February is Black History Month

[Fenton Lum]

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
The Greatest (1975)

That kind of thing still inflames many. Whites would do well to make the same demands of this power structure; everyone should resist in whatever manner makes them comfortable to the system’s desire to commoditize and monetize human beings for the benefit of an exalted few at the top.

 

[Fenton Lum]

We already "enjoy" a one party corporate state and plenty of innocents are in our for profit post industrial society privatized prison system. Meanwhile a known murderer is free to keep pointing his little gun at women, as he has.

Your delusional partisan nonsense is noted and dismissed.

Martin was the criminal that night and choose to piss his life away over his butt hurt about being followed.

Zimmerman did NOTHING morally, ethically or legally wrong.

Try to be less of a bat shit crazy liar.

I know where you're stuck with this and expect nothing more from the likes of you.

You are the one who has chosen to side with the violent thug, even after all the evidence has come out.


You are the bad guy here.


You are the one that was willing to see, indeed, are still willing to see an innocent man go to prison just to maintain your bullshit narrative that America is such a terrible and racist place.


People like you are tearing this nation apart.

Memes and slogans son, it all you have. Your nation is corrupt, THAT is what's "tearing it apart".

Bullshit.

People like you see a thug attack a man, and the man defends himself, and people like you spread the lie that this act of self defense was some sort of racial killing.


You convince blacks and liberals that Middle America are violent racists. You piss off Middle America by smearing them with vile lies.


That was you, and people like you tearing this nation apart.


You are the bad guy.

Georgie went looking for shit and found some son. You need a bad guy? Sure, make it me, denial looks swell on ya.

 

[Correll]

Your delusional partisan nonsense is noted and dismissed.

Martin was the criminal that night and choose to piss his life away over his butt hurt about being followed.

Zimmerman did NOTHING morally, ethically or legally wrong.

Try to be less of a bat shit crazy liar.

I know where you're stuck with this and expect nothing more from the likes of you.

You are the one who has chosen to side with the violent thug, even after all the evidence has come out.


You are the bad guy here.


You are the one that was willing to see, indeed, are still willing to see an innocent man go to prison just to maintain your bullshit narrative that America is such a terrible and racist place.


People like you are tearing this nation apart.

Memes and slogans son, it all you have. Your nation is corrupt, THAT is what's "tearing it apart".

Bullshit.

People like you see a thug attack a man, and the man defends himself, and people like you spread the lie that this act of self defense was some sort of racial killing.


You convince blacks and liberals that Middle America are violent racists. You piss off Middle America by smearing them with vile lies.


That was you, and people like you tearing this nation apart.


You are the bad guy.

Georgie went looking for shit and found some son. You need a bad guy? Sure, make it me, denial looks swell on ya.

Zimmerman was looking for people who should not have been in a gated community. He saw a stranger who matched the description of a criminal suspect.

He called the police because he wanted them to question that guy, and find out if he was a criminal that needed arrested.


The fact that you have to lie, shows that you know you are in the wrong here. Otherwise you would be using true statements to try to make your point.


How can you want side with the thug that was so viciously beating a man that he would not stop, even after being warned that the Police had been called?

YOU are the bad guy, and denial looks like shit on you.

 

[OldLady]

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou (192
"Still I rise," And Still I Rise (1978)

 

[OldLady]

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
The Greatest (1975)

That kind of thing still inflames many. Whites would do well to make the same demands of this power structure; everyone should resist in whatever manner makes them comfortable to the system’s desire to commoditize and monetize human beings for the benefit of an exalted few at the top.

Maybe this election was a start toward that. But my guess is that as soon as everyone has a few more bucks in their pocket, they will go back to sleep. The typical human has little interest in politics or power struggles, my friend.

 

[Correll]

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou (192
"Still I rise," And Still I Rise (1978)

Great, you rose.

Now stop whining about something that happened to your great great great great grandfather that MY great great great grandfather fought to end.

 

[Correll]

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
The Greatest (1975)

That kind of thing still inflames many. Whites would do well to make the same demands of this power structure; everyone should resist in whatever manner makes them comfortable to the system’s desire to commoditize and monetize human beings for the benefit of an exalted few at the top.

Maybe this election was a start toward that. But my guess is that as soon as everyone has a few more bucks in their pocket, they will go back to sleep. The typical human has little interest in politics or power struggles, my friend.

Trump's entire campaign was based on crafting policy to serve the interest of Middle America at the expense of the few at the top.

 

[Fenton Lum]

,

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
The Greatest (1975)

That kind of thing still inflames many. Whites would do well to make the same demands of this power structure; everyone should resist in whatever manner makes them comfortable to the system’s desire to commoditize and monetize human beings for the benefit of an exalted few at the top.

Maybe this election was a start toward that. But my guess is that as soon as everyone has a few more bucks in their pocket, they will go back to sleep. The typical human has little interest in politics or power struggles, my friend.

If they did, they would understand how useless the vote is now. And you have ID'ed much of the problem. We have swallowed the imprinting of mass consumption, a bogus finance capitalism, and an attachment to what we can purchase, as opposed to being grounded in our own humanity and connection to the creator.

 

[Fenton Lum]

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
The Greatest (1975)

That kind of thing still inflames many. Whites would do well to make the same demands of this power structure; everyone should resist in whatever manner makes them comfortable to the system’s desire to commoditize and monetize human beings for the benefit of an exalted few at the top.

Maybe this election was a start toward that. But my guess is that as soon as everyone has a few more bucks in their pocket, they will go back to sleep. The typical human has little interest in politics or power struggles, my friend.

Trump's entire campaign was based on crafting policy to serve the interest of Middle America at the expense of the few at the top.

Pffffffffffffffffffffft, merely this season's version of hope and change. Goldman Sachs and Wall Street run your economic system, same as it ever was, same as it would have been with Hilary.

 

[OldLady]

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou (192
"Still I rise," And Still I Rise (1978)

Great, you rose.

Now stop whining about something that happened to your great great great great grandfather that MY great great great grandfather fought to end.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960)
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

 

[Correll]

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
The Greatest (1975)

That kind of thing still inflames many. Whites would do well to make the same demands of this power structure; everyone should resist in whatever manner makes them comfortable to the system’s desire to commoditize and monetize human beings for the benefit of an exalted few at the top.

Maybe this election was a start toward that. But my guess is that as soon as everyone has a few more bucks in their pocket, they will go back to sleep. The typical human has little interest in politics or power struggles, my friend.

Trump's entire campaign was based on crafting policy to serve the interest of Middle America at the expense of the few at the top.

Pffffffffffffffffffffft, merely this season's version of hope and change. Goldman Sachs and Wall Street run your economic system, same as it ever was, same as it would have been with Hilary.

Blind skepticism is just as blind as blind faith.

 

[Correll]

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou (192
"Still I rise," And Still I Rise (1978)

Great, you rose.

Now stop whining about something that happened to your great great great great grandfather that MY great great great grandfather fought to end.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960)
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

Great for you. Do you want to hear about my life?

 

[OldLady]

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou (192
"Still I rise," And Still I Rise (1978)

Great, you rose.

Now stop whining about something that happened to your great great great great grandfather that MY great great great grandfather fought to end.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960)
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

Great for you. Do you want to hear about my life?

Just battling the stereotypes that opened this thread. Are you being sensitive to quotes from smart, thinking humans who are writers, athletes, academicians? Lots of really cool people to remember and celebrate during Black History Month.

 

[Correll]

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou (192
"Still I rise," And Still I Rise (1978)

Great, you rose.

Now stop whining about something that happened to your great great great great grandfather that MY great great great grandfather fought to end.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960)
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

Great for you. Do you want to hear about my life?

Just battling the stereotypes that opened this thread. Are you being sensitive to quotes from smart, thinking humans who are writers, athletes, academicians? Lots of really cool people to remember and celebrate during Black History Month.

The first poem is a person writing more than a century after slavery, about slavery.

And you think that THAT is going to battle any stereotypes?


Also, I note that you completely ignored my question about whether you would like to hear about my life.

And that is what Black HIstory Month is about.


Smug lefties lecturing whites about past injustices and us supposedly just sitting there listening otherwise being smeared for not enjoying hearing about ancient history.

Fuck that shit.


I am bored hearing about slavery. YOu got something to say about slavery? Go back and time and tell a slave owner.


Otherwise, STFU.

 

[Unkotare]

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou (192
"Still I rise," And Still I Rise (1978)

Great, you rose.

Now stop whining about something that happened to your great great great great grandfather that MY great great great grandfather fought to end.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960)
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

Great for you. Do you want to hear about my life?

Just battling the stereotypes that opened this thread. Are you being sensitive to quotes from smart, thinking humans who are writers, athletes, academicians? Lots of really cool people to remember and celebrate during Black History Month.

The first poem is a person writing more than a century after slavery, about slavery.

And you think that THAT is going to battle any stereotypes?


Also, I note that you completely ignored my question about whether you would like to hear about my life.

And that is what Black HIstory Month is about.


Smug lefties lecturing whites about past injustices and us supposedly just sitting there listening otherwise being smeared for not enjoying hearing about ancient history.

Fuck that shit.


I am bored hearing about slavery. YOu got something to say about slavery? Go back and time and tell a slave owner.


Otherwise, STFU.

If YOU don't want to listen, STFU and go away.

 

[OldLady]

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou (192
"Still I rise," And Still I Rise (1978)

Great, you rose.

Now stop whining about something that happened to your great great great great grandfather that MY great great great grandfather fought to end.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960)
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

Great for you. Do you want to hear about my life?

Just battling the stereotypes that opened this thread. Are you being sensitive to quotes from smart, thinking humans who are writers, athletes, academicians? Lots of really cool people to remember and celebrate during Black History Month.

The first poem is a person writing more than a century after slavery, about slavery.

And you think that THAT is going to battle any stereotypes?


Also, I note that you completely ignored my question about whether you would like to hear about my life.

And that is what Black HIstory Month is about.


Smug lefties lecturing whites about past injustices and us supposedly just sitting there listening otherwise being smeared for not enjoying hearing about ancient history.

Fuck that shit.


I am bored hearing about slavery. YOu got something to say about slavery? Go back and time and tell a slave owner.


Otherwise, STFU.

Maya Angelou's message is "I rise" not where her grandmammy came from. Hurston's message is, color isn't the answer--the strong win, and she is in the fight. Ali wasn't talking about slavery either.
YOU are the one projecting like crazy into their words. If you could hear what is actually being said, yes, it could battle a stereotype.

 

[Correll]

Great, you rose.

Now stop whining about something that happened to your great great great great grandfather that MY great great great grandfather fought to end.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960)
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

Great for you. Do you want to hear about my life?

Just battling the stereotypes that opened this thread. Are you being sensitive to quotes from smart, thinking humans who are writers, athletes, academicians? Lots of really cool people to remember and celebrate during Black History Month.

The first poem is a person writing more than a century after slavery, about slavery.

And you think that THAT is going to battle any stereotypes?


Also, I note that you completely ignored my question about whether you would like to hear about my life.

And that is what Black HIstory Month is about.


Smug lefties lecturing whites about past injustices and us supposedly just sitting there listening otherwise being smeared for not enjoying hearing about ancient history.

Fuck that shit.


I am bored hearing about slavery. YOu got something to say about slavery? Go back and time and tell a slave owner.


Otherwise, STFU.

If YOU don't want to listen, STFU and go away.

NOpe. Time and time again these propaganda events are crafted so that you CAN'T walk away. They occur at school, they occur at work, and if you express anything other than white guilt, you are smeared, as Old Lady did above.

 

[Correll]

Great, you rose.

Now stop whining about something that happened to your great great great great grandfather that MY great great great grandfather fought to end.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960)
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

Great for you. Do you want to hear about my life?

Just battling the stereotypes that opened this thread. Are you being sensitive to quotes from smart, thinking humans who are writers, athletes, academicians? Lots of really cool people to remember and celebrate during Black History Month.

The first poem is a person writing more than a century after slavery, about slavery.

And you think that THAT is going to battle any stereotypes?


Also, I note that you completely ignored my question about whether you would like to hear about my life.

And that is what Black HIstory Month is about.


Smug lefties lecturing whites about past injustices and us supposedly just sitting there listening otherwise being smeared for not enjoying hearing about ancient history.

Fuck that shit.


I am bored hearing about slavery. YOu got something to say about slavery? Go back and time and tell a slave owner.


Otherwise, STFU.

Maya Angelou's message is "I rise" not where her grandmammy came from. Hurston's message is, color isn't the answer--the strong win, and she is in the fight. Ali wasn't talking about slavery either.
YOU are the one projecting like crazy into their words. If you could hear what is actually being said, yes, it could battle a stereotype.

This is the same old "conversation" that the Left always wants to have about Race.

A scolding lecture to whites about how blacks feel and any attempt to speak back is dismissed as "racist".

I am impressed that you managed to restrain yourself to just calling me crazy.

THAT type of "discussion" is the status quo that has failed this nation, and blacks so badly for so long.

We need to CHANGE what has so greatly failed.

I hinted several times about what I think and feel or have experienced. I eventually ASKED you if you wanted to hear about MY life.

You completely ignored everything about me.

How can we find common ground if you aren't listening to or care at all about anything I have to say?


SO much for bringing us together.

 

[Unkotare]

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960)
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

Great for you. Do you want to hear about my life?

Just battling the stereotypes that opened this thread. Are you being sensitive to quotes from smart, thinking humans who are writers, athletes, academicians? Lots of really cool people to remember and celebrate during Black History Month.

The first poem is a person writing more than a century after slavery, about slavery.

And you think that THAT is going to battle any stereotypes?


Also, I note that you completely ignored my question about whether you would like to hear about my life.

And that is what Black HIstory Month is about.


Smug lefties lecturing whites about past injustices and us supposedly just sitting there listening otherwise being smeared for not enjoying hearing about ancient history.

Fuck that shit.


I am bored hearing about slavery. YOu got something to say about slavery? Go back and time and tell a slave owner.


Otherwise, STFU.

If YOU don't want to listen, STFU and go away.

NOpe. Time and time again these propaganda events are crafted so that you CAN'T walk away. They occur at school, they occur at work, and if you express anything other than white guilt, you are smeared, as Old Lady did above.

What a whiny little bitch. YOU don't have to listen, and if you lack the sack to say what you want, that's your weakness.

 

[GaryDog]

Yet no matter how hard I try I cannot seem to muster one Fuck to give.

"I am a dipshit racist" would've sufficed for a thread title. You could even do a #micdrop and feel really good about yourself.