Post Number 200: A Look Black. No That is Not a Typo
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- Media Moves Black People to Front of Bus and Terrorist to the Back
- Post Number 200: A Look Black. No That is Not a Typo
Tempus Fugit indeed. Has it really been that long? Well let’s take a brief tour down memory lane. I bought the domain name and server space April of 2007. Still didn’t know what a “blog” was or couldn’t figure out why some people on Wordpress had that in their domain name. So I figured when I got some time I’d get into it. Cut to first week in July; lost my woman and then spent the next 7 weeks dealing with that. I made my first post on my birthday in late August. Then I think I wrote one or two things in Sept. But I decided, OK in Oct. I’m really going to get into this and do one every day. And that’s how it went. And pretty much every day I do a piece . A REAL post a day; not a paragraph or a “have a nice day.” But a legitimate, thought out, researched (I mean wiki researched, nothing too heavy), collecting images, and doing my usual level of proofreading (I’m like a B student in that regard, I KNOW I’m going to do about 90 percent. So 10 percent is going to be spelling errors and/or hard to understand sentences and I’m OK with that).Some weeks I take a day off, and most of the “holiday season” in Dec. Jan. I figured nobody would be reading anyway. And I’ve had a few computer dead/server dead type things, so here we are at 200. There should be an archive menu at the top of this page, you should click the drop down menu button and just look through the titles . I guarantee everything I write is relatively as good as anything you’re reading today. I mean I’m the same guy and I write the same way and the same type of stuff interests me.
So that’s it for the looking back part of today’s post. Now we’re going to get into some real serious shit. A month or two back I wrote about how the media recently let go of Iraq and scary Middle Eastern people, and returned to that great old standby for their nightly villain; black people. You would think with this whole Obama thing this wouldn’t be the case. But actually it’s the reverse. I have known MANY, MANY white people in my life. Some of them avowed racist, but they met me and realized they liked me , so they would do weird stuff and then tout knowing me or drag out my name and say “oh it’s cool I’ve got a black friend.” This is how we roll in America. We have his weird anti-black undercurrent. That’s not quite right. Non-black people want to like us , because they enjoy various TV shows, or music, or athletes, and now a politician that makes them feel like “we have overcome.” And that is FINE! Most black people I know don’t have “white animosity.” Most white people think black people are “different” and most black people think white people are “different.” It’s been my experience that EVERYBODY is genuinely surprised when they find out how similar we are!
The very terrible and most awful thing about Obama is that he is a minority within a minority . He represents a certain kind of black American that does exist, hell I’m one of them . But he doesn’t represent most black people . Not by a LONG shot. Come visit me on the South Side of Chicago. I dare you. I double dare you! (you can’t hear it, but I was imitating Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction when he tells that dude to say “what” again). That’s why I wrote my piece about Reverend Wright’s media fallout a couple of weeks ago. I talk about how this city is a great place to understand how black people are. Listen, Obama’s not an example of how the majority of us are, Rev. Wright is. Do I like that? Hell no! But that’s the way it us. Many of us are JUST like that; prone to doing crazy shit in public, loud, easy to get angry and then redirecting it in the most wrong way possible. (By majority I’m talking 51 percent) so we’re not ALL like that, but pound for pound we are NOT integrated into American society. We co-exist. This is what black existence is; coexistence . We can spend all day with non-blacks people “downtown” but then MOST of us go home to “our” side of town, our grocery stores, our schools and so on and so on. If you want to look at a group that’s integrated themselves into mainstream American then check out the Asians. But not us. This is the great divide, and because black and non-black people have this barrier they still don’t “know” us and so we get treated as other. And because our influence is so strong in the entertainment slice of the media pie (because for all intents and purposes THAT part of the media makes the bulk of it’s revenue FROM the works created by black people), since that is the case they destroy us in the news slice of the media pie . And they have perfected this to an art.
I was reading a local Chicago story about a cheerleading coach who repeatedly molested a 13 year old and a couple of 16 year olds. I knew he was white right away (no not because of the nature of the crime, but YES everybody does this at home-hears about a crime and guesses the race based on the crime). But I knew because there was no picture, as a matter of fact you would be SHOCKED at the photo loss rate of white crime. You know what happens if it’s black crime? Of course you do. You already know don’t you. I don’t even have to get into a wordy thing. So let’s get into the pictures. See if you can tell our “friends” from our “enemies” in the depictions below. And I threw in some crime stuff too; I think of white crime as having this beautiful Teflon quality and black crime having his Velcro like quality.
So that last picture is a "comedy" cooking show that somebody talked Coolio into doing. And as a grand finale for this piece, you’ve heard about Sean Bell right? The guy in NYC out at his bachelor party, shot by cops 50 times, and all the cops walked. Hey, speaking of cops and black people, check out THIS week’s cops beating of black people .
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It’s funny that on a base level of humanity most people (especially children) get it. When we are constantly exposed to the main stream media depicting crime as a “black thing” it’s easy to become entangled in the politics of it all. Movies also draw the line between the two cultures almost every time they make one of those “Black guy meets white guy” comedies. Like, they are trying to say “We’re different and it’s cool” but why is that a necessary message?
You know what is kind of interesting, genetically black skin is the dominate gene, and white skin is recessive. That’s why children of black and white parents are typically very dark skin looking, and often simply considered “black.” So maybe that is where that political agenda against black people lies… white leadership fears genetic co-mingling? It’s hard to consider yourself a “master race” when the one defining gene you have that sets you apart is genetically inferior.
Another thing: crime rate is largest per-capita in the illegal-Mexican group, but the politicians are so quick try to offer them “get out of jail free” cards and amnesty. What is the deal with that? I am sick of media, I am sick of politicians. But, I also don’t like how a “United white college fund” would be considered racist when a “United Negro college fund” is perfectly acceptable. Society is general is just stupid…
I grew up in a 99% white community, where if you saw a black guy as a child you may think, “Is that Michael Jackson?” (Honest to God, I knew a girl in 1st grade who thought that the first time she saw a black guy in person)… and in this community there were a few racist people I knew… but it always seemed pretty stupid to me. As you said, it surprising some just how similar we are. If anything, almost all of the black people I have known in my life have been more respectful, genuine and warm than the average white guy.
That includes you my friend, thank you for the kind words about my site… I do appreciate it.
Coming here always makes me think harder about things. Thank you for the insightful post once again, Dave!
Thank you both for visiting. As you can see from my little photo display it’s a little hard to tell our media friends from our media enemies. But I HAD to say something in a week where the cops walk after shooting a human 50 times, and then some OTHER cops just beat these guys, who they’ve already captured, into the ground.
Dave,
Nice site. I got hip to you vis a vis your reply over at Shoemoney. I’m a brother who grew up in Chitown…Near North Side…Chicago & Ashland.
Between the ages of 12 and 18 I was the assistant on a delivery route to a white man, of Irish descent, at a Polish bakery at 83rd & Saginaw. A formerly Polish neighborhood, now all black, as you know.
One day, while stacking Polish rye at a deli counter, at the Jewel Foods in the old Brickyard Mall, a bellicose fifty-something year old white man remarked and I quote, ” I didn’t go all the way to Vietnam to have to fight and come back here and have a nigger run the store.” I gripped the empty bread tray in my hands and prepared to tee off on his cranium when my boss grabbed my arms and gently shook his head, explaining that he too was a Vietnam vet and that his fellow soldier was an asshole. I was fifteen.
You see, the “nigger” he referred to managed one of the biggest and most profitable stores in the Jewel Foods chain — that is what grated that scum-sucking vermin. That brother successfully running that operation made a mockery of every commonly held, pea-brained belief about the capacity and capability of every negro in this country going back to that most vaunted of racists — Jefferson.
The thing about racism that most black people fail to grasp, that white people do, is that the similarities between the disparate groups is well-known. Has been since Jamestown, 1619. Therein lies the problem. When someone is similar to you it is hard to quibble about perceived shortcomings, lest you hold up a mirror to yourself. But when you can designate someone as “other” and “inferior” you have now laid the groundwork on which centuries of self-perpetuated myths, half-truths and various other quasi-baked delusions are constructed. Couple that with vigorous advertising that says you’re the top of the heap and everyone else, particularly the darkies, are nothing and you’ve just created the perfect conditions for de-humanizing anyone who doesn’t share your pigmentation.
Black folks have tried to integrate and ingratiate themselves into the the social fabric of the US since our ancestors were brought here in chains. At every turn, with rare exception, our efforts have been brutally rebuffed. Inferior schools. Not being allowed to join trade unions, thereby rendering you impotent in terms of feeding your family. So-called “black codes” restricting your economic mobility, which prevent you from building wealth. When we’ve extricated ourselves from inhumane situations and circumstances, wholesale terror campaigns were created in an attempt to bring us to heel. Look at Greenwood, the black section of Tulsa, OK that was literally fire bombed out of existence, in 1921, because that most cherished of accusation — white woman’s virtue snatched by nigger in an elevator — was bandied about and used to stir up a mob that hated the sight of a bunch of nigras who had the temerity to not be treated like fourth class citizens and sought to build their own community where their humanity was not seen as wishful thinking.
As`far as black athletes and entertainers are concerned there is a reason we’ve done well in those areas of endeavor — they were the only fields open to us. A commonly held belief about black folks is that we’re “naturally” gifted to excel in those respective professions. We don’t put forth effort and sweat. We’re born slamming basketballs and singing. Hard work and thinking are the sole provinces of the dominant group in this country. God forbid black people engage in the same, that would make us similar. Wouldn’t it?
Black people want the same things as everyone else. To be allowed to succeed on the strength and merits of what you bring to the table. Sadly, there are still those in this country who make it their job to see that such notions are never realized.
Be Well and God Bless,
Anthony
Hahahaha Hey Anthony!
Since you came here from shoemoney you’ll understand this; I was in the dashboard when I saw your comments and I was like “ah man this dude is going to screw my adsense keywords!” Then I came over here to response and saw what I wrote and I was like Jesus! I was really fired up that day-we’re both talking about the same thing. Hahahaha.
But a) I think I’m going to take the adsense out of this post, because it’s too serious an issue and b) that shoemoney boost is serious. I would say I’ve had about a hundred visits from my one short comment in the last day or so.
But I’m going to put the link in the article but I’ll also put it here for you. It’s to my Rev Wright Obama piece
http://welcomebackrosenthal.com/black-on-black-crime-obama-vs-rev-wright/
And I think it’s impossible for you to be from the same place I’m from and not be able to see this strange divide we have in this country. BUT, I’m not too happy about our overall behavior either-we could be SO much further if we REALLY understood how lucky we are to have been born here and at this point in time. Foreigners get it. They realize this is THE place to be on the planet if you want to have a better life.
So like this piece does, it’s good to look back and reflect on the current problems, but we’ve also got to come up with a solution for the future because we’re not doing the right things right now.
Thanks a lot for coming by and participating at this level.
Dave,
Didn’t mean to jack your Adsense!;-)
We are lucky to have been born here. This is a great country but we still have a lot of problems that no one wants to address. And that goes for black and white folks.
I’m glad to see you doing your thing and congrats on your traffic from shoemoney. His site is tight, as well. I’ll check the Wright link manana.
Peace Brother,
Anthony
Hey Anthony
Thanks for swinging back through. And it all worked out-this page was too busy with the ads anyway!
And all things considered-better here than most places (except maybe Brazil).