A Short Story: Coltrane, Smog, The Exorcist and Hidden Misandrist Legacy of White Women
The Vagina Monologues or a Lorena Bobbitt Sitcom?
Preamble and Forewarning
This is the lengthiest article I have written, to date. Its reading time is approximately 30 minutes. To characterize it as laborious would be a thing of violent self-insult and it has not been authored for popularity, it has been authored strictly for historical posterity (perhaps I should state my-storical). Only passion would inspire anyone to engage in practical futility.
Many will find this piece disturbing and unpalatable, but my mission is not that of comfort or taste. There are many others far better equipped for such literary endeavors. Given the complexity of the subject matter, I have included several links which are underlined and videos to both substantiate content and, optimally, stimulate reflection. Failure to examine each and every one of them will result in incomprehension which may, depending on the reader, be the desired, or preferable, effect. Ignorance is a comfort zone for many.
I am listening to John Coltrane’s Naima as I write this piece, which is a bit of an oddity for most times I require absolute silence when I write. My youngest daughter is likely unaware of it, but Naima was almost her name. I named all three of my girls and they have very, very significant names that are double entendres but, in the end, she was named after my father. It’s pretty heavy stuff, but irrelevant.
Coltrane’s Naima has always brought me a melancholy peace and I suppose that is why he is here with me today. The name Naima comes from the Arabic word na'ima It is a Muslim name of Arabic origin that means "comfort," "ease," or "prosperity.” Before our kidnapping to The Island and the resultant cultural genocide, my ancestors spoke Arabic (among other languages).
At the close of WWII, John Coltrane became one of the few Navy men to serve as a musician without having been granted musician's rating when he joined the Melody Masters, the base swing band. Because the Melody Masters was an all-white band, Coltrane was treated as a guest performer to avoid alerting superior officers of his participation in the band. Some things never change though, eventually, they must.
The Democratic National Convention has mercifully adjourned (the only thing worse was the other duopolistic political party’s convention). Its fever pitch and climax, as it were, was U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivering her acceptance speech as the nobody-voted-for presidential nominee. Just as I did with the other duopolistic side of U.S. political “democracy,” Repugnantcans, I am going to allow the Democrats to bask in the afterglow of their political orgy and smoke a cigarette. In the interim, I will keep my powder dry for a few days. Then we shall reckon. The aforementioned notwithstanding, in a peripheral sense this article addresses a thematic undercurrent afoot during the DNC, and in the society at large, that requires addressment.
Smog
It is a well known fact that societies either evolve, devolve or revolve. The United States revolves. Those incapable of understanding this stark fact have gotten off at the wrong stop and should catch the next train as they have, clearly, missed this one. European-Americans have had half a millennia to develop a most fascinating system which excuses their conduct, however egregious. I call it the Inversion Layer; a term that I used to hear as a child growing up in Los Angeles in the 70's on a daily basis.
During that time, the smog was so intensely toxic it would burn the lungs, the eyes, even one’s throat and children were not allowed outdoors. An “A.Q.M.D. smog report” routinely came in conjunction with the weather report. Smog has what is known as an inversion layer.
Oxford dictionary defines inversion as “a reversal of position, order, form, or relationship”… “to turn upside down.”
Inversion layers are a significant factor in the formation of smog because they create stable atmospheric conditions that trap pollutants near the ground. In an inversion, the normal atmospheric condition of warmer air near the ground and colder air at higher altitudes is turned upside down. This atmospheric perversion results in a layer of cold air that gets trapped under a layer of warmer air, preventing the pollutants from dispersing, thusly building up to unhealthy levels. The warmer air acts like a blanket, trapping the smog layer and preventing it from dissipating higher in the atmosphere.
The word "smog" was coined in the early 20th century. It is a portmanteau of the words smoke and fog to refer to smoky fog due to its opacity, and odor. The word was then intended to refer to what was sometimes known as pea soup fog. One of the worst things ever to pass my palate as a child was Campbell’s Split Pea Soup. I can still smell that odor strictly based on olfactory memory, just as I can the sickly-sweet smell of burnt human flesh predicated upon same.
The Exorcist
There has been one movie, in my entire life, that scared the living “bejesus” out of me for many reasons I shall most gleefully abort for this writing. The name of the movie was William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist. Though I am now an agnostic that movie, frankly, still makes me uncomfortable and I absolutely will not watch it. I was probably about eight or nine years-old when it was released.
In the movie there is a scene in which the possessed female prepubescent child, Regan, (don’t do it, besides that there was an “A” after the “E” in his name) hurls, through expectoration, at Father Damien Karras a really disgusting, greenish, thick, mucous like substance. In actuality, the substance is thick pea soup. Andersen's brand pea soup as a matter of cinematic fact. The film crew tried Campbell's but didn't like the "effect" (me either). As a child actor Linda Blair (Regan) hated vegetables so much that the use of the pea soup actually did make her vomit. The proverbial buy one get one free.
Let us not forget the odor since taste and smell are intimately related.
Given the demographics of Kamala Harris’ candidacy the word misogyny is being bandied about more than usual which is to be expected, or expectorated. White women, in particular, tend to be intellectually dishonest in their use of the term and I am unsure if it is their collective intoxicative ignorance, or the collective intoxicative ignorance of the aggregate populace. Whatever the case, this Black Man in the United States feels compelled to sober them up a tad.
While many are familiar with the term misogyny (because it is “sexy”) those same people are unfamiliar with the term misandry, and no group of people have been victims of misandry more than Black Men in the United States. In fact, there are entire systems, institutional and otherwise, erected on that misandry. A misandry so ensconced and pervasive that it is even practiced by Black Women in the United States; though relatively rarely.
Relatively.
Nine years ago, there was a Black Woman in the United States that publicly brutalized her son in Baltimore subsequent to the police murder (as in homicide) of Freddie Gray. The young man was protesting “peacefully” because he had a friend recently beaten by police and, as a young Black Man in the United States, was there to represent his anger and frustration at a brutal apartheid system. His jobless mother saw him there, via local news footage, went to the locale and commenced to beat him in his head in front of cameras.
The news media, every pathetic white supremacist one of them, from MSNBC, to CNN, to NBC, to ABC, to CBS, to Fox News praised how “great a mother” she was. In other words, “that’s right! That’s how you keep these nigger men in line!” Joe Scarborough’s pussified personage even had the nerve to say “that is what any good, strong mother would do” as he giggled like the racist bastard he is. I have some words about white boys talking about “strong” Black Women in the United States in a few tics because I have some news for them and have yet to hear one of them use the word “proud” when referencing Black Women in the United States.
Humph (I didn’t miss it).
The “good, strong” mother’s first television appearance was on Fox News. They adored her. Now, let us have a reality check. If I had done that to a child, let alone a European-American one, I would have been charged with felonious child abuse. That misandrist idiot better be glad I am not that boy’s father and I would love to know where his father was/is, but I needn’t but few guesses.
If that young brother required “discipline” it was not to be done in front of a bunch of rednecks with cameras in a public space. He was there because he had been humiliated enough; as had other young men that looked like him and, likely, every man he had ever known that looked like him. Having emphatically stated that fact, I shall now go and vomit whilst you enjoy this commercial break. Because this is about to get intensely for real and if you don’t like what you see in the mirror do yourself a favor and don’t look.
For real.
The Hidden Misandrist His-Story and Legacy of White Women
Over the past few weeks I have received a number of white supremacist communications, which is par for the course that I choose to navigate. However, not only has there been a significant uptick, the origins have come from a disproportionate number of self-identified European-American women. Later in this essay, while maintaining their respective anonymity, I am going to share with you three in particular that exemplify, codify and blatantly expose white arrogance, false supremacy and Anti-Blackist misandry. But first, we must begin with a his-story lesson.
The Women’s KKK and White Racist Females January, 6, 2021
I am willing to bet, if you are a European-American woman (or man), that you have no clue as to who George Stinney was. You don’t want to know and even after I inform you, you will find a way to absolve and deny the reality of your systemic complicity. I once mentioned George Stinney to a very well educated old white woman and she retorted “I just don’t want to hear about this!” Which is why the legacy continues and if you even remotely think I am going to “handle you with kid gloves” you are dumber than you think I thought you were. Because this publication does not exist to appease you or anyone else.
It does not exist to make money, for no Black Man in the United States has ever made a dime telling Europeans about themselves. In fact, his black ass will likely meet with a NHO (Negative Health Outcome) or character assassination. Just ask Nat Turner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Fred Hampton, Mark Clark and countless others.
Yet somehow, European-Americans (including women) that kidnapped, raped, enslaved, brutalized, humiliated and continue to insult ad nauseam those like me are worthy of monuments, streets, universities, airports, cities, and towns named after them. Founding Fathers that were genocidists, slavers, dope dealers and criminals. These same individuals have the audacity and temerity to label me as angry while simultaneously being too self-absorbed to recognize that they present me a binary choice: I can either be angry or retarded. I am neither possessed, bothered nor burdened with the folly that my offender might fall on their sword, have remorse (which statistics and reality clearly indicate no capacity for) nor do any other thing contrary to their nature, except be honest. Oxymoron notwithstanding.
Even life’s worst scoundrel has some modicum of respectability if honest with herself. That I should be an amnesiac, ignorant of my history and theirs (both past and present). That I am to be psychopathically enamored with my antagonist predicated upon them having zero frame of reference of their own behavior, as interpreted by others, is breathtaking. As in “I can’t breathe.”
NHO shit.
George Stinney
In 1944, a 14 year old child named George Stinney stood 5 feet 1 inch and weighed 90 lbs. He lived in a small home with a chicken coop in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina, with his father, mother, brother and two sisters. Georgie’s father worked at the town's sawmill, and the family resided in company housing. Alcolu was a small, working-class mill town, where white and black neighborhoods were separated by railroad tracks (as previously stated, some things never change though they must). The town was typical of small Southern towns. Given segregated schools and churches for white and black residents, there was limited interaction between them.
On March 23, 1944, the bodies of 11 year-old Betty June Binnicker and seven year-old Mary Emma Thames were found in a ditch on the Black Person in the United States’ side of Alcolu after the girls failed to return home the night before. Georgie's father assisted in the search.
June and Mary had been beaten with a weapon, reported as a piece of blunt metal or a railroad spike. Both suffered severe blunt force trauma, resulting in penetration of both girls' skulls. According to a report by the medical examiner, these wounds had been "inflicted by a blunt instrument with a round head, about the size of a hammer." The medical examiner reported no evidence of sexual assault to the younger girl, though the genitalia of the older girl were slightly bruised. Forget the fact that such slight bruising might have been caused by masturbation which 11 year-olds are known to do; let alone some other, more sinister, events occurring within the home.
The girls were last seen riding their bicycles looking for flowers. As they passed the Stinneys' property, they had asked Georgie and his sister, Aimé, if they knew where to find "maypops" (a local name for passionflowers). According to Aimé, she was with Georgie at the time the police later established the murders occurred. According to an article reported by the wire services on March 24, 1944, the sheriff announced the arrest of "George Junius" and stated that the boy had confessed and led officers to "a hidden piece of iron."
The entire proceeding against George Stinney, including jury selection, took place on April 24, 1944. The child’s court-appointed counsel was Charles Plowden, a tax commissioner campaigning for election to local office. Plowden did not challenge the three police officers who testified that Georgie confessed to the two murders, nor did he try to defend the child. He also did not challenge the prosecution's presentation of two differing versions of Georgie's verbal confession.
One version alleges that Georgie was attacked by the girls after he tried to help one girl who had fallen in the ditch, and he killed them in self defense. In another version he had followed the girls, first attacking Mary Emma and then Betty June. There is no written record of the child’s confession apart from Deputy Newman's statement.
Other than the testimony of the three police officers, at trial prosecutors called three witnesses: Reverend Francis Batson, who discovered the bodies of the two girls, and the two doctors who performed the post-mortem examination. The court allowed discussion of the "possibility" of rape due to bruising on Binnicker's genitalia. Georgie's counsel did not call any witnesses, did not cross-examine witnesses, and offered little or no defense. The trial presentation lasted two and a half hours.
More than 1,000 European-Americans crowded the courtroom, but no Black People in the United States were allowed. Little Georgie was tried before an all European-American jury. After deliberating for less than ten minutes, the jury found the child guilty of murder. Judge Philip H. Stoll sentenced Georgie to death by electrocution. To this very day there is no transcript of the trial and no appeal was ever filed by Georgie's counsel.
Less than 65 days after a capital murder trial involving two victims that lasted half-a-day (including voir dire, testimony and sentencing) Georgie was fried to death in the electric chair. He remains the youngest person ever executed in the United States upon adjudication by the state. Between the time of Georgie's arrest and his execution, his parents were allowed to see him once after the trial, when he was held in the Columbia penitentiary. Under the threat of lynching, they were not allowed to see him at any other time.
Georgie was executed on Friday, June 16, 1944, at 7:30 a.m. He was so diminutive in size that the electric chair had to be Frankensteined to accommodate his tiny body. A Bible was used as a booster seat because the child was too small for the chair. He was then restrained by his arms, legs, and body to the chair. An officer asked George if he had any last words to say before the execution took place, but he only shook his head and said "No, sir."
The executioner pulled a strap from the chair and placed it over Georgie's mouth, causing him to break into tears, and he then placed the face mask over his face, which did not fit him. The child continued sobbing. When the lethal electricity was applied, the mask covering slipped off, revealing the boiling tears streaming down Georgie's face. The little boy, Georgie, was buried in an unmarked grave at the Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery in Lee County, South Carolina.
Emmett Till
A dozen years after Georgie was judicially executed, another 14 year-old Black Male Child in the United States would be extrajudicially executed by “two angry white men.” It has never been lost upon me that Europeans seem to have the market cornered on anger. Like everything else in the inversion layer, the anger is righteous no matter the accompanying atrocities: from Angola, to Iraq, to Palestine and Detroit. This phenomenon, in and of itself, is spellbinding but its enchantment is dwarfed by its perversion. I have not quite calculated if the inversion is the perversion or the perversion is the inversion. Feel free to advise if you might, but the very last biped on planet Earth that has “a right” to be angry is its greatest welfare recipient.
You figure it out, and I know you have. The guilty figured it out long ago. Their systems are built upon it. The rhetoric is the rhetoric of illusion. The illusion is to be illusive to others but the magician, the illusionist, faces certain odium when the enthralled audience learns the secret of the trick. Odium is the linguistic sororal twin of the word odor.
Since Emmett’s case is more “famous” than Georgie’s case (which is by no means an accident), I will not go into the same level of detailed facts of the case. What is important are the similarities in both cases and if I need to point them out, I won’t. Nothing sends European-Americans into a rage more than a pale, non-colored woman from the cartoon “Underdog” named Sweet Polly Purebred. White supremacy has no gender-bias nor does it an ethnic one in its purest sense. Incorporate a Black Man residing in the United States into the equation, god forbid some sexual inference (real or imagined), and all is revealed.
As I have observed and elucidated upon in previous dissertations, the most insidious, pervasive and deadly weapon of white supremacy, especially for the Black Person in the United States, is linguistics. If you are Black and male it is supercharged and all need be done is a label applied to you. Common ones are: angry, violent, criminal, misogyny, rape etc. Basically, all the things Europeans have proven to be throughout his-tory (and mine, too). The resultant smog of the inversion layer.
I once heard a European-American male political pundit reference the Emmett Till murder. I am certain that he would not consider himself a “racist” and genuinely spoke of the injustice of the horrific act. He mentioned the historical significance of Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, demanding that the child’s casket remain open so that the world could see what was done to him (and it was beyond description). When the pundit recalled Mamie’s name (as in Mamie Eisenhower) he said I think her name was “Mammy.” If one is trained to observe, especially to listen, the European always tells the tale despite attempted slight of linguistic and optical hand. That tub stands on its own.
Tyrone Clark: White Women Misandry, Misogyny and Rape
The ultimate misogynistic act is rape and I do not think anyone with a tenth of a brain would argue the fact. However, misogyny and misandry can be perpetrated by men and women alike. European-American women, for whatever reasons, are never held accountable for either which is not accidental though they are the first to holler “misogyny.”
There are many ways to take a man’s life without, necessarily, cutting off his air supply. Tyrone Clark is a prime example of an assassination that has occurred thousands of times in the United States, and continues to. His body lives on, but his life was taken. He was 19 when he was sentenced to life in prison.
In 1973, a European-American female by the name of Anne Kane from Massachusetts was the victim of a sexual assault. Kane says she told detectives when she first saw Clark in court that he didn't look like her attacker, but they dismissed her concerns. In recent years, she sent letters to the parole board and the court detailing these doubts.
Clarke denied having committed the assault from the outset, but the state didn't preserve key evidence that would help Clark prove his innocence. Nearly 4,000 people across the nation have been exonerated of their crimes since 1989, about 28% involving mistaken identification. That's according to the National Registry of Exonerations that finds Black men are disproportionately misidentified in rape cases involving white women.
After almost a half-century in prison, Mr. Clark’s sexual assault conviction was overturned. The parts of his life where he may have married, had children (most importantly) and all of the other events that occur in our 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and 50’s were taken from him. The nature of genocide, in the final analysis (or solution) is to cull the herd. To eliminate offspring. Anyone familiar with deer hunting knows that it is generally the “bucks” of which it is open season. Big black ones.
When a young Black Man in the United States is given a life sentence at 18, 19, 20, 25 years-old, it is not just he that has been eliminated, it is the elimination of dozens like him. He has not yet reproduced, so the three non-existent children he may have had will not reproduce three children of their own. A dozen Black People obliterated in one fell swoop.
An Important Anecdotal Notification
By way of background, and I shall reiterate, all three of my children are Black Women in the United States. All three are absolutely gorgeous women and that is not my subjective assessment, albeit a jaundiced one. They are proud, “strong” intelligent women and all of them have had issues with European-American women. Oddly enough, the youngest had a European-American female from whose womb she emerged that referred to my child as a “fucking nigger.” The European-American female was no scrub on the outside, worked for a major airline and regularly shopped at Nordstrom’s. My salary was three times hers. Ergo, premature cognitive ejaculations and stereotypes will prove perilous and I suggest one steer clear of such penchants and instincts.
I raised my baby, from birth, alone and as I sought annulment a judge asked the recalcitrant woman why she would “refer to an infant like that.” Her response was “because I knew it would make him mad” (meaning me). She would, subsequently, almost kill my child when a racist judge lifted her supervised visitation because he found me “arrogant.” He sacrificed my child to teach my black ass a lesson, but that was a tactical error as he soon realized…and will continue to.
Indeed, a book is forthcoming and a bunch of people in very high places are going to be exposed. Some of whom are likely dead, but most of whom still foul the Earth with the stench of their existence. I dare not mention that the woman to whom I was “married” for the sake of my child had carried on an affair with a California Superior Court Judge. My annulment was granted and, if you buy the book upon release, you will hear what that presiding judge had to say about the woman.
My baby has just graduated with a Masters Degree from one one of the nation’s top private universities and I will be, literally and figuratively, paying for it the rest of my life. You see, I’m the nigger you don’t hear about unless it suits your narrative. Let us continue.
White Women’s “Rights” and False Equivalency
The modus operandi of the inversion layer is to make false equivalencies as part of the smog. For instance, white women (and men) will make statements that infer that the “suffrage” of white women is somehow the same as the still-being-litigated voting rights of Black People in the United States. That being gay is equivalent to being Black (let alone Black and gay). That European-Jews face the same vitriolic racism that Black People in the United States do, etc. There is no other word to describe that aside from bullshit, but it is intentional bullshit.
While a white woman, for a time, was unable to vote in certain venues, she absolutely had the right to slaves. Often being given a slave as a “gift” before she could walk. Think about that for a spell. When Daddy George Washington married Martha he had about 18 slaves, she had almost five times as many and, you’d best believe, that “wealth” played a part in the nuptials.
In a rather strange juxtaposition, the white woman’s lack of “rights” and resultant subservience often made her the most brutal of slavers. This brutality included the, disfigurement, torture, sexual exploitation and rape of Black Men. That is the truth, though an inconvenient one.
In my mind’s eye, The Third Eye, I can just see white women (and men) with eyes glazed over stating exactly the same thing that old librarian said to me when I tried to educate her about her own history (George Stinney). “I just don’t want to hear about this!” And I don’t want to live it. Neither did my ancestors, nor do my children you arrogant, entitled cuss.
White folks need to own their shit and just impress the hell out of me by doing so.
Earlier in this somewhat lengthy disquisition, I mentioned three recent comments directed to me by European-American women. The comments are not disquieting. They are not surprising or unexpected. They are not even offensive. They are implausible, illogical, confusing and potentially psychotic. I will start with “Dena.”
“Dena” (my response follows)
"We have a winner in Joe Biden. We have been betrayed by the Republicans, the House, the freaking Supreme Court, the DOJ, the Trump judges, and now the Democrats. We have to save ourselves, the Nation, the Democratic Party, the courts, the Supreme Court, AND THE WOMEN. The voters. We’re all that’s left. The dim, shortsighted, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, want to change canoes in the middle of NIAGARA FALLS. Check with the voters. WE’RE PISSED OFF. We want unity, resolve, and we want to defeat Trump.
So what if he has a stroke fulfilling his life’s mission. We have VP Kamala Harris! Win-win!
What is wrong with old white men? They turn timid, traditional, frightened little boys. You too?!?! Grow a pair of ovaries!
Biden has been rated the best, most progressive president since FDR. Do you think he’s lost his mo-jo? You think he can’t pass the ERA? A permanent ROE? Voting rights? We need the Senate and the House and Biden. Not mutiny on the winning team. Break it with your intellectual, elite, 51% namby-pamby pundits and check out the 47% forgotten. We are rallying behind our guy. We are the voters. We rule. We save the day. Now get on board or go vote for Jill stein. "
My Response
“Excuse me, Massa, who the hell are "WE" and I don't appreciate your maternalistic, white supremacist ass telling me to vote for a M.F. that eulogized an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, referred to my people as Predators Beyond the PALE and, just four years ago in the midst of the George Floyd murder courted, and received votes from, Black People in the United States promising to enact "police reform" only to screw them in the end. When your old, white ass votes for a Black Man in the United States that has done the same things in reverse get back to me. And while you talk that “the women” garbage check this mate: White Female Oppression of Black Women and Men
WTF do you mean by saying to a Black Man 'what is wrong with old white men?' Then you add ferocious insult to injury by referencing, to a Black Man, little BOYS. Lastly, Lassie, I don't need any ovaries because I have a dick, a great big humongous black one that I can tie in a knot. Additionally, I have been through things in my life that would make you piss, shit and puke all over thyself. Not the stuff of "little BOYS. Now, I have unsubscribed you and stay the eff off of my site."
There were several others that actually were so threatening they were forwarded to the appropriate places.
“Diane”
A few days ago, “Diane” said to me: “why don’t you lighten-up, Mr. Kenyatta! Black people aren’t the only ones that have had it hard and we don’t have to walk on eggshells around you! What about women!”
I will refrain from commenting on a European-American telling me to “lighten up” for a plethora of reasons, moronic nature of the statement notwithstanding. Unlike Dena, I did not respond to Diane (who was a paying subscriber, by the way). I issued a refund and happily unsubscribed her. She needs to save that money for her meds.
This is no money making venture for me in the first place and I will never relinquish that kind of editorial power. I have thousands of followers and subscribers and they read my work because they are genuinely interested in it. If they choose to monetarily support it fine, but this publication, with the exception of special features (podcasts, exclusives) will always be free. My payment is the humility that comes with the awesomeness of knowing that there are people that care about my work. As I have stated before: I am not a voice for the voiceless, I am ears for the deaf.
“M.J.”
Two weeks ago, a woman named M.J. contacted the Thom Hartmann Program and indicted me for misogyny “Can I mention one more thing? Misogyny still exists in our country by the fact that people are criticizing Kamala for not wearing a dress versus pantsuits. They said why does every woman that runs for president has to wear a pantsuit? Hartmann interrupts and says “who is making that criticism? and “the woman” replies I like Roan Kenyatta, I like him, but in his newsletter this morning he said I really like women in dresses and he goes my question is why do women who are running for president still have to wear pantsuits. I’d like him to understand how that is sooo misogynistic.”
Now, in full disclosure Thom Hartmann has been very supportive of my work as a writer. We do not share any manner of political unithink, for I have no politics and despise the political system across the board. I am a dissident; spell it d-i-s-s-i-d-e-n-t and we could not possibly come from more disparate backgrounds while, simultaneously, having a great deal in common. He is a white man a dozen years my senior that hails from the upper Midwest that can remember Jim Crow. I was born in the 60’s after Jim Crow and grew up in Los Angeles. Before admonishment I am fully aware that Jim Crow, in many ways, still exists. It always will until it doesn’t.
Our mutual respect is strictly as intellectuals and writers which says a whole lot. And though he will scoff at my mentioning it, he has been instrumental in encouraging me as a writer and unique talent. By no means am I elevating him because my talent, my ability and my style are my own as are my life experiences from which they are resultant. The fact that I cause him to wince on a regular basis and get more trolling than he normally gets is testimony to his character and intellectual prowess.
The one thing I despise most in anyone is cowardice. Identify, to me, the worst people in the world: child abusers, animal abusers, gang members and bullies and I will show you a coward. M.J. called into Thom’s program and flat out lied and she did it when I was unable to defend myself. Typical white supremacy and privilege afoot.
What she did is no different than what was done to Clark, Stinney or Till. First of all, she ought not had shown her phonetic ignorance to the world because my first name is not “Roan” it is “Rohn.” When you see J-O-H-N you say John. Why, in her clearly inferior schooling, did a different consonant screw her up so terribly?
The article that she was referring to is hardly misogynistic. What is misogynistic about saying I love to see a woman in a dress (and I received comments from a number of women who appreciated the compliment as it was meant)? She told an untruth saying that I singled out Kamala Harris. I did not, and I will provide a link to the article.
I do intend to “single out” Kamala on a number of things in the near future way more significant than her apparel. In fact, in the article I state about dresses: “Hell, I’d wear one if I thought I could pull it off (so to speak).” But this is the type of crap white women do and they do it because the know they will not be challenged and get away with it. As promised I am including the link to the article (embedded as Lying M.J.) as well as bonus audio from Mr. Hartmann’s 8/12/2024 program. M.J starts her misandrist, white supremacist mischaracterizations at 4:50 on the meter which appears below the article link. Lying M.J.
I make no excuses for being a heterosexual Black Man in the United States and am as proud and “strong” as any man walking planet Earth. I have earned my stripes (brass, too). So while, Dena, Diane and M.J. talk that shit, I want them and every other European-American man and woman to tell me where is your outrage at the following two incidences of misogyny?
The “misogynist” is who?
Now, look at how the European-American female conducts herself and how she is treated. You folks better hope like hell there is no justice, nor God in the world. Because, if so, hell is overflowing. And I’ll be breathing on you again sooner than you care for me to.
...everytime I plant a seed, he said kill them before they grow...
of course the outcome for blacks in America is not the same....comparison are futile...but how else do you make people aware that prejudices of all kinds have a common root... feelings of inferiority placed upon any individual creates a need to feel superior, man over woman, protestant over jew, white over black...the feeling of inferiority that created the need for prejudice is the same...
but the consequences for those considered "black" have been more severe. Patriarchy was invented (I believe) by men not selected to be mates; the E-U's conquest of the world of the world was because they had been left so unenlightened they could overcome their feeling only by attempting to make the more culturally enlightened succumb to their "superiority.
Witness the oh so enlightened John Locke telling all of his E-A compatriots that everyone had an inviolable right to their own property and that was the point of the social contract, but those unenlightened Natives (extend to rest of world) in America had no right to their property because they didn't understand they owned their property so it wasn't really their property, so in essence, that made not only their property, but their selves becoming subject to being property.
Well now they are "enlightened, you say you made more money that E-A women who criticized, how very enlightened you have become, what the hell does that matter? That you are not as much property as George Stinney? No you are not saying that anymore than I am offended when people tell me I'm dumb because I dropped out of high school and can't possibly know as much as the educated .
I did graduate from college, I researched, and in one instance entirely wrote 7 PHD theses. I have over 400 hours of non-credited post-grad credits I didn't choose to pursue as a post-grad degree.
But the PHD doesn't become superior just because they have a PHD if they only pursued it to be superior out of feelings of inferiority.
So (I believe) the desire to be superior is rooted in the same inferiority.
But the development of the actions against "black" Americans (since you reverted to the word in your post) is not based on any sensibility in its veniality but on an entire educational culture based on factless maintenance of stereotypes that attempt to reinforce those stereotypes by continually to the other side of the tracks without any way, no matter their income, their status, their education onto the other side of the tracks, because that educational culture of America is so afraid of the truth that all of their facts are not true. And so, even the "unprejudiced" E-A's become imbibed into the culture they are trying to rebuke (including myself). So the Thom Hartman's can rebuke other whites for their prejudice but they (we, I) can't experience the situation that place George Stinney and the very cultured John Coltrane as anything but the same negation of their humanity as if all blacks are a singular piece of fabric.
Women can own slaves; Jews can own slaves; even Cherokees owned slaves. But the owner is always owned by what he owns and that I'd what the E-A can't abide and so he places the black American into a life-experience attempting to negate that his attempt to own black-Americans as forced him into a dependency on black-Americans.
So of course the experience cannot be akin to other prejudices, because it is a prejudice born of attempting to negate not just one's complex of inferiority, but an attempt to deny the E-A's survived and only continue to survive in this nation by "educating" themselves into ignorance because of that dependency of existence, which being dependent upon, means being lesser than, and attempting to fool themselves into a mastership that treats George Stinney's life and John Coltrane's talent as not something upon which every E-A is dependent and could not survive without.
Thank you for an education beyond any I’ve experienced in all my many years. Having attended all-white schools and lived with the white and black water fountains and restrooms, I have many unpleasant memories. I believed that my knowledge of the intense cruelty and disgustingness of slavery was extensive, but I was wrong. My knowledge of the extraordinary depth of our cruelty to support our self-interest fell quite short.
The videos were also educational. A strong mother? Beating up your son during a protest in public. Certainly, other words would be more appropriate. Perhaps abusive.
And the cop goes far beyond the job of subduing someone violating the law. How about handcuffing instead of trying to beat her to death? Then, seeing the video you have to investigate to realize that this man can’t be a peace officer. Perhaps it doesn’t count unless the victim dies.
I’m embarrassed to admit I’ve never heard of George Stinney even knowing about the hundreds, probably thousands of lynchings that we choose to just put behind us. Perhaps I didn’t learn about him because of attending all-white schools, but even the mixing of schools has changed nothing.
Many believe that things are changing, and that they will change. I’m not among those. I dislike repeating myself, but change and forgiveness is not within my realm until a vast majority of us can own our shit. Until then, change is a fantasy.