A MESSAGE TO CJ GOODE III, KANYE WEST, AND ALL OTHER BLACK BIGOT-HUGGERS

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY

A MESSAGE TO CJ GOODE III, KANYE WEST, AND ALL OTHER BLACK BIGOT-HUGGERS

TRUMP IMPEACHMENT PLACES CONSERVATIVE HYPOCRISY ON FULL DISPLAY

There’s an age-old axiom that says that one should ignore what people say, and watch what they do. The truth of that axiom is on full display during this Trump impeachment effort. In spite of the fact that conservatives have a long tradition of wrapping themselves in the flag, wearing flag pins on their lapels, and claiming unfettered patriotism and loyalty to our Constitution, now, when push comes to shove and their self-interest is on the line, the truth of their grossly flawed character has come to the fore, and that truth is, their only true loyalty is to the maintenance of their power, bigotry, and greed. 
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The very word “conservative” in a political context means that a person is dedicated to “conserving” past traditions, and in America, that means the preservation of White supremacy at any cost – and that’s exactly why conservatives are fiercely loyal to Donald Trump. Many of them don’t even like him personally, because they know that he’s neither conservative nor liberal. His one and only philosophy is promoting Donald Trump. But the GOP and over 81% of White Evangelicals have entered into an evil alliance with him to protect Trump, as long as he protects them from their waning power due to the rapidly changing demographics that threatens their grip on power over the country.
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That explains the fanatical fixation that conservatives have on so-called "security" on our Southern border. Their fixation is not on national security at all, it’s actually about White security, and disallowing any more non-White people into the country. If their concern was actually about national security, why aren’t they just as concerned about our Northern border, where hordes of White people cross into the country illegally? It doesn't make sense. Why put bars on your back door and leave your front door wide open?
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And if White Evangelicals are actually following the teachings of Jesus, how could they possibly turn a blind eye to Black people being murdered by rogue cops on the street, and in their homes, and be completely accepting of the atrocities being committed against non-Whites on our Southern border? If they truly viewed America as "That shining light on the hill", and truly followed the teachings of Jesus Christ, they wouldn't tolerate the abuse of another human being. They'd rise up in protest. Melania Trump protested her son, Barron's, name being even brought up in the impeachment hearings, while she hasn't said a word about her husband literally tearing the children from the arms of immigrant mothers and putting them in cages - and she's an immigrant herself, but she's a White immigrant.
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Melania got into the country on an "Einstein Visa", the EB-1, reserved for people who are highly acclaimed in their field - the government cites Pulitzer, Oscar, and Olympic winners as examples - as well as respected academic researchers and multinational executives. Well, I don’t know about anyone else, but I fail to see any special talents that Melania possesses, other than the talent to maneuver her way into bed with a billionaire, which probably wasn't very hard with Donald.
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So the fact is, so-called Evangelical Christians and patriotic conservatives only adhere to their highfalutin Christian and patriotic values as long as it’s convenient. When it becomes inconvenient they revert back to the selfish and animalistic nature that allowed them to enslave and brutalize millions of Black people and commit genocide against 10 generations of Native Americans. So the gullible and/or self-serving Black people who either collude with these people, or just sit back and refuse to vote, are literally suffering from a mental illness at worst, or gross stupidity at best.
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And poor White conservatives are no better, because the people who lead the conservative movement don’t care any more about them than they do non-Whites. Poor Whites are simply manipulated as “useful idiots” whose anger, fear, and votes are being used to promote the rich and powerful, or the conservative agenda.
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When conservatives first arrived on these shores, they brought with them the European notion of class distinction. They have always suffered from the distinctly undemocratic attitude that the only inherent value of the average American is as servants to cater to the whims of the upper class.
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Alexander Hamilton, one of this nation’s 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 a distinct, permanent share in government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, 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 became the conservative coalition, and lowered their profile as blatant aristocrats, and continued to pursue their agenda by using their wealth, power, and various other strategies to divide the people to achieve their agenda, 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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The Great Depression

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In 1921 -- eight years before the great depression -- Republicans took over the helm of this nation for 12 years. During that time there were three Republican administrations, the first of which was the administration of Warren G. Harding. History remembers Harding's administration for one thing more than any other -- scandal. It was during Harding's presidency that the Teapot Dome Scandal erupted. His administration was considered the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States -- until Nixon's (Watergate), then Reagan's (Iran\Contra), and finally Bush's (Iraqi War).
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Next, in 1923, came Calvin Coolidge, the president that Ronald Reagan is said to have most admired. Coolidge's policies of large tax cuts, allowing business a free-rein, and his encouragement of stock speculation contributed greatly to the impending stock market crash and the great depression that was to follow.
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In 1929 during Republican, Herbert Hoover’s administration, the stock market crashed - much like under the Bush Administration - starting the Great Depression, but back then there was no Barack Obama to come to the rescue or mitigate the damage early on. So in spite of the fact that by 1933 the unemployment rate was at 33.3% with 16 million people out of work, the Republican, Herbert Hoover, just sat, thinking that the economy would eventually rejuvenate itself. Much like Republicans of today, Hoover and his Republican Party had absolutely no compassion for either the plight of the American people, or America’s veterans who had put their lives on the line for this country.
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During Hoover's administration, 15,000 WWI veterans marched on Washington demanding that they be paid what they were owed by the government. Hoover responded by calling in federal troops to throw these ex-servicemen off government property.
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The conditions were horrific. During the Great Depression there was no such thing as Social Security, so when a person became too old or weak to work they had no income, so they had to depend on their children for support. That meant instead of a husband and wife only having to support themselves and their children, which was tough enough during those times, they also had to support their parents. So three generations of a family could be living in one household - and in many cases, the parents of both the husband, and the wife lived with the family.
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In addition, there was no such thing as Medicare or Medicaid, so when one of grandparents became ill the medical costs would devastate the entire family. These conditions kept lower and middle-class families in such dire need of funds that they had to accept whatever crumbs the business community chose to throw at them - and remember, at that time there was no Fair Labor Standards Act or unions to protect a worker’s rights, or a minimum wage, so businesses could treat the worker anyway they wanted, and pay them whatever they wanted.

They could work you 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no overtime, and They could work you 16 hours a day, 7 and no paid vacation. In addition, since there were no child labor laws, if your boss didn’t think you were being productive enough, he could insist that you bring your children in (as young as 9 years old) to assist you if you wanted to keep your job. Then if you protested, he could fire you on the spot, in which case, your entire family - sick grandparents and all - would be thrown out on the street, because there was no such thing as unemployment insurance.
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As a result, in many cases the entire family, including the children, had to work long, hard hours under sweatshop-like conditions in coal minds and the like, which in many cases led to the death and/or maiming of young children. So, in a very real sense, Great Depression era workers lived under a form of slavery - the one difference was, they had to go out and find their own housing.
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Think back to the "Little Rascals" we use to watch as kids, and how ragged they were, or the cartoons we use to watch, where a landlord would come to the door (always portrayed in a black suit) and tell a begging and crying mother that she had one more day to come-up with the rent or she and her family would be thrown out in the snow. That was an accurate portrayal of the way people lived in those days, and those are the conditions that the conservative Republican agenda would restore in America today. At this very moment the Republican Party is attacking Social Security, Medicare, Education and many other programs to force the poor and middle class to pay for the huge deficit created by their $1.8 trillion tax cut for the rich.

THE NEW DEAL

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But finally in 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a liberal democrat, was elected overwhelmingly. He immediately surrounded himself with a group of the finest minds in the country, including Columbia professors Adolph A. Berle, Jr., Rexford G. Tugwell, and Raymond Moley, known at the time as the "Brain Trust." After assembling these men and others he went about the business of developing a" New Deal" for the working- class people of this country.

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The New Deal had two components - one, to help the economy to recover from the effects of the great depression, and a second component to give relief to the American people and to ensure that they would never be placed in a position of total destitution again. To help heal the economy Roosevelt created programs that regulated business, controlled inflation, and brought about price stabilization; to bring relief to the people he signed The National Labor Relations Act which guaranteed workers the right to collective bargaining, and he created the Social Security Administration to guarantee workers some sort of income once they became too old to work. He also signed the Fair Labor Standards Act which protected worker’s rights and set a minimum wage for workers, and all of these programs are under brutal attack by the Republican Party as we speak.
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With his New Deal in place, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, this "bleeding heart liberal", not only led this country out of the worst, Republican-generated, crisis that this country has ever faced, but went on to lead the free world in victory over Hitler in WWII. He then ushered in the most sustained era of prosperity that the world has ever known.
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One would think that conservatives would have seen the light, but their passion to further enrich the wealthy at the expense of the lower and middle classes seemed to transcend all logic. Thus, from the moment the New Deal went into place, conservatives have been determined to dismantle it. The closest they've come to succeeding started during the Reagan administration with Supply-Side Economics, or, "Reaganomics", which led directly to the Great Recession of 2008 under George W. Bush. Then Barack Obama came along just in time to prevent the world from going into a second Great Depression. So like everything else Donald Trump likes to brag about, he actually inherited his “great economy” from President Obama.
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Thus, the economy is doing great in spite of Donald Trump, not because of him – and as we speak, the GOP is attacking Medicare, Social Security, and other safety net programs put in place in order to help to protect the average American so they can pay down the tremendous national debt created by their $1.8 trillion tax cut they gave to the rich. So in essence, we're currently living on a credit card, just like during the Reagan era - a credit card with a bill that's going to be sent to the average American. So once again, Trump and the GOP are taking from the poor to feed the rich.  

Our grandparent’s generation - the generation that experienced the Great Depression, fought WWII, and who we refer to as "The Greatest Generation" - wouldn't let a Republican anywhere near the White House.  During their era, Democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to office four times, and finally died in office on April 12, 1945. The Republicans had to promote the Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution limiting the president to two terms in office just to have even a remote chance of getting into office.
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But finally in 1953 they managed to elect the hero of WWII, Republican, Dwight Eisenhower to office, but even he was a Republican in name only - in 1957 he sent troops into Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate a segregated school after Gov. Orval Faubus tried to prevent Black students from entering, and as his final act in office he warned America about the Military-Industrial Complex, the very people that Donald Trump and the Republican Party represent today.
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So here we are 243 years later and the conservatives are still at it - attacking our educational system to keep Americans dumbed down, trying their best to destabilize or destroy any program that prevent the average American from being totally reliant on them, and stirring up hatred, fear, and animosity among the people to keep them divided and from thinking clearly.
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Nevertheless, the average brainwashed Republican will say, "But we’re the party of Lincoln. It was the Democrats who created the KKK and engaged in lynchings during the Jim Crow era". But that’s a gross manipulation of the facts. In order for the facts to be made clear it’s important to replace party affiliation with political philosophy. While it is true that the old Democratic Party was filled with racist conservative “Dixiecrats”, during the Civil Rights movement under moderate Republican Ike Eisenhower, and later, Democratic presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic Party came out for civil rights. As result, the conservative Dixiecrats migrated to the Republican Party, and Republican liberals moved to the Democratic Party. Thus, the two major parties completely changed their previous political polarities. Therefore, if the Civil War was being fought today, the Republicans would be the Confederacy.
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So the facts are clear – conservatives have always been this nation’s bigots, both racial, and class bigots - regardless to what party they were in.

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THINK ABOUT IT

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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FEATURING PROFESSOR CARLON MANUEL, KANYE WEST, AND THE SORRY STATE OF OUR CURRENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

FEATURING PROFESSOR CARLON MANUEL, KANYE WEST, AND THE SORRY STATE OF OUR CURRENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

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TRUMP: I WISH THIS COON WOULD STOP 

TOUCHING ME

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ISSUE:
KANYE IS AN IDIOT, AND HE SHOULD BE BOYCOTTED
BY ALL BLACK PEOPLE AS AN EXAMPLE TO ALL OTHER
POTENTIAL IDIOTS.
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PROF. MANUEL
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“Ya'll need to stop putting so much on what a moron says...Who appointed him as a spokesperson for us!!!...No one so let him fade in to the night and not give him any more fame.”
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Carlon, we're paying attention to him because he's making us ALL look like goddamn fools. In addition, there are people out there who are big enough fools to listen to him, and they can have an impact on the coming election - that's the only reason Trump wanted his dumb ass for a photo op in the first place. So when it comes to politics, you NEVER ignore ignorance. That's the mistake we made with Trump's silly ass. Nobody thought anyone was paying attention to him - but they were wrong, weren't they?
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PROF. MANUEL
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"He is not in any manner making me look like a fucking fool, he stands on his own lack of merit!!!...Who the fuck nominated his dumb ass to speak for anyone but himself!!!..."
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If you're Black, he's making you look like a damn fool to others, even though YOU may not realize it. Image is everything in this country. That's why people are treated differently based on their race in the first place, because people have a certain image of what your Black skin represents. But if you don't understand that, I don't have time to explain it to you, so I'll just move on.
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[NOTE: I tried to move on and drop the discussion.]
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PROF. MANUEL
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“‘If you are black’ that statement alone qualifies your words as bullshit...Kanye stands on his own and you should stop worrying so much about what people think...African Americans being treated differently did not start with Kanye, if you truly know what you were talking about you wouldn't make that claim...”
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Carlon, you're clueless. What do you think the word profile means!!!? But I'm not even gonna to bother to debate this issue with you, because the concept is obviously going way over your head. What EVERY person does counts.
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When a well educated and intelligent young Black man puts on a suit and tie and goes out to interview for a job, whether he gets the job or not may depend on whether or not the employer saw the spectacle below the night before.  It's called "subliminal imaging," or more commonly known as "broad-brushing." When jurors let murderous cops go free they often think of the victim as some scary Black man they saw on television. And a lot of people are upset to see Bill Cosby go to jail because in their minds they see Cliff Huxtable being locked up. So what people think, and are made to think about us counts, because it has a direct impact on our lives. So, while you may be so bad and macho that you don't care, I have enough common sense and insight into human nature that I care very much.
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[NOTE: I tried to move on a second time.]
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PROF. MANUEL
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“Get a fucking life, your unqualified at life ass can call no one clueless...”
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Carlon, when I called you clueless it wasn’t meant as an insult, I meant it as a fact. You obviously don't have a clue as to how people think, and the impact that stupidity has on our lives. Your comment above shows that you're more emotional than you are thoughtful, but the only thing that's going to move Black people forward is clear thinking.
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The White man didn't enslave Black people because he could beat us up, he enslaved us because he had a knowledge of gunpowder that we didn't possess. It was a lack of knowledge that enslaved us, and it's going to take the embrace of knowledge to liberate us, not goin' for bad and sayin' "I don't give a fuck!" And consider this, the White man didn't have Kanye up there coonin' for nothing. Whether you "give a fuck" or not, it could have a direct impact on your life in next month's election.
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PROF.  MANUEL
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“Lol...Mr. Educated...”
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[NOTE: Mocking Black intelligence.]
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I notice you're an adjunct professor at Cal. State Dominguez. I'm shocked! The conservative assault on our educational system is obviously far worse than I suspected. In fact, your last comment even seems to be anti-intellectual, like it was a slur. What's wrong with a brother being educated? Do you consider it uppity? You sound like you think Black people have a moral obligation to be stupid. Well, pardon me, brother, if I stepped out of my place, but that's just the way I am - and I always will be.
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PROF.  MANUEL
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“Stop smoking and drinking it is bad for your logic...You sound like a fool and really almost like Kanye...Birds of a feather...”
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Carlon, you're a professor. Remember back when you took 8th grade English and the teacher told you that whenever you made an assertion to start backing it up in the following sentence? Well, you just left a fully unsubstantiated assertion just dangling in mid air. Back it up so I'll have something to get my teeth into. You sound like you'd be tons of fun. So let's have it. Let's see how big a fool I am. Enlighten me, professor.
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Hmmm, it's been an hour, professor, and not a word. I guess it's just as I thought - all jingle and no bells.
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PROF.  MANUEL
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“I have better things to do like actually making and supporting changes in people's lives...You should try it instead of pontificating and not doing a damn thing for anyone...”
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Carlon, believe me, I'm doing much more educating than you are. I'm over here scratching my head - how in the hell can you be an educator when you NEED an education? I went through college in the seventies, but I had enough education not to spew the nonsense that got me started on you when I entered Fremont High School, because we were taught very early the importance of representing our people well.
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But let me remain focused, I'm waiting for my enlightenment, so let's not change the subject. I'll be waiting anxiously to partake of your wisdom. And don't forget, that's what this medium is for - to educate and to be educated. So if you truly want to educate your people, there's no better way. Spread your hustle, and don't limit your wisdom to the classroom. I'm certainly anxious to get a taste of it. So I sincerely hope you'll reconsider.
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PROF.  MANUEL
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“So how does Bill Cosby represent you???...”
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Bill is Black and had world fame as "America's dad."  Yet, when 60 (count 'em - SIXTY!!!) women said that he drugged and assaulted them, for many, it serves to justify their racism. When a lot of people in this country see that, they think, "Just as I thought, NO Black man can be trusted." That's why when a perfectly innocent Black man wearing a suit and tie gets into an elevator with some White women they'll put a tighter grip on their purse. Or when a clearly murderous cop goes on trial after he's seen ON VIDEO killing a Black man for absolutely no reason, White jurors will let him off, because they'll think, "Well, that Black man probably did something we didn't see OFF video." All of that is a result of our failing to challenge public perception of who we are.
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If the corporate media portrayed White people in the same way they do Blacks, we'd think that ALL White folks were barefoot Hillbillies.  Corporations spend BILLIONS of dollars on commercials every year to improve the image of their brand.  They’re not giving that money away for nothing, so Black people would be fools not to protect and enhance our public image as well.  As a so-called  "educator" it would seem that you'd not only know that, but would be teaching it tirelessly to your students. So what's all this swaggering "fuck Kanye" macho bullshit you're engaged in? You should be teaching your students to be thoughtful, not swaggerin' idiots.
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If Black people EVER intend to liberate ourselves we've got to address our image and cultural mores to NOT reflect us as the most swaggerin' people on the planet, but the most thoughtful and knowledgeable. That way, when a Black applicant walks into a corporation to apply for a job the employer will think, "I want to hire this person, because Black people are known for being brilliant and creative." So we've got to strive to make knowledge the new soul.
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PROF. MANUEL
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“What was your masters degree in again???...”
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[NOTE: He asked a question and then sidestepped the answer, and mocked Black intelligence again.]
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Carlon, I don't have a masters degree, but my educational background is in psychology, just like yours. In fact, I had planned to become a clinical psychologist, but once I had a daughter and son, I decided to put my efforts into grooming them, and I was quite successful at it. My son grew up to become a federal agent, and my daughter is currently a Human Resources Specialist for Citrus College and President of her chapter of the California School Employees Association. My only granddaughter will be a medical doctor soon, and she won the Bill Clinton Award in high school. I also have 5 grandsons right behind her - and not one fool in the bunch.
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In fact, I would challenge you to debate even my youngest grandson, Miles Coltrane Wattree-Jackson. He's not even out of high school yet, but based on what I'm seeing here, he'd drag you through the mud, because he was raised to be a thinker, not an emoter. So he would very methodically tear your arguments apart. That's the skill we must develop as Black people. Anybody can swagger and try to go for bad. We must learn to THINK.
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And with respect to your master's degree (if that’s what you have), I’d have to be prone to reckless assumption to assume that the White boy who conferred it upon you wasn’t a fool, and I’m not prone to reckless assumptions. Some of the greatest minds I’ve ever known held court while sitting on empty milk crates in the parking lots of ghetto liquor stores, and some of the weakest minds I’ve ever known roamed the campuses of colleges and universities in search of credentials in lieu of knowledge. In addition, the United States Congress is filled with people with advanced degrees, yet, it’s the biggest assemblage of absolute idiots in the world today.
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So the mere fact that you would even ask, “And your master's degree is in . . .?” betrays the fact that you’ve been completely brainwashed. Socrates (you’ve heard of him, right?), who is accepted by most scholars as the father of modern thought wasn’t a scholar, he was a stonemason. We wouldn’t even know who he was if it weren’t for people like Plato, Aristotle, and Xenophon who listened to him holding court on the block. So what’s your point? Assess me based on my ability to think, not on how many receipts I possess, because that's how I'm assessing you.
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Here's what the United States Air Force had to say about my son:
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MEMORANDUM FOR OFFICER TRAINING SCHOOL SELECTION COMMITTEE
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FROM: 92 SFS/SFO
2 E. ARNOLD STREET
FAIRCHILD AFB, WA 99011
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SUBJECT: Recommendation for Staff Sergeant Eric L. Wattree
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1. I wholeheartedly concur with Staff Sergeant Wattree’s request to attend Officer Training School. He represents the enlisted ranks with the highest standard and will bring that dedication and professionalism to the officer corps.
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2. Eric continues to lead a stellar military career; his enlisted performance reports speak for themselves. His leadership and experience, especially in contingency environments, remains a vital asset to our unit and wing. As one of my primary Phoenix Raven team leaders, he’s propelled to the forefront of all major deployments throughout the world. He’s repeatedly secured aircraft and crews, supporting a wide variety of missions, in the most austere and terrorist-ridden environments where security is severely inadequate. The diversity of these missions never limited SSgt Wattree’s capacity to adapt to each situation. For this reason, Eric was selected as our 2000 Outstanding Phoenix Raven Member of the Year and the 2001 Air Force Reserve Component Airman of the Year for the 92d Security Forces Squadron.
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3. Whether operating under peacetime or contingency operations, Eric easily assumes control and tackles every situation with meticulous tenacity, a quality highly desired in our Air Force officers. Requested by name, Sergeant Wattree, provided security for presidential Banner missions throughout Greece, Peru and Viet Nam. While deployed to Afghanistan, he flew numerous combat missions in our nation’s pursuit to eradicate terrorism through Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Additionally, he provided round-the-clock force protection for aircraft in other high-threat environments including Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Oman.
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4. Sergeant Wattree motivated his personnel during the worst conditions and raised the level of esprit de corps to integrate personnel from other Air Force specialties into a cohesive team. His leadership, integrity and devotion to our Air Force play an integral part in our future leadership. Eric has what it takes to become a commissioned officer and earns my full support to attend Officer Training School.
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FRANK HELLSTERN, JR., Captain, USAF
Operations Officer
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So, Professor, my knowledge is not theoretical, it's practical, tried, and true. So here's my Ph.D. Compare it to your piece of paper.
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PROF.  MANUEL
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“You have a lot of time on your hands to be on Facebook this much...You should really get some mental health help...To say Kanye doesn't speak for any of us only himself has driven you to such great lengths to prove your point/thoughts are correct for all black folks, sounds a little like fascism to me...I spend too much time actually doing the work of being a service to others not like you being a Facebook god...While you have created a master race super intellectual people in your family, I highly doubt that when it comes to a debate you could hold a glass of water to me...I am happy however to be the person who has given you a reason to be motivated to get off your ass and bring change to the world outside your home...As a US Marine, I would laugh at your boasting about your Air Force service but I have friends who have served in the Air Force and are not so tightly wrapped, I hope you are getting your VA compensation for that ailment...I am still chuckling at your excuse for not finishing school but yet you rail me for completing the task which makes you a hypocrite...Congratulations on creating the master race of beings in your house, you must take great pride in feeling like a demigod...lol...My position remains the same and you keep proving me correct, every man is his own individual and represents himself...Do me a favor, please explain the following black folk; Jim Brown, Bill Cosby, Kanye and all sorts of other asinine acting black men who represent YOU not me...Glad to see your became a Chair Force officer, sorry for you not getting there...Seems you have a life unfulfilled but you are making up for it with all the time you spend on Facebook acting like a superior race know it all...LOL...Get a life...”
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[NOTE: Notice that the professor is now engaged in mindless rambling, unstructured and disorganized thinking, and even bad punctuation.  He's also attacking Black knowledge and family pride. He seems to be taking the position that a Black man is being uppity and grossly presumptuous to have the audacity to try to think. In addition, he's conflated the concepts of Black people being "represented" as oppose to being poorly "reflected upon" by the character and behavior of people like Kanye West. So obviously, all the professor has gained from the master's degree that he's so proud of is how to take on the White establishment's arrogant attitude toward Black people. But that's quite alright, because now he's faced with getting another kind of education, and he’s beginning to realize that. At this point he's desperate and in the final stage of the defeated intellect syndrome, and I'm about to ram that point home.]
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Carlon, you’re suffering from a severe case of the Defeated Intellect Syndrome.

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THE DEFEATED INTELLECT SYNDROME

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I’ve dealt with people like you so often I can almost sleep through it. The only reason I don’t actually go to sleep is I enjoy watching their agony as they go down in humiliating defeat. The humiliation begins with condescension, and their arrogant assumption of superiority, then when that assumption is challenged, they resort to angry defensiveness. Finally, when they find that they’ve made a fool of themselves and that they’re clearly in over their head, they descend to desperate name-calling in an attempt to camouflage their humiliation. It’s always the same, and I enjoy it more each and every time I watch it.
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You said, "I highly doubt that when it comes to a debate you could hold a glass of water to me." Well, here's your opportunity to demonstrate that. But, of course, you're going to come up with an excuse, any excuse, to escape that slow and agonizing death, right? Of course you are. You see, I know you, because I deal with people like you ALL the time, and I truly love watching you wiggle. Because, you see, even after I walk away from this debate, and your inane attempt to defend your tattered ego, you'll continue to think about this. I understand how the human mind works, because when I got my lowly degree in psychology, I actually absorbed the knowledge. So let me tell you your next move. You're gonna come back and say, "When I walk away from this discussion I'm not gonna give you a second thought." But you're lying, so you can just save yourself the keystrokes. Because like I said, I know you, probably better than you know your master-degreed self. So deal with it.
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And by the way, I was also a Marine.
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PROF. MANUEL
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“Back to my point Mr. Superior Race...How does Kanye reflect negatively on your family to which you have boasted so much about their accomplishments!!!...You are seriously off if you still think he represents any of us...”
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[NOTE: Mocked Black intelligence as presumptuous yet again.]
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I've already explained that to you above, Carlon. Has the memory of it slipped through that sieve you allege is a mind so soon?
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PROF. MANUEL
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“Let's debate at a coffee shop and bring your data.... Man up and get you and your wheelchair to the nearest Starbucks so we can debate like men...”
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[NOTE: The great escape.]
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Listen, Carlon, if you disagree with me, I'll be happy to hear your point of view, because disagreement is a potential source of growth. Many of the positions that I hold today are a result of my being educated by thoughtful and intelligent people who had opposing points of view. That’s what the internet is about at its best - educating, and being educated. The downside of the internet, however, is due to its egalitarian nature, unlike in our private lives we can’t pick and choose the caliber of people that we come into contact with. As a result, we’re exposed to every manner of fool, so we’ve got to learn to weed them out.
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Personally, I have very little patience for the ignorance and immaturity of grey-headed children with whiskers and cellulite who have nothing better to do than sit up in front of the computer in their draws (sic) and get into spitball fights with all the “un-Godly” people who don’t happen to share their point of view. So if you’re one of those people, please spare me your ignorance and go seek out someone who shares your intellectual disposition, because I have a very low threshold for stupidity. This is my final word on the matter.
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PROF. MANUEL
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“Now you want to take the high road and act scholarly, you are a hypocrite...Name the coffee shop and bring your data so we can have this so called debate on Kanye making all us black folk look bad...The first part of being a scholar is to learn how to listen and accept the points of views of others...This all started when I disagreed with your point and you wanted pontificate to me about your upper echelon genealogy...You are full of shit and always will be, I have very little regard for your Wikipedia degree...”
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Carlon, if you really want to debate, we can do it right here. That way you can make a fool of yourself on the record. Man, this is the internet, that's what it's designed for. I'm not going to take the time to have coffee with every fool I meet online. And as for your degree, don't tell me about it, show me its value. Show me, and the world, that it's not just a receipt from some ignorant-ass White boy. Demonstrate its value right here, and right now. Otherwise, go away. I predicted you down to a tee, and let me repeat:
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I told you, and I quote:
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"I’ve dealt with people like you so often I can almost sleep through it. The only reason I don’t actually go to sleep is I enjoy watching their agony as they go down in humiliating defeat. The humiliation begins with condescension, and their arrogant assumption of superiority, then when that assumption is challenged, they resort to angry defensiveness. Finally, when they find that they’ve made a fool of themselves and that they’re clearly in over their head, they descend to desperate name-calling in an attempt to camouflage their humiliation. It’s always the same, and I enjoy it more every time I watch it."
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I also told you that when I walked away you weren't gonna be able to get past this, and look at you. I have a degree in psychology, though, not a master's degree, but that doesn't matter. I'm carrying my Ph.D. in my mind, where it has value, and I can demonstrate it, right here, and right now. I don't have to go to Starbucks to debate in private in order to hide my public humiliation and ignorance.
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You're in the final stage of the defeated intellect syndrome, and you're desperately trying to find a graceful way out in order to preserve your dignity. But face it - there is no way out. You've made a fool of yourself, professor, and that's not gonna go away, believe me. So YOU go away. Go lick your wounds somewhere else, because I can't help you at this point. I'm not gonna waste one more brain cell on your attempt to try to salvage your dignity, because trust me, you can't. All you can do now is try to prepare yourself to prevent this from ever happening again. Now, be gone, and live with it.

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EPILOGUE 
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McGuail Cropp:

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Of course Trump would choose an idiot to represent "the Black American" no proud Black American, freedom fighter, man of and about the upliftment of Black Americans, would fit his agenda. But what do I know....I just have a B.S. in Marketing....and yes we individually represent our ppl, so how one behaves publicly has an impact on the whole....Also Kanye should be boycotted, for not being a man of Black Awareness yet posing as one who cares, final note as intelligent black leaders, it's important to debate without attacking one personally...many some u don't know look up to you and expect, you to represent gracefully, were they cannot.
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To McGuail 
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You're absolutely right on every issue you addressed, McGuail, and especially your last.  I thought long and hard before posting the above, because I didn't think it reflected well on how I like to present myself in articles I present for publication. But I decided that I had to because it reflected truth on two counts:
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First, the professor’s attitude reflected an anti-intellectualism that is essential to the promotion of White Supremacy. White conservatives have lodged a brutal assault on our educational system as a matter of survival, because efficient thought is the biggest threat to their viability. In order for them to survive they must promote hatred, bigotry, and division over logical thought. So the professor got off on the wrong foot with me with his very first word - “Y’all.”  With that one word, he was promoting division, and separating his illustrious personage from the masses. So I tried to make that point, and then, either engage in a civil debate, or move on, but he wouldn’t let me. Then, he went on to characterize what I considered a very reasonable position as “bullshit,” and that’s what brought out the hood rat in me. At that point my primary goal was to demonstrate as quickly as possible that he was brandishing a puddle of pus for brains.
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While going raw reflects a part of myself that I may not always want to present formally, it is, nevertheless, very much a part of who I am. I take a lot of pride in my intellectual pursuits, but I also take a lot of pride in the fact that I’m a product of the street. I never let myself forget that, because I view that as my strength. As the son of a lifelong heroin dealer, one of the first lessons I learned about survival is to ALWAYS respond to an individual in the EXACT same tone in which I’m addressed. I was raised to believe that anything short of that is all but inviting abuse. So while the intellectual in me always craves civil discourse, the hood rat in me don’t tolerate no bullshit.
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I have a friend who’s a world-renowned entertainer, and she had a problem with my raw edges as well. So I wrote her a poem to explain them to her, and she finally got the point. I'm not Mr. Rogers. I'm a product of my environment, and I take great pride in what that environment made me:

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THE HOOD RAT
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Baby,
I’m sure you know that I love you.
You’re everything I need.
You fit the bill of all my desires,
a perfect match for all of my dreams.
From the moment I first laid eyes on you,
You were everything I craved -
that luscious vision from across the tracks,
that delicate flower, beyond my blade.
*
But what you ask is foreign to me.
You need something that I’m not.
You said, just tweak my nature a little bit,
and you’ll give everything you’ve got.
*
But that "tweak" you need is who I am -
it’s my essence, can’t you see?
How can you speak of loving my soul, but
not the hood rat that is me?
*
While "hood rat" may seem trite to you,
it’s the essence of my being.
So forget about what all the other’s say,
here’s what it means to me:
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I’ve been brutally dragged through the pits of hell,
yet, managed to survive,
well educated and fully functional,
when I came out the other side.
I scrounged the lessons taught at Harvard,
because knowledge, I found, was free.
But they’ll never obtain the lessons I’ve learned,
or the knowledge that makes me, me.
*
While the "elite" may have heard a mournful Trane,
or Miles muted in the night,
but not in the context of hunger and pain,
or hopelessness, hatred, and blight.
*
So while I've lived the life of a hood rat,
I’ve reaped a knowledge that money can't buy;
a knowledge passed on to my son and daughter,
which has greatly enhanced their lives.
*
Thus, I wouldn't change a single thing in my life -
I’ve faced Hell and passed the test.
I have a PhD in adversity,
that's made me more,
rather than less.
*
So unlike the people at Harvard and Yale, who
try to buy intellectual clout,
they only study the genius of Miles and Trane,
while I'm who they’re blowin' about.
*
So when snobs try to slur me as "just a hood rat,"
I say, "thank you," and don’t take offense.
I take great pride in surviving the travails in my life,
That’s what gives me my confidence.
*
The Ivy League degrees of those of means
are only paper compared to mine;
while they have a "receipt" for knowledge obtained,
my knowledge is ETCHED within my mind.
*
I can teach philosophy to Aristotle
with the adversity that I’ve endured,
so any snob who tries to match my wit,
will come up short, and that’s for sure.
*
Snobs walk about quoting Socrates and such,
through their "education" they are prone;
but while they’re spewing the thoughts of various dead men,
I spend my time developing my own.
*
Never give the thoughts of ANY man
priority over our own;
You must collect the facts, and think for yourself,
that’s where Harvard and Yale has gone wrong.
*
Preacher, politician, potentate,
whatever their point of view,
God didn't bless them with any knowledge
he didn't also bestow on you.
*
So being seen as a hood rat has its advantages
against racists of limited wit;
I simply quietly wait for their condescension,
then show ‘em that they ain’t shit.
*
While God made birds to fly and fish to swim,
he made man to think and that's the key.
So any man that thinks he's superior
will have to PROVE his wit to me.
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Thus, knowledge is the key to set us free,
no matter what the people say,
and there’s nothing more formidable than
a knowledgeable hood rat, and
that’s what you’re looking upon today.
*
Yet, these are the things you want me to purge,
and spurn the life I’ve led,
but I’m sorry, my love,
as much as I love you, the soul of a
hood rat is my edge.

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. . . AND ORDINARY BLACK MEN DESTROY 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.

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KANYE WEST - A NEW KIND OF FOOL

Beneath The Spin*Eric L. Wattree

KANYE WEST - A NEW KIND OF FOOL
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I’ve been told that Kanye West is just having issues, but he’s a hip hop genius. Okay, but how can you say that Kanye is a hip hop genius when hip hop itself represents nothing more than a collection of vulgar nursery rhymes?  It’s for kids. The music is monotonous and souless, and the poetry is illiterate. In fact, when I look back on the 60s, what I look back upon with most fondness is the fact that there was no such thing as hip hop.
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Hip hop is what happens when you take music out of the schools, and stop paying English teachers a living wage. It’s an expression of wannabes wanting to be, but can’t be, because they lack the resources, the education, and a knowledge of the world around them. They feel the genius of Trane, but can’t play a horn, the eloquence of Baldwin, but can’t turn a phrase, and the passion of Malcolm, but can’t complete a thought.
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Did you know that Don Carnelius walked away from Soul Train because of hip hop?  He said, “Oh, hell naw! I can’t take this!” So what is hip hop? It’s an expression of the White Man’s complete success in dumbin’ down the Black community, so we shouldn’t be the least bit surprised that it produced a Kanye West.
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On the other hand, here’s what poetry set to music is suppose to sound like. This is grown folk's music, not kid shit. The music is real, played by real musicians, and not sampled or driven by monotonous drum machines. The words are literate, profound, and pregnant with meaning, not simply an attempt to rhyme “door” with “floor” to the rhythm of a souless beat, and it expresses a solemn love and respect for our women instead of the swag and immaturity of referring to the very womb of our culture as “bitches” and “hoes.” This is a music that celebrates the heart and soul of Black creativity, not the White man’s success in robbing us of our minds.

Morning Thoughts
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I Bear Witness
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I sit, I watch,
and I grow ever more obsolete
as I bear witness.
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I bear witness
to a once vibrant people greedily gulping down society’s hemlock. Even as they claim to be “keeping it real,“ they continue to maim, kill, and despise their own in hot pursuit of the prime directive with the passion of a sheetless klan.
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I bear witness
to Black fists in the air in false solidarity promoted by self-serving poverty pimps as the world looks on and giggle at crooked fingers pointed elsewhere.
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I bear witness
to the superficial attempt to ban the “N-word” while the new "un-niggas" stand around watching children killing children and fathers drugging sons, as they celebrate, lionize, and enrich those who denigrate the very womb of their culture with impunity.
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I bear witness
to a generation of lost knowledge, cut off from its roots by Ronnie’s “Just say no” generation of crack, greed, death, and political corruption; A generation where the new N-word is pronounced “Responsibility” and the keepers of the flame completely ignore the destructive power of bitch, slut, whore, and tramp.
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I bear witness
to the reckless disregard of the words uneducated, irresponsible, and classless. Should we not ban these words as well, or should we ban banning words altogether as we celebrate their meaning?
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Yes, I do bear witness.
I bear witness to a new world -
a world where gross ignorance comes disguised as enlightenment, and funky sneakers look down with disdain upon the sweet smell of Florsheim; a world where saggin’ pants and gaudy glitter enable country bumpkins to masquerade as elegant, and the exquisite surrender of eloquence is the very essence of what it means to be hip.
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Where's Langston? Where's Baldwin? Where's Oscar Brown, Jr?
We need you stormin' this beach, because . . .
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I now bear witness
to a world where motherhood stands alone, to be “dope” renders a smile, and posterity is forced to embrace the wind for paternal sustenance; A world where the walking dead strut about rapping the wisdom of idiocy, and we praise the illiteracy of vulgar nursery rhymes as profound; a world where the mother of salvation's final gasp is compared to the pigmentation of brown paper bags.
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Malcolm, Martin, where are you?
I once stood with a crowd.
Now seemingly alone, I'm forced to bear witness -
horrific witness . . .
to the imminent demise of our people,
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And my heart bleeds.

Eric L. Wattree
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.

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