The one subject that hasn’t been broached, in the midst of Black History Month, is the rage and constant anger that far too many blacks harbor toward civility. It is the elephant in the center of the room that few are willing to admit exists. And, even when there is an admission of its existence, the blame for it is deprivation caused by whites.
With that said, there is no tangible example of black rage more conspicuous than the poisonous contempt many blacks exhibit toward those who do not view life through a prism of victimology. Sellout, Uncle Tom and Oreo are the common epithets that roll from their mouths more easily than saying hello and goodbye.
But are they really angry at blacks who refuse to wallow in the brothels of immiseration, or are they envious of our freedom? What logical rationale can be offered to explain the raw, rabid rage we see so many blacks direct at other blacks who, in a free world, exercise the greatest freedom of all, i.e., the freedom to choose fundamental ideologies?
One of the most egregious examples of this rage was captured when Memphis radio host Thaddeus Matthews savagely berated Republican congressional candidate Charlotte Bergmann for being a black Republican – even going so far as to refuse to shake her hand because, as he put it, he didn’t want her “whiteness” to “rub off” on him. (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/radio-host-loses-it-with-female-gop-candidate-get-your-stupid-a-out-im-scared-your-whiteness-might-rub-off-on-me)
I don’t recall a whisper of contempt coming from those who are quick to decry the most innocuous comment as flagrant bigotry. I guarantee that the reason he treated Ms. Bergmann with such vulgar contentiousness was not only because he believed what he was saying, but because he knew his listening audience believed it as well.
The tragedy is that this is not uncommon. I was a guest on a show recently where the black host referenced blacks as the sons and daughters of slaves. I advised him that my mother and father, nor their parents, had been slaves, so by definition alone I was not the son of a slave. The interview ultimately concluded with the co-host unable to debate me on issues, choosing instead to call me the usual assortment of pejoratives. The question I ask is, how did that help her? I don’t believe it made her feel better, and it certainly didn’t elevate her status.
I believe that part of the reason for this is that if they do not condemn those of us who choose to think for ourselves, they will have to admit they are their own enemy. I recall an incident at a Dollar General Store, where a black customer publicly berated me when I questioned the Puerto Rican checkout girl about the accuracy of the price for tire cleaner I was buying. When I politely assured him that my inquiry pursuant to the correct price was not his concern, he flew into even greater rage. In front of everyone in the store, he called me several different kinds of nigger and said I even dressed like a white person. Even the black store manager joined in the chorus of insults.
As I later thought about the experience, I realized that part of the man’s poisonous rage was based on his personal feelings of inadequacy. That’s not my fault, any more than the rage Matthews displayed at Ms. Bergmann was her fault, nor should we take responsibility for those suffering from those feelings.
Rage and contempt are part of the composite that poisons many in the black community. The mithridate, i.e., the antidote, for same is as glaringly simple as it is complex. The easy part of solving this is for every black person given over to directing rage at blacks who do not share their views is to ask themselves, “Why do I feel this way?” They must ask themselves what those feelings have accomplished for them. That may seem overly simplistic, but to answer those questions honestly requires great introspection – which is why I submit, that the very first step to improving one’s personal situation is an honest examination of self. No person can improve until he is willing and able, and sees the need for that first step.
Pursuant to accomplishing this, two immortal quotes by Booker T. Washington come to mind: “I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him” and “Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” (“Up From Slavery”)
There is one more thing Washington said that I will close with: “The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.”
I’m willing to follow his sage advice.
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On a Personal note, I have been in Education for 30 years and stop when I had a Stroke in 1995, with out the stroke, i would continue to work with young people. I have been a Principal, Teacher, Coach, Athletic Director. I have enjoyed my life and Mychal your rants on
Black Rages needs to be laid bare and having some gut level
opinions to open a long waited dialouge. So here is some observations from my years of being there.
There were times in my classroom when I asked a question some of my Black Students would not raise their hands and answer the question, when I knew they knew the answers. There was a fear of being criticized by their friend as “showing off” Or “acting White”
In my College days, some of my Black friends kept a low profile for fear of this stigma.
Today it is still manifested through guys like Al Sharpton tell people to “Keep it Real”. Can the Black community have as much support to their Children to excelin everything that life can offer.
I have been in many poor homes, some with dirt floors and some where in those wretched places there is a picture of somebody in a graduation Cap and Gown. We in education must present a “Win-Win”
situation to capitalized the chance that a person can experience
this rtie of passage.
I have more, but maybe another day.
papajohn704: by all means plz share more…we need to hear from people such as yourself…
Rambling from an Old man. I finished my college days and got a job teaching in rural eastern North Carolina the day before School started.(No Idea that i would go into teaching, but i needed a job)
Funny, at East Carolina University(ECU) i was an editor for the school newspaper writing a column entilted “From the Right” and my Friend wrote “From the Left”, we had a counter viewpoint that we banter for two years. I say it was funny, because only 3 miles from ECU to my first job as a teacher, i became a left wing liberal.One of the reasons for my conversion? The school Winterville H.S. was a union school K-12 in the next year(1969)
the school was to be consolidated and desegregated. Believe me the
consolidation will be tougher than desegregation. I knew that the
students would have to make major attitude adjustments if we were to be successful. So, some students and parents were upset when any of my students said “Nigger”, i would immediately stop class, have that student get up and get a dictionary and look up the word and read out loud Webster’s definition.This would begin a disscussion on race, prejudice and attitudes that i felt strongly needed to be address. Thus i became the liberal resident of Winterville High School.
After my first year i lost favor with my Principal and was transfered to another county school. This school was a k-12 system and i was assigned to work with the Middle School students(7-9th).
The Principal asked me to be the assisstant Principal for the Middle School. One thing that impressed me was the interaction between black girls and boys. I thought at times that there was a child-like teasing toward each other. but, then I notice that some of the boys showed a lot of anger and hostility toward the girls. The girls would use a flight-fight activity with the boys.Also the girls liked to tell real or unreal stories about the boys to get them in trouble. I believe that most of these students had a
family and household dominated by a female person, Mother, Grandmother, etc. with very few male figures. So, maybe the boys rebelled against the girls sometime playfully,sometime physical
as a way to exert their independence?
more later…
papajohn704: thks for sharing…
Your thoughts remind me of a quote attributed to Clarence Thomas that has stuck with me. Several years ago the American Bar Association was meeting in Memphis. Clarence Thomas was invited to speak to the group. A black bar association having a black Supreme Court justice speak did not seem strange to me. Well there were so many complaints and howls about his beliefs from within the ABA that the invitation was recinded. Asked about it Justice Thomas responded that he didn’t think chains on his thinking and mind were any better than chains on his back. Whether he said that or not, that has stuck with me as a very simple and eloquent statement very deep in meaning on many levels. Having admired Justice Thomas ever since his “high tech lynching” attempt, I could very well believe he said that.
Mychal your comments to this subject was very insightful indeed but the problem here is also this PC crap. I blame media for this dilemma and the hip hop music that’s pumped daily into the youths of today. The messages these kids hear today is of negativity and since we live in a natural world it just attracts more negativity. A whole new mind set is needed here to make a positive change for the better. As a society we fail to see that we’re only here a short duration and that means that there are other generations to follow. But because of our selfishness of not considering the damage we our leaving our children, the children are turning into unproductive citizens with no morals, with no respect, and no hope.
henry yip: media is complicit and compliant in obamas destroying country…
As always Mychal your article is spot on. I also agree with several of the comments here that put a lot of the blame right where it belongs –on Obama’s back. He has set race relations back 60 years in our country.Just add this to a long list of things he has done to destroy America.
vietvet: its the communist way…I blame the media…they act as if they have an allergy that prevents them from presenting the truth about this pair…not even the clintons were treated like this…at least they reported all the dirt about them…they didn’t do anything about but at least they reported it…
I once asked my black buddy at school if he would rather be white. He said “no way man. Then all my nigger friends would be after my butt”. I asked him what would all the blacks do if they all had white skin. Would that make them happy? He said ” would make no difference because most blacks have inbred hate. They hate everything and everybody. Skin color is not the problem. Their hearts are black”. I don’t know,his heart must be a least more than half white.
alan: hatred and rage are not of the Spirit of God…ergo they are indicative of darkness…
Nothing that I can add to this blog other than to revalidate that you are one of my heroes, Mychal! You are willing to speak the truth that so many fear to whisper. I had a young student many years ago tell me that she hated all white people because her great greatgrandparents were slaves. I retorted that I hated all black people (which wasn’t true, then or now) because my great great grandfather was killed in the Civil War trying to free black men and women. She told me that my comment was stupid. She was right, of course, but she never understood how foolish she sounded as well. Thank you, Mychal.
memett: the sad thing is that she didn’t understand…I once had a 12 yr girl tell me she deserved special breaks because she was puerto rican…
I think the traits in black rage are present in the hatred toward Christians by none believers and the hatred of conservatives by liberals. They have doubts about themselves or actually know they are wrong but refuse to face it and change it for themselves.
tired okie: I would agree w/ your assessment…
Great insight and something I have always suspected. Actually saw this play out against a black friend of mine where I worked for a while. He was a car mechanic who had gone to photography school and started his own studio. He was well spoken (his grandfather made him use proper English) and talented. He was so good that a lot of the well to do whites in the area used his talent for their weddings etc. The other black employees hated him, started rumors, and sabotaged his work. They really lost it when he took lessons and EARNED his pilots license. The rage was unbelievable. He had the last laugh though. He became so successful (one his own) that he resigned his mechanic job and ran his studio full time.
tired okie: success is always the best revenge…great story thks for sharing…
Perhaps some white people did vote for obama because of some honest thought that a 50% black man would be listened to and effect some sort of positive change in this country, possibly uniting races as non-hypheated Americans. Most I have heard support obama have been baby boomer whites who seem to have varying levels from residual to active of hippy-dippiness, including own-race hatred in a backhanded “we must be sh*t since we’ve accomplished so much” way. I was thankfully too young to be a hippy but old enough to pay attention and laugh at them with their extreme self-focus masquerading as soul-searching for the betterment of mankind whether mankind likes it or not. Kids are really good at recognizing hypocrisy whether it is parents’ “do as I say not as I do” or bigger kids being allowed to run rampant, self-indulge yet feel that they had all the answers and evereyone else better fall in line with them. These bigger kids are have been and are still mainstays of today’s diehard liberality – still full of themselves as having all of the answers, and being entitled to force their doctrine down any throat; secular missionaries rabid for mass conversions to The True Way that includes this lingering own-race hatred – - and Barack Obama as their First Coming and Proof of their Correctness and Emperor and Leader of Their Faith.
This dovetails nicely with the same-goal-from-a-different-direction race hatred Mychal speaks of – let’s pile on anything “white” and use it as a handy excuse for victimhood, poverty, ignorance, etc, because, in my opinion, underlying it all is a deep feeling that “we” will be ***-****** if “we” are going to do it whitey’s way at all because if “we” do it would be the ultimate capitulation to and subjugation to whitey and they “win” making “us” perpetual slaves by being educated, having a job, prosperity, better futures – - so in order to have a “black way”, reject all of that, which leaves, what – poverty, ignorance, violence, illiteracy, incoherence (ebonics anyone?), anger, victim status – all of which are gobs easier than self-discipline, working hard, civility, education (something plenty of white folks are catching onto and jumping on the band wagon). Difference is, whiteys who hate whites in this see themselves as the deliverers of black people, which I find breathtakingly condescending – something neither group seems to notice in this uneasy alliance.
Those forcibly transported from Africa to slavery in America would be just so dang proud. Proud that their desire and ability to survive actual potentially soul-crushing enslavement, that their indignities, that their survival and in some cases advancement and prosperity post-emancipation has led to the current attitudes and mores among their many-generations removed descendants. Proud that it takes a tv show by Dr. Gates to show some black Americans how extraordinary their slave ancestors were – why was this not passed down strongly through the families if slave roots are the be-all cornerstone of American black resentment and discontent?
As a Ghanaian friend said to me, in Ghana, “American blacks need to remember that a full 50% of the blame for slavery rests with Africans.” White American civilization has made mistakes as it has developed – but by and large it has been eventually self-aware and self-correcting, and shared of itself, things that cannot be said of the vast majority of the rest of the world. The United States of America were founded and its ideals formed by white, Christian men who forged a system that has been the bedrock for flexing and growth and includes anyone of any color, any religion, any gender; it is a system of the heart and head, not the skin nor geography. Yet somehow this is all baaaaaaaad, by baaaaad people; needs to be fundamentally changed by The Emperor and His Posse and Handlers – - – - this twisted take on things has been gradually bought into by people who are swimming in the benefits of the system, yet want it dismantled – in favor of, what? We are throwing away with both hands what most of the rest of the world can only dream of ever attaining. All so people who have never been enslaved can score points off of people who have never owned slaves. How foolish is that?
lisa g: put simply people voted for obama for number of reasons stemming from because of his being black to buying the lies and flowery speech to outright hatred of bush…that said those of us who are truly informed are called upon to speak out boldly…
for sure, lots of reasons why people voted for him; was focusing on those I’ve spoken with or overheard who specifically come under what I outlined above – and all these reasons are often intertwined. An aspect of this presidency that puzzles and bothers me is the knee-jerk deference to obama – whether for racial or ideological or personal fascination reasons – or even by those who do not like him; instead of blurring or obliterating racial lines they are now more sharply drawn than ever with obama supporters on the side of the angels and anyone else being demons, racists, etc. Ties in with the attitude of “if it is this country or us it must be bad” that grows out of maybe prosperity guilt? excellence guilt? I saw this when I was at U of Pennsylvania before it became a “hot” school – everyone dumped on being there, and it was the same excellent school then that it is now and has been for a few centuries. The next step in this attitude is “if it is not us or not this system this country this school it must be great” and attendant fascinations with whatever the other thing/entity is, no matter how ill-informed or transient the basis for the fascinations. If the candidate is seen as the opposite of Bush (not white, not openly Christian, not conservative, not GOP, not “establishment” etc) then he must be great – without looking into what he IS, not just what he isn’t. The info about what obama is like was all out there – just ignored by most, including the mind-boggling line from Audacity of Hope about “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” and that “my treatment of the issues is often partial and incomplete.” huh??? His supporters and so many foreign leaders hailed his election as such superb timing of the right man right time – but it wasn’t; there were enough dumbed down voters to elect him but had he/they waited for another cycle or two, he would have had not just enough but a majority of dumbed down voters with the mandate he thinks he has now. Sorry, there are still too many actually educated, informed, American-thinkers out there.
lisa g: no arguments from me…
Mychal, your article is great! Thanks. Being an Air Force wife for seventeen years, I came in contact with many people of various backgrounds. We danced, laughed, cried, and talked together. My favorite acquantances were from Puerto Rico, Mexico, Japan, Okinawa and blacks and whites from all over the United States. I think that goes without saying that we shared the good and bad military experiences no matter where we came from. One thing I regret is the Okinawan lady who came to my house each day to clean. We had Many Conversations; I taught her English and she taught me Okinawan (Chinese and Japanese mixture). I’m afraid that I Americanized her too much. She showed up one day with a black eye. Her mother-in-law gave it to her. Kyoko wanted an American bed, bought one, and was not allowed to sleep in it. Only her husband and two boys were allowed. She mouthed her Okinawan husband and Mamasan gave her a black eye for talking to her son like that. The fight ensued. Getting back to the point, being in the military diminishes the struggles and we wives and military personnel all came together as one. So, I am naive about people. I see everyone as human beings and did not realize there was such a contention among the races. When Obama came into office, it seems that racism has soared. I had hoped that it had died a fast death in the civilian world. It appears that even Pelosi calls anyone a racist who doesn’t agree with the Obama agenda. I’m wondering who is the racist? But, your article has opened up some windows that need to opened. Thanks a bunch.
marilyn: thk you young lady…and thks for sharing your remarkable experience…
I’m so ashamed of what this country has become…There are so many stupid people, including whites who want to give away the store to the thieves, the liars, the lazy, and the useless. As a white person, I’m sick of seeing other whites kiss the backside of, wallow in apologies, and give in to criticism and pity of every other race. Our textbooks, our schools, our communities, and our churches, are poisened with stories of how the white man exploited the less fortunate, and how everything the white man did was wrong.WAKE UP, MY FELLOW AMERICANS, OF ALL COLORS,STUDY THE FACTS BEFORE THEY DISAPPEAR FROM HISTORY, STOP BEING STUPID.IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT THE WHITE MAN. WILL THE WORLD CONTINUE TO EXIST?
joan dallas texas: stupid people are not race or color sensitive…they are emblematic of society…
Excellent article, Mychal! Thanks for letting me know I’ve been quoting Booker T. Washington for most of my life, although, I see not quite correctly. I’ve always said, “Better to be alone than in bad company.” Now, I can preface that with, “As Booker T. Washington said, ‘Associate yourself with people of good quality,….” I had no idea that it wasn’t my own Mother who came up with that phrase – she’s gotten the literary credit for it – until NOW! ‘-)
snoopsister: thk you…are you going to tell your mom…
If I do, I will expect her to say: “Well, of course! Didn’t you know that? EVERYBODY knows that Booker T. Washington said that!” Alternatively, she could very well say, “Booger WHO?” LOL
snoopsister: hahaha….
So… I decided to put an end to the wondering. “What? Someone in WASHINGTON said that?” (I need to remember to speak up when I’m talking, LOL!) After all was said and done, it appears that both Mom and I learned something about one of the quotes we live by. Thanks for the education, Mychal!
snoopsister: hahaha…give mom a hug from me…
Mychal — One hopes that, with help from people like you, we will notice the elephant — and then, someday perhaps, see also that the king is in fact nude.
joe: every day another person has the scales removed from their eyes…
Something I haven’t heard discussed on any media or in any blog are the President’s efforts to get a waiver on public law 101-246. (I’d never heard of it either). In a nutshell, it is the law passed that stated that if Palestine was made a member of the U N, the United States would cease funding of UNESCO. Now the President is once again (and I’ll bet be successful) going to circumnavigate Congress. Why? So he can send around $130.000.000 to Palestine, not for humanitarian reasons, but to help fund the attack on Israel. I don’t care what lies are told, facts are facts. You heard it first here. I’ve written to my Representative and Senators asking them to stop him. I’ll either get no answer or some copied BS that more than likely won’t even address the subject. Something on the order “I am in total agreement with you on whatever you wrote to me on and I assure you that I’ll be working hard on this issue. I appreciate hearing from you. Otherwise I wouldn’t know the positions of my constituency, as if I cared.
Best Personal Regards
P. S. May I ask for your most generous contribution to my re-election fund?
sumitch: I can only work on so many things at a time…but I hope to do have more research done on it…that said thks for bringing it up…
I dealt with this situation for years as a HS teacher during parent-
teacher conferences held for various reasons. I learned over time not to take the comments personally, but to classify those who engaged in the negative verbage as intellectually inferior to me and unworthy of consideration. I am retired, but those feelings have not changed one iota.
dave c: often I view those who call me names the as intellectually and emotionally unstable…the fact that they must resort to such uncontrolled outbursts juxtaposed to cogent debate makes them intellectually dishonest…
This article should be a hot one Mychal. I have personal experience with the rage you speak of as I am sure you have as well.
For a while after Enron, I was a JCO (Juvenile Correction Officer) with the Texas State School system. What these really are is prisons for youth under 18 years old, but we call them “schools” so their feelings of self worth wouldn’t be damaged and “students” for the same reason.
They took great pleasure in getting the white officers to think that they were trying to improve themselves and then betraying him or her. In the three years I worked there, I never once saw a Black or Mexican officer attacked. The youth made no pretense of anything but hatred for whites, no matter how courteously they were treated. The Mexican kids were as bad. The running joke was that the Black kids hung together, the Mexican kids hung together and the white kids just tried to make friends so they wouldn’t be attacked. Strangely, there were no Asian kids. I’m not sure why, but I’ve heard all the reasons.
I saw 60 year old whites attacked by as many as four inmates at one time and sent to a hospital with broken ribs, jaws, arms, bruises and concussions. I even saw white women attacked. These kids never attack alone. It’s always in groups. I should add that the Mexican kids share this hatred as well. Whites are blamed for everything that they find wrong in their lives from being uneducated to not being able to get a decent job. They had excuses why everything was the “crackers” fault. It was whiteys fault that they dropped out of school when they were 14 because the schools were teaching to the whites. It wasn’t their fault that the blacks were the greatest group by race in the school; it was because the white officers picked on the Blacks. They were in prison because the police are racists and only arrest Blacks. No matter that they were selling drugs, burglarizing homes, robbery and assault (not a complete list) when they were arrested. This was the only way they could get any money. They couldn’t get jobs because of racism. No matter that their math skills were at the third grade level. No matter that their speech may as well be a foreign language. I could go on for pages with excuses and examples.
I would mention the Black professor at Harvard that was the cause of the beer party at the white house. This is an educator and role model. The Black Panthers are admired and the one in Philadelphia that was released for lack of evidence is a source of great humor, It’s often repeated, but it’s a fact that this administration has set race relations back 50 years. I see no way out,
The terrible fact was that when the kids were released from prison, they would wind up back in the same environment where they were taught this hatred, except now they had some status because they were “made”. This environment would often be where the Black men were all proud of their prison time. There was no shame or embarrassment. The Black men were generally in some kind of crime such as selling drugs (fathers used their kids to sell and acquire). Often the black women were “hos”, even down to their relatives except for their mothers who in fact may be. Their girl friends or wives were “bitches” and often were in fact prostitutes. Legal marriages were rare even when they were of legal age to get married. They would be proud of the children they fathered.
I could go on for pages, and not with any pride that I can, but you can get the idea of what their lives were like. Rarely did one of these children break out of this society; often they were killed in gang fights within a year of being released or back in prison. I apologize for the words used, but they are everyday words in their language. I am not and never have been a racist. I will admit that I am now afraid of Blacks and Mexicans when I am alone. I will admit that I don’t trust them. I wasn’t raised this way. Even Honkeys can be taught and learn too. Another fact. Most JCO’s “packed heat” on the outside and with good reason. Oft times they were targets.
I have no real idea of how to change this. And neither do the professionals. It’s a lifelong trap. It’s a shame to see a life wasted. But these are facts.
sumitch: the to end it is to stop capitulating to it…speak the truth boldly…you reach one or a few and they in turn do the same…I posted this to share what I experience for spkg the truth…and to encourage others not to fear speaking the truth…
Thank you Mr. Massie for a great article. Unfortunately, the truth is oftentimes very sad. I can only pray that men like you will continue to speak up on this issue. Thanks also to the post by Mr. Seigfreid. Have a blessed day all.
‘roy: not me alone…but all who know the truth…
Mychal,
I often wonder if Malcolm X types have paid alot of taxes to the country, or employed people, or ever created wealth. I would bet not. Those people who incite “victimization” usually do not have the fortitude or mentality to create wealth or prosperity, just misery and poverty.
We must remember, though, that some black leaders–Sharpton and Jackson, et al–profit from trumping up anger and victimization. Those who have always lived in poverty and have not been encouraged to stay in school easily fall prey to these profiteers of hate.
jjkrjw: I am committed to ending the use of race as currency to prostitute themselves and their agenda…
dave buls: I can’t say but they get to hell they can ask him…
dave buls: I don’t know but when they get to hell they can ask him…
THIS PRESIDENT HAS TAKEN THIS SITUATION AND MADE IT SO MUCH WORSE THAN IT HAS EVER BEEN. HE OPENED A CAN OR WORMS, NOT OPENED BEFORE!! BECAUSE OF THE POWER ENTRUSTED TO HIM, HE WAS ABLE TO DO THAT VERY THING.
And not a few whites voted for him because they honestly see the situation and wanted to be part of the change. Now they are looked on as duped and fools. This President is the stereotypical Black. He’s not the average to my experience, but he is the example of the hatred and contempt felt by some (many?). He is looked on as seeking revenge, for what I don’t know. Neither of his parents were good role models, but there must have been some whites in his life somewhere that helped him along. Why does he hate Jews? I very seriously doubt that he has any personal experience with any that would give him cause. It must be because he was taught. He talks the talk, but he sure doesn’t walk the walk. To butcher a now famous quote, “For the first time in my life, I am ashamed of our President”. And the source of the phrase was the first words out of the First Ladies mouth. It kinda set the stange.
sumitch: I disagree tangentially…he is a communist and he behaves and thinks accordingly…his wife is the bigoted racialist…
sumitch: it is us because we let them demagogue us…
josie: its the communist way…that’s why its important to understand the battle…
Great article, Mychal.
celeste: thk you…
Excellent article – with great quotes from Booker T.!
theresa: thk you much…
I hope you are taking action against that dollar store! I’m reminded of the line “triflin shiftless N words”used in a tv show years ago describing the state of a lot (Not all) black people today. i am also reminded of Chris Rock’s line “there are black people, and there’s N words. Aand the N words have got to go!”
ken: I have…I’ve been telling the world about it since it happened…that’s my action…I will talk about it and tell the story on national radio and television until I expire…
Hi Mychal; Great article. On Tea Party Radio Network: Founder’s Quest tonight, we had a caller, African Warlord X, who had been in the chat-room, and apparently was spoiling for a fight, wondering if we would put him on, and that he would bury us if we did. Well, I gave him the number, (don’t know why he didn’t see it on the site, it’s RIGHT THERE) he called in, and we had a great conversation. Turns out that he probably wasn’t as radical as he thought he was, or we just made more sense than he thought we would. Stereotypes are prevalent when it comes to prejudice. At any rate, he finally left after the call, spending another 30 minutes or so listening, and said he enjoyed the conversation and would be back. He began the call by really trying to stir things up, and when he found that it just wasn’t going to work and we weren’t going to buy into his Marxist mumbo-jumbo, confronted him honestly and politely with facts and historical context, the tone changed. Amazing what the truth can do!
james seigfreid: way to go…thks for sharing…one mind at a time that’s the way we things get done…
Mychal, thanks for your wonderful, thought-provoking articles. Why is it that when I click “thumbs up” on a comment, the number goes up 1 but quickly reverts back to zero?
jjkrjw: hahaha…I have no idea…plz send this to support…it may be something they need look into…