REGARDING THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS, HYPOCRITICAL, AND IRRESPONSIBLE GOP

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

REGARDING THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS, HYPOCRITICAL, AND IRRESPONSIBLE GOP

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I have a rule of thumb that has served me well throughout my adult life, and it’s quite simple - never trust the self-righteous. Self-righteous people are invariably the most malevolent people you’ll ever meet, and that tends to hold true regardless to whether we’re talking about politics or religion, and there’s a reason for that. The self-righteous tend to project their own character flaws upon others, so if you ever want to know what conservatives are up to, you simply pay attention to the offenses that they're accusing others of committing.
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A perfect example of that is how conservatives often refer to liberals as "Commie sympathizers," yet they enthusiastically support Donald Trump who's all but a Russian ambassador. They also tend to refer to liberals as "Godless heathens," while they support the kidnapping of children from their parents and putting them in cages. So it's no surprise that a full 81% of all White Evangelical Christians voted for Trump, because they've never seen a rapist (Kavanaugh, Trump) or child molester (Roy Moore) that they didn't think needed to be elected to office. Thus, in their assessment of others they tend to say, “Aw, they’re full of crap; I know what they're up to.” The reason they feel that way is because they assume that everyone is just as devious in their motivations and as flawed as they are, and then they delude themselves into believing that they’ve managed to turn their own character flaws into what are merely useful tools to assess others. So essentially, they believe that other people are evil, but their own malevolence is a valuable source of wisdom.
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That attitude is a fundamental part of conservative thinking. That’s what contributes to the gross perversion and religious zealotry living side by side within people Roy Moore, the highly religious child molester, and the murderous bigotry and greed living under the guise of patriotism in people like Dick Cheney and Donald Trump, and there’s a constant display of that exact same kind of delusion, malevolence and hypocrisy running throughout conservative history.
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Conservatives have suffered from this collective flaw, this blind spot in their character, going all the way back to the very beginning of this republic. As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, Alexander Hamilton, one of this nation’s most conservative founding fathers, believed that the rich and "wellborn" should be given a "permanent share in government." He said:
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“All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and wellborn, the other the mass of the people…. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class [the rich]a distinct, permanent share in government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second [the people], and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government.”
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Hamilton supported a lifetime appointment of the President, after being selected by congress, instead of the people.  Can you just imagine that, Donald Trump FOR LIFE!!!?  But America dodged that bullet during the Federalist Convention that took place between May 14 and September 17, 1787.
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Since most of the founding fathers came to America to escape the aristocratic class system in Europe, Hamilton’s desire to preserve the class system was resoundingly defeated in favor of an unfettered democracy, but that didn’t mean that people of Hamilton’s point of view would quietly go away. Instead, they lowered their profile and continued to pursue their agenda by using their wealth, power, and various strategies to divide the people to achieve their goal, and that’s what we see today.  That accounts for why conservatives tend to be specialists in obstructionism and division, and why the American people ALWAYS suffer under conservative governance.

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During the 70s Howard Hughes, founder of Hughes Aircraft, was world renown as one of the richest men in the world.  When he died in 1976 his net worth was $1.5 billion, the equivalent of $6.45 billion in today’s dollars.  But today, Jeff Bezo, the 53 year-old CEO of Amazon, is reported to have a net worth of $109.9 billion.
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According to the Economic Policy Institute, “CEO compensation increased from $1.5 million in 1978 to $16.3 million in 2014, or 997 percent, a rise almost double stock market growth. Over the same time period, a typical worker’s wages grew very little: the annual compensation, adjusted for inflation, of the average private-sector production and nonsupervisory worker (comprising 82 percent of total payroll employment) rose from $48,000 in 1978 to just $53,200 in 2014, an increase of only 10.9 percent. Due to this unequal growth, average top CEOs now make over 300 times what typical workers earn.”  So, so much for Ronald Reagan and the GOP’s “Trickle Down” theory.  Since Ronald Reagan entered office the rich have become exponentially richer, while the poor and middle class have essentially been marching in place, or in other words, losing ground. 
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The American middle class has been in freefall every since the election of Ronald Reagan.  When I was in college in the 70s my tuition was $6.50 per term, my rent for a  two bedroom apartment with two baths and a swimming pool was $165 per month,  and I received veterans assistance of over $600 per month. Then with my late wife's salary from Rockwell International of over $2000 per month, that allowed me to get an education while raising two children in complete middle-class comfort.  But after the conservative seizure of our economy during the Reagan administration, today young people have to live with their parents and mortgage their future to obtain draconian loans just to get a college degree.
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Thus, conservative Republicans are determined to create Alexander Hamilton’s two-tier society through hook or crook, and their reckless determination to install Brett Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court is clear evidence of that. In spite of their flag pins in their lapels and claims to be super-patriots and Evangelical Christians, they’re more than willing to support an obvious criminal and possible traitor as President of the United States, and a felonious perjurer and an attempted rapist on the Supreme Court. Just a moment's thought would suggest there's something wrong with that picture. And yes, I believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that Kavanaugh tried to rape her. After all, if she wanted to just make up a story, why would she add a friend of the accused, a hostile witness, as being on the scene? That would be stupid. And another thing that's strangely striking is if the allegation wasn't true you'd think that Kavanaugh's friend, Mark Judge, would be anxious to come forward and say, "This woman is lying on my friend," but instead, he said he doesn't want to testify.  Could that be because he doesn't want to take the chance of going to jail for perjury?
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So again, the GOP has a history of treason and working against the interest of the American people to promote their own malevolent interests. Richard Nixon sabotaged President Johnson's peace talks with the North Vietnamese in order to help him in his campaign for president. That caused the loss of countless American lives. Ronald Reagan later made a deal with the Iranians to continue to hold Americans hostage until after his election, and they were released as he was taking the Oath of Office. In addition, he flooded the inner-cities with crack cocaine to support his illegal war in Nicaragua. And then during the George W. Bush administration, Dick Cheney leaked the identity of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame in retribution against her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, after he investigated and then revealed that the pretext of the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq was a lie. And then there was the letter signed by 47 Republican senators to Iran:
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“As first reported by Bloomberg's Josh Rogin, a group of 47 Republican senators signed a letter addressed to "the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran," warning them not to be too optimistic about ongoing negotiations with the Obama administration over Tehran's nuclear program.”

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So the bottom line is, while President Obama was in negotiations with Iran to prevent their further development of nuclear weapons, 47 Republicans senators signed a letter warning the Iranians not to sign it.  The reason for that is since the fall of the Soviet Union they need a "Bogey Man" to justify their huge military budget that they're using to transfer the wealth of America into the hands of the top 1% of the population.  That's not only against American interests, but flat-out treason.
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And then finally (so far), NYmag.com reported the following:
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"Shortly before Trump’s inauguration, according to Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman, Israeli intelligence officials gathered at CIA headquarters, where they were told something astonishing: Russia, the agency believed, had “leverages of pressure” over the incoming president. Therefore, the agency advised the Israelis to consider the possibility that Trump might pass their secrets on to Russia. The Israelis dismissed the warning as outlandish. Who could believe that the world’s most powerful country was about to hand its presidency to a Russian dupe? That the United States government had, essentially, fallen?
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"A few months later, Trump invited Russian diplomats into the Oval Office. He boasted to them that he had fired “nut job” James Comey. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.” At the same meeting, Trump passed on to the Russians a highly sensitive intelligence secret Israel had captured from a valuable source inside ISIS. It was the precise danger Israel had been cautioned about."
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DRAFT-DODGIN' DONNIE

So flag pins notwithstanding, when it comes to blatant hypocrisy - especially regarding their professed love for America - conservative Republicans tend to be a most rare and highly disingenuous breed. They live to wrap themselves in the flag as if it's their personal security blanket, yet, when it comes to their horrendous assault on the nation and the American people - like shutting down the government, needlessly putting our troops in harm's way, refusing to support our vets (after they've outlived their usefulness on the battlefield), continually holding the American people hostage for the benefit of their wealthy cronies, and their blatant obstruction of any and every attempt to provide economic relief for the average American - they're prepared to engage in the most ridiculously illogical contortions to try to justify their unconscionable behavior.  Even as we speak they're trying to take away the benefits of the American people, such as social Security and Medicare, to pay for their $1.5 trillion tax giveaway to the rich. They treat the American people like we're stupid.  They slap us in the face, and then lecture us for causing them to injure their hand.  

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Eric L. Wattree
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.

DIAMOND AND SILK - IDIOTS IN BLACK

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

DIAMOND AND SILK
IDIOTS IN BLACK

A.K.A.

IDIOT AND IMBECIL

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We were all raised to be conservatives.  When we were children we were taught to believe that all good children must be respectful of adult authority figures, so we should never question authority and ALWAYS do what we're told. In other words, we were taught that we couldn't trust ourselves to think, because we had pus for brains. That's why when we were in grade school, no matter how mean and nasty a teacher was, we were always courteous and respectful, and that's also why we always had that one suck-up kid in class willing to go over the top and stay after class to clean the blackboard.  You know, the "teacher's pet." Well, today that kid is sitting around watching Fox News.

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"FAIR AND BALANCED"

When we were kids being taught to be conservative served a useful purpose, it kept us safe as mindless children.  But most of us eventually grew up and began to think for ourselves. We began to see ourselves as responsible adults in our own right.  We learned to have confidence in our own thoughts, so we didn't need others to guide our thinking.  Those were the people who grew-up to become liberals and progressives. The other people, who never managed to grow up, and never developed the confidence to become independent thinkers became conservatives, and as a result, all their lives they remain content to rely on what they consider "authority figures" - preachers, politicians, Fox News personalities, and the like - to control their minds and do their thinking for them. For that reason conservatives come in at least one of three varieties - greedy, bigoted, or mindless - and in many cases they’re a bundle of all three. That's also why they invariably speak in programed talking points, and that's exactly what we have here in Diamond and Silk, mindless children desperately seeking 'daddy's ' approval.

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I've written extensively about how conservatives tend to be mindless followers, and you can see a perfect example of that in the NFL controversy. The American flag is a symbol of American values, and the freedom of expression is the very FIRST Amendment of the United States Constitution. And as a former United States Marine I can tell you for a fact that the Marines who died for this country didn’t die for either a piece of cloth, a song, or the opinion of a cowardly draft dodger like Donald Trump. They died for what that beautiful  piece of cloth represents - the right for Colin Kaepernick to do exactly what he’s doing. Without that right both the American flag, and the National Anthem, would be totally meaningless. But most conservatives don’t possess the intellect to see that.
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As a result, Donald Trump has convinced his mindless conservative minions that it's wrong and unpatriotic to exercise the rights guaranteed under the Constitution - it's fine to brag about them, but it's grossly disrespectful to actually act upon them - and his mindless minions obediently follow his lead.  But the fact is, those who follow Draft-Dodging Donnie and who are jumping up and down about patriotism and how the flag is being disrespected, these are the people who are actually disrespecting our flag and the troops, not Colin Kaepernick. These people are trivializing the very values for which our Troops gave their lives. They’re allowing a dummy like Trump to manipulate them into promoting bigotry and stupidity in an attempt to tear this nation apart, and thereby, escape the consequences of his own criminality.  So to allow themselves to be complicit in that effort is what’s actually un-American, and it takes a complete idiot not to see that.  And that's exactly the kind of mindless stupidity that Diamond and Silk are engaged in.

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Being ignorant is a horrible state of affairs for anyone, but in the case of these two Black women it's tragic. Failing to develop into a logical and independent thinker is bad enough for a White person, but if you're White, at least you have a White supremacist society to somewhat protect your interest, but if you're Black and suffer from that intellectual disability, it's absolutely pathological.  Black people can't afford to be ignorant, it's a life threatening condition.

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TRUMP: "WILL YA JUST LOOK AT THESE IDIOTS!"

And ignorance and stupidity is exactly the case with Lynnette ‘Diamond’ Hardaway and Rochelle ‘Silk’ Richardson.  They're not only placing themselves, but everybody with Black skin in the direct path of an ever lurking danger for Black people, but they're much too stupid and self-serving to realize that.
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These two Black women are desperate to be embraced by the very White people who view them as useful idiots at best, and Aunt Jemima-like clowns at worse.  But they're willing to accept that, because people like themselves have no self-respect, or respect for their people - in fact, in many cases they're even racist 'Bligots' themselves. Ignorant Black people like these put Black children at risk by helping to validate a philosophy that considers it perfectly routine to shoot Black people down in the street like dogs, and then praise the murderous cop for performing a public service. The Black community needs to ostracize these two idiots for life.

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Black people like Diamond and Silk who embrace the conservative philosophy have been taught all their lives that the most conspicuous evidence of "having arrived" - and being one of the "good coons" - is moving as far away from the closest Black person as they can get and purging all vestiges of Black consciousness from your mind. And it doesn't matter to them that they'll never be fully accepted by White folks and always treated like an obedient pet, as long as they can perceive of themselves as being a notch above those "disobedient" Black heathens, that's good enough them. So they get out on stage and make absolute fools of themselves, and then allow themselves to be trotted out before the world to praise a racist, Nazi-sympathizing, misogynist bigot. So they've not only turned on Black people, they've also turned on women as well.

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But eventually, when they've outlived their usefulness and have exhausted the novelty of their 10 seconds of fame, they're going to be discarded by the White man like a soiled Tampon - just like Allen Keys, Herman Cain, Allen West, and Omarosa Manigault, just to name a few - and when that happens, the Black community should never forgive them.  Omarosa is on a "Please Forgive Me" book tour as we speak, and the Black response should be, "Get the hell outa here, you jive-ass turncoat."
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The Black community cannot continue to allow such turncoats to disrespect our culture and then come running back to us once they've been kicked to the curb by the White man.  They've already proven that they can't be trusted -  that's why the White man execute his turncoats. While I don't advocate that we go that far, I do strongly suggest that the Black community relegate all such people to the status of pariahs for the rest of their lives - and that should also go for undercover turncoats like Tavis Smiley and Cornel Wests who claim that they just "did it for the cause" -  Well, where the hell are they now!!!?  

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So the Black community needs to handle it's business without a scintilla of sympathy for these Bligots. That'll get the attention of potential turncoats and cause them to think long and hard before they turn on their own people. We've got to make the consequences so severe that the money and notoriety that the White man dangles before them as an enticement is just not worth it. We've got to make them understand that no matter how much money and notoriety you amass, if you're universally despised, money and infamy will make for a piss-poor companion. All they have to do is ask Trump - he'd give away every penny he's got just to be loved, admired, and respected like Barack Obama.

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And finally, we shouldn't wait until the White man kicks a turncoat to the curb.  As soon as they go down that path we should ostracize them.  That way they will be of no value to the White man. We've got to make the word "conservative" ring just as abrasively to the ears of Black people as the word "justice" does to the ears of the White establishment.

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DAMN FOOLS

Eric L. Wattree

Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com

Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)

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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.

DONALD TRUMP: A DRAFT-DODGING HYPOCRITE

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

DONALD TRUMP: 

A DRAFT-DODGING HYPOCRITE

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JUST IMAGINE WHAT AMERICAN HISTORY IS GOING TO SAY ABOUT THIS GENERATION OF GULLIBLE IDIOTS FOR BEING DUMB ENOUGH TO FOLLOW A COWARDLY, DRAFT-DODGING, DIPSHIT LIKE DONALD TRUMP. HE’S AN INSULT TO EVERY BRAVE AMERICAN WHO EVER DIED FOR THIS COUNTRY.

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The American flag is a symbol of American values, and the freedom of expression is the very FIRST Amendment of the United States Constitution.  As a former United States Marine I can say for a fact that the Marines who died for this country didn’t die for either a piece of cloth, a song, or the opinion of a cowardly draft dodger like Trump. They died for what that beautiful  piece of cloth represents - the right for Colin Kaepernick to do exactly what he’s doing. Without that right both the American flag, and the Anthem, would be totally meaningless. The fact is, those who follow Draft-Dodging Donnie are the ones who are disrespecting our troops. Trump and his followers are diminishing the values for which our Troops gave their lives in order to allow Trump to promote bigotry and stupidity in a concerted attempt to tear this nation apart. To be complicit in that effort is what’s un-American, and it takes a complete idiot not to see that.

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SO YOU GO STRAIGHT TO HELL, DRAFT-DODGIN’ DONNIE, AND HURRY UP AND GET THERE.
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THANK YOU, NIKE,
FOR PUTTING AMERICA BEFORE PROFIT.

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Eric L. Wattree

Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com

Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)

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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.

A MESSAGE TO BROTHER RICHARD ABOUT WHITE FOLKS

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

A MESSAGE TO BROTHER RICHARD:
STOP TELLING THE WORLD THAT BLACK PEOPLE HAVE PUS FOR BRAINS
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BROTHER RICHARD ON WHITE FOLKS:
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“The flag is a idol. And history will say nothing. They never said we stole America and murdered millions nor admitted their role in the transatlantic slave trade. So what has changed. Nothing. America was founded on racism. Slavery injustices and unequality (sic) . . . They are the same reprobates as their ancestors . . . same white racist mindset . . .”
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RESPONSE:
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Richard, don't be ignorant. You're sounding just like the bigots you're criticizing. Just like Black people can't be profiled as being all just alike - look at the two of us - neither can White people. If it were not for the thousands of White men who cared so much for freedom and justice that they were willing to leave the love and comfort of their homes and families to lay down their lives in the most brutal war this nation has ever fought,  you'd still be pickin' cotton on Uncle Charlie’s plantation. That’s what the Trumplodytes are mad about as we speak.
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Human beings think with their minds, not their skin pigmentation. That's the message that we're fighting so hard to get across to White bigots who sound just like you. So you're on the wrong side of this struggle, brother. So stop being so emotional and use your mind to think. And stop confusing ignorance with standing up for your people. Black people are only 13% of the population, so we'll never be truly free without White allies. So brother, please, stop making the world think that Black people have pus for brains.
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There are millions of White folks out in the world fighting for you harder than you're fighting for yourself. While you're out partying, swaggering, and reciting rap lyrics they're out there fighting, and demonstrating, and going to jail in the fight for justice. I know it's considered cool among many to claim, like you are, that all White folks are racist dogs, but the evidence, and history, have clearly shown that's not the case. The mere fact that you can say what you have without being lynched is clear evidence of that. 

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ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE

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Many White people have been brainwashed by the ruling class just like we have. If you'll notice, the Republican Party is made up of three different groups of people with confluent interests - the greedy, which is the ruling class, who don't care any more about poor and working-class White people than they do Blacks; bigots, who are insecure and feel threatened by the flashes of excellence that they see in Black people (like Barack Obama); and the clueless, who the greedy convinces to vote against their own interest in order for the greedy to remain viable. This latter group, the clueless, are the vast majority of the greedy's powerbase, so when Black people talk like you are and antagonize the powerbase of the greedy instead of utilizing their creativity to help to educate the clueless, we're doing ourselves a gross disservice. Enlightened Black, and White people, recognize that fact, and that's what makes them true brothers and sisters.

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INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE AND THE IGNORANCE  OF BIGOTRY
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"FREE YOUR MIND,

AND YOUR ASS WILL FOLLOW"

I've also seen your attitude reflected in the silly debate over interracial marriage. With all of the real problems we have in this world, you’d think that people would realize that becoming fixated on who's marrying who is just plain dumb.  If you don't like race mixing, simply don’t marry anyone of a different race and mind your own business.  When two people fall in love and get married, it's nobody's business but their own. Yet, in spite of the fact that most people don’t have a firm grip on their own lives, they want to try to control everyone else’s. Life could be so sweet and simple if we’d just learn to mind our own damn business.  But the fact that we just can’t seem to do that is causing much of our misery.
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We're currently in a class war, so if the poor and middle class don't stop this nonsense, recognize that fact, and come together we're doomed. The establishment has Blacks against Whites, straights against gays, citizens against immigrants, and Christians against any and everybody who doesn't look, think and act like themselves, and it's killing us, because as we fight among one another, the corporatists are cutting all of our throats.  That's how we got stuck with Trump, instead of minding their own business, people voted their hatred and anger. Now many of them are threatened with having their badly needed healthcare taken away just to give the rich a tax cut.  But they didn't think that far in advance. All they wanted to do was erase Barack Obama's legacy from history.  They voted to hurt people they didn't like, but what they didn't consider was their votes would come back to haunt them, because they're of the very same class as the people who they're voting against.  That's the way hatred and bigotry works. It invariably backfires, because it's the enemy's most effective weapon against the people. 
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Thus, this foolish backlash against interracial marriage only serves to undermine the people as a whole and promote the interest of our most insidious enemy, the corporatists, because hatred and bigotry divides people who should be allies in the war to save the poor and middle class.  And trying to block love is fruitless in any event. You can't put up barriers to love, because love is nature's way of perpetuating the species and forging humanity into what we are destined to become.  So these loving couples are going to roll right over any attempt to keep them apart, and they have God, nature, and the evolution of mankind on their side.
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WHAT IS THIS AFRICAN AMERICAN'S

ANCESTRY?

As nations go, The United States is in its infancy. It’s only 241 years old among nations like Iraq that’s been around for thousands of years before the birth of Christ.  So we’re destined to become one people just like in more ancient civilizations.  Considering the way that people are coming together and intermarrying, in another couple of hundred years or so to be an American won't simply be a nationality, it’ll  to be an ethnicity, and there's nothing we can do to stop that, because that’s the way the world, and nature, works - and the social media is rushing that day forward even faster, because it's teaching people who ordinarily wouldn't even come into contact with one another that beneath our skin, we're not really that different.  If you'll notice, the internet is not divided by race. People are now grouping based on interests, and worldview, just as they should be.  Because the bottom line is, there are only two types of people in this world, those who are enlightened, and those who are unable to adapt to a changing environment.  
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So with regard to maintaining "racial purity" African Americans have already been mongrelized beyond description. Yes, we have African roots, but pure-blooded Africans we’re not - we're AFRICAN AMERICANS, a unique and separate group of people, with our own traditions, background, and culture. I’ve had people remind me that Barack Obama is part White, and I tell them, yes, that means he’s African American, and 99.9% of all African Americans are part White.  My great grandmother, Miss Cassie, looked like a White woman with big lips, and my great grandfather was German.  Now that I’m getting older, I can’t even wear a natural anymore, because my hair has reverted back to being straight for some reason. So as Afrocentric as I've always tried to be all of my life, some White boy deep in my ancestry is having the last laugh - He's saying, "Hey Homie, peek-a-boo.”  My mother used tell me that my natural looked like a carpet, so if  somebody had told me 20 years ago that one day the wind would be able to blow my hair out of place I would have told them they were out of their mind, but that day has come. Thus, if racial purity is our goal, it’s far too late for that, so we might as well stop whining about it.  We'd be much better served to focus our efforts on bringing the poor and middle class of the various races, and every other division, together to work toward our survival.
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But again, if racial purity happens to be your thing, instead of worrying about other people's marriages, you should be focused on many of our young brothers, because they're a huge stumbling blocks to that effort. They’re killing each other, going to jail, becoming dope fiends, and failing to educate themselves, while the National Center for Education Statistics has reported that "black women are now the most educated group in the United States." According to the report, "between 2009 and 2010, black women earned 68 percent of all associate degrees awarded to black students, as well as 66 percent of bachelor’s degrees, 71 percent of master’s degrees and 65 percent of all doctorates awarded to black students."  The report goes on to say, "By both race and gender, a higher percentage of black women (9.7 percent) are enrolled in college than any other group, topping Asian women (8.7 percent), white women (7.1 percent) and white men (6.1 percent)."  On the other hand, here's what far too many of our young brothers are doing:
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What these brothers are engaged in all but insures that if things continue as they are there’s going to be a lack of suitable Black mates for Black women.  So if we really want to slow down race mixing, we need to stop hating and do something constructive about this - and in a hurry.  We need, somehow, to get these brothers to grow up, because 47 year-old teenagers don't make good fathers. 
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THE AMERICAN FAMILY.
IT'S COMING, SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL
GET READY FOR IT.

The fact is, many Black men have a lot of opinions about what it means to be Black, but unfortunately, none of them seem to have anything to do with improving themselves and moving forward.  Most of their opinions have more to do with trying to be cool, macho, rappers, and driving big cars.  On the other hand, Black women are moving forward at an unprecedented rate. So while Black women have been renowned for their love of Black men and their willingness to stand by them under the most trying circumstances over the centuries, for a highly educated and intelligent woman to have to put up with what is essentially a child with whiskers who refers to women as "bitches" and "hoes", is going to prove more than even they can bear (although, in fairness, sometimes the reverse is also true, where we have upwardly mobile Black men connected to foot-dragging women. I've also known that to be the case).  But the point is, if we want to enhance our culture we shouldn't be wasting our time worrying about who's marrying who, because we have some serious work to do on our own lives.
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THIS IS THE DEATH OF BLACK FAMILIES,
BLACK PEOPLE, AND THE BLACK CULTURE.

Due to our failure to address Black issues on a community level and clearly define who we are and who we aspire to be as a people, as Black individuals we're growing, or failing to grow, at very different rates. We have both absolute brilliance and absolute stupidity coexisting in the Black community.  As a result, many among us are seeking companionship on emotional and intellectual levels rather than by race.  After all, we are what we think, not what we look like, and you can only trust a person who looks like you some of the time, while you can trust a person who thinks like you all of the time.  So when looked at in that way, it makes perfect sense for an individual to seek out and marry a person who's more like themselves by disposition, worldview, and intellect than they are by skin color. When we begin to recognize that we are what we think, the color of a person's skin becomes irrelevant. 
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People are beginning to realize that they don't have to go through life miserable by passing up their soulmate just to prove that they love their people.  If I woke up tomorrow and my woman was White, it might take some getting use to, but it wouldn't mean a thing to me, because I love her because of who she is, not what she is.
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As an example of that, if two people were drowning and I could only save one, I'd save Bernie Sanders long before I'd even think about saving Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, or Allen West, because Bernie thinks more like I do, so as far as I'm concerned, he's my brother. While those others may look like me, they're "brothers from another mother," and many Black people are choosing their mates by using that very same rationale. Thoughtful Black people recognize that if they truly hate bigots, they should never allow themselves to support the philosophy and mindset of one.  If they do, that makes the bigot their brother, and they're simply on the opposing team.
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WHAT WE SEE HERE IS JIM CROW'S DYING GASP.

THAT'S WHY THE TRUMP BRIGADE IS GOING SO SPASTIC.

So haters are spitting in the wind.  In the very near future the term "American" is going to mean a people of mixed heritage born in the United States. America is, literally, becoming a "melting pot," and that's a good thing.  So as Black people, if we really want to preserve what it means to be Black, we must preserve our Black culture - and not Black culture as filtered through the eyes of undereducated rappers, but the very best of what it means to be Black - Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, etc. Because it is also essential that we educate ourselves and use our natural creativity to promote enlightenment, and due to the many adversities that Black people have endured over the centuries, there's nobody in this country more qualified to do that.
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RACIAL INBREEDING?

So instead of using our natural creativity trying to be the coolest and most "fly" people in society, we need to follow the example being set by our sisters and focus on becoming the most educated, and most brilliant people in society - we must begin to focus our attention on owning the race track, instead of becoming the horse. And finally, we need to stop walking around hating on people who are loving one another, raising families, and trying to be productive, because they're doing what they're suppose to be doing to enhance society and to promote the evolution of humanity.
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Nature gives us only two options, to either evolve, or perish. So we shouldn't allow our ignorance to make us the new Neanderthals.  Instead, we should dedicate our creative energy toward working on our cultural dysfunction - and that goes for Blacks and Whites alike.  Our failure to do that is what’s killing us as individuals, as a culture, and eventually, it's going to kill us as a society.
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So if you're a hater - Black or White - your attitude betrays three inescapable facts about who you are as a person - you're ignorant, you lack insight, and you're a burden on society.  And if you're a Christian bigot, you're also a hypocrite who's destined to bounce off the walls of Hell.
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60 MINUTES: MILES, DO YOU HATE WHITE PEOPLE?

MILES: NOT ALL OF 'EM.

Eric L. Wattree
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.