So it seems that Tookie Williams was denied clemency by the notorious Arnold Schwarzeneggar.
After nearly thiry years in jail, and being nomiated for a Noble Peace Prize, the O.G. is about to face the electric chair in about 6 hours from now!
Notorious Arnie Schwarzenegger could have commuted Tookie's death sentence to life in prison without parole, but he opted to say "fuck you, nigger" and thumb his nose at the huge amount of Blacks and anti-gang activists and keep the lynching going ahead as scheduled.
Can you imagine of death sentences were carried out like lynchings? Cutting off dicks and skinning and dipping fools in tar?! That would be some wild-ass shit.
The California National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said it was saddened by the governor's decision. "We believe this is a serious blow to our effort to fight gangs," its president, Alice Huffman, said.
Obivously, Infamous Schwarzeneggar doesn't give a fuck about people trying to rehabilitate themselves. I mean think about it, the California state pens must be some of the foulest, dangerous, scariest places on the face of the planet, and for Tookie to rise to the level of nearly winning a Nobel Prize in that scabarous environment is a true testament to the strength of the Black man's spirit.
Tookie easier could have become a murderous monster in prison, ruling over the cellblocks like Wilson Fisk.
Sadly, we see another Black man getting killed by the State... a state run by a non-American, who has adopted the race-hating ways of this so-called great nation (hogwash if you ask me).
I wonder what the gang-bangers are gonna do? Riot? Let's hope so!
Monday, December 12, 2005
Sunday, December 04, 2005
Oh she must be angry, even with hard nipples
Apparently the reports about Brad Pitt adopting Angelina Jolie's kids is true.
If that's not a smack in the mouf of dick-stiffenign Jennifer Ansiton, then I don't know what is. But like I said yesterday, she's a beautiful woman that some man was obviously tired of fucking.
See beauty, money & power is a lethal combination for a woman, especially if she is still relatively young. Because if a man, who basically defines the woman's sexuality, decides to say "peace, bitch! I'm fucking someone else (all things being equal in this case)" it HAS to wreck havoc with the woman's esteem. Has to.
Aniston is basically equal to Jolie -- looks, fame, money, power (well, obviously not pussy power, but that's something only Pitt can answer), and she was thrown over. I wonder if she was sucking enough dick? There is always the rumor that married women slowly, but steadily and surely cut-off any kind of dick sucking as the marriage continues (true there are some exceptions, and in reality all women should take a cue from a former porn star Marilyn Chambers; she said in an interview that she and her husband made a deal: twice a week she sucks his dick, but for only 5 minutes -- if he cums, he cums. If he doesn't, she stops anyway. At least that way, a guy can get a quickie without all the other bullshit).
You know what? I don't know why I wrote this piece of gossipy tripe. Maybe I'll delete it next time I'm on line.
If that's not a smack in the mouf of dick-stiffenign Jennifer Ansiton, then I don't know what is. But like I said yesterday, she's a beautiful woman that some man was obviously tired of fucking.
See beauty, money & power is a lethal combination for a woman, especially if she is still relatively young. Because if a man, who basically defines the woman's sexuality, decides to say "peace, bitch! I'm fucking someone else (all things being equal in this case)" it HAS to wreck havoc with the woman's esteem. Has to.
Aniston is basically equal to Jolie -- looks, fame, money, power (well, obviously not pussy power, but that's something only Pitt can answer), and she was thrown over. I wonder if she was sucking enough dick? There is always the rumor that married women slowly, but steadily and surely cut-off any kind of dick sucking as the marriage continues (true there are some exceptions, and in reality all women should take a cue from a former porn star Marilyn Chambers; she said in an interview that she and her husband made a deal: twice a week she sucks his dick, but for only 5 minutes -- if he cums, he cums. If he doesn't, she stops anyway. At least that way, a guy can get a quickie without all the other bullshit).
You know what? I don't know why I wrote this piece of gossipy tripe. Maybe I'll delete it next time I'm on line.
Friday, December 02, 2005
Eyes Without A Face
Ever seen this French film? It's an oddball thriller/horror film from the 50s or 60s, about a mad scientist bent on trying to find a way to do a face transplant on his disfigured daughter. Sound familiar, it should cause strikingly similar events were announced today -- in France of all places.
It seems that a team of doctors surgically reconstructed a woman's face (her dog ripped the fuck out of this woman's mug, tore off her lips and cheek). The results won't fully be known until the wounds heal and this woman allows a "before and after" photo to be published.
What does this mean for plastic surgery? Will Hollywood starlets cut themselves to look like movie stars of the past (remember that storyline in James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential?)?
The future looks more and more like a bad sci-fi novel as we live it.
It seems that a team of doctors surgically reconstructed a woman's face (her dog ripped the fuck out of this woman's mug, tore off her lips and cheek). The results won't fully be known until the wounds heal and this woman allows a "before and after" photo to be published.
What does this mean for plastic surgery? Will Hollywood starlets cut themselves to look like movie stars of the past (remember that storyline in James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential?)?
The future looks more and more like a bad sci-fi novel as we live it.
The Trouble With Girls
I was just looking at the DVD release of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, laughing at Angelina Jolie, but wondering why did Brad Pitt kick Jennifer Aniston to the curb -- have you SEEN her body? It's fucking tight, and by the I mean FUCKING tight.
Then I remembered what someone once told me, "show me the most beautiful girl you've seen, and I'll show you a guy who is tired of fucking her."
I guess that's it, isn't it?
Yet just look at Alley Baggett over there (yeah to the right!) I don't know when I'd get tired of fingering, facefucking, dogstyle fucking (and the rest of the straight in & out positions), sodomizing, and 69ing this girl. I ran into her one time about 5 year ago at the San Diego ComicCon (I didn't understand why she down there, doing a sign I guess), and she was even more captivating in person than any photo. Short, petite and sweet. Makes me wonder if she's a spinner or not?
I bet someone can tell the truth on that one.
Then I remembered what someone once told me, "show me the most beautiful girl you've seen, and I'll show you a guy who is tired of fucking her."
I guess that's it, isn't it?
Yet just look at Alley Baggett over there (yeah to the right!) I don't know when I'd get tired of fingering, facefucking, dogstyle fucking (and the rest of the straight in & out positions), sodomizing, and 69ing this girl. I ran into her one time about 5 year ago at the San Diego ComicCon (I didn't understand why she down there, doing a sign I guess), and she was even more captivating in person than any photo. Short, petite and sweet. Makes me wonder if she's a spinner or not?
I bet someone can tell the truth on that one.
Monday, November 28, 2005
The Iraqi Strongman - Fighting For His Life
The Trial of the Iraqi Dictator resumed today, and just barely. Apparently most of the defense team has either been assassinated or fled the country in fear of being assassinated.
I guess that means Old Saddam can't get a fair trial, but what did the US and its cheap-ass coalition of the willing expect? The U.N., as feebly as it currently is, wouldn't get involved because the case has a potential death-penalty outcome; something the U.N. doesn't get down with.
The one thing that really irks me is that Quasay and Uday Hussein weren't taken a live. I wanted to see those sick, sadisitic fuckers face a jury (of their peers or not), and let them try to justify the litenay of their crimes against humanity.
Crimes against humanity-- that's a pretty strong statement to be leveled against an inidividual, sure a government, but a single person.
Whatever the appalling and egregious nature of the Butcher of Baghdad's crimes, this trial is a complete farce. In fact, any kind of trial of a head of state is a mockery of so-called justice, because as a head of state, you have unprecedented powers -- and if it was such a muthafucking problem then
I mentioned the U.N. early, and I was doing some historical research on the now-feeble body, and apparently there was a time when it put troops in the field with a "shoot-first" mandate. Yeah, the Blue Hats bucking people down! I didn't get to finish up my research, but I believe it had to do with the formation of Zaire after the Belgium colonial masters were kicked out, and the CIA had lost control of the situation -- albeit momentarily. In any event, the U.N. sent in troops with guns blazing. I don't know the exact outcome, but I have to assume it wasn't pleasant, because soon after the U.N. passed some new bylaws that pretty much damn near prevent the global body from being anything more than an international debating society. And it was so much more.
I bring this up, because if the world was so fucking aghast at what Hussein was up to they could have stopped his ass. Yeah, it would have meant fucking with a soverign nation (as if there are any true puppet nations), and apparently that should have been okay considering that crimes against humanity were being committed I think it would have been acceptible to go in and control Iraq; not just have no-fly zones, but establish actual areas where Hussein and his Republican Guard couldn't exert control.
I mean the US was already spending money with the no-fly zones, why not installing outside forces to control the Iraqi population, and then gradually ease Hussein the fuck out of power. I'm mean how different would that be compared to what's going on now?
Although we wouldn't have this comical trial.
I guess that means Old Saddam can't get a fair trial, but what did the US and its cheap-ass coalition of the willing expect? The U.N., as feebly as it currently is, wouldn't get involved because the case has a potential death-penalty outcome; something the U.N. doesn't get down with.
The one thing that really irks me is that Quasay and Uday Hussein weren't taken a live. I wanted to see those sick, sadisitic fuckers face a jury (of their peers or not), and let them try to justify the litenay of their crimes against humanity.
Crimes against humanity-- that's a pretty strong statement to be leveled against an inidividual, sure a government, but a single person.
Whatever the appalling and egregious nature of the Butcher of Baghdad's crimes, this trial is a complete farce. In fact, any kind of trial of a head of state is a mockery of so-called justice, because as a head of state, you have unprecedented powers -- and if it was such a muthafucking problem then
I mentioned the U.N. early, and I was doing some historical research on the now-feeble body, and apparently there was a time when it put troops in the field with a "shoot-first" mandate. Yeah, the Blue Hats bucking people down! I didn't get to finish up my research, but I believe it had to do with the formation of Zaire after the Belgium colonial masters were kicked out, and the CIA had lost control of the situation -- albeit momentarily. In any event, the U.N. sent in troops with guns blazing. I don't know the exact outcome, but I have to assume it wasn't pleasant, because soon after the U.N. passed some new bylaws that pretty much damn near prevent the global body from being anything more than an international debating society. And it was so much more.
I bring this up, because if the world was so fucking aghast at what Hussein was up to they could have stopped his ass. Yeah, it would have meant fucking with a soverign nation (as if there are any true puppet nations), and apparently that should have been okay considering that crimes against humanity were being committed I think it would have been acceptible to go in and control Iraq; not just have no-fly zones, but establish actual areas where Hussein and his Republican Guard couldn't exert control.
I mean the US was already spending money with the no-fly zones, why not installing outside forces to control the Iraqi population, and then gradually ease Hussein the fuck out of power. I'm mean how different would that be compared to what's going on now?
Although we wouldn't have this comical trial.
Monday, November 21, 2005
GM's Pension Plans -- putting people out of work
GM cut 30,000 jobs today - 30 muthafucking thousand!!! jesus christ on the cross, is that even thinkable for one company to beat the economy's ass like that? That's like an entire township just getting the axe, 'cause the blowhards in Detroit can't make attractive, cost-effective cars.
I knew GM was fucking itself with a 12-inch dildo when I read this book called HIGH AND MIGHTY, a polemic and cautionary book about the travesties that dominate the roadways - SUVs. In the book, the author claimed that GM looses money on each and every car they manufacture; its profits come from SUV sales.
So I said to myself today, why the fuck is GM even in the car manufacturing business, they can't fucking make a car that anyone in their right mind would buy, and even if they do design dope-as-fuck ones, they drain money out of the company.
Sure, GM has got boatloads of cash sitting around, billions and billions. But it's all being drained away in bloated pension funds and shitass cars. The pension funds can't and shouldn't be slashed, the problem is that actual ability of the company to compete.
Truth be told GM is a microeconomic example of America in general, it's past its prime and is having dramatically difficult times battling the Japanese on the economic warzone.
The media isn't covering it for some reason (it's a forgone conclusion), but Japan has won the auto wars. Chrysler only works because they German designers retooling its output (which used to be the shittiest, remember the Chrysler K Car? What the fuck was that? Why was that introduced at a time when the Big 3 needed to be handing Japan's Big 3 their collective asses?), to the detriment of the Mercedes brand, but so what? Luxury cars will always be around, and the Benz always signifiies quality. GM hasn't had a reputation that is unsulliable in decades.
Hence it's rapid decline. I knew I should have bought Put Options on the company about 3 months ago. I'd have a fortune right now, as the stock has hit a 14-year low, it's bonds beneath junk status (shitstain, bootlicker status is what I call it).
And the people who worked for the company are going to be reeling. Just imagine when the company goes belly-up and all the people who worked there over the past 50 years, aren't going to get their medical benefits or the pension checks. Just when all those people are getting old as dirt, and want to retire or are forced the fuck out of the workplace to make way for those ignorant fuckers that make up Generation Y.
Okay, enough vitriol for one day.
I knew GM was fucking itself with a 12-inch dildo when I read this book called HIGH AND MIGHTY, a polemic and cautionary book about the travesties that dominate the roadways - SUVs. In the book, the author claimed that GM looses money on each and every car they manufacture; its profits come from SUV sales.
So I said to myself today, why the fuck is GM even in the car manufacturing business, they can't fucking make a car that anyone in their right mind would buy, and even if they do design dope-as-fuck ones, they drain money out of the company.
Sure, GM has got boatloads of cash sitting around, billions and billions. But it's all being drained away in bloated pension funds and shitass cars. The pension funds can't and shouldn't be slashed, the problem is that actual ability of the company to compete.
Truth be told GM is a microeconomic example of America in general, it's past its prime and is having dramatically difficult times battling the Japanese on the economic warzone.
The media isn't covering it for some reason (it's a forgone conclusion), but Japan has won the auto wars. Chrysler only works because they German designers retooling its output (which used to be the shittiest, remember the Chrysler K Car? What the fuck was that? Why was that introduced at a time when the Big 3 needed to be handing Japan's Big 3 their collective asses?), to the detriment of the Mercedes brand, but so what? Luxury cars will always be around, and the Benz always signifiies quality. GM hasn't had a reputation that is unsulliable in decades.
Hence it's rapid decline. I knew I should have bought Put Options on the company about 3 months ago. I'd have a fortune right now, as the stock has hit a 14-year low, it's bonds beneath junk status (shitstain, bootlicker status is what I call it).
And the people who worked for the company are going to be reeling. Just imagine when the company goes belly-up and all the people who worked there over the past 50 years, aren't going to get their medical benefits or the pension checks. Just when all those people are getting old as dirt, and want to retire or are forced the fuck out of the workplace to make way for those ignorant fuckers that make up Generation Y.
Okay, enough vitriol for one day.
Monday, November 14, 2005
For Each His Or Her Own Poison
The one thing I feel I need to express as someone who writes blogs on Blogger, and noticed that there is a "flagging" feature for when one reads an objectionable blog is that there should still be a discussion place for people who smoke weed and drink hard liquour and take illegal and legal drugs and fuck inadvisable people regardless of how pretty or ugly they are, and listen to bitter noise which some might call music.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Anatomy of Black Women Tripping?!?
The other day I was just flipping through the internet trying to find something juicy about the funny-ass shit taking place in the suburbs of Paris, when I stumbled across this message borad called AALBC.com's Thumer's Corner, are you familar with it? I wasn't until now, and I ran across this one message thread about how rising actor Terrence Howard is betraying the Black Race because he doesn't want to have Black Offspring.
Here's THE LINK to the message thread hosted by this woman named Kola Boof that details the ignorant thougth processes by maligned Black Women, undoutedly under the age of 35, castigating a Black Man for marrying a white woman (I know Taye Diggs goes through the same shit, and his wife if FINE).
Anyway, this so-called moderated Kola Boof dropped this bomb as her opening salvo:Black women are publicly called "Whores", "Bitches", "Evil Shrews" by BLACK MEN and Black Men's MEDIA.....BLACK MEN who have never protected black women or shown them love in this country
...yet these same Black men can CATER TO, PROTECT and UPHOLD THE HONOR...of the White Man's mother.
And then the Black Woman is BLAMED for this betrayal.
The other day I was talking with my brother and he mentioned one of the reasons that he likes white women is that they are "happy." He went on to elaborate that most young white girls just want to have fun, and if they even choose to entertain a Black man talking to them, then all they really want to do is have fun with a male (black, white, latin, asian) and his dick that has been expressly forbidden to them since the white race began to interact with the Black race in North America.
Here's THE LINK to the message thread hosted by this woman named Kola Boof that details the ignorant thougth processes by maligned Black Women, undoutedly under the age of 35, castigating a Black Man for marrying a white woman (I know Taye Diggs goes through the same shit, and his wife if FINE).
Anyway, this so-called moderated Kola Boof dropped this bomb as her opening salvo:Black women are publicly called "Whores", "Bitches", "Evil Shrews" by BLACK MEN and Black Men's MEDIA.....BLACK MEN who have never protected black women or shown them love in this country
...yet these same Black men can CATER TO, PROTECT and UPHOLD THE HONOR...of the White Man's mother.
And then the Black Woman is BLAMED for this betrayal.
The other day I was talking with my brother and he mentioned one of the reasons that he likes white women is that they are "happy." He went on to elaborate that most young white girls just want to have fun, and if they even choose to entertain a Black man talking to them, then all they really want to do is have fun with a male (black, white, latin, asian) and his dick that has been expressly forbidden to them since the white race began to interact with the Black race in North America.
Sunday, November 06, 2005
Is Paris Burning?
Wow! The Parisian suburbs are looking like Watts from 40 years ago!
It's not surprising, because the French don't like anyone, particularly immigrants from their former colonies, who has high Muslin backgrounds or are niggas from Africa.
There was a movie about ten years ago called La Haine, it's French for "the hate" and it's a Boyz In The Hood style of film set in these Parisian suburb ghetto housing projects that would remind you a Cabrini Green in Chicago. It's the story of an African, an Arab and a Jew who fuck around, form a bond and deal with death that's all based on the fact that mainstream society doesn't want to deal with them.
Truth be told in all societies around the globe, as much as people claim they are open-minded, they're not.
This explosive backlash outside of Paris isn't going to change anything. People of color -- particularly with Islam as their religion -- get treated like SHIT in the Occidental Worlds.
I'm very interested in seeing what Jacques Chirac and these other people do to alleviate this kind of bullshit.
It's not surprising, because the French don't like anyone, particularly immigrants from their former colonies, who has high Muslin backgrounds or are niggas from Africa.
There was a movie about ten years ago called La Haine, it's French for "the hate" and it's a Boyz In The Hood style of film set in these Parisian suburb ghetto housing projects that would remind you a Cabrini Green in Chicago. It's the story of an African, an Arab and a Jew who fuck around, form a bond and deal with death that's all based on the fact that mainstream society doesn't want to deal with them.
Truth be told in all societies around the globe, as much as people claim they are open-minded, they're not.
This explosive backlash outside of Paris isn't going to change anything. People of color -- particularly with Islam as their religion -- get treated like SHIT in the Occidental Worlds.
I'm very interested in seeing what Jacques Chirac and these other people do to alleviate this kind of bullshit.
Monday, October 31, 2005
You Ain't Who You Think You Is
As always I'm fascinated by the racial question that dominates the undercurrent in America's socio-politics.
A few years back when my paternal grandmother died, my younger brother was looking to get a sample of her mitocondrialDNA, said there was some test at Howard University (and a few other places) that enable one to determine the global-regional genetic make-up of an individual (my brother wanted my paternal grandmother because everything after her can be accounted for).
My dad wasn't going to allow his mom to be used in a science experiment, so my brother hoped to get some tissue samples from our grandmother's sister (who one recently passed) -- alas that never came to happen.
However, I ran across this article in today's NYTimes
Why Race Isn't as 'Black' and 'White' as We Think
By BRENT STAPLES
Published: October 31, 2005
People have occasionally asked me how a black person came by a "white" name like Brent Staples. One letter writer ridiculed it as "an anchorman's name" and accused me of making it up. For the record, it's a British name - and the one my parents gave me. "Staples" probably arrived in my family's ancestral home in Virginia four centuries ago with the British settlers.
The earliest person with that name we've found - Richard Staples - was hacked to death by Powhatan Indians not far from Jamestown in 1622. The name moved into the 18th century with Virginians like John Staples, a white surveyor who worked in Thomas Jefferson's home county, Albemarle, not far from the area where my family was enslaved.
The black John Staples who married my paternal great-great-grandmother just after Emancipation - and became the stepfather of her children - could easily have been a Staples family slave. The transplanted Britons who had owned both sides of my family had given us more than a preference for British names. They had also given us their DNA. In what was an almost everyday occurrence at the time, my great-great-grandmothers on both sides gave birth to children fathered by white slave masters.
I've known all this for a long time, and was not surprised by the results of a genetic screening performed by DNAPrint Genomics, a company that traces ancestral origins to far-flung parts of the globe. A little more than half of my genetic material came from sub-Saharan Africa - common for people who regard themselves as black - with slightly more than a quarter from Europe.
The result that knocked me off my chair showed that one-fifth of my ancestry is Asian. Poring over the charts and statistics, I said out loud, "This has got to be a mistake."
That's a common response among people who are tested. Ostensibly white people who always thought of themselves as 100 percent European find they have substantial African ancestry. People who regard themselves as black sometimes discover that the African ancestry is a minority portion of their DNA.
These results are forcing people to re-examine the arbitrary calculations our culture uses to decide who is "white" and who is "black."
As with many things racial, this story begins in the slave-era South, where sex among slaves, masters and mistresses got started as soon as the first slave ship sailed into Jamestown Harbor in 1619. By the time of the American Revolution, there was a visible class of light-skinned black people who no longer looked or sounded African. Free mulattos, emancipated by guilt-ridden fathers, may have accounted for up to three-quarters of the tiny free-black population before the Revolution.
By the eve of the Civil War, the swarming numbers of mixed-race slaves on Southern plantations had become a source of constant anguish to planters' wives, who knew quite well where those racially ambiguous children were coming from. This is what I want to know more about. What these so-called Women of the Master Race thought about the power of Negro koochie that had some uncontrolable magnetism. What does the slave master say to his white wife? That it's nothing to worry about, because it's just like fucking a farm animal (don't put this past white people, as indicated in the fantastic book GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL most of our infectious diseases came from white people in Europe living too close to animals and/or having sexual relations with the livestock)! Wouldn't that irreparably shatter the white women's sexual confidence? Or force them to be that much more sexually active? What ever the case, white woman no doubt made up all the lies about black female sexuality
Faced with widespread fear that racial distinctions were losing significance, the South decided to define the problem away. People with any ascertainable black ancestry at all were defined as black under the law and stripped of basic rights. The "one drop" laws defined as black even people who were blond and blue-eyed and appeared white.
Black people snickered among themselves and worked to subvert segregation at every turn. Thanks to white ancestry spread throughout the black community, nearly every family knew of someone born black who successfully passed as white to get access to jobs, housing and public accommodations that were reserved for white people only. Black people who were not quite light enough to slip undetected into white society billed themselves as Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, South Asian, Native American - you name it. Any thing that avoid a social damnation that is attributed with being called "black." These defectors often married into ostensibly white families at a time when interracial marriage was either illegal or socially stigmatized.
Those of us who grew up in the 1950's and 60's read black-owned magazines and newspapers that praised the racial defectors as pioneers while mocking white society for failing to detect them. A comic newspaper column by the poet Langston Hughes - titled "Why Not Fool Our White Folks?" - typified the black community's sense of smugness about knowing the real racial score. In keeping with this history, many black people I know find it funny when supposedly white Americans profess shock at the emergence of blackness in the family tree. But genetic testing holds plenty of surprises for black folks, too.
Which brings me back to my Asian ancestry. It comes as a surprise, given that my family's oral histories contain not a single person who is described as Asian. More testing on other family members should clarify the issue, but for now, I can only guess. This ancestry could well have come through a 19th-century ancestor who was incorrectly described as Indian, often a catchall category at the time.
The test results underscore what anthropologists have said for eons: racial distinctions as applied in this country are social categories and not scientific concepts. In addition, those categories draw hard, sharp distinctions among groups of people who are more alike than they are different. The ultimate point is that none of us really know who we are, ancestrally speaking. All we ever really know is what our parents and grandparents have told us.
A few years back when my paternal grandmother died, my younger brother was looking to get a sample of her mitocondrialDNA, said there was some test at Howard University (and a few other places) that enable one to determine the global-regional genetic make-up of an individual (my brother wanted my paternal grandmother because everything after her can be accounted for).
My dad wasn't going to allow his mom to be used in a science experiment, so my brother hoped to get some tissue samples from our grandmother's sister (who one recently passed) -- alas that never came to happen.
However, I ran across this article in today's NYTimes
Why Race Isn't as 'Black' and 'White' as We Think
By BRENT STAPLES
Published: October 31, 2005
People have occasionally asked me how a black person came by a "white" name like Brent Staples. One letter writer ridiculed it as "an anchorman's name" and accused me of making it up. For the record, it's a British name - and the one my parents gave me. "Staples" probably arrived in my family's ancestral home in Virginia four centuries ago with the British settlers.
The earliest person with that name we've found - Richard Staples - was hacked to death by Powhatan Indians not far from Jamestown in 1622. The name moved into the 18th century with Virginians like John Staples, a white surveyor who worked in Thomas Jefferson's home county, Albemarle, not far from the area where my family was enslaved.
The black John Staples who married my paternal great-great-grandmother just after Emancipation - and became the stepfather of her children - could easily have been a Staples family slave. The transplanted Britons who had owned both sides of my family had given us more than a preference for British names. They had also given us their DNA. In what was an almost everyday occurrence at the time, my great-great-grandmothers on both sides gave birth to children fathered by white slave masters.
I've known all this for a long time, and was not surprised by the results of a genetic screening performed by DNAPrint Genomics, a company that traces ancestral origins to far-flung parts of the globe. A little more than half of my genetic material came from sub-Saharan Africa - common for people who regard themselves as black - with slightly more than a quarter from Europe.
The result that knocked me off my chair showed that one-fifth of my ancestry is Asian. Poring over the charts and statistics, I said out loud, "This has got to be a mistake."
That's a common response among people who are tested. Ostensibly white people who always thought of themselves as 100 percent European find they have substantial African ancestry. People who regard themselves as black sometimes discover that the African ancestry is a minority portion of their DNA.
These results are forcing people to re-examine the arbitrary calculations our culture uses to decide who is "white" and who is "black."
As with many things racial, this story begins in the slave-era South, where sex among slaves, masters and mistresses got started as soon as the first slave ship sailed into Jamestown Harbor in 1619. By the time of the American Revolution, there was a visible class of light-skinned black people who no longer looked or sounded African. Free mulattos, emancipated by guilt-ridden fathers, may have accounted for up to three-quarters of the tiny free-black population before the Revolution.
By the eve of the Civil War, the swarming numbers of mixed-race slaves on Southern plantations had become a source of constant anguish to planters' wives, who knew quite well where those racially ambiguous children were coming from. This is what I want to know more about. What these so-called Women of the Master Race thought about the power of Negro koochie that had some uncontrolable magnetism. What does the slave master say to his white wife? That it's nothing to worry about, because it's just like fucking a farm animal (don't put this past white people, as indicated in the fantastic book GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL most of our infectious diseases came from white people in Europe living too close to animals and/or having sexual relations with the livestock)! Wouldn't that irreparably shatter the white women's sexual confidence? Or force them to be that much more sexually active? What ever the case, white woman no doubt made up all the lies about black female sexuality
Faced with widespread fear that racial distinctions were losing significance, the South decided to define the problem away. People with any ascertainable black ancestry at all were defined as black under the law and stripped of basic rights. The "one drop" laws defined as black even people who were blond and blue-eyed and appeared white.
Black people snickered among themselves and worked to subvert segregation at every turn. Thanks to white ancestry spread throughout the black community, nearly every family knew of someone born black who successfully passed as white to get access to jobs, housing and public accommodations that were reserved for white people only. Black people who were not quite light enough to slip undetected into white society billed themselves as Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, South Asian, Native American - you name it. Any thing that avoid a social damnation that is attributed with being called "black." These defectors often married into ostensibly white families at a time when interracial marriage was either illegal or socially stigmatized.
Those of us who grew up in the 1950's and 60's read black-owned magazines and newspapers that praised the racial defectors as pioneers while mocking white society for failing to detect them. A comic newspaper column by the poet Langston Hughes - titled "Why Not Fool Our White Folks?" - typified the black community's sense of smugness about knowing the real racial score. In keeping with this history, many black people I know find it funny when supposedly white Americans profess shock at the emergence of blackness in the family tree. But genetic testing holds plenty of surprises for black folks, too.
Which brings me back to my Asian ancestry. It comes as a surprise, given that my family's oral histories contain not a single person who is described as Asian. More testing on other family members should clarify the issue, but for now, I can only guess. This ancestry could well have come through a 19th-century ancestor who was incorrectly described as Indian, often a catchall category at the time.
The test results underscore what anthropologists have said for eons: racial distinctions as applied in this country are social categories and not scientific concepts. In addition, those categories draw hard, sharp distinctions among groups of people who are more alike than they are different. The ultimate point is that none of us really know who we are, ancestrally speaking. All we ever really know is what our parents and grandparents have told us.
Idiot & Fascist
The Chump-in-Chief has spoken again, and once again the worst kind of diarehha has come out.
Prescott's grandson has nominated Judge Sammy Alito to replace Sandra O'Connor. Alito is the kind of backwards thinking Republican thug who, while born '50s, believes that's the best decade of recent American history and that the nation should strive to recaputre those halcyon days.
For some reason the White House press conference today brought back memories of this unholy union:
I hope the Democrats fillibuster this nomination. The big thing is, will the GOP attempt to destroy the right to fillibuster the way they almost did early in the year.
Saturday, October 22, 2005
The Olsen Twins of the White Supremacist Set
I gotta tell ya, these girls are living life to the fullest as members of the Paris Hilton generation.
Hitler is being celebrated by some chump-ass white girls, most likely in middle America somewhere; girls who are waiting to get old enough to suck down crystal meth and get dicked down by white dudes (while they secret yearn for the rabid nature of Black dick as it is championed in the music videos) in the backseat of poorly-designed an uncompetitive cars from the Detroit Two.
I feel like vomitting -- on these girls sandaled feet after eating White Castle and Taco Bell.
In November's AMERICAN PHOTO there is an article about photojournalism stories that haven't been shown to America for being too sensitive. One of those stories is about the Klu Ku Klan, and how they are on the rise. In someplaces tripling in size since 9/11.
America's heartland is a joke, the wool has been pulled over their eyes and they don't even know that their way of life, is about to be under attack from peoples that they hate the most - brown and yellow skinned immigrants, who don't know a lick of southern drawl English.
Hitler is being celebrated by some chump-ass white girls, most likely in middle America somewhere; girls who are waiting to get old enough to suck down crystal meth and get dicked down by white dudes (while they secret yearn for the rabid nature of Black dick as it is championed in the music videos) in the backseat of poorly-designed an uncompetitive cars from the Detroit Two.
I feel like vomitting -- on these girls sandaled feet after eating White Castle and Taco Bell.
In November's AMERICAN PHOTO there is an article about photojournalism stories that haven't been shown to America for being too sensitive. One of those stories is about the Klu Ku Klan, and how they are on the rise. In someplaces tripling in size since 9/11.
America's heartland is a joke, the wool has been pulled over their eyes and they don't even know that their way of life, is about to be under attack from peoples that they hate the most - brown and yellow skinned immigrants, who don't know a lick of southern drawl English.
The Original King of Cronyism
Yeah, I swiped this entry's title from a goof name on last night's REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER (his guests were Spike Lee, Tucker Carlson, Michel Michaels, Chris Webber and Arianna Huffington).
Much to my delight ramrod Tom Delay was fingerprinted and photographer like the common criminals he hates this week. Unfortunatley he was released on bond (I wonder how much that was?), so he wouldn't have to suffer any more indiginity and share jail cell with some Mexicans and Blacks -- waiting to bend him over and fuck his ass, the way he's been doing it to the ever-dwindling middle class and poor since he was in short pants.
There is this claim by Delay's people that the venue of his embarrassment needs to be changed, because the overseeing judge is a sympathizer with MoveOn.org, that watchdog group that sticks it to the ass of each and every Right Wing Fuck that gets some shady soft money behind him.
What's really crazy is that the GOP changed the rules of conduct and perhaps the definition of "breaking the law" when it comes to their jack-booted, stuffed shirts up on Capital Hill and in the White House. Must I recall that fact that Bill Clinton was villified like he sold state secrets just for squirting nut on an LA dilletante's dress and face, and stimulating her labia with a Monte Cristo cigar.
What the GOP leadership and Presidential advisors are being accused of should have them all drummed out of Washington in leg irons; ranging from Karl Rove's bitch-ass activities to Trent Lott's impunging Blacks to Prescott's Grandson sitting on his ass as he cuts taxes so he can accelerate the spiraling federal deficit -- when these guys ride off into the sunset like some banditos in a Sergio Leone western in January of 2009, the country will be slip-sliding into complete debasement. Yet all these supremem fucks will have fatter than fat bank accounts (chock full of Euros, Yen and Chinese Yuan in overseas banks), while the rest of you wonder why the heartland is being consumed by crystal meth.
I'll be watching from afar, shaking my head in disgust.
Much to my delight ramrod Tom Delay was fingerprinted and photographer like the common criminals he hates this week. Unfortunatley he was released on bond (I wonder how much that was?), so he wouldn't have to suffer any more indiginity and share jail cell with some Mexicans and Blacks -- waiting to bend him over and fuck his ass, the way he's been doing it to the ever-dwindling middle class and poor since he was in short pants.
There is this claim by Delay's people that the venue of his embarrassment needs to be changed, because the overseeing judge is a sympathizer with MoveOn.org, that watchdog group that sticks it to the ass of each and every Right Wing Fuck that gets some shady soft money behind him.
What's really crazy is that the GOP changed the rules of conduct and perhaps the definition of "breaking the law" when it comes to their jack-booted, stuffed shirts up on Capital Hill and in the White House. Must I recall that fact that Bill Clinton was villified like he sold state secrets just for squirting nut on an LA dilletante's dress and face, and stimulating her labia with a Monte Cristo cigar.
What the GOP leadership and Presidential advisors are being accused of should have them all drummed out of Washington in leg irons; ranging from Karl Rove's bitch-ass activities to Trent Lott's impunging Blacks to Prescott's Grandson sitting on his ass as he cuts taxes so he can accelerate the spiraling federal deficit -- when these guys ride off into the sunset like some banditos in a Sergio Leone western in January of 2009, the country will be slip-sliding into complete debasement. Yet all these supremem fucks will have fatter than fat bank accounts (chock full of Euros, Yen and Chinese Yuan in overseas banks), while the rest of you wonder why the heartland is being consumed by crystal meth.
I'll be watching from afar, shaking my head in disgust.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
The Supremors
Apparently Harriet Miers' written questions to the Senate Judiciary Committee were handed back because the answers were insulting, insufficient and all-together bitch-ass.
I hope this woman gets recalled the way Bork did, just to give Prescott's grandson a slap in the face. He sure needs someone or something to kick him while he's down.
I hope this woman gets recalled the way Bork did, just to give Prescott's grandson a slap in the face. He sure needs someone or something to kick him while he's down.
Strongman gets the Strong Arm!
Our favorite dictator Saddam Hussein started his FIRST of many trials today. He was his defiant self, glad to see that year of captivity hasn't diminished his spirits -- otherwise the trails wouldn't be that much fun (look at Slobodan Milosevic's boring shit in The Hague... can't have that with your boy!).
Saddam was shoving his guards away when they escorted him from the court, and damn near punked the judge.
Meanwhile, in Mr. Hussein's home town of Tikrit crowds gathered to show support for their former leader, chanting such slogans as "You are still the son of Iraq." They appeared to be in a frenzy, waving Iraqi flags and photos of Mr. Hussein. Iraqi police officers, wearing blue uniforms and carrying Kalashnikovs, walked through the crowds but did not appear anxious to break up the demonstration.
No that's the reason why Iraq just needs to disintegrate and we can forget about it. The oil field regions need to be autonomous zones controlled by the G8, so they can get their oil and refuse to make the drastic changes necessary to wean the Western economies off of oil for energy (it's gotta be saved for all the consumer products that eat the fuck up, since plastic is quite difficult to recycle -- which should be the number R&D Dollar Get'er).
I guess is Saddam gets all these accolades and plaudits from his hometown, then he still much loved. I wonder if Hitler was much-loved after the War or Stalin or Pol Pot or Pinochet? Or George H.W. Bush? I know Reagan was - for crying out loud.
Saddam was shoving his guards away when they escorted him from the court, and damn near punked the judge.
Meanwhile, in Mr. Hussein's home town of Tikrit crowds gathered to show support for their former leader, chanting such slogans as "You are still the son of Iraq." They appeared to be in a frenzy, waving Iraqi flags and photos of Mr. Hussein. Iraqi police officers, wearing blue uniforms and carrying Kalashnikovs, walked through the crowds but did not appear anxious to break up the demonstration.
No that's the reason why Iraq just needs to disintegrate and we can forget about it. The oil field regions need to be autonomous zones controlled by the G8, so they can get their oil and refuse to make the drastic changes necessary to wean the Western economies off of oil for energy (it's gotta be saved for all the consumer products that eat the fuck up, since plastic is quite difficult to recycle -- which should be the number R&D Dollar Get'er).
I guess is Saddam gets all these accolades and plaudits from his hometown, then he still much loved. I wonder if Hitler was much-loved after the War or Stalin or Pol Pot or Pinochet? Or George H.W. Bush? I know Reagan was - for crying out loud.
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
State become Church
Wow, the chump-in-chief is really looking to push this country into something we haven't seen in a quite awhile a fundamentalist Christian state with the ability to shape the world.
This woman Harriet Mier is a scary person to even consider to have a Supremor, because her views don't reflect what the country was founded on a strict seperation of Church and State. She was baptized at the Valley View Christian Church. And apparantly, it was a pivotal personal transformation for the woman now named for a seat on the United States Supreme Court, not entirely unlike that experienced by President Chump and others in the Texas political and business establishment of that time.
Ms. Miers, born Roman Catholic, became an evangelical Christian and began identifying more with Republicans than with the Democrats who had long held sway over Texas politics. She joined the missions committee of her church, which is against legalized abortion, and friends and colleagues say she rarely looked back at her past as a Democrat.
That's because being a Democrat, for some strange reason, means that you can't have belief in God, that you fuck children in the ass and squirt nut in the eyes of women, or twist mens balls when your having sex.
yeah, that's how the GOP really see Democrats.
And there's really nothing the public can do about preventing someone so polarizing from doing what the GOP complains about the most - legislating from the bench!
Damn, we're fucked. We you're fucked, I'm getting out.
This woman Harriet Mier is a scary person to even consider to have a Supremor, because her views don't reflect what the country was founded on a strict seperation of Church and State. She was baptized at the Valley View Christian Church. And apparantly, it was a pivotal personal transformation for the woman now named for a seat on the United States Supreme Court, not entirely unlike that experienced by President Chump and others in the Texas political and business establishment of that time.
Ms. Miers, born Roman Catholic, became an evangelical Christian and began identifying more with Republicans than with the Democrats who had long held sway over Texas politics. She joined the missions committee of her church, which is against legalized abortion, and friends and colleagues say she rarely looked back at her past as a Democrat.
That's because being a Democrat, for some strange reason, means that you can't have belief in God, that you fuck children in the ass and squirt nut in the eyes of women, or twist mens balls when your having sex.
yeah, that's how the GOP really see Democrats.
And there's really nothing the public can do about preventing someone so polarizing from doing what the GOP complains about the most - legislating from the bench!
Damn, we're fucked. We you're fucked, I'm getting out.
Sunday, October 02, 2005
Bush with Clean Hands
L.A. is perhaps the most geographically segerated city in the US, if not the world.
The city planners knew EXACTLY what they were doing when they errected the freeway systems and said (under their breath) put all the niggers and spics on the OUTSIDE boundaries of the freeways.
I was just listening to an interview of David LaChappelle about his film RISE, and his trip down to the oppresive neighborhood that is ignored by the entire establishment and community.
It's like 45 minutes from central Hollywood, but it's another world.
You can't even really get a healthy meal in South Central, 'cause only liquor stores and 7-11s and shitbag fast food joints litter the landscape which is fucked up...
All these people who are going to Southeast Asia or Africa to see "another part of the world" go check out South Central L.A.
And what's crazy is, South Central is probably where the most life and vibrancy in the entire city. Whereas in Beverly Hills and the Westside is a movie set for a story on childhood alienation...
South Central isn't even the kind of ghetto that is depicted in the media. It's not the burned out buildings of Detroit, Cleveland or New York... all the blue skies trick the fuck out of you.
But what seeps in is the vacant nature of the entire environment. The worst thing is that there IS NOTHING for the Blacks down in South Central, no after school programs, nothing but desolation. I wonder if this another varient of the Mad Max scenario that I see on the rise.
Of course, our chump-in-chief ain't doing shit about shit. I heard that the fool doesn't even read newspapers or watch TV or eventhing that gives a potential unadulterated image.
The city planners knew EXACTLY what they were doing when they errected the freeway systems and said (under their breath) put all the niggers and spics on the OUTSIDE boundaries of the freeways.
I was just listening to an interview of David LaChappelle about his film RISE, and his trip down to the oppresive neighborhood that is ignored by the entire establishment and community.
It's like 45 minutes from central Hollywood, but it's another world.
You can't even really get a healthy meal in South Central, 'cause only liquor stores and 7-11s and shitbag fast food joints litter the landscape which is fucked up...
All these people who are going to Southeast Asia or Africa to see "another part of the world" go check out South Central L.A.
And what's crazy is, South Central is probably where the most life and vibrancy in the entire city. Whereas in Beverly Hills and the Westside is a movie set for a story on childhood alienation...
South Central isn't even the kind of ghetto that is depicted in the media. It's not the burned out buildings of Detroit, Cleveland or New York... all the blue skies trick the fuck out of you.
But what seeps in is the vacant nature of the entire environment. The worst thing is that there IS NOTHING for the Blacks down in South Central, no after school programs, nothing but desolation. I wonder if this another varient of the Mad Max scenario that I see on the rise.
Of course, our chump-in-chief ain't doing shit about shit. I heard that the fool doesn't even read newspapers or watch TV or eventhing that gives a potential unadulterated image.
Slop Words For What We Love
Ever notice how there are uncomfortable words for things that we just LOVE. Take vagina for example, I'm reading this comic book today (Ex Machina #13) and at the end of the book a guy takes an old woman hostage, pulls a knife and tells the mayor, "back off, or I cut this bag from her dentures to her dick-slot!"
Dick-slot? I had never heard of that. You all know my favorite, "cumdumpter," but I
Dick-slot? I had never heard of that. You all know my favorite, "cumdumpter," but I
Take What You Can When You Can
I never knew how much Black people twist in the wind in this country. The more I think about it, the more I look at the Katrina Disaster and wonder what's going to happen to Blacks when the economies really begin to crumble?
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