The Three "I"s

What are the three "I"s? And why are they being written about on this blog?

They are:
Ignorance
Illiterate
Inept

These are systemic psycho-social traits that afflict African-Americans to a high degree, and ultimately contanimate their ability to succeed in 21st Century America.

IGNORANCE -- the fundamental lack of knowledge, education, common sense, wisdom... does that capture what Black People are about? Sadly it does. And WHY? Muthafucka, why? Did you read the cover article of the March 13th issue of The Economist? It's about the digital divide, and it has an African boy using a stone as a makeshift phone! Ignorance has a lot to do with technology transfers; or the lack there of.

ILLITERATE -- the inexplicable lack of the ability to read, write and verbally communicate in a clear, lucid manner. Niggas are so poor in this rubric, a whole new term had to be created to handicap Black peoples woes in this.

INEPT - the lack of ability to successfully complete a task. Unless it's putting a ball in a basket or bootleg consume goods or selling drugs to other low-rent muthafuckas, niggas are poor, poor, poor capitalists. Which means niggas neighborhoods, or as trenchant author James Ellroy put it, Dark Towns around the country continue to stay marginally better than 3rd World conditions with better stocked consume goods at local stores.

Where the Three I's smack niggas the most is in their pop culture. I'm looking at this junk-ass so-called Black Men's magazine called King, and man do I have to say WHAT THE FUCK? This self-styled "hip" jumble of 4-color glossy fishwrap continues to tout ideas and behaviors that Black Men "should be following" that no doubt results in a check-to-check financial existance with brutal behavior toward the "bitches."

That terms "bitches" -- the most ubiquitous sobriquet for Black women (and reference to women in general from Black men) around. Why not call them "nigga bitches"? That seems most appropriate, because if I'm degrading a women by calling her a bitch, then I might as go all the way and degrade her race as well as gender. Don't you think?