The big reveal about the photograph: notice the traffic/road/street signs in the background as Biden holds hands with the KKK former "Exalted Cyclops." They say "No Turn On Red." And...
"ONE WAY."
And the arrow is pointing to "the right."
I can't make this shit up.
You folks are the smartest readers on Substack. As such, I am mildly distressed that you missed the grotesque irony given the articles content.
I saw the signs, but I couldn't make out what they meant because I keep associating "red" with Cold War Era Communism, and the arrow looked like it was pointing left to me because… I suck at directions. (Our best friend bought me a Garmin GPS the first Christmas after I got my driver's license, because my inability to read a map is notorious among those who know me.)
I have to admit guilt. Although I definitely meant to demean ,when I call a certain black man a shoeshine boy (Clarence Thomas); in doing so I probably demean other black men. It was not my right to do so. Nevertheless I cannot control my feeling that he has demeaned himself and is a groveling sycophantic and pathetic excuse for a man. But I should not have called him boy because that is insulting to all who might reference it from being undeservingly insulted by being called such. I was trying to insult Thomas and it was the worst possible insult I could think of to refer to him as a shoeshine boy. But your article tonight made me reflect exactly why it was the worst possible aspersion I could think of to call him and exactly how hideous it really would be for someone to hear themself referred to as a boy.
And the very reason every white person must read your writing is that no matter our own sensibilities, as whites,none of us have had your (or any black person in America) experience of being constantly insulted only because of complexion.
Thank you for educating us! The blindness by design of white society has us stumbling around like a bunch of dummies. We don't even know when we are embarrassing ourselves. It's sad and shocking at the same time.
Everything you could make up about old Joe's racism wouldn't equal the sorry truth. But people are like, "Wow, can you believe this guy even calls himself a Democrat?"
Don't let the Democrats 'snow' you, my friend.
The Democratic Party is the largest and ugliest and most effective force for the destruction of black people, black families, and black communities in the history of the world. Shitty as Republicans are, they're not a patch on the Democrats for systemic racism or the power to enforce it. The very worst places black people can find themselves struggling to live in America are all controlled by Democrat political machines; single-party towns where gun control keeps the black family helpless by design-- exactly as it did in Jim Crow days.
It is not that the Democrat Party, as an institution, is a cluelessly, systemically racist outfit whose good intentions are overlaid with built-in ignorance... No, see, that's me. I hate my ignorance. I despise my racism and its origins. I want to root that shit out. That's not a Democrat thing, my sweet people. Democratic Party policy is designed to crush and destroy black community, black families, and black people, especially black children. If I were black, or trying to raise black children, I'd take one look at the statistics and do two things. I'd go armed in public at all times, and I'd move to the reddest state I could afford. Maj Touré is right: Black Guns Matter.
One thing about senility; it brings out the truth. Old Joe was never good at keeping his thoughts out of his mouth, and he can't hold it at all any longer. But he is not a holdover from old racist days, he is not an outlier (more of an out and out liar) on the Democrat chart: Nope. That is the face and voice of the Democratic Party, and you are not supposed to notice or to think about what they are doing to our people. Yes, our people, white though I may be. And they are all our children. When decent people take over this country, there will be no segregated inner city neighborhoods, no segregated inner city schools, no prison plantation system for the Democrats to breed our people to fill.
Here's the thing.
Black people must lead. I'm not talking about the NAACP, or genius political monsters like Abrams. I mean black intellectuals must take charge of the program and teach our people how to find a way forward in decency and hope. No other group understands the evil that rules our nation with their guts and souls, not like black people do. That's why I follow the intellectual leadership of men and women like Ajamu Baraka, Margaret Kimberley, and Glenn Ford. It's why I read every word I find here: I love the way it hurts because I need to understand and I am sworn to follow. Lead on.
Well, well, well. You have finally outdone yourself with this comment. Have you no decency Man!??
In any event, I, given your pedigree (as it were) am compelled to share with you a comment I made to one of our ardent fellow InWardsLooking readers:
"The late and legendary Editor In Chief at Black Agenda Report, Glen Ford was, by far and away, THE greatest editor I have ever worked with. I have worked with many, all of them European-Americans.
It is hard to believe that he has been gone, from this dimension, over two years. Mr. Ford was brutal in terms of the level of excellence he demanded from his writers. There just is no other way to say it. I think a lot of that was his understanding that to be "equal" we always have to be three times better and journalism is the one ballpark your (our) black ass is not supposed to be in.
If your piece was accepted, and published, that was as much of a compliment as you would typically receive (and were ecstatic to get it). Rarely did Mr. Ford hand out compliments beyond that.
One day, he was speaking to me (and Mr. Ford just got straight to it, emotionless) and said: "this article is phenomenal, it will be read throughout the ages.
Have I no decency? I did tell you I was white, didn't I?
One of two things is true of all black intellectuals in this country:
- Either there is something goofy about them that allows whites not to take them seriously,
- Or whites never heard of them.
Glen Ford was a great man. As a person who is devoted to excellence in writing, an excellence I trust I sometimes achieve, I truly revered Mr. Ford and his work.
Speaking of tough as nails, did you ever meet Bruce Dixon? I worked with him for a short time during the 2016 election cycle here in Georgia. Omg, he was flat mean. Wonderful political operator, excellent writer, very efficient and effective, and a total asshole. I thought the world of him; he hated my white ass. I didn't last long, but I am very proud of having met him. Only thing I ever said that made him smile was when he asked if I liked black people. I said, "What? All of them? No, hell no."
When I read the headline for this, my first thought was, "Who on EARTH would be insane enough to do that to you?"
Then I read your piece, and all I can say is that I'm gobsmacked.
Sorry—I knew Joe Biden was a Dixiecrat who inexplicably didn't jump parties when Nixon came calling a half-century ago. Problem is, everybody I know is so deep into Trump Derangement Syndrome that Biden could've admitted at the Congressional Black Caucus awards that he's a card-carrying member of the KKK, and they'd pass it off as him making fun of Republicans or something....
I'm wondering what genius will get the irony, other than the obvious, of the photograph of the Good Ole Boys. It is as eerie as it is obvious and clandestine.
I take the position that it's better for a slave to choose a plantation owner who would whip him (her) than one who would hang him (her) for attempting to escape. On this basis I voted for the least evil of the only real choices afforded blacks and some others.
The big reveal about the photograph: notice the traffic/road/street signs in the background as Biden holds hands with the KKK former "Exalted Cyclops." They say "No Turn On Red." And...
"ONE WAY."
And the arrow is pointing to "the right."
I can't make this shit up.
You folks are the smartest readers on Substack. As such, I am mildly distressed that you missed the grotesque irony given the articles content.
https://substack.com/@wheredafukarwi/note/c-40809836?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1nx43t
This article confirms your report on that picture.
Don't mistake snarky for deep; I still don't get it. Don't need to, coasting on the privilege.
I saw the signs, but I couldn't make out what they meant because I keep associating "red" with Cold War Era Communism, and the arrow looked like it was pointing left to me because… I suck at directions. (Our best friend bought me a Garmin GPS the first Christmas after I got my driver's license, because my inability to read a map is notorious among those who know me.)
LOL
I have to admit guilt. Although I definitely meant to demean ,when I call a certain black man a shoeshine boy (Clarence Thomas); in doing so I probably demean other black men. It was not my right to do so. Nevertheless I cannot control my feeling that he has demeaned himself and is a groveling sycophantic and pathetic excuse for a man. But I should not have called him boy because that is insulting to all who might reference it from being undeservingly insulted by being called such. I was trying to insult Thomas and it was the worst possible insult I could think of to refer to him as a shoeshine boy. But your article tonight made me reflect exactly why it was the worst possible aspersion I could think of to call him and exactly how hideous it really would be for someone to hear themself referred to as a boy.
And the very reason every white person must read your writing is that no matter our own sensibilities, as whites,none of us have had your (or any black person in America) experience of being constantly insulted only because of complexion.
So thank you once again for opening my eyes.
So
You get a pass on Uncle Thomas.
Keep up the good work with your writing.
Thank you for educating us! The blindness by design of white society has us stumbling around like a bunch of dummies. We don't even know when we are embarrassing ourselves. It's sad and shocking at the same time.
Perhaps my European-American brothers and sisters, like you, are your own redemption.
Thank you for being a subscriber to LookingNWords and a part of our community.
Now you have me craving fondue!
HA!
The beef jerky is to die for. Marinated in Habernero, soy sauce, BROWN sugar, cracked black pepper, Tobasco and garlic for 48 hours.
Problem: by the time it dehydrates (as each oiece dehydrates at a different time) we have eaten it all.
Everything you could make up about old Joe's racism wouldn't equal the sorry truth. But people are like, "Wow, can you believe this guy even calls himself a Democrat?"
Don't let the Democrats 'snow' you, my friend.
The Democratic Party is the largest and ugliest and most effective force for the destruction of black people, black families, and black communities in the history of the world. Shitty as Republicans are, they're not a patch on the Democrats for systemic racism or the power to enforce it. The very worst places black people can find themselves struggling to live in America are all controlled by Democrat political machines; single-party towns where gun control keeps the black family helpless by design-- exactly as it did in Jim Crow days.
It is not that the Democrat Party, as an institution, is a cluelessly, systemically racist outfit whose good intentions are overlaid with built-in ignorance... No, see, that's me. I hate my ignorance. I despise my racism and its origins. I want to root that shit out. That's not a Democrat thing, my sweet people. Democratic Party policy is designed to crush and destroy black community, black families, and black people, especially black children. If I were black, or trying to raise black children, I'd take one look at the statistics and do two things. I'd go armed in public at all times, and I'd move to the reddest state I could afford. Maj Touré is right: Black Guns Matter.
One thing about senility; it brings out the truth. Old Joe was never good at keeping his thoughts out of his mouth, and he can't hold it at all any longer. But he is not a holdover from old racist days, he is not an outlier (more of an out and out liar) on the Democrat chart: Nope. That is the face and voice of the Democratic Party, and you are not supposed to notice or to think about what they are doing to our people. Yes, our people, white though I may be. And they are all our children. When decent people take over this country, there will be no segregated inner city neighborhoods, no segregated inner city schools, no prison plantation system for the Democrats to breed our people to fill.
Here's the thing.
Black people must lead. I'm not talking about the NAACP, or genius political monsters like Abrams. I mean black intellectuals must take charge of the program and teach our people how to find a way forward in decency and hope. No other group understands the evil that rules our nation with their guts and souls, not like black people do. That's why I follow the intellectual leadership of men and women like Ajamu Baraka, Margaret Kimberley, and Glenn Ford. It's why I read every word I find here: I love the way it hurts because I need to understand and I am sworn to follow. Lead on.
Well, well, well. You have finally outdone yourself with this comment. Have you no decency Man!??
In any event, I, given your pedigree (as it were) am compelled to share with you a comment I made to one of our ardent fellow InWardsLooking readers:
"The late and legendary Editor In Chief at Black Agenda Report, Glen Ford was, by far and away, THE greatest editor I have ever worked with. I have worked with many, all of them European-Americans.
It is hard to believe that he has been gone, from this dimension, over two years. Mr. Ford was brutal in terms of the level of excellence he demanded from his writers. There just is no other way to say it. I think a lot of that was his understanding that to be "equal" we always have to be three times better and journalism is the one ballpark your (our) black ass is not supposed to be in.
If your piece was accepted, and published, that was as much of a compliment as you would typically receive (and were ecstatic to get it). Rarely did Mr. Ford hand out compliments beyond that.
One day, he was speaking to me (and Mr. Ford just got straight to it, emotionless) and said: "this article is phenomenal, it will be read throughout the ages.
Here is that article: https://blackagendareport.com/black-people-america-cannot-be-racist-much-they-might-be"
Have I no decency? I did tell you I was white, didn't I?
One of two things is true of all black intellectuals in this country:
- Either there is something goofy about them that allows whites not to take them seriously,
- Or whites never heard of them.
Glen Ford was a great man. As a person who is devoted to excellence in writing, an excellence I trust I sometimes achieve, I truly revered Mr. Ford and his work.
Speaking of tough as nails, did you ever meet Bruce Dixon? I worked with him for a short time during the 2016 election cycle here in Georgia. Omg, he was flat mean. Wonderful political operator, excellent writer, very efficient and effective, and a total asshole. I thought the world of him; he hated my white ass. I didn't last long, but I am very proud of having met him. Only thing I ever said that made him smile was when he asked if I liked black people. I said, "What? All of them? No, hell no."
"What? All of them? No, hell no."
Me, either.
Al Jazeera, reporting on Democrat policy's effect on our kids in Chicago.
Gonna make you mad.
Stay that way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ert_qPXQGQA&t=478s
Well... I'm appalled.
With two "p"s.
When I read the headline for this, my first thought was, "Who on EARTH would be insane enough to do that to you?"
Then I read your piece, and all I can say is that I'm gobsmacked.
Sorry—I knew Joe Biden was a Dixiecrat who inexplicably didn't jump parties when Nixon came calling a half-century ago. Problem is, everybody I know is so deep into Trump Derangement Syndrome that Biden could've admitted at the Congressional Black Caucus awards that he's a card-carrying member of the KKK, and they'd pass it off as him making fun of Republicans or something....
You, Sir, are absolutely "right."
Thankfully, not any more.
And the arrow is pointing to "the right."
I'm wondering what genius will get the irony, other than the obvious, of the photograph of the Good Ole Boys. It is as eerie as it is obvious and clandestine.
I am really fascinated to see who does; if any.
Whoever does will have my a-BIDIng respect.
I see Biden gripping Byrd's hand like he's a long-lost brother, and....
Is that current House Speaker, and Half-MAGAt Republican Kevin McCarthy, applauding and standing right behind Byrd?
That is Hoe Man-Chin
Hoe Man-Chin is hysterical, omg
In honor of the great Satiricus!
Not to be, remotely, confused with Ho Chi Minh.
"Wall Street...Shit. I'm still lonely on Wall Street...."
https://youtu.be/VScSEXRwUqQ?si=EVhq3noLNhhys9T2
Tee Hee.
It’s Manchin
Sorry, all those middle-aged White dudes look the same to me!
going to rework that article nevertheless and repost it .
I take the position that it's better for a slave to choose a plantation owner who would whip him (her) than one who would hang him (her) for attempting to escape. On this basis I voted for the least evil of the only real choices afforded blacks and some others.
I'll let that tub stand on its own.
I appreciate many of the positions you've expressed over the years when calling into The Thom Hartmann Show!
Okay!
Tin-Foe, bro.