laissez-faire capitalism

Mademoiselle Joan Walsh of Salon;

"I'm not a member of any organized party. I am a Democrat."
Will Rodgers said that.

The values of a laissez-faire capitalism supported by a puppet legislative government is reflective in your conversation about the history of the overworked and underpaid American. While your audience swells up with the suggestion of being elitist intelligentsia, not many comments got the true grit of your intended discussion. As a black patriot, your nutshell psychoanalysis of consumerism and the social science of profiteers that reduce Americans to chess pieces made my heart melt with cognitive affection. Such accurate interpretation of how the values and morals of United States of America's rich and famous just replaced European aristocrats who offer Angel food cake to the poor and downtrodden as they party with lobbyists.

Unfortunately, both Democrat and Republican politicians have joined the ranks of arrogant snobs who use the science of mass marketing to fulfill our needs for instant gratification with empty code words of schizophrenic propaganda enforced by class separation with the police as gatekeepers.

Thank you for being you.
I shall be pleased to discover more about you in your conversations Joan Walsh.

Morning Meeting of MSNBC

Dylan of MSNBC
Hey You! As a black man, I have come to like you a lot. Each morning you instill in me the belief that someone admired Cronkite for more then his popularity. My wife is skeptical. She still believes I'm still in love with Huffington. Just because I made her die her hair red, and talk in a foreign accent, and wear matronly clothes does not mean I'm in love with Huffington. She says just because I like you does not mean she is going to shave and cut her hair.

Take care.
By the way, the black comic side kick with no surname has my vote.

black cop co-workers

black cop co-workers who support white cop 'stupidity'

This is just to say, that in 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., I was beaten up by 7 cops while trying to peacefully see Dr. King. One was a black man who beat me the most viciously. As a 14 yr. old boy, that image still haunts me. I must say, that he was trying to impress his white peers that he too could hurt blacks without remorse. He wanted to say, work as a black cop is hard to find and i know u only let me in reluctantly, but i will prove that i too hate blacks. As he beat me, I looked into his eyes and asked him, If his mother knew what he did for a living. Did your mother raise you to hate your black brothers. did your mother raise you to hurt black children.

But each swing got harder with each question. I guess If i was to be killed at the hands of cops, i knew it was only the black cop who would have nightmares forever and ever

Racial Profiling

Once again, the media just does not get it. They claim that Gates being arrested in his own home was a honest mistake by local police. What the media did not do is research the history of Cambridge cops to find racial profiling has become quite common for the small town sheriff.

Racist Reporters

thomasjasengardner
News junkies resent the death of Michael J. Jackson. It intrudes upon their masochistic desire to enjoy the various scenes of bloody traumas facing the world. Believe me, the death of Socrates, and the death of Lincoln, and the death of Roosevelt created as much media hyperbole about as MJ does today.
In past centuries, the lives of artists like Shakespeare and Picasso and the suicide of an one-eared artist, created controversy, conversation, and contriteness from tabloid writers. MJ’s mass media coverage is no different from the media frenzy given to deceased icons from long ago. Maybe the conservative media is jealous of how the death of President Reagan or Elvis Presley did not warrant the same media hype. They need not worry; media obsession with the black MJ is still second to the white Princess Di’s mass media funeral obsession.
Like the CEO’s of Detroit auto manufacturers, the media pundits just don’t get all the attention directed at MJ. The topics of war, poverty, and environment have always been requiems for MJ. His history is not limited to a controversial trial that found him innocent of all charges. Alternatively, the physiological demons that influenced his physical appearance is another episode in the life of another American icon.
The life of an American soldier and the effects of war upon the innocent civilian is of utmost concern to Jackson. This is proven by his visit to Walter Reed Hospital where he praised injured Iraqi soldiers. His concern about the rain forest and increasing deserts was exhibited in his songs and monetary contributions to just causes. The plight of people living in dismal hopelessness all around the world; was clearly examined within MJ’s songs and music videos.
There is ignorance about Michael Jackson in contemporary America that bears no relationship to the impact that this human being had upon the world. Watching MSNBC's liberal newscasters simply categorize Jackson as a weird demented icon was heart wrenching. They destroyed my image of a passionate and empathetic news station and cruelly reminded me of FOX's discriminatory coverage of OJ Simpson. There is a hereditary trend for whites to automatically view black males as guilty no matter how innocent.
But these hypocritical commentators stop short of lambasting Princess Di for her extramarital affairs featured on tabloid headlines. On the other hand, no one castrated the rockabilly King on his deathbed for his public use of amphetamines and barbiturates. MJ’s erratic behavior was publicized like a cattle prod up his fans collective asses; because no matter how famous he was,...no matter how many presidents invited him into the white house,...no matter how many NGO’s survived with his donations,...and no matter how many of his musical peers recognized his genius,...and no matter that 30.1 million people felt empathy about his death; naysayers did not easily acknowledge his professional awards or his contributions to society, because he is a black male. Every successful black male will acknowledge the tribulations and traumas associated with breaking the glass ceiling of a white male world.
But the press only saw his follies. Various orators could hardly accomplish their long and laborious speechifying meant to dispel the highest praises of international leaders and the noblest honor of men upon the golden soul of MJ.

White House enslaved construction workers

The White House is preparing to honor the black slaves of men who built this international symbol of democracy. A memorial of sandstone blocks will stand as a dedication to the men who were whipped and beaten into building a caricature of Greek democracy.
In the anti-bellum era of our country's history, black men did most of the skilled and unskilled labor in America. Skilled black men like Frederick Douglas, brought their freedom with extra money earned from their trade. When white men realized the income potential earned as a carpenter, bricklayer, painter, or stagehand; they blacklisted blacks from these jobs by organizing themselves into segregated labor unions. Through intimidation and manipulation, employers could no longer hire the best-qualified tradesmen, but were restricted to using white union tradesmen for construction and manufacturing jobs. Even today, these guilds are secret societies with restrictive membership.
The stone grave marker for black tradesmen who built the Capital building, should also mark the end of skilled black labor. Unions restrict the same black labor from working on the Urban Leagues new building. It is ironic that an organization dedicated to training and employing black men for jobs was unable to secure employment for black men to help build their own building. My deep throat source tells me that concrete plans for the building have been in discussion for three years, and efforts to secure skilled employment for its underemployed and underpaid constituents were continually ignored.
An urban league representative offered the old racist adage that now was not the time to distract contractors with pleas for job equality at tax supported job sites. Martin Luther King said about equality, if the past was not the right time, and now is not the right time, when is the time to ask for the rights and privileges that every American rightfully deserves since the dawn of this country. With the construction new building, the Urban League passed up an opportunity to guarantee training for the trades. Maybe the contractor that is an advent donation to the urban league got the job to build the building if his donations made up for not hiring black men on the job. This nefarious act of betrayal is not unheard of in the world of deceitful lobbyist and conniving politicians. This is not the first time middle class representatives of the black community have forsaken the needs of the black working class.
The 100 middle class Black Men of Madison, black ministers, and black politicians are notorious for undermining the social desires and economic needs of poor working blacks. After 100 years of NAACP and 50 years of Urban League interaction for civil rights, only token examples of success have materialized. Examples of ineptitude include...

Racism is alive and well

Mother Jones reports that a white owned swimming pool has closed its doors to blacks. Is this evidence of things to come or did Jim Crow ever leave?