HARD-WORKING, WHITE AMERICANS...LISTEN UP

So I'm watching C-SPAN Thursday morning while I'm getting ready to WALK to work. Representative Steven King (R), Iowa was taking phone calls about FEMA's response to the floods in his state. Of course many were comparing it to the Katrina embarrassment. The last call before I turn off the TV comes in from the Republican line. A lady in her sixties blurts out "...at least you weren't looting there in Iowa." !!!!!

Then Friday morning, this guy Stephen Halbrook, representing the NRA says "criminal activity is disproportionately done by illegal immigrants." BASED ON WHAT?!?

Both of these statements are rooted in Racism. Ignorance to the highest degree. God bless the hard-working, white Americans in their sixties and beyond. You know, the ones who still see no problem calling people COLORED. Racism is at the core of who these people are. We tend to give these older folks a pass because we think of them as our harmless little grandmas. This can no longer be. These Racist views, intentional or not, perpetuate the oppression that Racism is. Guess what the biggest percentage of voters is. Ages 65-74 = 92%

Many reasons for that, including the number of people in that generation can remember when they COULDN'T vote- minorities and white women. They often are set in front of the TV like children as well. If you set grandma in front of FOXNEWS all day, she's gonna be spouting off Bill O like your kids spouts of Dora the Explorer.

If you never leave the house or live somewhere with no people of color, your opinion comes from TV. SCARY. For those who still think that people of color are not intentionally portrayed negatively in the media, don't know any for one. And also, probably can't comprehend how it's mathematically impossible for their FAIR AND BALANCED newscasts to be proportionately accurate.

US POPULATION AS OF JULY 2007
White = 245,373,882
Black = 40,744,132
Asian = 15,165,186
American Indian/Alaska Native = 4,536,857
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander = 1,019,301

Even if you take a mere 10% of Whites (cuz they're so GOOD) and take 50% of Blacks (cuz they're so EVIL), that would be 24.5M Whites and 20M Blacks. Anyone with ANY sense knows that one out of two Blacks are not criminals. Be honest with yourself about this. WHY are so many Black scary faces on the news? Or Brown ones stealing your jobs?

This is not an attack. It's Truth and something that needs to be understood by ALL colors. DENIAL is the biggest trait of Racism. To deny this is happening without PROOF of the opposite is fundamentally Racist. The denial doesn't have to be intentional either. That's the point. This is not personal; it's universal. Even if you do choose to ignorantly deny, it's still happening.

"BRAIN TRAINING"

Time after time
You fall in line.
Quarters, nickels, pennies, dimes
Wasted on your quest to shine.

Reasons in election season
Change quickly into borderline treason.
Our kids in school getting C's and D's
And critical thinking's handled like disease.

Fund our schools.
You won't need to fund the prisons.
Both sides of the story
Makes it easier to listen.

A cost so high,
Amounts can't be tossed
Down by the boss.
Dollar signs guard the fence of the land of the lost.

Watched over by guns
And camera spies.
You think Vietnam vets feel
relieved when they die?

If you believe you can only use 10 percent of your brain,
Please refrain, or live on trickery lane
With the rest of the sheep, liars, and lames.
Valerie Plame was what got me on that train
To entertain and sustain my brain--not put it in chains.

"MAKE A MAN SMILE"

IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD...

MLK, too confrontational?
This lesson's educational.
I tell my love to grab her stool
Just to step up a level.

Bird's eye view
Once inside my vestibule.
Look upon the Doctor's views.
If his stance ain't confrontational,
Then whose?

Take that smile from on his face.
He wasn't smiling when he left this place.
Militarism, assassination, wiretap, hater-ation, worker's rights, race.
Fighting for PEOPLE cuz the color of their face; funny thing this race of race.

Historical revisionism in very bad taste.
Domestic terrorism, our history's laced.
Manipulated speeches used against causes in haste.
If he were alive today, we'd all be disgraced.