I love everything you say, because it is TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!!! Please keep telling the truth. I always share your post on all of my social media accounts to reach as many people possible.
I suppose, but, alas, the dirt can not be washed off for as Dr. George Clinton of Parliament-Funkadelic so aptly stated: "Once you're funky, you're always funky."
And it is not our dirt and funk that I speak to because we bathed regularly in Alkebulan; not so much in Europa. I've stretched the metaphor quite enough and you are a sharp enough bloke to connect the dots of my sarcasm.
Had already smoked my quota of weed 40 years ago, thanks no thanks. No longer having to pretend I liked being high was among the very few real perks of middle age.
You are saying I will need to get smoked in order to forget what you just told me about Brokeback Murca, but I’m 68. All I have to do is walk into another room and try to remember what you said. Okay, true, I was already like that at 30. Probably the stupid dope.
So you like Sam Clemens? Huh. You are quite the different animal, my friend. Clemens induces foaming fits in all my other radical acquaintance.
I always felt that those who cannot bring themselves to read Clemens deny themselves the 19th century’s most effective anti-racism works.
"Mark" was no less than absitively, posilutely brilliant. His mind was more scalpel than tissue or muscle: a wordsmith's wordsmith. That having been said, he was quite the racist himself.
As for weed, not my thing though I smoked my share of it in college. I don't dig the cloudiness of wit. Besides, 'tis distressing enough that I live among stupid people, no need for me to be stupefied along with. My Coors Light diet provides me adequate escapism.
I mentioned the joint because I knew a lot of European-Amerikans were going to need one subsequent to cognitive digestion of the material presented. Being the sharpie that you are you deduced admirably. The fact that I mention Baldwin's Fire along with Smitty ("you're fired!") was either satanic cleverness or serendipity.
I am an old white woman. I didn't understand what you meant until I made friends with a woman who was a Lakota Sioux. Then I moved into a predominantly black neighborhood. I grew up as less than. But I see that I had it so much better than my friends. I'm so sorry for the baked in racism. I trust my black and Native friends more than most whites. Keep telling the truth!
OMG! What an absolute honor. Bill is a national treasure and he absolutely raves about you to the point where I feel I know you both even though we have never met. I affectionately call the two of you "BBBB." Whether you know it I have learned a great deal from BOTH of you, as I have read your writings and what B.B. has taught me about publishing is priceless.
We hope to come to LA soon. Our granddaughter lives there. However, we're hesitant about flying. Currently looking into train travel. Don't be surprised if we show up on your doorstep with a fine bottle of wine.Well, fine is debatable. It will be few steps above the college Boonsfarm wine.
The very first alcoholic beverage to ever sully my "fine" palate, at the tender age of 18, was "Boon's Farm Apple Wine." I was a junior in college at the time. It would be 5 years before I drank another alcoholic beverage (Boodles and tonic) for I saw the light.
And I made up for lost time.
We will connect, one way or another as B.B. figures into my writing/publishing matrix.
Angela Davis called the city that I’m from, Bombingham. Because so many people like my civil rights activist uncle had to check their car everyday for bombs.
I enjoy listening to her speeches. Unfortunately we are going into an internet age where it’s not a few people with bombs. It’s the government with unbridled technology.
policing and incarceration are the necessary enforcement of corporate capitalism or corporate government that must enforce its theft of the liberties and wealth of others.
Hobbes confused this enforcement policy as a necessary sacrifice of rational people because they recognized they lacked self-control and would steal each other's possessions and so they willingly asked for policing to protect themselves from their terrible natures.
Locke was more to Americans’ liking and greatly influenced "the design" of the American "revolutionaries."
Now Locke is sometimes thought to be walking away from Hobbes, but actually he creates an even greater need for policing because he recognizes that it's not an innate evilness in man but the move of some men to fence off portions of the world to become personal property. Locke called this "developing" the land so that it could "belong" to the developer. But if the land was "communal" and since there was little unproperterized land in Europe, Locke references native Americans and says since they didn't 'claim' ownership of land, they therefore had not developed an interest in the land, their land was legally available for appropriation.
Similarly, Locke is noted as a proponent of individual liberty, however, individual liberty could be achieved if one had the wherewithal to take another's liberty from him then he could justifiably enslave him. What is lost in the contemporary dialogue about Locke is that what he actually wrote was that one could legitimately overthrow a government and enslave the defeated and take their properties and lives as one's own. He apparently also thought one could grab others outside the "just" war and enslave them as well as he was a large investor in slave trading companies.
And Locke, who also "fathers" many libertarian anti-govt proponents, who then goes on to say we could get rid of taxes and get rid of govt and just structure private police forces to protect property...
Now we have total chaos and rational men would create an overlord, hey, Hobbes.
I tell these anarcho-libertarians this and they say no. no, since the individual will own his police (ala the Roman general)...
So absolutely Ms. Davis is correct, the state of the contract is functioning exactly as designed...but then part of that design is to ignore the parts of Locke that point out that liberty was won not just by "overthrowing" the tyrant, but enslaving him and seizing his assets...and so of course "Smitty" was born four hundred years ago in the tyranny of social contracts that justified the properterizing of people and goods.
And from there of course you only need to read Charles Mills scathing (and exposure) of the entire contract fraud.
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I never met Ms. Davis. My friend and I had gone to San Francisco to support George Jackson on Aug 7 (1970) and were only on the steps of the courthouse (with many others); not having been permitted to enter when we heard about the shooting inside the courthouse, at least that was the rumour as we were being driven away from the courthouse steps. I'm sure that you are aware, Mr. Kenyatta, that there is a persistent misconception that Angela Davis brought guns into the courthouse and was somehow involved in the shooting. She was not there at all. Some of the guns were registered in her name, that was her crime. I believe I saw a movie or something where she leads the protestors into the courthouse with semi-automatic in hand...the plan was actually to free Jackson (& others) as they were being brought into the courtroom, not in the middle of a trial.
And while we were gathered outside the courtroom in support of George Jackson; he & others were in prison already and were being recharged for killing a white prison guard which many thought a set-up and it was this protest we had joined although another Panther, or more than one, were actually being tried.
There had been ongoing protests to free Jackson (and two others, known as Soledad Three) and when my friend heard about the next trial, she had asked me to fly with her from Chicago to join in the protests.
Perhaps our presence was mere circumstance, but I took an interest (and already had an interest in the Jackson case, feeling he had been railroaded entirely) and so I obtained a transcript of the Davis trial...despite all the headlines claiming she had engineered the whole thing. I believe she was not granted a bond and the trial was not over until 1972, but she was never convicted of anything, although she did admit that she had a gun collection and that at least one gun had been registered to her.
And I guess there is probably no better example of everything you write about... the panthers said black people in America had the right to defend their lives and beginning with George Jackson trying to defend himself the government was hell-bent that was not a right black Americans had; or ever had. Okay we'll give them the vote, but to let them defend their lives...no...not then, not in the past...not yet
I love everything you say, because it is TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!!! Please keep telling the truth. I always share your post on all of my social media accounts to reach as many people possible.
I keep a running total of the "best comments ever."
Consider yourself inducted.
White supremacy is kinda like doing laundry, separate colors & whites, rinse and repeat! ~ until desired wash is achieved!
I suppose, but, alas, the dirt can not be washed off for as Dr. George Clinton of Parliament-Funkadelic so aptly stated: "Once you're funky, you're always funky."
And it is not our dirt and funk that I speak to because we bathed regularly in Alkebulan; not so much in Europa. I've stretched the metaphor quite enough and you are a sharp enough bloke to connect the dots of my sarcasm.
Affirmative my bloke, the SCOTUS decision today! Quite applicable to the "laundry" analogy though. (I'll digress)🙃
👌
Had already smoked my quota of weed 40 years ago, thanks no thanks. No longer having to pretend I liked being high was among the very few real perks of middle age.
You are saying I will need to get smoked in order to forget what you just told me about Brokeback Murca, but I’m 68. All I have to do is walk into another room and try to remember what you said. Okay, true, I was already like that at 30. Probably the stupid dope.
So you like Sam Clemens? Huh. You are quite the different animal, my friend. Clemens induces foaming fits in all my other radical acquaintance.
I always felt that those who cannot bring themselves to read Clemens deny themselves the 19th century’s most effective anti-racism works.
"Mark" was no less than absitively, posilutely brilliant. His mind was more scalpel than tissue or muscle: a wordsmith's wordsmith. That having been said, he was quite the racist himself.
As for weed, not my thing though I smoked my share of it in college. I don't dig the cloudiness of wit. Besides, 'tis distressing enough that I live among stupid people, no need for me to be stupefied along with. My Coors Light diet provides me adequate escapism.
I mentioned the joint because I knew a lot of European-Amerikans were going to need one subsequent to cognitive digestion of the material presented. Being the sharpie that you are you deduced admirably. The fact that I mention Baldwin's Fire along with Smitty ("you're fired!") was either satanic cleverness or serendipity.
Dippity-do?
I am an old white woman. I didn't understand what you meant until I made friends with a woman who was a Lakota Sioux. Then I moved into a predominantly black neighborhood. I grew up as less than. But I see that I had it so much better than my friends. I'm so sorry for the baked in racism. I trust my black and Native friends more than most whites. Keep telling the truth!
I've no choice, for 'tis my curse.
Thank you for your readership and intellectual prowess.
I love your knowledge and your ability to articulate so clearly. So grateful Bill Benitez, my husband, introduced your articles to me.
OMG! What an absolute honor. Bill is a national treasure and he absolutely raves about you to the point where I feel I know you both even though we have never met. I affectionately call the two of you "BBBB." Whether you know it I have learned a great deal from BOTH of you, as I have read your writings and what B.B. has taught me about publishing is priceless.
We hope to come to LA soon. Our granddaughter lives there. However, we're hesitant about flying. Currently looking into train travel. Don't be surprised if we show up on your doorstep with a fine bottle of wine.Well, fine is debatable. It will be few steps above the college Boonsfarm wine.
The very first alcoholic beverage to ever sully my "fine" palate, at the tender age of 18, was "Boon's Farm Apple Wine." I was a junior in college at the time. It would be 5 years before I drank another alcoholic beverage (Boodles and tonic) for I saw the light.
And I made up for lost time.
We will connect, one way or another as B.B. figures into my writing/publishing matrix.
Angela Davis called the city that I’m from, Bombingham. Because so many people like my civil rights activist uncle had to check their car everyday for bombs.
I enjoy listening to her speeches. Unfortunately we are going into an internet age where it’s not a few people with bombs. It’s the government with unbridled technology.
and a lot of bombs that unbridled technology has at its beck and call.
policing and incarceration are the necessary enforcement of corporate capitalism or corporate government that must enforce its theft of the liberties and wealth of others.
Hobbes confused this enforcement policy as a necessary sacrifice of rational people because they recognized they lacked self-control and would steal each other's possessions and so they willingly asked for policing to protect themselves from their terrible natures.
Locke was more to Americans’ liking and greatly influenced "the design" of the American "revolutionaries."
Now Locke is sometimes thought to be walking away from Hobbes, but actually he creates an even greater need for policing because he recognizes that it's not an innate evilness in man but the move of some men to fence off portions of the world to become personal property. Locke called this "developing" the land so that it could "belong" to the developer. But if the land was "communal" and since there was little unproperterized land in Europe, Locke references native Americans and says since they didn't 'claim' ownership of land, they therefore had not developed an interest in the land, their land was legally available for appropriation.
Similarly, Locke is noted as a proponent of individual liberty, however, individual liberty could be achieved if one had the wherewithal to take another's liberty from him then he could justifiably enslave him. What is lost in the contemporary dialogue about Locke is that what he actually wrote was that one could legitimately overthrow a government and enslave the defeated and take their properties and lives as one's own. He apparently also thought one could grab others outside the "just" war and enslave them as well as he was a large investor in slave trading companies.
And Locke, who also "fathers" many libertarian anti-govt proponents, who then goes on to say we could get rid of taxes and get rid of govt and just structure private police forces to protect property...
Now we have total chaos and rational men would create an overlord, hey, Hobbes.
I tell these anarcho-libertarians this and they say no. no, since the individual will own his police (ala the Roman general)...
So absolutely Ms. Davis is correct, the state of the contract is functioning exactly as designed...but then part of that design is to ignore the parts of Locke that point out that liberty was won not just by "overthrowing" the tyrant, but enslaving him and seizing his assets...and so of course "Smitty" was born four hundred years ago in the tyranny of social contracts that justified the properterizing of people and goods.
And from there of course you only need to read Charles Mills scathing (and exposure) of the entire contract fraud.
---
I never met Ms. Davis. My friend and I had gone to San Francisco to support George Jackson on Aug 7 (1970) and were only on the steps of the courthouse (with many others); not having been permitted to enter when we heard about the shooting inside the courthouse, at least that was the rumour as we were being driven away from the courthouse steps. I'm sure that you are aware, Mr. Kenyatta, that there is a persistent misconception that Angela Davis brought guns into the courthouse and was somehow involved in the shooting. She was not there at all. Some of the guns were registered in her name, that was her crime. I believe I saw a movie or something where she leads the protestors into the courthouse with semi-automatic in hand...the plan was actually to free Jackson (& others) as they were being brought into the courtroom, not in the middle of a trial.
And while we were gathered outside the courtroom in support of George Jackson; he & others were in prison already and were being recharged for killing a white prison guard which many thought a set-up and it was this protest we had joined although another Panther, or more than one, were actually being tried.
There had been ongoing protests to free Jackson (and two others, known as Soledad Three) and when my friend heard about the next trial, she had asked me to fly with her from Chicago to join in the protests.
Perhaps our presence was mere circumstance, but I took an interest (and already had an interest in the Jackson case, feeling he had been railroaded entirely) and so I obtained a transcript of the Davis trial...despite all the headlines claiming she had engineered the whole thing. I believe she was not granted a bond and the trial was not over until 1972, but she was never convicted of anything, although she did admit that she had a gun collection and that at least one gun had been registered to her.
And I guess there is probably no better example of everything you write about... the panthers said black people in America had the right to defend their lives and beginning with George Jackson trying to defend himself the government was hell-bent that was not a right black Americans had; or ever had. Okay we'll give them the vote, but to let them defend their lives...no...not then, not in the past...not yet