Friday, September 01, 2017
Sessions, MLK, and Slavery
I don't trip too much about race in America. Occasionally I have to trip because of racism in America. Occasionally I have to trip because of sexism, mostly man-hating bull dykes that give me the evil eye, because I am a man. They seem to stare at my genitals with X ray vision and hate me for having a penis. What did I do? God gave me a penis, and as a God-loving spirit I feel compelled to make use of it in some way. Why do I have to be loathed because of a body part I did not choose? It happens quite often. Then there are the racists, mostly rich white assholes that feel they are privileged not to have to accommodate your presence. I don't usually get a "vibe" from black people, and often I think how much more normal it is to interact with them. I played in a Hip/Hop R/B band for several years in Columbus, Ohio, and it was one of the best times of my life. I was the only white person in the band and often the only white person in the club. I fit right in. Whites in North Carolina I do not seem to have much in common with. (my writing is a little ungrammatical tonight. A dangling preposition.) it dawned on me today what the grudge is in America. It still is the whites against the blacks. Always it has been. It is Jeff Sessions against Rosa Parks. Those conservative, affluent, Arian men who hate entitled blacks often taking advantage of the system. They are scared shitless of black men, gangs made up of black men, and criminal black men simply because they are aggressive, defensive, and not submissive. Look at any traffic stop on Cops, and you will see what I describe. Unless schooled to do so black men resist police officers. Often they talk to them asking why they are tripping and why they have to get out of their trucks. Trump falls into this catagory, and I ignored it until now. We are a nation of white supremicist men who want nothing other than the eradication of the black race. Wow. That is a strong assertion, but I am beginning to think it is true. The chasm between black and white has gotten deeper in the last decade. The evidence is all around us. Once the black race was championed for their musical skill. Labels like Motown thrust black performers into the spotlight. Jazz, America's true art form, was created mostly by blacks. Today, because of race, these accomplishments are being cloaked. The white reign purposely is oppressing the black race. Wow. Only while lying in bed today did I realize that race is the disparity in America. White pop music has infiltrated the music industry, leaving the soul of the country in Pergatory. I never paid much attention to race. I went to a predominantly black junior high school and lived in fear of my life every day for two years. I was not equipped as a middle-classed white boy how to interact with tough, street, gang blacks. Often they threatened to kick my ass after school. My friends would tell me. "They coming to kick your ass after band class." It never happened. I grew up with jazz music and black people. I never thought much about race, other than the blacks were a lot more interesting musically. The funny thing to me is, America's founding fathers brought Africans among others to America to work as slaves. Native Americans were here before all of us. Those were Eskimos who migrated down from Alaska I think. Americans brought blacks to America from Africa to work as slaves. If white supremicists dislike blacks they should fault the founding fathers for capturing them, shackling them in chains, and shipping them to America. In most probability they would have not made it here themselves?