Poverty Higher Among Blacks Because of All That Chicken and BBQ << Ah, Colorado...

That's right. Vickie Marble (R), a state Senator in Colorado actually said that. Here's the audio, and the article .  Vickie Marble needs to GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE WITH THAT BULLSHIT!!!

 Notice that in the audio, her statement is drawn out, and carefully thought out, so she can't say that she misspoke or she made a mistake.

But in all seriousness, this is very telling of Colorado and how some folks think out there. I wasn't all that surprised because the local KKK chapter still makes sure to recruit people especially when it becomes a pressing matter.  Now before you say that Colorado doesn't do that anymore  in 2012 there has been a rise in membership, and more hate groups popping up in the state. Anyway, back to Vickie Marble's ol' punk ass.

According to her, all of the White people must be flying down south to get some of that fried chicken and bbq and then coming back to Colorado to get fat or something.  Black people from down south must be rolling in that sweet fried chicken and barbeque restaurant moolah they're making, right?  The last time I checked Colorado had a small Black population, mostly seen in Denver, so that chicken and barbeque has to come from somewhere, and somebody's eating it. This thinking begs the question, Why are White people all across the country getting so fat?  I guess using her logic, I can flip it around and say that all of these White people really love them some Mc Donalds, Burger King, and insert any other fast food or chain restaurant here. I mean, they must love them some instant microwave anything. It seems to be the meat of what they purchase, especially twinkies. They really lost their minds when Hostess was going under. I thought all hell was going to break lose and people were going to commit suicide after finding out that Twinkies were about to disappear. People were selling them on E-bay, making DIY Twinkie kits and all kinds of foolishness and nobody said, "Gawd Damn...White people are acting like straight up pigs over twinkies.", or saying things like , "See, this is why America is so damn fat right now. Maybe if these lard assess would get out of their giant SUVs, turn off the TV, stop stuffing their giant barnyard animal faces with instant and fast crap and actually pay attention to what's really going on, then maybe this country could start making progress." But nope, I guess it's all Obama's fault.  

So they sit in front of their TVs, whine about not being able to purchase a big ass soda in New York, blame Obama about everything (cough, hurricane Katrina, cough), circle jerk about how it was so wonderful when Bush number two was in office, and spend money on the latest facebook game. They can miss me with that mess.

Tuition for Twerking ...(sigh)

That's right folks. All self described ratchet chicks and bad bitches step right up. Juicy J is giving away a 50K scholarship for the best girl who can twerk:

Tweets by @therealjuicyj

Get The Fuck Outta Here:

Really?  This is where hip hop is at? I can see it now.  A bunch of barely legal Miley Cyrus-es, Hanna Montanas', and aspiring Nikki Minaj-es lining up to shake dat ass.  All I can do is sigh.

Again, I can't tell somebody how to spend their money, or what scholarship to start, but out of all the reasons to start a scholarship, why choose twerking? I guess as long as he's going to make it rain, why not contribute to someone's education, right? That's a good thing, but damn starting scholarships that would go towards future doctors, or scientists because he wouldn't be able to get anything out of it I guess.
Nevermind getting the pleasure of seeing a young girl get the chance to go to medical school, find a cure for (insert any non curable disease here), or go into outer space, or start a business, or do anything empowering.  He just wants to see some ass! Then again,the chosen one just might use it for her med school tuition. She just might use it to float her until she finishes her unpaid internship and goes into grad school, or to pay for grad school. I don't know any of the girls or their plans at all, so who am I to get all critique-y like that with the potential contestants.

I don't know.

 It's just that I can imagine the amount of heat this will bring. He's going to get a bunch of videos from girls who are either barely of legal age or shy of becoming legal. What if their parents see the video (especially if they aren't legal) and they press charges? << Looks like ol Juicy J may end up going up shit creek without a paddle.

All I can say is, Be careful with that.



***Update

Looks like the tweet was deleted.

Score one for outrage

https://twitter.com/therealjuicyj/status/370407299401011200

Just Pray On It <<< For real?

Fair warning. I know I'm about to catch pure unadulterated hell for this post. I'm okay with that as long as you hear me out and fully examine exactly what I'm trying to say.

Again, I really don't pay attention to celebrities like that, but it seems that some issues surrounding them have really piqued my interest as of late. Today I bring the following to your attention. Here we have a young Black actor who committed suicide at the age of  29 years old by the name of Lee Thompson Young.  I asked myself these questions:  Why did he kill himself? What caused it? Was he depressed? How long had he been suffering? I confess, at first I didn't really put much thought into his situation, but then I found this article. Now let me give you guys a brief history of what really kicked this off. I was on Facebook (yeah you guys must think Facebook is paying me a lot of money to mention it because of how much I bring it up in my blog), and after seeing more nuggets of sadness,constantly dealing with some straight up bs in real life, while mulling over what I'm seeing in American culture, how it has affected people like me, while fighting against what is constantly fed to others regarding people like me through the media, and many other things I've seen and dealt with over the years has made me wonder if I will spend the rest of my days similar to the latter years of Louise Little's life. This was the reason I updated my status to "I'm mad today" followed by an angry face. I logged off of Facebook for about 8 hours and then came back to a particular reply "...just pray and everything will be okay."

All of a sudden, I wanted to rage. I logged out of Facebook. Those who know me are fully aware how I feel about that phrase and what that phrase tells me. Later, I stumbled upon the second article, titled "Black Suicide: When Prayer Is Not Enough."  I read the article and I couldn't shake it out of my mind. This article says exactly what I have said to several people who have told me to "pray about it" during various times throughout my life. The same people who say "Pray about it," are the first ones to stigmatize a person as soon as they say they are depressed. They say the most hurtful things like "Oh, they have a 'weak mind'", or call them "Crazy," or say something condescending like "It's all in your head", or  something ridiculous like, "Just don't think about it and it'll go away," or "Smile, it'll get better." or "Just be happy," or "Get over it.".  Instead of pulling a HULK SMASH on them and everything they should ever attempt to care about til death comes knocking at their door, I simply tell them to Get The Fuck Outta Here With That Bullshit.

Are they really serious with that escapist, head in the sand ass comment?! Sooo what, it's a good thing to be a bunch of ostriches now?!  All of the shit that has been and still is going on and they want to continue closing their eyes and ears and act like nothing is going on?  Oh, I get it, they know it's going on, but they want to hope and pray it'll get better. Well guess what? A person can hope and pray in one hand and shit in the other; which one gets full first? Look at how long it took for things to make a lazy,sorry, half ass attempt to get better for Black people? All of this hoping and praying and wishing isn't doing anybody any good. Hoping and praying is the same as saying, "I'm going to sit back and see what happens". Martin Luther King combined action with hope and prayer, and as I mentioned before, he got shot. I guess all of that hoping and praying didn't really do anything now did it?  Sure, we can quote his speech all day, but look at some of the things that are going on right now (in no particular order):

1. Blacks still get discriminated when looking for employment.
2. We get shot at by cops who mistake cell phones, water bottles, wallets, and any other piece of miscellaneous crap we have in our hands for weapons. 
3. We get stalked in stores.
4. We get shitty service in restaurants because somebody told someone else that Blacks don't tip, so that waitresses and waiters expect us not to, which in return causes them to not give good service and not receive a tip.
5. We get treated wrong for moving into neighborhoods that may not have a lot of Blacks in them. 
6. We get side eyed by others when we show pride in our heritage.
7. Even if we make a lot of money we still get treated like shit by other people because of something malicious they heard or saw in the media pertaining to us.
8. When we excel at a job, or even land the job in the first place, we get accused of getting the job not on merit, but by Affirmative Action (which wouldn't have been made necessary if Blacks weren't kept under thumb by various methods for so long in the first place. Remember Black Wall Street ?).
9. The Drug War
10. People can still be found swinging from trees
11. Clear Channel, Time Warner and Viacom all have their hands in controlling a piece of the privatized prison industry.
12. Interracial dating between Blacks and anyone else is still a hot topic.
13. When Blacks show interest in creating their own businesses, etc, they get called racist for doing so even if seeking employment with otherwise has proved a fruitless effort, especially in a crappy job market. (see #1, 8, and 7)

Add all of that up, and step back for a second. This is just a small excerpt of what we may see, and some of which has already been discussed in previous blog entries. Imagine having to deal with that and keep moving like everything is fine. Sooner or later, a person will pop regardless of whether or not this stuff affects a person day to day.  Many people commit suicide each day due to various hardships in their own lives which may be very different than my experience. I don't know what the actor was going through, but it seemed like he really needed someone to reach out to him. I know that feeling very well.  Seeking help for mental issues is often looked down upon in general. I have seen psychiatrists and all of them were either quick to dismiss me by telling me I need to relax and exercise more,or give me a scary pill and send me on my way, only to end up feeling worse than I did before.  They'd always leave me wanting to say, "BITCH IF I COULD RELAX AND EXERCISE I WOULDN'T BE IN HERE YOU DUMBASS!!! AND I CERTAINLY WOULDN'T NEED TO PAY YOU TO TELL ME THAT. Get The Fuck On Somewhere. Are you crazy?!"

That's what gets me about therapy. I'd rather not pay to be insulted or treated wrong  like it was a part of some sexually masochistic pleasure thing. I have yet to have a good experience. Instead I kept getting narcissistic douchebags who left me with the impression that they like hearing other people's problems so they can get paid to take a dump on them.  

Some people say that not seeking therapy is just a part of American Black culture that no one wants to talk about. I find a bit of truth in that, however it doesn't explain why so many White people are committing suicide considering that getting therapy should be something a lot of them may be used to as long as they have the financial means to do so.  Maybe they received the same treatment I did when I attempted therapy. Who knows. I feel that whenever a person commits suicide and is seeing a psychiatrist, a full scale investigation on how the psychiatrist treats their clients should be completed.

I urge people to seek real compassion when someone approaches with a mental health issue or is troubled, and not to dismiss or condescend to the afflicted person. Because when that happens, there's no telling what can happen afterward. It's a huge disservice to say something like I mentioned above, and then turn around and say something like, "I don't know what happened or what brought this on. They were bright, they had a lot of things going on for them, they were smart, beautiful and kind. They were so nice and warm to everyone. I can't imagine why he (or she) would do such a thing (etc)."  And then they have the nerve to be dismayed and upset when something happens to the person whose issues were deflected and dismissed as excuses, laziness, or (insert any cold demeaning remark here).  Really, people?!

Bloomberg is Hell Bent on Finding Ways to Scrutinize Folks- my 9/11 rant for the year

I guess the backlash against the Stop and Frisk policies in New York has got the mayor of New York mad as hell. Now he wants to fingerprint people who live in public housing probably because in his head, all of "those" people are drug addicts and are going to magically get away with more crime than usual since the police force is under fire for racial profiling. "Those" people couldn't possibly be working honest jobs and or attempt to raise children or try to create a better life in a foreign country. I mean, they must be doing something wrong. He has to come up with a plan to protect them, I mean after all, isn't that what stop and frisk was supposed to be about? He obviously cares soooo much about these people that he's willing to make sure they get constantly searched and probed or fingerprinted to ensure their safety.  I'm going to have to tell Mike Bloomberg to Get The Fuck Outta here.

Time and time again we have been told that in order to be free, we must sacrifice something, especially after the whole 9/11 fiasco jumped off. People have argued about how the fingerprint policy is going to help determine which residents live there vs those who are visiting, or trespassing.  Why does he feel the need to monitor that? People have visitors all the time regardless if they live in public housing or not. I'm sure those who advocate the fingerprint policy would love to have their visitors and everyone in their residences get fingerprinted prior to entry. Why doesn't he implement these policies in his neighborhood to keep them safe? My guess is that his neighbors would hate him for it, and they'd be very upset about having their style cramped like that. Why not afford the same basic luxury to those in public housing?  I can hear some of these people now.  They may say something like, "These public housing units are being paid for by taxpayer's money, and I don't like the idea that these people are busy committing crimes on my dime. It's bad enough they're all on welfare...bla bla, bla (insert any and all stereotypical race baiting here while ignoring the fact that crime happens between people who live near each other in general)", followed up with their offers of  draconian crap like sterilization, forced abortion for all of those "baby mamas",  bulldozing the public housing units, or by letting them kill themselves and it'll all sort itself out etc."  To them, I present the following situation:

Let's play a game for a bit. What if Stop and Frisk were allowed in their own neighborhoods? What if the fingerprint policy were implemented?  How would things turn out?  I mean, how else are they going to have their dealers show up with whatever illegally procured drugs they use in the privacy and safety of their homes? What if they travel to their dealer's home to purchase it? Would they want to be stopped by police while on foot or driving?  What if they had a visitor in their home who happened to be a former convicted felon? What if it's a close family member who had a possession charge?  I would think they would say it isn't anybody's business whether or not a convicted felon or someone who was formerly in the prison system enters their home. I'm thinking they would say that it's up to the resident who decides which person gets the chance to enter their home.  Maybe it's just me, but I think they really wouldn't like the idea of being policed like that. I'm thinking they might even invent a term for it. I suspect they would call it "Martial Law" and they would fight tooth and nail to prevent it from happening.

 My initial instincts on Mayor Bloomberg's behavior indicate that he really doesn't care about safety of the citizens. He's acting like he may have a financial investment in the privatized prison industry and that he may have a vested interest in making sure the prisons have people in them, as in "more inmates equals more profit".  That being said, I feel some investigative reporting is in order.  Where are the potential inmates you ask? They can be found in public housing.   I guess it's easy to go after people that no one ever cared about. They have no money, they don't look or act like him and his friends.  It's like shooting fish in a barrel, or collecting the low hanging fruit, so to speak. In his eyes, and and others in this country who may not necessarily be rich, these people are vermin and it is their job to keep them in order.  It's too difficult to catch the crook in the suit with the attaché whose about to swindle millions of dollars out of a company, or the one who fooled a bunch of hard working Americans into giving away their life's savings under the promise of making a huge return on their investment, only to fuck off the money like entitled bratty spoiled trust fund babies.  <<But hey, at least they got that one, right?  It took a whole lot of work, but they got him so I guess there's that.  However, I'm waiting on them to get Larry Silverstein, the owner of the World Trade Towers who purchased them shortly before the 9/11 attacks and conveniently took out a multi million dollar insurance policy on the buildings only to have them burn down (insurance fraud?) while killing many innocent people at the same time, George W Bush, Dick Cheney, the bankers and CEOs who crashed the economy, and countless other people who made things very difficult for a lot of folks in this country. Maybe since I'm employed, and have a house, I should adopt an attitude that says "Well, better them than me."  The day I do that is the day I have to tell myself Get The Fuck Outta Here With That Bullshit because that's waaay out of character for me. I'd rather say something to the effect of, "See, look at everything I mentioned here in reference to Michael Bloomberg and his ilk. This is what happens when you let "those people" have money.

Missouri, Are You Serious?!

The Missouri State Fair done  messed up.  Then again, I'm not really surprised.  Basically, somebody thought it would be a bright idea to find yet another way to disrespect the president.  This time, they did it at a rodeo. The rodeo clown dressed up as President Obama while the announcer asked the crowd if they wanted to see Obama get run over by a bull.  The audience went wild as the announcer asked them again and again each time while getting louder and louder. One of the clowns taunted the Obama clown by bobbling his lips, which added to the crowd's anticipation as he let the bull get really close to him. This made the crowd go nuts! They loved it, until the word got out, that is. The announcer flat out denied that he knew about the Obama clown and promptly blamed the clown, which resulted in the clown getting banned . << Get the fuck outta here. How is the announcer going to deny the whole thing when he was the main one getting the crowd amped up about it? I guess it's all fun and games until the rest of the country found out. Now I'm sure people reading this will think that I'm one of those "blind Obama supporters" who "can't stand to have their 'messiah' talked about in a less than favorable light" or "(insert any other Fox news piss and vitriol here)", but I'm not that person (as you can see in a previous blog), and people have the right to be mad, but let's be honest. Barak Obama has been the most disrespected president we have had in a very long time. Now people are going to say that we have had other bad presidents before, but there are people alive who loved them some Ronald Regan, and Richard Nixon, and will speak fondly of them to this day. I've even seen billboards depicting George W Bush as a great president who deserves to be missed, and the same for Ronald Regan.  That's saying something when George W was the one who created the Patriot Act, Homeland Security, gave millions of dollars that USA didn't have, to banks that were too big to fail, and not to mention how he made it such a pain in the ass to travel by airplane, etc.  I won't go too far into what George W Bush allowed to pass because I'd be accused of using the tired tactic of blaming Bush, but you get the point. People have been disrespecting the president from day one , and they have been doing it for so long that it looks to me like folks decided this particular president is exempt from being protected. It also seems that the disrespect is most solely related to race, and is not limited to his wife.  When G.W.Bush was elected and then re-elected, people were disrespecting him all over the place, but people would always follow up with something like " Al Gore/ Kerry lost, Get over it." , or something like, "You may not like his policies, but you still have to respect him. He is our president after all"  <<Where are those people now? I still have yet to see or hear something like that come out of their mouths. During all of the hell that was caught, I felt like I was the very very few who were telling people to wait for the next election day so they can vote somebody else in, and that either way, somebody is going to be pissed because their boy or representative didn't win, so why don't they just suck it up, cry me a river, build me a bridge and get over it already. I guess since now there is a Black face to go with the Bush/Cheney-esque dealings, all of a sudden, they can't take it.  This country is no longer fun to be a part of, all of a sudden this country has become fascist, and a dictatorship, and they don't feel so free anymore.  To those who feel that way, I just want to tell them to, "Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit, and here's why.

The US has been doing folks dirty in this country since it first started. It seems that ever sense the dirty dealings have affected White america, all of a sudden they want to cry foul. They want to be upset about having the phones tapped, all of their information available upon request, sub prime mortgages and high interest rates with the intent to swindle the applicant, having no jobs and repossessed homes as a result of property speculation, experiencing disillusionment about being in the military, and not having much to look forward to in general especially after obtaining a degree.  I completely understand those sentiments.  That is exactly how it feels to be Black in America, and it has been that way for many many years now. The thing is that when it was just those people fighting for their liberties, and those people who wanted to be respected, and wanted to be able to go where they wanted without being profiled, searched and or denied unless they complied with the ridiculousness, there were people who either made "lighthearted fun" of the Civil Rights Movement that ensued, they simply did nothing, or they scoffed at the ungrateful (insert your favorite plural version of a colorful racial slur here) who should be lucky they were tolerated for so long in the first place.  Now that the FBI, and CIA are all in their asses now, they want to complain and be mad.  I guess they can go ahead and be mad, because they shole weren't mad when the face of dirty deeds was White (read as Lyndon B Johnson Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr, and Jr).  In fact, everything was fine and dandy for the most part. All of the struggles inflicted on non Whites in this country had been acting as a proving ground. The powers that be already knew the rest of the country wouldn't give a good god damn about what was going on "over there". Now no one can hide from it and no one is excluded.  Maybe somebody should use everything I mentioned as a talking point to explain the "White American problem"and do it exactly how they like to go in on the "African American problem" and how past behaviors caused the chickens to come home to roost.  Then again, the last time somebody mentioned chickens coming home to roost when pertaining to White America,  that person got shot. But the real question I want to ask is, "If this person were White, how would it be received since people seem to like their political policies doled out to them as such?"

Don Lemon: Why Don't I Just Cut to the Chase and Tell You to Get The F*ck Outta Here With That Bullisht!!!!

If you haven't heard yet, Don Lemon, a news anchor for CNN decided to "go in" (depending on how you see it) on the problem with Black America. He said the usual stuff regarding sagging jeans, education and crime. He also said that Bill O'Reilly doesn't go far enough when he's talking about the so called crisis in the African American community. Needless to say it caused a lot of backlash and responses, one of which was a letter from Russell Simmons. He had to address Russell Simmons on the whole thing. He says to attack the problem and not the messenger, and then went in on sagging jeans, and how "saggin" spelled backwards spells n!ggas backwards (which has nothing at all to do with anything). He redeemed himself by thanking Russell Simmons for his letter. He also cut to the president speaking on the issue. Sure this video looks like a nice neat package of it's not us it's you and your fault why things are the way they are', but here's what I don't get.

Why doesn't Don Lemon attack those who control the images of black people being beamed into millions of homes around the world, those who profit from exploiting those images and those who reward people for living up to the stereotype starting with corporate America? Why doesn't he really talk about the real issue pertaining to Black on Black crime (which I mentioned earlier in this blog)? Why doesn't he talk about how many Whites are hooked on meth, the destruction of families the drug has caused and how it not only destroys the user's health but it harms children and anyone who resides in the house where the meth was smoked even if the drug was used several years ago by completely different tenants? Why not discuss the pharm parties and excessive use of various other drugs legal or otherwise? Why not address the tendency to over medicate children in order to substitute for decent parenting? Why doesn't he address the fact that White kids are running around with giant holes in their ears, many big colorful tattoos, and saggin pants as well? The holes can take a very long time to heal and can greatly jeopardize a person's ability to find gainful employment (unless they are a tattoo artist or they pierce people for a living);in some cases a surgical procedure may be needed to stitch up larger holes. The kid with the sagging jeans can at least take his off or put on a belt in order to fix his image. I don't think there's any chance in saving this guy though.

Just when I couldn't get any more pissed at Don Lemon for not really talking about the so called "Negro problem" , Michael Eric Dyson gets him, and humanity is restored.


But what if all Blacks really did what Don Lemon was talking about? What if we did exactly what the hippies did after the summer of love was over (don't front, all they did was cut their hair, take showers and go get jobs). Let's imagine that everybody went to college, got a good ass job, started a business, etc and started making serious money. What if all of the absentee fathers magically appeared to raise their families, and if applicable, any and all prison records were whisked away only to resemble that of the so called squeaky clean American citizen? Would we all turn out like this guy? For some reason, I beg to differ. Just ask Oprah and Michael Eric Dyson.


I'd like to see Don Lemon try to catch a cab in New York while wearing his suit. As clean as he is, I don't think the cabbies will be itching to have him as a customer.

A Swiss Store Clerk Denied Oprah the Opportunity to Look at a Purse- Said She "Couldn't Afford It"-

So Oprah was doing some shopping in Zurich Switzerland at a very high end store by the name of Trois Pomme when she saw a purse that caught her eye. She asked the clerk to let her see the purse, and according to the article, she was denied. The clerk refused to show it to her , She said: 'No, no, no, you don't want to see that one. You want to see this one. Because that one will cost too much; you will not be able to afford that,'" but Oprah insisted that she wanted to see the original one. Apparently, this exchange happened two more times before Oprah left the store empty handed. Oprah said “I could have had the big blow-up thing and thrown down the black card and all that stuff, but why do that?”   Later, the story was tracked by the BBC, and that's when it got interesting. The clerk said that Oprah was allowed to see the original bag, and that the sales person wanted to give her the bag, but then she didn't want to see it. The owner of the boutique said that there was a misunderstanding and that the clerk was Italian, so her English may not be so good.  That being said <<Get the fuck outta here. The clerk understood that Oprah wanted to see the original bag on display well enough to not get it for her. She understood enough to tell Oprah that she couldn't afford the original bag she was interested in, and the clerk knew enough to find a lower priced bag for Oprah to see. Now as soon as they found out how much Oprah is worth, they wanna back peddle and make excuses for their prejudices.  Finally, the ordeal trickled up to a spokesperson for the tourist office and now they want to invite her to come back so they can show her a good time.  Are they serious?!  Really, it translates to, "Waaaiiiiit! Come back! We really want your money in our city! Pleeeeeease, let us help you spend it! We'll be nice to you (read as 'your money') we promise!" << That line from Kanye West's New Slaves comes to mind, '"That's that broke n!gga racism, that's that 'don't touch anything in the store'. There's that rich n!gga racism, 'come in, please buy more' ".

 Who are they kidding? Do they think she is stupid? Do they think we are stupid? Honestly, I've gotta give it up to Oprah for remaining classy about what happened, but here's what bothers me.  It seems no matter how much money a Black person makes, they will always get treated crazy.  It's funny how people in The States love to prattle on and preach about how all Black people need to do is pull their pants up, get an education and a good job and everything will fall into place.  This woman made 77 million last year alone and still can't go shopping overseas based solely on her skin color. This is why I feel that Black people in the US shouldn't buy from the people who treat us like that regardless if it's a salesperson, the owner,or fashion designer themselves (remember Tommy Hillfiger?).  I can't tell her or any other rich Black person where or how to spend their money, but If I were in that situation, I would have walked out and then bought a factory so I could make my own high end purses.  I'm just saying.