For hundreds of years, the Americans who exploited enough other Americans to make this country
wealthy beyond measure anywhere else in the world, were the ones raping, killing, beating, cheating,
and degrading those doing the bulk of the work on a daily basis.
So how many hundreds of years after America officially accepts the evils of the system which grew them rich, will it take for them to outgrow the inclinations to excuse instances of rape, murder, cheating, wage theft, beating, and degradation as ways of life?
Are we telling ourselves there is some sudden seeing of the light? There is not. There won't be.
For every one million Americans, we definitely have the nomenclature of a number of serial killers.
Most of these are white people, statistically and otherwise.
Most white people are good people, of course, but these good people haven't been good enough to
purge their ranks of the extremes evil has reached in this country as positive, acceptable ways of doing business on a daily basis.
For every one million Americans, there do exist a real numbers of mass murderers.
Most of these murderers are white. Not all- but most, statistically and numerically, are white.
Most rapists who kill and main during their rape crime, are statistically and numerically- white.
I don't say these things with hatred for people, but with hatred for the extremes we went to for so
long as the positive, acceptable costs of doing business.
Other countries may be as bad. But how measurable can it be in other places?
For us, the scourge is up close and personal now.
Do we go on pretending not to see it?
Do we pretend we cannot count the ever more frequent atrocities?
As lie is given to inherent inferiority, how many find their rage must make them beastly?
Should we pretend the worst thing we encounter in America is a mom on food stamps?
Well then- we are ignorantly blissful about being a bloody lot.
I'm sure we don't have to remain that way even if we have embraced such thus far.
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Dot Scott: A Hero Of The S. Carolina Massacre
Ms. Scott never spoke any words more honest than when she cautioned the majority of us to be careful about rushing to the judgement of 'forgiveness' for people who haven't asked for forgiveness.
The families of the slain may have no choice but to get the killer off their minds and out of their hearts so that they can properly focus on their losses.
The remainder of us need to focus on how to keep creatures like Mr. Roof from 'walking the earth'.
The families of the slain may have no choice but to get the killer off their minds and out of their hearts so that they can properly focus on their losses.
The remainder of us need to focus on how to keep creatures like Mr. Roof from 'walking the earth'.
South Carolina: A Legacy Of Vile Crimes Comes Home Again
This young man, Mr. Roof wanted to kill.
He needed to kill.
Race was his excuse because he knew it would get more attention.
Killing was his overriding passionate desire.
He apparently patched together the racial hatred excuse. He knows very little about black history
or black people from any legitimate sources. At his age he'd have to have been raised in black culture and/or very well educated.
Apparently he is neither.
Does he even know Dr. Martin Luther King's story?
Does he know the horror Emmit Till's murder awakened?
Does he know the story of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress?
Has he read the history of how white northerners were so awfully disenfranchised by the privilege
white southerners claimed for themselves in the bodies of other people before our Civil War?
How in the world has he come to marry Jim Crow to Apartheid? Apartheid is as dead as a doornail.
Apartheid was famously developed from the fear South African whites had as a minority population
in the country of their birth.
I guess the segregation had surface similarity to U.S. segregation, but the two systems were generated
from opposite anxieties.
And as apartheid began in a minority fear, so did it die.
American civil war hatred came of a desire to continue the subjugation of a minority population.
No white Americans had any fear they'd be overtaken by a black majority. Even now, as black people
the most recently descended from North American slaves, we are still only 11% of the American population.
Where did a kid this man's age get the notion black people are raping his women?
And if that were true, would those rapists be represented at a Wednesday evening prayer meeting in a
somewhat small city?
Mr. Roof killed mainly older ladies past child-bearing age. What sort of coward was he exactly?
Older ladies don't rape as a rule, and they are done or nearly done raising children.
I can only surmise the man sat with the prayer group an entire hour so that he could position himself to make a plan to kill the most able-bodied first, the way Andrea Yeats said she did in order to drown all her children.
Evil...you have many names in America. Please don't ever allow me to be "equal" to any of them.
He needed to kill.
Race was his excuse because he knew it would get more attention.
Killing was his overriding passionate desire.
He apparently patched together the racial hatred excuse. He knows very little about black history
or black people from any legitimate sources. At his age he'd have to have been raised in black culture and/or very well educated.
Apparently he is neither.
Does he even know Dr. Martin Luther King's story?
Does he know the horror Emmit Till's murder awakened?
Does he know the story of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress?
Has he read the history of how white northerners were so awfully disenfranchised by the privilege
white southerners claimed for themselves in the bodies of other people before our Civil War?
How in the world has he come to marry Jim Crow to Apartheid? Apartheid is as dead as a doornail.
Apartheid was famously developed from the fear South African whites had as a minority population
in the country of their birth.
I guess the segregation had surface similarity to U.S. segregation, but the two systems were generated
from opposite anxieties.
And as apartheid began in a minority fear, so did it die.
American civil war hatred came of a desire to continue the subjugation of a minority population.
No white Americans had any fear they'd be overtaken by a black majority. Even now, as black people
the most recently descended from North American slaves, we are still only 11% of the American population.
Where did a kid this man's age get the notion black people are raping his women?
And if that were true, would those rapists be represented at a Wednesday evening prayer meeting in a
somewhat small city?
Mr. Roof killed mainly older ladies past child-bearing age. What sort of coward was he exactly?
Older ladies don't rape as a rule, and they are done or nearly done raising children.
I can only surmise the man sat with the prayer group an entire hour so that he could position himself to make a plan to kill the most able-bodied first, the way Andrea Yeats said she did in order to drown all her children.
Evil...you have many names in America. Please don't ever allow me to be "equal" to any of them.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Julian Castro And HUD
Secretary Castro is attempting once again in American history to achieve greater housing integration in our country's communities.
Good luck, sir.
Any integration in housing will have to be accompanied by an integration of minorities with like social strata into middle classed majority communities.
Even that will be met with virulent resistance in many American communities.
When my own children were integrated in our school system through busing, the white parents in the
receiving school caused so much trouble every day that the teachers and the administration in the school had to wring their hands in frustration every day.
The professionals in our school suffered thus until the white parents had all successfully moved from the neighborhood, or gotten their children into some teeny private school concern.
When my eldest child was valedictorian at this same school in 1978, the white girl who was salutatorian exclaimed bitterly to her she got valedictorian because teachers favored black students.
The school had enough minority teachers and/or administrators to count on one hand. They went from having all white classrooms to having 60/40 white classrooms in a fortnight. They handled it well; but why in the world would they favor black children?
Today, this same daughter, a U of M grad (No. She wasn't a legacy, or an "opportunity student" at U of M.) is a computer digital trafficking expert. She has written contracts to sign two separate companies she has trained in Chicago to help with these trafficking and other technical computer concerns. She was an English major in college; because she had mastered computer science in high school.
She was second in command in the computer department for a while at the U of M Dental school.
She wrote training documents for the graduate admissions school at Cornell University for a while.
Even at ten, she was intellectually vigorous in her academic work. But she didn't bother to try to explain that to the little white girl. She kept pushing forward as best she could. In Michigan, however,
she and her personnel department have found it difficult to find people in Michigan colleges who are
ready to be trained in quickly changing and advancing technical fields.
Years later, my third born child had such high grades she was elected class president. By then, there were more black children at school; but white parents were always enraged.
Finally, though there was no way to challenge her 100% on every math exam, her principal devised a
poetry/fiction competition which was school-wide to show no favoritism was shaping academic recognition at the school.
She went to every classroom to collect writing samples which had only a number, given to a name by
each classroom teacher.
The administration and the music teachers and art teachers judged the anonymous writing samples.
It took some time. Sadly for so many who hated busing (as I had come to do) my little ten-year-old
class president won 1st place in the poetry competition, 1st place in the Haiku competition, and first
place in the fiction competition.
The principal was proud of her, but she explained on the loud speaker, and later even to me that the
submissions were judged as anonymous offerings. The child was prescient.
I wish she had had time to become a writer; but she is a systems and data analyst for a large public
school system.
The sister who was between these two excelled in music and sculpture, even at eight and nine years old. She graduated high school getting 100%, plus the 20 extra credit points in geometry, and passing her chemistry and physics classes while working toward her certified music diploma.
The last little one I sent to that school had a struggle from the day she arrived.
She struggled all along anyway though, because she could read at third and fourth grade levels when
she entered kindergarten. I didn't know it; but her sisters had taught her, and her teacher demonstrated it for me.
Long story short, she was so irritated she called her grandparents every other day to come and get her. Finally, she wound up at a school designated for gifted kids, and later graduated high school
as a National Merit Semi-finalist. She earned a four year scholarship to a private school through her
EAS ( Engineering Aptitude Search) exam.
I didn't bother her with the SATs. I believe she took the ACT at some point because I remember a near perfect score in Science.
I wish she had become an engineer. She has degrees in music.
Oh well, as I said Secretary Castro...Best Luck!
Good luck, sir.
Any integration in housing will have to be accompanied by an integration of minorities with like social strata into middle classed majority communities.
Even that will be met with virulent resistance in many American communities.
When my own children were integrated in our school system through busing, the white parents in the
receiving school caused so much trouble every day that the teachers and the administration in the school had to wring their hands in frustration every day.
The professionals in our school suffered thus until the white parents had all successfully moved from the neighborhood, or gotten their children into some teeny private school concern.
When my eldest child was valedictorian at this same school in 1978, the white girl who was salutatorian exclaimed bitterly to her she got valedictorian because teachers favored black students.
The school had enough minority teachers and/or administrators to count on one hand. They went from having all white classrooms to having 60/40 white classrooms in a fortnight. They handled it well; but why in the world would they favor black children?
Today, this same daughter, a U of M grad (No. She wasn't a legacy, or an "opportunity student" at U of M.) is a computer digital trafficking expert. She has written contracts to sign two separate companies she has trained in Chicago to help with these trafficking and other technical computer concerns. She was an English major in college; because she had mastered computer science in high school.
She was second in command in the computer department for a while at the U of M Dental school.
She wrote training documents for the graduate admissions school at Cornell University for a while.
Even at ten, she was intellectually vigorous in her academic work. But she didn't bother to try to explain that to the little white girl. She kept pushing forward as best she could. In Michigan, however,
she and her personnel department have found it difficult to find people in Michigan colleges who are
ready to be trained in quickly changing and advancing technical fields.
Years later, my third born child had such high grades she was elected class president. By then, there were more black children at school; but white parents were always enraged.
Finally, though there was no way to challenge her 100% on every math exam, her principal devised a
poetry/fiction competition which was school-wide to show no favoritism was shaping academic recognition at the school.
She went to every classroom to collect writing samples which had only a number, given to a name by
each classroom teacher.
The administration and the music teachers and art teachers judged the anonymous writing samples.
It took some time. Sadly for so many who hated busing (as I had come to do) my little ten-year-old
class president won 1st place in the poetry competition, 1st place in the Haiku competition, and first
place in the fiction competition.
The principal was proud of her, but she explained on the loud speaker, and later even to me that the
submissions were judged as anonymous offerings. The child was prescient.
I wish she had had time to become a writer; but she is a systems and data analyst for a large public
school system.
The sister who was between these two excelled in music and sculpture, even at eight and nine years old. She graduated high school getting 100%, plus the 20 extra credit points in geometry, and passing her chemistry and physics classes while working toward her certified music diploma.
The last little one I sent to that school had a struggle from the day she arrived.
She struggled all along anyway though, because she could read at third and fourth grade levels when
she entered kindergarten. I didn't know it; but her sisters had taught her, and her teacher demonstrated it for me.
Long story short, she was so irritated she called her grandparents every other day to come and get her. Finally, she wound up at a school designated for gifted kids, and later graduated high school
as a National Merit Semi-finalist. She earned a four year scholarship to a private school through her
EAS ( Engineering Aptitude Search) exam.
I didn't bother her with the SATs. I believe she took the ACT at some point because I remember a near perfect score in Science.
I wish she had become an engineer. She has degrees in music.
Oh well, as I said Secretary Castro...Best Luck!
The TPP Costing Medicare?
No.
Medicare savings are flourishing; and will likely redouble themselves quickly as time goes past.
Whatever those savings are, they would be put to great use if they help bolster the TPP and Fast Track.
Critics claim 740M dollars are a risk. They indicate that in a day, all those millions will exit
the Medicare system at once.
Cyclically, Medicare savings will nourish jobs and trade in many of our international business and
corporate interests.
Medicare savings are flourishing; and will likely redouble themselves quickly as time goes past.
Whatever those savings are, they would be put to great use if they help bolster the TPP and Fast Track.
Critics claim 740M dollars are a risk. They indicate that in a day, all those millions will exit
the Medicare system at once.
Cyclically, Medicare savings will nourish jobs and trade in many of our international business and
corporate interests.
POTUS! What Have Democrats Done To Push Rebublicans Into Creating An Alien?!
Democratics have taken the completely immoral ( or maybe just amoral) position that we don't need to compete with Vietnamese workers. We do have to compete with Vietnamese workers. We are competing with Vietnamese workers. We will continue to compete with the Vietnamese, in spite of the fact that our unions all want to return to a 1950s status quo.
So then will the French go back to Vietnam to use the worker force their better than the way they did
to cement the Vietnam war?
No. The French won't go to Vietnam again.
Should we try to encourage organizing among Vietnamese workers, or go into the country and force
a brand of our democratization on those citizens the way we wanted to do in the sixties when North
Vietnam balked?
No We should not attempt to do that.
We have to compete with countries in the Pacific Rim whether our President gets TPP or not.
Somehow, Congressional Democrats have turned so virulently against their leader's initiative, that the
Republicans have figuratively taken the President's side so completely they have dared to twist the language in the original requesting documents he presented, by adding so many
non-POTUS caveats to it that if the bill goes to the President's desk the way they've altered it, even POTUS, its originator, would want to hold his nose in order to sign it.
Even so, having trade agreements with Asia-Pacific work forces will be better that having none, even
if the agreements aren't perfect. No agreement can be perfect. And no agreement will give American
unions the power to control hiring or wages in other countries without a decades-long commitment.
American unions are having a difficult time holding the line on illegal hiring, firing, and wage-thefts,
even in their own country.
So then will the French go back to Vietnam to use the worker force their better than the way they did
to cement the Vietnam war?
No. The French won't go to Vietnam again.
Should we try to encourage organizing among Vietnamese workers, or go into the country and force
a brand of our democratization on those citizens the way we wanted to do in the sixties when North
Vietnam balked?
No We should not attempt to do that.
We have to compete with countries in the Pacific Rim whether our President gets TPP or not.
Somehow, Congressional Democrats have turned so virulently against their leader's initiative, that the
Republicans have figuratively taken the President's side so completely they have dared to twist the language in the original requesting documents he presented, by adding so many
non-POTUS caveats to it that if the bill goes to the President's desk the way they've altered it, even POTUS, its originator, would want to hold his nose in order to sign it.
Even so, having trade agreements with Asia-Pacific work forces will be better that having none, even
if the agreements aren't perfect. No agreement can be perfect. And no agreement will give American
unions the power to control hiring or wages in other countries without a decades-long commitment.
American unions are having a difficult time holding the line on illegal hiring, firing, and wage-thefts,
even in their own country.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Do I Want COO (Country Of Origin) Stamps On Meat? Well ...
I'd like to know where the meat I buy has come from. However, I don't want any meat from the
cloven one, Cliven Bundy either. What stamp will I get at the meat counter to protect me from that?
The cloven one grazes his cattle at taxpayer expense on public lands, holding federal officers at
gunpoint all the while, using the real goons and thugs America suffers.
I don't want to support that truly criminal enterprise.
Mainly, I guess I would like to have the FDA, USDA stamp if I can't get the 'honest ranchers' stamp.
Maybe that is the best any of us can do in this increasingly pressurized climate of international commerce.
cloven one, Cliven Bundy either. What stamp will I get at the meat counter to protect me from that?
The cloven one grazes his cattle at taxpayer expense on public lands, holding federal officers at
gunpoint all the while, using the real goons and thugs America suffers.
I don't want to support that truly criminal enterprise.
Mainly, I guess I would like to have the FDA, USDA stamp if I can't get the 'honest ranchers' stamp.
Maybe that is the best any of us can do in this increasingly pressurized climate of international commerce.
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