I'll reserve comment for now and let you listen for yourself. (Probably touch on it later though )
Just in case you need to hear from Brad and LL about why they made the song..
carolinaware
Because we when 'we do it to ourselves', it is 'just how it goes.."
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
(Music) @LLCoolJ X @BradPaisley X Accidental Racist.... Yeah... you need to listen.
I'll reserve comment for now and let you listen for yourself. (Probably touch on it later though )
Just in case you need to hear from Brad and LL about why they made the song..
(Racial) I mean..just wow.. @ this letter @JemeleHill received....Post racial my ass
But we are post racial though...-_-
I'm glad that 'short soundbites' from Black males are 'tolerable'. You know, I COMPLAIN about ESPN on the regular. Did so with Rob Parker.
Definitely not from a racial standpoint and certainly I don't disparage their commentators looks.
I happen to think that Jemele speaks quite articulately. I may not always AGREE with her ALL OF THE TIME but she makes salient points. I don't see how this while she may occasionally 'speak directly to us', I think THAT IS WHY SHE IS ON THE SHOW. To attract that demographic. I mean it IS ONLY RIGHT SEEING AS THOUGH BLACK PEOPLE DO WATCH THE CHANNEL PRETTY HEAVY. Luckily, the folks at ESPN, for all of their flaws, do see the importance of not only having her there as a person of color but as a WOMAN.
I saw some other bullshit being spouted out about 'women journalists' in regards to Erin Andrews dating an athlete. What is this, 'Attack Women on TV in sports' Week?
I won't even dignify the person who wrote this with 'disparaging words' back. I will just say that they are sad. Someone go give them a fucking hug or something. -_-
(Words) I see we STILL can't get outta our own way X The Gabby Douglas/Zoe Smith criticism
That truly is the running joke among 'other races' about us Black People (or those of us who sympathize with our plight and like to indulge FULL BORE INTO OUR LIFESTYLES AND BELIEFS).
"Look at them coloreds...One of them is up there upsetting one of 'ours', getting GOLD and the ONLY THING THESE COONS CAN THINK ABOUT IS THE FACT THAT HER HAIR ISN'T LAID DOWN LIKE OURS IS..Yeah...for every one of them that is successful, there are three to four THOUSAND OF THEM bringing her down. We couldn't have drawn up this play any better if we tried man. This shit is brilliant! This is great! We've conditioned them so well. We don't even have to do shit. We can just sit back and watch them nitpick each other to death. Sure there are a small pockets of them that talk unity but that's it. They can't stand to see themselves succeed! This is truly more than we could hope for... The kicker? these coons RUN AROUND SCREAMING ABOUT 'LOYALTY' LIKE IT IS THE VOCABULARY WORD THEY LEARNED IN SCHOOL AND HAVE TURNED AROUND AND DONE THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF THAT WHEN IT COMES TO TWO OF THEIR CHAMPIONS. Ha! This shit is great! Them there niggers wouldn't know the meaning of the word loyalty if Jesus Christ himself reincarnated all of them into their favorite dogs and gave them the best 'masters' money could buy I tell ya.... "- The WORDS OF THE very White people that some of you swear you hate but are emulating by being SO CRITICAL ABOUT GABBY'S HAIR OR ZOE'S PHYSIQUE.
This is what you have armed them with though with your CONSTANT INSTANCE on 'Keeping it funky'. You've managed, once again, to take the spotlight off of a crowning achievement by a person of color and made it about the collective 'you'. The 'you' that doesn't have a pot to piss in nor window to throw it out of. Congratulations...now she has to RESPOND to you 'cause the 'media' (Read: THE WHITE PEOPLE) are out to make us look foolish as a RACE AGAIN and we've armed them with information. You fucking idiots. You happy now?
The bashing of Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith, SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GABBY DOUGLAS and countless others & THE INSECURE FOLKS WHO DO IT..
We have to do better people. @ the comments. Now in fairness, there are a VAST MAJORITY OF YOU WHO HAVE CONDEMNED THESE COMMENTS and you should be applauded. I am not talking to you. I'm talking to the folks who 'feel they have the right to be an ass via their speech' and want to get 'offended' when someone exercises their right to say 'That's bullshit.." I'm talking to you folks.
I find it hilarisad* that so may folks feel that the need to 'disparage' and 'nitpick apart a SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL who is COMPETING FOR A MEDAL. She isn't in a beauty contest. She is there to be judged on her gymnastics. I almost have to ask you..
WHO HURT YOU?? @ this constant need to ridicule, pick on, pile on, find the 'error', find the flaw, etc, etc behavior that some of you have made your M.O.
Did your Mother not pay enough attention to you? Give you enough hugs? Did the little children growing up hurt your little feelings about talk about what you had or didn't have?
Sack up man (or ovary up if you are a woman) and stop living in the past. You are adult. There's no need to 'pass the tradition' down to youth 'cause you had a sorry ass childhood/adulthood.
Yes I said adulthood 'cause some of you are out here trying to live it like it is your 'childhood' and FAILING MISERABLE AT THAT.
Maybe that is what it is..The little girl with the 'edges that you don't like' just inked a deal worth more than your ENTIRE FAMILY IS WORTH. Jealous much? I can't tell.. @ all the venom you are spewing..While you are out there scuffing up your fake red bottoms, walking barefoot in clubs and paying triple the price for drinks, the sixteen year old moved away from her family and fulfilled her dream. Gotta make you feel bad inside. That shit must BURN. (Chuckles) I know.. That was mean. So... you feel like you can be 'mean to her' and it is okay so lets it is all fair game right? Oh...
Lets not even talk about those of you whose only athletic achievement involves scuffing your knees and backshots aight? @ judging a World Class athlete on her 'looks' WHILE SHE IS EXECUTING SAID WORLD CLASS ATHLETICISM. Lets not do that shall we? Or you folks who JUST NOW DECIDED THAT EXERCISING IS THE MOVE some 20-30 years into your Life. I've seen some of you at the gym. Yikes. That's just off the treadmill...never mind what you look like after Zumba or whatever else it is you are doing. Stop it. Criticizing folks who aren't 'there to be seen as beautiful' who are in better shape than you? Yeah aight Champ.
As for the weight lifting gals or ANY OF THE OTHER GALS competing who might not be your 'cup of tea'. That's not what they are there for. Do you savages equate EVERYTHING TO YOUR LOINS? Folks aren't walking around out here, competing for Gold medals for the 'Do You Wanna Fuck Me' Olympics.. They aren't there for that. So what you wouldn't touch her with your enemies penis? Who cares? Shit, she probably doesn't want your weak as water ass either 'cause she can see your little ego is weak from a mile away.
"Other folks feel that way so it must be true.." - You
Yeah and other folks still believe in Slavery. Want to bring that back too? There is a large group of folks who want ALL FOLKS WHO AREN'T a certain color dead and gone. They out number 'us'. By definition, it is okay for them to feel and act that way if we use your dumb ass logic..-_- Shrug your shoulders and say so now but I don't wanna hear 'shit outta you' when someone takes your way of thinking and uses it to harm you.
The kicker to all of this? Some of you same handkerchief head niggas will be up in arms about something 'the white man/woman' said about some hair/preferences/etc THAT ARE TRUE because it involves 'us'. smh Let someone up in that broadcast booth have said that shit and you would be ready to riot like you are about that 'chicken'. Yet you don't see ANYTHING WRONG WITH SAYING WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT GABBY OR THE WEIGHT LIFTER BECAUSE YOU WERE 'KEEPING IT FUNKY'.
We don't need to bring each other down people. It is just that simple. There was no reason for y'all to go that hard on her. This is why I don't feel sorry when folks of 'other races' go hard on you for the REAL LIFE BULLSHIT YOU DO. You keep getting your 'hair done' correctly while living Life fucked up though. We'll see who becomes 'what'...:)
Here is Gabby's response to the comments she has received..
http://thegrio.com/2012/08/06/gabby-douglas-responds-to-hair-comments-i-just-made-history-and-people-are-focused-on-my-hair/
LONDON (AP) — Women’s gymnastics all-around champion Gabby Douglas likes her hairstyle just fine, thanks.
The 16-year-old said Sunday she was a little confused when she logged onto her computer after winning her second gold medal in three days and discovered people were debating her pulled-back look.
“I don’t know where this is coming from. What’s wrong with my hair?” said Douglas, the first U.S. gymnast to win gold in team and all-around competition. “I’m like, ‘I just made history and people are focused on my hair?’ It can be bald or short, it doesn’t matter about (my) hair.”
Douglas uses gel, clips and a ponytail holder to keep things in place while she competes, a style she’s worn for years.
“Nothing is going to change,” she said. “I’m going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well just stop talking about it.”
The bubbly teenager is the first African-American gymnast to win her sport’s biggest prize. She had no idea she was lighting up social media until she Googled herself hours after winning her gold medal.
“I don’t think people should be worried about that,” she said. “We’re all champions and we’re all winners. I just say that it’s kind of, a stupid and crazy thought to think about my hair.”
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
Zoe doesn't 'need' me to speak for her btw. Pretty sure she could bend arms on her own but more importantly, she seems to have addressed the issue HERSELF...
Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith speaks for us all when she tells sexist trolls we don’t care if you don’t find us attractive
Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith speaks for us all when she tells sexist trolls we don’t care if you don’t find us attractive
She can lift twice her body weight. She really doesn't give a fuck. (Photo via the BBC.)
As Hannah pointed out earlier, we don’t lift weights in order to look hot, especially for the likes of men like that. What makes them think that we even WANT them to find us attractive? If you do, thanks very much, we’re flattered. But if you don’t, why do you really need to voice this opinion in the first place, and what makes you think we actually give a toss that you, personally, do not find us attractive? What do you want us to do? Shall we stop weightlifting, amend our diet in order to completely get rid of our ‘manly’ muscles, and become housewives in the sheer hope that one day you will look more favourably upon us and we might actually have a shot with you?! Cause you are clearly the kindest, most attractive type of man to grace the earth with your presence.Oh but wait, you aren’t. This may be shocking to you, but we actually would rather be attractive to people who aren’t closed-minded and ignorant. Crazy, eh?! We, as any women with an ounce of self-confidence would, prefer our men to be confident enough in themselves to not feel emasculated by the fact that we aren’t weak and feeble.
Yes. It will never cease to amaze me that some men truly think that every woman in the public eye–whether it be politicians or Olympic athletes–should exist solely to be attractive to them. But what’s even more astounding is the fact that they really seem to believe that women actuallycare if random trolls on the internet want to bone them. As we well know around these parts, while the internet can be an ugly place for both women and men, women often face very gendered abuse. And the “I wouldn’t fuck you” insult is perhaps the most obvious example. It’s basically impossible to imagine a dude receiving the same type of comment.
Smith went on to break the British clean and jerk record in the women’s 58kg event by lifting twice her body weight. She hopes that if her words didn’t silence her critics, maybe her performance will. “It’s two fingers up to them, basically,” she said. “‘What are you doing with your life? I’ve just competed at the Olympics!’” Word.
*Not a word. Combination of hilarious and sad and I don't mean I find it 'funny in a humorous way either'. It is laughable. Your opinion is a joke. I usually try to refrain from such idioms but in this case it is warranted to in my opinion. I'm laughing at you. Not with you.
*Not a word. Combination of hilarious and sad and I don't mean I find it 'funny in a humorous way either'. It is laughable. Your opinion is a joke. I usually try to refrain from such idioms but in this case it is warranted to in my opinion. I'm laughing at you. Not with you.
(Olympics) So they kicked @papaxristoutj (Voula Papachristou) outta the Olympics for her tweet eh? @ Greece
I'm surprised they sent her home honestly...I'm not surprised she said it though. What I am even more surprised about is how it was found out. She has 3k followers. Probably all of them are fans/lust after her. Can't imagine one of them 'translating and telling' so that begs the question. Who is 'watching' her account? Are they watching ALL OF THE OLYMPIANS ACCOUNTS?
Here is what she said (the tweet has been removed and there is an apology up now) She tweeted it in Greek btw....
"With so many Africans in Greece, the West Nile mosquitoes will be getting home food!!!"
The joke was in reference to a recent outbreak of the disease in a small African village...
Apparently, some folks don't see the 'issue' with this... (From a forum that my post was linked in..)
Apparently, folks don't see the issue with what she said. Odds that they are white and conservative? Probably have some sheets hidden in their closets with holes in 'em? LOL I mean, if you don't see 'anything' wrong with what she said, good for you. Don't know what fucking rock you live under but okay... Keep living in your World where you are 'safe' from such underlying bullshit. *shrugs** Probably the same folks that want 'the Lebrons and Dwight Howards' of the World to be happy that someone is paying them and to stay where they are drafted...'cause they are black..I mean paid well.....
This is the part where you probably expect me to 'light into her' huh? Nope. She got sent HOME. I don't have to. Four years of training and she won't get to compete. At least it looks that way for now. I think she got punished enough without me railing on about it. If she didn't know it was wrong before, she knows it now. You can feel free to raise your blood pressure up about it but I'm cool over here on that. She is probably sitting somewhere right now looking like this here..
So there is no real need for me to get to snapping...
Here is her apology on Facebook..
I would like to express my heartfelt apologies for the unfortunate and tasteless joke I published on my personal Twitter account. I am very sorry and ashamed for the negative responses I triggered, since I never wanted to offend anyone, or to encroach human rights.
My dream is connected to the Olympic Games and I could not possibly participate if I did not respect their values. Therefore, I could never believe in discrimination between human beings and races.
I would like to apologize to all my friends and fellow athletes, who I may have insulted or shamed, the National Team, as well as the people and companies who support my athletic career. Finally, I would like to apologize to my coach and my family.
(Video) Yeah @GeraldoRivera...you don't mean to brag but you kinda did...
Kinda wish it was someone else bring up these points.. Oh wait, WE DO BRING THIS SHIT UP ALL THE TIME! @ Chicago murders and New York City 'random stops'.... Not sure how or why the fuck Geraldo seems to think we aren't worried about black on black crime. We speak about it all the time. Maybe he should listen harder....
Sinéad O'Connor (@Sinead_OConnor) on Trayvon Martin, Hip Hop and more...
Sinéad O'Connor
22.03.12 Treyvon Martin
I would like to extend my very deepest sympathies to the family and other loved ones of murdered teenager, Treyvon Martin. I am very sad today (and am certain the whole of Ireland is) to learn of poor Treyvon's terrifying ordeal and horrified by the fact his known and named and admitted killer has not been arrested, despite the crime having taken place a month ago. This is a disgrace to the entire human race.
For those out there who believe black people to be less than pure royalty, let me inform you of a little known, but scientifically proven, many times over, FACT. Which after reading, you will hopefully feel both very stupid and very sorry. For you dishonor your own mothers and grandmothers.
EVERY human being on earth, no matter what their culture, creed, skin colour, or nationality, shares one gene traceable back to one African woman. Scientists have named it 'The Eve Gene'. This means ALL of us, even ridiculously stupid, ignorant, perverted, blaspheming racists are the descendants of one African woman.
One African woman is the mother of all of us. Africa was the first world. You come from there! Your skin may be 'white'.. because you didn't need it to be black any more where you lived. But as Curtis Mayfield said.. "You're just the surface of our dark, deep well". So you're being morons. And God is having the last laugh at your ignorant expense.
If you hate black people, its yourself you hate. And the mother who bore you. If you kill or wish ill on black people, its yourself you kill and wish ill on. As well as the mother who bore you.
When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it. Despite seeing every day, all your life, how you and your country would be less than wonderfully functioning and inspiring to the world, without the manifold and glorious contributions made by the descendants of African slaves, who did not by the way actually ask to go to America and leave their future families there to be disrespected for eternity.
What are you doing hating yourself by hating your brothers and sisters who daily show you nothing but inspiration and love, despite having NOTHING, in their own country? Despite having barely a chance of anything, because of racism. Despite being granted no 'permission' for proper self-esteem.
These beautiful people continue to believe in and even manifest Jesus Christ better than you do. That alone could stand as the greatest reason your racism is blasphemy, were it not for all the other reasons.
These people you hate and fear ARE the body of Christ, just as we all are. Every child, woman or man. And they know it. Maybe thats why you cant bear to look at them. Because you see Jesus Christ and you cant stand the light.
Stop this ridiculous and uneducated attitude. You would be dead without black people. Think of all the greatest music ever composed. The greatest songs. The greatest inspirational heroes.. Muhammad Ali, Mandela, Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, Soujourner Truth, Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Curtis Mayfield. So many absolute angels, sent from God.
Without the inspiration of these people many millions of so-called 'white' people, including myself would not have had the strength to pay the price of life.
And black youth in America. I'm talking to you here too. I love you. So I don't mean to sound cross, I'm just being a mother.. Why are you killing each other? Why are you hating yourselves? You are the most important people God ever sent to this earth, every man, woman and child among you! Don't let uneducated people win and take your self-esteem or your esteem for each other, and make you kill each other. over guns, drugs, bling, or any other nonsense.
You are now entering YOUR version of a sort of civil rights movement and you're gonna see history being made in what has certainly the profoundest potential to become THE most wonderful country on earth. Because soon ALL 'isms' and 'sits'' will end. including racism, as the people of the earth begin to understand, we are all one.
We came from one mother. We are all brothers and sisters. And we CAN get beyond this ILLUSION of separateness. With prayer and love. It CAN change. It WILL change. And YOU guys (young people of all kinds) are the ones who are gonna GENTLY change it. And you know where it starts? With MUSIC.
Don't be guided by rap. Gangsta or otherwise. Sure.. enjoy it.. adore it.as I do.. but realize this.. rap ain't about your civil or spiritual rights, baby boys and girls. It.. along with most music nowadays.. is about falsenesses and vanities. Bling, drugs, sex, guns and people- dissing. Its giving you the message you ain't 'good enough' if you don't have bling and ting.. and money. Or if you're not what it deems 'sexy'.
(This is true of all popular music not rap alone. I know. Its tragically true of all popular youth culture the world over).
Poor Curtis Mayfield must be crying all day and night ALL day and night in heaven, every day and night.. To see what has been so successfully achieved by those who sent guns, drugs, and bling to squash the civil rights movement. Now you all don't have to be murdered by racists any more.. you're murdering each other FOR them! And your parents and grandparents are left crying.
Go back to strong black musical guides who left you information in the 60s and 70s. when they were living through the civil rights struggle. Curtis Mayfield. The Impressions. Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson. Sing back the Holy Spirit ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, as those artists did.
Forget bling. Forget "Get Rich Or Die Trying". That is an evil message. Evil my dears is only life backwards. Turn it the right way up. With music. The messages American black youth are being given through music are not about the spiritual and therefore strong and conquering but PEACEFUL making of YOUR country into the wonderful place it secretly is and can be.. BECAUSE OF YOU, and BY YOU!!
You know not how you are adored, appreciated, valued, loved, cried for,smiled for, prayed for, all over the world. You know not how much inspiration and uplift-ment of heart you give to millions just by your presence on earth.
These musical guides will give you self-esteem. When you have self-esteem you can achieve anything. You can stand in the street as many did yesterday and change your country peacefully and with song. Chant down Babylon as the Rastas say. Rastafari will also give you self esteem. Investigate it.
You will notice, my beautiful sons and daughters, when you study, as you must, footage of all civil rights gatherings, how singing and music and sound and voice and the Holy Spirit were all employed and were so much part of the energy which moved things along.. just as running was in the South African gatherings I saw on tv in my own childhood, which inspired me to survive my own horrors.
What you listen to musically and whether or not you employ the Holy Spirit's highest will for your life is whats gonna make you transcend all you're having to suffer (the worst of which is low self-esteem.. or esteem based upon material 'success' or 'sexiness')) as a result of being the descendants of people who didn't ask to be stolen and leave you where you are. Delete bling. Get conscious with your music. Demand conscious music from your artists. Go back to the artists who left you proper guidance.
This is some serious stuff and we (all manner of musical artists) are too silent on matters of enormous spiritual importance. Lemme ask you.. Jayzee and Eminem et al. Why was it always the black people only worked in the post rooms of record companies, which was always in the basement? Why was it that as each floor went up the skins got paler till it was fuckin ghosts at the top? And all us artists.. even me.. said nothing? Those buildings (record companies) always struck me as being a microcosm or painting of America, racially speaking. Christ almighty.. if its like that in the music business how is anything ever going to change?
We, musical artists are too silent on important stuff. And it is our job to be the gate-keepers of truth. ALL the people of this earth must come together eventually and see that we are one. ALL artists must stand up. Black, white, yellow, green, pink, fucking polka dot.. and be a light in these times.
The world is going to shift massively this year.. spiritually speaking. Musical artists are to be a massive part of that shift. Get up, lets all of us. And light Jah fire.. and BE lights.
Where's the fire gone from music? Where is the love? the oneness? The knowing that music CAN and WILL move things in the right spiritual direction without hatred or violence? We must box clever. Sing the devil to sleep at your feet. Thats what Curtis teaches. He is the master of ALL musical masters. forget, forget, forget and forget again bling and guns and drugs and the worship of fame and money. Its time to wake up. We KNOW the power of music. Why aren't we using it to change anything important?
Musicians all over the world should now gently demand this child's killer be arrested immediately and the family of Treyvon Martin be immediately apologized to upon bended knee. Frankly. I myself would like an apology! America is a country I love and adore. what this man has done is un-American in the most horrific extreme.
Him not being arrested is extremely embarrassing and does absolutely NOT paint the true picture of of a country and a people who for the 90% majority are the kindest, most loving, intelligent, and wonderful people you could know.
Please.. ALL Americans should deplore this crime. As should ALL people of ALL nations. And deplore the fact this man has not been arrested. All Irish people should do the same. And I ask that we here in Ireland should express through our American embassy that we would like to see this man arrested this very minute. Because racism is not acceptable. Nor is vigilantism. And this was very clearly in no way at all a case of self-defense.
I leave you with some lyrics of Curtis Mayfield's which I feel are appropriate for this situation. I am certain Curtis would have wanted to contribute to discussion on the issue of Treyvon's murder and the condition of young black people in America today.. so here goes.. the song is called This Is My Country.. from the album of the same name.
Some people think we don't have the right
to say its my country
before they give in
they'd rather fuss and fight
than say its my country
I've paid three hundred years or more
of slave-driving sweat and welts on my back
This is my country
Too many have died in protecting my pride
for me to go second class
We've survived a hard blow and I want you to know
that you must face us at last
And I know you will give consideration
shall we perish unjust or live equal as a nation?
This is my country.
22.03.12 Treyvon Martin
I would like to extend my very deepest sympathies to the family and other loved ones of murdered teenager, Treyvon Martin. I am very sad today (and am certain the whole of Ireland is) to learn of poor Treyvon's terrifying ordeal and horrified by the fact his known and named and admitted killer has not been arrested, despite the crime having taken place a month ago. This is a disgrace to the entire human race.
For those out there who believe black people to be less than pure royalty, let me inform you of a little known, but scientifically proven, many times over, FACT. Which after reading, you will hopefully feel both very stupid and very sorry. For you dishonor your own mothers and grandmothers.
EVERY human being on earth, no matter what their culture, creed, skin colour, or nationality, shares one gene traceable back to one African woman. Scientists have named it 'The Eve Gene'. This means ALL of us, even ridiculously stupid, ignorant, perverted, blaspheming racists are the descendants of one African woman.
One African woman is the mother of all of us. Africa was the first world. You come from there! Your skin may be 'white'.. because you didn't need it to be black any more where you lived. But as Curtis Mayfield said.. "You're just the surface of our dark, deep well". So you're being morons. And God is having the last laugh at your ignorant expense.
If you hate black people, its yourself you hate. And the mother who bore you. If you kill or wish ill on black people, its yourself you kill and wish ill on. As well as the mother who bore you.
When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it. Despite seeing every day, all your life, how you and your country would be less than wonderfully functioning and inspiring to the world, without the manifold and glorious contributions made by the descendants of African slaves, who did not by the way actually ask to go to America and leave their future families there to be disrespected for eternity.
What are you doing hating yourself by hating your brothers and sisters who daily show you nothing but inspiration and love, despite having NOTHING, in their own country? Despite having barely a chance of anything, because of racism. Despite being granted no 'permission' for proper self-esteem.
These beautiful people continue to believe in and even manifest Jesus Christ better than you do. That alone could stand as the greatest reason your racism is blasphemy, were it not for all the other reasons.
These people you hate and fear ARE the body of Christ, just as we all are. Every child, woman or man. And they know it. Maybe thats why you cant bear to look at them. Because you see Jesus Christ and you cant stand the light.
Stop this ridiculous and uneducated attitude. You would be dead without black people. Think of all the greatest music ever composed. The greatest songs. The greatest inspirational heroes.. Muhammad Ali, Mandela, Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, Soujourner Truth, Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Curtis Mayfield. So many absolute angels, sent from God.
Without the inspiration of these people many millions of so-called 'white' people, including myself would not have had the strength to pay the price of life.
And black youth in America. I'm talking to you here too. I love you. So I don't mean to sound cross, I'm just being a mother.. Why are you killing each other? Why are you hating yourselves? You are the most important people God ever sent to this earth, every man, woman and child among you! Don't let uneducated people win and take your self-esteem or your esteem for each other, and make you kill each other. over guns, drugs, bling, or any other nonsense.
You are now entering YOUR version of a sort of civil rights movement and you're gonna see history being made in what has certainly the profoundest potential to become THE most wonderful country on earth. Because soon ALL 'isms' and 'sits'' will end. including racism, as the people of the earth begin to understand, we are all one.
We came from one mother. We are all brothers and sisters. And we CAN get beyond this ILLUSION of separateness. With prayer and love. It CAN change. It WILL change. And YOU guys (young people of all kinds) are the ones who are gonna GENTLY change it. And you know where it starts? With MUSIC.
Don't be guided by rap. Gangsta or otherwise. Sure.. enjoy it.. adore it.as I do.. but realize this.. rap ain't about your civil or spiritual rights, baby boys and girls. It.. along with most music nowadays.. is about falsenesses and vanities. Bling, drugs, sex, guns and people- dissing. Its giving you the message you ain't 'good enough' if you don't have bling and ting.. and money. Or if you're not what it deems 'sexy'.
(This is true of all popular music not rap alone. I know. Its tragically true of all popular youth culture the world over).
Poor Curtis Mayfield must be crying all day and night ALL day and night in heaven, every day and night.. To see what has been so successfully achieved by those who sent guns, drugs, and bling to squash the civil rights movement. Now you all don't have to be murdered by racists any more.. you're murdering each other FOR them! And your parents and grandparents are left crying.
Go back to strong black musical guides who left you information in the 60s and 70s. when they were living through the civil rights struggle. Curtis Mayfield. The Impressions. Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson. Sing back the Holy Spirit ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, as those artists did.
Forget bling. Forget "Get Rich Or Die Trying". That is an evil message. Evil my dears is only life backwards. Turn it the right way up. With music. The messages American black youth are being given through music are not about the spiritual and therefore strong and conquering but PEACEFUL making of YOUR country into the wonderful place it secretly is and can be.. BECAUSE OF YOU, and BY YOU!!
You know not how you are adored, appreciated, valued, loved, cried for,smiled for, prayed for, all over the world. You know not how much inspiration and uplift-ment of heart you give to millions just by your presence on earth.
These musical guides will give you self-esteem. When you have self-esteem you can achieve anything. You can stand in the street as many did yesterday and change your country peacefully and with song. Chant down Babylon as the Rastas say. Rastafari will also give you self esteem. Investigate it.
You will notice, my beautiful sons and daughters, when you study, as you must, footage of all civil rights gatherings, how singing and music and sound and voice and the Holy Spirit were all employed and were so much part of the energy which moved things along.. just as running was in the South African gatherings I saw on tv in my own childhood, which inspired me to survive my own horrors.
What you listen to musically and whether or not you employ the Holy Spirit's highest will for your life is whats gonna make you transcend all you're having to suffer (the worst of which is low self-esteem.. or esteem based upon material 'success' or 'sexiness')) as a result of being the descendants of people who didn't ask to be stolen and leave you where you are. Delete bling. Get conscious with your music. Demand conscious music from your artists. Go back to the artists who left you proper guidance.
This is some serious stuff and we (all manner of musical artists) are too silent on matters of enormous spiritual importance. Lemme ask you.. Jayzee and Eminem et al. Why was it always the black people only worked in the post rooms of record companies, which was always in the basement? Why was it that as each floor went up the skins got paler till it was fuckin ghosts at the top? And all us artists.. even me.. said nothing? Those buildings (record companies) always struck me as being a microcosm or painting of America, racially speaking. Christ almighty.. if its like that in the music business how is anything ever going to change?
We, musical artists are too silent on important stuff. And it is our job to be the gate-keepers of truth. ALL the people of this earth must come together eventually and see that we are one. ALL artists must stand up. Black, white, yellow, green, pink, fucking polka dot.. and be a light in these times.
The world is going to shift massively this year.. spiritually speaking. Musical artists are to be a massive part of that shift. Get up, lets all of us. And light Jah fire.. and BE lights.
Where's the fire gone from music? Where is the love? the oneness? The knowing that music CAN and WILL move things in the right spiritual direction without hatred or violence? We must box clever. Sing the devil to sleep at your feet. Thats what Curtis teaches. He is the master of ALL musical masters. forget, forget, forget and forget again bling and guns and drugs and the worship of fame and money. Its time to wake up. We KNOW the power of music. Why aren't we using it to change anything important?
Musicians all over the world should now gently demand this child's killer be arrested immediately and the family of Treyvon Martin be immediately apologized to upon bended knee. Frankly. I myself would like an apology! America is a country I love and adore. what this man has done is un-American in the most horrific extreme.
Him not being arrested is extremely embarrassing and does absolutely NOT paint the true picture of of a country and a people who for the 90% majority are the kindest, most loving, intelligent, and wonderful people you could know.
Please.. ALL Americans should deplore this crime. As should ALL people of ALL nations. And deplore the fact this man has not been arrested. All Irish people should do the same. And I ask that we here in Ireland should express through our American embassy that we would like to see this man arrested this very minute. Because racism is not acceptable. Nor is vigilantism. And this was very clearly in no way at all a case of self-defense.
I leave you with some lyrics of Curtis Mayfield's which I feel are appropriate for this situation. I am certain Curtis would have wanted to contribute to discussion on the issue of Treyvon's murder and the condition of young black people in America today.. so here goes.. the song is called This Is My Country.. from the album of the same name.
Some people think we don't have the right
to say its my country
before they give in
they'd rather fuss and fight
than say its my country
I've paid three hundred years or more
of slave-driving sweat and welts on my back
This is my country
Too many have died in protecting my pride
for me to go second class
We've survived a hard blow and I want you to know
that you must face us at last
And I know you will give consideration
shall we perish unjust or live equal as a nation?
This is my country.
(Audio) @Plies X We Are Trayvon
If this is a surprise coming from Plies, go Google '100 years" by him... @ stuff like this. He has this in him too.
(Words) I support justice for Trayvon Martin but I don't support the lack of outrage when we do it to ourselves...
If you have noticed, I have been REALLY QUIET about the incident in Florida on the blog. Yeah, I put the Heat pic up (Dope touch by them btw..and hats off to the Florida boy Stoudamire for his hooded look too. He knows all about that area..) but that's about it. I was just watching. I DID SIGN THE PETITION and I have been following though. I DO SUPPORT JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON AND I HOPE HIS FAMILY GETS THE CLOSURE THEY NEED.
What I won't do is act like everything ya'll are out here saying and doing 'in the name of Trayvon Martin is correct..Nope.
Here are some of the things bother me about this WHOLE ISSUE as far as how I see it being handled/discussed/carried forward to folks..:
One is that ya'll are ready and willing to go at least 'entertain' the idea of hurting HIS KILLER but you won't BREATH A WORD ABOUT THOSE THAT HUNT DOWN AND KILL INNOCENT FOLKS (CHILDREN) THAT LIVE AMONGST YOU. That's my issue. I saw his address float by on my TL. That's cool. Ya'll going down there though? Didnd't think so. Oh...I understand, you live among them so that is why you won't say anything. Understand I also know that because you won't do anything about those who you can get access to, you won't be out here doing anything about Trayvon's killer either. Remember, he SHOT SOMEONE and killed them. He is 'not a suspect' so that means he is STILL A LEGAL GUN OWNER. I know ya'll are emotional out here but stop acting like those who aren't saying 'They would kill him..' aren't as passionate as you. You are selling wolf tickets fam. You aren't doing shit. Stop it. You are going to put your hoodie on, march for the next couple of weeks, sign a petition and MAYBE talk about it through the next 'big thing' that happens. That's about it. So stop saying you would or will.. Which leads me to #2...
I don't see any of the folks who have 'shooters on deck' making any trips down to I-4 (or (I-75 depending on where you are coming from) to 'handle this'. Not that doing so would be 'correct' but yeah... I know that is what some of you are saying about the lack of 'involvement' by the rappers there but I don't know enough about 'what they haven't done' to know if they didn't speak out about it...Clearly, if they put the plans in motion that I am speaking about, THEY CAN'T SAY THAT so I don't expect some declaration in that fashion. I actually do expect it though from those 'regular cats who claim they don't give a fuck about the cops or anything.." I'd like to know where they are... (Don't answer that. I already know..It was a rhetorical question..)
Then there is the fact that some of you....and this really makes me look at you funny, get behind a cause and become TOTALLY BLIND TO ANY OTHER ISSUES AND START CONDONING BEHAVIOR THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WTIH WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THIS CASE... Example:
"I don't care if he ROBBED AND KILLED HIS MOTHER...Trayvon should not have been touched..."
Really? Really??? I mean, I know you want to be right and all and maybe this is your first time 'standing up for what is right' and shit but this shit here? This 'slipping in other niggerish shit so when it comes up, there can be a tolerance for it and it can be excused' shit here? No. Cut that shit out. No place for it. Stick to the facts. The facts are that TRAYVON DIDN'T DO ANYTHING and got killed. Don't try to make a case for your 'fucked up cousin' who went on a rampage and shot ten people and then the cops shot him outta this case. Stop that. I see you out there. The two situations have NOTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER. I've seen a lot of this in the past couple of days. Yes, I know where it is coming from. No, it doesn't make it right. I don't care WHO YOU ARE SAYING. You are wrong. Your 'man and 'em' were not on the side of RIGHT. Trayvon was. The end.
'The Why Didn't Obama Speak Sooner' Contingent:
I don't know how many times I have to tell you folks who 'claim you know how the government works' how THIS WORKS. He is not YOU. Matter of fact, HE OUT OF ALL PEOPLE WOULD KNOW THAT HE CAN'T TRUST 'WHAT HE IS HEARING ON THE NEWS' CAUSE THEY CAN'T GET THE SHIT RIGHT ABOUT WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT HIM.. So while yes, 'information was out there about what was happening', he can't go around making 'uninformed' statements with 3/4ths of the facts at his disposal, where 1/3 of if it speculation like you can. He just can't. He has to find out ALL THE INFORMATION, PROCESS IT, THEN MAKE AN INFORMED AND POLITICALLY CORRECT STATEMENT. He can't go 'off the cuff. Stop acting like he is you. He isn't. Not only that, he can't get 'involved' in EVERY CASE. He just can't. You'd be mad if his ass came in and got involved in your BELOVED neighborhood 'D Boy's Rico case now wouldn't you? Lie to me and say you wouldn't? You'd be on that 'He is over stepping his bounds..Doesn't he have another country to save? and all that other bullshit. I never doubted he was going to speak, as some of you did. He is in a different position than ANY OF US ARE THOUGH and sometimes I truly think you folks don't respect it. What if he misspoke and hit cost him in the Election? Did you ever think about that? I mean YOU DO KNOW THAT THIS IS AN ELECTION YEAR RIGHT? So he speaks and then you niggas come up with this 'He didn't say enough' shit? Wow.
Define enough. I'll wait. Just like I am STILL WAITING ON THE MAGICAL NUMBER THAT SOMEONE MAKES A GIRL A HO(E) THAT YOU NIGGERS CAN'T SEEM TO COME WITHIN A 1-3 NUMBER RANGE OF..
If I may... to quote myself..
"Again...you 'magic pill' ass niggas slay me. @ this imaginary 'enough' that you can't seem to put into SPECIFIC CONTEXT on issues."
carolinaware
Ya'll don't want to get me started on this shit..
We can just keep talking about homie and sweep the other shit under the rug.. -_-
Ya'll don't wanna talk about that shit though..
We don't seem to give a fuck about doing it ourselves.. on a whole...-_-
But I will. @ say it. We are out here
killing each other though like it is cool. I can see why mofos on the
'outside' think it is..
Again...we don't need to HELP with our own extinction. And YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. I don't have to say it.
Oh..ya'll thought it 'over'? @ racism. But
you want to get up in arms about this but still argue this 'light/dark'
skin bullshit.
So yeah, count me out of all this 'faux disdain' you folks seem to have. 'Cause next week, WHEN SOMEONE ELSE DIES at the hands of ANOTHER BLACK MAN, you will all be hitting me (and the rest of us) with this bullshit...Out of those same mouths that are saying this week 'Nobody deserves to die...especially like...." Same mouths...
"That's the way the 'game' goes..."
"Life is like that...somebody has to die.."
"That's what he gets..."
(Puts Steelers Hoodie back on)
*Am I advocating that? Maybe I am. It isn't right though. Neither is letting killers who WALK AMONG US OF LITTLE CHILDERN either though. I mean if I'm as upset as you folks 'claim' to be, the better question is probably..'Why are you ADVOCATING THAT?" I digress though....
(Words) Here's What They Think About You- NWA. Jules Manson's "Kill the fucken nigger and his monkey children..."
He is talking about the President btw...
Read his comment to his own post on Facebook... See for yourself. No speculation. He wrote it. Sad shit. Not gonna put that on the WHOLE TEA PARTY but I will HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE FOR IT.
(Video) Hank Williams Jr. pulled from Monday Night Football lead for comments on President Obama...
Now I am neither SHOCKED NOR SURPRISED that Hank Williams Jr. feels this way. What I want to know is why Disney owned ESPN didn't know he felt this way. I'm no country music guru but I have heard ENOUGH OF HANK WILLIAMS JR'S music to know where he stands politically. He makes no secret to me. I almost don't see the issue with this. Almost I said. I mean he is ENTITLED TO FEEL HOW HE FEELS. I don't agree with it but like I said, outside of MNF theme haveaboutthismuchuseforHANKWILLIAMSMUSIC. No skin off of my back if he doesn't like The President. (shrugs) @ comparing him to Hitler. It was a dumb comparison but yeah...I don't really give a shit. I have compared Hank Williams Jr. to MANY STEREOTYPICAL THINGS. He just lived up to one of them with that statement....
Oh btw....Texas set to execute man in race-motivated dragging death | Reuters
Texas set to execute man in race-motivated dragging death | Reuters
Today I hear a lot of folks REALLY EXPRESSING THEMSELVES about the Death Penalty and the like. Great discussions are being had on the topic. Today ,however, is a prime example of why I try not to speak in absolutes. You see, I'm not really with the condescending shit I am hearing though so this article is for you folks. Not that I can change your mind but I just want to make sure all sides of the issue are out there. Today one of the men accused of dragging James Byrd Jr. behind a pickup truck to his death is scheduled to die AS WELL.
The same way some of you feel ABOUT WHY YOU DON'T WANT THE DEATH PENALTY is the same reason why I think it should be on a case by case basis. As it stands now, it is pretty blanketed in its application and I will agree that is faulty. I DON'T agree it should be done away with though. I'm not about to scream for the clemency of this man here below. Period. Point blank. Some of you have told me 'you don't believe in the death penalty period' but yet I don't see you giving ANY ATTENTION TO THIS YOUNG MAN. He meets most of your standard criteria for why he shouldn't be executed....THE MAIN ONE BEING HE IS A HUMAN BEING. He is not remorseful in the least but that shouldn't matter if the beliefs that some of you OUT HERE ARE TRYING TO MAKE FOLKS FEEL BAD FOR NOT HAVING are the ground that you stand on. Where is the outcry for this dude? The Twitter trending topics? Oh.....
Happy Hypocrite's Day!! 'Cause if you don't like the death penalty I'm going to need that same vigor shown not just with this man but EVERY TIME someone is up for execution. Don't worry...I won't wait on it as I know MOST OF YOU will have forgotten what you said today.
AUSTIN |
(Reuters) - Texas is set to execute on Wednesday a white supremacist convicted of helping to kill a black man by dragging him behind a truck, in what some call the most notorious race crime of the post-Civil Rights era.
Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, was convicted of capital murder along with two other men in the kidnapping and slaying of James Byrd Jr. in 1998.
Brewer, together with John King and Shawn Berry, offered Byrd Jr. a ride home, attacked him on a country road, chained his ankles to the back of Berry's pickup, and then dragged him behind the truck for several miles in the vicinity of Jasper, Texas, according to a report by the Texas Attorney General's Office.
The east Texas killing touched off a national movement to strengthen punishments for crimes motivated by hate.
Brewer is set to die by lethal injection after 6 p.m. local time Wednesday in Huntsville, Texas.
He would be the 11th person executed in Texas this year. In Georgia, Troy Davis is also scheduled to be executed. If both executions go ahead, they would be the 34th and 35th in the country in 2011.
King, another white supremacist who was friends with Brewer in prison, is on death row awaiting an execution date. Berry is serving a life sentence.
The victim's only son, Ross Byrd, said late Tuesday that he wishes the state would show the mercy toward the condemned man that the killers never showed Byrd Jr., who died while his son was in military training.
"Life in prison would have been fine," Ross Byrd, 32, told Reuters. "I know he can't hurt my daddy anymore. I wish the state would take in mind that this isn't what we want."
While Brewer blamed Berry for the killing, prosecutors said it happened because King and Brewer wanted to start a white supremacist group in Jasper, according to the AG's report.
Byrd Jr.'s three children and wife have argued against use of the death penalty against his killers, but other members of his family have said they thought it was the right sentence.
Texas state Senator Rodney Ellis, a Houston Democrat who helped pass the state's James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act in 2001, said the death sentence in Brewer's case "will close a chapter in this tragic story."
"I cannot say for certain that it is a requirement in order for justice to be served," Ellis told Reuters, "but as Mr. Brewer was a ringleader in the most brutal hate crime in the post-Civil Rights era, it is certainly a very appropriate sentence."
Texas has the country's most active death row, executing more than four times as many people as any other state since the death penalty was reinstated in the United States in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Today I hear a lot of folks REALLY EXPRESSING THEMSELVES about the Death Penalty and the like. Great discussions are being had on the topic. Today ,however, is a prime example of why I try not to speak in absolutes. You see, I'm not really with the condescending shit I am hearing though so this article is for you folks. Not that I can change your mind but I just want to make sure all sides of the issue are out there. Today one of the men accused of dragging James Byrd Jr. behind a pickup truck to his death is scheduled to die AS WELL.
The same way some of you feel ABOUT WHY YOU DON'T WANT THE DEATH PENALTY is the same reason why I think it should be on a case by case basis. As it stands now, it is pretty blanketed in its application and I will agree that is faulty. I DON'T agree it should be done away with though. I'm not about to scream for the clemency of this man here below. Period. Point blank. Some of you have told me 'you don't believe in the death penalty period' but yet I don't see you giving ANY ATTENTION TO THIS YOUNG MAN. He meets most of your standard criteria for why he shouldn't be executed....THE MAIN ONE BEING HE IS A HUMAN BEING. He is not remorseful in the least but that shouldn't matter if the beliefs that some of you OUT HERE ARE TRYING TO MAKE FOLKS FEEL BAD FOR NOT HAVING are the ground that you stand on. Where is the outcry for this dude? The Twitter trending topics? Oh.....
Happy Hypocrite's Day!! 'Cause if you don't like the death penalty I'm going to need that same vigor shown not just with this man but EVERY TIME someone is up for execution. Don't worry...I won't wait on it as I know MOST OF YOU will have forgotten what you said today.
AUSTIN |
(Reuters) - Texas is set to execute on Wednesday a white supremacist convicted of helping to kill a black man by dragging him behind a truck, in what some call the most notorious race crime of the post-Civil Rights era.
Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, was convicted of capital murder along with two other men in the kidnapping and slaying of James Byrd Jr. in 1998.
Brewer, together with John King and Shawn Berry, offered Byrd Jr. a ride home, attacked him on a country road, chained his ankles to the back of Berry's pickup, and then dragged him behind the truck for several miles in the vicinity of Jasper, Texas, according to a report by the Texas Attorney General's Office.
The east Texas killing touched off a national movement to strengthen punishments for crimes motivated by hate.
Brewer is set to die by lethal injection after 6 p.m. local time Wednesday in Huntsville, Texas.
He would be the 11th person executed in Texas this year. In Georgia, Troy Davis is also scheduled to be executed. If both executions go ahead, they would be the 34th and 35th in the country in 2011.
King, another white supremacist who was friends with Brewer in prison, is on death row awaiting an execution date. Berry is serving a life sentence.
The victim's only son, Ross Byrd, said late Tuesday that he wishes the state would show the mercy toward the condemned man that the killers never showed Byrd Jr., who died while his son was in military training.
"Life in prison would have been fine," Ross Byrd, 32, told Reuters. "I know he can't hurt my daddy anymore. I wish the state would take in mind that this isn't what we want."
While Brewer blamed Berry for the killing, prosecutors said it happened because King and Brewer wanted to start a white supremacist group in Jasper, according to the AG's report.
Byrd Jr.'s three children and wife have argued against use of the death penalty against his killers, but other members of his family have said they thought it was the right sentence.
Texas state Senator Rodney Ellis, a Houston Democrat who helped pass the state's James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act in 2001, said the death sentence in Brewer's case "will close a chapter in this tragic story."
"I cannot say for certain that it is a requirement in order for justice to be served," Ellis told Reuters, "but as Mr. Brewer was a ringleader in the most brutal hate crime in the post-Civil Rights era, it is certainly a very appropriate sentence."
Texas has the country's most active death row, executing more than four times as many people as any other state since the death penalty was reinstated in the United States in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
(Words) How does it feel to love 'a game' that hates you?
(Caution: Nigga speak and cussing ahead. Made up words and verbiage that would not be found in Webster's ahead. Strongly advise that you don't judge. I have to write this in a language that can be understood by all.)
That seems to do nothing but speed up your demise?
That has you out here mourning the losses of your loved ones but AT THE SAME TIME has you out here putting up a shield like you 'have no heart'?
How does that feel? 'The game' could give TWO SHITS ABOUT YOU but some of you are more loyal to it than you are to ANYONE WHO ACTUALLY DOES GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU?
I won't say "I don't understand it.." or anything like that 'cause quite frankly that is a cop out. I hate when folks say that shit knowing FULL WELL that they understand 'it'.
But I will ask you...again..
How does it feel?
You see, a lot of you are out here, talking about 'racist white crackers' holding you down and that ole rhetoric and meanwhile you are out here..........(More on that later in the post)
It is all fun, bitches and good 'loud' until someone gets shot and killed. Then the fake eulogies come out. (Sorry, you can't be a stone cold killer/fuck the World type of person and be a 'good guy/girl'. It just doesn't work that way. The nigga was nice TO YOU 'CAUSE YOU worked for him/did for him/etc...Lets keep it funky..) The 'heartless' find out they have a heart and then lose it again to 'make someone else feel like they do...' until someone comes and does it to their family. Cycle continues.....
I wonder if folks would be so quick to shoot when some REAL SHIT went down? Like when our FREEDOM was at stake? Not pussy. Not drug money. Just straight freedom.
Why am I 'calling attention to this'? Because of this news story that ran on the news the other day. All you niggas wanna talk about is 'Lil Wayne's album' sales and what nigga is running the block and shit though. Meanwhile, the FUCKING KLU KLUX KLAN is recruiting members door to fucking door down the street. I mean I could bring this up for other reasons but....
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/klan-goes-door-to-door-in-delaware-090711
NEWPORT, Del. - Fox 29 has uncovered evidence that the Ku Klux klan is actively trying to recruit new members in New Castle County, Delaware.
Specifically, the KKK is targeting neighborhoods in Newport, an area southwest of Wilmington just a few miles east of Newark.
They're going door to door, picking predominantly white neighborhoods, leaving their calling card, hoping residents will call them back and join their ranks:
Residents says someone from the KKK is driving by, throwing baggies out a car window onto driveways and lawns, much like a kid delivering newspapers. Inside the sandwich bag are a couple of rocks to weight it down, and a note that says "fight illegal immigration."
"It’s scary. You don't want to think that people like that are in your neighborhood. You know, it's... I felt uncomfortable about it,” said one resident.
The note identifies a branch of the KKK called "Virgils White Knights," and includes two phone numbers. So Fox 29 called the first, which has a Delaware area code. It was not in service.
The second phone number did work. We left a message but never heard back.
So why is the Ku Klux Klan recruiting here? There is an influx of Latino immigrants in the past several years. But everyone we talked to is still surprised the KKK would target the area.
"We go to a school where the Spanish population is huge, and that never bothered anyone that I've ever known," said another resident
Don't snicker Philly..You too....
In a follow-up to a story Fox 29 broke on Wednesday, the Klu Klux Klan may be trying to recruit new members in Philadelphia as well as Delaware.
According to the latest Census data, about 62 percent of Philadelphia's population is Black, Latino or Asian.
Fox 29’s Claudia Gomez talked to one of the top leaders in the Klu Klux Klan on Thursday. She spoke to Chris Barker by phone and he's the number two guy in a faction of the KKK called the "Rebel Brigade, Knights Of The Ku Klux Klan."
Barker is based in North Carolina, and he says he oversees KKK operations in Delaware:
For the past several months, the Ku Klux Klan has been leaving a calling card outside homes in New Castle County, Delaware, hoping to find new members. The baggies include a couple of phone numbers. So we called, and eventually heard back from barker.
"We're going to start doing more stuff in Delaware. We're looking at now purchasing land out there for a compound they're going to have built out there. We'll start holding our annual meetings in Delaware and Maryland,” he said.
The Klan is hoping to buy that land just outside Wilmington, near the neighborhoods where it's been recruiting. Once the compound is built, the KKK is planning, "regular Klan rallies with the cross-lighting ritual and all that, will be held there."
Barker says the Klan's campaign to beef up membership in New Castle County is working.
"Way over 500 members out there, just in that one section … between Northern Delaware and the border of Pennsylvania, right through there,” Barker said.
We don't know if barker is exaggerating the numbers. But we do know another faction of the KKK is also trying to recruit in Philadelphia.
"Hello marc, this is Adam from your local Ku Klux Klan,” was a voice mail left for Fox 29 viewer Marc Eichler.
The caller intentionally distorted the sound of his voice, when he left this message on Eichler's cellphone.
"We'd like to find out how much you hate n-----s, and we're also trying to recruit for our annual drive, recruiting drive."
Eichler never called them back, "because I have no interest in joining the KKK."
"It's not the deep south, this area is so culturally diverse... And you just don't know what they would want in this area."
Fox 29 called the number left on Eichler's voicemail.
A man who identified himself as the national director told us there is no KKK phone campaign in Philadelphia.
And he doesn't know who left the message or why.
He also told us his group has no affiliation with the group operating in Delaware.
NOT ONE FUCKING TWEET ABOUT THIS ON MY TL. Not a one. No Facebook statuses. No phone calls. (Newport is DOWN THE STREET FROM ME..) I see where ya'lls priorities are! Fucks wrong with ya'll out here. No 'freestyles' dissing this shit here. No 'open air remarks'* about how 'you wish someone would'. None of that. STRAIGHT CRICKETS. I JUST FOUND ABOUT IT THIS MORNING so that is why I haven't said much. Where are all you niggas that are always out here talking about 'I ain't scared of no man..'/scared to die at?????
If you are not familiar with the area, let me enlighten you. Everyone here is now (or has) a 'shooter'. According to some, niggas out here have 30 and 40 bodies a piece. Some of the 'cities'/towns here have some REALLY HIGH MURDER RATES (amongst minority on minority crime ESPECIALLY) What I am interested in knowing is this?
Are ya'll gonna go out here and shoot THE REAL ENEMY when they have permits to carry and will shoot back at you? When they have ALL THE PROPER EQUIPMENT, the training, the 'gun time' and THE LAW ON THEIR SIDE, you gonna come down and 'ride on them'? Don't worry....I WON'T WAIT ON YOU TO COME SAVE ME. "Cause I already know what MOST OF you are going to do.
NOTHING. You are gonna 'stay away from the crazy white boys' with the assault rifles after the first one of you gets killed trying to re-enact a scene outta 'Shottaz' or some shit. Maybe, and I mean MAYBE, THE ONES OF YOU WHO ARE MILITARY TRAINED might stay for a bit. But you will 'bug out' too. WHERE ARE YOU NIGGAS AT MAN? This is the time TO BE 'SUPER NIGGA'! Not when Joey down the block bangs out your VERY WILLING SISTER!
Just like your predecessors did before you will do.....nothing. Tough on your own people. Shoot 'em on site. Won't shoot a white person with a hood to SAVE YOUR LIFE though. You will 'RIDE ON THE WHITE GIRL' for saying nigga and threaten to beat her up but will you RUN UP ON Becky WHEN SHE HAS HER SHOTGUN OUT like the Hatfields Miss Thug Ride or Die Chick talking about 'Fuck niggers.."? Not 'What up my niggas....' but 'fuck NIGGERS'. Let me answer for you...you won't. You will walk away then....You might talk fly but you won't DO SHIT. You won't take that bullet for that. Somehow, that has become 'less honorable'....smh (Like DYING & subsequently planning to do so 'honorably' anyway is the goal or some shit but I digress on that altogether...... )
The 'non killers' out here will be fighting them and shooting them, JUST LIKE BEFORE for the most part. Way back when. You see, when 'survival' kicks in, it doesn't matter if you were a 'clown' in school or you are soft ('cause you don't fight/beef/whatever over stupid shit). It just kicks in. Harriet Tubman was more GANGSTA then ANY OF YOU NIGGAS OUT HERE. She wasn't out here 'shooting folks on sight to get a rep'.....She used her brain and did things physically to 'help her people'. To 'put her people on the map'. LITERALLY. Hell, she helped SHAPE THE MAP by helping 'HER PEOPLES' get to where they could prosper. She didn't mire them in muck. Set them up to fail. Have them believing in a game that 'hated them'. She was an intricate cog (along with many....many..many..others) in a game that actually LOVED IT PARTICIPANTS BACK. Sure folks 'died' in this game too but it was for the BETTERMENT of the people. What do you know about that?
I don't know about you but I would much rather 'love a game' that loves me back than one that 'hates me with every fiber of its being.' This being in the news and ya'll not SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT IT lets me know you would rather love a game that 'hates you' then love one that 'loves you back'. Interesting indeed.....I'm good where I stand. If it went down TODAY, I would do what I could for freedom of all. I can't honestly say that some of you would and that is a damm shame considering all the 'guts' some of you claim to have.
* The ULTIMATE NEGRO TACTIC where someone basically threatens a whole room/setting with a blanket statement that is designed to instill fear into everyone. Fear that is OFTEN MISTAKEN FOR RESPECT by the person saying. This is proven later when someone who 'heard' what that person says decides to take advantage of said person when they aren't in the position to 'back up what they said'. (They are alone...without their gun..not in their part of town....etc...etc...)
That seems to do nothing but speed up your demise?
That has you out here mourning the losses of your loved ones but AT THE SAME TIME has you out here putting up a shield like you 'have no heart'?
How does that feel? 'The game' could give TWO SHITS ABOUT YOU but some of you are more loyal to it than you are to ANYONE WHO ACTUALLY DOES GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU?
I won't say "I don't understand it.." or anything like that 'cause quite frankly that is a cop out. I hate when folks say that shit knowing FULL WELL that they understand 'it'.
But I will ask you...again..
How does it feel?
You see, a lot of you are out here, talking about 'racist white crackers' holding you down and that ole rhetoric and meanwhile you are out here..........(More on that later in the post)
It is all fun, bitches and good 'loud' until someone gets shot and killed. Then the fake eulogies come out. (Sorry, you can't be a stone cold killer/fuck the World type of person and be a 'good guy/girl'. It just doesn't work that way. The nigga was nice TO YOU 'CAUSE YOU worked for him/did for him/etc...Lets keep it funky..) The 'heartless' find out they have a heart and then lose it again to 'make someone else feel like they do...' until someone comes and does it to their family. Cycle continues.....
I wonder if folks would be so quick to shoot when some REAL SHIT went down? Like when our FREEDOM was at stake? Not pussy. Not drug money. Just straight freedom.
Why am I 'calling attention to this'? Because of this news story that ran on the news the other day. All you niggas wanna talk about is 'Lil Wayne's album' sales and what nigga is running the block and shit though. Meanwhile, the FUCKING KLU KLUX KLAN is recruiting members door to fucking door down the street. I mean I could bring this up for other reasons but....
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/klan-goes-door-to-door-in-delaware-090711
NEWPORT, Del. - Fox 29 has uncovered evidence that the Ku Klux klan is actively trying to recruit new members in New Castle County, Delaware.
Specifically, the KKK is targeting neighborhoods in Newport, an area southwest of Wilmington just a few miles east of Newark.
They're going door to door, picking predominantly white neighborhoods, leaving their calling card, hoping residents will call them back and join their ranks:
Residents says someone from the KKK is driving by, throwing baggies out a car window onto driveways and lawns, much like a kid delivering newspapers. Inside the sandwich bag are a couple of rocks to weight it down, and a note that says "fight illegal immigration."
"It’s scary. You don't want to think that people like that are in your neighborhood. You know, it's... I felt uncomfortable about it,” said one resident.
The note identifies a branch of the KKK called "Virgils White Knights," and includes two phone numbers. So Fox 29 called the first, which has a Delaware area code. It was not in service.
The second phone number did work. We left a message but never heard back.
So why is the Ku Klux Klan recruiting here? There is an influx of Latino immigrants in the past several years. But everyone we talked to is still surprised the KKK would target the area.
"We go to a school where the Spanish population is huge, and that never bothered anyone that I've ever known," said another resident
Don't snicker Philly..You too....
In a follow-up to a story Fox 29 broke on Wednesday, the Klu Klux Klan may be trying to recruit new members in Philadelphia as well as Delaware.
According to the latest Census data, about 62 percent of Philadelphia's population is Black, Latino or Asian.
Fox 29’s Claudia Gomez talked to one of the top leaders in the Klu Klux Klan on Thursday. She spoke to Chris Barker by phone and he's the number two guy in a faction of the KKK called the "Rebel Brigade, Knights Of The Ku Klux Klan."
Barker is based in North Carolina, and he says he oversees KKK operations in Delaware:
For the past several months, the Ku Klux Klan has been leaving a calling card outside homes in New Castle County, Delaware, hoping to find new members. The baggies include a couple of phone numbers. So we called, and eventually heard back from barker.
"We're going to start doing more stuff in Delaware. We're looking at now purchasing land out there for a compound they're going to have built out there. We'll start holding our annual meetings in Delaware and Maryland,” he said.
The Klan is hoping to buy that land just outside Wilmington, near the neighborhoods where it's been recruiting. Once the compound is built, the KKK is planning, "regular Klan rallies with the cross-lighting ritual and all that, will be held there."
Barker says the Klan's campaign to beef up membership in New Castle County is working.
"Way over 500 members out there, just in that one section … between Northern Delaware and the border of Pennsylvania, right through there,” Barker said.
We don't know if barker is exaggerating the numbers. But we do know another faction of the KKK is also trying to recruit in Philadelphia.
"Hello marc, this is Adam from your local Ku Klux Klan,” was a voice mail left for Fox 29 viewer Marc Eichler.
The caller intentionally distorted the sound of his voice, when he left this message on Eichler's cellphone.
"We'd like to find out how much you hate n-----s, and we're also trying to recruit for our annual drive, recruiting drive."
Eichler never called them back, "because I have no interest in joining the KKK."
"It's not the deep south, this area is so culturally diverse... And you just don't know what they would want in this area."
Fox 29 called the number left on Eichler's voicemail.
A man who identified himself as the national director told us there is no KKK phone campaign in Philadelphia.
And he doesn't know who left the message or why.
He also told us his group has no affiliation with the group operating in Delaware.
NOT ONE FUCKING TWEET ABOUT THIS ON MY TL. Not a one. No Facebook statuses. No phone calls. (Newport is DOWN THE STREET FROM ME..) I see where ya'lls priorities are! Fucks wrong with ya'll out here. No 'freestyles' dissing this shit here. No 'open air remarks'* about how 'you wish someone would'. None of that. STRAIGHT CRICKETS. I JUST FOUND ABOUT IT THIS MORNING so that is why I haven't said much. Where are all you niggas that are always out here talking about 'I ain't scared of no man..'/scared to die at?????
If you are not familiar with the area, let me enlighten you. Everyone here is now (or has) a 'shooter'. According to some, niggas out here have 30 and 40 bodies a piece. Some of the 'cities'/towns here have some REALLY HIGH MURDER RATES (amongst minority on minority crime ESPECIALLY) What I am interested in knowing is this?
Are ya'll gonna go out here and shoot THE REAL ENEMY when they have permits to carry and will shoot back at you? When they have ALL THE PROPER EQUIPMENT, the training, the 'gun time' and THE LAW ON THEIR SIDE, you gonna come down and 'ride on them'? Don't worry....I WON'T WAIT ON YOU TO COME SAVE ME. "Cause I already know what MOST OF you are going to do.
NOTHING. You are gonna 'stay away from the crazy white boys' with the assault rifles after the first one of you gets killed trying to re-enact a scene outta 'Shottaz' or some shit. Maybe, and I mean MAYBE, THE ONES OF YOU WHO ARE MILITARY TRAINED might stay for a bit. But you will 'bug out' too. WHERE ARE YOU NIGGAS AT MAN? This is the time TO BE 'SUPER NIGGA'! Not when Joey down the block bangs out your VERY WILLING SISTER!
Just like your predecessors did before you will do.....nothing. Tough on your own people. Shoot 'em on site. Won't shoot a white person with a hood to SAVE YOUR LIFE though. You will 'RIDE ON THE WHITE GIRL' for saying nigga and threaten to beat her up but will you RUN UP ON Becky WHEN SHE HAS HER SHOTGUN OUT like the Hatfields Miss Thug Ride or Die Chick talking about 'Fuck niggers.."? Not 'What up my niggas....' but 'fuck NIGGERS'. Let me answer for you...you won't. You will walk away then....You might talk fly but you won't DO SHIT. You won't take that bullet for that. Somehow, that has become 'less honorable'....smh (Like DYING & subsequently planning to do so 'honorably' anyway is the goal or some shit but I digress on that altogether...... )
The 'non killers' out here will be fighting them and shooting them, JUST LIKE BEFORE for the most part. Way back when. You see, when 'survival' kicks in, it doesn't matter if you were a 'clown' in school or you are soft ('cause you don't fight/beef/whatever over stupid shit). It just kicks in. Harriet Tubman was more GANGSTA then ANY OF YOU NIGGAS OUT HERE. She wasn't out here 'shooting folks on sight to get a rep'.....She used her brain and did things physically to 'help her people'. To 'put her people on the map'. LITERALLY. Hell, she helped SHAPE THE MAP by helping 'HER PEOPLES' get to where they could prosper. She didn't mire them in muck. Set them up to fail. Have them believing in a game that 'hated them'. She was an intricate cog (along with many....many..many..others) in a game that actually LOVED IT PARTICIPANTS BACK. Sure folks 'died' in this game too but it was for the BETTERMENT of the people. What do you know about that?
I don't know about you but I would much rather 'love a game' that loves me back than one that 'hates me with every fiber of its being.' This being in the news and ya'll not SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT IT lets me know you would rather love a game that 'hates you' then love one that 'loves you back'. Interesting indeed.....I'm good where I stand. If it went down TODAY, I would do what I could for freedom of all. I can't honestly say that some of you would and that is a damm shame considering all the 'guts' some of you claim to have.
* The ULTIMATE NEGRO TACTIC where someone basically threatens a whole room/setting with a blanket statement that is designed to instill fear into everyone. Fear that is OFTEN MISTAKEN FOR RESPECT by the person saying. This is proven later when someone who 'heard' what that person says decides to take advantage of said person when they aren't in the position to 'back up what they said'. (They are alone...without their gun..not in their part of town....etc...etc...)
