for all Americans.
Powell was nobody's "puppet" or "dupe".
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...'Sure couldda used him
or someone like him
--starting around 2008...
Slave-Descendant-Been-Here Negroes got "Mossed" "Used" "Manipulated" "Played" "Fleeced" AND "Chumped"!
...and most don't seem to know it...
In
RESPONSE to someone "appreciating" KEEP THE FAITH, BABY--a movie (link
featured here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkIZdGhR6ZA&feature=emb_logo )... AW 2-20-21
BIG
"THANK YOU". In my not so humble opinion,
Doug McHenry(Director) is one of the
best and brightest to use
his immense God-Given talents in Hollywood.
As with many
things I feel I've seen/learned over this Lifetime--where
creating
images for Native Black Americans is concerned--"I" feel
Mr.
McHenry's talents were not met with opportunity anywhere near
equal to his talents. Good news is--'means of "doing" is not as
dependent
on the gatekeepers/"controllers" in movie/television
business...moving
forward. Result: hopefully more empowering stuff that
doesn't
have behind the scenes "money-controller-gatekeeper CHOOSERS"
putting THEIR spin, control, demeaning little pieces of bullshit cliches
in what gets "greenlighted"--and presented. We've had generations of
subtle to overt demeaning crap put on
Black characters/stories, etc.(put
into the heads, minds, psyches,
self-images of all who pass through).
Still happening--but the
means to do WITHOUT "THEIR" spin is growing.
What happened
to Powell, Malcolm, Ali, Dr. King--is still very much in
play--but more
"nuanced". It's the Young, Future Generations I'm
concerned about. PORTRAYALS MATTER. Hope for the Future? More Young
are talking
to each other--straight up. Concerns? Means of "control"
because of technology(and money games) are giving greater power to
indoctrinate(cabal-owned mass media, press, money-in-politics, etc.).
CONTROL OVER WHAT IS SAID, THOUGHT, PORTRAYED, SHARED--
IS INCREASINGLY
MONITORED AND DICTATED by
self-appointed overseers. It's a race. Do we
maintain our
basic human natures and freedoms to think, explore and
express--
or do we become "uber-controlled" servants to...
We have no
Adam Clayton Powells in politics or power
today(that I can think of...)
yet.
Let's go new/future generations...DO BETTER.
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...cullud folk talkin' 'bout it...
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...I understand Minister Farrakhan's frustration, expressed at end of the following video... BUT!..
...you really can't blame the fisherman for catchin' the fish who keep takin' the bait...and gettin' scaled. Or the herder who keeps fleecing the sheep who stay on the farm and keep gettin' fleeced. You got the mic, you got a following? Offer a solid compelling alternative. Created, packaged, offered in a way that the fish and the sheep feel it can/will sustain THEM and their families. That's really what any fisherman and sheep-herder is doing... has done... to keep HIS family well-fed...sustained.
Is there something to be learned from the self-sufficient ways of the Amish? Or better--the Jewish model? Wise men to advise, aid cohesion via respected Rabbi network?
A collection of advisors, leaders?
A revisit to W.E.B Du Bois's "Talented Tenth"? Not just one "leader"--but a collection of the exceptional? Working in dedicated concert? To aid, advise, lead...serve as shining examples?
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THOUGHT JUST HIT ME: 'MIGHT the Nation of Islam consider adopting as
one of their representative symbols the 13 Star American Flag?
'SAME FOR a TON of other organizations with strong "been here" Native Black American roots?
Why take a
perceived stance of perpetual "out-sider" when, in Truth--your ancestors
were here BEFORE the beginning...(good, bad, indifferent--it's true)...
AND one gave
his Life(the FIRST to die for "America") to kick things off at the very
beginning? AND was recognized and celebrated--even by his wrong-path
White Brethren. *(CRISPUS ATTUCKS...ironic, but the, apparently, escaped former slave lay in state with respects paid).
If you know Minister Farrakhan--mention it to him--.
One
thing that unifies all Native Black Americans...that others work their
butts off to claim as soon as their feet hit the soil of this land-- is
roots...belonging... "American".
Foolish for ANY group(in present reality of mankind on this planet) not
to have a stake in the part of the planet they inhabit.
Stupid
to keep allowing yourself to be cast as downtrodden outsiders--at least
in this Negro's opinion... (and propaganda mass media does/has done all
they can to oblige you)...
*Hell, some enterprising young Negroes need to go into the 13 Star Flag-making bidness...
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BUT--
SOMETIMES THERE'S MORE TO THE STORY THAN MEETS THE STORY TOLD.... (see comment at end of reading this account) ...
Chinese New Year -of the Ox
California Man Pepper-Sprays
Asian Gas Station Owner During
Racist Rant
Anders Anglesey
An Asian gas station owner needed to go to hospital after he was pepper-sprayed during
a racist tirade at his Oakland, California business.
Cwell, who did not share his last name with ABC7 News, said the confrontation
began when a customer wanted to pay with dozens of quarters at the Broadway
gas station at around 11 a.m. on Thursday.
Surveillance footage showed the customer, who was wearing a gray hooded
jacket, trying to pay with the quarters when he started a confrontation with the
cashier. Cwell then intervened between the two in a bid to calm the situation down.
Cwell, who has owned his business for around 20 years, told ABC7 News:
"My staff, she's like, 'well, wait, hold on there. You kind of have to take this to the
bank because I can't fit this all in the till.
"He (the customer) just started mouthing off…'You should go back to China,' like that.
We were just bursting out laughing because it was so unbelievable."
When the man threatened to come back again Cwell hurried after him in order
to take down his license plate number and start recording him.
During the horrific tirade, the man said: "Go f*** your mama.
Go f*** you mama. You're not from here. You're Asian. Small d***. Small d***."
In the clip, Cwell can be heard laughing as the man continues his rant.
The situation became violent, however, when the man returned to his car and
reversed towards Cwell, which the business owner "took as an assault."
Cwell told the network: "The guy had pulled out his pepper spray and he had
shot my face and arms. I ended up going to the ER to get taken care of."
He added: "I totally appreciate that you let me share my story because this
has got to stop. I hope this brings awareness that everybody goes through the
same stuff. We just have to understand that and understand that we all have
to work together."
The gas station owner said he plans to press charges against the man.
Stop AAPI Hate, a nonprofit organization that tracks discrimination and racism
directed towards Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, has recorded thousands
of harassment cases against the community during the COVID-19 pandemic since
it was launched in March 2020.
The group said in a February 9 statement it had received more than 2,808
"firsthand accounts of anti-Asian hate" from 47 states and the District of Columbia
between March 19, 2020, and December 31, 2020.
The Department of Justice said on March 5 it held a session with more than a
dozen Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community groups as part of
efforts to prevent further hate crimes against the community.
Deputy Attorney General John Carlin said: "No one in America should fear violence
because of who they are, what they look like or what part of the world they or their
families came from. "The Department of Justice and our component agencies are
committed to bringing all of our tolls to bear in supporting the AAPI communities
as we address the horrific rise in hate and bias incidents occurring across the country."
Newsweek has contacted the Oakland Police Department for comment.
LET'S GET REAL-REAL: Could/would this have been avoided with a little bit more respect and understanding? Is this kind of micro-macro disrespect common between these two groups?
**Pepper spraying, by ranting fella was way wrong.
Shouldda jus' gone to another gas station that would
accept coin money. BUT--it wasn't like
he was paying in pennies. 'Suspect that's the bread
he had. If he's paying in quarters, good chance he's
already having a bad day(*'been there. Nothin' like bein' broke AND disrespected*)
Not accepting legit American
bread for a legit business transaction? Telling the guy
to go to a bank like he's a child/errand boy and get what YOU will accept?
Sounds like maybe the gas-station folk should be in a business where they don't deal with real people in person.
Mass disrespect.
Pepper-spraying, ranting guy was extreme wrong.
And should face the consequences of
his criminal actions.
**BUT the gas-station folk were also arrogantly wrong
as a business in the US rejecting legal US currency.**
