The First Couple of Idiocy

Have you ever heard the quote, "Better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"? Well apparently Kanye West hasn't and he recently removed all doubt that he is indeed a fool of the grandest nature.

In a recent interview on Ryan Sercrest's show, King Idiot proclaimed that he and his new fiance, the one who rose to infamy via a sex tape are more influential the the President and the First Lady. He also railed on about how his lady should be on the cover of Vogue magazine. Now I am no big reader of Vogue admittedly, but from what I understand Vogue is a fashion magazine. Why in the world would they put a woman on the cover who wears as little clothing as possible almost all the damn time? 

King Idiot said this because he feels he and his lady are more influential in the fashion department than the President and Mrs. Obama. When I read this I sort of scratched my head. Did Obama put out a clothing line no one is buying? Is he competing for the same fashion dollars that Kanye's fashion line is aiming for? Does King Idiot even have a fashion line? I'm clueless to the fashion world. I know what I like and what I look good in, and I stick to it. I keep things simple (and relatively inexpensive).

King Idiot also stated that because his fiance can take self pictures of her curvaceous booty and the First Lady can't do the same, then she has to be a better woman. Better than the woman who has focused her keen attention of childhood obesity, military families, encouraging people to grow their own food and so many other things world wide that have helped thousands if not millions in ways one can't even begin to imagine. Yes, Kim is a better woman because she can take better pictures of her hind parts that Michelle Obama can. King Idiot indeed. 

King Idiot

It's one thing to do foolish antics to sell records, and hopefully this interview was all tongue in cheek, but if this idiot was serious then there are no words. I do know this, joke or no joke, this nonsense made the front page of today's New York Daily News. Yes, with all the other BIG issues going on in this world, the New York Daily News put King Idiot on the cover based on his ludicrous comments, and as my mother said it's one thing to be a dumb ass, it's a whole other thing being a Black dumb ass. White dumb asses who make music are never splashed on the front pages because of dumb ass comments, Black dumb asses who make dumb ass comments are. 

I hope King Idiot wises up and realizes that making the front page of a newspaper isn't congratulatory, it's an embarrassing take down.    

Just a question, but did ya'll see this?

Now this in my opinion is on some next level shit. This deserves no quarter given, and no apology in the world can excuse this. This woman, the one in the middle of the two idiots (and the one in blackface happens to be her son) was recently fired from her job over this, but I'm thinking she deserves a harsher penalty, a more vicious reality than just losing her job. Any ideas?

More blackface nonsense, with a twist this time!

Blackface in Modern Times

Honestly, since when don't white folk know that painting their faces to mimic or look like Black people is NOT going to go over well with Black people? Since when did they start thinking that would be a cool and fun idea? Well it's obvious, since we started letting things like that pass without going upside their heads or saying a damn thing about it.

They have been arguing for the past couple of years for their right to use the N word. Why, well because we as Black people still use it. What they don't seem to get is that when we say it, it's ignorant, but when they say it, it's like lighting a stick of dynamite and putting it in their mouths. It's not just ignorant when they say it, it's racial.

Now some have seemed to have moved on from that fight to this bullshit. Olivia Mahon, a 21year old white girl from Australia, apparently "in love" with Africa threw an African themed party and wanted her guests to come dressed in "African themed clothing". While she herself dressed as Queen Cleopatra, many of her guests came dressed like savages and primates, one came cloaked in a KKK costume (because nothing says Africa like the Klan), and some came in blackface including her own parents. Read the article and see the pictures from the party here...

African Themed 21st Birthday Party

Now I know a few Aussies and they are the loveliest people you could ever want to meet, but apparently their country's racial sensitivity just doesn't fucking exist. Now I was wondering if this could be passed off as just not knowing? Could the excuse be made that they are just unaware at just how some people, namely Black people would find this shit offensive? Just when I was about to give little Olivia and her countrymen a break, I thought of the Aboriginal people. Treated much the same way Native Americans were treated here, if you were of Aboriginal descent, you were a second class citizen, even though you and your people lived there well before the British colonized Australia back in 1788. They didn't have the right to an education, they worked for rations, needed government approval to marry, and were forced to live on reservations.

That's in their history, it's in the DNA of Australia and yet little Olivia and her parents saw absolutely nothing wrong with dressing up as "Africans" (complete with blackface), allowing her guests to show up in racially charged outfits, and partying the night away. So on that note, not only do they NOT get a pass, a break, or anything else, I think they all need to be educated on racial insensitivity. OR they should be beaten all upside the head and neck until they understand that some shit regarding other races just won't be tolerated. I don't condone violence but this nonsense deserves going to the extremes.

They Seem To Have Forgotten!

Life is funny sometimes, actually it's not funny, it's tragic. It's tragic to the point of being damn peculiar, which in turn makes us think it's funny. Life has a way of letting it's sibling Time make us forget our tragic pasts. Time, they say heals all wounds. The healing salve is called forgetting. One day you'll wake up and you'll forget all about that boy or girl that broke your heart. You'll forget all about that skiing accident that broke your leg and landed you on crutches for three months. You'll forget all about how you got passed over for that promotion from your job, well not really but you'll live with it (while sending your resume out to any and everyone who can read). And you'll forget all about the time your grandparents or great grandparents generation were hunted down like dogs, rounded up, shuttled off in train cars, and systematically murdered in an operation labeled "The Final Solution".

Time has a funny way of blocking out the bad and letting us forget just how bad we really had it. Take for instant Israel and her inhabitants. It seems they've forgotten how the Nazis killed them and anyone who housed them during WWII. How anyone granting them asylum could have their houses burned to the ground, their businesses destroyed, or worse, have their lives taken for aiding and abetting a Jew.

It seems now that they have their own country and are thriving, thanks in no small part to the U.S. they have forgotten how it feels to flee a place you once called home because of religious persecution, violence, and hatred. It seems they have forgotten all those who risked their lives to save their grandparents and great grandparents from falling into the clutches of the evil Nazi empire. I say this because the video I have attached below clearly states that certain Israelis have not only received financial and military assistance from the U.S., they've also received something the U.S. is known for around the world...racism and bigotry towards Black and brown people.




I can't see me ever visiting this country after seeing the rage on their faces and hearing the hatred in their voices regarding the African immigrants who have washed up on their shores seeking a safe port in the storm. I get enough of that crap here in my own country, why would I give my hard earned dollars to Israel's tourism industry after seeing this? You would think if there was one place someone could go for help, if there was one people that would offer someone a hand, it would be the Jews, but they seem to have forgotten when the shoe was on the other foot. Yeah, life is tragic and time does indeed make you forget.

1 IN 3!!!

I read something recently that for every three Black men in this country, one of the three will inevitably end up behind bars. That is disheartening to put it mildly. To think that 1 out of every 3 Black men will go to prison is to almost think there is something wrong with us. When I hear that statistic I can't help but remember the talks I used to have with the younger kids in my neighborhood, me trying to drop some knowledge on them. I would explain that their going to prison was nothing more than economics, that they are seen as nothing but cattle, something someone somewhere can and will make millions of dollars off their hides.

I would explain that you can't ever allow yourself to get caught up. That if they were going to do their dirt, make sure their dirt didn't get them arrested or be careful of the kind of dirt they were stepping in. Once you are incarcerated, I explained to them, getting a job, finding a place to live, and trying to vote are almost ALL impossibilities. There may be some states where doing those things are a tad bit easier, but in NY State you can forget it. I remember those conversations fondly and now, after reading that not only will 1 in 3 Black men will spend time behind bars, but that the criminal justice system is skewed against us made the bile rise up in the back of my throat.

We as Black men have always understood that us getting a fair shake in the criminal justice system was far fetched, but when I read this...

Rampant discrimination in Criminal Justice system

It just pissed me off on two fronts. The first was that how dare you skew the system to make sure we do more time for lesser or the same crimes committed as white criminals. What kind of devil must you be to think it's okay to sentence Black and brown people to harsher sentences behind bars than their white counterparts? How do you call yourself a person of the court and follower of the law and think this is appropriate? Who led you to believe this was the way it should be? What poison pills did your family or friends feed you when you growing up to think this is the right thing to do to those that don't look like you?

What else pissed me off was my people. Black men refuse to read, educate themselves, and even keep themselves dumb as to not appear "white". All my life I've heard, "you sound white" or "you talk white", and I had to correct them by telling them no one "sounds" white, people sound educated or uneducated, but no one sounds white. Those that have said those things to me have spent time in jail by the way and that disgusts me. Time and time again I have gotten into everything from cordial and respectful conversations to heated debates that bordered on violence about this matter. Why, if we know the system is just waiting for us to fuck up so they can make money off of us, why then do we continue to fuck up? I don't knock anyone's hustle because life is hard, very rarely does it get easier, but there is no retirement plan when you're a drug dealer. There is no 401k, no medical, no dental, and no vision either. We must want to do better to improve ourselves instead of staying where we are, then getting caught, and then improving someone else's bottom line.

1 in 3...that shit just breaks my heart.

They Are At It Again

I haven't posted in awhile because I haven't been feeling very well, it's not because the world has ceased being crazy. We all know that's certainly not the case. It seems the world has been spinning more and more off its axis since my last post and you have to wonder what's at the root of the matter. Maybe it's people being fed a line of edible bullshit by the GOP and believing it's steak. You have to wonder how some of those clowns get re-elected sometimes. Redistricting has helped many of them keep their seats, turning their little fiefdoms into all republican areas so no democrat or independent stands a chance at dethroning them.

Or maybe it's the tea party.

That "grass roots" movement of mostly poor racist white people who have a real problem with a Black man in the White House. They have been screaming how they want to take their country back pretty much since he too the oath of office back in 2008. Back from who has always been the question they have never had the temerity to answer, so I keep asking it. Maybe one day one of them will slip up and tell the truth, that they just don't want a Black man leading them and their country. A war mongering, mass murdering, lying, ex alcoholic and cocaine addict is fine but a Black man is completely out of the question.

Take this big(got) idiot Larry Klayman. the leader of another racist organization known as "Freedom Watch". He had the temerity to say that the President of the United States "bows down to Allah", and how he demands he leave town. Watch and listen for yourself...




With this kind of idiocy riling up the ignorant masses, how can we ever get above the fray and resolve our differences? In this kind of atmosphere, how can we ever move forward when apparently there are still some white people who feel every time the President calls himself a Christian, they believe they are being lied to. The audacity to tell the President to "put the Quran down", and "leave town."

Well, Mr. Klayman while I am most certain there is a Quran in the White House, just like I'm sure there is a Bible as well, I doubt it belongs to President Obama. Just like I doubt he'll be leaving town before his second term as President of this fractured country comes to an end. So why don't you go back home to the rock you crawled out from under and wait for another two years.