” As for her benefitting…we are talking Spokane, Washington & claiming Black while serving the NAACP; those who know Spokane know how absurd that sounds.” Carl Mack, former Seattle President of the NAACP On The Black Top: White Woman Claims Black?! Because of my past service t[...]
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April 29th, 2015 - 10:27 am § in America
FACEBOOK: When is “thug” not a euphemism for “n******”
I hate newspeak. Orwell created the term in “1984” to describe the way the Ministry of Truth manipulated people by creating definition .. “War=Peace” or “Choice =Abortion” are examples. Of course Orwell’s fictional practice is now all too common as a pra[...]
April 14th, 2015 - 1:02 am § in Misc.
Conservatism Trumps Melanin in Seattle
Bruce Harrell is a self described mixed race Seattleite .. African and Japanese roots giving rise to a former Husky football player. Harrel, a very middle class guy quite at home in Bellevue where he has lived, is trying to play the “person of color” card in Seattle’s increasing[...]
March 8th, 2015 - 2:07 pm § in Misc.
POLTICAL CORRECTNESS: The PC crowd pounces
No honest person can dimiss the reality of racism against African Americans or Native Americans even though Africans and Caribeans are doing rather well in the US. Nor can any one who watches Fox fail to see the less than subtle racism of the Republicans. BUT Liberals can be as racist as the rig[...]
December 27th, 2014 - 2:05 pm § in The Ave Scene
FB calls me a racist?
Over at FB, Matt Taylor has criticized my harping on Al Sharpton’s role in the NY Police Demonstrations Anyone who starts shrieking about Sharpton in the face of peaceful and warranted protests, who acts as if Al Sharpton is in charge of all people of color, and who desperately tries to change[...]
December 25th, 2014 - 1:11 pm § in America
First Day of Kwanzaa
Charlie James shared Kofi Khemet‘s photo. Gary Maurice Warfield KWANZAA is celebrated Dec. 26th to Dec.31st “The History of Kwanzaa” Dr. Maulana ‘Ron’ Karenga, professor and chairman of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach, created Kwanzaa in 1966[...]
December 4th, 2014 - 10:45 am § in The Ave Scene
Seattle Media Covers Protesters: What is the story?
From the blog “Seattlish:” Seattle protesters bracing for another round of unsympathetic local TV news headlines KIRO-TV is apparently confused about why “protesters are still angry” about Darren Wilson not being indicted in the shooting of Mike Brown! Instead of maybe look[...]
November 23rd, 2014 - 11:54 am § in Misc.
Parents! DON’T Let Your Kids Play Outdoors With Toy Guns!
Because there too many paranoid and trigger-happy cops out there: “The 12-year-old boy wielding what turned out to be a BB gun when he was shot by police outside a Cleveland recreation center died early Sunday morning, a police union official confirmed. … The shooting came after a man [...]
November 2nd, 2014 - 9:23 am § in Uncategorized
Time for Jim to Go .. to Spokane?
Jim McDermott, will be reelected to Congress. That makes me sad. Jim is our local politician activist, showboat of the progressives , and Congressman. He still think she lives in Seattle .. a city dominated by unions, the blue class workers of his past. Jim’s mantra has been anti war, pr[...]
American Breeds: Race in America
The American concept of “race” is a farce. Some 40 years ago, as a medical student, I got into trouble when I asked my mentors why we were supposed to describe patients as Black or White? My mentors answered that there were genetic disorders. Excited by this idea, I began to take race hi[...]