Monday, March 17, 2008
Monday, March 3, 2008
Something small to let you know that I'm alive and kicking the bucket
The month of February pretty much doesn't exist. Well, this last one at least. I can prove it - mathematically. All months have either 30 or 31 days except February which has either 28 or 29. Therefore, by virtue of this anomaly, February is not a month. I dare any mathematician, philosophician, metaphysician and logistician to say I'm wrong. See, I'm right because no one's come forward.
Also "racism still alive, they just be concealin' it." How is it that Black History/Heritage Month (BHM either way) is not a month and who declared this non-month BHM anyway? Dr. Woodson of course (back then it was Negro History Week). Woodson's black which is OK until you discover that the Negro History Week was in honor of 2 abolitionists one who is a white man!! OK, you say, Abe Lincoln is as black as Bill Clinton (which is true in all senses) but he is still as white as Bill Clinton (also true in all senses).
Now regardless of what that sentence means, it seems rather unfair that the 1 week out of52 that is dedicated to Negro reminiscences is only 1/2 black. Well, only 1/2 black until you discover that the other abolitionist was Fredrick Douglass - now he was black, for sure, but he didn't know his father - a problem that a lot of inner city youth can relate to today - except he suspected that his father was a white slave owner (what was it with those white slave owners and their desire to sleep with black women - black women are sexy, I guess... but I digress). In any case, our 1/2 of 1/52 becomes 1/4 of 1/52 = 1/208...can you believe that!!! Negro History Week indeed! Also it is rather strange that BHM has become a mantle taken up by the liberal left since the '60s (if you buy into the whole left-right political axis thing). Regardless, it is strange to note that both Douglass and Lincoln were staunch Republicans!! (note. politics change over time - it may have benefited that Black man to be republican then, but it doesn't seem to be the case today - the shift probably occurred in the 60s which led to the eventual rise of the neo-cons with Reagan (his governorship began in 67!).
So the question is; What was Dr. Woodson thinking? unless he wasn't. Brainwashing is most likely what happened, you know - this whole whites and blacks living peaceably together as the King suggests tends to make blacks complacent. Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for living peaceably together but it becomes an expense when we are cheated into believing that we are in fact living peaceably together. It's the Manchurian Candidate all over again but instead of Manchuria its the White House (white house candidate?). So you say Obama will CHANGE all that - but i bet you a million bucks he won't be living in the Black House.
Also "racism still alive, they just be concealin' it." How is it that Black History/Heritage Month (BHM either way) is not a month and who declared this non-month BHM anyway? Dr. Woodson of course (back then it was Negro History Week). Woodson's black which is OK until you discover that the Negro History Week was in honor of 2 abolitionists one who is a white man!! OK, you say, Abe Lincoln is as black as Bill Clinton (which is true in all senses) but he is still as white as Bill Clinton (also true in all senses).
Now regardless of what that sentence means, it seems rather unfair that the 1 week out of52 that is dedicated to Negro reminiscences is only 1/2 black. Well, only 1/2 black until you discover that the other abolitionist was Fredrick Douglass - now he was black, for sure, but he didn't know his father - a problem that a lot of inner city youth can relate to today - except he suspected that his father was a white slave owner (what was it with those white slave owners and their desire to sleep with black women - black women are sexy, I guess... but I digress). In any case, our 1/2 of 1/52 becomes 1/4 of 1/52 = 1/208...can you believe that!!! Negro History Week indeed! Also it is rather strange that BHM has become a mantle taken up by the liberal left since the '60s (if you buy into the whole left-right political axis thing). Regardless, it is strange to note that both Douglass and Lincoln were staunch Republicans!! (note. politics change over time - it may have benefited that Black man to be republican then, but it doesn't seem to be the case today - the shift probably occurred in the 60s which led to the eventual rise of the neo-cons with Reagan (his governorship began in 67!).
So the question is; What was Dr. Woodson thinking? unless he wasn't. Brainwashing is most likely what happened, you know - this whole whites and blacks living peaceably together as the King suggests tends to make blacks complacent. Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for living peaceably together but it becomes an expense when we are cheated into believing that we are in fact living peaceably together. It's the Manchurian Candidate all over again but instead of Manchuria its the White House (white house candidate?). So you say Obama will CHANGE all that - but i bet you a million bucks he won't be living in the Black House.
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