Donald Sterling Is Not A Racist

          Let me start off by saying; it is not my place to defend or be an apologist for another human being I don’t really know. I have decided to address the Donald Sterling fiasco, because it is directly related to the subject matter of this blog – racism – especially when it is practiced by Black people. It should be noted that Civil Rights era Blacks have their own definition of what it means to be racist and they tend to stick to a party line that negates the possibility of Blacks being racist.
          Having said that, I do not believe that Donald Sterling is a racist in spite of everything he has said up till now. It’s not just my opinion, because according to Georgetown University professor, author, and radio host Michael Eric Dyson, Donald Sterling doesn’t fit the definition of a racist. The video is from a BET Networks show of him confronting the issue of Black people calling each other racist. I wanted you hear him define it in his own words. 

          So let’s take it step by step. He says,

“Racism presupposes the ability to control a significant segment of the population either economically, politically and socially by imposing law, convenants or restrictions on their lives.”

          Donald Sterling owns a basketball team that employs a significant number of predominantly Black men to play a game, for which he pays each of them millions of dollars. Too bad he doesn’t employ writers he’s supposed to hate. If anything, he could be accused of over-looking qualified Whites, Hispanics, Asians, or Native Americans, as could the entire NBA when it comes to equal opportunities and affirmative action for non Blacks. According to an article posted on the website Data Lab, by Mona Chalabi; in 2013, 76.3 percent of NBA players were African Americans. Source: The Institute For Diversity and Ethics In Sport.
          I have probably spoken to, and have had more interactions with racist during the course of my life then anyone else I’ve ever heard of, and I can tell you unequivocally that racist are not in the business of seeing Black people succeed at anything, let alone paying them money out of their own pockets.
          As far as Michael’s definition of racism goes, the only thing Donald Sterling controls is a single team, not a significant segment of the population. Ok, so he did suggest to his girlfriend certain covenants such as; TMZ.com released a tape 

“It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?” 

“You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games.”

Don’t put him [Johnson] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don’t bring him to my games.” 

          In my humble opinion, this sounds more like a very liberal guy who understands that he’s a married man, so he can’t tell his single girlfriend what not to do in her personal life; “You can sleep with them (Black people),” he says, which sounds pretty laid back to me. But when she brings her personal life into his domain, it gets personal for him – it makes him look like a punk – like she’s playing him for a fool. Further more, the reality of the situation is Magic Johnson did test positive for HIV. Everybody on planet earth knows this; even South Park did a hilarious spoof on his ability to survive as long as he has.
          With every Instagram photo and public appearance, how many phone calls do you think the Donald got after his friends and family members saw his girlfriend hanging out with a guy whom many believed (right or wrong) has AIDS? Having said that, his “Don’t bring him to my games,” seems like more of a plea associated with a guy who had a reputation for sleeping with thousands of women. The argument about his controlling a significant segment of the population – done!

        Let us continue with Dyson’s definition of racism.

           The notion that Black people do not have social, economic, or political power is absurd. Wealthy Black NBA players from Michael Jordon, to a 29-year old named Labron James, not to mention a host of Hollywood celebrity types, came down on this man like a ton of bricks spurring the media to join in the fray. After all, when the story broke it had been a great couple of days for the Liberal media. Ah… Cliven Bundy, the gift that kept on giving in the form of another old White guy, Donald Sterling.
          So with the threat of WW3 looming in Ukraine, radiation from Fukushima spreading death in our oceans, and global warming, our media bravely trudged through exposing yet another so-called racists in our midst. How heroic. The Clippers are now safe from the clutches of an evil rich White man, who in his own words;

“I support them and give them food, and clothes, and cars, and houses. Who gives it to them? Does someone else give it to them? … Who makes the game? Do I make the game, or do they make the game? Is there 30 owners, that created the league?” Donald Sterling

Donald’s problem is he doesn’t realize it’s not P.C. to just speak plain truths – to tell it like it is. You see, the last thing he wants to do is sound like an “Owner” of Black men, which is the legal essence of their true relationship. The ownership thing comes too close to sounding like slavery. And we all know how powerful White guilt is as a social force. It makes everyone feel bad for those poor NBA players suffering under the weight of such huge salaries, while they call each other niggas, niggers, and dogs. I overheard a 15 year old White girl speaking to her Black friend on the bus; “Weren’t you guys… like… slaves way back when? My mom saw Twelve Years a Slave… man that must have been terrible,” as if slavery had just ended last week. When White people or anyone who’s not Black, begin to forget, to be sure a Django Unchained or a movie about Negro servants will come along to whip up more White Guilt, because it is especially powerful when employed as a clever excuse to mobilize our brave media to do the dirty work of others. Please… it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know Donald Sterling was set up – period the end! Yes, he had to walk into the honey trap, but honey has been the down-fall of many a great/lessor man, since men figured out what to do with that thing between their legs.
          That the mainstream media could be used in such a blatant maneuver to gain power, says everything you need to know about the way so-called news is reported in this country. “Hey everybody, we got us another genuine, died in the wool, white, rich guy spouting a bunch of nonsense we can frame as racist,” as if they really care. Every day, I’ll bet a lot worse is being said, in private, in many of those newsrooms that exploded with outrage. That takes care of the perceived lack of social power – done!
          Economic power is a no-brainer. Donald has it all right, but he’s also governed by a higher authority and must pay his players a comparable salary in line with their counterparts from others teams. But Black people have greater economic power then they can imagine. Businesses that sell fast food, fried chicken, fried anything, as well as donuts, pork, liquor, record, tapes, CDs, sneakers, (NBA), Jeans, drugs, cigarettes, hospital emergency rooms, gravediggers, morticians, bullet and gun manufacturers (whites buy because they’re afraid of blacks, blacks buy to kill each other) and anything hi-fat low fiber have made ga-zillions of dollar from the economic prowess of Black people. Everyone selling bad stuff to Black people becomes rich beyond their wildest dreams.
         Also, most city, state, and federal governmental offices wouldn’t operate for a split second, if all the Black people decided not to show up for work. Hell, the NBA would shut down if Black people didn’t show up for work to entertain a predominantly White audience who can afford the prices of tickets these days. Think about how much money the golf industry has made since Tiger Woods’ arrival? Viewership drops by half for any tournament the man isn’t playing in, which means half the viewers don’t even like golf unless a man they perceive as a Black man is playing. I say perceive, because Tiger does not refer to himself as a Black man, he prefers Multiracial. I’ve always found it ironic that Black people still support the ‘One drop of Nigger blood” idea from the 14^th century, as if the discovery of genetics is the work of the devil.
          If you need to go back in history for perspective, there would not have been an industrial revolution or a railroad for that matter, without Negroes. No economic power? Please! The problem has always been poor leadership along with the failure to capitalize on the inherent power that comes with building the very foundation upon which America became a great country. Economic argument done!
          Political power - you gotta be kidding. Donald Sterling obviously has none what-so-ever! But the last time I checked, we had a Multiracial president in the White House. He, like every politician reacts to money. I’m not saying anything negative about him, (God forbid) all I’m saying is this; ninety-eight percent of the Black people who voted the first time around, voted for a man they perceived as being just like them. All I heard in the streets was a lot of crowing and affirmations that things were going to be different. Black people had finally climbed to the top of the mountain and were “Moving on Up politically!” Problem is, Messiahs always turn out to just be human beings who accomplish extraordinary things, but they are still human beings answering to a higher call. For most of the world, including America the bankers and the Military Industrial Complex are the highest powers. When we sit back and let others drive, we completely loose control of our own lives.
          Everyone knows the secret to gaining political power is about having something that is of value to a large demographic or country – politicians don’t care about the color of skin, only the color of money. With somewhere between 50 and 70 percent illiteracy rate among inner city Black youths, which severely lessens their employment opportunities, where is the value? What will the future be for these illiterate children who will grow into adults, without any hope of being gainfully employed? Who’s going to get the blame for this outrage? Society? The government? White people because of slavery? Who's fault is it that 60 percent of America's Black children refuse to learn how to read and write? When do the fingers begin to point in the right direction?
            For Michael to just to throw it out there and say, “We ain’t neva had that kind of power,” without pointing to the complete lack of a unified plan to achieve it, is what lies at the heart of Black ideology – it is the culture of can’t, and holding on to the past.
          Last thing about who really has the political power in this story – the rich Black men who play basketball have something in common with the guy in the Oval office – their love of the game. Of course he was going to make a statement. When the president spoke, the new NBA commissioner Adam Silver had to be saying to himself, “Why me?” What choice did he have but to react quickly and do something dramatic? And that, I believe is exactly what conniving minds, with designs on owning a basketball franchise were counting on. The political argument is done.
          All that leaves, according to the above definition Michael Eric Dyson and many other old-headed Black people have been hiding behind for the last fifty years, is that Donald is either bigoted or prejudiced against Magic Johnson. It is obvious Michael and his ilk don’t believe that being bigoted and prejudiced is equal to the sin of racism. So according to Black people’s definition of racism, Donald Sterling is not a racist!

By, Herman Williams III a.k.a., H. P. Stanly

Herman Williams  

Blackness, the Stockholm Syndrome & Uncle Tom

In the spirit of not repeating information previously covered in my July 2013 essay titled, The Disease Called Blackness, I’ll assume you’ve read it. With that said, I present to you exhibit A: Alabama state representative Alvin Holmes, whom I believe not only suffers from the disease called Blackness, but he, like many individuals who call themselves Black are clearly manifesting symptoms associated with the Stockholm Syndrome.

But first, the facts that led to this discussion. On February 11^th according to a reporter with the Times Daily dot com, as well as various other sources, representative Alvin Holmes addressed the state House assembly proclaiming his dislike for Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas because, “he’s married to a white woman and he’s an Uncle Tom.” What got Holmes all riled up? Earlier in the day, Clarence Thomas said the following during a program at Duquesne University,

“My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I went to school. To my knowledge, I was the first black kid in Savannah, Georgia, to go to a white school. Rarely did the issue of race come up,” Thomas said during a chapel service hosted by the nondenominational Christian university.

“Now, name a day it doesn’t come up. Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah. Every person in this room has endured a slight. Every person. Somebody has said something that has hurt their feelings or did something to them — left them out. That’s a part of the deal,” he added.

http://news.yahoo.com/clarence-thomas-on-race-194104252.html

            How can anyone disagree with that? Or should I say, how can you disagree with someone’s individual experiences? But it is undeniable we have been talking about race in this country ad nauseam for the last 46 years and in my opinion it is Black people who can’t seem to let it go. You see, the one thing that people who call themselves Black refuse to understand is that calling yourself Black is in fact, racist. What else is it? The act of identifying and judging individuals according to their physical appearance or race, instead of the alternative proposed by the Reverend King, i.e., the content of an individual's character, is racist.

I remember the 1960s very well growing up in Glen Burnie, Maryland – a place not a single person alive back then would deny was about as Redneck as it gets. Hell, there was a Ku Klux Klan chapter 10 miles south on Ritchie Hwy, in Severna Park. Like Clarence Thomas, I also attended predominately white schools and to be honest he’s right; once things settled down and the parents of the white students got out of the way race wasn’t an issue anymore. We didn’t talk about it everyday. We weren’t calling each other blacks, niggers, or dogs either. Sorta makes one long for the days when a person was just your friend. I’m not saying it was a La, La Land of brotherhood and racial harmony, but there were many friendships between the races, as well as a lot of extracurricular activities together.

It’s obvious representative Holmes had a different experience. After his comments were leaked to the press people were so outraged over his crack about Thomas’s marriage he wound up taking it back, but reiterated he didn’t like Justice Thomas, because he was an Uncle Tom. Isn’t it ironic that Alvin would choose to single out a man who has risen to a position of power within the so-called White Elite structure that made it possible for our multiracial president to be sitting in the White House today? The United States Supreme Court made it possible for Negroes to attend legitimate law schools, colleges, universities, high schools and elementary schools — not merely low class, unfunded, jacked-up Negro schools. All of this was accomplished using the very laws this country was founded upon, as a result of Thurgood Marshall’s unyielding opposition to racial segregation and Brown v. Board of Education of 1954. 
          I get it; so-called Black people don’t like Justice Clarence Thomas, because in their opinion he’s not Black (racist) enough. The fact that he worked for the Reagan administration and was appointed by president George H.W. Bush to replace Thurgood Marshall in 1991 didn’t help. And he is also not a fan of Affirmative Action:

“In a fiery concurring opinion Monday, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said the University of Texas at Austin's admissions policy amounted to discrimination and compared the school's affirmative action program to slavery and segregation.

""Slaveholders argued that slavery was a 'positive good' that civilized blacks and elevated them in every dimension of life,"" Thomas wrote in his separate opinion on Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. ""A century later, segregationists similarly asserted that segregation was not only benign, but good for black students.""

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/clarence-thomas-affirmative-action_n_3491433.html

But you see, there’s an underlying assumption on the part of so-called Blacks that a time existed in America when the people, who were previously referred to as a Colored people/Negroes, actually agreed on anything. Nothing could be further from the truth, because we are a race of Negroes (for commercial purposes; originally brought to America from the islands), Blacks (also a term used in commerce referring to slaves from the continent of Africa), Colored (mixed race Americans), Mulattoes (mixed race, educated House Negroes on the plantation), Black-Ghetto (angry/ struggling/ stuck in past); the Black-bourgeoisie (educated, middle/upper class – feelings of superiority over other Blacks), Yellow Negroes (passing for anything but black/negro), Negro-Native American Indians (the coolest), Ebonnites (Uneducated/angry/violent), African Americans (really confused), and the real Africans, who don’t actually call themselves Black. They prefer to identify themselves by the counties of their birth, like Ugandans – from Uganda. And by the way, they don’t like being compared to American Blacks, because many believe that American Blacks are lazy and complain too much.

Just look at all these categories and sub-categories of what are supposed to be one people… really? When the Anglo-Saxons, Dutch, Portuguese, and the British discovered a literal gold mine of resources on the continent of Africa, individual countries of origin mattered not. All they saw was chattel – things to be sold, not human beings, but savages and sub-human creatures that would make excellent slaves in the New World – America.

In the 1960s, looking at all the diversity that existed within a people, racists such as the Nation of Islam and Black Nationalists, who were the segregationist wing of the Negro community, decided to do exactly what the slave traders did by lumping all people of color into a single identity – Black. Yet, a mixed-race individual is exactly that, a human being who carries the DNA of several races. So why do they have to choose one race as an identity? To imagine for a nanosecond that some sort of Black agenda would arise from the racist notion that a “Drop of Negro blood, makes you all Negro” was pure nonsense. 
          Sorry to be the one to break the news, but there is not now, nor has there ever been such a thing as a Black Party line, other than promoting the belief of their own inferiority to Whites and the separation of the races.

The deep-seated problems between the Alvin Holmes’ of America and Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas actually goes back to pre-emancipation days and the hidden psychological toll that slavery had upon a people. It was neither defined nor understood in the 1800s, but today we know it as the Stockholm Syndrome.

Definition:

Stockholm syndrome refers to a group of psychological symptoms that occur in some persons in a captive or hostage situation. It has received considerable media publicity in recent years because it has been used to explain the behavior of such well-known kidnapping victims as Patty Hearst (1974) and Elizabeth Smart (2002). The term takes its name from a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 1973. The robbers took four employees of the bank (three women and one man) into the vault with and kept them hostage for 131 hours. After the employees were finally released, they appeared to have formed a paradoxical emotional bond with their captors; telling reporters that they saw the police as their enemy rather than the bank robbers, and that they had positive feelings toward the criminals.

The syndrome was first named by, Nils Bejerot (1921–1988), a medical professor who specialized in addiction research and served as a psychiatric consultant to the Swedish police during the standoff at the bank. Stockholm syndrome is also known as Survival Identification Syndrome.

http://medicaldictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Stockholm+syndrome

Causes & symptoms:

Stockholm syndrome does not affect all hostages (or persons in comparable situations); in fact, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) study of over 1200 hostage-taking incidents found that 92% of the hostages did not develop Stockholm syndrome. FBI researchers then interviewed flight attendants who had been taken hostage during airplane hijackings, and concluded that three factors are necessary for the syndrome to develop:

(1)  The crisis situation lasts for several days or longer.

(2)  The hostage takers remain in contact with the hostages; that is, the hostages are not placed in a separate room.

(3) The hostage takers show some kindness toward the hostages or at least refrain from harming them. Hostages abused by captors typically feel anger toward them and do not usually develop the syndrome.

(4) In addition, people who often feel helpless in other stressful life situations or are willing to do anything in order to survive seem to be more susceptible to developing Stockholm syndrome if they are taken hostage.

People with Stockholm syndrome report the same symptoms as those diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) : insomnia, nightmares, general irritability, difficulty concentrating, being easily startled, feelings of unreality or confusion, inability to enjoy previously pleasurable experiences, increased distrust of others, and flashbacks.

Prisoners of war, as well abused spouses and children over long periods of time often show the symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome. It should be noted that 131 hours is equivalent to 5.4 days. So it took less than a week for the hostages in the original Swedish bank robbery to become “grateful to the hostage takers.” At the age of 11, Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped from her home by a convicted sex offender and held captive for 18 years. Patty Hearst was held hostage for almost 2 years and at times was very grateful to members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Elizabeth Smart was held hostage for 9 months not far from where she lived. In each of these high-profile cases, the Stockholm Syndrome was brought up as the underlying reason these women refused to either escape, or seek help when in public.

Folks, Negroes were held captive for nearly 248 years, plus 100 years following the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, with all the Jim Crow Laws and lynchings that took place over that same period of time. Think about what Negroes were taught to believe about themselves over the 348 years leading up to Brown v. Board of Education. This list merely represents the basics:

1. Separation from the rest of society is good for the Negro, because they would never be considered equal to, or fit to live among White people. This, according to Chief Justice Roger B. Taney (1857 Dred Scott), Abraham Lincoln, and most of America.

2. Negroes are less than human – savages, who’s only hope is slavery and the Bible, which equaled death and going to Heaven to be with the Savior, because a Negro will never be happy in America.

3. Negroes could be jailed for any reason, including the need for free labor.

4. Negroes could be beaten, lynched or “nigger barbecued” for being too smart, looking at a white woman, sassing a white person, being a successful businessman/woman, for fun/sport, or because a “dog is worth more than a nigger,” was the saying in Texas.

5. Negroes are evil/Stupid

6.Violent

7. Lazy and shiftless

8. Dirty

9. Sinners (because of all the above and below)

10. Cannot take care of themselves

11. Negroes require the government be their daddies.

12. Negroes know their place.

13. Negroes are inferior to Whites

14. Negroes are soulless, without Jesus

15. Negroes are worthless — have no purpose other

than being enslaved by fast foods, the lottery, drugs, alcohol, and the ignorance of Gangster rap.

The idea that Negroes were suffering from severe to mild symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome from the 1700s on, is a no-brainer. Which brings me back to Alabama state representative Alvin Holmes and his use of the term Uncle Tom. Given that Alvin isn’t praising Justice Thomas for having achieved a position that only a few men and women in history have been called upon to occupy, we’ll assume he meant it as an insult. So let’s get this straight: Clarence Thomas said something that Alvin Holmes disagreed with, and his response was to insult him using a racial slur! A racial slur, mind you, in response to: “My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s.”

 Now it just so happens that I am an expert on this topic, having been called an Uncle Tom throughout my early childhood days, on up through today. For those not familiar with the insult; a Black person will call another Black person an Uncle Tom if that person, in their eyes, is perceived as either trying to act white, is doing the bidding of a white person against the interests of other Blacks, or moves in the world without considering him/her self as a Black person first, before all other identities. As a child growing up in the 1950s in Cherry Hill – a predominantly Negro community, located on the south side of the harbor from Baltimore City, being accused of trying to act white was a bit confusing, considering the only white people I had met where the nuns and priest at our local Catholic Church. Not too many white people lived in Cherry Hill during the 1950s, and certainly not after the 1960s – it turned into a war zone, like so many other predominately Black neighborhoods of America.

The irony is that most Negroes/Blacks who call someone else an Uncle Tom, have actually never read Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 hit, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Life Among the Lowly.

Having read it myself; from a literary standpoint the titles’ character, Uncle Tom is one of the most heroic and brilliant characters ever created. He was brilliant, because he was able to accept his fate as a slave, and practiced being the best possible servant he could be to survive a terrible situation. Tom was of course, the absolute perfect Negro in the eyes of devout abolitionists like Harriet Beecher Stowe, because he had accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. In a Christ-like twist, Uncle Tom gave up his life to save runaway slaves, Cassy and Emmerline. From the book Uncle Tom's Cabin;

“Legree drew in a long breath; and, suppressing his rage, took Tom by the arm, and, approaching his face almost to his, said, in a terrible voice, "Hark 'e, Tom! - ye think 'cause I've let you off before, I don't mean what I say; but, this time, I've made up my mind, and counted the cost. You've always stood it out again' me: now, I'll conquer ye, or kill ye! - one or t' other. I'll count every drop of blood there is in you, and take 'em, one by one, till ye give up!

Tom looked up to his master, and answered, "Mas'r, if you was sick, or in trouble, or dying, and I could save ye, I'd give ye my heart's blood; and, if taking every drop of blood in this poor old body would save your precious soul, I'd give 'em freely, as the Lord gave his for me. O, Mas'r! don't bring this great sin on your soul! It will hurt you more than it will me! Do the worst you can, my troubles'll be over soon; but, if ye don't repent, yours won't never end!"

That’s Uncle Tom – a real badass! A couple of days later, as he lay dying, Mas’r George Shelby came to see him. Again, from Harriet Beecher Stowe's, Uncle Tom's Cabin; 

“You shan’t die! You mustn’t die, nor think of it! I’ve come to buy you, and take you home,” said George, with impetuous vehemence.

“O, Mas’r George, ye’re too late. The Lord’s brought me, and is going to take me home, - and I long to go. Heaven is better than Kintuck,” (Uncle Tom said)

“O, don’t die! I’ll kill me! – it’ll break my heart to think what you’ve suffered, - and lying in this old shed, here! Poor, poor fellow!”

“Don’t call me poor fellow!” said Tom, solemnly, “I have been poor fellow; but that’s all past and gone, now. I’m right in the door, going into glory! O, Mas’r George! Heaven has come! I’ve got the victory! – the Lord Jesus has given iot to me! Glory be to His name!”

He was willing to die for others and forgive his masr’ for killing him. Why? Because the only thing a slave had to live for was dying! So how did the term Uncle Tom become an insult? Negroes never read the book and never bothered to understand the complexities of the character H. B. Stowe invented. They just accepted the words of their former mas’rs, like Black, nigger, and Uncle Tom without question, embracing them like the air we breathe – unwittingly manifesting within the full power of the negative intent these words were meant to portray. 
        After reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin, it is difficult to put it down and not see a prince among ordinary men in ol’ Uncle Tom. I would almost consider it a compliment to be called an Uncle Tom, if wasn’t for the fact that I refused to see myself as the perfect Nigger, who puts all his hopes and dreams on calling myself a sinner, and having to die to be in “Glory.” I’d rather live to be free and happy in the here and now! Jesus and Heaven can wait!

Listening to representative Alvin Holmes and others like him, no doubt they embrace the disease that has afflicted a people of color in America with their segregationist views, which have been the real enemy of progress for decades. Don’t take my word – hear the words of another man of the law that representative Alvin Holmes would have definitely referred to as an Uncle Tom. Charlie Houston was the very first Negro appointed as a federal judge, named to the U.S Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1949, by President Harry Truman. Like Thurgood Marshall, he was an unyielding foe of racial segregation. Lamenting about the Alvin Holmes’ of his time, he said:

“For fifty years predjudiced white men and abject, boot lickin, gut lacking, favor seeking Negroes have been insulting our intelligence with a tale that goes like this; segregation is not evil. Negroes are better off by themselves. They can get equal treatment and be happier if they live and move and have their being off by themselves. But any Negro who uses this theoretical possibility as a justification for segregation is either dumb, or mentally dishonest, or else he has like Esau, chosen a mess of pottage.”

The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall By Carl T. Rowan 1993 pg. 63

Believe me, I am just as sick of this discussion about race as anyone else, but it is impossible for me to keep my mouth shut, when I hear so-called Black people trying to speak for all people of color, as if there is some sort of brotherly agenda that we’re all supposed to honor and support. I lived through the Civil Rights era with my eyes wide open, and I rejected the notion of calling myself Black from the very first moment it was proposed, because even as a child I understood the limitations and negative vibrations associated with the ideology of Blackness. The destruction of a Black people – their families, and their communities over the last 40-plus years, speaks volumes.

The blood running through my veins is a mix of European, Native American, and who knows what else thrown in. I don’t have to choose one identity just because society wants to put us in a box. We are what we believe we are – period the end. Our brothers and sisters are people of many races, colors and creeds, who support the idea that we are in truth, one race of human beings living on a planet called Earth. Locally, I am an American. What more is there other then what I do, say, or accomplish during the span of my existence?

And as for the “Uncle Tom” calling racists like representative Alvin Holmes – please take the time to receive a psychological evaluation to help you understand the roots causes of your hatred towards your fellow man. I leave you with a quote from a man who is blind, which hopefully will help you see the light:

“When you believe in things, that you don’t understand, then you’ll suffer.” 
Stevie Wonder, from Superstition

Album, Talking Book 1972

By, Herman Williams III, a.k.a. Homam P. Stanly

Nigga/Nigger -- Stop it!

“Madonna straight f**ked up” when she dropped the N-word online in a shout-out to her son ... so says the rapper Nelly, who tells TMZ, "She need to get her sh*t right." He was asked about Madge's super-controversial Instagram post... the one where she referred to her white son Rocco as a "n**ga."

There are times I feel like we are living in a "Twilight Zone."

Let's see: Blacks have been calling each other, Ni*gers & Ni*gas since the late 1960s, because they were getting tired of white people owning the insult, so they decided to take possession of it, convincing other Negroes/Colored people that being called a Ni*ger was a good thing.

Around the same time, Negroes/Colored people decided to embrace another word that had been used as an insult for 400 years by the Dutch and British slave traders… the word Black, which was a term used in commerce to describe: a subhuman savage from the continent of Africa that would make a perfect slave for the colonies.

You see, anyone born after 1970, whether you're Black, White, Brown, or Green, doesn't understand that a time existed when people of color took being called Black, as an insult, let alone being called a ni*ger, by anyone!

All WE really wanted was to be seen as human beings… men and women, like everyone else.

The racist ideology of Blackness spawned; Gangsta Rap, Ebonics, incredible numbers of murders, the debasement of a people, destruction of neighborhoods, inferiority, and a complete disaster!

In 3 days a racist celebration begins to embrace the disaster, which is Black Culture. Yeah, it's only 1 month, but it is the month that divides! Every month is American History Month. Every single event that has happened upon this soil since the birth of this Nation, is part of American History.

Thurgood Marshall understood how important it was for people of color to just be seen as Americans, availing themselves of the same "Laws of the Land" the Constitution, that every man, woman and child has at their disposal, as Citizens of these United States.

"I am not a ni*ger, ni*ga, Black, or African American. And I do not recognize the racist celebration that seeks to separate me, or any other American from another."

I am a citizen of the United States of America- period the end!

How about you?

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By, Herman Williams III, a.k.a., Homam P. Stanly

White History Month?

Did you know that George Washington's birthday falls in the same month as the racist celebration we refer to as, Black History Month?

Think about it; the conquest of America was, in fact, an Anglo-Saxon's dream come true. Order out of chaos -- their belief in selves as the superior race above all men on Earth. A belief in the destiny of a people to rule the earth, which many believe is a fait accompli, as we speak.

So my point is, these people could have easily designated the month of February, as White History Month, and not a single White American in the 1700s would have batted an eyebrow. Hell, they would still be having White History Month parades a-marching down the Main Streets of America, with people of all colors dressed in period clothing, (Negroes as slaves of course) celebrating the Emancipation of America from those greedy Brits and all the great White men who helped make it possible.  

But no…. even the cruel, slave-trading/beatin'/lynching/Jim Crowin' evil Anglo-Saxons had a limit to their audacity as rulers of the world. They Just assumed everyone knew that every day was White History Day, "Why do we need to celebrate it? We're living it," they would say amongst themselves. 

And then along came the Negro -- feeling low about his position in a country that simply wanted them to go away after slavery. "Go back to the lands we kidnapped you from, please! You're free! We can't stand to see you walking around acting like you're a man, let alone a human being!" they would rage. 

Everyone from Chief Justice Taney, to Abraham Lincoln, to a majority of the Democratic Party only 60 years ago, repeated the mantra over and over again; "Whites and Negroes will never live in harmony upon this soil. Whether you're Emancipated or not, we despise you in any other position other than that of a servant. You will never be equal to us!" 

Meanwhile the Negro carried on. Thurgood Marshall lead the fight that made it possible for the current man in the White House to be a lawyer today. He also made it possible for all Negroes to get the one thing that could change their lives forever -- an equal education.

Momentum from Brown v. Board of Ed, lead to an over-all fight for Civil Rights, but the voices of reason lost out to the soul stealing ideology of Blackness and Capitulating Negroes.  

The Capitulators were Negroes who would use religion, (his former masr's religion of death and waiting for Saviors) social unrest, protest marches, and endless meetings with a Southern White President, from the most racist state in the Union. Why... to hammer out the terms of surrender for his people over to masr' Uncle Sam, and Johnson's Great Society. 

The Capitulating Negroes thought it was best to let Christianity lead their people to the Promised Land, rather than the Law of the Land, our Constitution, that had been so successful for Thurgood in 1954.

Which is fitting, when you consider this is the year 2014. After 60-years of Black History, Black Studies, African American Museums, Black Caucasuses; the erecting of statues to commemorate various Black icons and leaders, as well as a multiracial in the White House, thirty-five to fifty-five percent of inner city teens and young adults can't even read! They're illiterate! What? How does that happen?

It's called the de-evolution of a people.

Of course Black people will blame it on? "The White man wouldn't let me have books!" a real quote from only a few weeks ago. I had to remind him; "Yeah, back in the sixteen hundreds." 

"Black History Month; it's only one month out of the year," a so-called Black man complained to me the other day. "Why can't we have just one month?"

Because it is just as racist, as a White History Month would be! It promotes separation. Looking backwards. Not a single American living today suffered under slavery, or owned a slave. Any thoughts placed at the feet of something that happened 300 years ago, keeps the heart, mind and soul locked in a perpetual malaise of endless sorrow over something you never experienced. You keep reliving it through someone else's words, which triggers genetic memories that keep the internal codes to past anger, sorrow, hopelessness, and enslavement of the mind, as fresh as if slavery was still happening today. 

Focus should be placed on that which is vital for the survival of a once proud people; every month is American History Month! There wouldn't be an America -- an Anglo-Saxon's dreams come true, without Negroes!

Every advancement of the Anglo-Saxon/America frontier relied upon the greatest free labor force ever assembled. Two thirds of every product exported by this country was produced by slave labor. There would not have been an industrial revolution in America without the Negro.

To claim only one month out of 12 -- the shortest month of all, as if you must be relegated to the back of some historical bus, is merely a capitulation to the ideology of ignorance, death and inferiority, which by the way is called, Black Culture.

Every American has his/her own distinct Social Security Number. It means you come into this particular system as an individual, and everything that you do from the moment you are born, until the day you die is on you! We make it through the maze with the help of like- minded persons. How we relate to others is crucial. Forming partnerships to achieve a common goal is vital. Now more than ever is the time to reach across the divide for a helping hand, or to help someone. The ones' helping and needing help don't always look like us, but they are Americans locally, and human beings on the macro. 

So what we should be celebrating -- and by WE, I mean those whom the Anglo-Saxon's said would never live in harmony with our neighbors -- is the one thing they said WE could NEVER DO!

Live in harmony with each other and our fellow Americans. These times when things seem most bleak, are actually moments of great opportunity to learn how to create streams of revenue by providing valuable services to those with larger streams of revenue. 

What ever happened to striving to be the best human beings WE can possibly be?

Or how about becoming valuable members of society.

And for God's sake, don't let anybody ever tell you the Constitution of these United States has lost its importance. It is the reason we’re all here upon this soil.

Countdown To a Racist Celebration…Black History Month 

By, Herman Williams III, a.k.a., Homam P. Stanly