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Friday
Nov092018

KEMP, LIES AND DIRTY POLITRICKS...

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Here it is y’all.  The battle has been joined.  To court the election of governor goes  Three days after the midterm election of 2018 Georgia is still counting votes.  Yet, Brian Kemp, who resigned as Secretary of State of Georgia yesterday, admitted there are 25,000 votes still outstanding as we know there are many, many more than this to be counted.  However, only a difference of 23,000 votes are needed to move to a runoff election. 

 

Kemp has worked diligently to suppress votes by outwardly purging more than 53,000, mostly Black voters, from the rolls. That’s only the beginning.  At this point in time the Abrams’ campaign is moving to force the election into the court system as I predicted prior to the election. Thus the resignation of Brian Kemp. 

 

Kemp’s resignation was a move to avoid being called as a witness or defendant in court, being impeached while holding the office of Secretary of State that makes him a player, coach and umpire of his own election.  He will now appear as a citizen as he appointed his “negro” stooge Robyn Crittenden to be the acting Secretary of State.  We probably won’t have a new governor in Georgia for quite some time.  Let’s see where this all goes. 

Wednesday
Mar142018

WAKANDA WAS ALMOST A REALITY PART 1

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Black Panther opened a portal to a possible conversation between Black Americans and continental Africans.  For the purpose of this post Black Americans are any of us that were born and raised in North, South and Central America including the Caribbean islands.  In recent years we have allowed a chasm to divide us even more than we should.  This has not always been the case.  In the spirit of Black History Month (I refuse to say African American history month) I found an article on the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and Liberia.  Mr. Garvey founded the UNIA in 1914 and by 1920 the organization was worldwide having members around the globe including Liberia.  Liberia is a country on the African continent bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea and Cote d’Ivoire with the Atlantic Ocean to the south. 

 

Mr. Garvey, seeking a home land on the continent for a move to Africa, gained the favor of the Liberian government.  Liberia set aside five thousand square miles as a beachhead in the country.   Everyday Liberian people were members of the UNIA or followed Mr. Garvey.  Even high ranking officials of the Liberian government were also members of the UNIA including Gabriel M. Johnson who was the incumbent Mayor of Monrovia, capital city of Liberia, Frederick E.R. Johnson brother of Gabriel.  Former presidents of Liberia Arthur Barclay and Daniel E. Howard, former Mayor of Monrovia Thomas J.R. Faulkner, Montserrado County Representative Didhwo Twe and Associate Justice Frederick E.R. Johnson.  In fact Gabriel M. Johnson was elected Supreme Potentate of the UNIA second only to Provisional President-General Marcus Mosiah Garvey. 

 

Liberia was a settlement founded by 13,000 freemen and freedmen from the U.S., Jamaica, Barbados and Africans from the U.K. and Africans from other countries beginning in 1822 culminating in Liberia becoming Africa’s first independent republic on July 26, 1847.  The American’s treatment of the native Kru and Bassa people, who were the largest groups living in the area, was as awful as the white colonists were to the aboriginal Americans when they arrived on these shores. Some evidence about the ill treatment of the continental African natives by the Americans was that the native people in the area were still participating in the slave trade bringing captive Africans from other countries down the Congo River to the sea coast to sell.  The Americans were astounded at this fact and used this to continue to war against the native people.  Over time the terms Congo people was a pejorative aimed at the new comers whether from the Americas or people that were going to be sold on the slave market that were set free by the Americans.  In turn the Americans/Congo people referred to the natives as Country people.  This schism continues today as the Americo-Liberians remain the country’s elite.

 

 

Sunday
Jan252015

Is Liz Cheney Right? President Obama Is Weak!

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"The problem is, is that we don't have a powerful president..." Liz Cheney said when responding to Chris Wallace's question as to whether the Bush asministration would have gone through the roof if Nancy Pelosi had invited a foreign head of state to the U.S. without consulting Bush.  

Cheney essentially said your man president Obama is weak.  This is the reason the invited head of state, Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, accecpts John Boner's invitation and never consulted president Obama and landed on U.S. soil. This is like your teen age child inviting company from out of town to your house and never consulting you. The parent, the home owner is never consulted.

Of course I wanted Cheney to define her use of the word powerful in this context.  Since she didn't, I decided to look at this recent action or in action when it comes to president Obama's and attorney general Eric Holder's handling of Mike Brown murderer Darren Wilson.  

The decision by president Obama to not charge murderer Darren Wilson with a crime was bad.  It smacks of a 'yessah boss' mentality. The mind of Fiddlah in Roots' when he scolded Kunta Kente for running away.  "Look heyah bwoy, you ain't gone have massa tek way mah bed and liqua, cuz you runs away..." I tried to covince myself that this was not the case until it occured to me he is getting pissed on and saying nothing.

Boner, Netanyahu and all those who stood by and said nothing are straight pissing  on him because he's not a powerful president per Liz Cheney.  And, for that matter, the byproduct of his weakness is weak control of the borders and air space.  Netanyahu just flew right on in.  Remember, he never consulted president Obama on coming through U.S. air space.

Maybe Liz Cheney is right.  Maybe, president Obama is a weak president.  He says nothing directly about issues that directly affect Black people in this country yet, they still piss on him.  Now, it shouldn't matter what they think of him if he should speak out directly about the out right murder of Black people by the government.  They piss on him anyway.

President Obama is probably being what he has always been.  There was probably a time in his life when white boys he grew up with bullied him.  I am almost sure of it.  He lived in a world where he was the odd kid out being so dark.  We know how white kids are brutal.  

They probably teased him about his dark skin and he probably went home to cry on his mommy's shoulder.  Michelle's arm is probably  drenched now that mommy is gone and the same white bulliess in Boehner and Netanyahu piss on him right now.

++++Maybe this was just my imagination playing with me.  Netanyahu wiill be here in March???++++

Friday
Sep202013

EDDIE MURPHY'S RED LIGHT WON'T PLAY ON MY IPOD!

It’s so unfortunate that we are living in a world that dictates that the rich will exploit the poor or let me be clearer.  The richer classes will exploit the economic classes lower on the economic rung.  Eddie Murphy released a single featuring Snoop Dogg now calling himself Snoop Lion.  Red light as Mr. Murphy named the tune, is a song that only hints as some sort of social consciousness.  The less than meaningful lyrics sung by the song writer himself, Eddie Murphy are a slap (slap one) in the face of people not fortunate enough to live a Beverly Hills lifestyle.  Murphy sings “Broken economy, the streets are dire, even more than before.  I need some betterness to take me higher feels like I’m gonna blow…”  For a man that doesn’t live a life under the same economic conditions as most of the people in the world that will buy his tune, should steer clear of speaking in the first person.  He hasn’t had to concern himself with how much he can afford to spend on food versus medicine or medicine versus heating his house on a cold winter’s night. 

 

Nor will the soldiers come to his door and knock knock knock on Beverly Hills mansion door.    “It won’t be long til the military come knock knock knock on your door.”  What military would he be speaking of anyway? Murphy says “That's about how crazy sh*t is, how long before the f**king cops show up, motherf**kers show up beating on your door. No place to run, here your karma come.” I suppose we should ascertain that the reason the mf’s (military?) are coming to our door is because we have done something wrong because he says in the lyrics ‘no place to run, here your Karma come.’ These meely mouthed lyrics are passé at best and downright insulting our intelligence at worst. 

 

When asked how Snoop Dogg got involved Murphy said “Yo, if he’s Snoop Lion now, he can jump on this track because I wanted to have a rapper on it.” “It was perfect, he’s Snoop Lion, I got this reggae track.  It was like it was meant to be” (slap two.)  At one point during the interview Brian Hiatt who interviewed Murphy for Rolling Stone said “It feels like a pretty legitimate song to me, if people refuse to recognize that…”  Murphy responds “Yeah, you’re just hatin’.”  “Just be hatin’.”    Look who’s judging the legitimacy of a “reggae” song.  Look who’s cosigning this mess of a tune.   If Mr. Murphy was really interested in turning out a relevant and a more authentic sound, Snoop Lion would not have been his first choice.  It would feel much more legitimate if he would have brought in a DJ/SingJay like I Wayne, or Chuck Fenda, But, really, the best choice would have been Shabba Ranks for this track.  Shabba did for Dancehall what Bob Marley did for the foundation sound Reggae.   Shabba could have really taken this song higher.  Shabba Ranks put Dancehall on the world map.  Even the mention of the Dancehall genre to most non Jamaicans renders the name Shabba Ranks. 

Shabba Ranks

So, I question the legitimacy Brian Hiatt’s opinion of the song. Without a Jamaican on the track to give that authentic sound to it, then it ain’t legitimate. Don’t misunderstand, I’m not saying a Jamaican must be on the song but, at least some one that has surrounded themselves with the people of the island and has lived the culture as much as anyone can that is not of the culture much as the former background singer for Black Uhuru, the late Sandra “Puma” Jones of Columbia, South Carolina.  Or, someone that has lived on the island to really live the true lifestyle of everyday Jamaicans, much as Mortimer “Natural Black” Softley of Georgetown, Guyana has done.  Otherwise what Murphy is doing legitimizes Shabba’s stance for not attending the BET awards performance (though Shabba has ample evidence without Murphy’s exploits) by Reggae and Dancehall artists’.  Much worse, Murphy being a very wealthy Black man in America could give rise to another outlet for Jamaicans to work and perform with someone that looks like them rather than having to run to Japan for promotion.

 

 

The pale faced thinkers of Black Entertainment Television, which by the way ain’t Black no more, decided to group all the Reggae and Dancehall artists on the stage at the same time and invited the GRAMMY award winning Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon, known to the world as Shabba Ranks to perform alongside the other Jamaican artists.  You see how the pale faced thinkers move?  They put all the Jamaican artists on the stage together at one time as if Reggae/Dancehall is not the powerful musical force that it has become and is a major player in Black music world wide.  In fact, when we look around the world, whether it be Asia, Africa or Europe most people want to immolate Black American or Jamaican artists in music, dress and language. 

 

 Eddie Murphy has an opportunity to create a movement the music industry has attempted to stamp out.  Murphy could be a catalyst for artists that have been quashed like Diana King who sings in a style that flows from Jamaican Patwa to Merican (my word for Black American speech) and back to Patwa.  And, Jason Harrow known the the world as  Kardinal Offishall that raps from Patwa and Merican over Hip Hop beats and Dancehall riddims.  Not to mention the countless collaborations that have been produced by Black American and Jamaican artists that never get aired on either “urban” or Jamaican radio stations.  Instead, Murphy proves that no matter your skin color if the mind thinks like the pale face we will continue to hold ourselves back.  No need for the pale ones to do that anymore.