This is the Way We Should Teach Our Kids to Fight Back - With Their Minds

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THIS IS THE WAY WE SHOULD TEACH OUR KIDS TO FIGHT BACK - WITH THEIR MINDS

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The Return of Professor Henschel - For yet, Another Whoppin’

Onofre Gutierrez Jr.:
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Lol a blog? NIGGGGGA PLEEEASE!!!! Just another Google search. Your post is just as unreliable than MessNBC.
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Cathleen Connolly:
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Onofre your comment reveals your true character--you are the perfect model of the RW extremist..
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Claude Henschel:
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Showing gratitude
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So as not to appear to be ungrateful, I have to give THANKS to the kenyan muslim in the White House, for allowing the illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and the visitors from West Africa, to bring gifts to the US of A, e.g., entero-virus and ebola.
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Eric L. Wattree:
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@Onofre, @Claude:
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Just the caliber of response that I would expect from the intellectually challenged. Claude, I've dealt with you before. You KNOW you're not my intellectual equal, so I'm surprised you'd even want to comment. Because as you know, I just LIVE to demonstrate to bigots that they're intellectually inferior to this coon. It makes my life worthwhile.
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Oh, and Onofre, you can call me what you like, but it won't change that fact. Did you really expect me to be devastated because you called me a nigga? I'm a hood rat too.
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Scientific Study: Conservatives and Lower IQ
Do Racism, Conservatism, and Low I.Q. Go Hand in Hand?
Lower cognitive abilities predict greater prejudice through right-wing ideology.
Published on April 22, 2013 by Goal Auzeen Saedi, Ph.D. in Millennial Media
http://www.psychologytoday.com/.../do-racism-conservatism...
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Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice
Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer | January 26, 2012 10:29am ET
http://www.livescience.com/18132-intelligence-social...
Do Racism, Conservatism, and Low I.Q. Go Hand in Hand?
Lower cognitive abilities predict greater prejudice...
psychologytoday.com
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Claude Henschel:
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None of those biased studies will beat the data published in the "Bell Curve".............Here from a Yale study......... TEA PARTY AND SMARTS
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TEA PARTY AND SCIENCE INTELLECT
38Yale Study: Tea Partiers Rank Highest In Scientific Knowledge
October 17, 2013 by B. Christopher Agee
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TEA PARTY AND SCIENCE INTELLECT
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After years of being lambasted by the left as uneducated rubes, a recent study by a Yale law professor proves that members of the Tea Party are actually more likely to understand scientific issues than the rest of the population.
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As progressives declare the debate on such issues as global warming and evolution over, it now seems that they could learn a few things from the oft-maligned grassroots organization.
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Displaying a respectable level of honesty, Dan Kahan admitted that he expected a completely different result.
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Noting he "found this result surprising," the professor said he assumed that he would "be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension."
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He concluded that the scope of his study was sufficient to indicate a wider trend, a fact that must give the perpetually supercilious left a collective migraine.
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Claude Henschel:
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Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book) [Kindle Edition]
Richard J. Herrnstein (Author), Charles Murray (Author)
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Eric L. Wattree:
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Professor Henschel,
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I'm not going to even debate this issue with you, because the above study is an OBJECTIVE scientific study, while conservatives have a pronounced propensity to dig up conservative hacks to spew the party line, just like you'll go out and dig up the one Black idiot that's willing to say that it wasn't your fault for being FORCED to lynch Black people - you were simply trying to maintain an orderly way of life. You can ALWAYS find an idiot for the right price.
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But with regard to intelligence, consider this. The chances are, EVERY ONE of your Black colleagues are probably intellectually superior to you as attested to by the simple fact that they're your colleagues. You see, they had to compete with you in a marathon where you were spotted 100 yards, and they had to compete in lead boots. Nevertheless, they are in the very same position in life that you are.
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And with respect to our personal level of intelligence, I think our many interactions say it all - "I even wrote a song about it" - Don't worry about it, that's an allusion that you're probably ignorant of. It points out the impact that culture has on what you know and what you don't know. But simply because, in all likelihood, you probably know absolutely nothing about the phrase that I alluded to, that says nothing about you're level of intelligence. But the fact that you don't seem to realize that speaks volumes.
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In short, I could play with your mind ALL day long, and only use 30 brain cells - and I know you know it. So I suggest that you climb back under your rock before I REALLY decide to reveal your shortcomings in this public forum - and I'm just going to say this once.
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http://wattree.blogspot.com/2014/06/to-professor-claude-henschel-and-all.html
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Claude Henschel :
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Pretty obvious that you have not read the "Bell Curve", and based on the hot air you are spewing, even if you tried to read it, you would dismiss it with some sort of "RACISM' excuse. As for my colleagues, a few have gotten to where they are, following the path of the clown in the WH, i.e., affirmative action
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Eric L. Wattree
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Professor Henschel,
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English 101 dictates that whenever you make an assertion that you
start documenting it in the following sentence, or no later than the
following paragraph. So please document your assertion that Barack Obama
got through school with the aid of Affirmative Action. I know it will be coming shortly, so I want to thank you in advance.
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Claude Henschel:
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Nobody gets through school via affirmative action[.] [H]e got into
Columbia via that path. People who have nothing to hide, don't have to
hide their records. Meantime, I hope you enjoy reading the Bell Curve
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Eric L. Wattree:
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Professor Henschel,
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You're obviously accustomed to dealing with people of your own
pedestrian mentality. I didn't ask for obfuscation, I asked for
documentation. Where is it?
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Claude Henschel:
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Any progress on the "Bell Curve"????? Really not that hard to read!!
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Eric L. Wattree:
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In other words, you have no documentation. You're just another
conservative gasbag, manufacturing factoids to promote a contrived and
fictional reality that brings you comfort. Why didn't you say that in the
first place? It could have saved us a lot of time.
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I warned you to get out while you could still walk away with a little
dignity, didn't I? But I want to leave you with one question. Do you
think it was affirmation action that just dragged your ass through the
mud?
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Claude Henschel:
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LMFAO-----afraid to read the Bell Curve. Of course, it is brutally honest !!!!
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Eric L. Wattree:
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Claude,
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Are you sure you want to get started again? It's fine with me. I don't have a thing to do, and I can use some more material.
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Claude Henschel:
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If the science in the book is giving you trouble---here is a short synopsis.............The Bell Curve contains not only a body of psychometric data and inferences but also an analysis of what the authors refer to as the rise of a low-I.Q. “cognitive underclass,” disproportionately non-white, low-income, violence-prone, and with a high birth rate. Herrnstein and Murray estimated that the mean I.Q. of incarcerated offenders is about ten points below the general population mean. They went on to explore the policy implications of the rapid growth of the cognitive underclass.
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Eric L. Wattree:
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Claude,
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You were so big on this book - "The Bell Curve"- in response to your repeated urging I decided to do a little research to see what you were so excited about, and it turned out to be just what I expected - a book filled with unwarranted assumptions, and tending to support the White conservative's psychotic desperation to feel special.
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I found the content to be pure racist drivel, and completely in line with what many rabid conservatives would desperately like to believe. But it’s based on pure speculation and assumes many so-called facts that cannot be objectively and/or scientifically proven.
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The first and most obvious assumption is that IQ can be measured. There is no evidence to demonstrate that. There is absolutely no substantiating evidence to prove that what we refer to as “IQ tests" measures anything other than an individual’s ability to take a test. There are many in this society who suffer from a condition called “Test Taker’s Anxiety,” where just the pressure of having to take a test causes them to perform poorly. Thus, unless everyone who suffers from this condition has a low IQ, that alone is prima facie evidence that the test is invalid.
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Then there’s the time factor inherent in such tests. What evidence can you present that people who think faster, think more efficiently? How can one discount the possibility that the more intelligent a person is, the more options and possibilities he or she takes into account in answering a question, and therefore, the more time it takes for them to complete a test. In such a case, the time element involved in an IQ test would not only invalidate such a person’s score, but the person’s intelligence would actually work against them.
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Another unwarranted assumption is that IQ is immutable, and remains constant throughout ones life. There's no scientific evidence of that either. There is the possibility, however, that one’s IQ rises to accommodate one’s growing interests. There’s also the possibility that one’s cognitive abilities are elevated with practice - the more one engages in cognitive activities, the more efficient they become as thinkers.
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And then there’s the element of self-concept - the “you are what you think” factor. Pure common sense suggests that one’s expectations may have a profound effect on the results of any endeavor that one engages in. In fact, all of the available evidence suggest that is indeed the case. That's why athletes hype themselves up before a game.
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So until these factors are separated out. and we have solid, scientific, and verifiable answers to these questions, books like “The Bell Curve” are nothing more than the unsubstantiated opinion of the author - or in the case of this particular book, a deep seated agenda in search of validation. You're suppose to be bright; you should have recognized these issues immediately.
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Claude Henschel:
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Eric---While your response is both lengthy and wordy, it is short of supporting evidence. This is a common approach of persons with only superficial knowledge and understanding of a subject!
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So, not to make this response too lengthy, let me start by simplifying your post. The post centers on the hypothesis that I Q tests are flawed. You would be hard pressed to find anyone that would argue with that assertion.
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The fact that the test is flawed, has not kept the test from being used by many institutions, e.g., US Armed Forces, US Universities (SAT, GRE, etc.) as a tool to help predict potential success of the applicants. Here is one of thousands of such studies-------
The reason I chose this study is that it also, points out the racial aspects of IQ test results, as found in the book, “THE BELL CURVE”.
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Group Avg. IQ Spatial Verbal
Ashkenazi Jews 1101-1181 982-1053 1172-1253
East Asian 1004-1064 1105 975
Caucasian 1004
World est. 906
African American 854
African 60-806
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1. Bachman (1970), Vincent (1966), Brill (1936), et.al
2. Levinson (1960)
3. Levinson (1958), on yeshiva students For an interesting paper on Ashkenazi IQ, see http://64.233.161.104/search...
4. Lynn (1991) [1] (http://www.mugu.com/.../Ups.../People/Lynn/lynn-race-iq.html)
5. Vernon (1982)
6. IQ and the Wealth of Nations
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Here are some other sections from the same study, that address some of your claims of the variability of cognitive skills, relative to aging, etc.
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“Furthermore, IQ scores tend to stabilize around age eight and are resistant to moving around much thereafter, in keeping with a relatively fixed level of innate intellectual capacity. And studies of twins and adoptees offer substantial evidence that this capacity has a strong genetic component. The scores of twins (who are genetically identical, more or less) are much more highly correlated than those of regular siblings (who share only about half the same genes). Meanwhile, the scores of regular siblings are in turn much more highly correlated than the scores of adopted and biological children raised together.
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IQ scores clearly tell us something of genuine importance. They are a reasonably good predictor not only of performance in the classroom but of income, health, and other important life outcomes.
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The claim that a significant portion of the racial IQ gap has an ultimately genetic origin have been advanced by several psychologists, including Arthur Jensen, J. Philippe Rushton and Richard Lynn. The American Psychological Association in a 1996 report stated that the US racial IQ gap was not the result of bias in the content or administration of tests, nor simply reflect differences in socio-economic status, but that no adequate explanation of it had so far been given.”
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So, there is a wealth of data in the literature to invalidate much of what you write, however, my intent is not to demonstrate what a ‘BLOW HARD” you are, but to point out that the analysis of IQ results with respect to gender, age, race, etc. is valid, and as reported in the book, is VALID.
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Eric L. Wattree:
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Claude,
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My responses are lengthy because I'm thorough, and I believe in substantiating what I say, as oppose to just giving a list of the names of people who agree with me. But with respect to your post:
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You start from the very outset with a flawed perspective of our relative positions in this discussion, which goes a long way toward clearly demonstrating that you’re far less than objective and have a vested interest in embracing this contrived and racist “THEORY.” You say, “While your response is both lengthy and wordy, it is short of supporting evidence.” As an academic, you should be one of the first to recognize that as the one who is proposing this unproven theory, YOU’RE the one who has to substantiate your position, not I. Thus it is completely ironic that as one who is including himself among those who are intellectually superior, you’ve ALSO repeatedly been the one guilty of flawed thinking.
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You say, for example, “IQ scores tend to stabilize around age eight and are resistant to moving around much thereafter, in keeping with a relatively fixed level of innate intellectual capacity.” Prove that, and not with merely a list of names of people who “tend” to embrace your position. I don’t want to see “influential” names, I want to see EVIDENCE.
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You also indicate that “They [IQ scores] are a reasonably good predictor not only of performance in the classroom but of income, health, and other important life outcomes.” That’s interesting. Let’s take those one at a time. You say, according to various studies IQ scores are a “reasonably good” (that’s an ass-coverer if I’ve ever seen one) good predictor of income. How does that correlate with the study that shows that a White felon has about an equal chance of being hired for a job as a Black man with a clean record ( http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/09/study-black-man-and-white-felon-same-chances-for-hire)?
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If we extend the logic inherent in your study, we must assume that - even though your “studies” also assert that IQ is a valid “predictor” of an inclination toward criminality - that your White felon worker has a higher IQ than the Black man, who is without a criminal record, due to the fact that the felon has a higher income. That’s a direct contradiction.
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Now let’s take a look at performance in the classroom. Does your study take into account, or even recognize, the fact that many Black people tend to play-down their intelligence because, due to the Black cultural experience, revealing your intelligence is often perceived as “trying to act White,” and frowned upon? Black people take their level of intelligence as a given, but they tend not to flaunt it - or as many say, “We keep it on the down-low.” After all, we DID have the intelligence not to vote for George W. Bush in huge numbers, didn’t we?
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In my article, A Sensible Response to White Supremacy, I point out the following:
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“The root of the problem that we’ve traditionally had in the Black community is our attitude toward knowledge. As a direct result of our history of slavery, we’ve developed a sort of aversion to knowledge. We tend to equate the pursuit of knowledge with selling out. We see knowledge as part of the White man’s domain, so we look upon Black people who have a love of knowledge with disdain, because we see them as "trying to be White."
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“The reason for that is simple. During slavery the only Black people we knew who spoke anything close to proper English were the "house niggas," and many house niggas had a tendency to look down their noses at those of us who worked in the field. As a result of that experience, today, even highly intelligent Black people will often try to hide their intelligence, because, ironically, over the years we’ve developed an attitude where many feel that we have a moral obligation to remain ignorant in order to prove that we take pride in being Black. Think about that. Isn't ironic that many of us embrace ignorance as a sign of Black pride? That's why you hear educated young Black people going around saying things like, "What it is?" or "What it be like?" They know that's improper, but they see it as giving credibility to their pride in being Black.
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“That’s one of the weapons that’s being used against President Obama by many envious Black intellectuals. They’re trying to convince the Black community of the following:
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“‘I’m cool - see my long, wooly Afro, how cool I act, and how I can quote Lil’ Wayne when I’m on stage? I’m one of y’all. I just have enough intelligence to speak the White man’s language, so I’m keeping an eye on him for the people. But that Obama, he’s not like us. He don’t have no Afro, he don’t never quote Lil Wayne, and he’s obviously much too intelligent to be trusted as a genuine Black man (http://wattree.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-sensible-response-to-white-supremacy.html)."'
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So the obvious question is, if you can't even measure your own intelligence with any degree of certainty, how can you even hope to measure the intelligence of people that you don’t understand - at all?
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Finally, you say, “The claim that a significant portion of the racial IQ gap has an ultimately genetic origin have been advanced by several psychologists, including Arthur Jensen, J. Philippe Rushton and Richard Lynn. The American Psychological Association in a 1996 report stated that the US racial IQ gap was not the result of bias in the content or administration of tests, nor simply reflect differences in socio-economic status, but that no adequate explanation of it had so far been given.”
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There you go name-dropping again, but I have only two words for you in response - PROVE IT! So far you haven’t proven a thing. All you’ve done is put forward a theory that you want with all of your heart to believe in. But in this case, you have one mighty hurtle to overcome - our own relative levels of intelligence tends to contradict everything that you’ve put forward. And that’s not a theory - that’s a fact.

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The Conservative Mentality, As Oppose to Independent Thought

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The conservative problem is, they define people in the wrong way. Nature designed birds to fly, fish to swim, and men to think. But due to conservative insecurities, they tend to want to group people according to what color T-shirt they were born in. That allows them to embrace the belief that regardless of their personal limitations, they can take comfort in the fact that they have some sort of innate value just by virtue of the fact that they were born in the "right" color T-shirt.
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But liberals recognize that their brothers are those who THINK like they do. Liberals also believe that your value as an individual is based on your personal capabilities. That’s why bigots hate liberals just as much as they do minorities. It stems from their sense of survival. The liberal philosophy is a direct threat to those with limited capabilities, because they know that without their sense of group entitlement, as individuals, they are nothing. That fully accounts for their "angry White man" sensibilities, and their hostility toward anyone who don’t look, think, and act, just like they do.
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That also explains the mentality of "Professor" Henschel. With his glaringly limited insight and intellectual capacity, he probably should have been a plumber. On the other hand, there are undoubtedly many plumbers who probably should have been professors. That’s how a bigoted society destroys itself. It tends to squander its natural human resources. Many of the young minds that are being wasted in this country today, could be the very minds that could solve many of the world’s problems tomorrow. Barack Obama is a perfect example of that.  If he hadn’t been able to squeeze through the cracks, this nation, and probably the world, would undoubtedly be in the midst of a second Great Depression at this very moment.
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So it's important that we drive this point home to our children. We have to teach them to be self-defining and independent thinkers. Knowledge is free, so they can’t be deprived of it. You have to CHOOSE to be ignorant in today’s world. So regardless to what you are, or what your station in life, never let it retard WHO you are. And in the final analysis, only YOU can define who you are. I was a mailman for 28 years. But while I made my living as a mailman, I never allowed it to make me BECOME one. Delivering mail was merely a job, not a definition.
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Eric L. Wattree
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse
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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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How Do We Know the GOP Has Purposely Sabotaged America? Because Their Behavior Was Predicted

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

How Do We Know the GOP Has Purposely Sabotaged America? 
Because Their Behavior Was Predicted

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The American people should be completely disgusted with the GOP, because at this point, it has become abundantly clear that they have no limits when it comes to their lust for power and greed. Patriotism and love of country is meaningless to them. Over the past six years of the Obama administration they've repeatedly demonstrated that their lust for power takes priority over patriotism, the nation's interest, and bringing relief to the American people, from an economic crisis that THEY created!

What evidence do I have of that? Plenty. On February 3, 2009, exactly two weeks after President Obama entered office for his first term, I wrote the article below predicting exactly the kind of tactics that the GOP was going to engage in, and also their motivation for doing so. But I don't profess to being a prophet. It took neither monumental intellectual resources, nor a crystal ball, to recognize that the current GOP has morphed into the domestic enemy of the United States. Any American who fails to see that simply doesn't want to see.

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We won't get into the discussion as to why the American people refused to see what's right before their eyes - at least, not at this time - because that would lead to a heated and divisive debate, and that's the GOP's stock and trade. The fact is, the GOP agenda is so toxic to the American way of life, and to the interest of the American people as a whole, that  their only resource for remaining a viable political party is hatred and antipathy.  The GOP has a vested interest in making absolutely sure that the American people's hatred for one another ALWAYS takes priority over their concern for their own family's best interest. 

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Secretary of the Arts? Sounds Like a Plan 

Quincy Jones, musician, composer, and arranger extraordinaire, has started a petition that has drawn to date more than 220,000 signatures , asking President Obama to consider adding a Secretary of the Arts as a cabinet level post in his administration.

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At first blush that might sound rather frivolous in a nation that's involved in two wars, have people losing their homes, and is currently involved in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. But when given thoughtful consideration, it might just be exactly what America needs, and could very well turn out to be one of the most important cabinet posts in an Obama administration.
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What President Obama needs right now is a way to offset Republican efforts against him, and to rally the American people around his programs, initiatives and efforts--and there's no better way to do that than to enlist the assistance of the entertainment and arts community.
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Everyone one is essentially in agreement that America is in for some hard times ahead, but America's economic woes are not the biggest threat to this nation. We're going to get past that-- the biggest threat to this nation is the loss of the American spirit, and our confidence that we can survive this crisis. Thus, an organized and highly motivated arts and entertainment community can help us to address that issue, and they can also be of tremendous value in our foreign policy efforts.
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Look at the value that our entertainment community provided during the Great Depression and WWII. They rallied America's efforts close to single-handedly. They both kept America focused on its goal, and also gave us the motivation to reach that goal. It was a well trained and courageous military that won the battles overseas, but it was Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and the Maguire Sisters that won the battle on the domestic front. And as a result of those efforts, the thirties and forties turned out to be one of the most highly productive and creative periods in this nation's history.
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We must also acknowledge that America has a cunning and insidious domestic foe to overcome. In spite of their rhetoric and pledges to the contrary, the Republican Party has a vested interest in seeing America fail. They see they're interest as totally opposed to that of the American people. So when Rush Limbaugh said he hopes President Obama fails, he wasn't alone in that point of view, he was just the only one dumb enough to say it out loud.
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So let there be no doubt about the fact that there is nothing the Republican Party won't do to undermine President Obama's efforts to cure America's woes - with the possible exception of promoting those initiatives that enhance the business interest of their fat-cat friends. We should also not delude ourselves in the understanding that absolutely nothing would make the Republican leadership more effusive with delighted than seeing the American people suffer like we've never suffered before for the next four years. Therefore, we can expect them to pull out all stops to obstruct, frustrate, and delay, all efforts to bring relief to America's poor and middle class under President Obama's administration.
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That's where a strong and influential secretary of the arts would be of great value. An organized entertainment and arts community could be used to put both social and political pressure on the Republican leadership against sabotaging the American people. The arts community could rally the people to such a fever pitch over curing our national woes, that any efforts by the Republican Party to sabotage that effort would be political suicide. If the American people can be rallied to give their lives in a senseless war, they can certainly be rallied in their own best interest.
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Finally, and just as important to the nation's long-term goals, an innovative and influential secretary of the arts could have an extremely positive influence on both artistic responsibility, and the use of the arts as an educational tool. He or she could engage the nation, and the arts community, in a discussion over using the arts to enhance our lives, rather than drag us down. That doesn't mean to engage in censorship, but rather, to promote, educate, and encourage personal responsibility through the arts - with everything from cartoons, movies, and music, to the advertising billboards along our roads and highways.

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We could use the arts to change the way we relate to one another. We could promote knowledge, education, and community enhancement as cool, and crime, drug use, and irresponsibility as uncool–in other words, do just the opposite of what we're currently doing.
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So I'd say, let's go for it. It may be just what we need to turn our society around. We already have everything we need in place, so now all we need is the will to do it, and someone influential and creative enough to change our mindset. We could even take a page out of GW's book, and call it, "A War on Ignorance."

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Now that's a war I could rally behind.
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FELLOW AMERICANS, DON’T LET OUR IGNORANCE DESTROY US

http://wattree.blogspot.com/2014/07/fellow-americans-dont-let-our-ignorance.html

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Eric L. Wattree 

wattree.blogspot.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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Echoes of An Era: The Fabulous Quincy Jones

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

ECHOES OF AN ERA: THE FABULOUS QUINCY JONES

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Quincy Jones is one of the last truly GREAT composers and arrangers to come out of jazz or any other form of music in quite some time. NOBODY is greater, and no one ever has been. He stands among Ellington, Basie, Mancini, and Gershwin in complete comfort, so we can't honor this musical giant enough. The fact is, Quincy's genius, like the genius of Charlie Parker, Ray Charles, and John Coltrane, makes him not only a musical giant, but very easily elevates him to the stature of one of the greatest men who's ever lived.
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Yes, we already recognize him as a celebrity, but he’s much more than just that.  Due to our contemporary philosophy of "de-education" - or the dumbing-down of society - even in his celebrity many of us fail to recognize Quincy’s true stature as an artist and what he represents to the history of humanity as a whole. Quincy Jones is not just famous, he's an icon of the arts of a historic stature, and we should all recognize and honor such greatness within our midst, because there is nothing of more value to humanity than those who have achieved Quincy’s level of excellence, greatness, and accomplishment.
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People such as Quincy enhances all of humanity. They serve as living testaments to what mankind is capable of at our best. Their contributions represent the ultimate political, spiritual, and moral statement of humanity as a whole. They stand as a constant reminder of what man can, and should be, and the kind of excellence that we should all strive to achieve.

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So I dedicate these lyrics as my tribute to a GREAT man, a great artist, and to one of his greatest compositions, a composition that serenaded me as a mere child of 12, and I love it just as much today as I did then. I was incapable of expressing how much I appreciated the beauty that Quincy and his cohort, the late great saxophonist, Phil Woods, brought into my life back then, but hopefully, I can do it now.
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To Quincy Jones, a musical genius who has managed to achieve the ultimate in the human endeavor . . . immortality.
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QUINTESSENCE

(The Fabulous Quincy Jones - Recorded Dec. 22, 1961)

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I____ love the sound____ of maestro Quincy Jones____.

His music____ is so____ divine______.

When I sing____his songs____ I know I can’t____go wrong,

because I’m filled____with the soul____of Quincy Jones______.

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Q’s____serenades_____ are always so refined________
 The mel-o-dies linger____ on_____.

They sing of love for you____from a guy_______ known

as "Q"_____,

A name____that will always_______ sing for

you______.

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DUKE ELLINGTON

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And then when Phil____ begins to play,

Quin-tes-sence in his own____and special way____

he seems to know_____exactly what the Q had to say.

They sung about jazz and love\ and of \ling___er___ing

Sunsets__________,

then______ blessed the dawn________with this song__________.

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They sung of love\ and when your heart is full,
trem-bl-ing lips\ beneath a mistletoe____

they made my heart____ stand still_______.

So when I sing____ this song____ I know I\Just\ can’t____ go wrong______,

because it flowed____ from the pen ____ of 



Maestro Quincy Jones______.
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COUNT BASIE

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I____ love the sound____ of maestro Quincy Jones____.

His music____ is so____ divine______.

When I sing____his songs____ I know I can’t____go wrong,

because I’m filled____with the soul____of Quincy Jones______. 

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FRANK SINATRA
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And then when Phil began to play\he sung it in____ his own and special way_____,

 and he said, \"Maestro\ . . . I just love this mel-o-dy that you've laid,"  

then picked up his horn and started to

soar________like an angel__________,



and joined____ the immortals____ in fame_____.
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Genius like this\ you never see no more____, kissed

 by the Gods\ as they walk through the door; 

A genius where time____stands still___________.

So as I sing___ this song______I know I____

 can’t________ go wrong_________, 

because I am wrapped\ in the soul_____ of Maestro____ Quincy Jones______.
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MICHAEL JACKSON 

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Beauty is Q's genre, 
and
our heartstrings is his ax. 

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THE FABULOUS,
QUINCY JONES!

©2014 Eric L. Wattree



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A Message From Beyond

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

A Message From Beyond

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To Rita with love:
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We hear you, baby, so don’t ever let ‘em turn your head. You’ve got to expect the ugliness, the struggle, and the adversity. We all went through it. Some people think jazz is anything with a saxophone in it. They don’t understand. They don’t realize that Jazz is much more than that. Jazz is a way of life - it’s an attitude, a demeanor, and an outlook toward reality. That’s why things are so rough on you, because you’re one of us, one of the chosen ones; one who’s been chosen to relate our view of reality to a clueless world. We understand that can be a very heavy burden to bear, but we’re all watchin’, and we’re all very proud of the way you’re carrying that torch - our torch . . . with such grace, beauty, and majesty. You’ve brought 52^nd Street back to life - and with your every note, you bring us back to life. Yeah, we’re watchin’, baby girl, and lovin’ it - and we’re lovin’ you.
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So just close your eyes and sing your song, baby. "Close your eyes, and rest your head on my shoulder and sing . . . Just sing your song, baby girl, and don’t worry about a thing. Just close you eyes and pay your dues. We gotcha."
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That was Sarah. You’ve got her eyes moist - and that’s not an easy thing to pull off with Sassy.
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-The Chosen Ones

 

Presenting Ms. Rita Edmond - The Contemporary Face of True Jazz Royalty
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If you’re a jazz lover and want to look upon the contemporary face of jazz royalty, take a moment to go check out Ms. Rita Edmond on Youtube. She's the jazz world's best kept secret.  She's currently working on her third CD, but even on her first CD, she made it abundantly clear to this writer that she hit the ground fully seasoned as one of the greatest jazz singers alive today. I know, that's a mighty lofty claim to heap onto the shoulders of a relatively new artist, but I'm not given to hyperbole, so I fully intend to back up my assertion with the contents and attachments to this piece.

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Ms. Edmond moves between sultry sophistication, hard driving swing, and childlike innocence without any effort at all. There are many great singers out there , but from the very first bar of anything Rita does, she clearly distinguishes herself as one of those rare individuals who was born to do exactly what she’s doing, and nothing else. She swings with the effortless grace of a Sliver Shadow cruisin' down Pacific Coast Highway, and her ballads are lush with sultry passion, personal depth, and individuality.

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You can't "learn" to sing like Rita Edmond. You either have it, or you don't, and there's only one or two lucky few in a generation who do - but Rita, like Ella and Sarah, is one of those lucky few. But don’t just take my word for it, go check her out for yourself and I’m sure you’ll agree with me that she’s a once in a generation talent, and clearly the heir apparent to some of the greatest divas that jazz has ever known.

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Along with this piece I'm attaching three links to make my point - ‘Here’s to Life,’ ‘Embraceable You' (Live at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) , and ‘It Might As Well Be Spring’ - and each tune shows a different side of her tremendous, and still growing, musical personality.

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‘Here’s to Life’ is a beautiful ballad that’s been done by some of the greatest singers who’s ever lived, yet Ms. Edmond’s version is as good or better than any version of this tune that’s ever been recorded. The soaring passion that she brings to this tune makes it almost impossible for anyone who’s ever had to struggle through life’s adversities and then managed to survive to continue to fight the good fight, to listen to with a dry eye.

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'Embraceable You,' (featuring Harold Land, Jr. on piano) demonstrates the ease in which she can establish the mood of a song and captivate an audience. It also show an artist who is so comfortable in serenading an audience that it seems like she was born on stage. And after the piano solo, notice the effortless spontaneity in which she throws in a lick that's so exquisite that it sounds like it should have been written into the tune. You won't be able to miss it, because the audience places an exclamation point of approval immediately afterward, as she casually, and routinely, moves on to the next phrase, as though it's all in a night's work. 

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Finally, she does ‘It Might As Well Be Spring,’ a tried and true jazz standard. Not everyone can do this tune well, because it’s such a jazz staple that it’s hard for a singer to put their personal stamp on it, and whenever they try, they either over sing or under sing the tune.  But Rita swings through it effortlessly and makes it her own. King Pleasure himself would smile at her rendition.

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I also wanted to add Ms. Edmond's rendition of ‘This Can’t Be Love’ as an attachment, but unfortunately, it's not available on Youtube. Nevertheless, it deserves a mention. On that tune Ms. Edmond displays yet another part of her musical vocabulary - her growing chops as a scatter and her ability to swing with the best of them. In this case, she scats in unison with yet another powerhouse, tenor sax player Ricky Woodard, and they’re pushed forward by the hard driving rhythms of Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath of the illustrious Heath Brothers on drums - and when it comes to the aristocracy of jazz, they don’t come any more blue-blooded than Tootie. So here, Rita is being tested by fire, and she literally danced through the flames with blissful abandon.

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So in spite of Ms. Edmond’s unassuming manner, whenever she picks up a mic, her tremendous confidence, individualism and flawless delivery seems to say, “There’s a new diva in town” - and I say, it’s about time! 

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Rita Edmond: A Glance At Destiny
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http://wattree.blogspot.com/2011/11/ms-rita-edmond-glance-at-destiny.html
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Embraceable You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4SZXO9-jrc
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It Might As Well Be Spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVXzYTrrCVE
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Eric L. Wattree

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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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Barack and The Kenyan Weed Affair

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

Barack and The Kenyan Weed Affair

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There’s so much ugliness going on in the world, and so many heavy issues going on in my personal life, I needed a break. So after seeing a photo of Rick Perry in a meeting with President Obama where Perry seems to be pouting like a child, it was so hilarious that I decided to build a purely fictional scenario around it to take my mind off things. So again, this story is completely fictional, it has no basis in either fact or reality, and is intended as a spoof of some of the idiotic scenarios that people like Rush Limbaugh and the Fox News organization try to pass off to the American people as truth. In fact, I’m surprised they haven’t beat me to it.

Kevin,

Just between you and I, we get special reports in the hood about what’s going on in the White House, and according to those reports, the President just has one weakness - that damn Kenyan weed. It’s a throwback to when he was a kid. His relatives used to manage to get it in here to him when he was in college. And from what I understand, just before that meeting with Rick Perry, he got his hands on some, and I hear that shit is monstrous! Look at how everybody in the photo is grinnin.’ And from the look on Rick's face, he seems to be the only one who didn't get a hit - and the combination of that good Kenyan bush, and the look on Perry’s face, seems to have given the President a severe case of the "goofies." Personally, I think the President purposely bogarded. He just couldn’t bring himself to waste none of that good bush on Perry’s ignorant ass - and I don’t blame him.
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Now this may be an urban legend, but they tell me that Kenyan weed is twice as potent as any other weed in the world, because it’s grown in the wilderness and it has lion piss on it, and that seems to be substantiated by the President’s demeanor - the brother is crackin’ up! Similarly, the expression on Rick Perry’s face seems to suggest that he knows he missed out on something fabulous, because I’m sure the contact alone had Perry giddy and squirming in his seat just for one hit, but obviously, the President wasn’t having it.
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You see, Texas is right there on the Mexican border, so Perry knows some premo weed when he smells it. That Mexican weed been pissed on too, by coyotes - and coyote piss ain’t nothin’ to sneeze at either. And bein’ a Texan, Rick Perry knows his piss. But the most potent pissin’ coyote in the wilderness don’t hold a candle to lion piss, and Rick Perry knows that, that’s why he couldn’t wait to wrap his lips around that good, Kenyan weed. From what I understand, just the contact from that Kenyan shit will make the hairs fall out your nose, because a lion has some powerful piss. You can damn near start a Corvette with a gallon of lion piss. So that Kenyan weed is powerful! Check out the President - that shit got him crackin’ up!!! And another thing, when was the last time you saw a Kenyan that wasn’t smilin’?
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Now, I’m not going to tell you how I obtained these pictures, because they’re Top Secret, but I will tell you this - they are right out of the Secret Service files. So if you think I’m lyin’ about how bad this Kenyan shit is, check this out. This is a picture the President took right after the meeting:
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And if you think that’s something, check him out here - he completely took it to the next level. I couldn’t get my hands on the one where they said that shit had him thinkin’ he was Spider Man, but they tell me he was tryin’ to climb up the side of the White House wall, and then kept looking at his hands, tryin’ to figure out why his web wasn’t workin.’
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And a whole 5 hours later he went to a late afternoon lunch with Al Sharpton. Here he is gettin’ his grub on. That lion piss had him attackin’ that grub like a starvin’ werewolf. He scared the hell out of Al! Al said, "I was just hopin’ he got full, because I made up my mind that if he started lookin’ up at me I was gone haul ass. I ain’t never seen nothin’ like it - the brother was grubbin’ like a man who’d been stranded at sea for two weeks.
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So, like I said, that shit is bad. So bad, in fact, that the Secret Service added a special detail to make absolutely SURE the President couldn’t get his hands on nothing else that any lion, or anything else, might have pissed on. You know how you White folks are. You go overboard on everything. So once they made the connection between the weed and the lion piss, they forgot all about the weed - they're used to people gettin' wasted in the White House; George Washington even had a plant or two at Mt. Vernon - they started focusing on the piss. Now they’ve gone on a mission to make sure that the President doesn’t consume anything that might have been pissed on.
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That's right - they done made piss a national security issue. They even had a Hazmet detail wearing those white jumpsuits sniffin’ the collard greens in the White House galley. I guess they figure if lion piss can make the President trip-out like he did, God forbid what might happen if some crack-smokin', socialist hood rat piss on the presidential collard greens!   So now they’re growing ALL White House vegetables in a $22 million, specially constructed, hydroponic garden with round the clock guards, just because the President got ahold of some good weed. No wonder the poor people are starvin’ to death!  
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In addition, they put out a special memo to everybody on the White House staff that said, in no uncertain terms, that anybody who sneaks anymore of that shit into the White House is gonna be dragged down to the basement, and the Pentagon is gonna send in a special team of Navy Seals just to kick their Black ass. Then they’re gonna send ‘em to Guantanamo Bay and let ‘em chill a few months with Adul the Booty Bomber. But after giving it some consideration they thought better of it, and redacted the "Black ass" part. But it was clear who they suspected of gettin’ the President high. Things never change. It’s always us. How do they know some White, weed-smokin’ attache from the State Department didn’t bring that shit in? 
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But when all is said in done, I’d just like to know one thing. What pissed on that shit that Bush and Cheney was smokin - it must have been something we thought was extinct, or maybe it was the Koch brothers.
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So those are the facts - at least, according to the hood rat grapevine. But I’ve got to run, my man - I promised to take my woman to the zoo.  By the way, you wouldn't happen to have a bucket around here somewhere, would you?   
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Eric L. Wattree
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Ewattree@Gmail.com
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An Ugly Truth: Why Some Black People Are Still Waiting For Santa Claus

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree
 

An Ugly Truth:

Why Some Black People Are Still Waiting
For Santa Claus

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Whenever I hear the Name Belafonte the first word that comes to mind is "Class." That’s the only word appropriate for the way Harry Belafonte represented Black manhood in the fifties and early sixties. During a time when the few other Black celebrities with the crossover appeal of Belafonte were trying their best to make the White world forget that they were Black, Harry Belafonte flaunted his Blackness with dignity and pride. This soft-spoken, intelligent, and self-assured Black man with the undulating body drove White women crazy for just a taste of forbidden fruit, while at the very same time giving the White establishment a glimpse of things to come.
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During that period America still viewed Black men in the Steppin’ Fetchit tradition, so for the most part, the only Black men that we saw or heard in the media were people like Lightin’ and Amos n Andy. So brothers like Harry Belafonte were sorely needed to upgrade our image, but ironically, Belafonte was so self-assured, and moved about the White world so effortlessly that there were a few in the Black community who called him an Uncle Tom. Such people will always be around. No matter how impressive a person is, you can always depend on a handful of haters pointing out that one of his shoestrings is shorter than the other. 
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But, of course, calling Belafonte an Uncle Tom was ridiculous. Harry Belafonte was on the cutting edge when it came to defining the modern American Black man. Again, Belafonte was one of America’s first looks at what the modern Black man - at his best - was to become. While on the other hand, those who called him an Uncle Tom represented a throwback to the slave mentality of the Black man at his worse, with a mentality that dictates that any Black man who doesn’t walk around looking at his feet, or who is comfortable in casually dealing with White folks eyeball-to-eyeball, can’t be trusted.
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I’ve come to call that mentality the Smiley/West syndrome. You can always spot these people with just a glance. While they don’t act overtly subservient to White folks, and they’re even militant at times, their interactions with the White world always have a needy, self-conscious tinge to them, as though they’re seeking admiration, or recognition from the White world for being "brave" enough to speak up, and smart enough to speak to them in their own terms. Thus, while on the surface, they seem to be speaking on behalf of Black people, the message beneath the surface seems to be a desperate plea for acknowledgment, for the "Great White Father" to give them recognition for being "special."  Their actions and behavior seems to say, "See, I ain’t like those other niggas!"
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Notice the Body Language. 
There's No Doubt Who's the Dominant
Personality Here.


 

Such people are frauds. They’re trying to play both ends against the middle. On the one hand, they’re trying to gain the admiration of Black people for having the courage to speak up on their behalf, while on the other, they’re winking at the White man and desperately seeking his approval. That’s why such people were so hostile toward people like Harry Belafonte in the past, and those same sort of people are hostile toward Barack Obama today.
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People like Belafonte and Obama have attainted the stature and genuine respect of the White establishment that the frauds so desperately seek, so their response to people like Belafonte and Obama is like that of a child who resents his brother or sister because their daddy seems to like their sibling more.
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There’s clear evidence of this syndrome in the career of Cornel West. For a man who claims to love "his people" so desperately, it’s very curious that he’s never invested one smidgen of his oft-lauded skills as an educator into an effort to educate Black kids. Cornel West has never taught at a predominantly Black school in his entire career. He’s chosen to educate the kids of the White elite at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale instead.  And with respect to that, a good rule of thumb when attempting to assess the character of any individual - be they preacher, politician, or potentate - is to ignore what they say, and watch what they do.
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Any Black man who advocates "conserving"
 traditional American values is,
by definition, an idiot.

There are far too many Black people around who still suffer from this slave mentality. They’ve been convinced over the years that their own people are inferior, so unlike the people of most cultures, whose prime motivation is to come together and help move their people forward, the prime motivation of far too many Black people is to prove that they’re somehow superior to their own people. Then, when they come across other Black people who demonstrate the excellence, and even brilliance, that thrives throughout the Black community, instead of embracing these people, they feel challenged, and become hostile.
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As a direct result of that attitude by some, the very Black people with the knowledge, foresight, and character to help us move forward, are often severely scrutinized and brutally attacked, and that’s exactly what’s taking place with respect to President Obama. Instead of just letting the President do his job like any other president, people like Tavis Smiley and Cornel West are constantly demanding that he PROVE that he cares about Black people. It’s ridiculous - the man’s wife and children are Black, and he’s Black!
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But it’s more than just ridiculous; it hurts the Black community, and it hurts the nation. It makes the President’s job twice as hard, because in order for the President to be effective, he has to have the solid support of the people. So this constant insinuation by his Black critics that he’s somehow "not Black enough," not only dilutes his Black support, but their constant demands that he do something SPECIAL for the Black community to prove his Blackness, serves as grist for the mill of his political opponents. His opponents use such demands to both further dilute the Black community by claiming that he should be doing more for Black people, and then flipping the coin and telling the President’s White supporters that all he cares about is delivering special treatment for Black people. Thus, everything he does is scrutinize and evaluated in that light. As a result, everything he does that happens to benefit any group, is turned around and used against him as evidence that he doesn’t care about another.   
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BOYCE WATKINS

It also hurts the Black community because it prevents President Obama from using his bully pulpit to even suggest things that the Black community could do to improve its plight, and that’s something that’s needed very badly. A prime example of that was when, then, Senator Obama, was running for President, he gave a Father’s Day speech suggesting that Black fathers step up to the plate and take responsibility for their children. The next day all hell broke loose. Dr. Boyce Watkins in - who it now turns out is an undercover Black conservative in drag - wrote an article in "Your Black World" wanting to know why Obama singled out only Black deadbeat dads. It seemed to me, that should have been obvious - because he's Black, and he wants to see Black people thrive.  But, of course, Watkins was simply fishing for an issue.
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What makes this problem so tenacious, and so easily seized upon by Black demagogues, is that Black people have been on the receiving end of such groundlessly slanderous criticism over the centuries that we’ve become overly sensitive to ALL criticism - even when it’s constructive and warranted. We’ve got to get past that and learn to follow truth. We’ve got to train our minds to always give truth priority over ideology, and learn to follow truth wherever it leads and regardless to whose ox it gores. If we can simply teach ourselves to do just that one thing, it would put us "Miles Ahead" (pun intended) of every other group in America.
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Recklessly irresponsible parents should be
liable for the crimes their kids
commit - Period.

Truth is much like physical pain. While it can be severely uncomfortable, it can also alert us to serious problems that need to be addressed. So again, we should always follow truth wherever it leads, and then, if we don’t like where it leads us, instead of trying to deny truth, we should take the necessary action to modify what it reveals.
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If we can do that, we’ll see many of the problems in the Black community begin to melt away, because truth will tell us that we’re both the primary source of many of our problems, and should be the primary source of their solutions. Truth would tell us that more money passes through the Black community than through many countries, so if we would learn to work together and patronize our own businesses, we could become a nation within a nation. Truth would also tell us that we need to begin to teach our children the value of knowledge from the day they’re born, and we should also teach them about the stupidity of killing one another over a "territory" where they don’t own even one blade of grass.
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Truth would also tell us that our churches should be doing a lot more in the community than just preaching and collecting money every Sunday. It’s not enough to just recite the words of Jesus. Jesus’s words were designed to teach us how to actually live, not just TALK about how to live. 
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One of the things that Jesus said was, "If you claim to be the children of Abraham, you’d be doing the works of Abraham." Are our churches doing the works of Abraham? I don’t think so. If they were, there wouldn’t be a hungry child in America. So again, truth would tell us that our Churches, and the preachers who preside over our churches, spend far too much time TELLING us about Jesus, and far too little time LIVING like Jesus.
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Take the issue of poverty, for example. One of the biggest expenses for many working mothers is childcare. Why aren’t our churches helping to relieve that burden by keeping the churches open during the week and using some of their tithes to provide affordable childcare for working mothers? They could also hire unemployed mothers to staff the operation, and use retired teachers within their congregation to help educate the children. I think that’s what Jesus would have done. 
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So until we open our eyes to the truth, we cannot correct one of the most serious legacies of slavery - the belief by many that Black people have a moral obligation to remain ignorant. It doesn’t matter how sophisticated we think we’ve become, we are still the product of a racist environment, and as such, many of us are just as racist toward other Black people as any racist, sheet-wearing, barefoot, Hillbilly - and in many cases, even more so.  I refer to such people as "bligots" (Black-on-Black bigots) - and let there be no doubt about it, there are many of them out there. 
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So in order to neutralize that inbred legacy of slavery, it is incumbent upon us to expand our minds and seek to become independent thinkers. Each and every one of us should begin to educate ourselves, and thereafter, never give anyone else's ability to think priority over our own. Yes, we should continue to absorb knowledge from the knowledgeable, but we should evaluate that knowledge, and then ALWAYS connect the dots for ourselves.
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And remember, even though knowledge is the most valuable commodity on Earth, it's free, so no one can deprive you of it. There is just as much knowledge on Google or at the corner library as there is at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities combined. So if you don't avail yourself of it, you're CHOOSING to remain ignorant. That's the one thing that we can't blame on the White man.
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And finally, the human mind was designed to hate ignorance, so true pride can only be had through the acquisition of knowledge. Thus, until such time that we obtain the true pride that comes with knowledge, we are doomed to continue to hate ourselves, which will make it impossible for us to ever come together to fight for the independence, equality, and justice necessary to sustain a viable culture. So the long and the short of it is, until we learn to respect the power of knowledge, we will remain enslaved - period.

 

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Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.comCitizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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