Saturday, April 9, 2011

Bring in G. Fordy and you'll have a trio


To Tavis and Cornel



make it happen guys

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Obama represents the Destruction of The B.R.A.B.A.N. Mentality

This is for people who need an education as to why the Obama presidency, whether you approve of him or not, has changed African America for the better.

Over at Jack and Jill Politics, I get into numerous heated clashes with certain posters who claim to be strong critics of President Obama. One poster in particular, who goes by the moniker dthomas_85, not only doesn't like President Obama, he doesn't like the fact that 90% of African Americans support him. He calls it an "irrational devotion to the president". When I asked him to clarify this, his response was:

"....Black people's desperate need to "belong" to, and have more power in the White Power Stucture in America; a black man gaining the White House fufills these collective needs in way we have never seen before....."

The thing that seems to escape dthomas is that Black people aren't getting "emotionally attached" to an individual (see O.J. Simpson as an example), but rather a high concept. A big picture.

Sherri Shepard of The View says it best here:



However, the idea that dthomas, even after 27 months since November 4th, 2008, still lacks any clue as to why a majority of African Americans support President Obama.....is not important at this time.

What is important is the mentality behind his above statement. It's a mentality I've seen my whole life of 38 years. It's a mentality that permeates the Black community, in particularly our young men and women, that guises itself as independent thought. In reality, however, it's nothing more than a branch off of what I call the BRABAN Mentality.


"B.R.A.B.A.N."

Be
Realistic
About
Being
A
Nigger

The most famous BRABAN moment is MalcolmX talking about when his grade school teacher told him to "...be realistic about being a nigger, and give up trying to be a lawyer and get a job doing something with your hands. Like a garbage man, because that's a respectable job for a nigger". This of course led to Malcolm being a train porter, a criminal, a pimp, and eventually a convicted felon. It was in prison where he was introduced to his second BRABAN talk and became a disciple of Elijah Muhammad. Only after his pilgrimage to Mecca did he discover that every "truth" he ever believed or was told was from the prism of someone else's ideology. He learned that the world was not as black and white as he was led to believe.

There are 40 million African Americans in the US, and you can be damn sure the 99.99% of them have received or will receive the BRABAN talk. It will either come from your parents, your peers, or your mentors, and it tends to come in different varieties:

"Black people don't do this, you need to do this"

"Why you sound like a white boy/girl"

"You're not good enough to do this"

"You're not smart enough to do that"

"Boy/Girl, you're dreaming. You need to get you a REAL job"

Basically, if it's not sports or music, you not being realistic.

In modern day Black society, the BRABAN mentality mutates itself into the guise of "Black Pride" and "Black Empowerment". In reality, it's telling you how a black man/woman should think and act, and to reject and persecute anything and anyone that is even a remote deviation of the ideal image.

Which brings me back to dthomas' comment above:

"....Black people's desperate need to "belong" to, and have more power in the White Power Stucture in America; a black man gaining the White House fufills these collective needs in way we have never seen before....."

It reminds me of the episode of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air entitled "Blood is Thicker than Mud". Will and Carlton are trying to pledge a black fraternity. However one of the "head brothers" takes an instant disliking to Carlton because he didn't fit the image of what he though a black man should be. But rather than just tell Carlton he didn't want him in the fraternity, the "head brother" decides it would be funny to make Carlton go through some extra hazing with no intentions on letting him join the fraternity. In other words, he felt he needed to "punish" Carlton for being who he was.

It should be noted at this point that one of dthomas' mentors of Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report, who admittedly has hated Obama since his introduction on the world stage in 2004. Ford "listened" to Obama keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention and concluded that Obama did not like black people. Never mind that Obama has a Black wife and Black children. In Glen's eyes, Obama is the antithesis of what a black man should be, so therefore he should be "punished".

Glen Ford is a textbook example of when the BRABAN Mentality mixes with envy and personal regret. It forms the infamous "Crabs in a Bucket" aka Bucket Crab Mentality that the Black community is often described with.

This clip from The Boondocks is a uniquely accurate description of the Bucket Crab Mentality:



Bottom line, the BRABAN Mentality is all about limitations. It has been these limitations, the stifling of dreaming big, that has been a lead blanket on the Black community for over a century. Obama becoming President of the United States, to the vast majority of African American, represent the destruction of those limitations. That yes, it's okay to pursue the American dream, because we are, whether some people admit it or not, just as American as any white person.

To go back to that Fresh Prince episode, Carlton ends up educating the head brother that "black is not something I'm trying to be, it's what I am." The head brother ends up looking like a douche, and the other brothers vow to kick him out of the fraternity.

The episode ends with Uncle Phil, after finding out what happened saying the following line:

"....When are we going to stop doing this to ourselves?"

When indeed.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

A Hit Dog will Bark a.k.a. Liberal Reactionaryism

It's really funny.

All people like me have done is give the white liberal blogosphere a friendly reminder that African-Americans still exist in this country and that we as a whole still support President Obama, and you accuse us of calling you racists.

People like me are letting you know it's not the "calling President Obama on his shit" that we have an issue with. It's the "painting his entire presidency as shit" that we have issues with, and you accuse us of calling you racists.

People like me are letting you know that we don't appreciate how the "critiques" of Obama and his supporters from the left in recent months have turned nastier, more personal, and more dehumanizing. No different from the crap coming from the other side, and you accuse us of calling you racists.

People like me are warning you that primarying the first African-American president will not sit well with the vast majority of the most loyal voting block of the Democratic party. Not because we're fixated on the fact that he's African American, but you guys have yet to give a reason for not supporting him that can't be summarized as "He didn't do what I wanted him to do in the way and time I wanted him to do it", and you accuse us of calling you racists.

People like me, whenever you point to some Black guy like Clarence Jones, why supports a primary, as proof that it wouldn't be racial, we point you to a Black guy that claim African-Americans were better off under segregation. So by your logic, that must mean Jim Crow was just fine, and you accuse us of calling you racists.

Rather than worrying about whether someone is calling you a racist, why don't you wonder what would happen to your agenda if the most loyal Democratic voting block was no longer on your side. Why don't you think about the fact that at no time in recent history have you been able to get a majority of White Americans on to your cause.

How about concentrating your anger and frustrations on the true problem and obstacles of the progressive movement. Republicans and the broken Senate. Rather than waiting for the president to give you feel-good, comfort food, ideologically rhetoric, how about helping to organize progressive offices in Red States for the long term goal of selling progressive causes in these areas.

That's all.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Hey Liberals, remember Black People?

Here, let me help you refresh your memory.








Now that I've done so, here's a few fun facts about African Americans (aka black people):

1) We come in all shapes and colors

2) We are the most loyal Democratic voting block in the party.

3) President Obama happens to be an African American. In fact, he is the first African-American president.

4) A whopping 90% African-Americans approve of the job President Obama doing.

and finally....

The plurality of African-Americans are getting fed up at watching a bunch whiny white liberals trash and disrespect this president in every imaginable way simply because he has become the liberal you fantasized him to be.

For those of you who think you can primary the first African-American president and African-Americans will just be a-ok with it, ask yourself this question:

When was the last time a Democratic/Liberal presidential candidate wow without getting the lion's share of African American support?

Can't remember that far back? Didn't think you could. In fact, no democratic president in the last 40 years has ever won without it.

A Primary Challenge of Obama from the left will be the Biggest Display of Liberal Racism Ever

If disgruntled liberals who talk about primarying Obama are really serious, they better be prepared for what a serious challenger to the president will have to do.

Said challenger will have to be white (notice all the names thrown around are white men and woman).

President Obama has an 90% approval rating among African Americans. That number has never dropped below 85% at any time during his presidency. Barring some cataclysmic event, any serious primary challenger of Obama from the left will have to realize that African Americans aren't going anywhere.

So that serious challenger of Obama from the left will have no choice but to try to win over as many white liberals as possible, even if that mean marginalizing or even suppressing black voters. In other words, they will have to engage in the “Southern Strategy: Liberal Edition”. Such a run will make the racism that occur in the 2008 Democratic primary look like Sesame Street. Only this time, the racism will be condoned by Liberals.

And let's all this occurs and the primary challenger ends up winning, the supporters of that challenger will want to go “Okay, now let's put this behind us, let bygones be bygones, and come together to win the general”. It will be at this point where you will find out what the loudest “Fuck You” ever heard sounds like. It will also be at this point where Liberal will be reminded that they can't win a fucking pie-eating contest without African American support.

So when the Republican Candidate wins, in very much the way gays blamed black people for Prop 8 passing in California, white liberals will blame blacks for costing them the electing. It will be at this point they will find out what the second-loudest “Fuck You” sounds like.

So it's time to ask these disgruntled liberals if this is the road they want to take.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Fighting Against Hypocrisy from Both Side: A Reintroduction

I live in Houston, Texas

I am a college instructor, and I am a founder of a start-up entertainment software company.

While I don't adhere to any political ideology, as I think all ideology is garbage, I am a progressive.

and most importantly....

I am a proud, PROUD Barack Hussein Obama supporter. I was a proud supporter when he introduced himself to the national stage in 2004, and barring some cataclysmic event, will continue to support him after he leaves office (which I'm hoping is January 2017)

For those who may be coming here for the first time, you'll notice a huge gap from when I posted here last (a year and a half to be precise). My busy schedule didn't really allow me the time to maintain this blog, so I chose to simply post my thoughts on the more established "progressive" blogs. (I'll explain why I have "progressive" in quotes shortly).

However, a series of events have led me to reopen and make a serious effort to create and maintain my blog:

Literally since November 5, 2008, the Republicans and the RWWB (Right Wing Wind Bags) have been working overtime and have been spending millions of dollars to see to it the Obama presidency goes down in flames with no accomplishments to show for it. But, of course, that was to be expected.

What was not expected was for significant portions of the left to be working just as hard, and in some cases harder, to accomplish the same goal as the other side. For months, I have noticed what seemed to be a calculated effort by some on the far right to push the narrative that Obama has not done anything progressive since being in office, which for anyone who actually do research know is pure, Grade-A bullshit. And after the 2010 midterm election, the push has gotten significantly harder to the point that now Obama is "weak", "dangerous", "stupid", and all coming from his so-called base.

I have numerous ideas on why they would do this, but the "why" is not really important at this time. What is important is that these people represent, at most, 15% of liberal/progressives in this country. Yet they're the ones who get the attention in the media, thus giving the illusion that they represent all of us.

Therefore, I think it's time for 85 percenters to make their voices heard. It has started with one blogger that goes by the name blackwaterdog. She used to post photodiaries of Obama at Dkos along with positive news stories. These news stories, you would think, would be posted all over the left blogosphere. Instead, it is seen as "propaganda" that must be eliminated. Yes, the left have told the lie so much they're actually starting to believe it themselves. So she left Dkos and create her own blog. And now a prominent and establish blogger/writer for an online publication has felt the need to attack BWD for the crime of showing Obama in a positive light. This has suddenly become a heresy to the disgruntled left.

It is officially a civil war for the hearts and minds of the progressive movement. The extreme left vying to take over the democratic party in the same way as the extreme right has taken over the republican party. if successful would be a total disaster for the progressive movement as "Principles" over progress would be the law of the land.

I'm reopening this blog because the fight has started, and I have decided to join.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Annie Coulter Gets It

Here's Ann calling out the "Birthers" for the morons that they are.



If you ask me, the Boondocks' impression of Ann is not too far from the truth.

Make no mistake. If there was big money to be made off catering to these birther ass-clowns, Ann would be on it like stink on a hunk of shit.

What you just saw in that video is Annie realizing this birther crap has spun out of control and is starting to make conservatives look bad. So it's time to cut them loose and walk away.

Wind bags like Hannity and Limbaugh have already sunk themselves into this too deep. They can't walk it back without looking like grade-A hypocrites (though these guys never had a problem with looking like hypocrites, so we'll see).

Don't think this isn't starting to become a problem for conservatives and the GOP? Take a look at this video and see for yourself.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Do you have what it takes to be a "Birther"

Do you have what it takes to be one of these people?



That's Alan Keyes (who has the pleasure of sharing the same company as Hillary Clinton and John McCain in that they all lost to Obama in political contest) and Orly Taitz (who got her law degree from an online university) proving that batshit insanity obviously knows no race or gender.

So you're probably asking yourself, "How can I be as batshit as these two?". Well there are several things to do. Each one requiring you to either have an over inflation of your ego or completely divorce yourself from reality by believing Obama's parents/grandparents has the greatest gift of clairvoyancy even seen in humans.

1) You have to believe you're so much smarter than the conservative groups who spent millions or dollars trying to find any kind of dirt on Obama during the campaign.

2) You have to believe that the Dunhams' and the Obamas' knew Barack Jr. was gonna run for president someday in some insane clairvoyance only found in gypsy fortune tellers.

3) You have to believe the Dunhams' and the Obamas' has enough influence in Hawaii to pull off this amazing coup.

4) you have to believe WorldNetDaily (who has admitted the birth certificate was authentic) is not a far right web blog site but a liberal one.

5) You have to be able to look directly at an orange and, with a straight face, say it's an avocado.

Follow those simple steps and you'll be on your way to being a batshit insane "birther" before you know it.