(Originally composed in 2012)
(Absolutely apropos today!)
--Prologue --
(I have written this as a stream of consciousness! I am not going to correct grammar, syntax or spelling! I am a little angry and this is the raw result! If you are offended by racial components in a rant by a black man, this is not something you should read. I‘ve warned you…)
JUST ANOTHER COLORED RANT
This is my rant against the republicans in congress voting against every thing Barack Obama sends to them.
I wonder if the president had been a white democrat would the Republican congress have been more willing to work with him, instead of voting to a man and woman, against everything the President offers to them. Remember, the Republican leaders declared that their mission was to make Barack Obama a one term President BEFORE Obama had been in office long enough for anyone to really know what he was about.
I, a black man, never though I would live long enough to see a black man as president of America. I have now seen what it is like for a black man to be president… and so far it hasn’t been pretty.
I am 53 years old and the mystery of life that I believe I will never have fully answered before I die is: Why do so many white people have total disdain for black people? I just don’t get it. I can rationalize the answers in my own mind every day… I still don’t get it.
Talk about a living nightmare? White people of America, live for a day in the shoes of the !!!12%!!! of the population that is African American in this country. It is a living nightmare to be black in America, sometimes. Many white people wonder out loud why a lot of young blacks act out in louder ways? We are ALL overcompensating for this oftentimes hellish existence living in this time warp country!
The black population in America is dying off. American blacks do not have a constant stream of foreign African Americans streaming into the country from the country of Africa-America to fill our dwindling population coffer. We are having fewer kids and as the old folks die off, so to does the black population. We are attacked from all social sides as being the scourge of America! And, white people across this country BELIEVE that black people are a threat to their jobs and security. That is bullshit!
Unfortunately, about half of the 12 percent of black Americans are jailed, undereducated, ineffective, sick, too old, too young or just to goddamn afraid of American horror show life to try to make a difference. That leaves 6 percent of the black people in America to fend for the other 6 percent. And half of that 6 percent are children and elderly. Do you see my point? There are not enough of us to affect practically any white person in America.
White people see one black person a day and the African-American zombie apocalypse has descended down to murder them all. I, a black man living in Herndon, Virginia have to exist surrounded by hundreds of white people every time I walk out my door! I can’t escape from white people. I can go a full day and see, perhaps, 20 other black people in Northern Virginia. During the same day I will encounter 200 white people. Imagine that…. and now you might wonder why a black man might sometimes look back at a white man, or woman, who is staring at him in a supermarket and ask the person, “What in the hell are you staring at?”
Of course, now the Northern Virginia white person is offended. And now, every one of the 2 or 3 black people he, or she, sees during the course of the day are animal savages… just like their parents told them black people are.
I will never advocate the harming of a white person! But, I was spit on by whites when I was a kid in North Carolina. I was called Nigger every day that I can remember as a child in North Carolina. I was born in 1959, all the way at the bottom of the state… in 1959! I remember the KKK shooting off their guns at night when I was a kid… burying my head under my homemade pillow at night out of fear that some white monster was going to break down the door to my grandfather’s house and kill us all. I remember all that horror madness like it happened last night, and I will never push my memories back into the recesses of my mind and act like none of my past never happened.
Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor, just showed me with his win just how bat shit crazy white people across this country can be. Scott walker declared war against the people of his state… and like zombie sheep willingly led right into the slaughter house, those people gave their lives right back to a man who is on tape saying he wanted to “Divide and Conqueror” the people of Wisconsin. And those goddamn stupid ass people, against what should have been their basic survival self-interest instinct, gave the power right back to him. It is the most backward piece of stupidly I have ever seen in America, other than giving George Bush a second term as President.
Wait a minute. “W” and memories of his crazy Presidency. As fucked-up as “W’s” policies were, he rarely got any real flack from regular white America. So, there you have it. Bat shit crazy, war mongering ass, former alcoholic and cocaine user Republican President … no problem! A black man in the office? Big fucking problem!
Black people are a strong people, even though everything in this country stacks the deck against them when you rub away the dingy surface covering the “American way” shit. You see that man, Barack Obama? You see his composure? I bet his wife has to spend a lot of time talking him down off some mental ledges, ever so often. When you are surround by white people who probably hate you at their core, behind the sleazy smiles and courtesies, it has to affect you some way.
This country is going to hell, fast. Racism and religion are leading the pack! Oh, and stupidity and ignorance are right behind it all.
Give a brother a goddamn break. And act like you have some goddamn sense, white America. You are better than what you are showing the rest of the world. And you can start by treating your fellow Negroes a little better… like it was 2012 and not 1912!
RLJ
