The more I read your article's, I receive a better understanding of the world in which we toil. Especially, looking at it though your eyes. I'll never fully understand what it's like to be black, Rohn, but the word Rage comes to mind. I've come to both respect and admire you, for you have great wisdoms and grace. Blessings, my friend.
I appreciate that Ms. Scofield. However, perhaps a Black mind far greater than my measly one encapsulates your observation, and our reality, with articulation and eloquence that I woefully lack. James Baldwin described the experience of being Black AND CONSCIOUS in Amerika as being in a "constant state of rage." Specifically he wrote: "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost, almost all of the time—and in one’s work. And part of the rage is this: It isn’t only what is happening to you. But it’s what’s happening all around you and all of the time in the face of the most extraordinary and criminal indifference, indifference of most White people in this country, and their ignorance.”
Two of the most insipid questions that I regularly get from European-Amerikans are " So, what do you want, Kenyatta? AND: So, what is your solution? Typically, I don't answer such inane queries that are less authentic intellectual pursuits than they are pathetic ploys to put the Black Person in the United States on defense (something the European has made a science of). Plus whenever whitey starts a question with the word "so" I know I'm about to get urinated on by a skunk and getting into pissing contests with skunks is tactically deficient.
Of course, I have an answer to these interrogatories based in idiocy, but I rarely disclose them for I prefer to let my nemesis marinate in mindlessness. That having been stated, in the next Yo White Boy, volume (11) I will answer both. As always, your readership and support keep me responsibly responsible.
Inasmuch as I've had good reasons to feel very intense dislike, I had no problem with the dictionary definition of hate. But the way people used the word 'hate' suggested it meant something I'd never felt. Eventually, I finally connected some dots.
As school children Americans are trained to think in bifurcated terms (e.g. right or wrong, good or bad, black or white, us vs them, etc.). When grades, acceptance, punishments etc. are predicated on placing everything in the correct column kids learn to do it quickly. And the only way to think quickly, is to think thoughtlessly. In other words, do not think at all, just memorize and repeat, or follow the leader. After a while, kids feel uncomfortable, wrong, even frightened if they find themselves thinking unregulated thoughts. As a result, Americans spend their lives afraid to even read the work of a foreigner.
Bifurcated thinking limits our individual ability to cope with a planet as large and complex as earth, let alone its 8-Billion human inhabitants. Instead of expanding our world our minds are trapped in prisons made of nothing - but willful ignorance and its companion, indifference.
"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison" and "a mind enclosed in language is in prison." You are such a wonderfully intelligent person. And you wear it quite well.
I know I may have said this before, but my readers are truly my family, though I get some pretty rough stuff in terms of threats and commentary. Whenever I am validated by really smart people that have history of being same, I become somewhat whole again. Think of the proverbial "hole in the wall."
Instead of genes, I think the difference in people's brain-power is rooted in courage, curiosity, and creativity. I have known a lot of people with high IQs, but I have never known anyone with a high IQ who had all three qualities/attributes who was also personally successful. Even more interesting, at least to me, the people I've known with both exceptionally high IQs and courage, curiosity and creativity had rejected wealth in order to pursue some grand passion (magnificent obsession). Inasmuch as I've also known several successful people who had courage, curiosity and creativity and low IQs, I do not think IQ is part of this particular equation.
Naturally, I want to know where courage, curiosity and creativity come from? Are they one in the same thing, linked in some way, or entirely separate attributes? Is it possible that courage, curiosity and creativity are linked to an addictive, or obsessive gene? Does courage, curiosity and creativity make the brain feel so high, energized, and good, it seeks them out in the environment, and tries to reproduce them?
We keep talking about robots as though the majority of the American population were not already robots, demonstrating AI in action.
Our society prizes repetition so highly we RE-produce everything from our clothes, to our homes, hairstyles, language, laugh. And we punish the manifestations of courage, curiosity and creativity. Is this cultural value system explain the high rate of substance abuse in our society? IOW, are our social values starving our brains by cutting off the kinds of experience that powers the human brain?
"Of the nine justices on the U.S. supreme court (the branch that, arguably, runs the country), 85 percent of “Americans” cannot name three of them and two-thirds of them cannot name a single one. "
I tried this right after I read it, Rohn—and without looking it up (which 85% of "Americans", at a guess, ALSO won't do!), I came up with—Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch...and while typing this John Roberts, Brent Kavanaugh, and Samuel Alito popped into my head. What's frightening is that it's the Supreme Court (in)Justices whose names I remember—but without looking them up, I couldn't tell you who the "liberal" Justices were.
They're Sonia Sotomeyer, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson—yes, I looked them up. Google Is Your Friend—well, not really, but it's worth reminding people that most of them have a device on their persons where they could easily find the answer to most basic questions. As my ex-wife liked to say, "If only there were a device by which you could find the answer to that...." while looking it up on her iPhone.
" I also dislike collard greens (I am sure to the surprise of many) and I refuse to eat them, ever, for I tend to not like foods that result in an olfactory assault."
Well, collard greens are spinach's nasty cousin! Even Popeye won't eat them.... At a guess, I'd say you "hate" collard greens (possibly for their racial connotations, or just because they taste REAL unpleasant!).
I know none of this is addressing the core of your argument, which I'm still processing. I feel like there's something in there I don't entirely agree with—it's either "retribution is not hate" or the Stieg Larsson quote at the end—and I can't articulate what it is or why. As I think you deserve more of an answer than "Nope, you're wrong" or my being snarky about it, I'm just going to have to say "Can I get back to you on that...?" for now....
I'll take the bait for shitz and giggles. Please, enlighten me to what "the truth" is. I mean, thrill me. Because for any European-Amerikan to espouse "truth" to ME is beyond comedic and brutal insult; it is arrogantly disrespectful (no surprise) and exhibitive of not only white supremacist thought, but low intelligence. Further, be careful about coming onto this thread and insulting the author.
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Further, I did not use the word “threat” white girl. I asked you to explain "the truth" which, clearly, you were incapable of doing and, instead, launched into typical European-Amerikan linguistic subterfuge. Problem is: you are way, way out of your league. Your supremacist arrogance allows you the folly of thinking you can not only mischaracterize my words, but also control the narrative. You'd best look at the title of this publication again. This is MY narrative and you don’t control it.
And no, you get no "break." As for "thin skin?" I have experienced things in my life, verifiable, that would make you piss, shit and puke all over your pale behind. Further, just like eye color or hair texture, skin thickness is influenced by genes. SOME individuals are genetically predisposed to having thicker skin, while others may have naturally thinner skin. Racial and ethnic differences: Skin thickness can vary between different populations due to genetic differences, according to ScienceDirect.com.
The more I read your article's, I receive a better understanding of the world in which we toil. Especially, looking at it though your eyes. I'll never fully understand what it's like to be black, Rohn, but the word Rage comes to mind. I've come to both respect and admire you, for you have great wisdoms and grace. Blessings, my friend.
I appreciate that Ms. Scofield. However, perhaps a Black mind far greater than my measly one encapsulates your observation, and our reality, with articulation and eloquence that I woefully lack. James Baldwin described the experience of being Black AND CONSCIOUS in Amerika as being in a "constant state of rage." Specifically he wrote: "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost, almost all of the time—and in one’s work. And part of the rage is this: It isn’t only what is happening to you. But it’s what’s happening all around you and all of the time in the face of the most extraordinary and criminal indifference, indifference of most White people in this country, and their ignorance.”
Two of the most insipid questions that I regularly get from European-Amerikans are " So, what do you want, Kenyatta? AND: So, what is your solution? Typically, I don't answer such inane queries that are less authentic intellectual pursuits than they are pathetic ploys to put the Black Person in the United States on defense (something the European has made a science of). Plus whenever whitey starts a question with the word "so" I know I'm about to get urinated on by a skunk and getting into pissing contests with skunks is tactically deficient.
Of course, I have an answer to these interrogatories based in idiocy, but I rarely disclose them for I prefer to let my nemesis marinate in mindlessness. That having been stated, in the next Yo White Boy, volume (11) I will answer both. As always, your readership and support keep me responsibly responsible.
Inasmuch as I've had good reasons to feel very intense dislike, I had no problem with the dictionary definition of hate. But the way people used the word 'hate' suggested it meant something I'd never felt. Eventually, I finally connected some dots.
As school children Americans are trained to think in bifurcated terms (e.g. right or wrong, good or bad, black or white, us vs them, etc.). When grades, acceptance, punishments etc. are predicated on placing everything in the correct column kids learn to do it quickly. And the only way to think quickly, is to think thoughtlessly. In other words, do not think at all, just memorize and repeat, or follow the leader. After a while, kids feel uncomfortable, wrong, even frightened if they find themselves thinking unregulated thoughts. As a result, Americans spend their lives afraid to even read the work of a foreigner.
Bifurcated thinking limits our individual ability to cope with a planet as large and complex as earth, let alone its 8-Billion human inhabitants. Instead of expanding our world our minds are trapped in prisons made of nothing - but willful ignorance and its companion, indifference.
"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison" and "a mind enclosed in language is in prison." You are such a wonderfully intelligent person. And you wear it quite well.
I know I may have said this before, but my readers are truly my family, though I get some pretty rough stuff in terms of threats and commentary. Whenever I am validated by really smart people that have history of being same, I become somewhat whole again. Think of the proverbial "hole in the wall."
We don't need no education...
Right you are; we don't need no education!
Instead of genes, I think the difference in people's brain-power is rooted in courage, curiosity, and creativity. I have known a lot of people with high IQs, but I have never known anyone with a high IQ who had all three qualities/attributes who was also personally successful. Even more interesting, at least to me, the people I've known with both exceptionally high IQs and courage, curiosity and creativity had rejected wealth in order to pursue some grand passion (magnificent obsession). Inasmuch as I've also known several successful people who had courage, curiosity and creativity and low IQs, I do not think IQ is part of this particular equation.
Naturally, I want to know where courage, curiosity and creativity come from? Are they one in the same thing, linked in some way, or entirely separate attributes? Is it possible that courage, curiosity and creativity are linked to an addictive, or obsessive gene? Does courage, curiosity and creativity make the brain feel so high, energized, and good, it seeks them out in the environment, and tries to reproduce them?
We keep talking about robots as though the majority of the American population were not already robots, demonstrating AI in action.
Our society prizes repetition so highly we RE-produce everything from our clothes, to our homes, hairstyles, language, laugh. And we punish the manifestations of courage, curiosity and creativity. Is this cultural value system explain the high rate of substance abuse in our society? IOW, are our social values starving our brains by cutting off the kinds of experience that powers the human brain?
"Of the nine justices on the U.S. supreme court (the branch that, arguably, runs the country), 85 percent of “Americans” cannot name three of them and two-thirds of them cannot name a single one. "
I tried this right after I read it, Rohn—and without looking it up (which 85% of "Americans", at a guess, ALSO won't do!), I came up with—Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch...and while typing this John Roberts, Brent Kavanaugh, and Samuel Alito popped into my head. What's frightening is that it's the Supreme Court (in)Justices whose names I remember—but without looking them up, I couldn't tell you who the "liberal" Justices were.
They're Sonia Sotomeyer, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson—yes, I looked them up. Google Is Your Friend—well, not really, but it's worth reminding people that most of them have a device on their persons where they could easily find the answer to most basic questions. As my ex-wife liked to say, "If only there were a device by which you could find the answer to that...." while looking it up on her iPhone.
" I also dislike collard greens (I am sure to the surprise of many) and I refuse to eat them, ever, for I tend to not like foods that result in an olfactory assault."
Well, collard greens are spinach's nasty cousin! Even Popeye won't eat them.... At a guess, I'd say you "hate" collard greens (possibly for their racial connotations, or just because they taste REAL unpleasant!).
I know none of this is addressing the core of your argument, which I'm still processing. I feel like there's something in there I don't entirely agree with—it's either "retribution is not hate" or the Stieg Larsson quote at the end—and I can't articulate what it is or why. As I think you deserve more of an answer than "Nope, you're wrong" or my being snarky about it, I'm just going to have to say "Can I get back to you on that...?" for now....
I await with bated breath, Sire.
How do those who take on another's cause and attempt to exact revenge know the truth?
I'll take the bait for shitz and giggles. Please, enlighten me to what "the truth" is. I mean, thrill me. Because for any European-Amerikan to espouse "truth" to ME is beyond comedic and brutal insult; it is arrogantly disrespectful (no surprise) and exhibitive of not only white supremacist thought, but low intelligence. Further, be careful about coming onto this thread and insulting the author.
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Further, I did not use the word “threat” white girl. I asked you to explain "the truth" which, clearly, you were incapable of doing and, instead, launched into typical European-Amerikan linguistic subterfuge. Problem is: you are way, way out of your league. Your supremacist arrogance allows you the folly of thinking you can not only mischaracterize my words, but also control the narrative. You'd best look at the title of this publication again. This is MY narrative and you don’t control it.
And no, you get no "break." As for "thin skin?" I have experienced things in my life, verifiable, that would make you piss, shit and puke all over your pale behind. Further, just like eye color or hair texture, skin thickness is influenced by genes. SOME individuals are genetically predisposed to having thicker skin, while others may have naturally thinner skin. Racial and ethnic differences: Skin thickness can vary between different populations due to genetic differences, according to ScienceDirect.com.
You cannot spell HATRED without REDHAT.