So suddenly a certain sector finds themselves under fire as Trump has kept good on one of his very vile promises to target Muslims and people from the Middle East. As I understand it from the news stories, that people are being detained after arriving back at U.S. airports and sent back to wherever they're from. Some have green cards, visas, jobs, etc. The thing they all seem to have in common right now is their religion and region from which they come. There are massive protests once again and airports are jammed with people shouting slogans, demanding justice and fighting back. Good for them. Again, I think its much to little, way to late. This is yet another situation that could have been prevented if people bothered to show up and vote in the numbers they show up to protest.
I cannot even imagine the horror these people must feel knowing that their whole lives are being turned upside down and inside out because half of the country really would like to see them gone. Don't delude yourself, that's why he was voted into office, they want you out. They want a wall, fence or whatever object they think will hold you back from entering here. If nothing else, I hope the stuff happening around our country really opens up the eyes of the American public who has been sleeping on the pulse of how many in the nation really feel. I am saddened to see humanity stoop to such lowliness, but not surprised. If you want to measure the goodness of a country, watch how they treat their own. In doing that NO ONE SHOULD BE SURPRISED HOW MESSED UP THINGS ARE!!!!
American citizens of African descent have been treated like second class citizens since we were stolen and continue to be treated unfairly and unjust. Rural citizens in extremely poor areas of this country fare a little better, but not much. There's a need in this country to be of a class that is better than the next and as such, it has always caused a certain amount of friction. White people have been led to believe that somehow black people are the cause of all that's wrong with this country, even though black people only make up 12-15% of the population and don't control much, but we're the problem. We are using up all the country's resources on welfare and food stamps. When the plain, simple truth is the average person on welfare and food stamps in this country is poor and white.
We are used to this attitude and behavior. Most immigrants arrive with the highest of hopes that America is a great country and they can do anything and be anything they want. Some make their dreams come true and others live the rest of their time here somewhat disillusioned by the dream. All are able to come and achieve whatever success they manage through a door that was opened by Black Americans during the civil rights movement. Although Affirmative Action has been turned into a dirty phrase, we all know the biggest winners of Affirmative Action were and still are white women. The civil rights movement allowed everyone who wasn't a white male to benefit. Most do not acknowledge that their direct beneficiaries of the civil rights movement. They like to think, they've made it on their own and therefore owe no one for their success, but you do. You owe everyone of my ancestors and their peers who were beaten, raped, lynched, set on fire and countless other atrocities for marching to vote, for marching for equal rights, for marching for jobs, for marching for the rights that we all enjoy today. Some know the debt they owe, but most don't and this is why I have sat out this issue as well.
When the women's march took place some where surprised, I didn't participate or speak much about it. People who know me personally know I am recovering from being under the weather and assumed I just wasn't up for it. This is not why I didn't speak out or march. I explained in my previous post my position. (See post Aftermath) For some of the same reasons, I refuse to speak out and march on behalf of the people being detained. Unarmed innocent black people get killed in this country by the police, neighborhood watch bullies, etc all the time, men and women, even our children have been killed when police come to execute a warrant, and you never see any of these people out marching or speaking up on our behalf. The only other ethnicity you will see besides a sea of mostly black faces is white people and God Bless the folks who aren't afraid to speak up. If you see other ethnicities, its a few here or there, but never in large numbers. So as far as I'm concerned this is not a problem for black people to undertake or deal with unless they choose to and I for one am sitting it out. Of course, if he starts this mess with my African or Caribbean brothers and sisters THEN I WILL BE THERE !!!!!
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
AFTERMATH
So fast forward and it's been two months since the country went to the polls and voted in Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America. Suddenly there are calls to be unified and bring the country together. Let's hold hands, get over it and all sing Kumbaya while supporting a man who has mocked the disabled, made lewd and inappropriate statements about everybody!!! While some of his most damning statements have been about women, don't get it twisted, he has come for all. While his supporters are calling for Kumbaya moments, there's a swell of people who are out in full force protesting his swearing in and his inauguration. Well as far as I'm concerned that's much too little, way to late!!! If people came out in droves on election day, like they're coming out now to protest him, he would have never ascended to the highest office in the land!!!
So 54 percent of white and hispanic women voted for him. Judging by the numbers of women who showed up all around the country, some of them have since changed their minds and come out to disown him. Well I say, "THANKS FOR NOTHING." If you women had not chose to protect your white privilege first over everyone else, then he wouldn't be there. When faced with a choice, you chose to protect your privilege and you didn't care the cost and who else it would affect. Racism, sexism, mocking the handicap, undoing healthcare for 20 million Americans who need it, gutting the education system, being in partnership with Putin in any form, having twitter wars regularly, making alliances with known white supremacists, where all okay and a part of the bargain as long as you preserve "my" white privilege. I don't know when white people are finally going to get that the cost of your privilege is TOO HIGH!! IT IS NOT A FREE RIDE, BUT IS PAID BY OTHERS!!!!
Now there are complaints that women of color, in particular black women weren't as visible (although the march was organized by a black woman). Well this time you might be right. I know I sat it out and I intend to continue to sit it out. White women are the reason there's a problem and white women should fix it. We black folks, in particular the women are tired of always having to stand up and do the fighting, especially unnecessary fights and this one was unnecessary!!! We have so much we have to fight for and always take a stand for that we don't have room for the unnecessary stuff that shouldn't have happened. As it is we have been fighting and standing up to racism for reasons that were never any fault of our own!! LET ME REPEAT THAT, WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING AND STANDING UP TO RACISM FOR REASONS THAT WERE NEVER ANY FAULT OF OUR OWN!!!! NOW WE'RE SUPPOSED TO UNDERTAKE A BATTLE THAT MOST OF THE BLAME LITERALLY LIES AT THE FEET OF WHITE WOMEN!!! I DON'T THINK SO!!
Here are my feelings very plainly. When we reach a time in our society when unarmed black women, (such as Sandra Bland killed by police in Texas) evoke the ire and wrath of the "white" feminist movement and they come out in huge numbers to protest and demand answers, or when they show up at school to protest a teenage black girl being flipped over in her chair by a police officer because she refused to get up. or when they protest a police department that shows up at a pool party in a nice neighborhood and proceeds to force a teenage black girl in a swimsuit to the ground while kneeing her in the chest as she cries for her mother because she's black (they do not even think of doing such a thing to the mostly white teenagers who were there. FYI this was a noise complaint) as a response to a minor complaint, or when they knock a teenage girl down to the ground because she's riding her bicycle in a parking lot, or any of the hundreds of other ridiculous things that go on everyday all around this country directed at black people, but black women and girls in particular, then I'll worry about joining the march. Until then I do not delude myself into thinking that these women represent or care about me or any of my black sisters in any way.
Black people don't have the luxury of stepping out of their blackness to get a break. It's there all the time. There are other ethnic groups who feel they can pretend to be "white" or "white minded". I leave them to learn on their own, its just an illusion they're feeding themselves. I don't feel we should have to pretend to be anything but what we are. We are made in the image of God and are his children and he DOESN'T MAKE MISTAKES!!!
Even the way the protestors were treated by different police departments around the country are like night and day!! There's footage of the Atlanta, GA Police Department, giving high fives and hugs. Such a contrast to when black folks come out to protest. They're dressed in riot gear, ready to RELEASE tear gas and someone is getting arrested just because they're not going to let all those black folks be in one place and not arrest someone. It's so hypocritical and shameful. All of this because many in "White America" are angry a black man has been in charge of the country for the last eight years, so they elect one of the worst people on the planet to undo any progress President Obama has made in an attempt to destroy his legacy while attempting to take the country back to the slave trade days!!! Since being elected the true colors of many have come out and it ain't pretty!!!
Everyone seems to want to think that the racists are the old white guys dying out. Well based on Fox and other cable channels, the things that float around the internet on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, that's not true. The attacks on former President Obama and his family, specifically his wife were just awful. Most of these insults are coming from a younger demographic and women. The above screen shot shows a woman who is supposed to be a doctor which makes her educated, successful and supposedly smart, talking about bringing back slavery so she can have a maid. So she's fine with enslaving a group of people because she can use a maid. Imagine being a patient of hers if you're black. There's no way she's going to be concerned about your best interest. So tell me about how far we've come and how racism is almost a thing of the past. These people were waiting for a leader and he came along and he captured the White House, so America hold a big mirror up to your face and take a look at what you really are if you want to make real change, it starts with knowing who you really are!!!! In the meantime the march was just the beginning. If you're not willing to speak up and out against these types of behavior, punish accordingly and let it be known we as a society will not tolerate it, then you're wasting your time!!!
So 54 percent of white and hispanic women voted for him. Judging by the numbers of women who showed up all around the country, some of them have since changed their minds and come out to disown him. Well I say, "THANKS FOR NOTHING." If you women had not chose to protect your white privilege first over everyone else, then he wouldn't be there. When faced with a choice, you chose to protect your privilege and you didn't care the cost and who else it would affect. Racism, sexism, mocking the handicap, undoing healthcare for 20 million Americans who need it, gutting the education system, being in partnership with Putin in any form, having twitter wars regularly, making alliances with known white supremacists, where all okay and a part of the bargain as long as you preserve "my" white privilege. I don't know when white people are finally going to get that the cost of your privilege is TOO HIGH!! IT IS NOT A FREE RIDE, BUT IS PAID BY OTHERS!!!!
Now there are complaints that women of color, in particular black women weren't as visible (although the march was organized by a black woman). Well this time you might be right. I know I sat it out and I intend to continue to sit it out. White women are the reason there's a problem and white women should fix it. We black folks, in particular the women are tired of always having to stand up and do the fighting, especially unnecessary fights and this one was unnecessary!!! We have so much we have to fight for and always take a stand for that we don't have room for the unnecessary stuff that shouldn't have happened. As it is we have been fighting and standing up to racism for reasons that were never any fault of our own!! LET ME REPEAT THAT, WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING AND STANDING UP TO RACISM FOR REASONS THAT WERE NEVER ANY FAULT OF OUR OWN!!!! NOW WE'RE SUPPOSED TO UNDERTAKE A BATTLE THAT MOST OF THE BLAME LITERALLY LIES AT THE FEET OF WHITE WOMEN!!! I DON'T THINK SO!!
Here are my feelings very plainly. When we reach a time in our society when unarmed black women, (such as Sandra Bland killed by police in Texas) evoke the ire and wrath of the "white" feminist movement and they come out in huge numbers to protest and demand answers, or when they show up at school to protest a teenage black girl being flipped over in her chair by a police officer because she refused to get up. or when they protest a police department that shows up at a pool party in a nice neighborhood and proceeds to force a teenage black girl in a swimsuit to the ground while kneeing her in the chest as she cries for her mother because she's black (they do not even think of doing such a thing to the mostly white teenagers who were there. FYI this was a noise complaint) as a response to a minor complaint, or when they knock a teenage girl down to the ground because she's riding her bicycle in a parking lot, or any of the hundreds of other ridiculous things that go on everyday all around this country directed at black people, but black women and girls in particular, then I'll worry about joining the march. Until then I do not delude myself into thinking that these women represent or care about me or any of my black sisters in any way.
Black people don't have the luxury of stepping out of their blackness to get a break. It's there all the time. There are other ethnic groups who feel they can pretend to be "white" or "white minded". I leave them to learn on their own, its just an illusion they're feeding themselves. I don't feel we should have to pretend to be anything but what we are. We are made in the image of God and are his children and he DOESN'T MAKE MISTAKES!!!
Even the way the protestors were treated by different police departments around the country are like night and day!! There's footage of the Atlanta, GA Police Department, giving high fives and hugs. Such a contrast to when black folks come out to protest. They're dressed in riot gear, ready to RELEASE tear gas and someone is getting arrested just because they're not going to let all those black folks be in one place and not arrest someone. It's so hypocritical and shameful. All of this because many in "White America" are angry a black man has been in charge of the country for the last eight years, so they elect one of the worst people on the planet to undo any progress President Obama has made in an attempt to destroy his legacy while attempting to take the country back to the slave trade days!!! Since being elected the true colors of many have come out and it ain't pretty!!!
Everyone seems to want to think that the racists are the old white guys dying out. Well based on Fox and other cable channels, the things that float around the internet on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, that's not true. The attacks on former President Obama and his family, specifically his wife were just awful. Most of these insults are coming from a younger demographic and women. The above screen shot shows a woman who is supposed to be a doctor which makes her educated, successful and supposedly smart, talking about bringing back slavery so she can have a maid. So she's fine with enslaving a group of people because she can use a maid. Imagine being a patient of hers if you're black. There's no way she's going to be concerned about your best interest. So tell me about how far we've come and how racism is almost a thing of the past. These people were waiting for a leader and he came along and he captured the White House, so America hold a big mirror up to your face and take a look at what you really are if you want to make real change, it starts with knowing who you really are!!!! In the meantime the march was just the beginning. If you're not willing to speak up and out against these types of behavior, punish accordingly and let it be known we as a society will not tolerate it, then you're wasting your time!!!
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