Tuesday, March 18, 2008

All they heard was nigger, Jeremiah Wright

First, here are a few highlight from Rev. Wright’s speech, to provide the context that is once again neglected:
• The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. “God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."
• We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.
• We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
• It just came to me within the past few weeks, y'all, why so many folks are hating on Barack Obama. He doesn't fit the model. He ain't white, he ain't rich, and he ain't privileged. Hillary fits the mold. Europeans fit the mold, Giuliani fits the mold. Rich white men fit the mold. Hillary never had a cab whiz past her and not pick her up because her skin was the wrong colour. Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong… I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it. Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home, Barack was. Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain't never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had her people defined as non-persons.
I support what Rev.Wright said, the true problem is that people get upset when you burst the “myth of America”. How dangerous is it to be in a country when you cannot criticize what is going on around you; the conditions that affect your family, friends, and loved ones? Yet Obama is in a position where he has to bend over and kiss a few asses. If he hadn’t he would have handed over the race to Hilary. Thank God I’m not running for President, I find it hard to bite my tongue and smile as someone puts their hand up my ass. There is no alternative to Obama, though a lot of people don’t seem to see that he and Hilary have platforms that are identical twins. So what’s the difference besides race and gender, the fact that Hilary plays the race card while Obama ignores the sex cheap shot.
I can’t decide if I should ignore the fact that he’s a black man that will enter the white house and leave all my black ideals outside on the sidewalk. Is he going to take the country as it is or still be able to call it on its faults? I think we got our answer during that speech. I guess I really am choosing the less of two evils. Deciding whether or not to accept this election as an “apology” for racism and all of its lasting affects, cause it may be the closest thing we ever get. Or should I tell them to kiss my ass and continue to live without it. Whoever gets up there will shuffle a few things around, but my optimism ends at that. Part of me hopes that Obama will get in there and say “Sike!”

Since people love to take things out of context.

"So I said to the members of the press, 'Why won't you go and look into what we are saying about the threats on Reverend Jackson's life?' Here the Jews don't like Farrakhan and so they call me 'Hitler.' Well that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He wasn't great for me as a Black man (See Hitler's attitude toward Blacks) but he was a great German and he rose Germany up from the ashes of her defeat by the united force of all of Europe and America after the first world war. Yet Hitler took Germany from the ashes and rose her up and made her the greatest fighting machine of the twentieth century, brothers and sisters, and even though Europe and America had deciphered the code that Hitler was using to speak to his chiefs of staff, they still had trouble defeating Hitler even after knowing his plans in advance. Now I'm not proud of Hitler's evil toward Jewish people, but that's a matter of record. He rose Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could say there is a similarity in that we are rising our people up from nothing, but don't compare me with your wicked killers."
-Louis Farrakhan

Sunday, March 16, 2008

BITCH

I used to hate this word. I still hate this word. I'm getting over it. I no longer want it to have power over me. To incite rage in me at it's sound. To cause me to step out of character and enter into a screaming match with random guy on Franklin Street. For this is, from Gayl Jones' Mosquito, what men call the women they cannot control. And I am uncontrollable. So call me a bitch, I'll respond, "Ya damn right and proud off it!"

Saturday, March 15, 2008

"The shoes don't make the man, the child in the sweat shop makes the shoes." -Do you know what you are funding?

This phrase is a remix of something that people say, you know “the clothes don’t make the man, the man makes the clothes”, but truthfully, "the man" doesn't make the clothes "the man" outsources and pay oversea factories who uses abuse such as rape to prevent protesting and use horrible working conditions to keep costs low. These companies, such as Nike, claims that the conditions of the factories are not their responsibility, yet at the first sign of protests for higher wages or better working conditions, they pack up and find a new area where they can exploit new people for the same low price. If you’re gonna wear it, at least know where it comes from.