Wednesday February 22 , 2012

Posts Tagged ‘Racism’

Black People’s Progress?

DCBuppie

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Apr 19 |00:26

Word. Does Chris Rock have a point?

 

2010 and I am Still BLACKER Than You!

DCBuppie

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Jan 12 |10:06

Blagojevich: ‘I’m blacker than Obama’

So is this what ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich really thinks of the black experience?

He told Esquire magazine, for its February issue: “I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.” (Click here to read more.)

Perhaps Blagojevich thought he was saying something positive about himself by presenting his “bona fides,” but the statement simply is insulting. Not that we should expect anything else from the governor who was removed from office last year, accused of trying to sell Obama’s U.S. Senate seat.

Or maybe Blagojevich just said what a lot people believe: that the black experience is extraordinarily narrow and most African Americans are simply cut from the same cloth.

In the interview, Blagojevich, referring to the president as “this guy,” says Obama was elected based simply on hope. “What the (expletive)? Everything he’s saying’s on the teleprompter.” The White House refused to comment.

Early Monday morning, Blagojevich apologized, adding that what he said was “stupid, stupid, stupid.”

For the record—I would venture to say many blacks have not shined anyone’s shoes, except their own.

Blagojevich continues to prove that he’s certainly cruder than, well, most people.

Before I go any further, “I grew up in the ‘burbs. In a 6 bedroom house. My parents owned 2 cars, and I ate a square meal every night.’ Does this mean my black card will be revoked? You tell me.

Moving on.

Can you believe the audacity of this ish coming out of people mouth’s these days? Add this too.

Sen. Harry Reid “believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama – a ‘light-skinned’ African American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one” – NEGRO DIALECT? Seriously. 2010!!!

How dare folks question folks authenticity and act like their upbringing allows them to trump the President or anyone, by pulling the race card?

Blagojevich is wild, and in the words of Paul Mooney, “Everyone wants to be a nigga but nobody wants to be a nigga.”

I know we all have on deep rooted thoughts and prejudices, but in 2010 I just hoped people would think before they say such things.

 

I Vote No To the Race Card

DCBuppie

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Jul 24 |09:59

I know many of us already have heard the story, read, or watched something about how Henry Louis “Skip” Gates got unfairly thrown in jail for Racial profiling!

Now before we all draw conclusions, on fair or unfair, justice served or not, please read Skip’s Account and the Police Report.

Skip “Is this how it feels to be a black Man in America” Account

Vs.

Officer “Loud and Tumultuous Behavior = Disorderly Conduct” Report

Now please enjoy my VLOG on MY OPINION!!

Edit:
I just want to make it clear, in case the video was not, that I am NOT saying this incident was SKIP’s Fault. I do believe the officer was out of line, and instigated an offense from Skip in response to Skip asking for the badge number. Regardless, it is also my opinion that this was not a race issue.

Aight. Tell what your POV?! Let’s Discuss!

 

Black Tax

DCBuppie

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Jun 23 |21:59

Some months ago I saw this local story about Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon.
Apparently she has , “12 counts of felony theft, perjury, fraud and misconduct in office, becoming the city’s first sitting mayor to be criminally indicted.” AND “she also is accused of using as much as $3,400 in gift cards, some donated to her office for distribution to “needy families,” to purchase Best Buy electronics and other items for herself and her staff.”

It is disappointing to read news about black politicians doing or being accused of wrongdoing.
Kwame Kilpatrick, Ronald Burris were caught up in some mess, Jesse Jackson off handed comments about OBAMA, BILL RICHARDSON(Hispanic/Latino) fake investigation that interfered with his Obama appointment, etc.

What confuses me, is that these GROWN people, who grew up in a time that was way more unwelcoming to their rise to power, become LAX. As if they have forgotten about the BLACK TAX.

BLACK TAX is defined by Urban Dictionary as “The notion that Black people have to work and perform regular task twice as well as White people.”

There are just certain realities when it comes down to being a non white person in America. The BLACK TAX is real. It aint going anywhere. Buppie Must do: always follow this rule.

The rule will not always GET you where you want to be, but it will help justify why you are where you are just in case it becomes questionable. I do not know if this is the proper way to think, but I do nonetheless, I think that I am always competing. Everything I do is susceptible to the “Black tax”.

Can you relate to the Black Tax? Or am I just tripping?

 

Why America Doesn’t Make Me Proud

DCBuppie

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Oct 8 |23:05

Saw this via another blog….I am speechless…

Race Injected Into Obama Vote

By Mary Kane

Over the weekend, Sen. John McCain’s brother referred to the Northern Virginia suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria as “communist country,” presumably for their traditional Democratic-leaning ways.

I don’t cover politics at TWI, so I’m not going to comment on the campaign strategy behind the remarks. But I do live in Arlington, in a neighborhood called Clarendon. And I can tell you a little bit about what’s been going on here.

During the past few weeks, people who posted “Obama for President” signs in their yards in Clarendon and in the nearby neighborhood of Lyon Park received this letter. Addressed to “Dearest Neighbor,” the letter informed them, in a tone meant to be friendly and helpful, that they should consider the possibility that they are supporting Obama to cover up for their own, hidden racism.

Here’s the letter:

The neighborhood listserve lit up with people arguing over who could have been responsible for the letter, until the moderator shut the topic down. No one knows for sure. The letter itself has made it on to two anti-racism websites, and a site that chronicles voter suppression. The Institute for Healing Racism posted a statement on its site disavowing anything to do with it.

In the meantime, life goes on as usual, here in the communist suburbs of Northern Virginia

 

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