NBCBlk SWERVES INTO THE HOTEP LANE

Apparently a woman named Yolanda Young at NBC Black (NBCBlk) wrote an open letter to Ciara, chastising her for putting down her child's father, Future VIA ...flinching when Future's name was mentioned while on camera at an awards sow.Yolanda Young apparently felt compelled to write an open letter, on NBCBlk because Ciara made non-complementary body movements in response to a man who's been hounding her in the press.

Future would be the same man that Yolanda did not chastise in an open letter to - despite all Future's reported nasty name calling, openly trying to control Ciara, and actually threatening Ciara's fiance.

"....Young admits she doesn’t have children, she says her stance on co-parenting is based on her own parents. Her father, who was abusive and tried to kill her mother, wasn’t a constant presence in her life. Still, while he inflicted pain on her mother, Young says her mother never badmouthed her dad."

https://www.clutchmagonline.com/2016/04/nbcblk-publishes-open-letter-ciara-women-holding-grudges-futures/

She endured years of abuse, verbal assaults but also the occasional slap, choke, and blackeye. She finally divorced him after his bullets came within centimeters of ending her life. At my dad’s trial, she asked the judge not to sentence him to jail. This would be the first of many decisions she’d make thinking more of me than of herself.

Excuse me? How does keeping a man who shot at your head out on the street protect you or your child?  

Her mother kept that man out of jail because she "loved him" (a.k.a. was addicted to him) Putting his behind in jail despite her feelings would have been protecting Young when she was a child.

By the way, Young's use of the word "occasional?"  That's an attempt to minimize the abuse.  And I'd bet a lot of money she's quoting her mother.

"Another one was to shield me from any resentment she harbored towards my father. Knowing that I was safe with my dad — he never raised his voice to me, let alone his hand — she not only insisted I have a relationship with him, she made it a point of being kind and gracious towards him."

If a psychologist had 20 degrees on her walls from the most prestigious schools on the planet and then she decided to turn her child over to a man who tried to murder her by shooting her in the head, it would STILL be true that this woman was simply rolling the dice that her ex-husband/ex-boyfriend wouldn't hurt or kill her daughter too.

Abuse-minded women who need therapy do sh** like this all the time. They just aren't this lucky half the time.

Yolanda Young and her mother need therapy and they need it now.

Even though his calls were sporadic, his visits rare, and his child support payments nonexistent, she didn’t disparage him. Occasionally he’d show up in a fancy car and fur coat (undoubtedly the spoils of a particularly good run at the casino or racetrack) lavishing me with impractical gifts and taking mom and me to dinner

The only time she ever showed the slightest irritation was when for my high school graduation he bought me two pieces of Louis Vuitton luggage from San Francisco’s I-Magnin at a price that would have covered my first semester’s college tuition. Even then, rather than hold him to her fiscal prudence, she accepted his gesture as a show of love.If her mother didn't show the slightest irritation when that man was skipping his child support payments then she was the one that taught Yolanda Young that anything a man does is okay and has misidentified unloving, selfish behavior as loving.

 

And if her mother told her to accept expensive Louis Vuitton Luggage as a show of love instead of as a way compensating for his own short comings as an absentee father combined with one giant display of "See What A Big Man I Am," then her mother failed her yet again. Even if her mother was doing her best in the moment --sounds like years after the gun shot-- her mother's best sucked. And if she didn't make an effort to get free psychological help for her and her daughter through a counselor, books, or church then shame on her.  

  

I don't have children either. But even I know lying to children is always bad -- lying out right and lying via sin of omission counts. I know because I was on the receiving end of this kind of lying as a kid.  

 

Fifty percent of what came out of my mother's mouth couldn't be trusted even when she meant well. Do you understand what kind of egg shells that kind of lying leaves a child on? I'll tell you what kind -- exceptionally fragile one that only halfway disintegrate when crushed, huge pieces remain whole enough to slice up your feet.  

There are ways to tell a child as he or she crosses 12 years of age, 15 years of age, 18 years of age that Daddy is not a responsible person. There are ways to say he loves you but he's not a responsible person or a good role model for anything in your life. There are ways to say, "Yes Daddy loves you but what he just did was selfish and unloving." There are ways to do all of this, ways to show your resentment but not hatred and tell the whole truth in small bites, in bites small enough for a child to handle it. The size of the bite depends on the age of the child.  

Telling the truth is not "disparaging" Of course angry, resentful, divorced people have to be careful about what their truth is and where it's coming from inside. But hiding the facts from your child at some point becomes "lying."

Hiding the way you feel about it also becomes "lying" --only that's lying about who you really are....from your child.

This kinds of lying misleads your child, when she's a grown ass woman, to write to another woman and tell her not to dare to make a single non-verbal comment about a black man after he's called her everything but a child of God and made it clear he thinks he can control who she does and does not have in her life.

One doesn't have to have a degree or a child to understand any of this. Knowing when is the right time to tell a child a hard truth about a crazy, abusive, or just neglectful parent? Knowing the right words to use? That's the hard part. 

Ordinarily, I'd just call Yolanda a hoteptress and be done with it. But she, seriously, needs help. She equated her own mother's Stockholm Syndrome type response to "forgiveness" and "not holding a grudge."

Forgiveness is about not demanding compensation for the bad that was done to you. Forgiveness is not about pretending the bad didn't happen. Second to fear of death only, this cowardly "pretending a thing wasn't that bad" being redefined as "forgiveness" is a foundation of women allowing domestic abuse and child abuse to continue.

When you're going to forgive somebody, you are willing to call it what it was, as bad as it was, and let go of what you were owed anyway. If you are authentically forgiving, there's no reason to minimize the betrayal first.

Yolanda and her mother need help. So I won't call her hoteptress yet. But Mother Patriarchy shouldn't be allowed to write or post again on this subject.

However, I'd bet a lot of money that whoever runs NBCBlk has more than toe in hotep / hoteptress zone. Who let the kind of sickness leaking out of Yolanda get posted? There are editors and decision makers that get paid a lot more than Yolanda who thought defending Future was a good thing to do.
From what I've read about the Future vs The Fairly Silent Ciara, the only reason for NBCBlk to allow someone as damaged as Yolanda to defend Future and attack Ciara and all black women -- for flinching-- is because Future has a penis while Ciara and other black women called out do not.

This is so damn unacceptable for any part of a major news network.Read More: 
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/open-letter-ciara-other-women-holding-grudges-against-your-children-n556011

BLACK PANTHERS IN THE SCI-FI ZONE, PART 2

"...It bothers me that there are brothers who still view women as sexual objects. We should no men in The Black Panther Party who fell this way, or women either for that matter."

Excerpt from a woman's letter to Huey Newton 

from a new female member of the BPP.

Source: PBS Documentary:
"The Black Panthers, Vanguard Of The Revolution" 

From the PBS Documentary "Vanguard Of The Revolution"
This documentary, all by itself proved that White Washing isn't just for white folks anymore
if it ever was.

This scene was supposed to be the admission that The Black Panthers had sexism, misogyny and gender problems

INSTEAD OF admitting that David Hilliard had to go to Los Angeles to stop male panther from beating female panthers, INSTEAD OF admitting Huey hit Eileen Brown and a few other people. 

INSTEAD OF telling the story of Regina Davis which may have been the beginning of the end of the Panthers, since a lot of black women supposedly left the Panthers at that point. 

ENTERING THE SCI-FI ZONE OF "WHAT IF..." 

THE ALTERNATE REALITY

Except for respect for black women, The Black Panther Party could have had everything else going for them.

Think about it.

They had opened a school. They were providing groceries to the poor; free health clinics (an idea that spread nationwide); free breakfasts for children at school (adopted by the United States schools everywhere) The Panthers were also working cooperatively with other black groups, Puerto Rican group(s), and white groups to change society for the better. A central focus was to make the United States more hospitable to the poor.


But BPP fell apart because of internal and external strife, mostly competition (patriarchy based).

In my opinion, the FBI is getting way to much credit for destroying the Panthers.

False masculinity created friction between the BPP and other black civil rights organizations.

False masculinity habits of the men undid male relationships with the women (the beating of the women in particular).

False masculinity even broke the relationship between Black Panther leaders, Huey and Eldridge in particular.

False masculinity was what allowed a tough talking Eldridge Cleaver into the Panthers in the first place --money from his book "Soul On Ice" or no damn money.

But the most important thing false masculinity did was give the FBI solid footing to sabotage the Black Panthers.   

Again, The Black Panthers wound up being at war with another black group, namely,  Karenga's US Organization. 

The US Organization, also patriarchy soaked and therefore competition driven, actually wound up pulling guns on BPP Los Angeles leader Bunchy Carter at his house over cartoons drawn of Karenga and defaced pictures of Karenga.

Only men unsure of the masculinity do things like fight over "somebody drew a cartoon over that picture of me."   

There were other issues between US Organization and the BPP too. But the cartoons of Karenga added to or created the bad blood between the two groups. Karenga's group actually wound up killing Bunchy Carter and John Huggins.

If women had been half of the leadership of both Panthers and the US Organization, it seems unlikely that things like drawing on Karenga's poster would be allowed to lead to gun play  When women are strong enough to lead, be half of the leadership, their male counterparts have to be stronger too. Strong, feminist women don't allow "who is toughest" games to be played in the organizations they help run.

You know what else? The Panthers might have survived the FBI COINTELPRO too if women had been half the leadership. 

The men of The Black Panthers, 

having been forced to be stronger, 
which is equivalent to being more sure of their 
masculinity 

***without having to prove it all the time***

These would have been men that 

'the FBI could not provoke

by stoking the competition

and doing simple minded things like

drawing cartoons of Karenga 

then telling Karenga 

the Panthers did drew the cartoons of you 

Imagine what the FBI might say to Karenga in 1960s, 

if the FBI had used 1980s slang: "You gonna let them diss you like that? Are you a man? Do you have a single hair on your @$$?"

This kind of childish game only works when masculinity not sure of itself. The most important thing men unsure of their masculinity usually do is fail to avail themselves of half of the best leadership and half of the best ideas that a group has to offer because they are busy expending energy subjugating those they are supposedly sure of being superior to.

Who knows what other paths the Black Panthers might have taken with more brains working on problems?
 

Reading between the lines of Hilliard's book, much of what happened between Huey and Eldridge and also between The Black Panthers and the US Organization was essentially a form of "My d*ck is bigger than yours"

The argument about which person or which group is toughest or biggest was often expressed as "Not you but I AM THE REAL Vanguard of the Revolution" (Huey vs Eldridge)  or "Not your group but MY GROUP IS REALLY the Vanguard of the Revolution" (BPP vs US Organization)

It occurs to me that Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver were allowed out of jail rather easily. Maybe, for all the tough guy pontificating, they were allowed out because they weren't really the biggest threat. Maybe they were allowed out of jail so they could create havoc within the organization that was the BPP.

Martin Luther King was a threat to the status quo. He was assassinated
Medgar Evers was a threat to the status quo. He was assassinated
And within the Panthers it was Fred Hampton of the Chicago BPP that died at the hands of police -- not Huey, not Bobby, and not Eldridge.

Huey has been credited with much of The Black Panthers success. But I'm not exactly sure why. David Hilliard and Elaine Brown both obviously worshiped the man. I don't think I'll ever figure it out. I've never been able to fathom charismatic leaders. And that's clear what Newton had going for him.

From what I'm reading, charismatic or not, Huey was an out of control person whose leadership worked best when he was sending audio taped instructions from his jail cell, while he was under the control of prison*.

Out of prison, he became a ego tripping, drug fueled maniac.

The rock star status might have gotten to anybody I suppose. But it wouldn't surprise me if somebody actually comes out one day and says Huey needed daily psychiatric drugs to calm him dow, drugs he would have been prescribed had he been born 30 years later or maybe just born white. Something about Newton's childhood behavior sounds off in Hilliard's book.

Eldridge Cleaver's View Of Huey Newton
Newton reportedly hated this image of himself 

BACK TO REALITY 
Huey Newton died in 1989 in what David Hilliard thinks was a drug related shooting. A lot of women, according to Brown, had gone in the mid 1970s when black panther men beat Regina Davis for giving an order and expecting it to be followed, in accordance with the BPP quasi-militaristic structure.  The Black Panthers died a long time before Huey physically died 

I just can't help but think of how altered our black world might have been have had Huey had lived up to his own words on equality.


Link to
Black Panther Women, A Taste Of Power
http://thankherforsurviving.blogspot.com/2016/03/black-panther-women-taste-of-power.html

BLACK PANTHERS IN THE SCI-FI ZONE, PART 1

Now that I've read David Hilliard's and Elaine Brown's books on their experiences as Black Panthers, I wonder... 

Into the limelight
1967 Sacramento Protest

What would the Black Panthers have been like
if the male leaders of The Black Panther Partyhad put the same genuine effortinto changing their attitudes towards women
that they put into learning
Marxism and socialism,
helping create the 10 point program,
and doing honest work to help black people?

Didn't the Black Panthers
wind up hamstringing themselves
by layering
all of those positive ideals and effortson top of the same old poverty-side,
materialism based, object based masculinity?

POVERTY SIDE vs AFFLUENT SIDE
MATERIAL and/or OBJECT BASED MASCULINITY

A False Masculinity 

If the male Black Panther leadership
had changed their attitudes towards women
which necessitates 
an elimination or reduction of false masculinity,
wouldn't The Black Panthers still be here? 



Poverty Side Material Masculinity Says

-- the strongest man should lead
--tough guys with guns are real men
--men who answer nobody and have sex with multiple women at once are the "real men" (so long as "his woman" doesn't do the same.)

These measures of masculinity are still used today by too many men who think being masculine is all about competition. And a good percentage of black men wind up going into an underground economy (work at things not quite legal or illegal) to get the objects they need to materially prove masculinity. Sometimes the underground economy is about survival, eating sans welfare and having a roof over ones head. But sometimes underground economy jobs that require a gun are strictly about proving masculinity--- at the expense of everyone around him.

These actions by black men
are what happen
when a man is sans the money
to buy himself an education
that will get him enough money
to buy the things
that white men buy 

to prove their masculinity,

which would include houses, cars, boats, and enough feelings of personal worthiness to commit to another person in marriage.

It seems to me that this competition based model of masculinity is ALSO why ex-convicts and gangsters were some of the first men attracted to the Black Panthers.

Of course all black people wanted the white foot off our necks. Of course, we have had an adversarial relationship with white people. But wanting to end racism is not the same as wanting to replace white people as the people on top. And that's what a lot of the gangsters that initially joined the Panthers wanted-- to be the oppress-er instead of the oppress-ee. They had little or no interest in a better society.

As much as The Panthers sought out coalitions with white groups, it's clear replacing white men as the oppressor was not the organization's goal. But patriarchy, a competition based model of masculinity, attracted too many of "the wrong element" to the Panthers, the element that saw shooting whitey as the only goal worth pursuing.

Keep in mind that The Panthers were a lot more accessible to poor black people than some other black civil rights groups of the same era. 

The NAACP and other middle class black organizations had college educated members and leaders. Martin Luther King, for example, was giving sermons at a church that supposedly served the highest and mightiest of black people in the mid 1950s, even before he was a civil rights leader.

Of course, high society black people weren't very high, overt white racism being what it was at the time, but Martin King's class of people had a lot more than the paycheck-to-paycheck money. They had a lot more money, class, and status than the people who gravitated toward The Panthers. King's class of black folk were not looking for underground economy type work. 

Sans a protest, SCLC and NAACP members were not the kind of people that wound up in jail trying make money any which way they could for want of a straight job.

So it's not surprise that a lot of the men,  poor men that got caught in the prison system, that first flooded into the Panthers wound up being the ones Eldridge called "jackanapes."


These were the men that Eldridge planned to use as cannon fodder in his crazy gun-to-gun overthrow whitey revolution --despite being so outnumbered. Eldridge's "jackanapes" weren't just black men trying to make money on the fringes of society, they were the out of control men fresh out of jail that got guns and wound up in the news, robbing people while using the Black Panther van, making the Panthers look like they were mostly about being gangsters?

Eldridge himself was out of control. It was his idea to fire on white officers the day 17 year old Bobby Hutton was killed. This means that first Black Panther casualty, was actually part of an actual criminal act led by Eldridge Cleaver, the admitted and convicted rapist. 

Kathleen Cleaver, wife of Eldridge Cleaver - routinely beaten by Cleaver
Elaine Brown - slapped by Huey, whipped upon orders of Bobby Seale
Angela Davis - never formerly joined the Panthers, reportedly due to the sexism.

Not pictured. Regina Davis.
The woman that most responsible for the running of The Panther School, the Oakland School who was beat up by black male panthers, breaking her jaw, because she dared give orders and issue reprimandsper her position.

From where I sit, if the National Headquarters of The Black Panthers in Oakland had actually made an effort to live up to their ideals of equality with black women first, women would have been half of the BPP leadership. And with women as half the BPP leadership, the Black Panthers might still be here.

ENTERING THE SCI-FI ZONE OF "WHAT IF..." 

THE ALTERNATE REALITY

READ MORE TOMORROW

STROLLING, BRITAIN EPISODE 2: Untold Stories Of the African Diaspora

Connecting The Scattered 

And Untold Stories 

of the 

Black/African Diaspora


BRITAIN, EPISODE 2 

Dreams, 

Ambition

Opportunity

 Black Mental Health connection to history

 Colourism

   

Listen, Learn, FEEL CONNECTED and Feel Strength

In Our Collective Numbers World-Wide

BLACK HISTORY SNIPPET: EMANCIPATION DAY IN WASHINGTON D.C.

Sooo, I wanted to know why taxes weren't due on April 15th this year. I wound up finding out about yet another stage of freeing slaves that I didn't know about before. My grandmother lived an inch from D.C. most of her life. I don't know how this never came up in conversation.

Maybe she assumed I knew.



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BACKGROUND

Formal slavery was legal until 1865 in most of the area that is now the United States. Many slaves were of African origin and many slave owners were of European descent, although some other groups also had slaves. By 1860, there were about four million slaves in the United States. On April 16, 1862, Abraham Lincoln, who was the US president at the time, signed the Compensated Emancipation Act, which freed more than 3000 slaves in the District of Columbia. However, slavery did not officially end in the rest of the United States until after the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 until 1865.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution formally ended slavery in the US. It was proposed on January 31, 1865, and ratified by 30 of the then 36 states in the same year. However, it was only ratified in Mississippi in 1995. Slavery and the racial divisions, upon which it was based, have had and continue to have huge implications for individuals and American society as a whole.

EMANCIPATION DAY IN D.C.

Emancipation Day in Washington DC marks the anniversary of the signing of the Compensated Emancipation Act. On January 4, 2005, legislation was signed to make Emancipation Day an official public holiday in the District of Columbia.

EMANCIPATION DAYS ELSEWHERE

Elsewhere in the United States, the emancipation of slaves is celebrated in Florida (May 20), Puerto Rico (March 22) and Texas (June 19). There are also similar events in many countries in the Caribbean, including Anguilla, Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Many of these events occur during the first week of August as slavery was abolished in the British Empire on August 1, 1834.

WHY I QUIT MY JOB AND OPENED A YOGA STUDIO IN ATLANTA

"You can’t confuse what you do for a living and what you do for money. You have to figure out how to sustain yourself. I realized that my PhD was no longer directly tied to my purpose and that I no longer had to find a job of that magnitude to feel okay.”

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"For many, there comes a point in your life where you have to make the important decision of defining your passion and following it. Regardless of how much training, education or background you have to support whatever this may be, for some, it’s simply creative freedom to do whatever it is you want to do when you want to do it. A recent survey from Deloitte discovered that two-thirds of millennials express a desire to leave their organization by 2020. Enter 29-year old Dr. Rhea Perkins. In September 2014, her life would change for the better, or so she thought. Just months away from completing her dissertation, she decided to quit her job with no back-up plan. She was forced with a decision to choose happiness over complacency. It’s a very common predicament that post-graduation leaves many millennials feeling while in the pursuit of happiness. But Rhea Perkins wasn’t your typical student. She was just shy of completing her Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Research from LSU. “I completed the degree because initially I wanted to have a high ranking position at a university. At one point, I wanted to be president…so I knew I needed the degree.”

Just two chapters shy of completing her dissertation, she accepted a job in Atlanta. The job provided free housing, unknowingly in exchange for her sanity....

by Mike Orie of www.theconscioustip.com
~via Curly Nikki

Read Morehttp://www.curlynikki.com/2016/03/why-i-quit-my-job-and-opened-yoga.html

BUZZFEED PRESENTS BLACK SELF-HATE OLYMPICS

AND DOESN'T EVEN REALIZE IT 


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HERE ARE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS

“Why are we more likely to get involved in a new dance trend than we are to get involved in politics or open a new business?”

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?

“Why do we call each other the n-word but then get vehemently upset when a white person uses the n-word?”

N*GGA LISTEN. I can’t even“

Why do you protest Black Lives Matter and then tear each other down in the next breath?”

Why do you protest Black Lives Matter and then tear each other down in the next breath?”

BUT I THOUGHT WE DON’T GET INVOLVED WITH POLITICS!

~AwesomelyLuvvie

Read More: http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2016/04/buzzfeed-black-people-ask-black-people-video.html


Clearly, Buzzfeed.com needs new hiring practices.
Diversity yes.
Self-hating morons no.
I think a screening process is in order, don't you?


Let's throw around some ideas.

1)Must have some college

2) Must own at least 10 nonfiction books and be able to discuss them intelligently.

3) Must read the news or watch the news regularly  

4) Must have two black history classes required if you'rel speak on black issues.

5) Must have two sociology classes, one of which must be centered on race and the other can be centered on race, class, politics, or just being a decent human being that understands....basics of life.

Please allow me to be judgmental for a minute more. These two would be Donald Trump followers if they were allowed to go back into someone else's womb and be reborn white. Internalized racism sufferers are like that. 

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This is really too bad. I was starting to trust the BuzzFeed website as a good source for information. 

WEAVES, BLOND HAIR DYE, AND OTHER POST-APOCALYPTIC HAIR CARE NECESSITIES

For the record?

The white woman's equivalent of a weave is blond hair dye.




That is, somebody please inform the hoteps and their minions that white women aren't wearing their natural hair either.

I realized this one day when I walked into white church late. I snuck in the back and found myself looking at the back dozens of heads, as planned. But I needed to find a white female friend of mine. The white men's hair varied. The white women's hair did not. The back of my friend's dyed blond head looked exactly the same as 100 other white women sitting in the crowd. I tried to figure out which one she was by hair length, but then this usher person started walking toward me to help me, so I had to run, duck, cover, and find a seat quick.

Needless to say, I didn't find my friend until after the service. I meant to ask her what shade they're all using. But I forgot (chickened out).

A friend of mine, also white, told me a long time ago that most white men are raised wanting a little blond girl friend. That's why there are so many white women with blond hair running around worried about their next hair appointment when all their hair really does is hang there. They have to get those dark roots covered up regularly.

If white women could get their legs shortened so that they could all be petite too, they'd be getting the leg shortening surgery for high school graduation and waiting to ask Mommy-And-Daddy bank for the nose or boob job somewhere near the end of sophomore year in college

So make no mistake. If someone announces The Electromagnetic Pulse will be set off by another country to wipe out all our computers and our economy along with it, and that the pending post-apocalyptic United States is going to make "The Walking Dead" look like child's play for at least a decade AND THEN ALSO ANNOUNCES IT IS ALL STARTING TOMORROW...

white women will make run on water, food, and blond hair dye 

AND

black women will make a run on water, food, spices, and hair extensions.

Don't get it twisted. Even our naturalistas will be running for synthetic hair. And you know why, too. Don't pretend you don't know.

Naturalistas will need synthetic hair for protective styles, braids, buns and such. There's no way we'll be able to get enough oils and conditioners to keep our hair sealed in a post-apocalyptic world, not even enough (gasp) mineral oil.

Of course, we could all go the Michonne route to hair care. But then we'd have to do the big chop once the United States got everything back online. We would not be able to free our hair from 10 years worth locking.

In the final analysis, this all means a sizable portion of the naturalista crowd will be running neck and neck with the relaxer/weave crowd to the same abandoned beauty stores. And if blond hair dye can be found in some of the same stores with black beauty products? Watch out!  White women's foot prints will be left on our backs after they run us down trying to get in there first.

I don't know about you? But I don't have Dania Gurira's face or Lupita N'yongo's face. More than that, my marble shaped head needs vertical lines given to it by hair. So no big chop for me. That means I going to be sprinting to the beauty supply store too.

When The Pulse happens, my high heeled shoes will be clicking on the pavement faster than anybody else's, running so fast that women running ahead of me will hear my clicks coming and think 
the ghost of Flo Jo gaining on them, about to snatch them bald or snatch their soul. I fully expect hysteria, screaming, tears, and a rainbow of hair extensions and boxed hair dyes flying 10 feet into the air as women start trying to snatch one another's ill gotten gains when they're all back out on the street again.

I think I'll plan on wearing a hockey mask to protect my face from long nails.

If Beyonce's Bey Hive is trying to get into the abandoned beauty supply store for their leader? We will all need to think about preserving our own lives and just let them take it all. The Bey Hivers are going to be there for the weave hair, the synthetic hair, and the blond boxed dye too(saving it for after the designer versions run out) The big chop in 10 years won't be that bad. So I'll be a marble head for year. No biggie. At least, I'll be alive.

Product junkies? They're going to have the last laugh. They'll be re-identified as "pre-planners." As pre-planners they'll be further re-identified as "responsible." As responsible people they'll be put in charge of nomadic groups sent out to get food and supplies. The responsible pre-planners that succeed at keeping large camps from starving will eventually be elected to high political positions once the world come back to being normal.
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In the hear and now this means I'm being responsible with my money if I buy yet another potentially magic hair conditioner. So what if I don't have any more room in my hair cabinet. This next purchase could lead to me being president one day 10 or so years from now, right?  

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COLORISM IS NOT A BLACK FEMALE PATHOLOGY

A long time ago, a woman smarter than I am reviewed Dark Girls and said it was interesting how this documentary by a black man, and other such vehicles by black men about colorism, focus on black women instead of black people.

Black men themselves used to suffer more from colorism than they do now. Coming out of slavery, the light-skinned person man or woman, was assumed to be closer-to-whiteness smarter, closer-to-whiteness prettier, and closer-to-whiteness more industrious. Remember, white people had spent thousands if not millions of dollars creating science that said race was based on genetics. White genes, in white minds, made black people only identified as "black" via hypodescent rules, smarter, prettier, and less lazy.

To this day, darker-skinned men are still assumed to be criminals faster. And they sure don't have modeling contracts waiting for them the day they leave jail. But now (and always) a man's worth isn't assessed using beauty the way a woman's worth is (right or wrong). That's why looks and white aesthetic as a measuring stick hasn't clung to black men the way it has to black women

That's why it looks like we, black women, are more affected by colorism. But that's only appearance.

These little girls running around with waist-length, straight weaves aren't crazy. They see what black men want on in rap videos, on television, in black produced movies, and in who black ball players tend to marry. Black men are a HUGE part of the black female colorism cycle.

Hotep logic denies this. But the truth always comes out.

WENDELL PIERCE GETS 20 MILLION TOGETHER TO INVEST IN BALTIMORE ARTISTS

Playing Clarence Thomas in the upcoming HBO movie "Confirmation," about the hearing that Thomas himself called "A High Tech Lynching" isn't the only thing that Wendell Pierce has going on.
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Actor Wendell Pierce, best known for his role as Detective Bunk Moreland on The Wire, is investing in a $20 million apartment complex in the arts district of Baltimore, he announced during a panel discussion at Columbia University on Saturday. The actor, 49, told Fusion it’s the beginning of a jobs program he intends to expand to other parts of the city.

A portion of the apartments in the building will be offered to Baltimore artists at a discounted rate, Pierce said. Artists living in the building will also have the opportunity to feature their artwork in the building’s galleries. And Baltimore residents will make up a portion of the construction team hired for the apartment project 

Fusion.net 

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http://fusion.net/story/289769/the-wire-actor-wendell-pierce-baltimore-project/

RECORDER HIDDEN IN BRAIDS REVEALS DOCTOR'S RACISM DURING SURGERY, ETHEL EASTER'S STORY

When a doctor treated her fear, pain, and tears with disdain then anger, Ethel Easter decided hide a recorder in her braids in case her Texas surgeon "accidentally" killed her.




DURING EASTER'S HERNIA OPERATION

"After Easter was sedated, the surgeon recounted their dispute to the other doctors. “She’s a handful,” he said in the recording. “She had some choice words for us in the clinic when we didn’t book her case in two weeks.”

“She said, ‘I’m going to call a lawyer and file a complaint,'” he recalled with a laugh. (Easter said she never mentioned a lawyer.)

“That doesn’t seem like the thing to say to the person who’s going to do your surgery,” another male voice retorted.

After repeated jokes about her belly button and peals of laughter at one point in the procedure, referrred to Easter as “always the queen,” The surgeon responded, “I feel sorry for her husband.”

The surgeon also used the name “Precious” several times in a manner that Easter interpreted as racial.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/07/patient-hid-recorder-in-her-hair-as-surgeons-operated-on-her-their-words-left-her-deeply-distressed/ 

In case you've forgotten, "Precious" is a 2009 movie 

about a fictional girl named "Precious" who is 

poor, black, & illiterate that winds up being 

saved from sexual and physical abuse 

by the light and white people 

in Lee Daniel's 

Uncle Tom's Cabin Treatment 

of an excellent book called "Push" by Sapphire .

So yeah. Easter isn't confused.

The "Precious" references had racial content and can be estimated to be racist in intention--especially after the Who-Do-You-Think-YOU-ARE-N-WORD when she insisted she couldn't take the pain for two months before he decided to fit her in and do her surgery

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that all the "Precious" comments were about body shaming. Precious was a big girl and white beauty aesthetic says white, rail thin, and doggone near ass-less is beautiful.

But the racism that is the name calling, stereotyping and body shaming is just icing on the cake. The racism cake itself is made up of the disregard for the pain caused by the hernia. The racism cake is almost made up of the disregard for the words that came out of her mouth in regards to her drug allergies.

Easter's breathing problems may have been the result as of something prescribed for her. When somebody tells you that a medication gives them a rash, you don't give the medicine to them anyway unless there's no other choice or you just don't care about the potential side effects....for....some....reason.

Make no mistake. Racist doctors with this level of contempt likely kill people regularly.

The number of black people slaughtered during The Tuskegee Experiment is probably minuscule compared to the unrecorded deaths of black and brown patients at the hands of careless white surgeons who barely saw them as human

You simply cannot have this much disrespect for another person's being and then be expected to work just as fast and just as hard as you would for a person you see as an equal human being when something unexpected happens during surgery.

I have anecdotal evidence that this is true.  I have family members that weren't nearly as lucky as Ethel Easter

Some of my relatives have seen the same contempt in the eyes of their white doctors that Easter saw in the eyes of hers. So these family members of mine refused to go to the doctor when they were pain. They wouldn't go until symptoms like coughing up blood appeared, despite incessant badgering from others, not until it was too late. As a result, instead of being my mother's age they're dead.

Don't you ever let anybody convince you that race isn't real, that racism isn't real, and that racism is damn deadly.

Remembering my cousin Garfield today.

A man was recently awarded $500,000 after recording what was said during his operation. I hope that sets precedent for this woman. If she's at a county hospital she could probably use the money. And she deserves a lot more than $500,000 after feeling forced by the pain to go under the knife of a doctor she knows does not see her as a human being.

I hope she gets millions of dollars and that this story gets nationwide attention.  

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"CONFIRMATION" ANITA HILL'S STORY ON HBO

The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas sexual harassment case heard during Thomas' confirmation hearings represents one of the darkest moments in Intra-racial Black history to take place in my lifetime. Nearly 25 years ago, a debate raged in our communities over who was telling the truth, who was lying, and where our support should lie.

Devastatingly, many black men and women felt that getting a black man on the Supreme Court was more important than any truth, more important than acknowledging the indignity a black woman may have suffered at his hands.

 'The notion that Hill should shut up and let Thomas [move on and move up into the Supreme Court] is just as horrifying today as it was two decades ago.' "

~ Jamilah Lemieux

"What Black Women Owe Anita Hill"

http://www.essence.com/2011/10/17/culture-love-war-what-black-women-owe-anita-hill

LIKE MANY BLACK AMERICANS, EVEN MAYA ANGELOU SUPPORTED OF CLARENCE THOMAS

"It's the classic bind that many black women of that generation found themselves in, and I think that Dr. Angelou, she was of the position that she needed to support a black man who was seeking a position of power, regardless," McLarin said.

In siding with Thomas, Maya Angelou sided against an African-American woman, Anita Hill, whose testimony in 1991 nearly derailed the conservative Supreme Court nominee. Hill -- who now teaches at Brandeis University -- accused Thomas of sexual harassment.

Angelou said,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phillip-martin/reconciling-maya-angelous_b_5412462.html

In case you haven't guessed, let me make it clear to you that both of the above quoted articles were written BEFORE the drug-em-and-rape-em accusations against Bill Cosby.

That is, Maya Angelou didn't respond any differently to her need to defend Clarence Thomas than many black women felt to defend Bill Cosby. Black women still feel the need to "support a black man who  [ is in ] a position of power, regardless."

For the most part? This has not changed.

The black community, male and female, has taken the very same approach to defending Cosby that they took to defending Clarence Thomas. And most of us have collectively done so at the expense of black women that many have chosen to pretend don't exist in this scandal...again.

Even non-feminist black women who cannot turn from the truth of Cosby any longer try to create smoke and mirrors diversions in the form of white comparisons (Stephen Collins)

--as if the wolves outside our community matter just as much as those within inside, 
--as if the initial betrayal of defending Cosby when so many came forward doesn't demand repentance and an apology, both.

The black community's defense of Clarence Thomas only happened in 1991. But you'd think it happened in 1901 for as many black people as there are still alive on this earth, still living in the United States, who will ever admit aloud that they supported Thomas over Hill simply because he was male. (And I promise you that there were plenty of people that were certain Hill was lying. Certain.)

Compared to what happened in the black community in regards to Bill Cosby though? Black support of Clarence Thomas wasn't "just" a slap in the face to black women from black men (and also from patriarchy embracing black women.*) Defending Clarence Thomas did us all long lasting harm.

In 1991, the willingness to decide that defending this particular black man no matter what, rather than pursue the truth is a gift that will keep on giving until Thomas goes the way of Scalia. And we have recent evidence of this.

The Voting Rights Act was gutted just a few years ago with a 5 to 4 vote that included Clarence Thomas' help. That is, Clarence Thomas made it possible for southern states like South Carolina to come up with all these new voting rules and voter ID laws to make sure black people don't vote...like it's 1965 or earlier all over again. (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law-jan-june13-scotus_06-25/)

As psychologically and emotionally terrible it has been to have Cliff Huxtable damaged by Bill Cosby's actions, at least The Cosby Scandal has held a mirror up to black community. We now know that the black community has learned little or nothing about valuing black women equally with black men since the Hill/Thomas Hearings.

HBO's "Confirmation" may or may not be truly from a black woman's point of view since I assume it is white male produced. But I have hopes that it is informative regardless of how produced it, directed it, financed it. I hope that it will be a way for some of us to get some cheap and easy history because if we don't know where we've been, we don't know where we are going.

The necessity of creating #SayHerName to add black women back to #BlackLivesMatter combined with the black reaction to Bill Cosby tells me we've been going around in circles for a while. The ranks of black feminists and womanists are swelling but not fast enough for my tastes. Anti-raicsm doesn't move fast enough for me either. But I expect more from my own people.

I'm hoping more and more black women will come to feel that way. As Beyonce recently pointed out, more men and women need to have their come to Jesus moment in regards to feminism -- which in its essence is only common sense.

So watch Kerry Washington as Anita Hill and use it as a spring board to learn a bit more about your own black female history.
HBO's PREVIEW OF "CONFIRMATION"  coming to HBO on April 16, 2016 A PREVIEW