Race Relations yet again

     Strained Race relations in America are at an all time high.

    I guess my only take away from this video is this, the black woman accuses the white woman of calling her a "N!@@€R". And did speak THEE Offensive Word to the Police Officer. I do absolutely believe that if the police officer had spoken THEE Offensive Word back to her even in an only quoting her for his note taking record manner the black woman would have had that Police Officer put on trial, in a Kangaroo Court there in the parking lot, put in jail fired, publicly excoriated, paid for his wife's inevitable divorce, blm would have held a daylight candle light vigil and the Right Reverend Al Sharpton himself would have flown in on his private jet then a rented helicopter to that very parking lot with his personal podium in tow with in minutes of the police officer's arrival, to decry the racial bigotry brought on by the systemic racism throughout America that was without cause perpetrated upon this poor lost lamb of a woman who did nothing What-So-Ever to incur the unbridled Wrath of this Viscous and Hateful, white-Supremacist, Neo-Nazi, Fascist, white woman and the verbal brutality of the Police Officer. blm would have firebombed that Starbucks and the neighboring businesses and special attention paid the white woman's house, but not before making certain that the entire family was securely locked inside. Those incidents would have been calked up as poor gas line maintenance. Both the officer and the white woman would have had their faces splashed ALL over EVERY available media outlet with in the hour. Because the white woman and the Police Officer had used THEE offensive Word that shall not be spoken, by anyone other than a black person. 

    How is it possible that in black culture and in the black community N!@@€R can be and is freely thrown around like candy at Halloween, but WOE betide any poor fool outside the black community and culture that drops THEE N Bomb. Even FÜÇK is more acceptable than N!@@€R in any and every setting. Even President biden drops the F bomb on hot mics on the regular, or at least he used to. I think he has forgotten that word along with his name. Whip out the "F" word and nobody bats an eye but drop THEE "N" Bomb and things take a decidedly dark turn and 

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    How is it possible that black culture and the black community has fought for decades to Erase THEE "N" Word from the GLOBAL vocabulary but somehow this same said black culture and community retain 'Ownership' of THEE "N" Word for their own use and as a stylized shield against any one who dare utter it even under their breath like it is some heinous action on par with the Holocaust?

    This is a similar bit of video, and so is this, and this. The number of these videos is staggering. It is this sort of thing that makes it so very difficult to Not be a racist. I don't understand the entitlement that is on display in these videos. I do believe that the Proposition 47 has really moved this entitlement right to the heightened new level especially in California. This is a better video by Amala Ekpunobi who takes the time to break this down really well as she usually does. She produces great content. I highly recommend her work.

Black Language

     AAVE This is a new thing that I heard last night. "African American Vernacular English".

    I just had a look at this WIKI page on the phenomenon that is the AAVE. The way I saw it yesterday I thought it was just a word substitution thing. Holleeee Shiiiiiit was I Wrong. It is literally a whole other 'side' language, I guess is how I would say it. This AAVE uses many of the words from the English language but its not English. In the same way that English 'appropriates words from other languages. There are entire sections devoted to new ways to treat both Vowels and Consonants and accent. Its like English but not English. Its like English for Dummies. Its lazy English. And it seems that that black culture and the black community have laid claim to this new bastardized form of English. When I first learned of this new phenomenon [I say new as I understand it it is not too terribly new] I know that I am sounding like I am coming down harshly on this new language, because I am. The Black community has been making these same excuses for the laziness of black students in schools for quite literally DECADES. I am old enough to recall when the first go-round of this was 'popular' Back in the early 70's came along an English 'language equivalent' called Ebonics.  And I doubt that is the first occurrence of this sort of thing.  It was basically the same thing. It is prison speak that was taught at home and was being used in school by recalcitrant black students who Actively Refused to learn ENGLISH. I resist using the phrase Proper English. English is a slippery language. It morphs and evolve over time. Some times for the good and sometimes NOT. And the Oakland school district was considering or maybe even did pass some sort of ordinance that would allow black students to speak and write in this Ebonics language so that the teachers could pass these same lazy recalcitrant students up through the grades and eventually matriculate them out of school with 'actual' diplomas. High school diploma's that are supposed to be a short form employment application qualifier. The 'diploma' is supposed to certify to a potential employer that the student bearing this would be diploma has passed with some level of proficiency the general course load for a high school student. That being that this student should be able to read English, speak and understand English, be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide. And at some level under some little bit about American history and hopefully some little bit about world history. At a Bare Minimum. Minimum! But the school board felt that it was somehow more important that the students be able to "articulate" their thoughts and ideas by using this new language of ebonics. And while I agree that the students should be able to "articulate" their thoughts and ideas must at least some weight must be measured in how well this student can articulate their thought and ideas to through the use of actual English not a criminalized version of English. Employers that may not be the least bit familiar with the the 'language' that is Ebonics. A high school diploma is supposed to be at some level like a drivers license. You should be able to take you diploma to any state in  the Union and have this diploma be understood to mean the same in Oakland California as it does in Des Moines Iowa. While I don't actually know about the demographics of Des Moines Iowa I do not think they will have any Ebonics/Jive Translators readily available. I surely do not even know what 'June Cleaver' was saying there. Maybe Jive is some sort of dialect of Ebonics or maybe Jive is a 'language' unto its self or maybe AAVE is just some downstream codified umbrella under which both Jive and Ebonics hide. Ebonics must be a real thing because my spell checker knows it.

    It has been decades since graduated from high school and I do agree that English is tough to learn. I couldn't "Diagram" a sentence to save my life. And I sure as fuck do not know what the pluperfect tense of the verb go is. Or even what that means. But I do believe that I can string together a fairly coherent sentence and cogent and argument. On the list of the most difficult languages to learn it didn't even make the top ten.

    There are So many rules and So many exceptions to all of those rules. And it seems that many of the rules that they beat into you along with their accompanying exceptions are not as hard and fast as was taught. For instance the use of the words And and But to start a sentence. As I recall that was a big no no. But as it turns out maybe not as rigid as they would have has us believe. I hated my English classes. There was one point where my teacher was asking the class why the writer of the "Great Gatsby" might have been using the word and I shit you not the word "it" in this sentence whatever that sentence might have been and how it might have changed the entire passage had he chosen to use a different word. I about silently shit myself. As I read that passage there was NO other word that could have been used there in that sentence in that context. But who am I to crab. I don't have a Masters in English Literature. I couldn't understand how that book and others like it had become 'American Classics' and that they must be studied in perpetuity for their scathing insights into the American psyche. "The Great Gatsby" and "A catcher in the Rye" and "Grapes of Wrath" and "To Kill a Mockingbird". To be fair something clicked for me with "to Kill a Mockingbird" I did enjoy reading it. But that didn't mean that I understood any of the underlying subtle subtext being 'taught' to us about race relations in the south in the Year of Our Lord 1936. But somehow I found it to be a good story. I really hate it when 'professors' get all high and mighty about what the story is 'Really' about. Cant a story just be a story? [Spin this video out to about 4 minutes to see the message] But does there have to be a 'Message' in everything? Cant an Orange just be an orange?

     So, yes English is tough. But so is life. And in order to get along in the world and in life there some basic tools that one needs to have. In America Good and Proper and English is an important tool. And teachers who are letting students slide by in English by teaching Not English but what ever AAVE represents as a language are doing their students an incredible dis-service.

    It seems odd to me now though that the 4B Movement is getting so much airtime these days. It is nothing new. There is literally  nothing new under the sun. Lysistrata was written millennia ago and told the same basic story. Only now that the entire global population is on the verge of collapse we really cant afford this sort of disruption. South Korea, where 4B originated is experiencing population collapse that make the Black Death, Great Plague look like a summer allergy season. Apparently women who were already upset with the state of relations between men and women were "triggered" by the election results and are now shaving their heads stopping wearing makeup and what ever else they can think of to make themselves repellent to men. Given the state of the Mano-sphere that really isn't going to accomplish much. Lots of men have 'quit' women or moved overseas.   I don't know what bit of chaos in my brain thought this was a salient point to make with regard to AAVE, but there it is and I digress, again.

American History; Slavery

     American History

    American history as it is being taught in American schools is a total SHAM. It is a Guilt induction indoctrination passed down from the Marxist college professors. I say that because the University system has a hard-on for America and want to tare it down mind by mind by mind by mind. And they are doing that by selectively teaching the Crappiest parts of American history. I say Selectively because they sort of gloss over the Revolutionary War and certainly only give the War of 1812 a chapter or two. There is Very Very little taught about the involvement of the French in the Revolutionary and 1812 wars. While the Revolutionary war was a pivotal time in American History, the war of 1812 was more consequential. I don't recall to much about the Spanish American War nor any of the other wars that went on in  America.

    Heck so much is given over to how horrible white people were to the black population of slaves. And by definition if you were a black person in America during that time you were by definition a slave. There were No black business owners, no black farmers and no black land owners and sure as shit no black slave owners. But oh Contrare there were in fact very successful business owners, black farmers, land owners and slave owners.

    The primary focus of American History as taught in high school is about how SHITTY America is. They teach that Every and Only White men owned slaves in Southern State of America leading up to and during the civil war. There is no balancing taught about how many Black men owned slaves. There was no balance taught about how few actual slaves there were. They do bang-on at GREAT length about how brutal and horrific slave owners were to their slaves. There is NO balance about how that the world has ALWAYS known slavery. The way they teach it they would have us ALL believe that the only people that were ever enslaved were black people. and they would have you believe that slavery only ever existed in the Southern States of America and they would have us ALL believe that the Civil war was ONLY about slavery. This is being taught through the lens of Marxist Victim hood. There only two states of being according to Marx. You are either an Oppressor or you are a Victim.There is No in between. Its a very binary view of the world. And it is the obligation of the victimized to throw off the Oppressor by any means necessary. And sort of by definition Marxist definition the victims only means available is through violent over throw. And again by definition again Marxist definition the violence was due penance or retribution for the oppressors oppressive ways. Sort of a Yoda-esque statement. "No. Try not. Do, or do not. There is No try." With Marx it was always very Binary. Which id sort of odd when you think about how everybody these days is throwing off the idea of "Binary". But are falling all over themselves embracing Marxist ideals. [Watch this video. It is some of the most illuminating 30 minutes you are ever going to experience.] Thank you so much "College Educators".

    [Sidebar; I noticed in Dead-pool II that on the wall of the Xavier's School for Gifted students has a framed portrait of Carl Marx on the wall.]

    Seen through this lens everything is oppressor and oppressed. And seen through a new set of lenses called Presentism Everybody back then should have known better and done better. Abraham Lincoln statues are being torn down because somehow some way he was a fuck up So too was George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Fuck ups the lot of them. And sure as shit tear down ALL that is southern culture. Robert E Lee, Gone. The Confederate Flag, Gone For Sure. This in response to the killing of George Floyd. the WIKI page displays it as a murder because the entire world dropped down on the case against Derek Chauvin. The entire city of Minneapolis was on fire. Black people were burning everything and anything that could burn. And the mayor did NOTHING. He let it burn. And that was one of the pivotal moments in the blm movement. But I digress.

     Similarly they do not teach about ALL OF THE OTHER SLAVERY going on in the world. Colonial America did NOT invent slavery! Colonial America does NOT hold the patent to nor the copyrights to slavery. But the way it is taught  you would certainly think so. They teach how horrible it was to be a slave picking cotton in the brutal heat of the south until your fingers bled. No doubt a miserable condition. But did they ever teach about the conditions of being a Galley Slave in a They did and do NOT. For a galley slave picking cotton in the South Georgia sun would be an All inclusive Club Med Vacation in comparison. Being a galley slave was quite literally like rowing your way right through Satan's Ass-hole.

    Oh and lets not forget the entire History of the Jewish people. They have almost not ever not been enslaved by somebody, some where at some time. The Bible is Replete with stories of Jewish slavery. 1948 Israel was created. I imagine that to this very day there still Jewish slaves.

    They do Not teach that there was Vast Tribal warfare and subsequent slavery going on in Africa long before America or France or Britain or Spain or Portugal or Holland or, or, or got involved. The movie that Viola Davis is OH SO Very proud of. What that movie did NOT tell about was that tribal Warrior woman she brutally enslaved thousands of her tribal neighbors and was a Big part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. That trade was ostensibly with America. Did the move mention that. OH Heavens NO. That would be 'off topic' and counter to the WOKE narrative being PUSHED by All of hollywoke. She was able to abdicate this 'responsibility' by calling it entertainment and not a documentary. And I believe in that argument. And slavery was and is not to this day about race. It wasn't then isn't now and has NEVER been about race. Its about Power. If one group could over power another group they would make slaves of the weaker group. Central American tribes people have been involved in slavery for as long as the Meso-Americas have been civilized. The Mayans, the Aztecs, the Olmec, Nobody was exempt. And that doesn't account for South America and the Peruvians. They famously had coca leaves to chew on while going about their Fierce battles and slavery stuff. The Indians of America were also slavers. Tribe on tribe slavery was very prevalent. Us poor old American white guys are but bit players in the overall scope of slavery as an institution. But us poor old American white guys bare ALL the weight of that sin against humanity. I do hear that British history lessons is much the same. British history is taught that the Brits enslaved the entire population of India and everywhere that their empire would reach. But in the view of the rest of the world the poor old American white guy is the Absolute worst offender.

    There is NO education given about the slavery going on in North Africa. The Barbary Coast. Those Pirates took and made slaves of everybody they could catch and concur. Principally White British, Spanish, Portuguese  ANYbody sailing just about anything in the area. The Marine Corps Hymn talks specifically about "The Shores of Tripoli" That was the very heart of the Barbary Coast. The Epicenter of Piracy and slavers.

    And they Certainly do NOT teach about modern day slavery. Slavery is a thing of the past. All white people in all of America had to be 'put down' to rid the world of the surge of the white mans propensity to enslave black people. But there are more slaves today at this very moment, in THIS as you read this moment [estimated 40 million] than were EVER enslaved in the whole of the 218 years of Colonial American slavery. EVER! [estimated TOTAL 10 million]And most of today's slaves are women. Sex slaves. Eastern European village women duped into thinking that they can make it in Turkey or some other Muslim nation as waitresses or other service industry positions. Positions yes, just not the ones that they were sold.

    Ms. Crockett seems to have skipped much of world history in her quest to achieve her business degree. So I get BENT when people like Ms. Crockett Bangs-On and On and On, on the congressional floor Wasting Everybody's time [She does however like to criticize those who are NOT her who waste tax payer money] and MONEY about black Oppression in America. How only black people are and have ever been oppressed and sort of by definition in her argument by white people. [She herself does NOT seem to have been the victim of any oppression] Its Always White on Black Oppression. There is nothing else. No other race has ever been oppressed besides the black people. And she rails on and on about it and it not like the rest of the members in this meeting don't know this but it is incumbent upon her and her alone because she herself is a black woman to for 40 minutes remind everybody that they should hang our white people collective heads in shame for the actions of people 200 years ago. And that All white people should operate from a position of shame and guilt, Forever.  But this assertion by Ms. Crockett feels like a not so thinly veiled black on white oppression. And that the magnitude of these sins mean that ALL white people will forever and in  perpetuity be guilty and that we should never forget it and should the need arise she will be OH SO happy to re-re-re remind us of our inherited sin. A sin that can NEVER be washed form the collective hands of ALL white people everywhere. EVER!