Boston Explosion: Minorities When Tragedy Happens & Terrorism and Privilege: Understanding the Power of Whiteness

There is an article that has been all over my Facebook. It is the inspiration of this post below. I know that if many of you saw the images and content of the post below first you would probably get upset or say that I had bad taste so here is the article that spawned it all for me. It was Published on April 16th, 2013:

Terrorism and Privilege:

Understanding

the Power of Whiteness

By Tim Wise

As the nation weeps for the victims of the horrific bombing in Boston yesterday, one searches for lessons amid the carnage, and finds few. That violence is unacceptable stands out as one, sure. That hatred — for humanity, for life, or whatever else might have animated the bomber or bombers — is never the source of constructive human action seems like a reasonably close second.

But I dare say there is more; a much less obvious and far more uncomfortable lesson, which many are loathe to learn, but which an event such as this makes readily apparent, and which we must acknowledge, no matter how painful.

It is a lesson about race, about whiteness, and specifically, about white privilege.

I know you don’t want to hear it. But I don’t much care. So here goes.

White privilege is knowing that even if the Boston Marathon bomber turns out to be white, his or her identity will not result in white folks generally being singled out for suspicion by law enforcement, or the TSA, or the FBI.

White privilege is knowing that even if the bomber turns out to be white, no one will call for whites to be profiled as terrorists as a result, subjected to special screening, or threatened with deportation.

White privilege is knowing that if the bomber turns out to be white, he or she will be viewed as an exception to an otherwise non-white rule, an aberration, an anomaly, and that he or she will be able to join the ranks of Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols and Ted Kaczynski and Eric Rudolph and Joe Stack and George Metesky and Byron De La Beckwith and Bobby Frank Cherry and Thomas Blanton and Herman Frank Cash and Robert Chambliss and James von Brunn and Robert Mathews and David Lane and Michael F. Griffin and Paul Hill and John Salvi and James Kopp and Luke Helder and James David Adkisson and Scott Roeder and Shelley Shannon and Dennis Mahon and Wade Michael Page and Byron Williams and Kevin Harpham and William Krar and Judith Bruey and Edward Feltus and Raymond Kirk Dillard and Adam Lynn Cunningham and Bonnell Hughes and Randall Garrett Cole and James Ray McElroy and Michael Gorbey and Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman and Frederick Thomas and Paul Ross Evans and Matt Goldsby and Jimmy Simmons and Kathy Simmons and Kaye Wiggins and Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe and David McMenemy and Bobby Joe Rogers and Francis Grady and Demetrius Van Crocker and Floyd Raymond Looker and Derek Mathew Shrout, among the pantheon of white people who engage in (or have plotted) politically motivated violence meant to terrorize and kill, but whose actions result in the assumption of absolutely nothing about white people generally, or white Christians in particular.

And white privilege is being able to know nothing about the crimes committed by most of the terrorists listed above — indeed, never to have so much as heard most of their names — let alone to make assumptions about the role that their racial or ethnic identity may have played in their crimes.

White privilege is knowing that if the Boston bomber turns out to be white, we  will not be asked to denounce him or her, so as to prove our own loyalties to the common national good. It is knowing that the next time a cop sees one of us standing on the sidewalk cheering on runners in a marathon, that cop will say exactly nothing to us as a result.

White privilege is knowing that if you are a white student from Nebraska — as opposed to, say, a student from Saudi Arabia — that no one, and I mean no one would think it important to detain and question you in the wake of a bombing such as the one at the Boston Marathon.

And white privilege is knowing that if this bomber turns out to be white, the United States government will not bomb whatever corn field or mountain town or stale suburb from which said bomber came, just to ensure that others like him or her don’t get any ideas. And if he turns out to be a member of the Irish Republican Army we won’t bomb Belfast. And if he’s an Italian American Catholic we won’t bomb the Vatican.

In short, white privilege is the thing that allows you (if you’re white) — and me — to view tragic events like this as merely horrific, and from the perspective of pure and innocent victims, rather than having to wonder, and to look over one’s shoulder, and to ask even if only in hushed tones, whether those we pass on the street might think that somehow we were involved.

It is the source of our unearned innocence and the cause of others’ unjustified oppression.

That is all. And it matters.

MrMary’s Turn

I thought I would share the process of what a part of America goes through when there is a Tragedy like the explosions in Boston. I can only speak of my own experiences as a Black man in the USA. This is an honest depiction and is very real. When 9/11 happened and it was revealed who the perpetrators were I knew shit was about to get real for many minority groups Anyways check this out.

The Process of How

Some US Minorities deal with

Tragedy up until all the facts come out

 

1. Nervous Anxiety:

I hope the muthafuckers who did this shit are not one of us!?!?! Please Jesus/God/Moses whoever is looking out for us from very far away, Please don’t let it be one of ours, PLEASE … I just got this new suit for work and it’s already hard to get there , and well ….. You know what it is …. , Please don’t let these mutha fuckers be one of ours

2. Denial

[The reasoning will change depending on what kind of minority you are] Our people wouldn’t do that, there were no demo tapes, government assistant applications or  chicken bones found on the scene. Man just when things are going well some fools got to fuck it up for the rest of us… I mean Obama got elected twice, no assassination attempts martin Luther King Day Still Going strong.  Stop and frisk has been at least label as unconstitutional, man I hope to God these mutha fuckers aint one of ours, they can’t be. It was a race, we wouldn’t bomb a race and mess up pay-checks for all the Kenyans and Africans who win that shit. Nah Man it couldn’t be one of us, we respect look for each other and dat paper stack….  nah man

3. Acceptance

Sigh – Seriously though, it doesn’t matter ! Whoever did this we are somehow gonna take a beating or get fucked up for this. I know it, I feel it in my bonesz

4. Ironic Jubilation

YES !!!  it wasnt one of us, YES!!!. It’s a tragic situation. I am very sad at all the loss and suffering being experienced now, BUT MAANNNN!!!!  It’s not us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Seriously saddened by these events, this will be a loss felt globally. Suffering transcends boundaries  and we are with the people affected by this tragedy

Related articles

• Tim Wise on Understanding the Power of Whiteness, Terrorism and Privilege (colorlines.com)
• Here’s hoping the Boston Marathon bomber is white (thestar.blogs.com)
• Salon: ‘Let’s Hope Boston Marathon Bomber is a White American’ (joemiller.us)
• Salon Writer Who Hoped Boston Bomber Would Be White: Bombing Awakes ‘Islamophobic Hate-O-Sphere’ (mediaite.com)
• Innocent until proven Muslim (mondoweiss.net)
• Obama: ‘People shouldn’t jump to conclusions’ about Boston Marathon bombing (dprogram.net)

The Tragedy In Boston Supplants all other posts today

Boston Marathon bombing kills 3, injures over 140

BOSTON (AP) — Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 140 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that terrorists might have struck again in the U.S.

A White House official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still unfolding said the attack was being treated as an act of terrorism.

President Barack Obama vowed that those responsible will “feel the full weight of justice.”

As many as two unexploded bombs were also found near the end of the 26.2-mile course as part of what appeared to be a well-coordinated attack, but they were safely disarmed, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity because of the continuing investigation.

The fiery twin blasts took place about 10 seconds and about 100 yards apart, knocking spectators and at least one runner off their feet, shattering windows and sending dense plumes of smoke rising over the street and through the fluttering national flags lining the route. Blood stained the pavement, and huge shards were missing from window panes as high as three stories.

“They just started bringing people in with no limbs,” said runner Tim Davey of Richmond, Va. He said he and his wife, Lisa, tried to shield their children’s eyes from the gruesome scene inside a medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners, but “they saw a lot.”

 

 

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How I said Good-Bye to Black History Month 2013 & My Great-GrandMother

Racism is a not a cause to me, it has always been a means to an end. I believe for some person if material comfort means treating people badly they are more than happy to go for it. At the end of the day race is the easiest difference to point out and to rally others around. If enough people have that mentality then large-scale, systematic exploitation of millions can happen and it has happened, and it is happening now. Slavery is still alive and well in the world, sex and human trafficking is a reality not just a story. However  I feel collectively, as a whole are  closed off to talking about it.

1. I have noticed a recalcitrance to engage in a serious discussion about past transgression in America.  Any time the Africa American  and Black Experience ( Notice how those two words are different) are brought up, no matter the context, let me tell you what I have hear
2. Yeah but the Greeks were enslaved by the Turks for 500 years and we didn’t complain
3. You people love to complain
4. You people just don’t want to work you are all lazy
5. You people are all violent and like killing each other
6. That happen before my time I am not responsible
7. if You don’t Like it here leave

One of the quintessential human features is to tell, we tell each other about our struggles , about our sorrows and  in doing so it grounds us in the human experience. I remember after a  bad break up telling a friend over beers about my experience and he just listened. It helped me deal and move on.  We I as an American cannot share my American experience with other Americans, we all miss out on an opportunity to move forward collectively as one nation.

I want to tell people about

George Stinney Jr.

George Junius Stinney Jr. was, at age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century executed by electric chair, convicted of murdering two young girls after police said he confessed to the murders. Following his arrest, Stinney’s father was fired from his job and his parents and siblings were given the choice of leaving town or being lynched. The family was forced to flee, leaving the 14-year-old child with no support during his 81-day confinement and trial. His trial, including jury selection, lasted just one day. Stinney’s court-appointed attorney was a tax commissioner preparing to run for office. There was no court challenge to the testimony of the three police officers who claimed that Stinney had confessed, although that was the only evidence presented. There were no written records of a confession. Three witnesses were called for the prosecution: the man who discovered the bodies of the two girls and the two doctors who performed the post mortem. No witnesses were called for the defense. The trial before a completely ‘white’ jury and audience (African-Americans were not allowed entrance) lasted two and a half hours. The jury took ten minutes to deliberate before it returned with a ‘guilty’ verdict.

The execution of George Stinney was carried out at the South Carolina State Penitentiary in Columbia, on June 16, 1944. At 7:30 p.m., Stinney walked to the execution chamber with a Bible under his arm, which he later used as a booster seat in the electric chair. Standing 5 foot 1 inch (155 cm) tall and weighing just over 90 pounds he was small for his age, which presented difficulties in securing him to the frame holding the electrodes. Nor did the state’s adult-sized face-mask fit him; as he was hit with the first 2,400 V surge of electricity, the mask covering his face slipped off, “revealing his wide-open, tearful eyes and saliva coming from his mouth”…After two more jolts of electricity, the boy was dead.”Stinney was declared dead within four minutes of the initial electrocution. From the time of the murders until Stinney’s execution, eighty-one days had passed.

State Sen. Jason Rapert

RAPERT: I hear you loud and clear, Barack Obama. You don’t represent the country that I grew up with. And your values is [sic] not going to save us. We’re going to take this country back for the Lord. We’re going to try to take this country back for conservatism. And we’re not going to allow minorities to run roughshod over what you people believe in!

Actually I want to tell you about a lot of things about what it was like growing up where I did during the 80′s, I would like to tell you about how real police brutality is, I want to tell you about some of the real problems of the inner city that the politicians neglect to talk about every 4 years.

So How Did I say goodbye

The same way I did my great grandmother, I didnt say goodbye to her. She was without my or my immediate family’s knowing dropped off in an old folks home one night. Supposedly she was a threat to her self. She didn’t speak English and died 48 hours later in a cold sanitized room. I believe the look on her face in the casket was the same look she had that night when she was dropped off.  Black history month is not something I have the liberty to say good-bye too, like the image of my great-grandmother it is the source of great pain, great pride and a great silence.

“I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

Je suis Noir, je réalise une fusion totale avec le monde, une compréhension sympathique de la terre, une perte de mon moi au cœur du cosmos, et le Blanc, quelque intelligent qu’il soit, ne saurait comprendre Louis Armstrong et les chants du Congo. Si je suis Noir, ce n’est pas à la suite d’une malédiction, mais c’est parce que, ayant tendu ma peau, j’ai pu capter tous les effluves cosmiques. Je suis véritablement une goutte de soleil sous la terre…

 

 

 

Showing that Blogger Love: Meet My Homey The PixieChick

I used to think that I had the sexiest blog in the land , that was until I stumbled upon the blog Exploring Pixie I came away looking to bump my blog up and turn up the sexy on here. But for now she clearly has me beat. Check out her recent posts, The Ones that I like a lot are :

1. 3am conversation with a cookie

2. To paraphrase Shakespeare…

I really like the energy of her blog.  She sounds like a funny bowl of sunshine. Other than my blog, where else can you read about Shakespeare shameful masturbation, work and all sorts of things said with panache and style

 

More Americans want to eat turkey with Tebow than Obama & A quote from David Foster Wallace

Americans revere athletic excellence, competitive success, and it’s more than lip service we pay; we vote with our wallets. We’ll pay large sums to watch a truly great athlete; we’ll reward him with celebrity and adulation and will even go so far as to buy products and services he endorses.

But it’s better for us not to know the kinds of sacrifices the professional-grade athlete has made to get so very good at one particular thing. Oh, we’ll invoke lush cliches about the lonely heroism of Olympic athletes, the pain and analgesia of football, the early rising and hours of practice and restricted diets, the preflight celibacy, et cetera. But the actual facts of the sacrifices repel us when we see them: basketball geniuses who cannot read, sprinters who dope themselves, defensive tackles who shoot up with bovine hormones until they collapse or explode. We prefer not to consider closely the shockingly vapid and primitive comments uttered by athletes in postcontest interviews or to consider what impoverishments in one’s mental life would allow people actually to think the way great athletes seem to think. Note the way “up close and personal” profiles of professional athletes strain so hard to find evidence of a rounded human life — outside interests and activities, values beyond the sport. We ignore what’s obvious, that most of this straining is farce. It’s farce because the realities of top-level athletics today require an early and total commitment to one area of excellence. An ascetic focus. A subsumption of almost all other features of human life to one chosen talent and pursuit. A consent to live in a world that, like a child’s world, is very small.

David Foster Wallace 1995 String Theory

I really wasn’t surprised then to read that Tim Tebow, Big Bird and Lady Gaga  topped the list of America’s most wanted dinner guests for Turkey Day. The world’s most famous backup quarterback polled first in the Destination America survey, with 23 percent of respondents saying they’d want Tebow to bless their spread.  Big Bird, came in second, and pLady Gaga finished third. The trio polled ahead of President Obama, who despite winning re-election, had only 5 percent of this popular vote.

What do you think ?

MrMary

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• Americans Would Rather Share Thanksgiving Dinner With Tim Tebow Than Barack Obama (manolith.com)

Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 10: Twinkie Obsession

Fact # 1

November is National Diabetes Awareness Month and according to a study released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of diagnosed cases of diabetes grew by 50 percent or more in 42 U.S. states, and by 100 percent or more in 18 states.

In 2010, 18.8 million Americans had been diagnosed with diabetes and another 7 million had undetected diabetes, according to the CDC. States with the largest increases over the 16-year period were Oklahoma, up 226 percent; Kentucky, up 158 percent; Georgia, up 145 percent; Alabama, up 140 percent, Washington, up 135 percent, and West Virginia, up 131 percent, according to the study published in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “Regionally, we saw the largest increase in diagnosed diabetes prevalence in the South, followed by the West, Midwest, and Northeast,” Linda Geiss, a statistician with CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation and lead author of the report, said in a statement.

Fact # 2

• More than one-third of U.S. adults (35.7%) are obese.
• Obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, some of the leading causes of preventable death.
• In 2008, medical costs associated with obesity were estimated at $147 billion; the medical costs for people who are obese were $1,429 higher than those of normal weight.
• By state, obesity prevalence ranged from 20.7% in Colorado to 34.9% in Mississippi in 2011. No state had a prevalence of obesity less than 20%. 39 states had a prevalence of 25% or more; 12 of these states had a prevalence of 30% or more: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.
• The South had the highest prevalence of obesity (29.5%), followed by the Midwest (29.0%), the Northeast (25.3%) and the West (24.3%).

The Illogical Part

An American icon announced it will be closing its doors and laying off 18,500 workers as Hostess, the makers of Twinkie and Wonder bread, announced they will be going out of business following a crippling strike by union members. According to a lot of people this is all part of Obama’s evil plan to destroy America by eviscerating  small and big businesses. Look at these titles:

Obamanomics Kills Another – RIP Hostess and 19,000 Jobs.
The Adults At Hostess Give A Reality Lesson To Obama’s Union Children
Rush Limbaugh Livid Over Hostess Closure: This is All Michelle Obama’s Fault, I Feel As Though a Part of Me is Dying
Obama and UNIONS killed Hostess – Topix
Friday Flashback: Obama speaks, Hostess dies, Fiscal Cliff looms
Obama loving unions just killed 18,500 jobs…and twinkies.

This Hostess closing has become a political issue with many people trying to point the finger and place the blame of the incumbent president and his winning another 4 years or some mess I’m not really going to get into it. But hear is some information if you’re interested

Hostess is well known to several generations of Americans for Twinkies, which debuted in 1930 to provide an inexpensive treat during the Great Depression. The company also made Ding Dongs, Ho Ho’s, Cupcakes and other desserts.  The Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union says that the company would have died years ago if it hadn’t been for workers.”…the truth is that had it not been for the valiant efforts of our members over the last eight years, including accepting significant wage and benefit concessions after the first bankruptcy, this company would have gone out of business long ago.” Hostess failed because its six management teams over the last eight years were unable to make it a profitable, successful business enterprise.

The Illogical Stuff

In a nation full of fat mutha-fuckers we are mourning the loss of one of the most deadly high calorie no nutrient rich  substance that passes for  food. This is America:

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People are rushing to buy Twinkies stashing it,

Naturally, this is a disturbing development for fans of the Hostess icon, the Twinkie. Preparing for the possibility the Twinkie may never return to American store shelves, fans have been stocking up on the tasty treat, and Twitter is full of some amazing pictures of people’s stashes. Check out some of the best shots above.

So there is this Obesity and Diabetes epidemic and people re rushing to buy twinkies not because they need it or they want it but because of nostalgia?  As a kid I used to like twinkies not so much that I want to hoard boxes of twinkies. I haven’t eaten them  in years.

Conclusion

When I first heard all this talk about twinkies going out of business I thought it was in reference to the twilight movies ending with part two Breaking down coming out soon or maybe it came out unlike the vampires and werewolves in that movie. I dunno I grew reading mythology, listening to horrific stories told by older relatives and watching the classic horror movies stuff  this twilight shit with the twinkie vampires and werewolves is just horrible. If a lady friend ask me to go see it with her it wouldn’t happen, well depends on her negotiation skills.

Actually come to think of it, while twinkies have a special place in my heart, I would mind is all the twinkie bullshit foodstuff and vampires and werewolves when to that field where bullshit goes to die and re-enrich the soil.

RIP TWINKIES YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART

Check out the Rest of this series

Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 9 Getting Tasered By the Cops for Helping to Put out a fire
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 8: Sex, Horses and Marijuana in the United States
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 7: French Cheese and Automatic Guns (1)
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 6: Russian Arms sales in America
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 5: Boycotting the Olympics in 1980
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 4: Sexual Assault Victim May Go To Jail
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 3: Children are our Future
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 2 :Womens Rights
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 1

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Responding to: “Modern history has shown us that men in power is not a good idea, and it’s time for women to step in”

Hey Guys

It’s Friday guys and that means Cheeky Vodka will be drunk to excess, later on of course but first some business.  I saw this comment on my Facebook  and I wanted to to ask you guys do you think Gender has anything to do with political abuses of power. I personally think human beings are political animals and that most people will try to scumbag you if they can get a chance to. But I would like to know what you think especially my female readership.

Let Me explain

I am more than elated that the 2012 brought so many women into prominent political positions. I am all for equal wages,  free contraceptives for everyone etc.

For centuries women have been misrepresented by the various media outlets, by politicians, and they had to fight hard to be included as citizen to participate in the many political, legal, financial, economic, educational processes  in this country. This is a picture of Susan B Anthony being beat down because she tried to vote, can you imagine that ?

I’m all for equality of the sexes legally, financially in terms of pay, educationally, etc. And as a man I am more than willing to apologize for the crap still going on. But I generally think  that women are just as prone to abuses of power historically as men. The reason we don’t hear so much about it because they have been marginalized by the gender bias prevalent in much history around the world.

Check this out:

Former WNBA star commits technical on ex’s car with baseball bat, gun

WNBA star Chamique Holdsclaw has turned herself in to Atlanta police after an alleged altercation with her ex-gf involving a gun and a baseball bat. The former Olympian reportedly chased down the car of former teammate and partner Jennifer Lacy, smashed the windows with a baseball bat and fired a gun into the vehicle before running off.

Woman runs down husband for not voting

An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix on Saturday because he failed to vote in the election, police said on Monday. Daniel Solomon, 36, was in critical condition at a local hospital, but is expected to survive.

I know what you are saying: MrMary this isn’t an abuse of power. This just shows some crazy ladies doing crazy things.  Yea but I would say relations are political entities. In every relationship there is a power dynamic ask any married couple, or parent child, or sibling etc. Man [not just the ones with penes] is a political animal and the natural human tendency is to want more for ourselves and our people and less for others.

Coincidentally I have written about women in power before. First in this articles entitled: Question for my Female Readership: Why is this Bitch Trying to Kill You ?

ASpoonfulASuga Stunning Exclusive:

Equality for ALL: Women on the rise in Mexican drug cartels

I broke this story May 28th, 2012, let me give you the most salient point:

Women Make Better Mercenaries and Drug Dealers than Men

• Women act with more caution and use deadly force more sparingly than men.
• Women initially brought in to extract juice from the poppy plant soon learned how to manage people, run operations and move money, skills that ultimately prepared them to take over entire operations. As of October last year, 46 female cartel leaders have been arrested by Mexican authorities
• Zetas, the dominant cartel in western Mexico, has recruited women as hired killers more actively than other cartels. Manuel Clouthier, a politician from Sinaloa, said he believed women in the drug trafficking business were more responsible, more loyal and, therefore, more effective.

There You have it Folks

I think all human beings whether black or white red or yellow, with penis or sans penis, old or young are prone to great abuses of power. We are all really not that good to each other sadly.

Bonus:

Griselda Blanco is a former drug lord for the Medellín Cartel, and was a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1970s and early 1980s. In the documentary film Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ with the Godmother, Blanco’s former lover, Charles Cosby, recounted how Blanco, at age 11, allegedly kidnapped, tried to ransom, and eventually shot a child from an upscale flatland neighborhood near her own slum neighborhood. In the mid-1970s, Blanco and her second husband, Alberto Bravo, emigrated to the United States, settling in Queens, New York. They established a sizable cocaine business there, and in April 1975, Blanco was indicted on federal drug conspiracy charges along with 30 of her subordinates, at that time the biggest cocaine case in history.

read more Here

 

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Jocular Look @ Today’s News || Man writes ‘F**k Obama’ on will, commits suicide over election results

If Barack gets re-elected, I’m not going to be around,” Henry Hamilton had warned his friends. Two days after the election, Key West police officers discovered Hamilton’s body beside his will, which was marked with the phrase “F**k Obama!” Two empty prescription bottles — one for a medication used to treat schizophrenia — were also found nearby. Hamilton had reportedly been “very stressed” in the weeks before his suicide and concerned about the tanning salon that he owned. A friend had been so concerned about Hamilton’s state of mind that he had asked police to perform regular “welfare checks” to ensure that he was OK. It was during one of these check-ins that Hamilton’s body was discovered. [Source]

MrMary Weighs In

As many of you know Barack Obama was re-elected President and while this in and of itself was an important victory, the reaction to his win  was more telling about American culture in general:

• 700,000 Americans petition the White House to secede from the US.
• Woman runs down husband for not voting
• Coal CEO Prays for Deliverance From Obama, Fires Workers
• Papa John’s Owner and CEO – tells everyone he plans on cutting workers’ hours so he don’t have to insure them.  He does give away 2 million free pizzas though

There has been extreme stuff all over the country since last week’s election and it has made me think a lot.

As an Immigrant

My parents became citizens of this country in 1999. If you ask them why they came here they will say freedom, and  democracy and then some other minor reasons. Which to me is odd given that a lot of my relatives lived through the abuses of the American in Haiti during its occupation. I think that my maternal grandmother’s brother was saved from being put in front of a firing squad by the Americans in Haiti. That is what I’ve heard  I cannot corroborate that story, everyone is dead and the capital is still in ruins. Anyways I digress…

I love being an American, though I am pretty sure that many americans do not feel the same love for me being here. For me American was supposed to be this last bastion for equality and democracy, but I feel that that image has been a bit tarnished.

To threaten to secede from the nation because you’re not happy with the results of an election is retarded and tarnishes democracy. We should take this as a wake up call. We should not be trying to sell democracy to other nations when we as a nation don’t really believe in it. Donald Trump called our democracy a sham and  wanted us to march down on Washington DC.

This is a bad look for us as a nation. This election brought up America’s collective shadow. We still grapple with  race, gender, sexual orientation, age issues, but we will sweep them under the carpet until they reach to a crescendo and so out break of violence happens. Then its too late. I hope no little girls in church will get bombed this time around.

Here are the election results:

These are the results. We have to live with it and make the best of it for the sake otherwise all that founding forefather stuff we talk about every election is bullshit.

 

Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 8: Sex, Horses and Marijuana in the United States

While it has been said that a picture says a thousand words but I don’t agree. This picture belows says about 20 words perhaps.

Off to Do Some Research

When I first saw this image I said to myself: “MrMary this is bullshit. It can’t be right.”  Rather just sitting there and taking it deep I decided to do some research on my own and this is what I came up with:

Zoosexual activity (bestiality) is officially illegal in 37 states. Zoosexual activity is a misdemeanor in the 20 states listed below:

Alaska     Arkansas     California     Colorado     Connecticut     Florida     Iowa     Kansas     Louisiana     Maryland     Maine     Minnesota     Missouri     Nebraska     New York     North Dakota     Oregon     Pennsylvania     Utah     Wisconsin

Zoosexual activity is a felony in the 17 states listed below:

Arizona     Delaware     Georgia     Idaho     Illinois     Indiana     Massachusetts     Michigan     Mississippi     North Carolina    Oklahoma   Rhode Island     South Carolina     South Dakota     Tennessee     Virginia     Washington 

This leaves 13 states where I dunno what the fuck is going on

Wyoming     Vermont     New Hampshire     Montana     Nevada     New Mexico     Mississippi     Alabama     Texas     Kentucky     West Virginia     New Jersey     Ohio

That’s all the research I can stomach doing as it’s the weekend and I got shit to do.  But this raises an interesting question in my mind. How can we safe guard ourselves against the antediluvian mindsets from which the laws precipitate decades later. As society changes the laws hopefully change too. There are moments though like this one where we can afford to for a moment look backwards and wonder about the national phobia against homosexuality, or against the use of marijuana.

According to some sources in the United States there is “very little statutory, common law, and case-law establishing employment discrimination based upon sexual orientation as a legal wrong but there are definite  laws and legal precedents about having sex with animals. That’s what I don’t understand. I am not a lawyer and perhaps some information is off but it’s clear that there is an hypocrisy at work here. There are dire consequences for  this hypocrisy: in the United States, the FBI reported that 15.6% of hate crimes reported to police in 2004 were based on perceived sexual orientation. Sixty-one percent of these attacks were against gay men

ok that’s it

MrMary

BTW  - While writing this I went to get some water  and forgot to minimize the open window with the Google Search results for: What are the 23 states were zoophilia is legal. Now I am being asked when am I moving and what animals do I want as ‘pets’. Learn from my mistakes

Check out the Rest of this series

Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 7: French Cheese and Automatic Guns
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 6: Russian Arms sales in America
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 5: Boycotting the Olympics in 1980
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 4: Sexual Assault Victim May Go To Jail
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 3: Children are our Future
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 2 :Womens Rights
Illogical Thoughts/things that make perfect sense # 1

Responce to Bill O’Reilly’s: The white establishment is now the minority,”

The aftermath of the election is as wild as the aftermath before the election. I wanted to write a few of my thoughts to share. I normally do not write about politics but I also cannot hold my tongue. Before I respond let me first present the evidence:

“The white establishment is now the minority,” O’Reilly said. “And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obama’s way. People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?”

Let me just put it in context for you :

Related articles

• O’Reilly: Minorities and women voting Obama because they ‘want stuff’ (rawstory.com)
• Bill O’Reilly’s lament: ‘The white establishment is now the minority’ (macleans.ca)
• Fox News Election Sour Grapes: Bill O’Reilly Racial Resentment Edition (newshounds.us)
• Bill O’Reilly: ‘The white establishment is now the minority’ (politico.com)
• The GOP’s self-defeating image of minorities as ‘takers’ (blogs.ajc.com)
• Bill O’Reilly: ‘The White Establishment is Now the Minority’ [VIDEO] (colorlines.com)
• Bill O’Reilly: ‘White Establishment Is Now The Minority,’ People Support Obama Because ‘They Want Things’ (mediaite.com)
• Eighty-Eight Percent of Romney Voters Were White (slate.com)
• Bill O’Reilly Has The Sadz (joemygod.blogspot.com)
• Bill O’Reilly says whites are now very much in the minority – VIDEO (irishcentral.com)

 

My Live tweeting of my Voting Experience 2012 Part 2

Showing you my Tweets, show me Yours

Can You Dig It?

@MrMaryMuthafing Im voting for: My selfish concerns 2012

@MrMaryMuthafing The polls are in and we have a declared winner, Now once I leave this strip club I will make my voice count !!!!

@MrMaryMuthafing After the election is over Trump will return 2 his tower of moral somnolence ’til 2016 when he asks Obama 4 his library card records

@MrMaryMuthafing the porn industry drives down the cost of waxing, dont let Mitt give the business 2 the dirty business so U can keep your business in order

@MrMaryMuthafing I felt this election was about more the battle 4 supremacy of party politics not so much the needs of the American people #Poliginity

@MrMaryMuthafing I wore my luckily underwear today, it is very old & full of holes or options as I call them #votingwithluckyundies #poliginity

@MrMaryMuthafing Responsibilities aren’t cool and neither is Votings, if voting was cool there would be lines of people waiting to do it… uhm hmmm ok brb

 

@MrMaryMuthafing What should I eat to prepare me for the long lines at the voting place Subway ?

 

@MrMaryMuthafing Does having 3 black people working at Subway make them pro Obama or pro Romney

 

@MrMaryMuthafing About to feed my dogs then go vote then see my bitches or did i get that wrong

 

@MrMaryMuthafing Ok i shouldnt have to bring a sperm sample with me right ? Gov Id ok ?

 

@MrMaryMuthafing There is a guy smoking refer on the corner of the voting place

@MrMaryMuthafing I voted I feel sleepy and want to cuddle. Anyone want to cuddle with me

@MrMaryMuthafing Obama Won !!! The Prophecy of a handsome black dude (me) voting for the first time and changing the fate of the election has come true

@MrMaryMuthafing Since Obama won I can finally use this clip from Passenger 57 4 sumthing more than Track & Field

 

Something to Reflect Upon as this Election Plays Out

To often we enjoy the comfort …

To me the election was more a narrative about the battle for supremacy of two political ideologies tangentially focused with the concerns of everyday Americans.  I think it was easy to get caught up in the divisive political rhetoric and forget that we each face many of the same challenges daily.

Both voting without action and democracy without education are effete. The fact that many people had to be jailed, killed, hosed down, mauled by dogs beat by cops to give us the opportunity to vote shows me that voting itself while effective, is lacking without careful planning and action  inclusive of everyone beyond ideology. It’s great to get out and vote but it’s a shame if that’s where the momentum stops. We need to think of things beyond opinions and that’s just my opinion.

-MrMary