What is wrong with the church Parts I-IV I feel sorry for the southern Baptists. In an effort to show how hard core conservative they are, they put the New Faith Mission Ministry out of the fellowship of the SBC. The only problem was not only is ‘Baptist’ nowhere in the name, nor has the “New Faith Mission Ministry” ever had any affiliation with the SBC, but it was for having a woman pastor. Trump was way, way ahead of his time and behind it at the same time. He loved to talk about ‘witch hunts’. With all the problems…
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Recently in the news I saw where AOC took a trip to Japan. During her visit she had occasion to lecture the Japanese on her perception of their dismal record regarding LGBTQIA rights. She told them things needed to change. They need to open to Western ideas and values on sexuality. Ladies and gentlemen, she didn’t even recognize the cruel irony in what she self-righteously said, with all the indignation her #browngirlpower could muster! Japan’s interactions with the west were filled with White folk telling them what they ought to be doing. This is characterized in the 19th century by…
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I did not watch the Grammys. I YouTube’d some conservative, Christian and religious critiques of it. I saw the usual Black liberal sectors praising its inclusivity and celebration of all lives and lifestyles. Needless to say I am shocked by the messaging, quite deliberate messaging and it is not because I am a prude. Let’s talk about the optics on celebrating something ‘unholy’, as a culture. When their movement got the world stage, in the fullness of ‘pop culture acceptance’; after years of trying to get the churches to accept it (LGBTQIA matrimony and family)as ‘holy’, after years of trying…
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Hopefully you saw the Kanye West Post. It is helpful but not necessary to the matters I am about to take up. Nick Cannon is another one that fits and befits the profile of pushing criminally insane examples of Black male behavior and then purporting it to be normative that exemplars of such behaviors are ‘role models’ for other Black males and thus by default all Black males are criminally insane and dangerous. I won’t repeat who stands to gain from such characterizations of Black males often in this essay and you can get it from the article on Kanye.…
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Why does anyone care what an insane lunatic is doing in his love life…except said lunatic has tons of money and that transforms his foibles, idiosyncrasies and downright criminal impulses into exoticism and eccentricism. For the rest of us it just lands you in jail, dead, broke and in an institution…not exotic. I am told Kanye is recruiting homeless people for his next fashion show. Actually I think that is a great idea Kanye because it highlights my point that no one calls homeless people exotic or eccentric and thereby worthy of social media interest or any other kind of…
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The call for Black lives to matter is on the whole a good thing. My problem is that like charity, affirmative action and religious impulses to proselytize, they are better served starting out at home! Loving as Jesus was (and is reputed to be), even he said he came to house of Israel first; that is to say his own. Let me repeat, my Negroid brothers and sisters that affirmative action, charity and religious proselytizing start at home. Indeed can we make the argument that White folks should affirm us (economically, politically, culturally) when we don’t affirm ourselves? Can I…
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It’s MLK Jr.’s birthday 2022. I’m so excited, ‘Marty King’ said not to celebrate his daddy’s birthday without making the White mainstream American government pass the Voting Rights Act legislation. Dexter King was somewhere celebrating with his White wife and mulatto children on a Malibu beach living his father’s real dream (living in an exclusive White neighborhood, gullible White women and money in no particular order). Meanwhile the slaughter of the innocents continues. Black on Black crime spirals head over heels as White mainstream liberals are perfectly willing to acknowledge ‘Black Lives Matter’ but it seems many young Black people…
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*As regards metro Atlanta politics, bureaucracy and Buckhead; while incompetence is better than corruption neither will keep the kingdom in your hands long. Slap the both of them together and you are doomed. *The current crop of Black and White politicians in Georgia and perhaps America are confused by the idea that what ‘merits’ a public servant is passing the background check or the credit score check. It’s ok that those ‘variables’ may keep you out of public service but the crime in American politics is that we think simply passing them means one has what it takes to be…
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As I reflect on the UGA National Championship win and the institution of football and football culture in the psyche of the deep south; it default and de facto is the last remnant of the antebellum southern Black/White structural dynamic of political economy. White leadership and control and Black labor for nearly majority White institutions of higher learning. Black labor and physicality and White leadership and everybody is happy. Black people and White people united in some kind of Elysian Fields of the old south like our provincial (if oft times brutal) southern institutions and methods of organization; that is…
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Many Americans watch reality shows but if you are in the Bluff long enough you are living a reality show except there aren’t any cameras (that you know of except police and security cameras) and you are not making any money. Just last week there were three incidents in the Bluff community that would have made Oprah, Dr. Phil and Iyanla (in no particular order Iyanla) salivate. They would feel like “it would be a good show to get inside your heads and see your past and pain and why you act the way you act”. It would make a…