I�ve
been Black all my life, so with that in mind, I can say
to you with all the confidence and conviction in this
here world that I know, deep down in my heart, my bat-senses,
my spider senses tell me - if ever Oprah, Bill Cosby,
Jay-Z concoct any collection of �hi n� all-so-very mighty�
Black folks, ever consolidate their considerable
resources, go out and purchase planes and ships... with
the sole-purpose of providing Black Americans who wish
to go - with a vehicle back-to-Africa, back-to-the
Caribbean, back-to anywhere... and Black folks started
lining up at both air and ship ports... leaving, getting
the Hell out, exiting stage left... If this mass- exodus
were to occur... , you could count, on one hand of a four-fingered
man... the White folks standing at the terminal with tears
in their eyes, crying, begging Black folks to stay.
Nobody, well, very, very few Black folks
think otherwise.
And for those liberal White folks like
Bill Maher who probably would be down at Long Beach crying
his eyes out, the real Americans on the Right will
have a name for him... Nigger lover.
Here, but-an-ounce of history; The Klan,
as in Ku Klux - openly supported Marcus Garvey�s �Back
To Africa Movement.� You don�t think their distant-cousin
descendants, Today�s TEA Party, (and I don�t know
how distant these folks really are....) don�t feel about
the same way? don�t harbor the identical anti-everybody
who ain�t White mentality?
Really? Someone please tell me when when
and where folks had this enlightenment?
Outside of, say, White economic realists
- who�d grasp the financial equation of the US minus Black
workers and consumers, Capitalism, unbridled, cutthroat
US capitalism needs poor, unenlightened people to pimp
n� exploit... the rest of White America would be blowing
horns, toasting Champagne glasses and singing �Happy days
are here again!�
All crimes would cease the moment the
last Black dude was whisked away...
Now, since I wholeheartedly believe that
to be the probable overall White reaction to a mass-exodus
of Black folks, I can�t understand the mock outrage I�m
hearing coming out of the Redneck Right regarding Harvard�s
late professor Derrick Bell�s Space Traders satire...?
It depicts
white Republicans as so-ready to get rid of the black
race that they decide with almost no reservation nor hesitation
to trade �inferior� Black people to Aliens - in return
for - unlimited energy.
Is there any doubt, any question that
today�s GOP, from the top down, from Rush Limbaugh down
to puppets and clowns like Santorum and Newt would not
be willing to ship all Blacks to Venus or Neptune if the
price was right?
I�m just as baffled with this ideal Obama
has set of the feet of �Black Racist.�
If White folks deem the thoughts and
ideals of Dr. Bell or say the Reverend Jeremiah Wright
as �militant,� then that simply illustrates in vivid,
stark Black and White how very disconnected Black and
White folks are. For whatever the delusional reason, White
folks think Black folks inherently reason White people
�like us,� and that the nation is a fair playing field
where racial oppression only exist in the US in the form
of, dig this... reverse racism.
Ponder this notion from the frozen tundra
of Sarah Palin�s porch �Look at his embracing of Derrick
Bell, the radical college racist professor whom he�embraced
literally and figuratively asking others to open their
hearts and minds to the radical agenda of a racist like
Derrick Bell who believed that white men oppress blacks
and minorities,� she said. �And Barack Obama, evidently
at least at the time, believed what Derrick Bell believed.�
Who Black doesn�t believe a significant
percentage of the White population White folks still endeavor
to oppress Black people? Am I, as a Black man, suppose
to honestly believe White people like me? Are you serious?
I can only guess that we�re suppose to
surmise that from the low education attainment levels
of Blacks - to the sky-high incarceration numbers - neither
has a damn thing to do with White racism? Am I to believe
most White folks in the legal system, such as cops and
judges, actually like Blacks? As do Caucasian doctors
and nurses? As do those in the financial industry, bankers
and loan officers, they too �like� Black folks?
Let�s not pretend there�s not research documenting
racial disparities in health care, particularly when it
comes to pain management. Studies have shown that white
patients are more likely to get pain medication - and
be in less pain - than minority patients. Other studies
have shown that health providers are more likely to stereotype
black patients as being more likely to abuse pain pills
than white patients.
Am I to believe the reason why every
major city in the US can�t seem to find enough Black teachers
or fireman has nothing to do with White discrimination?
But rather Black incompetence? Instead, the pitiful situation
in which most of Black America is mired is due to... our
own failures? We are as individuals, as a people, inferior
in all matters?
Am I to believe this nation of White
folks, with their history and background likes
me or mine? There�s no oppression or discriminating taking
place in America, nor are there any lingering effects
of 350 years of treating an entire race as sub-human?
White folks have moved on, matured, progressed and evolved
to the point where they now believe what they wrote down
almost a quarter millennium ago... we hold these truths
to [mean that] all men are created equal?
I
find the fact that the White Right in America is
outraged over Reverend Wright�s words, offended by Professor
Bell�s theories... a testament to the separate worlds
in which we dwell. Clearly, most White folks have never
attended a Black church, never attended a Black birthday
party or back yard bar-b-que - because if they did - they�d
understand both the Black intelligentsia and the rank
n� file working ants n� bees share common ground with
both men.
News-flash for White folks: most thinking
Black folks thought Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Huey P. and
Bobby Seale were freedom Fighters, not militant terrorists.
We also saw Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull as good, decent
men defending their homeland from European Pirates. FDR
was a great President, Reagan was horrible.
As Muhammad Ali said, �Ain�t no Viet
Cong called me Nigger!�
Please, tell me how I�m suppose to believe
there�s not a lingering yearning to oppress Black folks?
What is it I�m supposed to hear and see coming out of
the Republican TEA Party, the philosophical and emotional
home of ⅔�s of White America, that I�m to interpret as love or
mutual respect?
Is it the constant �White Flight� I see?
White folks deliberately segregating themselves from most
other races? Their reckless greed-driven growth - i.e,
suburban sprawl - shows White folks having nothing to
do with Blacks of any economical level.
It�s still once Blacks move in... there
goes the block, the neighborhood, the school system
down-the-drain. Lily White is the preferred state of being
in America. The Whiter... the better.
Rand n� Ron Paul have a political following
because they�re advocating a return to segregation, to
�States Rights,� and the authority for business to serve
whomever they choose to serve.
Or wait, what about Chief U.S. District Judge, Richard Cebull,
of Billings? Recall the email that he sent out; �Normally I don�t send or forward a lot
of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching.
I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read
this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine; A
little boy said to his mother; �Mommy, how come I�m black
and you�re white?�� the email joke reads. �His mother
replied, �Don�t even go there Barack! From what I can
remember about that party, you�re lucky you don�t bark!��
Yes! A federal judge passed that on to his buddies, White
men who sit in supposed un-bias judgement of Black folks
Or take for instance the latest shooting of a Black boy
by a White man down in the Sunshine state which has garnered
national attention; Trayvon Martin, who was shot as he was walking to the home of his father�s
girlfriend from a convenience store in Sanford, just north
of Orlando, on Feb. 26. The self-appointed neighborhood
watch captain, with a history of assaulting cops, has
told the police that he shot Trayvon, 17, in self-defense.
Most of the witnesses contradict the �crazy Nigger was
going to eat me� defense, as does all the common sense
in the world.
Yes, of course, a Black life in America is as important
and valuable as a White kids... who thinks that? Yeah,
of course it ought be as valuable, but we all know its
not.
Just as the American Indians were given
Smallpox-tainted blankets and Blacks were purposely injected
with syphilis - today�s Black man is a target for white
indifference, racism and hostility.
BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Desi Cortez,
was hatched in the heart of Dixie, circa 1961, at the
dawning of the age of Aquarius, the by-product of four
dynamic individuals, Raised in South-Central LA, the 213,
at age 14 transplanted to the base of the Rockies, Denver.
Still a Mile-Hi. Sat at the feet of scholars for many,
many moons, emerging with a desire and direction� if not
a sheep-skin. Meandered thru life; gone a-lot places,
done a-lot of things, raised a man-cub into a good, strong
man, produced a beautiful baby-girl with my lover/woman/soul-mate�
aired my mind on the airwaves and wrote some stuff along
the way. Click here
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