Its times like these...
I've been listening to a lot of people talk about historic things. This election being a huge page turner, not only for our country, but the entire planet. People really do want to see us figure this shit out. Not only for our sakes, but theirs as well.
I was listening to Patrice Oneil and Anthony Cumia argue about race in this country on O and A. They both made good points, although they were in total diametric extremes. Anthony thinks that the blacks will see this as a leg up for themselves and rich people would lose everything. Patrice's point was that racism is still very much alive, but phony and covert. They both had the logical conclusion to illogical ingrained fears based on power.
When I was a kid in the mid 70's and early 80's, there was this SciFi vision of the future on TV and in Movies that I was totally ready for. Flying cars, time machines, distant wars on distant galaxies. All that shit. Totally down for it in a huge way. But the other day it hit me: this IS the FUTURE and that was wishful thinking en masse. We really do want to be better and faster and richer. But we aren't because there's a bunch of psychological bullshit that we can't put down.
An Open Message:
So called WHITE PEOPLE of America (this includes everyone with a lack of melanin sufficient enough to burn in the sun):
You oppressed people. You enslaved them. You held them down, hung them from trees, dragged them from cars, whipped them, took their kids away, turned dogs loose on them, worked them to death, treated your horses better, refused to let them educate themselves and took advantage of them and then laughed at them for being stupid. You guys literally came into someone else's country (cause your own country didn't care for you) and just started claiming it for yourselves. You built this country on greed and avarice and twice it has crumbled to nothing (at least in a financial sense). And yet there are people of color who, despite all that oppression, learn to play the game better than you do. It was bound to happen and you know it. Why not fess up to it, pick up the pieces and finally stop looking at the brown and black people as these ignorant threats that you have to protect yourself from. If you stopped the pretentious attitude that tells you are better and that you are entitled to a better life than those brown and black people who are naturally predisposed to do your bidding, you might not be so scared. But you can't drop the attitude because what other identity would you have?
So Called BLACK and BROWN people of America: I'm going to say this to you because it is the truth. SLAVERY DID NOT BEGIN WITH WHITE PEOPLE. There was no way any Europeans were navigating through the jungles by themselves. They had help in the beginning. From other Africans. Tribal kings were the ones who thought up the plan to kidnap their own people and sell them to the Europeans for goods. From the jump off of African slavery, your own sold you out. For a while after slavery, there was a sense of purpose and righteousness that black and brown folks had to uplift their race. They HAD to make it better. They HAD to be seen as competent, intelligent people, if only to prove that the whites were wrong for what they did (and so where those first africans that sold us). They held down the best for so long, that it had to surge forward to survive. It HAD to. There was a sense of pride that prevailed for a time that helped us educate ourselves and step up out of poverty.
But that is fading, black folks. Now when you look at how you are portrayed in the world, you come off as uncouth, half naked, shot up, violent, hating your women, women whoring out, rioting, materialistic to the degree that you feed your kids shit to dress them in designer clothes, while you beat their asses and sometimes kill your young. Its all asses and titties and money and diamonds (that your african counterpart is getting his limbs hacked off for), slang that doesn't even make sense at times, all the songs sound the same and have the same simplistic messages: please don't leave me, fuck you, fuck me, fuck everybody, I'm better than you, I'll kill you, I'll fuck you THEN kill you, my pussy/dick is better/bigger than yours, I'm the shit, etc. Even though theres money flying around and some of us aren't living in the projects anymore, they still think and act as though they are. But you can't drop the attitude because what other identity would you have?
Which brings us back to the future. This all will inevitably have to change. Now whites can't say that blacks are too stupid to be president, and the blacks can no longer say they WON'T LET US be president. If the economy continues to slump, blacks and whites will have to share whats left. The rich in this country, amidst all the poor and middle class, will begin to seem like the French aristocracy just before the revolution and heads getting chopped off. The have nots are growing so fast that the havs are just spending it more so the have nots don't get it. Something will happen soon that will force a change.
If history has taught us anything in our country is that new presidents usually get slammed with an epic situation that tests their strength and character. It usually involves a lot of casualties and it forces ordinary people to suffer and endure. But here in the future, no one is exempt and whatever happens after tonight, "the truth hits everybody, the truth hits everyone" and everyone has to learn to swim.
CC
I was listening to Patrice Oneil and Anthony Cumia argue about race in this country on O and A. They both made good points, although they were in total diametric extremes. Anthony thinks that the blacks will see this as a leg up for themselves and rich people would lose everything. Patrice's point was that racism is still very much alive, but phony and covert. They both had the logical conclusion to illogical ingrained fears based on power.
When I was a kid in the mid 70's and early 80's, there was this SciFi vision of the future on TV and in Movies that I was totally ready for. Flying cars, time machines, distant wars on distant galaxies. All that shit. Totally down for it in a huge way. But the other day it hit me: this IS the FUTURE and that was wishful thinking en masse. We really do want to be better and faster and richer. But we aren't because there's a bunch of psychological bullshit that we can't put down.
An Open Message:
So called WHITE PEOPLE of America (this includes everyone with a lack of melanin sufficient enough to burn in the sun):
You oppressed people. You enslaved them. You held them down, hung them from trees, dragged them from cars, whipped them, took their kids away, turned dogs loose on them, worked them to death, treated your horses better, refused to let them educate themselves and took advantage of them and then laughed at them for being stupid. You guys literally came into someone else's country (cause your own country didn't care for you) and just started claiming it for yourselves. You built this country on greed and avarice and twice it has crumbled to nothing (at least in a financial sense). And yet there are people of color who, despite all that oppression, learn to play the game better than you do. It was bound to happen and you know it. Why not fess up to it, pick up the pieces and finally stop looking at the brown and black people as these ignorant threats that you have to protect yourself from. If you stopped the pretentious attitude that tells you are better and that you are entitled to a better life than those brown and black people who are naturally predisposed to do your bidding, you might not be so scared. But you can't drop the attitude because what other identity would you have?
So Called BLACK and BROWN people of America: I'm going to say this to you because it is the truth. SLAVERY DID NOT BEGIN WITH WHITE PEOPLE. There was no way any Europeans were navigating through the jungles by themselves. They had help in the beginning. From other Africans. Tribal kings were the ones who thought up the plan to kidnap their own people and sell them to the Europeans for goods. From the jump off of African slavery, your own sold you out. For a while after slavery, there was a sense of purpose and righteousness that black and brown folks had to uplift their race. They HAD to make it better. They HAD to be seen as competent, intelligent people, if only to prove that the whites were wrong for what they did (and so where those first africans that sold us). They held down the best for so long, that it had to surge forward to survive. It HAD to. There was a sense of pride that prevailed for a time that helped us educate ourselves and step up out of poverty.
But that is fading, black folks. Now when you look at how you are portrayed in the world, you come off as uncouth, half naked, shot up, violent, hating your women, women whoring out, rioting, materialistic to the degree that you feed your kids shit to dress them in designer clothes, while you beat their asses and sometimes kill your young. Its all asses and titties and money and diamonds (that your african counterpart is getting his limbs hacked off for), slang that doesn't even make sense at times, all the songs sound the same and have the same simplistic messages: please don't leave me, fuck you, fuck me, fuck everybody, I'm better than you, I'll kill you, I'll fuck you THEN kill you, my pussy/dick is better/bigger than yours, I'm the shit, etc. Even though theres money flying around and some of us aren't living in the projects anymore, they still think and act as though they are. But you can't drop the attitude because what other identity would you have?
Which brings us back to the future. This all will inevitably have to change. Now whites can't say that blacks are too stupid to be president, and the blacks can no longer say they WON'T LET US be president. If the economy continues to slump, blacks and whites will have to share whats left. The rich in this country, amidst all the poor and middle class, will begin to seem like the French aristocracy just before the revolution and heads getting chopped off. The have nots are growing so fast that the havs are just spending it more so the have nots don't get it. Something will happen soon that will force a change.
If history has taught us anything in our country is that new presidents usually get slammed with an epic situation that tests their strength and character. It usually involves a lot of casualties and it forces ordinary people to suffer and endure. But here in the future, no one is exempt and whatever happens after tonight, "the truth hits everybody, the truth hits everyone" and everyone has to learn to swim.
CC
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