IS MARK CUBAN A RACIST? PROBABLY NOT!

Is Mark Cuban a racist? I do not believe he is.

     I use to constantly hear as a child that I should not judge others. All I did was judge others, at least I thought. What about the kid who picked buggers from his nose, or the teachers pet, or the bully spitting wet balls and the nerds head? What was I to think nothing?

     I soon learned that there is a difference between a judgement and an opinion. I will change an opinion but I won't change a judgement. 

     For example if I see a guy for the first time, he's dirty, and looks like a bum, I'll call him a dirty bum. If I see him a year later and he is cleaned up and doing well, if my first impression was an opinion I will say "Oh, he's cleaned up, he is no longer a dirty bum", but if I have judged him I will most likely say, A suit don't change things he is still a dirty bum."

     What does this have to do about race? Every race has an opinion about another race. The unwillingness to change the opinion makes it racism.

     I have a racist skeleton in my closet. If I heard a white person speak with a southern accent I assumed they were racist.

I WAS WRONG. 

It took enlistment in the Navy to prove me wrong. One of my best and loyal friends was a red head freckled kid from Tennessee. Today I listen to the words and not the accent.

     Mark Cuban and I are entitled to our opinion. He and I should both be allowed to make a mistake we are human.

     Now Donald Sterling on the other hand has proven in thought and deed to be an outright racist. He is also prejudice to people who have AIDS and are HIV positive.

     He has practiced racism as a property owner. I know a Vietnam combat veteran who was displaced due to his racist practice. Therefore Sterling has earned the title of racist, and Mark Cuban has not. 

     Now, if you ask me if Mark Cuban's remarks about a black man in a hoodie was smart? Hell no! It was stupid in fact. He has a business and it just might be effected as a result.

     Should he be judged a racist. No. Saying or thinking dumb things does not tell you what is in a person's heart. His actions give you a clear view.

     So I give Cuban a pass for saying something that was not to smart for a NBA owner. 

     Of course that is my opinion  and I'm sticking with it for now!

WHEN SHOULD A HUMAN BEING BE CONSIDERED VERMIN?

First of all let me state that, I was middle of the road when it came to State Sanctioned Executions, yet I leaned  more to the side of abolishing it all together. People like Clayton Lockett, had no mercy for Stephanie Neiman, the girl he shot and buried alive, so I really have no problem with him receiving the harshest punishment allowed under the law.                                                                                                                                                                                     

Yet I also believe that executions in the U.S. are race biased, and in many cases there is no way to determine if the person being killed by the government is 100% guilty.

This is not about Lockett and murdering scum like him, it about us. The American people.

I recall when I attempted to read the book "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", by William I. Shirer.

I couldn't finish the book because when I got to the Nazi executions, I could not stomach reading any further.

That brings me to the point I am trying to make.

In 1933 Nazi Germany, the Jews were considered "parasitic vermin". Nazi leaders determined in their infamous "Final Solution" that a country had the right to rid itself of vermin even if human.

The problem they had, was determining the best way to execute a large mass of humans at the same time.

They began to experiment, first with carbon monoxide poisoning, by actually putting victims in the back of trucks designed to pump carbon monoxide into them and then drive the victims around for hours until they expired.

They lined up humans in firing squads, that resembled a car assembly line. They put people in freezers and did mass drownings and other horrible experimentation, until they finally developed the gas Zyklon B, to carry out their Legal and authorized executions under German law at the time.

After the horrific botched executions, the most recent in Oklahoma, I couldn't help but draw the comparison. Just like the Nazis, states that still have the Death Penalty, are having problems with finding a humane way to carry out state sanctioned killings of human beings. They are experimenting with drugs, procedures and even companies that manufacture the drugs secret.

Even though, the reasons and justifications for killing humans for crimes maybe different in The United States of America in 2014, compared to 1933 Nazi Germany, the means to the end are horribly the same.

For this reason I have been pushed totally to the side to abolish the Death Penalty in all 50 States. If they have a problem with doing it humanely then it should not be done at all.

Bottom line,for what ever reasons a country deems it necessary to kill humans with the same regard one has for cock roaches, it is SICK, SICK,SICK!!!!

I did say that people like Lockett should get the harshest punishment under the law. But if there were not a death penalty law that could be applied I would not it expect it after he had a fair trail. I would except life in prison without parole.

NAT TURNER WAS A SLAVE TOO!

   In 1831 an American Slave by the name of Nat Turner started a slave rebellion. It ended with the death of 50 Whites. The Whites in turn retaliated by killing an estimated 300 slaves, many were not even involved with the rebellion.

     Nine years earlier in 1822 another freed slave by the name of Denmark Vesey plotted a slave rebellion, but was snitched on by another slave.

There was also Gabriel Prosser, The Jamaican rebellion, and of the most successful rebellion of all, the Haitian rebellion against France.

     The reason I am writing this blog is in  part due to the racist comments made by Clive Bundy, the new hero of the fringe Right. He believes African Americans would be better off as slaves.
    In fact I tweeted my disdain of the gun toting idiots defending the freeloading welfare cowboy, and I was refereed to as a slave many times under the hashtag #BundyRanch. I replied to them all, yeah "Nat Turner". But I began to realized those toothless gun toting idiot trolls probably thought I was talking about a NBA player.

     Let me get to the point. Bundy is not the only racist who is spinning this nonsense that slavery would be preferable to the way they believe blacks are living today. In their small walnut size brain,s all African Americans are on welfare and live in housing projects. They never realize that most of the people who are on welfare are white and in red states. What should happen to all of them? Should they be sent back to Europe?
 
      American Slavery was the worst system of slavery in history. Closet racist always want to point out that Africans sold slaves to slavers. But when the Africans got word on how the system was in America they stopped selling slaves and in fact turned on white slavers and where in turn, sold into slavery themselves.

 

 American slavery was horrible. It was the first time slavery was determined solely on the race of a people. It is estimated that 50 million African slaves lost their lives in one way or another from 1620 to 1865. Families torn apart, white men having children with slave women and selling their own children into slavery.
I recall as a child older relatives telling stories of children who would be considered autistic today were put down like dogs.
     Yet there are people like Bundy who think blacks would be better off "owned" by white men.

     What's truly alarming is to witness the many main stream Republicans, who also embrace this notion that slavery is better than welfare. For blacks only that is.

     Republican recently  had  to clarify their support of a pledge that contained a controversial preamble suggesting black children born into slavery had better family structures than black children now.
Along with the erosion of civil rights and affirmative action by the U.S. Supreme court and all this talk of "States Rights", I actually wonder how many are thinking about reinstating slavery as a states right option?

     Of course this is absurd, and Federal Laws prohibit such actions. But the mere thought that in 2014 people are still bringing slavery up as a positive alternative to social welfare is outrageous. And it is dangerous too.

     Bottom line, the need for African Americans and other reasonable Americans to get out and vote is more important than ever.  I don't vote just to put the right people in office, I also vote to keep the wrong people out. Anyone who embraces people like Clive Bundy and Ted Nuggent are definitely the wrong people. Right now all of them are on the Right.

     Come November I will vote. I will vote on more issues than idiots who think blacks would be better off as slaves, but you can be damned sure of this, it will be on the top of my issues. Because with racist creeps like Bundy being embraced by many on the Right as a hero, it's a good thing I have the ballot to choose rather than a bullet. Any notion being entertained to bring back slavery is an issue I would surely fight to the death to prevent.
Please, Please VOTE!

Today's Black Men are a bunch of Pussies!

     On August 11, 1965 I witnessed one of the most traumatic events in my life the Watts Riot. I was 12 years old and  I almost lost my life twice. Once when I was inside a store on 41st and Central and someone threw a Molotov Cocktail in a  store I was shopping in. Everyone inside, had to get to the back of the store and knock down a door seconds before the whole store was engulfed.
      The second time I was going to a Market on Adams and Central to get some milk at the only store open.  The National Guard had one of it's command centers there. I came out of an alley made a hook slide on my bike, when the dust cleared from the slide, I was staring down the barrel of an M-14 and a scared, shaking white boy, in an Army uniform. Did I mention at 12, I was 5'9' and weighed 189 pounds. Luckily I just got cussed out and not killed like the other 33 Blacks that lost their life.

     I mention this tonight, on one of the worst injustices perpetrated on African Americans, the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman.  I don't condone riots. In both Los Angeles riots Blacks got the worst end of that deal. But what I do condone is what happen before the Watts riot and what happened afterwards.

     Before the Watts Riot, I recall watching TV and seeing  brave African American  men, marching for civil rights. I saw them as they were snatched from  diners and beaten by angry White men. Yet they came out the next day, with bandages and sat at the same counter. I watched as those Black students walked up to the front of the University of Alabama, to face an ugly snarling racist, then walk through the door. I recall how I wanted to go to Selma and fight the police I saw beating the Black people who wanted to vote. I know there were Black women and White people in the mix, but as a young man I was intrigued by the Black men. I wanted to be just like them. Fight their fear and risk harm for me.  Then they killed Martin Luther King Jr. I thought they have beat us again. I was afraid that Blacks would settle for what they would give us. We would slip back into the  Jim Crow days of old.

   
      Then one day I turned on the TV and I saw another image. I saw proud Black men, with Black Tams and Leather Coats, and this scary Black Panther. I saw them standing there with guns. I saw them not begging for justice, but demanding justice. I saw how afraid the White talking heads looked on the news cast, reported how these men who were demanding, that the United States protect our neighborhood from police brutality. That if U.S. didn't, they would. They would protect the community from the police, by any means necessary. These were the offspring of the Civil Rights Movement. Black Militancy had arrived.

     It was then I saw the changes. We were not begging for justice now. It was being offered., We were not begging for better jobs, they were coming to us. Instances of Police Brutality declined. For the first time in my life, I felt that African Americans were getting real  respect from Whites. I saw the first Blacks in various jobs and positions and careers that are common place today.
     I don't condone violence unless it is necessary. What I felt back then was a sense of pride. I was willing to fight and die. Fight and die to protect my community from from the ravages of racism that ate my forefathers inside out. It was a collective campaign. I truly believe Black Militants made justice move a little bit faster.






        Finally the day came when I looked on TV and I saw someone who looked just like me, throwing a grenade, and another man just like him firing a M-60 with tracers flying from the barrel. They were Black troops in Vietnam.  I saw that I came from a stock of men, who were not a bunch of "Yasah Massah" shuffling cowards.I joined to learn how to become a fighting man.  I come from a race of men who weren't afraid to stand up to the most powerful nation in the world and say, "enough is enough."  No more Emmett Tills, No more Medgar Evers, no more little girls dying in Churches in Birmingham. Because the world finally knew who we were.

       What happened to that Spirit is a long story. Crack supplied by the govenment, Gangs created by the CIA, bad roles models, that is for another blog.
 
         Jim Crow has risen his ugly head again and not a whisper. The First Black POTUS and it seems like no Black men have his back. We should have had a million man march when that Birth Certificate stupidity began. Throwing Black men into prison for stuff they give White people a ticket for. Another form of slavery.I hear nothing from Black men. Except for a few like Al Sharpton, and a whole lot of Black women, Bill Maher,

 a White man,  is the only militant  voice we have. Voting Right Acts, GONE!!!! And a Fat Fuck name George Zimmerman gets away with a one man lynching of Trayvon Martin and all I see is a bunch of sorry ass tweets and Facebook posting.

There needs to be Marching, and voting and boycotting, and if necessary, a show of force to let it be known, if the justice system won't protect our Black youth, then Black men will by any means necessary.

Yeah, I'm sorry Brothers but compared to the Black men of the 50's, 60's and 70"s. Y'all is a bunch of pussies.
Like Denzel Washington said in "Glory", "WE MEN AIN'T WE?"

"ALAS POOR OJ. I KNEW HIM WELL"

     Nothing elucidates a fall from grace like the life of O.J. Simpson.
He was the dashing handsome running back  all of American's seemed to love. He came to fame during the last stages of the Civil Rights struggle. His name was held high with Cassius Clay  and Lew Alcindor. Men who all young African Americans my age could set as genuine role models. Placed on the alters of hope and future aspirations. To many White children my age, O.J. was the Black man they could look up to as a role model without concerns of the intolerant  society of the time. I recall the death of one of his children in a drowning accident. The whole nation seemed to mourn with him. He was adored by all.

     Then in June of 1994 his whole world came crashing down like a Russian  meteor from hell.  Nicole Brown Simpson and  Ronald Lyle Goldman, were found murdered in an upscale neighborhood in West Los Angeles, called Brentwood.  I actually walked by the restaurant where Nicole had her last meal, and Ron made his last dime. I asked a waiter to point out to me and a date where Nicole had been sitting. He silently pointed to a table near the front entrance.
 
     There was this global gasp. I did not even know that O.J. and Nicole were separated at that time. I stopped paying attention to his love life after he divorced his wife quite frankly, so the details of the volatile relationship was news to me. I dare say to many others, because O.J. was really nothing more than a commercial jockey by then. (It would have  been  interesting to see, if his reputation had survived to Reality TV)

    Then came the words that changed O.J.'s life forever. SUSPECT!  OJ was now subject to the word that most Black males in America fear including myself. Because it was commonly felt, right or wrong, in the Black community any Black man suspected of killing a White woman was guilty as sin by most White folks. No trial, no jury needed. I also think  that 80% of  the  people who think he is guilty made up there minds when he decided to do the car chase thing. Had he not done that the percentages would be significantly lower.

     There was a trial, THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY . The world had never seen anything like it since the TV era. Probably the closest trial of the 1900's to compare was that of Bruno Richard Hauptmann and before that Lizzie Borden. I actually believe the OJ trial gave birth to FOX NEWS, which was launched in 1996 during deliberations.

     I don't have time to go over all the facts of the trial as I see them, but the prosecution lost me when it opened up  the trial with the, Barking of a Dog. In fact the same night I walked passed the restaurant in question, my date and I were in the same neighborhood of the murders. Suddenly a dog barked and I joked, "Listen Honey, a Black man is killing a White woman." Now there is even a case out for a serial killer, who may have done the dastardly deed.

        My main reason for believing OJ did not commit the murders is for this reason. He is to stupid to get away with such an elaborate crime.

    If OJ had committed those murders the police would have found more, than a glove that did not fit, and scratch on his finger, and spots of blood here and there, and his DNA at the house of his ex-wife and children. He is so dumb they would have found him dressed in bloody clothes, the knife, at the scene, saying "Blood? What Blood? Bodies? What Bodies?

   There are a lot of other things I can point to towards his stupidity, I have already mentioned the car chase. The one that sticks out the most is the book, in which he details how he would have done it if he did it. How stupid is that.

    Finally, here is a man who is considered worst than Jack the Ripper in many American's minds and he remained in the country. He could have moved to Jamaica,  Africa, even Europe, where most people were still objective towards him. But NOOOOOO! He remained in the U.S., where he got set up in a sting and now may spend the rest of his life in jail. (He ain't looking to good these days). Anybody who has read the legal disclaimers on the back of a cereal box can see the trial in Las Vegas was a farce. Yeah OJ you finally got your "UP COME-ENCE". You uppity person you.

    I always say if I was a criminal court judge, I would give out "Stupid" sentences along with the regular ones.
"5 years for car theft, 1 year for stealing it at a police station," that sort of thing.
   
    I gave OJ a pass on his first trial. But the second one, he earned, he earned Big Time. Being arrogant and dumb.

Is God A Mass Murderer?

Of course not!
     But, if you listen to so-called religious leaders in the media He or She is. Why would God condone the killing of 26 innocent people? Faith or no faith it shouldn't make sense. And it sure does not to me.

      I once met a born again, Christian who was formerly a Satan worshiper. He still had tattoos that proved his once diabolical faith. He was a former drug addict who was in recovery and was had to change in order to survive. I was his case manager at the time. When we had our initial one on one, I asked him why he had chose to Worship the Devil. His response will be with me the rest of my life.

     He told me that when he was 17 he had gotten a girl pregnant. Soon after his infant son was born, the child passed away. He was told by someone from the clergy, that it 'Was God's Will that his son died.' He then told me if God killed his son, then God was now his enemy.

     What startled me at the time, due to my  strong faith in Christianity, that  it made perfect sense. These foolish people who keep repeating the nonsense, that God's will allows for  the murder of innocents for some divine purpose ,are more a deterrent, than a path to God.

     If I were on the Empire State Building and jumped, I would be pretty stupid saying, "God see what you did!" What's even more ridiculous is if I start to pray for God to save me once I jumped. Unless there is something only I can do for Him or Her, I will be splattered all over the pavement.

WHY CAN'T THE CLERGY GIVE MORE PRACTICAL AND COMMON SENSE CONSOLATION?

     It was a physical condition that killed that former Satan worshiper's  baby. It was "Crib Death" (SIDS) that took that child's life, not God. It was being human and mortal and living in a world where there are a thousand ways to die, not God's will. So why not just say something like the what happened, or better yet, be real honest and say "I DON'T KNOW"?

     This is what  I believe. Prayer does work. It may not change the situation, but it can change my attitude, it can bring comfort. I can question and ask that I receive an answer, if not now, one day. I can pray for something be done to prevent bad things from happening to good people. I can pray for the necessary action to take to make sure it can be prevented. I can pray for family and friends to comfort me, I can be there for those who survived.

"FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD"

I believe that God's will, is for all mankind, to cooperate with each other, so that we can live in peace.

     That all reasonable people band together against the unreasonable. That He or She would not want mentally ill people or criminals to get guns without a background check.

     Believe me, I am not religious, I am spiritual, and only because I have a condition that warrants it.

     BUT IF I HEAR ONE MORE CLERGY SAY , IT'S GOD'S WILL THAT 26 PEOPLE, 20 OF THEM IN KINDERGARTEN, BE MURDERED AND I SHOULD ACCEPT THAT, I WILL GOOGLE THE AMERICAN ATHEIST SOCIETY AND PERHAPS REQUEST AN APPLICATION.

     I won't believe in a God that kills babies because He or She can. I just won't.

"WE THE PEOPLE" HAVE CHANGED!

"WE THE PEOPLE" Those are some powerful words. No matter what the makeup is in this country, WE THE PEOPLE have the final say who leads. We are a diverse people. For the first time in my life I see the beginning of the end of RACISM, SEXISM, and INEQUALITY. WE THE PEOPLE no longer represents White males who own property. We the people are anyone who cast a ballot.

When Sen. Mitch McConnell stated what the priority of the Republican party was, I heard the dog whistle loud and clear. He represented  White people who are afraid of diversity in this country. The fear that one day, the White race would no longer be the majority voting race. They would no longer be the shot callers.

How did they not see this coming? You take over a country full of Brown & Red people, you import Black and Yellow people as slaves, (that's right, California has always been different, when everybody else had African Slaves, California got theirs from China), and treat them like shit as well. Oh yeah your women were second class citizens also.

This is not a indictment of the past. It was what it was. But since 1865 a change began with the Emancipation Proclamation.  People other than White male property owners were eventually given the right to vote. In 1964 with the passing of the  Equal Rights laws, they insured this day would come.

I have heard scuttle butt about a race war, even Donald Dumb Ass Trump seemed to call for a revolution. You see, idiots like him don't see the beauty and the blessing we have with the power of the vote.

We have the ballot so we don't need bullets.

 I give credit where credit is due. If it weren't for many of those White Male property owners, I and other non-white citizens and women would not be enjoying the freedoms we share today. They forged this change with the American Civil War.

Yes WE THE PEOPLE are changing, but that doesn't mean for the worst. I am an American of African decent. But an American none the less. I want this nation to remain the greatest nation on this planet for centuries to come. Just because non white numbers, and the changed identity of women have made it possible, that White males may never dominate again. It doesn't mean the destruction of America, it means America is evolving into a greater nation ,that will inspire the world to do the same.

There is no greater word in civilization than "COOPERATION!!!!"
How else do you think mankind made it to the 21 Century?