PLACING KOBE BRYANT’S DEATH IN PERSPECTIVE

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY
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PLACING KOBE BRYANT’S DEATH IN PERSPECTIVE

I placed a simple comment on Facebook, and I couldn’t believe how some people freaked out. But it struck me as a teaching moment. The response I received not only demonstrated how we’re having our minds stolen from us, but how effective that effort has been. So I think it’s worth discussing, at least briefly.
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I posted the following:

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“I was greatly saddened over Kobe's untimely death, and even more saddened by the death of his daughter, Gianna. But I'm about Kobe'ed out at this point. Millions of people have died since Kobe, so shouldn’t we be just as mournful over them? I’m a father and a grandfather more than I am anything else, so every time I hear about this tragedy it depresses me greatly – not so much about Kobe, but about his baby girl. So let’s move on – PLEASE!!!”

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In response, most people simply took it like I meant it – while I'm sorry about what happened to Kobe, we shouldn't treat it like the fall of Rome. But in a few cases, I got the kind of hostility that made it seem like I told them they shouldn’t mourn their mother, and all simply because I stated an opinion. One person told me to mind my own business, and another suggested that I should get off the social media.
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Well, I’m not getting off of social media. I expressed an opinion, and that's what people do on social media. In fact, that’s what gives social media it’s value, the many varied opinions shared on multiple subjects. Such comments are designed to stimulate the mind, and encourages people to think. So no opinion should be taboo, regardless of its content.
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Making any subject taboo is anti-intellectual, and anti-intellectualism is the establishment’s most potent tool for keeping us brainwashed. They use it to herd us like cattle. It’s called “group-think.” Anti-intellectualism is what makes it possible for people like Donald Trump to exist. If you'll notice, the dumber a person is, the more likely he is to be a Trump supporter. The reason for that is they've been trained to be guided by their emotions instead of their brain.

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In that regard, with Black people being shot and killed by police through their windows while watching television, and others dying on the street of hunger and freezing to death in the elements, and then on top of that, having a lunatic in the White House putting children in cages and trying to turn the entire damn country into a prison camp, going into deep mourning over the death of a rich man who bounced a ball for a living is a major “wakeup-and-get-a-life" moment.
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Most people can't even recite the names of the other people who died in the crash, yet their lives were just as precious as Kobe's. Thus, they're not mourning a person, they're mourning fame. So it's important for us to remember that while we might feel sorrow over Kobe's death, he wasn't Jesus. So while we should mourn the death of a family member, a situation like Kobe's rate a "I'm sorry to hear that", and move on. We might want to set a day or two aside to recall who he was, but going on and on about it is ridiculous. Yes, I mourned - I'm still in sorrow - but I'm in mourning for Gianna and her mother much more than I am for Kobe. I'm mourning over the pain it brought into their lives, not because I considered Kobe to be like Jesus. I mourn over anyone's death, not just Kobe's.
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But many of us tend to take the death of a celebrity to a ridiculous extent, and that clearly shows how much control the White man has over our minds. In spite of everything that’s happened to us since his death, some people are still mourning over Prince, and never even met the guy. I mean, give me a break! That’s not mourning, that’s called a distraction. The establishment can cut our throats, and then take our minds off  what they've done in the here-and-now by simply saying, “But wasn’t that horrible about Prince?”, and we’ll forget all about the fact that they just took school lunches from our children, stole our Medicare, and threw the elderly out on the street. We'll allow them take us to an entirely different zone and forget all about the fact that they just cut our throats.
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They’ve been playing us like that for years, so we've got to learn to remain focused and prioritize what's really important in life. I just read a comment by a conservative Trump supporter that said Martin Luther King would be against the Democrats – and it was a Black bigot hugger who said it. So in spite of all of the years since Martin's death, they're STILL trying to use the death of a Black icon to cloud our minds. It's called misdirection, or changing the subject. They do it routinely. That's why every time Trump is caught with his hand in the cookie jar, instead of trying to denying it, they say, "Yeah, but what about Obama?", and then come up with a lie you have to argue with them over, effectively changing the subject. 

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Regarding Kobe, one commenter, said, "I am not about to stop praising Black excellence." And that gets to the crux of the matter. It points out another way that they use distraction to redirect our minds. We’re being indoctrinated into accepting their view of what constitutes Black excellence. There’s no doubt about the fact that Kobe was excellent at what he did, but what Black people need to consider is, was what Kobe did intrinsically excellent in itself? The man bounced a ball for a living. What intrinsic value does that have for the Black community, or humanity as a whole? Let me answer that - solutely none. In fact, if basketball had never been invented humanity wouldn’t have even missed a beat.

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So the bottom line is, through no fault of his own, Kobe was engaged in the kind of distractions that actually hurt the Black community, because they used him to keep us focused on the frivolous rather than the serious matters in life. Black people need to be focused on the things that can move us forward as a people - things like math, science, and engineering - not on how well we can bounce a damn ball.
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Life is not a game. Playing games is for children. While the White man is grooming his kids to own the racetrack, he's dangling a carrot before ours to become the damn horse – and if you want to see how they treat horses, just look at Colin Kaepernick.

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So I’m not saying that we shouldn’t feel bad about what happened to Kobe, but we should be careful about who we enshrine as our cultural heroes. While Kobe was undoubtedly skilled at what he did, so is a mechanic, but the White establishment can use Kobe's skills to manipulate us as a people – and they do. Kobe was famous because the White man made him famous. Kobe was good, but he wasn’t special. The Black community is filled with young people with his kind of talent in many areas, but we don't freak-out if something happens to one of them. So the only thing that makes Kobe different is he was just lucky enough to be chosen by the White man for their purpose.  
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The White man controls the sports leagues, the media, and the publicity machines. And he uses that machine to keep brilliant Black minds seeking wealth and fame instead of pursuing their true excellence, the excellence that's locked within their minds. That serves the White establishment’s purpose, because without true Black excellence, and the development of our intellectual creativity, all the Kobe Bryants in the world can’t move the Black community forward.
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Kobe stands as a symbol of wealth and fame for other young Black people to aspire to if they choose to shun knowledge for celebrity. But that serves the White man's purposes, not ours. The White man selects a handful of Black people and make them superstars in order to hold millions of Black people down. So while we can, and we should, admire what Kobe accomplished, we shouldn’t worship him for a minute. We should worship knowledge. Because the White man didn't enslave us because he could beat us up - he was able to enslave us because he had a knowledge of gunpowder that we didn't possess, and he had his mind on conquest while we were thinking of other things. We can't allow that to continue to happen. It's essential that Black people learn to remain focused.
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And I’m not just blowing smoke. I believe in what I’m saying. My son, Eric Jr., is in his university's Basketball Hall of Fame, and he had several friends

that went into the NBA. When he went into high school he walked through the door as their starting center. In fact, they didn't even wait for him to get to high school. When he graduated from middle school they started working with him during the Summer. But when he graduated from college, I noticed he had already started living the celebrity lifestyle – clubbing every night, and running around in expensive cars, and hanging out with beautiful, high-living women. I didn’t like that, because I felt that it was a frivolous lifestyle, and I was losing the down-to-Earth son that I’d put so much effort into raising. So I encouraged him to pass up trying to go into the NBA and develop his mind and character and pursue a life of substance instead, and that's exactly what he did. I didn't put all of my efforts into raising a human being to make bouncing a ball the high point of his life. I felt that he had more to offer to the world, and I was right. He ended up going all over the world with the President of the United States.
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He's gone on to become quite successful and greatly admired by everyone who knows him.  Currently my grandson, Eric III, is a starting player at Oklahoma City University, and I was curious to know if my son regretted the advice that I'd given him to give up playing ball himself. So we recently discussed the subject, and he said he didn't regret it for a minute. In fact, he said, he was glad I intervened, because if I hadn't, his two sons wouldn't be here. And I know exactly where he was coming from. I wanted to be John Coltrane and go all over the world playing my saxophone, but when Eric Jr and his sister, Kai, were born, I had to make a decision, and I don't regret it for a minute either. THEY became my fame and fortune, and no amount of celebrity could replace them for a second. That's exactly why I'm sitting here writin' instead of giggin', and I'm thrilled about it. 

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ERIC III

Life is about much more than trying to be a celebrity and chasing a dollar. Life is about happiness, personal development, and enjoying your family. Eric ended up producing two sons who are following in his footsteps. Eric III, who is headed for Wall Street, and Eli, a hell of a writer, and currently in military intelligence. THEY are my claim to fame, and they can take my bows for me, because whatever they accomplish, is my accomplishment. They allow me to face any man in the world eyeball-to eyeball, regardless of his wealth and power, and challenge his greatness. I can walk into the White House and challenge Donald Trump to compare his kids to what I've produced. That gives me stature, and it says it all.
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So ballin' is fun on the playground as a child, and it can be helpful in getting a young person through college, but I've taught my kids that it's only a means to an end, and not an end in itself. Our people have gone through far too much to spend our lives playing games - no matter how much they pay us. Where would we be if Martin and Malcolm had decided to dedicate their lives to bouncin' a ball, or Rosa Parks had decided to shake her ass for a living? We wouldn't be very well off, I assure you.
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Excellence breeds respect, and the Black community has ample evidence of the value of excellence,

knowledge, and character currently walking among us. Who commands more respect, Barack Obama, or Donald Trump with all of his wealth? Obama is, without a doubt. As a direct result of Barack’s excellence, he’s brought honor to our entire culture.
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Prior to Barack Obama coming along, in spite of all our athletic ability and "soul", there was a raging debate going on in this country about whether or not Black people were inherently inferior. It was being alleged by many that Affirmative Action was the only thing that allowed Black people to compete with their White counterparts. But since Barack Obama, you rarely, if ever, hear anyone trying to make that claim today – in fact, Trump spends his every waking hour trying to prove he’s even close to being as competent as Barack Obama, and as a lifelong bigot, it's driving him crazy. But Donald will just have to be content with going crazy, because he'll never be able to compete with Obama. Barack learned as a child that what we so dismissively call "soul" is actually intellectual brilliance straining to be unleashed, and he developed that brilliance into becoming one of the greatest presidents this country has ever known. He's the Charlie Parker of American politics.
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So it’s important for Black people to remember that God made birds to fly, fish to swim, and man to think. So we should always honor knowledge, character, and intellect over all other things. But the White establishment would have our Black youth believe that their highest aspiration in life should be the opportunity to run up and down some basketball court or football field with a ball. That “keeps us in our place”. But if you stop and give it just one moment’s thought, it becomes clear that any dog can outrun us. So what’s the point?

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So, again, I'm very sorry that Kobe met with the untimely tragedy that befell him, but we’ve got to keep life in perspective. People die every day, but there are a lot more important things in life to focused on other than bringing life to a standstill over a man with the ability to bounce a ball – and taking the time to develop our intellect, and devising a strategy for surviving our current condition should be at the very top of that list. We must focus on keeping our culture alive. 
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So wipe your eyes, say goodbye to Kobe, and let's focus on moving our people forward.

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

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THE REPUBLICAN SENATE HAS REVEALED ITSELF TO BE FILLED WITH COWARDLY AND UNPATRIOTIC FRAUDS - JUST LIKE THEIR PRESIDENT

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY

THE REPUBLICAN SENATE HAS REVEALED ITSELF TO BE FILLED WITH COWARDLY AND UNPATRIOTIC FRAUDS -
JUST LIKE THEIR PRESIDENT

When you’re trying to dig yourself out of a hole, you’ve got to be careful during the digging not to cause the walls to cave in and make things worse. Well, that’s exactly what the Republican senate has done to themselves by voting not to allow any additional witnesses or evidence to be presented in the Trump impeachment trial. Trump's clumsy and corrupt handling of the Ukrainian matter already had the GOP in a hole, but their even clumsier defense made the situation even worse, and then, their refusal to allow new evidence in the midst of the ever-mounting bombshell evidence leaking out on a daily basis has made the situation a disaster. They don’t even have a credible excuse for their actions. So the evidence is clear for everyone to see – the GOP is engaged in a coverup that gives their personal interests priority over that of the country. That blows all of their claims of patriotism and the wearing of flag pins in their lapels straight to Hell.

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That essentially destroys the credibility of the Republican Party, and conservatism in general, because the claim of patriotism is what they hang their hats on. They not only use it for campaign purposes by claiming that, unlike liberal Democrats, they love America, but they also use it to promote their bigotry. Look at how they used patriotism to attack Colin Keapernick.
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Conservatives claimed that when Kaepernick took a knee during the National Anthem, he was disrespecting the flag. That always struck me as curious. How can Colin Kaepernick be accused of denigrating the flag by taking a knee when the flag is a SYMBOL of free expression? That’s like saying a person is disrespecting the church by being a Christian. That’s not only hypocritical, but stupid.
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As a former marine I can say without a doubt - and I’m sure that Trump’s former Chief of Staff, Gen. Kelly, could also tell him - that American fighting men and women didn’t die for a piece of cloth or a song, they died for what that piece of cloth represents, the very personal freedom that Trump was trying to deny Kaepernick and his fellow players.  While I can fully understand Trump being ignorant in the area of American patriotism - since when the nation called upon him to serve the country, he showed up at the draft board with a note from his daddy's doctor saying his feet hurt - any TRUE American should understand that Colin Kaepernick and his fellow players were not disrespecting the flag at all, Trump did.
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Colin Kaepernick was acting in the truest tradition of American patriotism by speaking out in order to make this country a better place for all. Unlike the Republican senate, he was willing to place his personal interest on the line to confront un-American bigots for being the lyin’ and hypocritical racists that they are - and the bigots know that!!! But once they were confronted with their own anti-Americanism, they claimed that it was the PLAYERS who were un-American!!! That’s typical racist bullshit. People of Trump's ilk also accused Dr. Martin Luther King of being un-American.
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MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL 

AND DONALD TRUMP

But now that these Trumplodytes have given America the collective finger, they’ve made it clear that it’s all been a scam from the very beginning. In spite of the fact that 50 to 43 percent of the American people wants Trump convicted by the senate and removed from office, Republican senators have given the most corrupt and self-serving President in the history of this nation a complete pass on his criminal behavior – and never mind that his reckless irresponsibility and profound ignorance is placing this nation, and the world, in extreme danger, they deem it to be in their own personal interest to turn a blind-eye to it.
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From their point of view, the claim of patriotism can come in handy as long as it’s kept in perspective, but Trump controls the Republican Party and they need their seats in the senate. It's been reported that Republican senators were told that the head of anyone who didn't follow the party line would be placed on a spike. So they did just what they were told and said, to Hell with America. We have mortgages to pay!
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In order to justify their position, Trump's lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, claimed that “Abuse of Power is not an impeachable offense", but that's clearly nonsense. The primary reason the founders left "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" undefined is so CONGRESS could determine whether a given behavior is impeachable on a case by case basis.

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Dershowitz also claimed that whatever the President does, if he deems it to be in the best interest of the people, it's not impeachable. I'm sure you remember that argument from Richard Nixon - "If the President does it, it's not illegal."  But if that's the case, what if the President decides that killing his opponent so he can be re-elected is in the public interest? And since, according to the Department of Justice, the President can’t be indicted or held accountable while in office, if we can't impeach him, what are our options? We wouldn't have any, so essentially, Donald Trump is no longer  President, the Republican senate has crowned him King. He can not only do no wrong, but we can't even present evidence accusing him of doing any wrong, and that's distinctly un-American. Thus, American democracy has been disposed of like a used Tampon.
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Federal law is clear:
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18 U.S. Code § 1621. Perjury
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"Whoever—

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having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true; or
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in any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury as permitted under section 1746 of title 28, United States Code, willfully subscribes as true any material matter which he does not believe to be true; is guilty of perjury and shall, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. This section is applicable whether the statement or subscription is made within or without the United States."
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Based on the above law, Donald Trump and virtually every Republican member of the United States Senate is guilty of violating their oaths of office, and the senators are guilty of committing perjury in violating their oath to sit in judgment in the Trump Impeachment Trial IMPARTIALLY. 
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As a direct result of this criminal conduct, there have been 62 impeachments of federal officers in this nation's history, and this is the very first time in history that all witnesses and evidential documents have been blocked. So in spite of their oath to be impartial, the Republican senate told the house in no uncertain terms that we’re not going to allow the American people to either see or hear the evidence in this case, because then we'll have to justify letting this criminal off the hook. In doing so, they've committed a crime, but they think we're too dumb to realize that. And in addition to all of that, now new firsthand information is surfacing that suggests that Trump's defense attorney, Pat Cipollone, was involved in the original crime. It's a total rat's nest. So no wonder they're desperate to hide the facts! 

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The Republican senate is treating the American people like we’re children, so in November we must show them that we’re not. No organization can run efficiently that allows its employees to dictate to management, and that’s exactly what the American people represent under the United States Constitution – the Board of Directors of this nation. So in the next election we must put these insubordinate employees in their place, and relegate them all to the garbage heap of American history. If we fail to do so, our children will no longer live in the America we have come to know. They'll live under a dictatorship.
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There’s a reason why Vladimir Putin is the only man in the world who Donald Trump respects. You'll never hear him call Vladimir out of his name on Twitter. Just take a moment to ask yourself - Why? Let me tell you why, because Donald Trump is greedy and selfish and the Russian mafia pulled him out of bankruptcy when no American bank would touch him - and as we speak they're using his name and businesses to launder money, that's why he's so desperate to keep his taxes hidden. So Trump doesn't care anything about you, your children, or America. All Trump cares about is the Trump Tower he wants to build in Moscow when he leaves office - that is, if he decides that he wants to leave office. Because he now has no choice but to try to turn America into a dictatorship at this point, because if he doesn't, he's going to prison.

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

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ABOUT BLACK CONSERVATIVES AND ANIMALS

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

ABOUT BLACK CONSERVATIVES AND ANIMALS
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No, Tavoris Brown, I'm not calling either you, or Gladys Knight, names. I'm simply stating a documented fact. One of the most severe problems we have in the Black community is that far too many of us lack the common sense of most animals. We assume that because we’ve learned to sing and dance, they allow us to sit next to them in the football stadium, and they no longer call us “nigga” - at least, out loud - that we’ve arrived. But we completely ignore the fact that for over 400 years we've been taught to hate one another, and many of us with weaker minds just can't seem to get past that. 
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We've been raised to believe that Black people were born to be abused and at the very bottom of society, and many of us have just accepted that as a way of life. As a result, many Black people like Gladys and yourself look upon bigoted White folks like Trump with the very same level of subservient devotion as a puppy looks upon his master. You’re very life is dedicated to getting the White man’s approval, and you’ll do anything just to be acknowledged by him so you can roll your eyes in the back of your head and lick his hand. That’s what Gladys is going to do at the Super Bowl. And even though the third verse of the song she’s gonna sing speaks of the brutal murder of runaway slaves, that doesn’t mean a thing to her. She’s not gonna let a little thing like that prevent her from giving the White man what he wants.  After all, when the White man deemed her worthy of singing his song, he bestowed an honor upon her, an honor that she has absolutely no intention of turning her back on. And as for angry Black people, they know she don’t mean no harm, so they’ll eventually get over it.  
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YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN AROUND LONGER,
BUT YOU HAVEN'T LEARNED A THING, GLADYS.

But she’s wrong, we’re not going to get over it, because we’re tired of being slapped in the face by our own people just to make the White man happy. So no, I’m not simply name-calling. I’m stating a fact that far too many brain-dead and subservient Black people are too goddamn brainwashed to recognize is a very ugly part of their nature. But believe me, everyone else can see it clearly - including the White man.
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In an attempt to defend Gladys one of your equally mindless brethren suggested that instead of condemning Gladys, we should condemn the other players in the NFL for not backing Colin Kaepernick by walking off the field. But that's a lame cop-out, because we're talking survival here, and very few people are willing to casually walk off their job simply based on principle.  If people were willing to do that they'd be quitting their jobs en masse every day. You show me a person who claims they'd be willing to walk away from a $5 million contract on principle, and I'll show you a person who's more than likely a liar. It takes a special kind of person to do that. That's why people like Rosa Parks and Colin Kaepernick are honored.  But Gladys Knight is not trying to save her job or do the right thing, she's selling out her people to gain the spotlight, and to lick the White man's hand for "honoring" her with the opportunity to sellout her people. She's taking this opportunity to demonstrate to the world that she has the "class" to place patriotism and love of her country above the lives of a handful of Black unarmed rug rats. In short, she's kissing the White man's ass by clearly demonstrating that in her eyes Black lives don't matter as much as patriotism and a goddamn song.
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If people like you and Gladys were even the least bit thoughtful you would recognize that 33% of the American population are flat-out bigots, and in the most recent poll Trump’s approval rating is now down to 36%.  That means that he’s lost 9% of the people who were initially dumb enough to support him at his highest approval rating of 45% . But now, even those people have come to see the error of their ways. So with the exception of 3% of the most idiotic people in this country, they’ve left you - an ignorant Black man, and your mindless-ass sister, Gladys - standing alone with the Klan waiting on that Midnight Train to Georgia. And that’s exactly where you both belong, on a Georgia cotton plantation, because that’s where you obviously loss your goddamn minds. 
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So once again, when I call you stupid, I’m not trying to insult you, I’m simply stating an irrefutable fact, the fact that you’re clearly demonstrating that you don’t have the common sense of a goddamn animal. Consider how far behind we would be if Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King,  and the Black people of the 50s would have thought like you and Gladys. There never would have been a civil rights movement, and you would have still been giving up your seats on the back of the bus to privileged White trash. So I suggest you both go have lunch somewhere and think about that - and you don’t worry about being bothered, because lunch counters are integrated now, no thanks to people like you.

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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.

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THANK YOU, NIKE

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

THANK YOU, NIKE

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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 National Anthem, would be totally meaningless.  It takes a complete idiot not to see that.

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25 CFR 11.448 - Abuse of office
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A person acting or purporting to act in an official capacity or taking advantage of such actual or purported capacity commits a misdemeanor if, knowing that his or her conduct is illegal, he or she:
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(a) Subjects another to arrest, detention, search, seizure, mistreatment, dispossession, assessment, lien or other infringement of personal or property rights; or

(b) Denies or impedes another in the exercise or enjoyment of any right, privilege, power or immunity. 

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THE AMERICAN FLAG IS A SYMBOL OF 

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

IF WE DENY OUR CITIZENS THAT RIGHT,

WHAT ARE WE SALUTING,

DESPOTISM?

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THANK YOU, NIKE, FOR PUTTING AMERICA BEFORE PROFIT

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.

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PORTRAIT OF A RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

PORTRAIT OF A RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN
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IF GOD LET PEOPLE LIKE THIS INTO HEAVEN, IT WOULDN'T BE HEAVEN, IT WOULD BE HELL.
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This is exactly why I restrict my spirituality to a love of God, and keep all of man’s religious Voodoo all the way out of my life.  Religion is the root cause of 99% of all of the hatred, bigotry, murder, and mayhem in the world - “My god is better than your God, and he only loves people who look, think, and act like me.”

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One sister who commented on the above video completely missed the gross bigotry and religious hypocrisy in it and focused exclusively on the bigot’s property rights, and as many of us tend to do, blamed the victim, and said that the video wouldn’t change a thing - as if sitting on her ass would.  This is my response:

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“Kim, the sister's video was not for the benefit of the bigot, it was to educate people like yourself who take the position that we should just ignore this kind of behavior for another 400 years. Your attitude serves to both accommodate, and validate, the disrespect and abuse of Black people. This bigot thinks his behavior is just between himself and this sister, but she made sure that it wasn't.  He may have friends, neighbors, and business associates who will see the video on social media and not appreciate it at all. He may be ostracized by many people whose faces he's grinnin' into every day, and that works for me. How do you know that he doesn't own a business that's dependent upon Black customers? This video wouldn't bode well for either him, or his business. And he's supposed to be a Christian, what is his fellow church members going to think?  Even though they may be just like him, at least they have sense enough to maintain the Christian façade.
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“So Black people have got to learn to stop just sittin' on our asses and sayin', ‘Oh well, that's just the way it is.’ Yeah, that’s the way it is, because that’s the way we allow it to be.  We've got to learn to fight back - but with intelligence, and that's EXACTLY what I intend to do. As we speak, I'm writing an article using this video as a weapon against Trump and his fellow right-wing bigots. While it may not change the way THEY think, it may very well change the way other people think about THEM.
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“There are many White people who don't want to be portrayed in this way, just like we don't want to be portrayed as lazy pimps, thugs, and dope fiends, so this very video may cross their minds when they're in the voting booth and have an impact on the way they vote. So I wish ALL Black people would flood the social media with this kind of content, drag people out of their delusions, and help them to see America through our eyes, without all of the whitewash and self-serving spin. American bigots have a vested interest in keeping things like this under wraps in order to maintain the farce that America is ‘A shining light on the hill.’  But videos like this one clearly demonstrates that the only thing great about America is its public relations office, but we do have enough well-meaning people in this country, who really do want America to be great, to change that.
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“And another thing, Kim, if you look at the video you'll notice that she was no longer at his door. She was on her way off this man's property and he followed her running his mouth. And you asked what did she get by placing her life on the line. She got this video that we can display to the world as an example of American bigotry and hypocrisy. Don't forget, there are many White folks who claim that racism is a thing of the past - and they believe that, just because it's now considered bad form to lynch Black people in the public square. This video will help to show them that they're living in a fantasy.
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“But what's amazing to me, Kim, is how casually you're taking this example of blatant racism.  I was so curious about that, that I went to check your profile. Thereafter, everything began to come into focus.  You're from Little Rock, Arkansas, so maybe bigotry is so common there that it's just a way of life for you. But Black people from the North don't look at blatant racism in the the way that you do. It's not a way of life for us. What we see in this video is a racist bigot, and a sister standing up and confronting him. We don't see a scared-ass "nigga" who don't have sense enough to run for her life. Most of us were raised to stand firm when confronting a bigot, just like this courageous sister did - and if YOU and your family are ever ALLOWED to "overcome," it's gonna be due to the actions of Black people just like this sister, not from scared-ass "niggas" trying to blame the victim just because she didn't haul ass the minute some old ass bigot raised his voice at her. This sister didn't do a thing wrong, she simply knocked on this bigot's door - which had a huge "JESUS" sign on it - and she probably had a Bible in her hand.
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“And finally, did you know that many Southern ministers told Martin Luther King the very same thing that you're saying, and criticized Rosa Parks for not giving up her seat on the bus? They accused them of stirring up "unnecessary trouble." Thus, bigots depend on the attitudes of people just like you to keep Black people on their asses, and 'in their place.'
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“This courageous sister obtained one of the best case-closed examples of White hypocrisy that I've EVER seen - a blatant bigot, being a blatant bigot, with a huge ‘JESUS’ sign on his door.  So she performed a public service. I'm just glad it was her on the scene instead of you, because you would have just hauled ass. Then all we would have had to rely on regarding the incident would have been your word, instead of the solid evidence that this sister provided - and nobody would have taken your word for this, because it’s next to impossible to believe that anybody, even an ignorant bigot, would be stupid enough to indulge in that kind of hypocrisy with an oversized "Jesus” sign on his front door.

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THE ‘RELIGIOUS’ RIGHT LIVING THEIR TRUE FAITH -

THEIR FAITH IN ROY MOORE, A BIGOT AND CHILD MOLESTER

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Alabama Locals Say Roy Moore Was Banned from Mall for Harassing Teen Girls 
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Founder of Florida’s Biggest Megachurch Accused of Molesting a 4 Year-Old Girl

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article184564528.html#storylink=cpy

THIS IS THE KIND OF "GOD-FEARING" HYPOCRISY THAT WE CAN EXPECT FROM THE "RELIGIOUS" RIGHT

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Eric L. Wattree
Wattree.blogspot.com
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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.

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