Culture, Race & Economy

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I have a cousin, approaching 50 years of age that lives in Philly. He is always lamenting the derth of available women. His argument is that most of the women his age, that are available are simply too fat. The data seems to support his observations: http://runt.it/fasinfat In many ways this is sad. I've also read that this generation is the first one whose life expectancy will be LOWER than the orevious one -- primarily due to obseity.

Sucker punched – Death of the middle class. http://DTPollard.com

In re-reading my 1950s memoir, the first thing that popped into my mind was how much I omitted. How could I have forgotten how low the cost of living was back then? It was during the 1950s that the minimum wage finally reached $1.00 an hour! Making 50 dollars a week was really considered good money. The annual salary of my first civil service job was $2,750 - a year, just a tad more than my present monthly pension. Of course there were no such things as credit cards. Man, don't get me started. Oops, too late... When I matriculated at the University of Illinois in 1951, no entrance exams were required. The only pre-requisite was that you were a resident of the state. …

Author, professor, pundit, blogger, and NPR host Jimi Izrael called Kola Boof “the angry transxual Colonel McBragg of the Twitter game.” The man has a way with words (if not a perfect memory for the military rank of cartoon characters). Man, that takes me back to childhood! John Kass of the Chicago Tribune said years ago that Joe Harris based his Commander McBragg character in part on the Baron von Münchhausen stories. Remember how Lloyd Bentsen told Dan Quayle, "You're no Jack Kennedy." Well, Kola, you definitely are a Münchhausen.

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Where is Xeon? There is such a paucity of posters on the board, we couldn't afford to lose one of our main men! But Xeon has gone missing! Although we agreed to disagree from time to time, Xeon, I appreciated your well-articulated views. Did you desert us for another site? I feel slighted. Where else can you pick a better fight than here? I'm getting rusty. I don't have anyone to argue with. Chrishayden has deserted me for Troy. carey-carey has apparently retreated into the never-never land of non-sequitors, undoubtedly commiserating with a downcast ABM, glum because he is "sans" a "myriad" of booties to salivate over - which further reminds me; what ever happened …

I was asked to give a little insight into the 50s decade and to offer an opinion as to whether things were better then than they are now. Sorting out my sentiments about those times was an exercise in mixed feelings, but I’ve tried, and this one’s for you, Troy. The 1950s have often been referred to as a time of innocence, and we who made up its younger population were tagged the “silent generation”. Born in the 1930s during the Depression, coming of age during the 1940s when World War I I raged, - the silent generation eventually became a group who rather than rocking the boat, rocked cradles as the 1950s ushered in a time of us marrying and giving bir…

Anybody who believes the General was sandbagged by Rollinstone is an idiot. He bailed out on what he sees as a failing effort. We are broke. We cannot afford to do Iraq and Afghanistan AND meet all our other commitments in the world. Obama should have pulled the hell out of there already. Probably can't. He's little more than a puppet of the military/industrial complex. Nobody is afraid of him. He should have said that we are in the middle of an offensive and we will talk to the General when he is finished. If the General had been successful, then bygones are bygones. If he failed THEN fired him. Now if the "surge" is a failure it is Oba…

British Petroleum is gonna declare bankruptcy and bail and leave Barry holding the bag. You heard it here first. Alas, poor Obama! I knew him well, Cynique!

Hello All, Sunday night, I saw a documentary called The Pig Bomb. I tried to post a link but it would not work. I decided to watch it, because yawl know I was thinking about food. Well, it turns out that the US could be on a brink of a diaster due to the population and nature of our feral pig population. It seems this pigs are dangerous. They are getting bigger, faster and becoming a lot more aggressive, so much so that they are attacking people, chasing folks down. I'm watching this totally amazed. All I could kept thinking that if my uncles were alive, it would be ON! Hell, all that meat just running around. The problem is that there is no good way of hunti…

Just can't resist once again taking pride in how Doc Rivers and Michael Finley of the Celtics, and Shannon Brown of the Lakers are all from my hometown, all graduates of my high school alma mater!!!!! Must be something in the water. Best I was ever able to do, however, was to roll a 220 game for my championship bowling team - back in the day. Go Celkers!

Chris Hayden recently took our fearless leader Troy to task, lecturing him about brainwashed negroes and their slave mentalities, delivering a very impassioned diatribe in making his case. With a graphic use of rhetoric, citing his hero Ishmael Reed, Chris smeared the canvass with his impression of contemporary Blacks. But, in creating art, Chris also created a problem because, while an artist can use abstract techniques, a camera doesn’t lie. In endeavoring to reinforce his points, certain things claimed by Chris were more of a stretch than a sketch when it comes to how black life was in the 1950s (a period during which he was a mere child ) Troy couldn’t challeng…

Hello All, Cynique: I just saw your little cousin Alvin, from South Carolina...the one running for the Senate! I ask in all seriousness and much respect, I saw his interview with Keith Olbermann, IS HE FOR REAL??

Last Wednesday, Chicago Black Hawks won the NHL’s coveted Stanley Cup and Chicago went wild. White people were in a state of euphoria, the likes of which I had never witnessed. Black folks? Not so much. On Friday a white horde descended upon the city as hockey enthusiasts from near and far showed up to witness the ticker tape parade paying tribute to the conquering heroes. And the attendance at the victory rally that followed was estimated to be over a million! Incredible. This was an interesting phenomenon in that the silence emanating from the black community was as loud as the roar of the white-faced crowd clad in bright red jerseys,all caught up in a frenzy …

I never thought so, but it looks like they are turning it into that. Remember, perception is everything in the United States of Amnesia http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=0

Look at that monkey-see-monkey-do-negro [ picture of negro in blackface playing a banjo not included here]. He's a smart nigga too. But what's he playing on that banjo? Well, if you listen real good, he's playing Mr Charlie's favorite tune, stomp that colored fella. Let me cut to the chase. Some negro political blogs should change their names to BootyForSell. That's right, flash a red sign and adorn it with purple lips and a fat ass. You know, them big booty lips that compliment deep ass kissing. But wait, dez some smart Negros that may not know the errs of their ways. I mean, they have great writing skills that most would die for, but they ain't talking ab…

I never knew that my AALBC Fam was a bunch of SQUARES! NOBODY knows who Janelle Monae is! Well, get Funkafized! http://www.google.com/#q=Who+is+Janelle+Monae%3F&hl=en&sa=G&prmd=nv&source=univ&tbs=vid:1&tbo=u&ei=xlASTPSXGMSLnQf7mY2RAw&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=8&ved=0CEUQqwQwBw&fp=19d13023017841d

People around Chicago are taken aback over remarks Steadman Graham made during a recent interview on a local TV station. In regard to the subject of Oprah's impending exit from our fair city, anxious to secure his future as her lap dog, Steadman blubbered about how Chicago didn't appreciate all that Oprah has done for it. He even elevated her to biblical status, making reference to how the Good Book states a prophet is never appreciated in their own land, - or some such nonsense. Prophet?? I don't know what the ol girl has ever foreseen with any accuracy other than if you give people cars they'll go crazy even as they calculate the taxes that come with such generosity. …

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/crouch/index.html ABM! Where are ya?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/us/04interracial.html Should this come as a surprise

They said she looks like Grace Jones, dances like James Brown and sings like Little Richard, or something like that. She does look weird. Who is she, anyway?

I swear this Negro is a ring tailed wonder. Proof that White Folks education screws your mind up. He comes out as an ecological President. Turns his back on his Green base and talks about okaying offshore drilling just in time to walk into the BP disaster. He sits back and lets an obviously clueless BP (remember when they proposed shooting all the tennis balls and crap in there a few weeks ago and were laughed at? Then they try it and) take over, in deference to his Coporate Whores, then he lets everybody maneuver him into taking responsibilty for something ("The Buck Stops Here," he said a few months ago) that he got no control over. Now everybody is s…

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Chicago's in a B&B mode, - all agog about Barak and Black Hawks. The president returned to his Hyde Park digs to spend his Memorial Day week-end in Chicago and the Black Hawks made it to the NHL finals and are now vying for the Stanley Cup. Woooo. Elated White hockey fans and excited Black Obama supporters are all full of pride. Me, I don't give a "puck" about the Black Hawks but I do hope Obama doesn't injure himself while hoopin with his buddies or - choke on a rib bone while scarfing down some barbeque. Obama will also be laying a wreath and giving a speech at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery here in Illinois. That's where my brother, a WWII naval vet, i…

Shrek Is A Black Man: The Prince Yaphet Kotto. The grandson of King Alexander Bell, ruler of Cameroon. Come on now, look at that nose and those teeth, that's Shrek!{photo} Okay, need more proof? What, you're not convinced? Follow me. ***See all photos at blog*** See, in the movie, Shrek hung out with two other brown skinned men. Yep, Antonio Banderas.....{photo} And, Eddie Murphy.{photo} Of course they had to be a donkey and a cat. You know, a jackass and a kissin' boots. And Eddie was married to a big fat red woman with a bunch of babies. For real, did you see the picture? On top of that, ol'kissin' boots turned against Eddie and Yaphet. Y…

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How do you like the 60’s? What you are seeing now was about 10 times worse—war, uncertainty and a racist outrage every day that left you feeling angry and helpless (and that you often took out on other Negroes, not Tha Man) Why do you think folks was rebelling. S*** was going DOWN! I know I make my name and claim to fame by being raucous and controversial—but the other day when I saw the photo of Venus Williams with her butt out I realized this is really getting to Negroes. It is very important for you to breathe. To exhale. You go around madall the time and it will kill you. GET MAD! Then chill. And while you are chillin’ think of how …

Health care was not what did Bill Clinton in--it was trying to change the armed services policy on gays in the military that did. Obama should leave it alone until he wins a new term--or until he is sure that this one is going to be the only one.

Living in Black and White—Talking with Dick Gregory http://www.capitalcitycourier.org/

Right up there with the perennial debate about who’s to blame for the relationship rift that exists between black men and black women, is the ongoing finger-pointing that goes on in regard to what constitutes a self-hating black person. Lately, a person’s attitude about Obama can become what triggers accusations of self-hate. But first it becomes relevant to offer a definition of a “self-loving” black person. Supporting the president unconditionally because “white people are just out to get him“ is a priority for the self-loving black person. Making fun of or chiding him for not honoring the promises that got him elected is tantamount to blasphemy. The connection bet…

Maybe you'd better scrap the "cyniquian" designation, Troy. It's too confusing in this new format and people are always attributing posts to me that I haven't written. I've been taking Chrishayden's heat lately. He, not me, needs to get credit for his nuttiness. I didn't write that last post you responded to under the "De Self-hate Debate" thread. Chrishayden did.

Man, by the time they are through with him he will be as big a laughing stock as Michael Jackson Marion, OJ, Michael Tiger Woods Is this what happens to Blacks they say is doin' good? Tiger’s Got Wood at Pure Pleasure http://www.riverfronttimes.com/locations/ad/693505/869844

I saw this a couple of days ago. Came out in 1966--had Max Julien, Whitman Mayo and James McEachin--wow! This was Pre-Blaxploitation--but was Blaxploitation all the way The Black Klansman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPcSGMDqKHo&feature=related

From a recent inetrview with Soledad O'Brien: Kam Williams: William Cooper and Troy Johnson both asked essentially the same question. What did you put down on her census form? William pointed out that Obama checked off “black” when he is just as black as white. How do you self-identify? Soledad O’Brien: I find the question really ridiculous. All the schooling I have to do on this topic is wearing me out. Obama is black. His mother was white. I am black. My father is white. I’m going to give everybody a History 101 lesson. Some black people have white blood in them. This has been going on for many generations, people. Look at any family of black people. They run a ra…

The full interview http://runt.it/soledadobrien KW: What is the Haitian government doing about the fact that they have a situation where people are being enslaved? SO: It’s such a hard thing for those of us in this country to get our minds around, but it’s completely legal. I’m sure you saw in the piece how the boy named Matthinson’s father sold him for about $12 dollars to go and be a slave for a complete stranger. But it’s an indication of just how devastating the poverty is in Haiti that that’s a viable option. It’s pervasive throughout the country. And unfortunately, it’s perfectly legal.

If the Democrats had had a pro drilling stance the Republicans would be running it all up their asses right now. You would see cartoons with Obama covered in oil. They would be blaming it on them and be shouting "Drill Baby Drill every other sentence" The Democrats can't seem to realize they are in a war for power. Knowledge will not do it. Education will not do it. The other side knows the truth, but it ignores it because it knows what it wants and will do anything to get it. It will not end until one side has smashed the other to the ground and is standing there with its foot on the others neck. We are in the same period as late in Weimar Germany--when t…

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http://www.counterpunch.org/rosen05072010.html

I recorded something interesting and wanted to share what I found with everyone.

You know the gal who starred in Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It"?

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On this saturday from 8-12 Houstons' ecotoneurban farm will host a farmers market. As a community one of the best ways to go back to our original/ indigenous way and take back our power from big businessis to support local farmers markets (and even better support our black owned farmers markets). Ecotone urban farm is located on the corner of st charles and holman street. This farm is a black owned non-profit organizationthat i volunteer for and regularly collaborate with. It was started by a lady Named Chef Tarsha who is in collbaroation with Deloyd Parker's shape community center to bring life back to houstons 3rd ward area and supply th…

Re: The Tiger Woods of Politics http://www.nationalenquirer.com/obama_cheating_scandal_vera_baker_video_/celebrity/68589 If it's a white woman he's toast--

Many years ago, in a galaxy far far away, me and an old white man were talking about Richard Pryor. "Y'know," he said. "When he stopped using the dope he wasn't funny no more." He was absolutely right. Most of us have something we do along with what we really DO that makes us able to function. Some of us are no good without our morning coffee. Others must slurp their little cup of gruel and nibble on our acorns and twigs. Others of us must get on AALBC and rant and rave. It has been long accepted that an athlete should not have sex before a contest. Made sense to me. Being horny always made me mean. I was ready to rumble. This is not so. M…

Seems like every week Barry got something else new--a new crisis, a new meeting, a new announcement, a new summit I was wondering what he was up to--maybe he was panicking, running around like a chicken with his head cut off, that sort of thing. Then I got to thinking Maybe his idea is to keep the pressure up and by sheer force of constant hammering wear his foes down. All them lazy Congressmen by now got to be so tired of debating and voting they might start giving in-- I wonder though Can he physically keep this up?

Troy Johnson--President CEO of AALBC, HNIC, Top Banana, Duke of New York, De Mayor of Harlem, and all round swell guy, send me some AALBC literature recently. It contained a profile of your typical AALBC habitue. I was startled, though, if I had the brains of a gnat, to discover that that person was female, well educated, reasonably well off financially. I gasped in astonishment! I choked back a horrible blood curdling scream. I almost strangled on my pig snoot sammich (served St. Looie style with the potato salad on top). All this time I suppose I have been behaving as though the viewers were like me. Yes, that would be warm, funny, popular and good lo…

Goodbye, White Friends! White People Aren't Into Black People Anymore By CECIL BROWN "I called Clint,” my friend said, as he fumbled through his address book while we sipping a beer in a cafe in San Francisco. Clint? “Yeah, you called Clint? Clint who?” I give him another look. “You mean, Clint as in Clint Eastwood?” “Yes.” “You know Clint Eastwood?” “Yeah,” my friend said, “We're friends. I called him but he hasn’t called me back.” “Well, maybe,” I think out aloud, “He’s busy with his new movie and some other Black person, like Morgan Freeman.” My friend is undaunted. “It’s strange,” he goes on, “I called Francis too, and he hasn’…

My God! It's been a little slow around here. Anyway, The following clips are from a very poor quality video. The video was taken for personal use. Check them out. They should give you a few laughs. The speech was 40 minutes long. These clips are about 10 minutes total. Again, the sound is poor and images are no better, so just relax... I tried to post some of them right here, but I couldn't get it to work. So.... http://careycarey-carrymehome.blogspot.com/2010/04/mask-cant-hide-pain-is-be-babies-daddy.html