“A Black boy died because of a white supremacist woman’s lie, so she needs to get hard time. I know if a Black person murdered someone back then and was still alive, they’d lock them up no questions asked.”
I know I’m still on hiatus, but this story has me enraged so much that I have to talk about it. I’m sure my audience knows about Emmett Till, right? The Black boy from Chicago who was alleged to have whistled to a white woman in Mississippi and was killed and his death kickstarted the Civil Rights Movement? Afterward, Carolyn Bryant (nee Dunham) ADMITTED SHE WAS LYING and is still alive to this day. Well, guess what? They found a warrant from 1955 for Carolyn’s arrest in a Mississippi court basement. What gross incompetence! They were protecting her this whole time even if some of the people who were alive back then are dead due to their age now. It’s not like she did anything where it could still potentially be of use.
Oh, wait. I’m no legal expert, but I know murder has NO statute of limitations! I’m sorry…
CRITICAL RACE THEORY: Using critical thinking skills to counter the lies that keep blacks disenfranchised, red-lined, gentrified out of urban neighborhoods, denied jobs for trumped-up reasons, blocked from the polls, disproportionally prevented from accessing services taken for granted by whites, limited to a food-desert grocery/gas station, falsely imprisoned, denied reparation… ad nauseam. Slavery has never really disappeared, has it? How many trillion dollars in free labor did it take to advance the US from an agrarian to an industrial powerhouse? Does it matter?
I am a daily witness to the white-supremacist presumption that whitewashes everything in American society from Pocatello, Idaho to Lynchburg, Virginia AND all points of the compass originally stolen from indigenous peoples in the entire Western Hemisphere.
Modern-day lynchings take many forms: dying while sleeping in Louisville, being shot by a kid I won’t dignify by providing his name while worshiping, rolling past a stop sign, being suffocated when a police officer chooses to take a knee… on a black man’s neck.
Talking heads do not report on anyone who had just witnessed the execution of a black COVID-19 victim placed on a respirator. They do not report that multiple witnesses observed black patients being violently lynched by medical procedure. If these events are not reported by media, are they false? Did they happen?
LAW MAKERS: White political functionaries
CLARENCE THOMAS: A white-supremacist Supreme Court Justice. The blackest guy on the bench is actually the whitest of all, ruling in an injustice system from Hell that contorts all amendments relating with equal opportunity to include what I call an “except clause.”
…except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
That except clause is a “get someone into jail” card that never expires. It is a lynching instrument that permits an “officer of the law” to stop black kids and to ask them for identification, then to keep that ID — a souvenir if you will. The next time a fellow “officer of the law” asks for that kid’s ID, he is authorized to take him into custody. The identification card can literally end up in a cigar box. Jim Crow never dies. The bail-bond system is another means deployed to qualify ADOS to the prison system — another deliberately designed feature.
PRISON REFORM: Any action taken to keep Jim Crow alive. Drafting laws to make it easier to incarcerate blacks for any reason or for no reason. That reason might just be: routinized police racism.
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALIST HISTORY: I propose that American history be released in two volumes, labelled Genocide and Slavery.
CRITICAL RACE THEORY: Genocide and Slavery
BLACK LIVES MATTER (BLM): Ignorant Thieving Arsonists Setting Fire To Their Own Buildings. All you need to know if you are in your white mind. This would include faux information on George Floyd’s “criminal history.” That Mr. Floyd was asking for it, so he got what he wanted.
Systemic racism occurs behind both open and closed doors, but also when blacks are prescribed poisons or given “procedures” designed to kill them rapidly and anonymously. Were independent witnesses all delusional regarding what they saw?
How many times does any of this show up on any popular media source? This stuff is built into every sector of a false patriot’s proud-boy life. Everything is whitewashed daily. I am talking about zombies walking around without imagining an independent critical thought ever. Parrot-like at every level of regurgitation. Apologists for those police officers routinely shoot innocent driving-while-black people guilty of harboring a broken taillight. These five words are enough to explain anything: I FEARED FOR MY LIFE. So, you shot an unarmed man in the back. Is that what you did?
Here I am with a third reflection on Rock Music, mostly bands founded in the 1970s. There is a thread that runs through the independent individuals behind these accounts I write, something that goes a bit beyond words provided by a DJ announcing a song on the radio.
Founder Roger Hodgson
How can it happen that an important rock group, Supertramp, has not yet been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? I don’t expect the Archies to get there first, but I do not understand how music with such a unique character in sound can be so quickly forgotten. The last attempt to get the ‘tramp nominated was in 2017, so I am honoring them by dedicating a blog to their incomparable songs and hoping that it makes an impression on a reader or three. Perhaps someone at the Hall of Fame reads this blog and gets the gears moving up there in Cleveland, OH.
Breakfast in America icon
The genius behind Supertramp may be traced to two founding members: Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies. Speaking of the name Davies, the band’s name comes from a 1910 novel that you can access on the internet: The Autobiography of a Supertramp. Noted here in case your interest has been piqued by the mention of this 110-year-old piece of fiction.
Hodgson wrote and composed most of the songs, he gave the group its defining character, in my humble opinion. Davies provided a personal touch of his own, but these two musicians drifted apart to different geographies and to personal predilections. Roger Hodgson continues to appear at concerts; fortunately, these are readily available on YouTube. There haven’t been many days that go by without my revisiting some of their performances. Hodgson is the singer and composer playing the piano on stage. A few musical instruments used in each performance gives the production a unique sound that has become a trademark to the ear, an instant connection.
Band member John Helliwell worked the instruments to arrive at the distinctive sounds in such works as the Logical Song. and Take the Long Way Home using the harmonica (2:01 in) and a saxophone (4:07 in).
Hoping you enjoyed this little background piece from a big fan of their work.
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