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The Negro-Cons’ Deal with the Devil: Honorary White Status in Return for
Abandoning Fellow Blacks
More shocking than their self-hating disdain for the average African-American, is the unchecked access these Uncle Toms have to major communications outlets, provided they are prepared to condemn their own kind in a manner which one ordinarily associates with the Ku Klux Klan. Take for example, John Ridley, who just this month was granted space in both Time and Esquire Magazines. In the former, he makes a shocking case for the word “Nigger” in a piece entitled “Why I’m Good with the N-word.” He argues that comedians like Richard Pryor, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock “have advanced the racial debate” somehow by working this slur into their acts, concluding “We need this word.” We get a good idea of exactly why the untalented Mr. Ridley, a failed stand-up comic, is an advocate for the epithet in his Esquire article where he makes liberal use of the patently-offensive term. Repeatedly referring to impoverished blacks as “niggers,” because of the high unemployment, incarceration and out-of-wedlock birth rates in the ‘hood, he never once pauses to reflect on the exploitative and marginalizing societal forces which have consciously collaborated to strand the bulk of the black community in a virtually-inescapable cycle of inhumane living conditions for generation after generation. Instead, he vents about his own people’s shortcomings for a full four pages, before extolling the virtues of Republicans like Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell, as if skin color no longer matters in America because of the accomplishments of a couple of sell-outs on behalf of oil companies and war profiteers? How come Condi could fly instantly to the Middle East to intervene when Kaytusha rockets started raining down on Israel, but was too busy shopping for shoes to show any concern for the refugees stranded on rooftops right after Katrina? Though meandering unedited, as if a stream-of-consciousness rant, the mean-spirited monologue in Esquire does have a prevailing theme, that successful African-Americans owe nothing to the least of their brethren. “It's time for ascended blacks to wish niggers good luck,” he summarizes in a most condescending and un-Christian manner. Though he will now undoubtedly be the toast of the electronic town square as he makes the rounds of talk shows on cable-TV networks, this vile backstabber deserves to be shunned for the irreparable harm he is doing to the hopes and aspirations of millions by feeding bigots all the fuel they need to rationalize a color-coded agenda of continued intolerance. –––––––––
Esquire Magazine Article: "The Manifesto of Ascendancy for the Modern
American Nigger" AALBC.com Discussion on John Ridley's December Esquire Magazine Article:
"The Manifesto of Ascendancy for the Modern American Nigger" John Ridley AALBC.com Author Profile Conversation with the Mann by John Ridley - AALBC.com Book Review The Drift by John Ridley - AALBC.com Book Review
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"Let me tell
you something about niggers, the oppressed minority within our minority.
Always down. Always out. Always complaining that they can't catch a break.
Notoriously poor about doing for themselves. Constantly in need of a leader
but unable to follow in any direction that's navigated by hard work,
self-reliance. And though they spliff and drink and procreate their way onto
welfare doles and WIC lines, niggers will tell you their state of being is
no fault of their own… It's time for ascended blacks to wish niggers good
luck. Just as whites may be concerned with the good of all citizens but
don't travel their days worrying specifically about the well-being of
hillbillies from Appalachia, we need to send niggers on their way.”