Famous Black Conservatives are Puppets

Candace Owens. Kanye West. Ben Carson. Colion Noir. Jim Brown. Alan Keyes. Stacey Dash. Herman Cain. What do all of these people have in common besides weak dap?

They are black/African-American/Melanated conservatives. And not just fiscally conservative (which we call ‘cheap’ in the regular black community) or socially conservative because of religion (like most black folks to be real). They are straight up right wingers who will beat the drum for war, anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, tax cuts for the extremely wealthy, removing social safety net programs, gun anarchy, anti-women’s health rights; you know, everything right wingers in the USA love. 

What confuses me about them, is even though they say things like “Black Lives Matter is not oppressed” but then claim they are victims of racism when ANTIFA protesters simply say things they don’t like at coffee shops. They always act as if racism is purely a thing of the past that black people hold onto because we’re just lazier than white people, until somebody does something they have an issue with, then they pull it out the bag. It’s almost like they know racism exists, but they don’t want to acknowledge it because it will push away the wypipo that support them.

I just want everyone above named to know that you are being used as a puppet. Faux Fox News loves bringing these people on so they can say “See? We aren’t racist. Even the blacks say it!” It’s basically when they have Milo Snuffleupagus spew anti-gay rhetoric so they can say “See? We don’t hate the gays, even the gay dude says it!”

This is a trick the right wing has been using forever. Take a person from whatever group you don’t like (for Hispanics we have Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, for women just pick any Fox News host, you get where I’m going) to spew hateful rhetoric about said group to absolve themselves from all scrutiny.  Here’s the thing about it though.

It has never worked, nor will it.

What the majority of us (black people) do is just stop inviting them to the barbeque. We write them off and just assume they are now with the otha side. So when you hear these people say “The problem isn’t black people being disproportionately murdered by police, the problem is black on black crime!”, ignoring the fact that black people go to jail and face actual punishment for our killings, whereas police RARELY do or “Black people vote democrat because of welfare”, which was a talking point created by Ronald Raegan which was based on lies, just remember that they are either purposely ignoring reality, or at best, extremely ignorant of the facts. Either way, you aren’t doing any damage to anyone other than yourselves when you are inevitably cast aside when they are done using you (I see you Stacey Dash).

Black people don’t need to be loyal to the Democratic Party considering they have been failing us for the past 30 years, but that DOES NOT MEAN we should vote republican. It means we need to vote based on the candidate and their policies, rather than party affiliation.  

Young Buck and LGBTQ+ Bigotry

Alright y’all, we gotta talk about this Young Buck situation.

First and foremost, this entire situation shows how much more progress we still need to make in the area of LGBTQ+ bigotry. It also shows that protecting people’s privacy is very important, and any acts to “expose” others typically have a pretty negative backlash. So where do we start?

The first audio leaked is Young Buck on the phone with Glamour Mizz, a transgender woman who put out footage on her Instagram page performing a sexual act on a man, who was later identified as Buck Marely AKA Buck Shots AKA Young Buck of GGGG-Unit. At no point in this clip do you see Buck’s face or any other identifying physical characteristics. It’s just a dude wearing a coat who looks as if he is about to receive some oral pleasure. The reason we know this is actually Mr. Buck is because the audio leak of a phone call, where you can hear Young Buck and Glamour Mizz discussing taking the video down. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzdE8R1h8xs

As you can hear from this first call, Buck is almost threatening Glamour and saying that people are getting shot, people are getting hurt, and it’s all because she leaked this phone call and now he has to essentially fix the damage. At this point, another Tennessee dude named “Cookup Boss” began capitalizing off of the controversy. He began releasing many Instagram videos clowning Buck for being with what they call “a punk.” Apparently this is a slur for transgendered folks that I never heard before this past month. I digress…

Young Buck then challenged Cookup to a “fade” (a scrap, a fistfight, a beatdown) for making comments on the situation. In this video, he also adamantly denies being with Ms. Mizz or even knowing her.

http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.48297/title.young-buck-on-transgender-viral-video-rumors-aint-shit-gay-about-me

There is a second phone call that leaked, and this is the one that actually made me sad for everyone involved. You can hear Buck CRYING as he is begging and pleading with Glamour to take the video down. He even offers to pay her $2000 in exchange for a statement in which she would tell the world her page got hacked, she doesn’t know Buck, and that it is NOT him in the video. They are both yelling at each other throughout the call, and for so many reasons I feel terrible for everyone involved, except Cookup. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xNW0vCC7q0

Now that you have the backstory, I have questions for Glamour and Young Buck, as well as some general points I feel need to be made.

1. Glamour, why would you put a video of yourself doing anything sexual with anybody on Instagram? What ever happened to keeping your private lives private? Too many people in your business and things always get messy.

2. Young Buck, if it’s not true, which you repeatedly went on Instagram proclaiming, why are you offering to pay her to take the video down?

3. Glamour, you recently stated that you plan on “exposing” more rappers/entertainers. What is there to expose if you don’t think there is anything wrong with being trans (which there isn’t for the record)? Why do you continue to threaten to expose people if there is nothing wrong with what you’re doing?

4. Buck, you’re in a gang. For anyone who understands gang culture, it is a sad reality that the majority of gang affiliates are bigoted AF when it comes to the GBTQ+ community (I left the L off on purpose because most hood dudes/street guys are cool with Lesbians.) You should either drop your flag or not participate in ANYTHING that you will have to ask people to lie and cover up later. 

5. The YouTube comments are outrageous. It is extremely clear to me that so many people still don’t understand what it means to be transgender, and as a result are calling Young Buck gay. Trans people are not “tricking” people for fun, they actually identify with the opposite gender as their biological sex. It would almost be as if I, as a straight male who identifies as a man, was forced to wear a dress, lipstick and heels every day. I would be so out of my element and incredibly uncomfortable, I would be miserable.  Same with trans people who aren’t able to live as the gender they truly feel they are.

6. Glamour, you aren’t helping the cause. By feeding into the “I’m gonna expose these rappers” narrative, you actually take away from the fight that trans people, such as my friend Brianna Westbrook are partaking in. If at some point we want the world to acknowledge trans women = women and trans men = men, then “exposing” rappers as “gay” when they engage sexually with you hurts the cause. 

There is still a lot of progress which needs to be made, and unfortunately, people continue to feed into a narrative that is not only incorrect, but dangerous when trans people are already targets for violence.

Trump Sucks, But Bush Was Worse (So Far)

Democrats. Stop acting like George W. Bush was a good President. STOP. IT. NOW.

I’ve been seeing way too many prominent Democrats who are essentially white-washing Dubya’s history. Michelle Obama said they are best friends. Obama has said that he and George BitchBush are brothers. Cenk from TYT even said in an off handed comment that he misses the 43rd President.

JUST BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP IS AN EVIL BIGOT, A TERRIBLE BUSINESS MAN, A LYING ASS LIAR, A CON MAN, AND GENERALLY DANGEROUS FOR THE WORLD, DOES NOT MEAN THAT GEORGE BUSH IS GOOD BY COMPARISON.

As of 10/29/2018, Donald Trump has not started any wars. George Bush started two of them (which we are still actively engaged in in 2018). Donald Trump has not crashed the economy (yet). George Bush (along with the help of his previous white house partner Bill Clinton) crashed the economywith massive deregulation and caused The Great Recession. 

George Bush’s white house created a narrative in the media that called torture “enhanced interrogation.” Remember Gitmo(which is still open right now)? That was Bush.

Any international terrorist attacks happening under Trump’s watch? Not yet. The biggest one in the history of our nation, that of course being 9/11, happened under the democrat’s favorite republican, Gee Dub. 

He was against signing the Death with Dignity Act, meaning terminally ill individuals were not allowed to leave this life on their own terms. They had to suffer until the day they died.

He vetoed a bill that would allow for stem-cell research, which potentially could assist those individuals who are paralyzed with walking again.

He signed the Patriot Act, which effectively destroyed the 4thamendment, due to the fact it allows for warrantless spying on all Americans, regardless if they are suspected of a crime or not.

Remember how awesome he handled Hurricane Katrina? 

LOTS of so-called “Free Trade” agreements which ultimately result in jobs being outsourced to less economically prosperous countries. 

This is a very condensed list, but I think the point has been made. George W. Bush was a Christian theocrat who implemented policy based on his religious feelings rather than what the public wanted (abortion, stem cell research, gay marriage, etc.) He was a war-mongering hawk who invaded two countries offensively. He was an advocate for trickle-down economics, which even his own father said was “voodoo economics”, meaning not real. He was incredibly ill-equipped to handle any crisis, 3 giant ones of which come to mind. He was just a dumb guy.

And on top of all that, he doesn’t care about black people (word to 2005 Kanye “I haven’t completely lost my mind yet” West.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush

White Americans are Racists and All Men are Sexists (UPDATED)

All white Americans are racists. All cis-gendered heterosexual men are sexists.

Sounds messed up right? It’s true. 

However, there’s levels to this shit, and before you think I’m calling you out, give me a second to get my Kevin Hart on andLet Me Explain.

What I’m NOT saying is all white people hate everyone who isn’t white. I’m not saying all men have an irrational distain for women. I’m not telling my brothers, sisters and others of color to be on alert every time you see any white person because they hate you. I’m not saying anything of the sort.

What I AM saying, is that people tend to look at things from their perspective. The way you grow up, the people you grow up around, exposure (or lack thereof) of different ethnicities, nationalities and cultures all shape our world view. This doesn’t make anyone bad or good, it just is what it is.

Now, as a straight black male, I have come to realize that I have certain privileges that my LGBTQ+ comrades do not. In the state of Arizona where I live, it is still legal to fire someone based on their sexual orientation, as gender identity and sexual orientation are not protected classes. I understand that since I present myself in a masculine way and identify as the gender/sexI was born (man/male), that I am not going to be treated negatively or looked at as strange by the non-LGBTQ+ community like people who live outside the hetero-normative spectrum are. 

https://www.fastcompany.com/40456937/heres-everywhere-in-the-u-s-you-can-still-get-fired-for-being-gay-or-trans

https://www.hrc.org/resources/hate-crimes-and-violence-against-lgbt-people

Also as a man, taking ethnicity out of the equation, I also have certain perspectives that aren’t necessarily fair to women. For example, I think all straight men sexually objectify women. We don’t do it to be monsters or to make women feel uncomfortable, the problem is we don’t see a lot of what we do as wrong. We think it’s normal to walk up on a random women at the club and start grinding behind her without so much as a hello. We think it’s cool to tap our homie when we’re walking through the mall and point at the woman with the fat ass and make loud comments about it. I’ve seen men get upset at women who don’t want to have sex and never speak to them again, completely shunning them, and even sometimes going as far as to tell other men “Hey don’t even waste your time with her, she ain’t talkin’ about nothin”, which basically means “She isn’t down for sex, so there is no other reason to treat her like a human being.”

I ask my homies of the Caucasian persuasion to examine your own perspective as well.  Just because something doesn’t happen directly to you or you’ve never seen it in person, doesn’t mean that an entire community is making it up. People of color are not creating a false narrative, but sometimes it’s hard to except that you are a part of the group that is responsible for most of the evil against the group making the complaint. 

Has every white person participated in slavery/Jim Crow/extra judicial police killing of unarmed people of color? Of course not, but it is an institution run by white people. So yes, you are a part of the group that is causing the problem. In fact, we have several statistics to back our claims up. Here’s a few articles for you if you want the information.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/smart-justice/sentencing-reform/war-marijuana-black-and-white

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/police-killings-hit-people-color-hardest-study-finds-n872086

So, all I’m asking is for people to check their perspective. If we immediately think of things from our own perspective rather than that of the person telling the story, we will never develop the empathy needed as a nation to finally get along.


UPDATE: The following link is a perfect example of a lack of understand/empathy leading to racism. A lawyer who was scared to send his 14 year old son to his neighbors with a misdelivered package because his neighborhood is predominantly white and there have been numerous stories of black kids being shot as a result of knocking on doors, asking for directions, etc. Just look at the comments. His own fear for his safety somehow makes him the real racist, an asshole and a punk. SMH.

https://www.facebook.com/lawhumorist/posts/10212273273932624

The Democrats Still Don’t Get It - Thoughts on Politicon

Politcon happened this weekend, and I got a chance to watch some of the debates and panels from it. I have reach one very sad conclusion.

We’re going to have another 4 years of President Tiny Hands.

Why do I say this? Because the Democrats STILL DON’T GET IT.

I got to watch one of my favorite political commentators, Kyle Kulinski basically demolished everybody that had any opposition to his viewpoints, which are correct by the way. Here’s the problem…

He was the only person on the majority of the footage I’ve seen making the arguments that we KNOW will work. When he brings up Medicare for All, they would rebut with “Yeah that sounds good but we have to be realistic.” When he says “Stop saying ‘white’ working class, and just say working class because it excludes people of color”, they said “The democrats need to be focused on getting the white working class.” When he says “Bernie would be a good candidate for 2020”, a few of the panelists literally laughed at him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAZ7_UNwtnE – What Now Liberals? 

What I did see however, were plenty of the same old repeated things that democrats who aren’t REALLY progressive say stuff that makes them sounds like they are. 

“We need to stand up for marginalized groups such as people of color, the LGBTQ+ community and women.” DUH.

“Donald Trump is evil.” DUH.

“We can’t be liberal if we aren’t nice to other liberals.” GTFOH.

These are the same people who think voting for the lesser of two evils gets good results. The same people that ignore the fact the DNC rigged the election and tell us “We shouldn’t rehash this old news” are the ones who will allow future election riggingand then blame the voters when their candidate is hot garbage (I see you Hillary Clinton.) 

What these folks don’t realize is constantly playing the identity politics game is a losing strategy, because the average person might be sympathetic to others, but ultimately are going to vote in their own interests (or so they think, I see you poor Trump voters). So constantly focusing on how bad racial minorities have it and blaming Trump is not a way to get people to vote for you. Instead of offering policy ideas that will help the American people, they simply say “The other guy is bad, so vote for me instead.” It didn’t work in 2016, it for damn sure won’t work in 2020. 

So in conclusion, every day I believe more and more that my dude Jimmy Dore is absolutely right when he says the Democrats cannot be saved. All of the rhetoric that Kyle had to fight off during Politcon from other so-called progressives shows exactly that.

A List of Countries with Universal Healthcare and/or College

Free college? Universal Healthcare? How on earth can we afford that?”

Is this really an impossible feat? Is it actually unrealistic to assume that tax dollars can be used to cover peoples’ medical expenses and education? 

Well, lucky for you, I’m here to provide a list of countries that provide free college and universal healthcare, and see if this is really an “impossible” standard, or if it is something that can be accomplished with relative ease.

List of Countries with Universal Healthcare

1. Norway

2. New Zealand

3. Japan

4. Germany

5. Belgium

6. United Kingdom

7. Kuwait

8. Sweden

9. Bahrain

10. Brunei

11. Canada

12. Netherlands

13. Austria

14. United Arab Emirates

15. Finland

16. Slovenia

17. Denmark

18. Luxembourg

19. France

20. Australia

21. Ireland

22. Italy

23. Portugal

24. Cyprus

25. Greece

26. Spain

27. South Korea

28. Iceland

29. Hong Kong

30. Singapore

31. Switzerland

32. Israel (Who we give $60 Billion to annually)

List of Countries with Free College Tuition

1. Argentina

2. Austria

3. Brazil

4. Czech Republic

5. Denmark

6. Egypt

7. Finland

8. France

9. Germany

10. Greece

11. Iceland

12. Kenya

13. Luxembourg

14. Malaysia

15. Morocco

16. Norway

17. Panama

18. Poland

19. Scotland

20. Slovenia

21. Spain

22. Sweden

23. Turkey

24. Uruguay

And just to throw in a little bit of extra evidence that this will work, let’s look at the economic situations of the countries that have both Universal Healthcare and College.  

According to the Heritage Foundation, a right wing think tank, Austria is ranked 17th among 44 countries in Europe, and it’s overall score is ABOVE regional and world averages. Denmark is ranked 6th, Finland is ranked 15th, France receives a slightly lower rank at 34th. Germany brings it back to a strong rank of 14th, while Greece has the 17th largest economy in the European Union (out of 28) according to Wikipedia. Norway is ranked 12thaccording to the Heritage Foundation, Spain is ranked 30th out of 44, and lastly Sweden ranks at 8th.

Again, every country mentioned in the above paragraph has both Universal Healthcare and Universal College. Notice how only TWO of those countries are in the bottom 50% of economic prosperity, with the rest being in the top 62%. Now, with that being said, here’s a study with some good ole’ fashioned charts to show how much money the United States spends on the military in comparison to the top 10 other countries with the biggest military budgets. Go ahead and read that and then start to ask yourself some questions about what we can and can’t afford as a nation. 

So, if anyone every says “We can’t afford it/You run out of other peoples’ money/Single payer will NEVER COME TO PASS (I see you Hillary Clinton)”, just send them to this article I wrote, and if they STILL deny these facts, then feel free to ask them how much glue they ate as a child or how much Tekashi 6ix9ine they listen to. The answer to both questions is most likely “A LOT.”

Strategy for the MidTerms/Voting Techniques

Before we get into this discussion brothas and sistas, I forgot to mention a few things in my “Stop Talking about Russia” piece. That piece is here if you want to read the first 4 arguments I make. Here’s the last two.

5. “Mitt, the 1980’s called, and they want their foreign policy back.”

Obama, Hillary, and every Democrat that appeared on TV during the 2011/2012 election season told Mitt Romney that the 80’s wanted their foreign policy back, because he said that Russia was our number 1 geopolitical enemy. They LITERALLY laughed at him, in his face for thinking the Cold War was still going on. My how times have changed.

6. The DNC refused to let the FBI look at their servers that were “hacked” by Russia. 

Remember in my other piece where I said it was most likely a leak and not a hack? Well the FBI wanted to investigate to, you know, see if Hillary and her squad was lying or not. Especially since Julian Assange, who has never been discredited, says it wasn’t Russia. But for whatever reason, the CIA and FBI, were denied requests to have a look-see. Seems kinda crazy.

So, now that I’ve got that out the way, let’s discuss a winning strategy so we can get this reckless, insane bigot out of the white house along with his #GangGang of senators and congress people. 

1. Voting for progressives who don’t take corporate or PAC money.

2. Voting for Green Party Candidates/3rd Party Candidates 

3. Early voting

If we do those 3 things, we can take back over. It’s all about hitting the streets and exercising our rights. Make sure your candidate of choice takes NO corporate or PAC money. If they do, they are automatically disqualified, because we know as a matter of FACT that politicians who take big money ALWAYS do the bidding of those donors rather than the citizens they represent. Green party candidates and 3rd Party candidates represent progressive ideas, and can win on the local scene which strengthens their ability to run in national campaigns later on. The biggest one of these I’d say is early voting, mail-in ballots, etc. Everyone knows the voting times are outrageous and inconvenient as F. So, as I am doing this year, I will use my mail-in ballot to cast my votes. Do some research and figure out what your best option is, and get to it. The country and the world LITERALLY depends on it.