August Political and News Happenings

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I saw a headline that read, “Obama wants to clean up Washington”. The only problem with that is that too many Americans want him to do it, with a mop! But a lot of people in the country took a liking to him. Can’t call him an Oreo either, he’s half white half black! He’s raising more money than Hillary, especially from the web. Hillary is pissed at him for making her work harder than she planned on. That’s why Hillary showed cleavage in Congress. She would have shown a nipple like Janet Jackson but she wasn’t wearing a short skirt that day! Hey women know that tities work. Even other women look at tities.

A black president, will I live to see one? And to all you no matter how many times you say it, Bill Clinton aint black, ok! Folks were trying to call him the first black President, until he had to show his dick in the Paula Jones case! I know, it’s a stereotype, but black men don’t go around calling their tally whackers pricks.

John McCain is running for president with almost no money. That’s like trying to get a hooker with food stamps. Unless you catch em hungry you are out of luck. McCain is a dead man walking! His campaign staff deserted him like rats from a sinking ship! The way he sounded so dejected a couple times in interviews, maybe we should put him on suicide watch!

And John Edwards is sucking hind tit in the race for the nomination isn’t he! I think its because he gives mixed signals. His wife says that it’s because he isn’t female or black! Edwards says that if Bill Clinton can be black, he can be black! And judging from the way he preens in the mirror when combing his hair, he can be more feminine than Hillary. He went to New Orleans and helped people fix up their homes; then a company he invests in foreclosed on thirty-six homes there!

And then there’s Dennis the menace Kucinich! That fella is one smart lil Smurf! He got rid of that giant mole he had on his face that he had last time he ran for president; it was bigger than him. That mole was so big I thought it was running for vice president.

What is it with that guy Romney? He’s Pro choice one day he’s for right to life the next, he’s for Universal Health Insurance he’s against it; the dude is so conflicted he could have a debate with himself! He has the gift of gab too! He can talk out of both sides of his mouth at once! The Mormon is the only Republican that has had only one wife. That’s like being at the annual pimp awards with just one whore!

Rudy Giuliani’s daughter is supporting Barack Obama over her own dad! Talk about jungle fever! When asked about it Rudy said he doesn’t talk about his kids, looks like he doesn’t talk to them either!

Republicans voters don’t like any of their candidates. Are there any Republicans here? (If the answer is yes), Who do you want for President? I will rip anyone mentioned to shreds. (If the answer is no), Fuck Republicans! Bush 43 and 41, Reagan, Ford, Nixon; they haven’t been right since Dwight! At least when he left Office, he warned all Americans about the war machine; the military industrial complex. And it is complex alright! 12 billion dollars a week and what do we have to show for it? 12 billion a week buys A LOT OF BULLETS! The Chinese are loaning us the money to pay for em since our rich folks here don’t have to. We are spending so much money in Iraq and borrowing it from China, pretty soon China will own America and Iraq. They make almost everything we buy and loan us the money to pay for it! They are trying to kill us too and our dogs, poison toothpaste, poison dog food, poison toys, what next? Poison poison?

That Mike Huckabee, he’s funny! With a name like that you gotta have a sense of humor! He figured if Bill can come from Arkansas and wow the world, he could too! Mike, Bill went to Oxford, Ivy League schools and shit! Mike Huckabee went to Bible College! President Huckabee, it just doesn’t sound ‘Presidential’! He will be out of the race soon, as soon as Thompson beats him in a caucus or primary!

Speaking of Mike’s…Michael Vick is gonna do time for animal cruelty. Some folks want him to do time in a dog pound with a pack of vicious pit bulls! Mike’s own boys gave him up! I guess they didn’t know how to protect the pocket! In this case the pocket book. They copped pleas like they were going to do major time! If they were smart they would have let Mike keep making the money! Send them care packages and then open a Chinese Bar BQ when they got out! That’s right, Mike Vick would be a hero in China!

Michael Jackson is living in Dubai now. He has so many rich fans there they pay him millions of dollars just to attend birthday parties for their kids. That’s like paying Jeffrey Dahlmer to attend a weenie roast. Oh, he’s gonna eat some weenies alright! He preferred em still connected though.

Man we have bridges collapsing, mines collapsing, the housing industry collapsing, pretty soon there won’t be anyplace left for the homeless to hang out! And with the foreclosures going up like they are, you gonna have a whole lotta homeless folks.

I just saw a news account of a homeless woman who was attacked by a man trying to rape her and she called her boyfriend on her cell phone who came to rescue her. Is it me, or is there something weird about a homeless person with a cell phone? Where do they mail her bill? Or is it a throwaway? A throwaway with a throwaway! Don’t get mad at me! That’s what we treat the homeless like, throwaways! Even in Cuba there are no homeless people. They may not have new cars, but they have a roof over their heads! We are just the opposite here, you see folks sleeping in their Hummers here!

Another headline read, “Woman jailed with male prisoners”. When I saw a picture of her I figured the other prisoners would rather sleep with another man than with her. I’m not saying she was ugly; but the newspaper had dead bugs in it! To her credit though the picture in the paper was a mug shot! An ugly mug shot!

Speaking of mug shots, Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, Nicole Ritchie; can Brittney’s mug shots be far behind? The way she has her head up her ass these days, it will have to be a shot of her behind! You know Kfed has a few of those, I ca see him hitting it from the back and sneaking out his digital camera.

Wow I saw that the BMW five series was the worst in side impact crash tests! I guess its because if you pay that much money for a car and get t boned, you may as well just die on the spot! The repair costs would kill you anyway!

Karl Rove is finally getting out of Dodge! Good Fuckin riddance! Yep he and W have been swapping spit so long George was all broke up on the White house lawn when he announced it. It’s like he was about to lose his mind! George is going on vacation to the farm in Crawford. Hell, he’s on vacation when he’s in the White House. A fool surrounded by incompetents. W has to trust folks like Rove and Cheney to get anything done. They have done him in too. Well to tell it more accurately, they’ve done us in! They screwed us with no Vaseline; just used crude for their oil of a lay!

Is it just me, or does Cheney remind you of a dirty old man on the prowl? I wouldn’t be surprised if we find out one day that he had a bunch of Iraqi boys hidden in his house. Especially those named Sodom.

The Simpson’s movie was a big hit in Europe. I guess they like seeing cartoon looking idiots that represent America. They saw George Bush and his gang that can’t shoot straight so often that it gave them a reason to believe that’s what we really are like.

Made the Simpsons look downright intelligent!

And what about that admitted pedophile Jack McClellan? No one has caught him in the act yet so even though he tells folks online how to find and seduce kids, he hasn’t been locked up in prison yet. They call them short eyes in jail. Hell they need to call them short lives out here on these streets. I can’t believe some Dad hasn’t fucked him up yet. Better yet, let him come to my hood. I know lil kids who will light him up.

I can’t believe this headline, “New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin says that the media coverage of two killings keeps the New Orleans brand up!” What brand is that Ray? Brand Expire? Murder Central? New Orleans is set to be the Murder Capital again. The two murder victims were suspected of having committed 18 murders between them! When one would go to jail the other would threaten the witnesses. They had a get out of jail spree card. Now Nagin wants to be governor! There are still towns in Louisiana where they would lynch Nagin if he showed up there trying to talk about voting for him.

Speaking of letting killers out of jail, how about the preacher’s wife? Yeah what’s her name Mary Winkler killed her husband and claimed she had PTSD. The courts bought her argument that she was in a trance when she killed her abusive husband. Called it a disassociative state where she had no recollection of killing him. So all a person has to do is say they don’t remember doing a crime to get out of it? Sounds like Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez to me, or Scooter Libby. Hell, before its over that whole damn Bush administration.

The Jena Six Fix

By Paul S. Peete

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Today I read that Reverend Al Sharpton visited Jena, Louisiana to pray with Mychal Bell, who was recently convicted of second degree aggravated battery of Justin Barker, a white schoolmate, in the first of six cases against the black students arrested for what was originally charged as attempted murder. The case stems from an on campus assault by a group of black students on Barker, who was punched and, according to witnesses, pummeled and kicked while lying unconscious. Barker sustained several minor cuts and scrapes, a badly blackened eye resulting in blurred vision for a couple weeks. According to testimony offered by Barker during the trial, he also experiences headaches and memory loss. The same evening after the attack, he attended a school function after being treated and released from the hospital.

What sparked this attack was a decision by 3 black students to sit beneath a tree at the school in September, which previously was only used by white students. Three white students placed three nooses in the school’s colors on the tree and were subsequently suspended for a few days. Though the school head requested expulsion, the all white school board decided on the suspension. This was followed by a number of incidents of racial taunting and ultimately, an attack on a black student at a party by a group of whites. Later an adult threatened black students with a shotgun, which was taken from him and later recovered from a car on the property of one of the Jena Six.

On December 4, 2006, Mychal Bell, Theodore Shaw, Bryant Purvis, Carwin Jones, Robert Bailey Jr and Jesse Beard were arrested and charged with attempted murder and conspiracy by the DA Reed Walters, who had earlier in an attempt to quell the unrest told an assembly of black students that he could end their live with the stroke of a pen. and one is still incarcerated unable to post the 90000.00 bond.

A controversial figure like Reverend Sharpton, always at the scene of racial incidents is a polarizing figure and in this case may even make matters worse. I’m not knocking Reverend Sharpton for his intent, he strengthened the reserve of the citizens there to stand against this treatment, but a solution from the people of the region is what is needed; a long-term solution to opening eyes to solving the problem. Neither are the school board and superintendent doing anything constructive to solve the problem; cutting down the tree that had the nooses solves nothing! The tree isn’t the one practicing racism.

Someone has to reach out to the students, both black and white to see if it is possible to bring them past this to a better understanding and appreciation of each other. Perhaps the adults are beyond help due to the legacy of Jim Crow some have embraced. I am a native of New Orleans and as a teen attended John McDonough High School in the first year of its integration. We had many racial flare ups that year and even all out battles on the campus grounds the day of Martin Luther King’s killing. This story makes me want to reach out and help these kids. The tragedy of the situation is that in this, the twenty first century we are still racially polarized in many rural communities and even in our large metropolitan areas the divides are apparent though economics are the tool of separation more than skin tone.

What can we do to improve the idiocy of this situation? The accused are possibly going to prison because the legacy of racism is visiting itself on them. The charges brought are more severe than warranted and the all white jury is predisposed to conviction as the tight knit white community of friends and relatives are serving as jurors and witnesses. Perhaps a sponsored showing of Hairspray followed by workshops on the film’s message of tolerance for racial difference would be a benefit to the youth of Jena and cities like it.

Young whites are as victimized by their beliefs as blacks believing that they are better than another human being simply because of their skin color. The town of Jena may be ok to live like that with its generations of segregation and population advantage of 5 to 1. But any of them hoping to enter the new world of globalization is in for some cruel truths that they will face. Global competition from people who don’t care that they are white, American, or think they are superior will challenge, overwhelm, or defeat them in the marketplace. Blacks who live under these conditions are either going to be motivated to do better, escape, or retaliate. We need not continue to believe these mindsets are inevitable!

It is imperative that we stand against this injustice and bring forth collective action to improve our nations’ racial relations. This is just the tip of the iceberg and may serve as a catalyst to spur us to face the vast divide that our country has yet to eliminate. In the year prior to the election of a new President, we see a woman and a black man as viable candidates and show the desire of America to move beyond our divisive past.

Its imperative to get the involvement of a corporation like Wal-Mart, located in so many of these communities, can show its leadership by sponsoring free showings of films like Hairspray, Amistad and other films that will be catalysts for change. By doing this, Wal-Mart can improve its Corporate Image perhaps reversing the tendency of larger communities to resist it’s presence there. Because the most prolific of Wal-Mart’s public philanthropy is through community grants, wherein they match the monies raised at a Wal-Mart site or a site where a Wal-Mart Associate is involved, the best approach initially is to interest some of the stores in communities like Jena of the need to have racial sensitivity exposure through a movie and a set of learning guides that use the movie as a vehicle for enlightenment.