LA Confidential: The Most Segregated City in the Country

I grew up on the bottom of the hill, looking at the false lights of tinsel-town, aka Hollywood. So when I read about the report of a missing, young African-American woman, Matrice Richardson, who was arrested by Malibu Police Department for failure to pay a restaurant bill (although a relative agreed to pay by phone), I was not surprised at all.

Los Angeles IS the most segregated metropolitan in the country. This is not my opinion, but is fact. Wave Newspaper reported that the diversity-spill is only a superficial claim often made by political jackasses and ignorant celebrities who only goes as far as the Hollywood Circles they break their necks to be a part of. In an article by the Wave (a community-based LA paper):

Two recent USC studies have found that Los Angeles continues to be plagued with racially isolated neighborhoods — with infinitesimally small integration in historically white communities, especially the Westside of Los Angeles, which are statistically the safest and have the highest performing public schools. (07 February 2006, by Tony Castro)

The hush-hush thing that those Hollywood types and the California tourism board are afraid for others to find out: people of color are grossly disenfranchised in funky-ass L.A.

Of course there are those who disagree with my analysis, but those people are usually the ones who live in a fantasy LA, or have migrated to Los Angeles and live in places like North Hollywood, Sherman Oaks, Ventura County, and all points around the scrotum sacs of the dirty the Hollywood Hills; including Bel Aire, West Hollywood, Brentwood (hi OJ) and the little pockets around the Mile High section. These people will never tell you that Los Angeles today is only about 4 percent black, and most of them live nowhere near the areas I mentioned.

These people would never, ever set foot into areas such as: Athens Hills, Crenshaw District (east of Baldwin Hills), Watts, Compton, Inglewood, Lynwood, South Los Angeles and the other smaller pockets that black people live. Why? Because they are scared that the locals such as, Gheri Curl Pookie and Gangster Jose, will gun them down. Ironically, there are such disproportionately high numbers of shootings by police officers, the probability of them getting hemmed up for a DWB would statistically happen a lot faster. More than likely, as soon as they drive into the area they fear the locals would get'em.

I remember when I was in high school in the 90s I went to some trailer park type-of-city with the other members of the student council. We were told that we were visiting our sister school. To this day, I don’t remember exactly where, but it was located about an hour and half’s drive away. I didn’t know we had one, and after that meeting, I would never forget our sister school because a group of cars filled with white boys followed our bus out of that dump throwing bottles and screaming “Nigger.”

I always liked Ice Cube’s simple analysis of Los Angeles, it is not all “surf and sun,” especially for the black and brown. And with the dismal numbers of black folk, it is becoming a nightmare.

Here is my Top Facts of Racist L.A. that I think you should know:

1. Los Angeles was founded in 1781 by Afro-Spaniards. The group of founders were blacks and mulattoes from Mexico who were mixed with African, Spanish, and Native people.

2. Los Angeles’ police department and sheriff’s office has a vibrant history of members also being members of Aryan Nation organizations and Klu Klux Klan

3. Los Angeles has the highest homeless population in the country, mostly consisting of people of color, women and children. African-Americans have the highest rate of homelessness in Los Angeles.

4. Most black Angelenos have direct roots from the American South.

5. Before the Great Migration to Los Angeles during WWI, the population of blacks was less than 25,000. The local whites thought that to be a safe and manageable number, that allowed the few blacks to own homes and live “sensible” lives unlike the Southern hostilities, but still be kept in their place.

6. Los Angeles has the second highest foster care youth population in the country, mostly black children; 80 percent of teens who are emancipated from the foster care system end up in jail, dead, or homeless.

7. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department major recruiting area is in the Midwest; places where whites have not even interacted, let alone, seen black or brown faces.

8. According to Dartmouth Geography professor, Richard Wright, Los Angeles is more so segregated by where people live, rather than where they work.

9. Current-day Watts used to be the headquarters of Los Angeles-based Klu Klux Klan.

10. Until around 1950s, a black person could not be in certain areas of Los Angeles after dark without a written pass indicating that they worked in the area.

11. African Americans, according to 2000 census data, make up only 1.93 percent of the population of Bel Air; 1.77 percent of Beverly Hills; 2.48 percent of Brentwood; 3.09 percent of West Hollywood; 1 percent of the Pacific Palisades; and do not even register a hundredth of a percent in Westwood. (taken from Wave Newspaper Article)

12. Lennox Sheriff’s have a notorious reputation for harassing, shooting, beating, killing, and framing black males.

13. Allentown, a small, black, thriving agricultural community just outside of Los Angeles was disenfranchised when local whites poisoned the well waters.

14. Blacks did not have access to most of the coastline and were designated to one section of the beach called the Inkwell, located in today’s Santa Monica.

15. Black owners of beachfront property were forced out through harassment and eventually, physical persecution by the 1950s.

16. Compton used to be fertile farmland and dairy farmland. It evolved to an area where affluent blacks resided until the late 70s when segregation eased in some areas and blacks began to move west. The 80s crack explosion, and the closing of the Firestone plant (Watts and Compton) wreaked havoc on the economy in the area.

17. African-Americans have the lowest median income in L.A. County at about $32,000 compared to $34,000 for Latinos and 54,000 for Whites.

18. 44 percent of African-American high school students in L.A. County fail to graduate within four years.

19. From 1920-1955, black performers were not allowed into major white hotels in Los Angeles. They stayed on the East side, and often performed in Jazz clubs and Juke Joints on the famous Central Avenue.

20. The Dunbar Hotel, formerly known as Hotel Somerville, was the prestigious hotel frequented by African-American performers. The hotel was built by prominent black Angelenos Jade and Vada Somerville. Today there are NO black-owned hotels in Los Angeles, or in much of the US.

African American Communities in Los Angeles County
Ten Largest Black Percent Black Communities Population of Total
1 Los Angeles (City) 401,986 10.9%
2 Long Beach 66,836 14.5%
3 Inglewood 52,260 46.4%
4 Compton 37,263 39.3%
5 Hawthorne 27,208 32.3%
6 Carson 22,485 25.1%
7 Pasadena 18,711 14.0%
8 Lancaster 18,548 15.6%
9 Westmont (Athens-unincorporated) 18,095 57.2%
10 Palmdale 16,447 14.1%

Estimated Population of all of Los Angeles County: 9,862,049 residents.

This Youtube video is a snippet of this guy named Billy Broham who reports on what is going on around Los Angeles. He had a DVD out some years ago that reported the grassroots truth about police brutality and other real ish. I had the opportunity to speak to him and this brother works with at-risk male youth. So he is very for real with his work. I hope he comes out with something else.

New York State of Mind, Delusions of Grandeur

(Police Brutality Protest in the Bronx...ah what a way to live)

Last night, my honey and I were walking to a lounge to go and check out the Mayweather v Manuel fight. We decided not to go to the City (NYC) and went to a lounge not far from where we live.

As we were walking and talking about our day, we passed a black couple. We greeted them, which is a no-no in the North. And we understood why they responded so nicely at the time. They were lost. The man asked us if he and his date were traveling in the right direction to the NJPAC, or the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. We told him no and pointed to the right direction. My honey suggested that they drive, but they told us they took the train.

It just so happened that we were going the same way, so we began walking with them thinking that this was going to be simple, easy-going chatter.

As he is telling us that they were late for an Anita Baker concert, the guy begins to explain that they were given botched directions. We laughed, “te-he-he,” as we guided him further. When I saw the NJPAC a couple of blocks up, I told him that they would walk smack dab into the building once they went up a hill that was just ahead of us. He snickered and said, “That ain’t no hill! A hill, that’s a bump. What’s that [hill reference] something from the South?”

I was totally caught off guard, not expecting this shift. His tone changed and he began the all-too-familiar, New York arrogant swagger.

My guy who is from NJ asked him, "Where you guys from?" The guy turned around and said “BX” which is the Bronx, and then attempted to sway from side-to-side a little harder emphasizing his “New York ness.” Then he started to say his little jokes to insinuate his “highly cultured” New York pedigree and our lower New Jersey breed. Though I’m not from NJ or the South, I really wanted to see how far this asinine behavior would go.

So my reply, “Well, Malcolm X said that anything south of Canadian border is the South, so don’t get the shit twisted.”

Of course I wanted to say more, but in reality, I was taken aback by the circumstances.

My initial reaction was that this ingrate should be happy that my man and I went out of our way in helping him and his busted side piece, whom were heading into some darker sections of Newark.

But this coconut-shaped headed guy kept his girl giggling with small jabs that became inaudible as she huffed and puffed trying to make it up the hill.

Then it hit me. I understood why I was frustrated, especially after I heard the new song by Jay Z and Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind” once we settled at the lounge.

The only “New Yorkers” that are representing are the broke, landlocked, landless workers who rarely leave the boroughs they are stuck in. This false sense of high culture and metropolitan savvy is a myth that is carried by the slaves who cry “We sick” faster than the holders of the keys to the city contract swine flu.

These folk, who are die-hard New Yorkers will never have the luxury of being “Snow Birds” or the flock of wealthy people who migrate from NYC to Florida during the winters to escape the brutal cold. They will be the ones keeping the city afloat while the key holders of the city are getting the Vitamin D they need by soaking up the tropical sun.

The other thing that this guy reignited that evening is the Northern misperceptions of the South, which is always irksome to me. It seems that the South conveniently carries the brunt of slavery and is flagged as the epicenter of racism.

This convenient myth makes idiots like last nights “New York swagger” and his busted side-piece, celebrate a lifestyle that he could never afford and promote a culture that he can never maintain, but only service. This to me is a form of insidous slavery and racism that NYers are hush-hush about until someone gets shot by the cops.

If he really knew New York, he would know that Minstrelsy and Black Face came from Irish and African-American workers who mocked black dialect and culture in New York. He would know that Irishmen continued the shows because whites paid well to see white men imitate blacks. He would know that Flavor Flav is just a descendant, as probably he.

If he really knew New York and the ugliness of the North, while the South maintained chattel slave systems, the bankers and banks of the North held the money from the labor. It was a great marriage, the North and South, until the issue of money control became a vicious war.

If he really knew New York, he would know that while people were enslaved in the South, blacks in cities like New York, Philadelphia, and the New England areas were kept under constant surveillance, were heavily discriminated against, and often subjected to mob attacks by local poor whites who felt that blacks were taking away their jobs with cheaper labor. These mob attacks manifested in the form of mob beatings, burning of black housing, and sexual assaults against black women.

(Harlem Renaissance photo with Langston Hughes leading a group of African-American and Caribbean intellectuals who attempted to forge a New Negro during the Harlem Renaissance, but came up two pieces of fried chicken and dumpling short of convincing the black masses that their cultural capital was worth millions. Moreso, ethnic friction between African-American and Caribbean communities kept hostilities at an all time high, which still continue today...unfortunately.)

Contrary to many historical “narratives” the active abolitionists of the North were blacks, not whites, who took many risks in fighting against slavery---even the risk of being kidnapped and shipped back down South. As was the case of Frederick Douglass, who had to leave America for years (and live in Europe), because his agitation in the North ignited threats that he would be recaptured and sold back into slavery.

So bad were the conditions in the North for black people during slavery, that the small communities created organizations to protect themselves.

Another fun fact for those who are representing New York is that NY did have slavery (1600s-1827). In fact, they garnered the distinction of having the highest concentration of slaves per household. This means that most households in New York owned at least one slave.

This leads to another revisionist notion. Northerners proffer that slavery was not as bad as the South, because NY epitomizes a civilized, cultured state. Nope, wrong again. In 1712, a group of enslaved men and women who were led by African-born blacks thought death was better than bondage in New York and decided to revolt.

To give you an idea of conditions during NY slaver, the excerpt below comes from a site called Slavenorth, which dispels many myths, but gives one an understanding of what is was like to be a bonded person in NY during the era of slavery.

A young slave, about twenty years of age, ... fired his master's barn and outbuildings, and thus destroyed much grain, together with live-stock. He was detected by the smoke issuing from his pocket, (into which he had thrust some combustibles,) imprisoned, tried, and on his confession, condemned to be burned to death. He was fastened to a stake, and when the pile was fired, the dense crowd excluded the air, so that the flames kindled but slowly, and the dreadful screams of the victim were heard at a distance of three miles. His master, who had been fond of him, wept aloud, and called to the Sheriff to put him out of his misery. This officer then drew his sword; but the master, still crying like a child, exclaimed, "Oh, don't run him through!" The Sheriff then caused the crowd to separate, so as to cause a current of air; and when the flame burst out fiercely he called to the sufferer to "swallow the blaze;" which he did, and immediately he sunk dead.

After that brief encounter, I could not shake the exchange of philosophies last night. For New York even has Caribbean and African people believing that they have arrived into some sort of greatness. Undoubtedly, the guy who clearly had West Indian roots took the Empire State of Mind seriously. Wonder if he’s ever even been to the damn building…hmmm…probably not.

Remembering Who I Am in the Chaos

One of the things that detests me the most about this country is how quickly a black person's character, credibility and accomplishments can be stomped at the drop of dime when they simply act human. No, not superhuman, as the high achieving ones are supposed to act, but plainly human and show emotion, or show passion, or show that gut-bucket black side that often has other folk grabbing their laptops, purses and 401k's saying OMG.

This environment makes black folk feel like they have to do so much self-examination that we are even checking our daily stool to make sure it isn't too black, meaning too controversial and too boisterous for a nigger.

I have this thing about apologies and saying sorry, especially during the "era of transparency." It seems like the only people who are being seared up against the wall of "public decency" are those who have historically been underrepresented and underpriveleged.

On the other hand, the Joe Wilson's of the world can give a stiff apology then say "fuck you" I'm not apologizing anymore, even to the president. But Serena, Kanye, and Obama will be kissing ass and bowing down until the cows come home.

Serena
So let me start with Serena. If nobody else understands you I DO. Shove that ball down, curse, scream and yell. You were gonna blow up anyway, and the bogus call was the camel that broke the straw's back.

When I was an entertainment editor for a black newspaper in Los Angeles, the sports editor, who was also a sister, would give me blow-by-blow horrid details of hostile, racist crowds who would terrorize Venus and Serena Williams when the entered the scene. Not only were their jeers, but taunts such as "monkey" and making obsene noises as they served. This was in the US, as well as abroad. And what did Serena and her sister do, played gracefully and took names on the court.

Ironically, the media never highlighted the disgusting behaviors of the "high-culture" mostly white crowds whose sentiements were "anything, but the black girls must win." But what the media did focus on were things like Venus and Serena's braided and beaded hair and the insinuation that the war cries they made resembled animalistic grunts.

Then Serena became a poster child for the white man's obsession with black female bodies. No one every highlighted that in her memoirs, the constant spector and spectacle of her body contributed to her body insecurites. As well, when her half-sister, Yetunde Price, was murdered she dipped into a deep grieving period where she did not play, but mourned, causing weight gain that emphasized her already curvaceously defined body.

Sports photo after photo focused on her buttocks and highlighted its abundance with what we call "butt shots"; thus emulating the sad and widely unknown story of Saarjtie Baartman, or the Hottentot Venus who was sexually exploited and subjected to public displays throughout England and France in the 1800s because of her voluminous glutteous maximus.

In response, Serena attempted to glamorize her body which was not only unique in skin tone, but in curves. Far from skinny, white and flat, Serena attemped to fashionable show her body aesthetic until one day, the passive tennis conquerer said to reporters, "I don't have a flat ass!"

Then on this day, where the pressure was mounting, after a decade of being one of the two people who brought generations of "others" to the sport of tennis, snapped and said "Fuck" and "Fuck YOU".

After the storm of tsks-tsks, that were reserved for criticisms of proper and appropriate behavior for Negroes in non-traditional negro sports, Serena is tap-dancing and attempting to save her reputation in the sport.

If only Serena were John McEnroe , maybe her outburse could turn into lucrative sports endorsements and camera commercials, even appearances on Jackass-type movies with Adam Sandler. Her anger would be her bread-and-butter, but noooooo, she's a negresse and must be kept in her place.

Kanye
Okay, let's be real. This publicity stunt wasn't anything usual for Kanye. He is known for his outburst, but my question is, what made it such a "no-no" this time. This was the fucking VMAs who gives a shit.

MTV didn't want black people on its show anyway in the beginning. The channel didn't even want to play Michael Jackson until his label threatened to boycott the "rock only" channel for white teens in the 80s.

It certainly did not want hip-hop artists, until they saw how much money was being made off of them. Now, most of their format revolves around hip-hop and its offshoots. Dammit, half of the music industry is interwoven with hip hop.

So why fuck with Kanye?

Do I dare say that Missy Ann was the issue. Hell yes. An innocent, lily teen who was brutally treated, now has to be defended.

I guess Kanye can challenge, Bush with his "Bush doesn't like black people," but he cannot shake up Missy Ann.

Is he an asshole? Uhhhh. he was an arrogant asshole before the VMAs. Hell, he was raised to smell and feel himself, that's how he got to this point, and frankly that's how one stays poignant in a vain and shallow industry.

This time, I don't care about a right or wrong. What pisses me off is that a brother who boldly challenged the president and has nutsacks longer than most is being cornered and forced to apologize for disturbing the system, the racist, economic, and classist monopoly that MTV has on the music industry.

What's even more upsetting, is that Kanye and Serena prove that Misbehaving Niggers are Not Allowed.

I am posting this video because Malcolm X lets me know that I am not crazy.
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Ain't I's a Woman?

A couple of days ago, an Austrailian news outlet broke a story that South African teen track-runner is classified as not quite female or male, but a "hermaphrodite".

Actually, "hermaphrodite" is an archaic word, and identified as a term that is misleading and "dead as wrong" by gender activists. Caster is really, "intersexed" or having a sex that is neither male nor female.

Hermaphrodite means that one has the reproductive organs of both male and female.

Intersexed people have chromosomes that are other than XX or XY, or male and female.

(the above is a photo of intersexed genitalia. as you can see this person has a urethra, clitoris and small vaginal cavity, but no labia [vaginal lips]; and by the swell just below the urethra, testes are probably ingrown)

So where does that lead Caster? Socially, emotionally, and psychologically fucked.

Why?

Since there is no discussion of intersexed people in the West, Caster's body becomes a symbol of monstrosity, a subject of research and surveillance, and a foreign entity that is caste as socially and sexually abnormal.

Mainstream news is biasly justifying her "intersexed" body as being more "masculine" or male than female, thus insinuating that her medals should be confiscated.

This bullshit controversy reminds me of 1woman's and civil rights activist Sojourner Truth who had to bare her breast to show that she was a woman in front of a predominantly white crowd.

Standing over six feet with ripling muscles throughout her body from years of labor, this mother of 13 made everyone that day who was sitting in the audience, rethink womanhood; especially black women as being considered as women.

If you didn't know, back then, black people were seen as animals, or beasts of burden.

Sojourner's story puts me back at my sister Caster Semenya, who is said to be "devastated" by the results of the gender tests.

Semenya is among the millions of people who are born intersexed. According to an online article in Menstuff, "about 1 in 1,500 to one in 2,000 babies are born visibly intersexed. But a lot more people than that are born with subtler forms of sex anatomy variations, some of which won’t show up until later in life."

This ugly little secret is muffled because the parents of infants who show signs of having both male and female organs, insist, often by strong suggestions of their physicians, to make a decision at birth on what "gender" their child would lead their lives.

When many of these children reach puberty, they show signs of the other "gender" that was snipped, and are often embroiled in sexuality issues.

As the case of Caster who seems to have a vulva, vagina, and cervix, but no ovaries, fallopian and endometrium, she also has ingrown testes that could not have seen.

Caster's gender "anomaly" raises the egregious constrictions of not only gender, but the construction of sex, and sex identity. It is an mind-fuck and social atrocity that we are forcing the bodies of babies to be something that they will grow into not being.

Thank you for Caster's parents who left Caster to be her, a female who wore baggy clothes, flexed her muscles and wore cornrows.

So the overall question is, "What is Caster?" She is my sister and she is a woman.

Below is a rough transcript of Sojourner Truth's Speech and below that is a Youtube video of still pictures of a play called, "Sojourner" by Richard LaMonte Pierce. The music is by "Sweet Honey in the Rock". Sojourner's speech was never recorded because there weren't any recorders in those days, but it was transcribed by another women's activist who was present.

That man over there say

a woman needs to be helped into carriages

and lifted over ditches

and to have the best place everywhere.

Nobody ever helped me into carriages

or over mud puddles

or gives me a best place. . .

And ain't I a woman?

Look at me

Look at my arm!

I have plowed and planted

and gathered into barns

and no man could head me. . .

And ain't I a woman?

I could work as much

and eat as much as a man--

when I could get to it--

and bear the lash as well

and ain't I a woman?

I have born 13 children

and seen most all sold into slavery

and when I cried out a mother's grief

none but Jesus heard me. . .

and ain't I a woman?

that little man in black there say

a woman can't have as much rights as a man

cause Christ wasn't a woman

Where did your Christ come from?

From God and a woman!

Man had nothing to do with him!

If the first woman God ever made

was strong enough to turn the world

upside down, all alone

together women ought to be able to turn it

rightside up again.

You can STILL suck her D*ck!

I just came across this shitty article on Caster Semenya, the South African teen who was given a gender test, unbeknownst to her, by Belgian sports officials about a month ago.

The test was given to prove that she was female because according to European "officials" her muscular build and deep voice brought question to see if she was really the gender she claimed to be, especially after she won a gold medal in a track and field event.

The article highlights a makeover that was given to the Semenya which included a curly weave, accessories, make-up and a dress.

The author of the article focused on her hair and dress by remarking, "For the shoot Semenya sported a less ambiguous hair style, a designer black dress, jewelry, makeup and nail polish. Despite what you think about the whole situation..."

Then he goes on to say, "it's safe to say that this is the first time that Semenya has truly looked like an 18-year old woman. "

First, it is not safe to say those remarks, it actually is quite ignorant and culturally insensitive for you to call traditional black hairstyles "gender ambiguous" when it is apparent you don't know shit about black hair.

Caster's hair style was braided in the tradition of South African young women who are unmarried and are still in school, or of school age.

If you would've known, Chris Chase, or at least did some research, you would've wrote with a wider cultural understanding that braids are worn in various ways to symbolize certain status.

And if you would've looked into the hairstyles of your forebears, long, hair was worn by both men and women in Europe, as well as skirts.

Furthermore, there was a huge oversight by the author. He quoted Caster as saying that she would wear more skirts if she could. To him this suggested that she was really buckling to pressure to "look and dress" like a woman. To me, Caster's remark implies financial hardship and the inability to buy fancy dress. And the last time I checked the Semenya family lived in a Shanty Town.

Clothes are a luxury to her, like most black South Africans who have been living in abject poverty and underrepresentation even after Apartheid. And perhaps certain clothes are for survival, especially when rape is a major issue in black South Africa.

So a European fashion statement might not be Caster's priority or even not a care that she must ascribe to a foreign fashion sense that is tied to a gender status she will never be based on the mere fact that she is black.

Overall, in spite of its flaws and ignorance of this article, it proves my point that gender is a social construction.

As a journalism and media studies critic, this report also proves that the news is BIAS and BULL.

Wearing a dress and make-up does not make you look like a woman or become a woman! It is really based on a society's standards of femininity and masculinty.

Mr. Chase, if your fashion and beauty expertise about Semenya's dress, makeup and skirt have transformed her into a woman, than, go choke on his pu$$ie hair.

Or maybe prefer a big butt and a smile. You'd grab a brother in kilt whose cheeks can warm you on a breezy day.

Ahh, I see you drooling. It's okay, tell'em EcoSoul hooked y'all up. Oh yeah and Caster says choke on a fat ounce of truth, and read some books you dumb ass.

Blog on...your writing gives me material to work with. EcoScI

From Savior to Anti-Christ: Setting Up Obama's Political Crucifixion

This week was the final straw, I gotta talk about the prediction I made before Obama got into office. My father and I have these wonderful political talks. In one of our conversations when we were talking about America and Obama, I said that Obama is being portrayed as a Savior now, but will be crucified as the anti-Christ down the road.

And with this past weeks rising rejection of some school districts and some (ig'nant ass) parents in allowing their children to hear a speech from the President of the United States directed towards the youth is an ante up towards a metaphorical lynch mob.

Here is a man with two daughters and is the damn President, and the message that is insinuiated is that Obama is some kind of sex offender or big bad bully that will brainwash or force children to do things they should not.

The surveillance of black males is astonishing, even when they are in the "highest" political position of the most powerful nation. This goes to show you that there is something more powerful moving and shaping things as they please...or at least they try.

Albeit, this group of people who swear they will yank their children out of school before they allow the President to address their children are not the majority voicing their opinion; however, as the "objective" media depicts them, these groups are portrayed as an unstoppable tidal wave that is growing stronger by the minute. And it all began with a tear drop from Glenn Beck.

Wow, where was this type of media during all the protests and 911 commissions. Oh, they were there, they just were holding the footage in an attempt to attack forward thinking White House staff like Van Jones, who told America what black people already thought of George W, he has "crack-head" and thuggish behavior.

How does the president become the Boogeyman in 7 months? Or better yet, Candyman. Do you remember that movie? It was about an urban monster that was really a wandering black male spirit who was tortured and killed for consorting with a white woman during slavery. His affection and expression of love during dangerous social and political times was twisted into a monstrosity that even hood kids were scared off.

Though I disagree with some points about Healthcare (I'll discuss later), the ways in which these people are acting reeks the stank of institutionalized and blatant racial issues. Metaphorical KKK robes and Swastikas are sadly materializing in front of our eyes.

Real issues with the country's operations are being overlooked, since people have re-imagined and re-created race wars.

People are starving. People are homeless. People are unemployed. Children are sick and sad. People are desparate. And this type of poverty has been going on for years in some areas! But nooooo, all people want to do is spew sublimally hateful messages based on race and religion.

Then there are those who are throwing fuel onto the fire of racial tensions that have not allayed since Obama's win. People are consciously and sub-consciously operating with the notion that people of African descent are inferior and a black person in a leadership position is inferior thus causing the country to collapse when the bitch has been collapsing since the Declaration of Independence excluded freedom for all.

But all you gotta get is some folk who think they have privelege. Get them to do the dirty work of the few who are master manipulators and puppeteers that are laughing as they see all working class, lower class and so-called middle class, fighting for crumbs and keeping the machine of crazy world cranking.

After they warn the public to keep their children from Obama, what's next? God-fearing, pure White Women? If his mama was alive, I know she would bitch-slap some of her folk. But thank God we have Michelle. She bench presses every morning with at least 20 fuck-you's for'em all.