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.

Black and Latino: The Unspoken Tale of Race Wars in California

One early morning in 1999, I got a message on my pager from someone who was a relative Chris Darden, the once famous member of the prosecution team in the OJ Simpson case of the mid 90s. I was told that his nephew was found unconsciousness in a dormitory cell in Pritchess Detention Center. The locals still called the prison by its former name, Wayside.

I was also told that there had been violent race riots between the Latinos and blacks for several days and the blacks, who were outnumbered by 15 to 1, were getting shanked, beaten unconscious, raped, and literally fighting for their lives, as the guards looked on. These riots would go on for months.

That call sparked about a two-month long string of stories regarding the race riots. I found out that the mostly Latino prison guards were supplying shanks and other weapons to Latino inmates in exchange for a piece of the drug money that the gangs profitted from outside of the prison walls.

There was also a program implemented a gang program called "Amer-I-Can" by former NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown, to cease the racial rifts.

During my coverage of the riots, I spoke to dozens of black inmates and their relatives about what was going on. I began to hear that riots had already trickled down from the prisons to the county jails.

One story a relative of mine who went to jail told me that he was alerted by a fellow black inmate to get ready to rock and roll once they were in the holding tank. As soon as they were placed in the holding tank, fighting began.

In the end, we had learned that much of the reason was not race, but rather territory over drug selling and transporting. For years, the black gangs dominated in the sell of crack cocaine, but with the surge of Mexican immigrants and the flow of drugs through their home country, not only were Latinos of Southern California were more in numbers, but had a supply route that the now disorganized black gangs lost control of a long time ago.

What made the race riots racial, in my opinion, was the push by the Aaryan Brotherhood, the white supremacist group in the jails who sided with the Latino gangs. Their alliance and long-held agenda of ethnic cleansing prompted an all out war against all blacks who were locked up, be they gang affiliated or not, just like the Darden relative. Ironically, Aaryan's used a former enemy, Latinos to carry out what they could not do.

In California, the Mexican mafia forced an edict of an all-Latino alliance. And let me be clear, this is talking about Mexicans and Central Americans, not Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Columbians who have very different cultural and ethnic identifiers, especially because Boriquas, Cubanos and Columbians have significant African/black populations. However, there is discrimination in those places as well.

In all of my interviews, the prison inmates warned me over and over again, that the conflict would spill out into the streets. And it did.

For several summers there have been rumors of edicts of ethnic cleansings by Latino gang members to kill hundreds of black men during the summer. There are several communities in the harbor area of Los Angeles, where black folk, who are hard working, family-oriented people that are getting picked off by Latino gang members. In some communities, there are black residents that are scared to go outside in fear of getting killed.

In the high schools, years of race riots have changed the climates of many schools and student-teacher relationships.

I must emphasize in all of this, that this is not a one-sided issue of Latinos being the bully. For years, blacks and black gang members held contempt toward migrating Latinos whose numbers grew so rapidly that over half of the population resides in either California or Texas. This increase causes instantaneously conflict for those who are at the bottom.

In particular in the job and housing markets. Cheap Latino labor by mostly undocumented workers undercut the level of treatment for much of a black working class that was already struggling due to industries leaving cities like Compton and Watts. At the same time, slum lords rented out rundown houses and apartments to Latinos who were vulnerable to any type of abuse due to their undocumented status.

Many black people were extremely hostile to these streams of Latinos, but pointed their fingers in the wrong direction. The real culprit, Ronald Reagan, the former Governor of California and then President of the US who created a climate that allowed cheap, exploitable labor to flood into the state.

As a result, the antagony that some blacks projected onto Latinos created a clashing relationship between the two groups that have been passed onto other generations.

Another thing, many people don’t know about is the serious colorism and cultural war in Mexico itself. For years, majority of the immigrants were lighter-skinned or very fare Mexicans. However, within the last 15 years, the population has gotten darker. Those Mexicans in the rural south and in indigenous villages have started to migrate as well. These darker, and some, very dark or black skinned peoples are discriminated against in Mexico and are the subject to the worst forms of brutality. Moreso, some of these indigenous people don’t even speak Spanish, and often suffer under dominant Mexican ideology and culture.

Another thing I must add is that the conflict between Latinos and blacks is more prominent in Southern California than the north, but trust me it still exists. For much of Californias development, blacks and Latinos were inextricably linked to all civil rights causes. Communities were formed and alliances were forged. These have held tighter in the Bay Area, where activism such as the Black Panthers, the Brown Berets, and the Chicano Movement recognized the importance of unity.

Needless to say, the race war between Latinos and blacks is very complicated, but at the heart of the issue is that you have two of most powerful groups in the state of California bickering over crumbs, while both are being locked up disproportionately, and the communities are totally neglected and underserved.

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