Tuesday, February 04, 2014

The Racist Society We Still Face In this Year of 2014


"Just remember, children, Santa Clause is still white - but the Cheerios today are not the ones that your Grandmother enjoyed"

There is still a lot of ugly, naked racism out there.  There is this ugly roomer going around being propigated by "token Negroes" so to speak, such as Herman Cane, that says "President Lyndon Johnson once told two southern governors that "If I can get this Civil Rights bill passed, I'll have those Niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years".  But this "remark" only dates from 1995 and first appeared in a book called "Inside the White House" or something, put out by a fringe right winger, but with which conservative Black politicians love to quote.  I don't know about you but I'm getting pretty tired of people insulting our intelligence.  It's almost as if the Republicans are now telling minorities that "You people are too dumb to know who is really insulting you and who really loves you".   You see this line used on minorities of all stripes such as blacks, and women, the old, the poor, people accused of mental illness, ect.  Nobody is buying this fioux "racial sensitivity" any more than that fat teenage girl who testified in the Trayvon Martin trial was some kind of a closet racist which the attorney had to "expose".  And of course we hear "Obama is a racist" and "Obama has a hatred of all White people".   The latest bruo-ha-ha (another word I've never used personally before) is over this Coca Cola commercial which features "America the Beautiful" sung in all different languages.  Of course now there is a roomer that the woman who wrote that song was actually a lezbian.  Hell, even if it's not true it makes a good story.  But seriously folks- - why does this British guy names Stain who fills in for Rush get so upset over the idea that America would embrace other cultures. He is obsessed that America is becoming a multi-lingural country.  Europe only wishes we WOULD become that.  Lies are told, and Hartman called one guy out on it who said "Mexicans are not a bi-lingual country the way we are in the United States".  This is of course another lie, but in the tea party lies are believed as readily as they can be invented.  Actually on the "Mind Games" album the song "Only People" is pretty much a musical rip-off of the Coca Cola jingle of over forty years ago.  But it's really strange for someone with such a pronounced "foreign" (British) accent of his own lecturing Americans on Patriotism, of whatever he calls the sort of racial jingoism he sponsors.  And the last I heard doesn't England use the Euro?  Meanwhile we in the United States still have "In God We Trust "printed on our money.

You know we should all boycott PBS.  Because they they have a long standing relationship with Archer Daniel Midland corporation or whatever, that along with Monsanto and Dow Chemical are heavily into genetically modified foods.  Clearly this "Public Broadcast" television is owned by corporate America, and on the Mc Laughlin group- - most sessions are dominated by the voice of the tea party right.  It seems that with each passing year they slip in more and more ads.  As they, I suspect, have to increasingly keep compromizing their product to remain "economically viable".   Remember what I said in a recent post that not everything that is "Expediant" is also "Prudent".

The past year and a half – the past eighteen months- something has been “off” with the Cosmos.  I’ll tell you one thing that’s changed with me in this year and a half period is that I have lost all respect for President Obama.  His mere mention fills me with disgust.  There have been seven major betrayals by this President in that period - - all of the gravest “moral perpitude” as they say, that show a severe lack of moral character and a broken moral compass.  Let’s take then in order.  The first was early on when the President did not make gun violence and regulation a major theme of his campaign, and he easily could have started with this in his acceptance speech at the convention.  We already had experienced Aurora Colorado and many other shooting events as of then.  The second was this allegation made by Randy Rhodes, if she’ll stick by it- - that President Obama and Governor Christie both made a “Devil’s pact”.  Governor Christie would embrace Obama after Sandy and be photographed with him, and at the same time Christie would spurn Romney, and in exchange the Democratic Party would not mount serious opposition or support to Christie’s campaign for reelection as Governor.  The third was that this President was willing to put Social Security on the chopping block as part of some “grand bargain” despite the fact that the poor are already receiving far below the inflation rate. Now Bill Handel sees no problem with Jerry Brown not doing more to restore previous cutbacks to the poor, but as President to write off a vast segment of the population is politically suicidal, and yet he got away with it.  The fourth is the refusal or decline of AG Eric Holder to file Civil Rights violations charges in the Trayvon Martin case.  This is despite the fact this case is far more “black and white” than the Rodney King beating case, where the Bush administration did file charges- - and won.  The fifth is this Keystone XL Pipeline thing.  We’ve discussed this one at length.  Now Secretary of State Kerry issues this ‘official report” for what it is worth- - saying there is no environmental problem with the pipeline.  The sixth is the Pan Pacific Trade agreement.   We have also discussed the perils of this.  Perhaps you can guess number seven.  It’s President Obama repeatedly telling us ad nausium that “If you like your health care plan, and your doctor, you can keep it”.  This lie was told so repeatedly that there is no possible way the President can say “I never said it”.  There is no doubt the saying was meant to deceive.  Of course with – as raised on one show- - if a twenty year old has lost both of his parents,  he can’t piggy back on anybody else but has to buy his own health care.  But does so knowing that he will be subsidizing the oldest and sickest in the population- - and knows that it’s a whole lot cheaper to just go on and pay the ninety-five dollar penalty, or is it a “tax”; I forget now.   From a cosmic point of view- - an adverse development has happened with the Federation and Mal Evans is holding the bag- - or a lot of the problem- - I could Google the exact date of the “incident” because it manifested itself in this world, too.  But for this reason it isn’t that Mal Evans’ leadership is in jeopardy as such - - - but more a case of the most sacred values of the Federation being, shall we say, “Contaminated”.  In my personal life September of 2012 stands out as a time when things got worse for me on two or three fronts.  You may ask “Can all of this so called cosmic damage be undone- - or a little hocus pocus done to eliminate it?”  The answer is “I don’t know but I sure hope so”.  One could hope some favorable Astrological configuration would develop or something.  But as of right now, let’s just say “Evil has its foot on the neck of Good”.
 

There were more Catholic num horror stories on the Katie Kuric show.  You know that in Ireland that women don’t fare very well regardless, and strange things happen in convents, as well under the covers with priests and little boys.  But then they had this American story about a woman who graduated high school in 1965, which isn’t exactly the middle ages.  She remarked that her boyfriend had been a virgin up till them, but didn’t report on herself.  Anyhow of course she became pregnant, and the boyfriend’s parents didn’t approve of her and blocked the marriage.  Then she got shipped off to a nunnary or something, where she was forced to promise to give up her unborn baby.  If you ever express doubts as to giving up the child, you are put in isolation for having “negative thoughts’ and you could “contaminate the other girls”.  This sounds like something they would do in the church of Scientology.  The girls are told “You will never think of this incident again - - you will put it totally out of your mind”.  So I’m wondering how many “others” (you know  - the little boys) are told to “put things out of their minds”.

Today was Tech Tuesday.  They have invented a kind of cohesive sand that holds together like wet sand, but it’s more stable and it’s that consistency all the time.  It’s mixed with a two percent polymer of some sort.  You can build and mold and sculpt with it better than you can with actual sand, and apparently it won’t dry out.  There are also some child’s pajamas with little magic dots on them, and each dot when passed over with a wand or something, will give you a reading of your child’s favorite bedtime story, such as Sleeping Beauty.  There is a type of eggless cookie dough that “it’s OK for your child to eat”.  That’s all fine and good, but the real question is whether you can use this apparently vegan dough to actually bake cookies?  There was some kind of a magic ball with programming that can apparently change colors and shapes or something- - and I admit I wasn’t mentally totally tracking with that one.   Thom Hartman says that in Korea and “many developed nations” the download and stuff averages one gigabyte per second, or about twenty times faster than our fastest lightning speed internet providers just now being advertized in the United States as really hot stuff.  I wondered how you could possibly physically have some internet provider that’s in excess of three hundred times what I am using for my internet source right now, which is less than three megs.  I have no idea.   It does seem that in so many areas, such as employee protections, the United States is lagging far behind the rest of the developed world, and this is a sad state of affairs.  It should not be that way.

According to one book author there are three reasons why a race or culture will go right to the top of the graduating class and earn the highest incomes and get good jobs.  The first is a sense of “racial pride” or a sense of “chosenness” or some call it a “superiority complex” like things they were told as little children by their parents.  The second is a sense of “being persecuted” and constantly “challenged’ by others and put on the defensive, as though they constantly have to justify themselves.  The first is one you hear a lot.  It’s discipline from a young age and a strong sense of “deferred gratification” (Didn’t you hate that phrase in sex education class?) and “impulse control”.   These races and cultures are the usual suspects for the most part.  You have people from India, people from Iran, and “Asians” or more to the point, Vietnamese, Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese, as well as Nigerians among the Black peoples, who perform 25 times as well as any other Blacks.  Someone said Nigerians compose 25% of the class of some Tech Majors.  Then you have of course the Mormons, and interestingly, not to leave the Latinos out but the Cubans have this “superiority complex” good and strong.  It is pointed out by this book author that most often this occurs with first and second generation immigrants to this country and this “effect’ wears off in time.  Jewish people weren’t mentioned, which is puzzling because the Jewish people at large are known everywhere as intellectuals.

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