Just a Little Blunt

 

What cracks me up is when I watch Republicans lie and they wear their flag pins and get weepy eyed while talking about the good old days…still lies, they lie about abortion, yeah they say they are against it but after 20 years of GOP Presidents abortion is still here…WHY? It is a STRAW MAN, they know conservatives like to hear them say I AM PRO LIFE TOO!!!! That is BS, they don’t care about dead babies or LIVE babies, they care about making rich people richer hows that for blunt, the GOP hate poor white folks just as much as they hate poor blacks, the only difference is they vilify poor blacks buy acting like BLACKS are the only people on FOOD STAMPS…you want some more BLUNT?  How can a rational and intelligent human watch FOX News and believe it is ‘Fair and Balanced”? When Bin Laden was killed every American Black and White celebrated…except the GOP, why because the Black President got the job done, Obama was bold enough and smart enough to KNOW Bin Laden was NOT in IRAQ (duh GW BUSH) want some MORE BLUNT, The economy is in the toliet because BUSH spent money like a drunken Democrat, the war in Iraq is what bankrupted America, CLINTON had a balanced budget (A Democrat by the way), You want some more BLUNT, I lost friends in Iraq and I served there in the 1st Gulf War proudly, my nephew served in Afghanistan , people died in Iraq over 7,000 American men and women, and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis over what some damn OIL???? There were NO WMD’s, No Al Quida, and NO Osama Bin Laden in IRAQ….swallow that BLUNT for a while I got MORE! Oh lest I forget VP dick Cheneys and his boys owned the company that worked the oil wells in Iraq, does that sound like a conflict of interest??? I don’t drink the Kool-aid the GOP serves, do Democrats lie? Yes but they aren’t as skilled as the GOP!

M. Hamilton Stevens

Black Lives Have NEVER Mattered so Why are we Surprised?

 

The growing trend today is when Black people speak out against racist acts of violence perpetrated upon us, the FOX News brigade and the Tea Party folks, retaliate by calling US “racist” because say we say “Black Lives Matter”. Well let’s wake up America BLACK lives never mattered. Let’s look at American History.

When we were brought here we were not even considered human.  Slave owners also had the right to punish their slaves – and any slave who broke the rules was severely punished. According to regulations from September 5, 1733 by Governor Philip Gardelin, slaves who committed grand larceny or who encouraged others to escape, for example, were to be pinched three times with red-hot iron tongs and then hanged. If you tried to run away, you were to have your leg amputated or – if your master forgave you – get 150 lashes and lose one ear.

Slaves had no constitutional rights; they could not testify in court against a white person; they could not leave the plantation without permission. Slaves often found themselves rented out, used as prizes in lotteries, or as wagers in card games and horse races.

Even after slavery ended Black lives were still in danger and not worth much, often Black men would be arrested for little or nothing and forced into chain gangs and women forced into domestic jobs that paid very little and rape was a standard that came with working as the “HELP”.. The KKK would often burn down the few farms owned and run by Black families, men would be lynched and women often raped. Segregation and Jim Crow laws kept us from voting and being allowed to go to colleges. I saw my first Cross Burning at the age of 7 in a place called Crewe Virginia as my father and mother drove with the headlights out at night for fear that we would have been seen.

Even in the military Black soldiers like my uncles were separate and NOT equal, after fighting in WWII and serving with honor they STILL had to ride the back of the bus in their dress uniform when they came home to Virginia. I was stationed in Mississippi in 1977 and remember being given a list of places we (Black Airmen) were NOT welcome. I was ran out of a bar in Biloxi because I wanted a beer (I was in uniform), so am I surprised that Black men are being killed TODAY for little or NO criminal activities or reasons….Nah, because Black lives didn’t matter then and they still don’t.

M. Hamilton Stevens, Th.D.