Showing posts with label united states history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label united states history. Show all posts

Thursday, September 4, 2008

non-violence works

(my wonderful auntie shared this with me and the pics in the beginning really make this kinda moving ...)



random thoughts i had while watching this:

1. i know why black people don't fuck with dogs the way white people do
2. the pics of barack don't move me ... they shoulda kept it historical and just had one pic of him ... the drawing one with the word 'progress' woulda worked best
3. we still got a long way to go
4. BUT i sho am glad it aint 1963 (kinda ... i do have fantasies of being a black panther)
5. white people are tryna lose these old photos
6. LOVE can prevail ... if we live thru the struggle ... and injustice ... we will get to the other side ... (not the side where everything is perfect but the side we at now ... where we can breathe a lil bit more)

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

amerika showin its ass

when amerikkka brings its hate ... it brings out the hate in me ... i'm trying to love but all i see is ass crack:

it's funny but i think the dnc is so white girl ... it's just like a white girl to make up the rules of the game and then try to change them when they ain't going her way ... or white boy for that matter.

and to try to change the rules based on some pseudo-intellectual argument ... in a calm RATIONAL way they will try to get what they want based on REASON ... and if the logic doesn't pre-exist then they will use folklore, fear, common-law, de-facto logic to twist perspectives until they appear rational indeed ...

the media is legitimizing the HRC campaign's claim that they have a case for the democratic nominee spot cuz ... guess why ... they won some traditional 'blue' states ...

well, if that was the most important criteria for becoming the dem. nominee why isn't it in the dnc rules to begin with? cuz it's political spin speculation mumbo jumbo. although the analysts, pundits, and yahoos like to wax ad nauseaum about red states versus blue states it is only a political narrative not a physical reality. california really isn't blue motherfuckers!! it's highly mexican - no just kidding. but anyway my point is that hillary's case or argument is only as strong as the media and the superdelegates make it. i think that relying on red state versus blue state polling and projections is more of the same in-the-box politics that will keep us with the same political losers who contrive to win.

i also think the media is totally bolstering her claims by giving the idea so much air time and credibility ... the sentence usually starts off like this on msnbc or cnn: "i do think senator clinton is going to make a strong argument at the convention ..." it's only as strong as people make it.

red state/blue state paradigms are not written into the dnc rules because they are illusory, transient, and dynamic paradigms. hillary clinton is drawing on it's narrative power, it's de facto presence in political discussion, and it's cultural currency. she is not supporting her argument with any FACT. just like a white girl. i've already stated that the HRC machine can say what it wants and then say the total opposite or say something absurd and then look like a victim ... she is so brilliant at being evil. i can't wait till she is president.

furthermore the proof, the facts of this election to date, and the actual voting trends show that obama would be the only one to smash the red state/blue state paradigm (and change the whole playing field?). but ... they don't talk about that so much on the TV. maybe that would be too much REAL change.

i would also like to point out that the dnc is rigged for these loophole white girl/white boy sneak-around-the-system tactics ... the very presence of superdelegates is a counter-punch to the popular vote ... the old white boys of the seventies could never simply rely on the PEOPLE to determine a nominee ... they had to create party elites who somehow demonstrated some kind of infinite wisdom because they had held public office or worked the voter registration tables for many years ... elite thinkers of sound judgement such as, eliot spitzer. need i say more?

amerika gets what it deserves.

no, no, no - let me not succumb to my old hating-white-people ways ...

white people can you pull your pants up and step up to being a human being first?

Sunday, January 6, 2008

the great debaters ... no denzel

barack is no denzel washington. but uh he is just as cute. and he is a great public speaker. but he probly couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. then again ... these politicians are the BEST actors.

i watched the 'debate' on shit i forgot what day. not much of a debate ... more of a reality tv show in which a news anchorman asked some questions of the candidates. it's all a farce but it was kind of entertaining.

the farce part is that nothing in america really changes when the president changes. nothing. ever. since the beginning of america. that's cuz we live in a two-party prison. the two parties aint very different. and also the electoral college takes a lot of the democratic punch out of this so-called democracy. the senate and house of reps would need to change ... well, if we really wanted change.

i just can't stand hillary clinton. she backed the iraqi war cuz it was politically expedient. that's all i need to fucking know.

john edwards is looking like a radical ... and obama is looking all-american ...

what does it really mean?

things change very slooooooooooowly. but america is not what it used to be. and i think we can all sense that even if a woman or a black man does not become prez in '09 ... a change gon come.

and for a woman (me) who had no faith in america, humanity, white people, or the u.s. government this is encouraging news.

you should be (a little) encouraged too.