London Bridges Falling Down

I had to chuckle at some of the good Brits who stood stunned at the behavior of rebellious countrymen and women who lit various parts of the British Empire like a good Havana stogie.

And the BBC, who were two blokes from saying, "Effing darkies are tearing up the queen's land." Doing the same tired shit that American media oft plays in citizen unrest. Blame it on those that are easiest to pick on so that the resolution is to squash the freedom of all in the name of deterring the troublemakers who need to happy that they can reside on sacred land.

And where was the queen? Scared shitless on a throne about 50 feet beneath the city. Old bat. Glad I'm not a British citizen, I'd probably get jail time for that one.

Oh poor England, you are not supposed to be like Greece or France, burning like Watts, while everyone seizes the opportunity to get some free shit like water and drawers, simultaneously, fucking up the most under-served areas of the country.

It seems to me that amnesia has crept into the psyches of these Brits. Now shame on you black and brown Brits, but you were enslaved then, so I will give you a small pass.

The history of America begins with the mythical religious fanatics landing on Plymouth Rock, somewhere in New England. These kind folk wanted religious freedom and to kum-ba-yah with the natives over dried corn and fried turkey legs done Pocahontas style.

NOT.

Let me give you the real. England's prisons were overcrowded with murderers, thieves, and other deviants. And just like Japan's horrible waste management program that dumps billions of tons of shit in the ocean, England found a way to cast off the unwanted.

Thus the beginning of America and Australia was formed. Yep, the United States has a foundation of Jack Rippers, horse stealers, and those who loved to consort with goats and sheep.

My British cousins across the water, it is important to remember your history, so you are not too quick to say it was the darkies' faults.

What a fucked up race card you are pulling. And actually a dangerous one, because what you have coming to protect London for the Olympics is an evil you've never met. This is Big Brother warp speed. You already have all those cameras everywhere, now you will really get the mark of the beast.

But you know England must appear like a softie. It's just part of the image to hide the money bags of the world. After all, England's queen is the most seen face on any currency of the world. England is the money center, while the Vatican is the religious epicenter.

And guess where England is looking to neutralize the uhh, citizen problem? The military regime of the USA. Yes, the bulldogs, the security guards of the status quo, the henchmen of capitalism and world order.

But let me prepare my fellow brown and browner Brits who have not heard of the Beast, the devil himself, William Bratton, former police chief of New York and Los Angeles.

Let me back up a bit and explain. America was birthed through blood lust, thieving and vile fuckery. It was a natural evolution due to the first criminals who occupied these territories.

At one time in America, political disputes were resolved through the gun and blood. America are the original gangsters, trained by the queen himself. And that history is carried on quite well through law enforcement.

And England has recruited the number one urban terror to its lands.


Meet Bill Bratton, racist in fleshy pale skin, who jailed more people of color than the incarceration rate of England in the last five years. Lots of torture, corruption, and Hitler-like tactics.

Well, my fellow brown and browner people, and poor pale people across the water, get ready, Bratton is nothing short of a walking torture chamber off the coast of Guantanamo.

BTW, Raheem, please send me some looted scones and Earl Grey tea to satiate my sweet tooth of revolution.

Pas de justice pas de paix (No Justice No Peace) French Nazi Police Show the Real Story Behind France's Unresolved Racism

Evacuation de familles sans logement à la Courneuve Uploaded by Mediapart. - News videos from around the world.

I cringed in horror when I saw the video of a group of French police brutally dissolve a group of African immigrants who were peacefully protestoring in Paris on July 21. The city of love my black ass.

The group consisted of mainly of women, women with children and pregnant women. The part that makes my blood boil is the absolute ruthless way they drag women with children on their backs against the cement. Savages! And people wonder why the Black Panther Party called some cops, pigs.

According to news reports (Media Part and CNN) 190 adults and 49 children were protesting their eviction from the building they had been squatting in front of since the July 8 removal. Babies and children living on the street!

Some were documented and others were not, the news reports that all have said that they have attempted with great effort to get legalized, but were denied.

The immigrants were mostly from the Ivory Coast, but this is not the first time this has happened to specifically African immigrants.

In fact, Africans are treated horribly and denied jobs, the opportunity to be legalized, decent housing, and other resources. And immigrant blacks period experience severe segregationist and xenophobic behaviors and attitudes in France. Also, African immigrants are grossly exploited with cheap labor, and many live in poverty.

Right now the France Administration is redefining its "Frenchness" with new nationality codes. Part of these policies are implementing a selective immigrantion process that expels their unwanted such as the recent waves of Africans, some Portuguese and Spanish (specifically the Arabs) that have migrated to France.

Specifically, France's President Nicolaus Sarkozy wants to revoke citenship to immigrants that he thinks put the country's security at risk.

But when someone whispered, "The Africans are coming," all hell broke loose.

In 1995, then the Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac expressed his disdain for African immigrants in his explanation of why the average "white" French citizen is becoming infuriated by their presence.

This is a translation of what he said, "The father lives in cramped quarters with three or four wives and some twenty kids. He gets 50.000 francs ($7000) from entitlements (welfare) benefits without, it goes without saying, working. If on top of that you add the smell and the noise, the French worker – he loses his mind."

This is the perspective: Africans come to France to get free benefits while they tax the economy and degrade the quality of life for true French citizens. Interestingly, when France was stealing people, natural resources, and forcing Africans to be speak proper French to benefit the French empire, it wasn't a problem.

And have you smelled the underarm pits on a French subway? Now that is some funky odor.

So now that Africans have been used in the worst way and France has reaped all the benefits through years of colonialism, they are no longer needed.

This is exactly what Arizona rednecks are salivating to do.

Though these nationality codes are part of a recent European xenophibic trend, this only follows a series of injustices and clear signs of serious racial disparities and conflict.

In 1996, there was a removal of about 200 immigrants from Mali who squatted in front of a church in Paris. They too attempted to be legalized and go through all of the proper steps and were denied.

Earlier this year in April almost 48 Africans died in a fire in a dilapidated hotel.

You think Arabs have it bad? And they have it real bad. Try being an African in France, sheeeiiittt.

Well Serena, now you know why the white folk don't bother you in your luxury Paris apartment. You are a nigglette like the rest of us.

A Response to Writer Jesse Washington's Article on Black Folk and Tiger Woods

I know I am putting a lot out there, but bear with me, this is long.

On a day that I vowed to focus on my dissertstion proposal, I have been inspired to deviate and respond to a deeply disturbing AP article written by Jesse Washington titled, "Tiger's Troubles Widens His Distance from Blacks."

(Photo of AP Writer Jesse Washington looking intellectual constipated)

In this article, Washington claims that discourse among black folk and in our circles illuminates our "resistance to interracial romance." He further comments that black peoples antagonism toward Tiger Woods illuminates the following:

This vexed some blacks, but it hasn't stopped them from claiming Woods as one of their own. Or from disapproving of his marriage to Elin Nordegren, despite blacks' historical fight against white racist opponents of mixed marriage.

But Woods has declined to identify himself as black, and famously chose the term "Cablinasian" (Caucasian, black, Indian and Asian) to describe the racial mixture he inherited from his African-American father and Thai mother. (click here for story)

Jesse, I'm sorry dude, but the issue goes a lot deeper and is traced much further than that. So as an African-American woman, I will respond to some of your Negro-esk comments that paint the African-American community as racist, social inbreds who cannot get over slavery like white people have.

When people like Washington erroneously point out "blacks resistance to interracial romance," not only does he homogenize the positions of black people, but he inaccurately explores an issue his small little brain cannot wrap around.

Then Washington insinuates that black people are also resistant because Tiger Woods' ascension as an icon in professional sports replaces two black men (Mohammed Ali and Michael Jordan) who competed in sports that were more colorized than gulf. The underlying implication is that these men also had black wives.

Washington never addresses the issue of how a sport gets to be exclusively played by whites, or is disproportionate in any racial category, thus removing racial segregration from the truth of the equation.

Even the sports of boxing and basketball, and all of the other major professional sports in the United States, were heavily segregated. Hell, recreation was segregated and limited to who had access.

In the case of gulf, it is who can get to a gulf course, but overarchingly, who has the money to play such an expensive game.

Furthermore, Washington does not even know that there are pockets of black people who compete in sports that blacks have not traditional been in such as hockey, swimming, tennis and surfing, and are still discriminated against. Didn't you read about the Philadelphia pool? Or you up on the Williams sisters?

And in the case of Tiger's creation of his own racial category, "Cablasian," black people were not in a tizzy that he attempted to recognize all of his ancestral DNA. It is the fact that this "plane-as-day-black-man," attempted to distance himself from his obvious African ancestry as much as possible---especially when we looked at his black pappy.

In many ways, Woods' distancing from his black heritage made him a more comfortable fit in a sport that did not accomodate darker hued faces. It is a known move where people of color must make xenophobic people feel at ease when they have not been around browner skins other than them cleaning up their houses or dancing a jig on the stage.

On top of all that, it was the shoulders of black atheles that Tiger Woods stands. Whether he wants to acknowledge it or not.

If it wasn't for people like Hank Aaron the ability to even get his black ass on a gulf course as a gulfer in a white country club known to discriminate against blacks would be a harder road to travel?

Like all people of color in the United States, it is through the struggle of African-Americans that pushed better race relations for all, even his Thai mother must say thank you.

However, in Woods' case, he probably doesn't even know that John Shippen was the first American born gulfer, and the first African-American gulfer to play in the US Open. Shippen was cultivated and trained at the first African-American social and country club called Shady Rest in Scotch Plains, NJ. (click here to read article found in the Star Ledger)

If it weren't for John Shippen, Tiger Woods would be playing put-put in flip-flops on a miniature golf course in Cypress, California.

Woods' Cablasian-ness, somehow eradicated his blackness, when clearly everyone saw him as a black man who had diverse heritage, rather than a white male with complex racial and ethnic roots.

Complicated Notions of Interracial Romance in Black Communities
Black people, specifically black people in the Americas are some of the most open people to of interracial couples.

As we were subjected to miscengation for hundreds of years, we have been the community to have to rear majority of the interracial children produced since Columbus' crew of men set foot on these shores.

Black communities have loved and reared these children and embraced them in spite of the social and political ramifications that were created when a child's DNA represented the oppressed and the oppressor.

Then when opan interracial black/white couples started to surface in the 60s, they were usually found in communites of color rather than white ones because often times white male mobs (especially when the man was not white) would assault or kill them.

The heart of the issue in black communites is that many of the interracial couplings we had were not romantic. Also, the atonement needed to reconcile for the pain of these forced relationships have never been on the agenda of race relations in the US. In there lies a problem.

Many people joke and are repulsed when they speak about how black women vocalize disdain when a black man dates a white woman.

Though sometimes, hell, most times, it is phrased as a bitter, black bitch who is complaining once again that she can't get a man; nevertheless, the uncomfortable and unanswered pains of black people, sexuality and mate selection is neglected.

Black women speak with a historical reference specifically embedded in the centuries-old unrelentless and socially acceptable sexual abuse by white males and the subsequent, and often forced reproduction of mixed race children by white men.

Black women and their white male rapists were the major produces of black/white offspring, not black men, or white women.

And because white males then and now still hold the upper echelons of power and perceived power, black women hold much of that pain and humiliation in our history of oppression.

Unbeknownst to most, there are horrific stories that we have heard or have been indirectly told of these narratives by female folk in our family.

So common was the rape of black women by white men from 1400 to 1975, that raping a black woman was not considered rape.

My grandfather was biracial due to his mother who was repeatedly forced into a sexual liason with the patron of a house she cleaned.

She was a married woman who had children with her black husband, and several biracial children with her post-slavery master, oh excuse me, her employer. They reared them as their own. This was in the early part of the 20th Century, but that was the order of the day.

And this is not some old slave tales. Look at the rape case between the North Carolina LaCrosse team and the African-American woman who provided gentleman's entertainment. She was coded as a stripper, thus unworthy of having any credibility. Never once did the media identify her as a college student who attended another school at a nearby campus and used stripping as a means to make money.

However, the waitress of Tiger Woods, and the escort of former Governor Spitzer have not been coded as a gutter jump off who used her sexuality to make money.

In addition to this, black women have uncomfortably been placed at the bottom of the aesthetic scale of Westernized beauty. Yes, we've been exoticized, hence Beyonce. We have even been called gorgeous, hence Halle Berry.

But these lighter-skinned young ladies do not define what is the standard and uber example of beautiful. It is still today, a white, pale, thin woman, with long, blonde, un-coily hair is the standard and occupies the top category of what is worshipped as striking.

This discussion is also traced in the oversexualization of black men who are still seen as volatile, sexually brutes who cannot control their sexual appetites. In the past, they were lynched by joyous white mobs for what was often false accusations (and in some cases consensual affairs) of engaging in some sexualized act with a white woman.

So salient was the fear of black men raping white women that the most distributed and seen movie to day is, "Birth of Nation," a racist film that highlights the killing of blackface white actor acting like a black man who attempted to violated Missy.

So when a black man decides to engage in interracial relationships, some of the black women who disagree are not only inquiring as to why she is not good enogh, but also she is asking, "Why does it have to be a white woman?" Meaning, "Why must you consort with the very icon that has oppressed black people?"

As well, there is an underlying secret that black men would be better off with a white woman because she knows how to act and thus treat a black man sexually, attitude-wise, and as a support system. As opposed to a black woman who still wears the stereotype of being uncouth, unattractive, disempowering, and an unsuitable mate.

If I cannot prove this in numbers, stats show that most black men in interracial relationships are with white women. This would be understandable if only black and white people lived on the planet, and especially in places such as the United States, but white people specifically are the least amount in numbers?

In direct and indirect ways, whether the people involved in interracial marriages want to admit it or not, in America, this romantic choice signifies black men selecting not only a social-cultural taboo, but agreeing that in their eyes, a white woman is the aesthetic and mate preference instead of black women.

Even though, this essay does not talk about love, I do know that love is a very real thing. I do acknowledge that love manifests in many ways. And I know that there are people who have wonderful interracial relationships (and especially for some reason black men who have slept with a white woman) who will disagree with these comments, but I had to put it out there.

For someone who has been approached by everything under the sun, I stand firm that choosing what we love, how we love it, and if we love it is a conscious (and unconscious) decision.

As one white gentleman told me that I was racist when I turned him down because I said I exclusively dated black males, I smiled and thanked him for the compliment. Shame me twice, I love to make love to people who look like my daddy.

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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.