You know what grinds my gears? NIGGAS! Yes, niggas. I am vaguely annoyed with the number of prominent black voices that seem to go out of their way to not endorse Barack Obama. I think voting is a personal thing, and if you want to know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em" when it comes to who garners your support, more power to you. However, it admittedly makes their cries for increases in black progress ring a little hollow. Al Sharpton, Tavis Smiley, Michael Baisden all fall into this category. This doesn't, however, make them niggas. It just makes me believe that I was right to view them as questionable.
That being said: Bob Johnson - YOUSE A SUPANIGGA! I will not bother to further print his original ignorant statement, nor his equally ignorant and lying "retraction." But I will say this: exactly what have YOU done for the black community Mr. Johnson? Let's flip it despite being a product of a single parent family AND making damaging mistakes in his youth, he went on to position himself as the first black man to have a true shot at becoming President. And as he was positioning himself to make this a reality, you were. . .? Oh yeah, perpetuating the glorification of gangster culture, drug abuse, and bringing us BET uncut. I'm also fairly certain you weren't a teenager when you did this. My math may be rusty, but I'm certain you were comfortably in your fifties.
I want to say this to my black folks: It's okay to support Obama. You don't have to apologize for it. For those of you who will say that I like him because he's black, allow me to quote Bernie Mac: "You muthafuckin right." He is black, he is the product of a single parent home, graduated from one of the most respected Universities in the country, IS MARRIED TO A BLACK WOMAN, IS A BLACK FATHER, and I agree with his politics. And I'll keep it real: if it's a contest between a black man and a white woman, I'LL CHOOSE A BLACK MAN EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK AND TWICE ON SUNDAYS. And I'm going to go so far as to say that not enough black people will do that. If it's a beauty contest, and the only contests are Buster Douglas and that light eyed white woman in the Victoria's Secret catalogue, Buster will be a sash wearing so-and-so, and Leon Spinks will be the first runner up. And I'll do it because not enough of us are willing to stand up FOR us.
As far as the Clintons go, I appreciate the fact that black folks came up during the Clinton administration, but let's not be fooled: I don't know of anyone who voted the "Clinton/Clinton" ticket. A friend reminded me of a Chris Rock quote, "If my wife gets up here and starts telling jokes, you're gonna want your money back." I'm not saying that she's automatically UNqualified, but as I said before Bill Clinton sperm does not automatically make you a qualified President.
I've seen a lot of accusations of Obama running the "race" ticket. Where? Despite ALL that has been said, show me ONE INSTANCE where he has displayed "Angry/Paranoid Blackmanism." The Clintons know this politics shit backward and forward. So do their people. Don't think for one moment that the things that have gone on are "slip ups." Don't think for one moment that what Bob Johnson said was him being accidentally overzealous. It's bait. Bait that Obama has YET to take, and yet, far too many people, black and white, have been willing to believe what's been said. We ceaselessly complain about black misrepresentation in the media, and yet, believe that everything about the first black man with a valid shot at the Presidency is going to get a fair shake. We are not that naive. A long time ago, I read the first book in the Left Behind series. In it, the villian shot a man in a room full of people. He then turned to that same room full of people, mentioned the tragedy of that man shooting himself, and they accepted it as gospel.
And I would like to dispel, once and for all, Clinton as the first black president. Give me a reasonable explanation as to why 800,000 Africans in Rwanda were killed and "our" President did NOTHING (besides the explanation that white people are already running all things financial in Africa), then don't come to me with that shit. Or explain why during his administration, while waging the war on drugs, people of color were disproportionately receiving harsher sentences than their white counterparts (other than prison labor is legalized slavery), I would appreciate that as well. Until then, don't come to me with that weak shit.
I'm sure I have more ranting, but it's quittin time.
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5 comments:
EXCELLENT POST, Breez! I too have had a hard time understanding why so many black people have had such trouble supporting the first black politician that has been shown to possess integrity, clarity, and a plan in a long time! The Al Sharptons, Jesse Jackson, and Bob Johnsons who aren't supporting him are probably doing so to fulfill their own agendas. Magic Johnson has publicly supported Hillary Clinton, exclaiming that she's the best man (and yes...that was intentional) for the job. What he didn't mentiong, however, was that one of his chief investors, Ron Burkle, is a fanatic Hillary supporter, so it is, of course, in his best fiscal interests to support her publically. I say to you, paraphrasing the immortal negro philosopher, Uncle Ruckus (no relation), "Don't trust them old nikkas over there..." because there is definitely some powerful niggardry going on with them.
Please revisit blog, rather than blog in the comments section, I will simply add there.
Feel free to add comments here as well. I just mean that there is a more recent post on the same topic.
For the record, I LOVE long, conversation inspiring comments. I just figured since it's my blog, I could just post something additional, rather than put another blog in the comments section. LOL!
And for the record, I did hear that about Magic. Though I'm irritated with him, maybe his muckle-mouthed ass NOT speaking for Obama is a blessing in disguise. Could anyone even understand the endorsement? He should have just smiled and held up flash cards.
DAMN!!!!!!!!!
Turn it up!!!! I don't think they can hear you. I keep arguing with these stupid ass, siddity Negroes that if you can't vote for Obama then you need to shut the fuck up because you can't vote for ANY black candidate. This ain't Al Sharpton.
Deep down, a lot of these self-hating jerks (calling people "jerk" is my new shit) don't want to vote Obama because they're afraid of what white people will think. They don't want white people to know that they're voting for a black person. Explain that shit to me, please?
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