Building our own Wakanda

I know you probably saw Black Panther.  I haven't seen it yet because I'm allergic to movie theaters, but I  will say this.  We gave Disney over two hundred million dollars.  That's enough to build our own Wakanda right here if we put our money in the right places.  This means we have to get rid of Black misleadership. You know the ones,  the Black faces in high places that still has to answer to a White boss.  The ones just sitting in the chair not doing anything for the people they are supposed to serve.  The ones with the empty promises.  The ones who sell you hope without an actual game plan,etc. 

We can do everything mentioned in my Black Clergy,  We Need to Talk  blog if we play our cards right.  We already have enough Black faces in high places.  That has proven ineffective.  We need to start fresh without a White overseer. Otherwise we'll get more of the same.

Aside from that, I heard there was a petition out that demands that Disney use twenty five percent to give back to the Black Community.  To that I say GET The FUCK OUTTA HERE WITH THAT MESS.  Here's why:  First of all,  Disney ain't trying to hear that.  You gave your money to them and now you want to dictate how they spend it?! Really folks? It sounds like someone saw the money and noticed the mess up so they created a petition to fix it.  But the bright side of this is that nobody can say that Black folks don't have any money anymore.  We now have no excuse not to support our own.

Second of all,  Disney was a known racist  when he was alive.  You think that since they finally hired some Black people, they have to break the community off a little something?  Naw,  they already did by hiring Black actors for the movie. That being said, If we build it,  it will come and we can change our narrative and our lives in America. We are the only people who don't support our own startup businesses and media outlets.  We have to get this right this time.  We have no other choice.

Mental Illness

I've been gone a long time. I haven't forgotten my readers. Ive been dealing with some mental issues lately, and dealing with them is very difficult and can be a lonely road for some people.

Sometimes a person has to step back and leave the external and focus on the internal. In a world where external is everything, its really easy to forget about the internal at times. When I say internal, I mean what's inside you. Whats going on can be really hard to understand. And I am struggling with that. Medication, therapist and all. Its difficult. Im holding on very tightly. At times everything gets away from me and I cant retrieve it. This caused anxiety and depression on top of other things Im dealing with. Plus others may not be receptive to whats going on with you either. I have to remind myself there are people out there who understand. Sometimes I feel so alienated that I fear that no one does.

If you know somebody who has been battling mental illness, let them know that I understand. Show them this entry. Don't tell them to pray about it. Please. Don't tell them that. Try talking to them about whats going on. It might be really hard, but please don't give up on them.

Random Thought # 14 : On Reflection

For those who don't know me already, I've been busy going through a lot of shit on a lot of different fronts. I've spent many sleepless nights, and had anxiety attacks so strong, I'd wake up soaked in sweat. My mentioning that was not to make you feel sorry for me. I'm telling you that there will be  moments in your life where you will go through it. Its incredibly difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel because once you think you see it, something else will come up, and will cause a lot of stress on you. That stress is not necessarily a bad thing because you will change for the better once you go through it. But the trick is to allow yourself to go through it, but take care of yourself as you do it.  Self care is very necessary, and whether or not you need to go through a detox, smoke tobacco, drink, etc then I recommend it. But the trick is to make sure you can stop once you have things figured out. And when you go through that stress always make sure you make strive to  make new connections each time you go through it, regardless of whether the issue is very old or very new in your life.  This allows you to give yourself time to come to a resolution on that issue. This prevents rumination, and allowing oneself to get stuck because no improvement can occur if you get stuck on the same issue.  It can cause a person to spiral into self harm or self hate, and cause you to not be nice to yourself. The trick is to find out the who, what when where why and how that issue came about. And you can strive to fix it and do so while seeing your whole intentions.

And once you do that, you will find love for yourself, and you will realize that you've being doing love work the whole time. You will realize that you are a whole person with all of your flaws, and so called imperfections.  And you will strive to do love work from that point on. You will begin to do love work for you and your people in the harshest of circumstances and the harshest of environments.


And most of all, never ever let anybody steer you wrong. Because they will have you all kinds of fucked up, caught up, and raggedy. And they love themselves for it.

As for you. Always jump back and kiss yourself and make sure whatever you do, you do it for love and not for the love of standing on top of people (supremacy). Let them do that.

What Would it Take for Black People to Wake Up?

Now hold on... give me a chance to explain myself. I don't claim to be a Negro whisperer of sorts, but I can give some insight on what's going on and why. Here is my best shot.

There are several factors into play here. A lot of folks are waking up and seeing the bullshit for what it is. It seems that those who see what's going on are younger. But the thing is, we have to look at previous generations in order to ask ourselves why Black people haven't waken up yet.  We have a generation of Black folks who are older and they vote straight ticket regardless of whether or not the candidate on their side is worth anything or not. This gets done on a local level as well as federal. This is why a lot of Black people voted for Hillary Clinton despite her track record. It's like a lot of folks said, "Bill Clinton was in the White House already, so we know how this goes. He's family. He's cool because he got head under his desk. He got down with his saxophone. He's basically one of us. That means he's Black.  Hillary is a woman, and so am I, so that means I should vote for her too."
These are the people who chide people for not voting because, "If you don't vote, you deserve what you get.", while conveniently not knowing what they voted for themselves.  
These people had kids, and taught those kids. Those kids grew up and voted as well. They grew up with the following ideals: Get a job, pull your pants up, get an education, go to church and make that money. Then nobody could tell you shit...until you get pulled over.  There are many generations of folks who still use this thinking and instill it into their kids to this day. If we're smart, look good, work hard and have the financial backing to do all of that and raise kids in affluent neighborhoods, then we will have it made...until we get pulled over...or harassed in a store... or have the police called on us for looking suspicious, etc.  This line of thinking encompasses the middle and upper class Blacks including celebrities, which becomes evident as soon as money comes in and stays long enough. Some people dealing with poverty will tell their children these things in hopes they will do better than they did.

All under a post racial America where the president is Black, so the hope is kept alive for those who figured they'd sit down after Obama was elected.

Then you have those born into generational poverty. Unfortunately, these are the folks who are the least informed. Not because they aren't educated, but because they have a whole lot of other things to worry about. In a lot of cases, they're worrying about mental illness, addiction (in some cases) having clean water to consume (Flint, and many other cities across America), transportation, and are really having a hard time trying to eat and live. This means they might not have the necessary things to obtain an ID to vote, let alone know where to vote and how to. They have to secure their lives from day to day before they can do anything extra.  These people might also have children to feed as well, and they're doing what they can in order to live.  We must also factor in mental illness. This is something a lot of people gloss over. Mental illness touches everybody, but the hardest hit are those who are poor due to lack of resources being available for treatment.

All three groups of people regardless of what economic rung they fit on will find the time to grasp as much information they have access to. Unfortunately, this is where mainstream media takes the stage, and right now, mainstream media looks like a big ass remix of The National Inquirer that also tells you what to like, how to act, and what defines a so called "American". The reality of the situation is that a lot of people are struggling to work and keep jobs, are trying to find other jobs, are trying to get out of debt, pay fines, bills, etc, so a lot of folks have to take what they can get outside of trying to exist in this capitalistic society, and if that means watching TV then so be it for some folks.

These people may or may not be religious. If you put religion in the mix, then that's a whole new thing. They're also getting taught how to act, how to dress, what's good, and what one should like. This is why politicians show up at churches for speaking purposes. Its a way to get their foot in the door and influence people who normally wouldn't be paying attention to the rest of the media outlets too closely due to other factors in their lives.

Then there's that American individualistic attitude (I got mine, what's wrong with you) that's killing us. I consider that residual blowback from living in this country (The States). Folks can't help it because it's been bred into all people born in America, as well as folks from overseas due to mass media broadcast from day one.


Now don't get me wrong. I am not excusing anybody for anything. I'm stating situations that could explain why Black folks don't seem to be waking up.

That being said, I must say one thing. I have to face it... this has been a long and hellish road. Waking up is not fun. It's easy to stay asleep, or play woke by dropping knowledge cloaked in supremacy, I mean, after all, that's exactly what respectability politics are about, right?  I don't think there is a definitive point where one could say they've arrived.  The only thing I think that could get us to wake up is recognizing duality.  That means a thug could also be a devout Christian, and a stripper could raise children, a member of the NOI could have an addiction, and a weave wearing woman could be woke. A man in saggy jeans could have a doctorate, and a CEO could be hood as fuck, etc, and nobody would treat them like shit because they don't fit into an easily digestible image.

They would just be seen as Black regardless, and the sooner we get past all of that, then we can finally live.

We have to let people have their things that don't "look right" sometimes. Don't come at them with the "You sleep coon ass Negro" type rhetoric because nobody wants to listen to that, and cussing them out won't turn them on to learning new things. Love them anyway and show them some things in the process. Accept them for who they are, and if they listen, then that's wonderful. If they don't and they stay away from you, then they'll come around sooner or later. It's impossible for people to not have things that conflict with their own selves. As long as they aren't hurting and destroying others, then they should be fine.

On Behaviorial Patterns: Validation

In my last blog, I talked about street names named after Black people and memorials, and I'd like to expand on that a bit.  


The following quote from that entry stood out in my mind:

"That's what's sinister about that word. Forgiveness. They want to be absolved from everything that took place. They want that validation after the fact. Validation and forgiveness are not interchangeable things to be used in order to shape and tailor a person's agenda to go in the "correct" direction."

Then I thought about what I said about validation:

"It was tried through Michael Brown's mother when she said she couldn't forgive Darren Wilson, so instead, the media paraded her support for Hillary Clinton as a different way of validating their fuckery."

I noticed it was also done with Trayvon Martin's mother, with Martin Luther King by Bernie Sanders, Black Trump supporters, and the usage of Black on Black crime:

"They want to blame Black on Black crime because they fail to see where it came from. Where did the idea that a Black life wasn't worth anything come from? How did that idea get there?

They will try to confuse you by putting the cart before the horse throughout the argument by using the same tactics designed to invalidate you.

And now, Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta decided to clear the air regarding the reputation they've gathered.  This particular quote is what stood out:

"Because I hold 8 certifications in the field of Private security and Fugitive Recovery and because I am pro-law enforcement to some degree but ANTI- THUG COPS Black Lives Matter (the other chapter) is making false claims like I am "an agent of the state" or I am there to disrupt or tear down the black community. When it comes to law enforcement it is my position that ALL COPS ARE NOT BAD and of course as history has shown ALL COPS are NOT GOOD. If you are a good officer, I will support you 150% and if you aren't think natural consequences. The other BLM Chapter doesn't like our chapter because we share the belief that we must support good officers and get rid of the bad ones. Now one from BLM understands the dangers that LEO's endure when they put on that uniform day in and day out like I DO. As a professional certified security officer I have to work with LEO from different agencies. I don't sit around and drink coffee and eat donuts with them. I stay in my lane and they handle their business. Nothing more nothing less. 


So...They basically said they are law enforcement.

Think about that. There are law enforcement branches of Black Lives Matter groups floating around out there.

Enter the Black faces in the establishment.  The northern municipality of Pine Lawn is a great example. Recently, they decided to disband this police department due to corruption. Since this department is run by Blacks,they didn't disban Ferguson's police department first. But we now know why. 

This is another one of those, "give the dog a bone" type "discoveries". But the master has trained them, so they were the ones who got caught up in the mix and were used for validation purposes. Meanwhile, St. Louis Post Dispatch asked if Pine Lawn was the poster child of dysfunction. 

Enter the Black cop here.

This is one of the places they will be. If they aren't explicitly affiliated with Black Lives Matter, they are actual officers, organizers, etc, or may be given the role of being high profile people in the media. They will be found anywhere where particular folks wish to gain access to, so they throw folks up in the mix and see what happens.

The people who set this up are just seeking validation, and they're using all of these people as pawns. They do it by waving money, recognition, and fame in people's faces. These things are the same things they link to success. The media tells us what is successful, and tells us that we are supposed to go and seek it by any means necessary. So what do people do in order to achieve success? Anything to the point of allowing themselves to be thrown under the bus. 

Enter negative media influence here, to the point of spending a lot of money on it.

But when all is said and done, once we figure it out, there will be no more buildings, street names and city memorials named after us.
We will not allow ourselves to participate in their attempts for validation in their perceived supremacy:

Because they really just want to revel in the fact they will do whatever they can in hopes to make us appear as raggedy as possible. They do that in order to achieve their dreams, and what could be more perfect than to name a stationary object after the person or people they tried to create insanity for? 

They do it for viewing purposes.

And that's the portrait that master manipulators would love to paint. Amirite?

Random Thought #13: On Street Names After Black People, and Memorials

"No they won't be naming no buildings after me...that go down...dilapidated."- Erykah Badu.

I was just thinking about this song. It has a lot of meaning for me these days because people really want to watch someone crash. They will do whatever they can in hopes to make them appear as raggedy as possible. They do that in order to achieve their dreams, and what could be more perfect than to name a stationary object after the person they tried to create insanity for? This can be done in multiple ways. For example, Martin Luther King Drives all across America exemplify this. It's a running joke, really. They say that all MLK drives are the most dangerous streets. When in reality, the streets chosen for that name might have been already dangerous to begin with. They caused MLK to get shot regardless of how pristine he was. It would be fitting to place his name on a dangerous street, amirite?


But if one already sees what's going on, nobody can name a building after you that goes down dilapidated. Because the joke to them is how raggedy and stationary they made you, and what it took for them to objectify you in order for that to happen. I think some people get off on that sort of thing. And when you find out what they're up to, they want instant forgiveness after the fact.


That's what's sinister about that word. Forgiveness. They want to be absolved from everything that took place. They want that validation after the fact. Validation and forgiveness are not interchangeable things to be used in order to shape and tailor a person's agenda to go in the "correct" direction.


It was tried in ‪#‎Ferguson‬ which was why they changed the memorial from a tree that somebody broke off, and replaced it with a plaque bought with city funds likely gathered by the same criminal justice system that got Mike Brown killed in the first place.


It was tried through Michael Brown's mother when she said she couldn't forgive Darren Wilson, so instead, the media paraded her support for Hillary Clinton as a different way of validating their fuckery.


Forgiveness is something done for people who "just wish this whole thing would be over, "also known as ‪#‎SorryNotSorry‬. And when they find out it isn't that simple, they use other tools of erasure. They take away your validation. They use you to prop themselves up, and they'll say that you caused it.


People think I might have been born yesterday. But they don't know that I stayed up all night.

We gone be alright.

More Media Madness- The Science Behind the Method

Here, we will connect the dots regarding how the media connects and serves the negative narrative of Black people all across the country, what they say, which methods, where to post them, and how to punish those who go against it.  Now before you dismiss this as something trivial, please take note and read this. Seriously. Read it. It will make a lot of sense.


What you will see in this link (as well as several screenshots) is a detailed and dated method of defamation that could be used by the media and is often parroted by the likes of Fox News, CNN, and any other media outlets used for said purposes.  The screenshot provides capita based statistics about African Americans, asks people to post "barbaric content" from Africa, as well as providing e-mails of reddit's advertisers regarding why the massive hate ring (as spoken about in "The CooneKKKtion " blog entry) is doing this. The first screenshot is an introduction by person who started this particular wave on August 6, 2015.

They would also e-mail a letter to all of the reddit advertisers as listed in this pic and remind them of all of the various types of porn subreddits including those related to incest, bestiality,and pictures of animal genitalia.

They included fake per capita based statistics on pedophillia:

, benefits or "free stuff"   given to Black people:

violence,

slavery,

Fake Black Culture and unemployment

As you can see, there is a lot of time, money, and resources invested to the point where people will buy servers to fill with propaganda and gossip. They will blackmail, harass and stop at nothing to keep the cycle of victimhood and hate going to the point where they will kill. And in their spare time, they will watch it and create it through various media outlets.  This is why we need to control our own narrative and not let anybody take it or get a hand in it.  Black Lives Matter could have done all of that and they could have done it right. But nah. Sandra Bland died in jail because of a $500.00 bail. A fund that BLM should have paid, or at the very least said something about. Eye Empress was arrested as a Black Lives Matter You Tube personality for threatening to kill White people. When this happened, they said that Black Lives Matter was "just a hashtag". They followed Hillary Clinton until she asked them what was their game plan, and said that you can't change the hearts of people.

They created Campaign Zero's website. Then they said they weren't affiliated with any politician.

The Black Lives Matter organization had no counselors for people dealing with the deaths of their loved ones. They went on world tours to talk to all of the people about Ferguson, but did nothing to help them. All of the people responsible for the issues in Ferguson are still in office, with the exception of more Black faces. Nothing has been done. They collected money. That's it. 

Not only that, but they're back peddling on being referred to as a movement. They're "a network" now, but they were referring to themselves as "a movement" before.  Let's look at the word "network" and what it means. When people look to "network" that's what they do in order to be taken into consideration for a job or position in a company. They're a company now. They have well known faces investing in them (Jay Z and Beyonce). 


People have been saying they've been bought since 2014, but now they're starting to catch on this year. In 2014, I began to notice that nothing in Ferguson was going to change.I was irritated when DeRay went to Baltimore and protested there. I was upset when people were traveling all over the world as if they were begging for solidarity. The same people in Ferguson are still in office, and the're still perpetuating a large level of corruption throughout the city, outlining St. Louis municipalities, as well as the entire state.

That's been the problem all along. They collected a bunch of money and stayed at square one. And they used Black Lives to do it. And when they were called out in 2014, they weren't interested in being transparent about where their money came from. 

It took me some time to write this. It took me a good while to deal with the information I had gotten. I've been angry for two years now.  I hate how they left Sandra Bland high and dry for five hundred dollars. They stayed silent for Eye Empresses situation which could have been prevented if Black Lives Matter had any counselling services on hand. They could have at least done that instead of helping to run people through the same crooked justice system that put the people in the situation in the first place. 

They could have done that at the very, very least.

Flint Water Crisis, Ferguson and What They Have In Common (I'm late, I know)

There seems to be several things in common with this water crisis: The local government in St. Joseph, LA was given six million dollars to fix their infrastructure so the people would have clean water. Since that hasn't been fixed, the money was supposed to have been frozen, just before an internal audit was supposed to take place, and it is now under federal investigation. 

Flint had to have been given money to fix theirs. 4 million was supposed to have been invested in a new water plant in Detroit.

In Ferguson, and nearby municipalities (yes... that's a different issue, but bear with me), there were complaints regarding over policing, and multiplying fines to the point where there are more warrants issued than people. 

In Bridgeton MO, there is a poorly attended landfill that has radiation so high that if a person were to take a sample of soil 6 inches below the surface, the radiation levels are off the charts. The people in the area don't drink the water. There is noticeable steam coming off of the soil. People can't sell their houses. Audits in Missouri were to be taken place before all of this was discovered, but after the death of ‪#‎MikeBrown‬, the auditor turned up dead. 

One of his findings was twenty eight city officials were caught embezzling money in Jefferson City, MO.

I strongly believe that any injustice or reason why things are the way they are in these areas is because of fraud, embezzlement and possible racketeering. 

So my question is.... Which officials will turn up dead, get transferred to different positions or different states/counties/municipalities, etc? Every time somebody steps down/transferrs/retires, etc there is a reason for it. I suspect they were involved in some sort of illegal activities and they want to cover it up by playing retirement, transfer, etc.

Population Control, Abortion, Planned Parenthood, etc

Disclaimer:

Okay, I know I'm about to come off as a Pro Life conspiracy nut waiting with baited breath outside of your neighborhood clinic to call a woman a hoeish heathen in so many words with the title I chose for this blog entry, but please hear me out because it's not even like that, I promise.

That being said,

In our beloved woke community, there is much buzz regarding Planned Parenthood and the use of abortion to commit genocide against our people. Many people are very upset about the fact that a woman, a BLACK woman would want to deny the life of her future Black baby whose going to have a Black life in a Black neighborhood, and go on to make Black babies in their distant future. The very act of destroying that Black baby is genocide because Black women are supposed to make sure they don't have a baby they can't take care of. They are supposed to not have sex until the right man comes along. They are not supposed to have one night stands, they are not supposed to have any recreational sex at all. They're supposed to keep their legs closed and their eyes open, in which to find herself a king. A Black king, especially if he is woke because that will earn her the rightful spot at the the highest tier on the Hierarchy of  Blackness Scale © . 

Well, I'm here to say one thing. It's one thing to abort a baby for the sake of aborting one, but if we want to talk about how planned parenthood is a scheme to commit genocide to our people, then we must talk about protection. Yes. You heard that right. One must wrap it up if they don't want any unwanted babies. The man  must protect himself from bringing unwanted babies into this world. Unbeknownst to a lot of people, Planned Parenthood offers birth control as well, and if she wants to use planned parenthood in order to get birth control, then that's her businesses. But if a person is anti-Planned Parenthood, then one must take the necessary precautions in order to avoid this establishment like the plague:

This means making sure you don't help bring any unwanted people into this world, because in the end YOU will be helping to raise a child, be it through DCFS or through co-parenting, or both. 

This means going to your local drugstore and purchasing some condoms with spermicide on them, and spermicide for the woman to use as well.

This means respecting the woman's decision when she says no. 

This means it is not solely on the woman to make sure a man can  control himself enough to where he doesn't get anybody pregnant, which is entirely up to his discretion simply because a woman can not own a man's penis, nor can she take responsibility for it or the man attached to it. That is his job and nobody else should have that task put upon them. No woman can make him insert his member inside her no matter how enticing she may be.* 


You must view it like this: All of your seeds have the potential to be a future king or queen. Therefore, you must be careful with your seeds, and you must make sure that young seed has what they need to flourish, There are so many unwanted children who were born out of circumstances that no child could grow up in. That needs to stop.  Control your seeds, and you control your population the way you would like it to be controlled.  And this can be done without the help of corporations with ulterior motives. 

To make a long story short, stop walking away from your children. Control your population by raising the little kings and queens you bring into this world. Give those babies what they need to survive. Love them. Breathe life into them. Don't let the only life you bring into their world be the sperm you used to impregnate her.  He who effectively controls their population can control their world. Period.


*If she does, then that's rape and it should be dealt with accordingly, ESPECIALLY if a potential child becomes the product of said incident.

Taking Back Martin Luther King Jr's Legacy

Every time January 18th comes around, I often wonder what kind of Black shaming articles will surface, and to what degree will they be spread throughout the internet.

Now to the majority, this will be another year where we endure the money draped gossip spread against us through a person many of us have revered.
This year is different. I am compelled to discuss how we were effective in taking back his legacy.

During the aftermath surrounding Mike Brown's shooting in Ferguson, we endured people using MLK's legacy from people trying to shame us into behaving how they thought we should behave. If a person wasn't careful in recognizing this pattern, one would believe that would have been the point of celebrating Martin Luther King's legacy to the point where white nationalists have gone so far as to buy a domain geared solely for the demonization of Martin Luther King and his legacy.  Even after the website in question had been outed as an illegitimate source, they will still take their time trying to defame him.  But not anymore. During the unrest in Ferguson,  so many people clapped back with his quote "A riot is the language of the unheard" to the point where articles like this one was created, claiming that his image has been corrupted by social media.

Even though his legacy is still undergoing attempts at being tarnished by those who are anti Black, it has become evident that people are still neglecting the reasons why he had to protest in the first place. 

This lead me to believe the same people who decry the corruption of his legacy by social media are the same ones who failed to recognize the cause of the violence in Ferguson. 

These are the same people who believe the turbulence happened out of the clear blue. These are the same people who thought everything was fine until "they" brought up race. 

These are the same people who view themselves and people who look like them as innocent and could do no wrong.  

These are the same people who glossed over the violence of White people during Martin Luther King's peaceful protests.  

Long story short, if the documented violence of the state and the violence of White people past and present didn't exist, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and many other noted Black activists would not have needed to protest because the issues would have been non existent. 

And the Ferguson unrest would have not happened because the environment there, and many other places in the United States would not have taken place. 

And that is what Martin Luther King really meant when he said that non violence would be the greatest weapon of the Negro. Because all of the violence that White people had inflicted upon them past and present would be glaringly strong. And it is strong, but many of us haven't been looking at it from a different angle due to justified anger and frustration of the whole thing.  (Please remember I'm not saying roll over and take that violence that has been given to us.I'm just saying they'll never be able to use his legacy against us again because the evidence regarding White violence is all there.)

After seeing this and making all of the pieces of the past fit with the present, I came to this conclusion:

Martin Luther King to anti Black people is like Jesus for conservative politicians. They like the idea of him, but don't actually advocate for the things he actually said or taught and would more than likely hate the actual person.

That being said, Happy Martin Luther King day. Take this time to celebrate any way you see fit. And also, please remember to financially boycott that day, and re-divert your dollars to Black owned businesses. 

And remember. Watch this video and pay special attention to what Martin Luther King says at the 3:15 mark. Aside from Martin Luther King dressing 'properly' and being non violent, this is why it won't keep you from getting arrested or murdered. I see you, RZA.

Random Thought #10 On Film, Soundtracks, and Black Music

Every so often, I'll watch a movie. And when I watch a movie as a music fan in general, I have to hear the soundtracks. For me, a great soundtrack could make or break a movie.  As predicted, a bad soundtrack, could really piss me off and make me become highly uninterested in a movie or show no matter how good it might be.

For example, Check out this trailer for The Interview:

This trailer is laced with Black music, and so is the entire movie. But the context of the songs is so very wrong. What does EnVogue's "Free Your Mind" have to do with anything in the movie? I saw this film and all I came away with was, what does Syl Johnson's "Is It Because I'm Black" have to do with the main characters walking up to the fortress?  That song is a very heavy song that was done unjustly by inserting it into a movie that falls into a comedy genre.  This had some great potential, but all of the misplacement of Black music, and the fake Black slang was a huge turnoff for me. I had to give it one star in hopes nothing like that would show up in my Netflix feed ever again. 

Another instance is the Deadpool trailers. Here's the first one

Here's the second one:

What does Salt N Peppa's "Shoop" have to do with the trailer? Does he sex somebody down in the movie?  In this case, I 'd have to see the movie to find out, but I suspect it doesn't fit in the entire movie. That placement of Shoop really turned me off. 

It's like the people who use Black music in their movies have no concept of context. It's like they go, "Dude! Here is a really cool Black song to put riiiight here! It'll be, like sooo awesome!"  Except with The Interview, they decided to create something of a White Blaxploitation film sprinkled with horrible slang.  It's like they don't really know anybody whose Black for real, and they had no Black writers, but somebody told them to "Black it up and make it feel more, ummm urban, ya know? Kay, thanks guys!" And a lot of the films have just one Black person in them. I don't remember if there were any Black faces in The Interview, and I probably won't see Deadpool because I'm an asshole like that when it comes to soundtracks. 

All I ask is for some accurate context for the placement of Black music in these films, especially if the show has no Black people in them and has Black music recklessly strewn throughout the entire thing. 

Am I asking too much?  Knowing the history of this sort of thing, I probably am. This is another reason why we should hold on to our own and not be so quick to "sell" them our stuff, because this is exactly why they can't have nice things. 

****Update: So I checked out Deadpool, and Shoop fits because of the relationship he has with his woman. I won't spoil it for you, but you'll get why they put it there if you go see it. 

On Gossip and Money

I wanted to write about something from a different angle.  I decided I'd tackle gossip and money and how it relates to racism. See, everybody in America comes in contact with  some form of media everyday be it TV, social media, magazine, advertisement,etc.  We have an idea of the purpose of media and how it works. We know the mainstream media outlets can be very bad, especially if you're Black in America. Black people  know the media is racist, but we don't really understand what the point of racism is and how it affects us, and why. I've gone in extensively on the blog regarding supremacy and how it's tied to respectability politics. Now I'm going to tie it in with gossip and money.

Take a look at this story, and watch the video.

This video has over two million views. I won't lie. I watched it too. But I noticed two things about videos like this:  The first thing is the fact that many people will see this and say disparaging things about her because of her presentation. Some people will turn her into a joke.  In fact,this could be why the video has over two million views in the first place. I used to see videos like these and get mad because they serve as joke material for people who express anti black sentiments. Then a light came on and I figured the following:

The people running all forms of mainstream American media are like children on the playground when it comes to Black people. It's like little kids pointing and laughing while huddled around a crude drawing of a penis. The crude penis drawing (which is represented by what they think Black people are) gets televised.   If you include money, then this is what the masses will get to see. And that's what gets them laughing.That's why things like that video become highly publicized "stories" . It's the same reason why videos designed to highlight so called 'negative characteristics' in Black people are just gossip dipped in money. That is their main focus. It could also explain why any time a Black person is put in the media for all to see, there will always be racist comments for viewing purposes at the end of the article or video.

This is also the same reason why WorldStarHipHop exists. The person who created it knew what the people want to see, and they wanted to monetize it. And unfortunately, a lot of Black people bought into it (there's that supremacy again!).

But the second thing I noticed was that the effect of this video is also the exact opposite of the first:
The woman in the video speaks like she's cool with everybody and anybody. She isn't afraid to be herself. So many people are afraid to be themselves, and that's why respectability politics exist. I can respect her for her candid-ness.  I can respect anybody who can present themselves as they are regardless of who is in front of them. 

So I'm glad I got to see the video. It gave me a chance to write this blog and shine some unpredictable light on mainstream American media and what they're trying to do. 

So if you're tired of negative images of Black people in the media, our only choice is to change our perspective so it doesn't match theirs, question mainstream media's motives, create and/or support our own media outlets designed to mold our own great narrative as a people, and keep it moving. 

2016: New Year, New hopes, New Life

TL;DR: Another New Years Post.

What can I say. This year has been hectic. So many things have happened to me to the point where I don't know what's going to happen between now and the summer. I have no idea where I'll be. I hope to be in a better place financially, and become grounded, since I have been recently uprooted. I'm reinventing my life. I've had the chance to ask myself what I needed to do to change myself for the better. I looked really deep into myself and I found ugly subconscious things that explained my past self. It explained my thinking, and it lead me to where I'm at today, and I'm so grateful for the experience because its making me a better person. But don't get it twisted. I'm not recanting anything I wrote in these blog entries. There's no way in hell I should be sorry or remorseful for any of it, and I will not let anybody tell me otherwise.

Now that I got that out of the way:

I'm glad for what I learned because it enables me to help others. My goal is to be able to break everything down in a way that anybody could understand as long as they learn, and actually think about what they are told regardless if was written by somebody with multiple academic accolades. I want to be able to clearly explain it to someone without said accolades and not have them miss a beat. Once I could effectively do that, then I will teach others (that is if I haven't already because I have no idea who is reading this blog or not).

However, I can't say I know all because that is impossible. I keep finding out new stuff everyday, and to be honest, that new stuff keeps me grounded and on my toes. I like it that way because once a person gets stagnant, then that's how a person becomes a "big fish in a little pond" which is also known as falling victim to supremacy. And I can't go out like that. Not after all I've been through.

Anyway, What do you have in store for the New Year? What have you learned in 2015?

Random Thought #9 On Blindingly Bright Optimisim

I know what you're thinking. You're probably thinking that I'm starting to falter a bit. Well, yes and no. Yes, because I've often wondered if people actually think that I just might be stupid for having such hope for Black people and the situation we're in.  Some of us are still marching, and still praying. Some of us even want to vote for Donald Trump after all of the fuckery we've been through. I've had the misfortune of speaking to one person who was a supporter of his, and one who seemed to let on like he was going to say he'd vote for him.  I couldn't let either one of them go. I've decided to make it my goal to wake them up.


I had been thinking about this for some time, and I've asked myself, "Am I doing too much and asking too much of  myself?  Am I doing the unthinkable? Am I straight up stupid for even trying to go there?  Am I too optimistic for trying to wake up people like this?"


I waffled with the following thoughts:

The Black folks who fall into this group range from the solitary Black employee of (insert any company) to college student, or any Black person registered to vote. Hell, as far as I'm concerned, I could be trying to wake up Clarence Thomas or Ben Carson themselves, and we know some of us see them fools look like they're so asleep that they might as well be flat-lined.


 It's like people are more interested in using Harriet Tubman's quote, “I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” just to provide themselves with the quick ability to throw away the Black person who just doesn't "get it".  


But that's the problem.  People are so quick to claim each other as "lost" that it seems like they're just itching to wash their hands clean of the so called "lost ones" and move on.  And that's not really moving on. That's wanting to be slathered in validation, which is something I can't get behind. So still I push on.  Again, am I stupid for doing so?  Am I opening myself to be hurt? Am I opening myself up to more stress?  Am I causing more damage to  my health?


I don't know. But I can say that it is a luxury to put my feelings before anything here. But my health is very important to me, so I've got to get it better. In order to do that, I've got to get my New Years goals in order as well.  I'm going to have to put all of my multitasking skills to the test, that's for sure. This means less sleep than before, which affects my health.


Do you see what I'm going through, LOL!


Anyway. I'm going to keep going. Nobody said this was going to be extra easy. Oh well. I'm already off to a good start. I've got to keep my head up despite how bleak things can look, and I hope you can too. 

Thanksgiving Post

Yeah. Thanksgiving. One of America's favorite holidays. It's where people have to endure their families, put on appearances, and avoid politics just so they could be guaranteed a spot at the next gathering.

To be honest, it's just a big exercise in phoniness while you're surrounded by food. That's it. People have asked me if I was doing anything for Thanksgiving. I've said the following in return:
"Why do I need to celebrate Thanksgiving? What is there to be thankful for as a Black person in America? We could die just going about our daily business and people expect us to be thankful? For what?! What kind of lunacy is that?

Anybody who says otherwise can kindly GET..(see photo below)

It's batshit crazy. Are we supposed to be thankful for being alive? Should those of us who are alive be thankful some rabid White terrorist didn't shoot us or beat us while protesting?  That sounds like some (to borrow the language from our beloved #WokeCommunity) 'slave foolishness'."

That's why I've been really happy about the backlash regarding the astoundingly hypocritical American reactions towards people not wanting to accept refugees or people perceived as "others"in reference towards Christmas as well as anti Thanksgiving related articles such as, 

Manning: Thanksgiving Myth Creates Fairytale of Land Theft, Betrayal, Genocide,

The Truth About Thanksgiving: What They Never Taught You in School


or what United American Indians call it, the "National Day of Mourning" , which is actually observed as such in Plymouth Mass.

All of the anti Thanksgiving articles, and memes that laugh at Americans refusing to accept Syrian refugees because of "ISIS" have given me life.

And I'll never ever forget this gem:


If there is  something to be thankful for, I'll thank those who are dedicated towards telling the entire truth and not letting their presence get erased. And no. That doesn't include White people because (let history tell it,) they destroyed, looted, pillaged, murdered, raped, stole,beat, and forced their way into everybody else's faces to the point of being considered the so called norm on their terms, and then threw violent, and or insufferable tantrums when people got tired of their shit. 


That is all.

Oh, and also Boycott Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas and any commerce driven holiday and put that money towards Black businesses.

Here's some links, names/websites of businesses, and a Google search result for you in order to get started*:

http://www.blackenterprise.com/lists/be-100s-2014

Some Etsy shop owners:
http://www.blacketsy.com

Beauty Supplies:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/arabellesicardi/blackout-beauty-friday#.lg0WkXvZ6

Black women owned online stores:
http://www.mycoloures.com/2014/12/30-black-woman-owned-online-stores-to.html?m=1

Black Business Network
http://www.blackbusinessnetwork.com/Home/

NOIMOA staple goods
http://noimoa.com/staple-goods-10-ordering-will-begin-november-1-2015/

Clothing:
http://www.blackownedclothing.com

Black Opal Cosmetics

Magnolia Cosmetics

Black Radiance

Iman Cosmetics

a blog

http://blackownedbusiness.me/

headwraps and clothing

100 Black-Owned Restaurants and Bars in New York City and Brooklyn

Sex shop

Organic hand made soaps and bath oils

Negash Apparel and Footwear

Skin and Hair products


 We've still got this. We can do it.
*No, none of these are mine, nor am I getting commission (I wish). I did this because it's necessary.

France, Syria, ISIS, etc

I had to wait on this one because I was so flustered. Well, maybe flustered was the wrong word. To tell you the truth, I can't condense my feelings into one word. I've had a combination of feelings ranging from depressed, angry irritated, giddy like a lunatic, anxious, sad, and reflective.

As you know, people have been upset about seeing Black people with the France flag over their profile pictures. I've had a few in my friends list. That list has been shortened quite a bit, but it doesn't do me any good because there are a lot of friends who have friends who have friends with that flag over their profile picture anyway, so if I truly wanted to delete it from my page, I'd have to get rid of facebook entirely. But since I need it for the nature of my work, I'd have to keep it up. 

Sigh.

But that's not all. Black people are really pissed at those who have that flag over their profile pictures.

That's completely understandable.

But what's really killing me is Black people worrying about the refugees. They say things like, "People swear you can only be concerned about one thing." or "Multitask, it can be done and it does not negate the hard work we must do to change our reality in America nor the compassion we should feel!"  <<<< -_-

 Here's why:

How are people going to be concerned about what's going on over there. Black people stand the chance of dying just by doing day to day activities, be it by cops or some deranged idiots threatening to shoot them while going to school, or a movie theatre, or while going anywhere. Somebody could call in a false call while we're shopping and POW! You life could be over because somebody called the police to say you had a gun when you didn't. And the caller could say they were "just messing around". 

I'm saying we need to work on what's going on in order to preserve our lives first, then we can think global. Americans have this drive that tells us that we really need to put everybody's situations above ours regardless if we stand the chance of dying. 

But if you notice, America will do whatever it takes to save themselves first and foremost. 

When a plane is crashing and the oxygen masks come down, the flight attendant tells you to use the mask first and then help the others. 

We stand the chance of dying. But we want to help others and be concerned for others before making sure we don't die first.   -_-


Let me say it again:
When a plane is crashing and the oxygen masks come down, the flight attendant tells you to use the mask first and then help the others. 

We stand the chance of dying. But we want to help others and be concerned for others before making sure we don't die first. 

Think about that for a second.

Does anybody see what I'm trying to say here?

Somebody brought up the idea of welcoming the Syrians because they feel they could make them into allies for the Black cause. But here's the thing:
Why are we constantly looking for others to "help" us? Why can't we do this on our own? It's clear that not many "others" in this country want to help us already. In fact, a lot of "others" are very anti- black. Whose to say that Syrians don't harbor any anti-blackness? And if they did, who would want to have to start all over in order to educate them and persuade them to do the right thing? We'd just be starting all over again and not working with what we have already. 

Yeah. Standing up against police brutality and oppression in America IS doing the right thing so we can live. I'm just saying we've got to secure our lives first before we do anything else. 

Besides, this is up to the American government to decide whether or not THEY want to receive refugees or not. What good does it do US? 

I ask them this:

What would you guys say if America actually did receive Syrian refugees. 

And the first thing they did was shit on Black people?

What would you say then? Would you act surprised? Would you pray for them some more? What would you do? And I'm dead serious with these questions. Dead. Serious.

As for me, I don't really care whether this country takes them in or not. I'd rather secure my life and not complain about the media about how every time something horrible happens to us, they don't portray us in a good light or downplay the incidents when they made it painfully obvious they fucking hate us and will show the world that we are to be hated every chance they get.

How many times do people need the media to tell them in so many words before they get the point? How many?

Another question I asked was:

Does anybody remember Hurricane Katrina? Do they remember how the media called all of the relocated Black people refugees? Do they remember how they were treated the entire way through? Does anybody remember the paraphrased respectability and morality rhetoric the media pushed while the people were dying? Do they remember how people were saying things like, "Well, they should have had hurricaine insurance. Why were they living there in the first place? Were they too lazy to work harder so they could get out of there? They were just too lazy to get out of there in the first place. Those people are always looking for handouts. I don't want them in my state! It's called responsibility folks!"

I remember that very well because I started a new job, and I was concerned about how Hurricane Katrina was handled, BUT I had enough sense to just sit back and listen to what people were saying so I could get a good feel about the workplace and the people in it. Somebody straight up said, "I don't care about those people. They should have had insurance."

Meanwhile, they themselves currently live in an area on an earthquake fault where the earthquake is overdue by five hundred years. And earthquake insurance is separate from regular home owner's insurance, and is also much more expensive to get.  -_-

Think about that.

As for me, I'm just going to watch people act crazy, get paranoid over ISIS and talk shit about how they aren't going to let refugees come over here, and how they're going to protect America. It's comedy. Pure comedy

Random thought #8: On Safe Spaces

We all know how there are safe spaces for domestic violence victims, folks who are LGBTQ, ex religious people, victims of child abuse/child molestation, sexual assault victims, etc right?

And we all know that the safe places are there to provide a space where they won't get shamed for being LGBTQ, harassed for leaving their religions, being abused/molested as children, or being shamed or harassed for being sexually assaulted, etc, right?

We know how anti LGBTQ, extremely religious people, child abusers/pedophiles and committers of sexual assault, etc aren't allowed in these groups, right? What would someone think if people of that caliber tried to enter those safe spaces for validation or infiltration purposes? What would those people look like if they tried to infiltrate said spaces?

Well. That's the exact reason why Black people seek safe spaces. They want to have a place where they don't get abused for existing, or letting their hair down. They want a space where they can talk about their experiences in the world they live in and exist. That is all. And when people go to those safe spaces for the sole reason of trying to infiltrate or be validated, then what kind of people are they?

Anyway, that's what I was thinking about lately.

On Constructive Criticism, Combativeness,and Learning

I've learned something. We must not get combative whenever another Black person is critical of another. The reason why is because we have to learn to know the difference between constructive criticism vs trying to start something. For example, if someone posts something that questions Black people's relationship with Jesus Christ, it doesn't mean they're trying to start something. It means they're trying to engage dialogue. However, if they posted something that was meant to castigate and throw stones at those who believe in Christianity and happen to be black in the form of " Hey Black people! (insert disparaging thing here followed up with insults)," someone counters that with a sensible comment, or a question, then I believe it should be looked at as a chance to bring dialogue as long as the conversation doesn't devolve into argument.  There is also a difference between asking a real question vs a fake one. For example, a fake question is "Why do Black people get BET and there is no WET... If I did something like that, I'd be racist".

VS a real question: It has become increasingly apparent that we won't exactly know who and what we're voting for because politicians have a tendency to "put their best face forward", so to speak. That being said,
Is there any way Black people could completely disengage from this current system we're stuck in if we should choose to?"


That being said, there are 2 definitions of the word "argument" (as cited by Google) since the word may be subjective depending on the person. :

1. an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one.
"I've had an argument with my father"
synonyms: quarrel, disagreement, squabble, fight, dispute, wrangle, clash, altercation, feud, contretemps, disputation, falling-out;  informal tiff, row, blowup, rhubarb; vulgar slangshitstorm
"he had an argument with Tony"

2. a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong.
"there is a strong argument for submitting a formal appeal"
synonyms: reasoning, justification, explanation, rationalization; case, defense, vindication; evidence, reasons, grounds; counter argument
"arguments for the existence of God"

Sure, the fake questions mentioned above would definitely fall into definition number 2, BUT the trick is knowing which are real and which are fake, and how the questions are framed. I believe one must need to know how to spot said questions and  respond accordingly.  In order to do so, I have gone to the African American or the Black People categories on Quora (a website where people can ask questions and get educated answers), and I found so many obviously fake questions that range from the ones mentioned above, to those littered with multiple syllabic vocabulary words.  Here are a few examples complete with like responses:


What are some good arguments against the idea that a pathological black culture is to blame for problems in the black community?


Which minority races enjoy affirmative action in the United States today? All non-whites or a selected few?

Why don't African-Americans find a better way to protest?

Why are black on black shootings not protested as much as police involved shootings?

Why do black people in the US get angry so quickly?

This approach could be used with media as well. For example, this Fox News video had been circulating around where Glenn Beck openly admitted that the founding fathers are indeed Black:

Note the sly implications in the video. They try to low key excuse themselves from the entire thing and then tell White people that today's Black people have no excuse for being bitter and not excelling in The States since the founding fathers were able to do so. They gloss over all of that while claiming Blacks adopt the "victim narrative," but they conveniently forget about all of the rules that were put in place in order to keep Black people in the perceived status: Please see the following: The One Drop Rule, Jim Crow, and everything that happened during the reconstruction. Some tactics include "whitecapping" which was the taking of Black farmers land and selling it to White farmers. It was essentially, the trail of tears for Blacks.  

This begs the following questions:

Why do the KKK still exist and why aren't they dealt with the same way we deal with so called terrorists in other countries?  Is it because "the losers" (as Glenn Beck put it) sought revenge against Black people after all and more of these uncovered pieces of history involving them  or no?  Is this why Black history was hidden and not taught in schools?  It seems to me that  ALLL of that was done because of manufactured supremacy.  That being said, focusing on "merit" might not work in their favor because that "merit" is rooted in manufactured supremacy. All of the laws put in place in order to keep supremacy alive means that so called "merit" wasn't earned. It was given. 

So what's to be done with that merit based on manufactured supremacy, perse?

And the fact they mentioned how those who speak Spanish are being intentionally kept (paraphrasing) from learning English and comparing it to modern day slave times without the whips was interesting. Modern day slavery could not be based on whether or not people learn English. They're solely speaking on assimilation as if that would magically fix things because if we all learned exactly what they're trying to say, they wouldn't like it at all. In fact, whenever we question them and or take charge, they'll be the first to balk and sully our names and character through various means. The video is another form of respectability politics and vouching for Republicans nestled snugly into some divulged truth they fancied themselves as so fortunate in giving to their audience and viewers that was neatly packaged with Fox News approved books to purchase. 

Think about that for a second.Honestly, all I could do is take everything in that video, laugh at the agenda and file it away in my mind because I think once we really hone our craft, while learning to recognise every meaning behind their words and actions, and moving accordingly, doing so might be something every Black person could use to train themselves to understand, see, and properly respond to foolishness in a complete and thorough manner on and offline.

We've got this.

Ferguson Church Burnings..A Few Questions

So far, there have been five churches in the Ferguson area that have been burned*, and they've declared that arson is the culprit.  That's a good thing, right? But most of the media has been silent on the matter. This doesn't exactly surprise me due to how the media has been as of lately, however I have a few questions:

Why don't these churches have security cameras? Churches are sprinkled throughout Black communities all across the country, but the ones that got burned don't seem to have any video footage of the folks who burned them. One would think that they would want their patrons and their buildings to be safe. However, I get the fact that churches are supposed to be open, sacred and safe on their own because of "Jesus" and whatnot, but these church burnings are proof that Jesus isn't really looking out for them like that. Now I can understand why the church buildings in the 50s and 60s not having any because they didn't actually have the technology for video cameras and such, but now? 

I know I sound like an asshole right now, but I'm serious. All that money devoted to Jesus and they don't have the ability to provide security for their buildings?! This raises a question I've been asking since 1992, when I was first invited (read as 'forced') to go to church as a kid:  Where is all of the money going? 

When I was going to church, I noticed some of these pastors and their wives show up to service decked out in stuff I know my family couldn't afford.  And some of these church members have to choose between Jesus, food, and medicine after all the bills are "caught up".  What kind of bullshit is that?!  They mean to tell me that the church can't help those members? After all of the money they gave, they can't extend a hand back to the people they serve?  No matter how you slice it, these are some serious and grave failings.  The church is supposed to serve the people. They're supposed to be able to help members who fall on hard times. They're supposed to care for the elderly, the sick, and alleviate impoverished conditions of the neighborhood in which they serve.  But no. Like many Christian organizations in the United States, they want to retrieve revenue, and lead people into giving it to them.  That being said, I don't exactly know the status of these particular churches, all I know is that none of them have presented any video evidence of the churches in the process of being burned.

I know what you're thinking... How can they show video if the building had been burned down? Well, there are many security options that would allow a person to view their property while away from the building. It could be viewed by using software on a computer, and they could be viewed using a cell phone. In fact many have services where you could log into a website designated for your security system and you could view the information any time, day or night. I wonder if anybody had anything like that set up, I mean after all that happened in the 50s and 60s, you'd think that would have been the route they would have taken in order to protect those particular Houses of God.

Now I understand what good comes out of the churches, and all churches aren't corrupt. And I know the majority of church members aren't using them for personal luxuries. BUT I'm just saying the churches should have some sort of video surveillance in order to make sure the churches continue to be safe havens for the people at the very least. As for me, I'll be waiting to see if there is any actual video footage. If not, then I can't really feel bad for the churches because they've bilked so many dollars from poor Black people only to finance themselves that I just don't have the energy to give a damn about the churches like that. If anything, this should cause a lot of Black people to drop out of Christianity all together because Jesus really isn't on their side if he doesn't want them to be safe, in good health, and spirit while worshiping him. I'm just saying...

*Update. The number of church burnings has increased to seven since this blog entry was written.