RF23 - Agree to Disagree.. (Can We All Get Along? Please)
RF23
– Agree to Disagree
With
the death of Rodney King in June of this year, we all are reminded of his
famous, “Can We All Just Get Along?” It was supposed to stop the riots that
took place after four LAPD officers were found not guilty of his brutal
beating. That was over twenty years ago
and now I have to ask the same thing.
Can
We All Just Get Along? Please.
Why
am I asking?
Recently,
actress Stacey Dash tweeted that she believes that Republican Presidential
Candidate Mitt Romney will be good for our future, in other words, she supports
Mitt Romney. What followed after that
was a barrage of insults against her, a challenge to her blackness and all
kinds of idiotic stuff from people who look like her either partially or fully.
(Dash is bi-racial).
This
is not the first, a few weeks ago, Nikki Minaj said that she was supporting
Romney and received the same treatment as Dash and although some question
Minaj, because of her willingness to grab attention, felt that it may be
publicity stunt. If that is the case,
then she committed social suicide and hurt her career if the folks purchasing
her cd’s are all black.
Back
to my question..Can we all just get along, black republicans v. black
democrats? The answer is no, the
insults lobbed at anyone black and not a democrat or ‘obama forbid’, an obama
supporter by black liberals are known! And some of these blacks don’t have to
know your political leaning, just work in what’s perceived as a white business
or law firm, in my case and right off the back, the term sell out comes
out. It happened to me, after myself and
others in my law firm helped two brothas move office furniture in our building
and one of them was waiting for the new attorney to tip him, for the work he
received help for! After telling him
that the attorney would be with him shortly, he mumbled, “Tom” and tried to
walk away. Unfortunately for him, I’m
more of the pre-NOI Malcom X follower than King’s non-violent movement and lets
say, he might think twice before he openly calls another black man out his
name. And that was where I worked! mind
you, had he paid attention to the portrait in the hallway, where he was
standing, he would have seen that the firm was a BLACK OWNED LAW FIRM!!
Let
me ask this, Justice Clarence Thomas has
been in the Supreme Court since 1991 and I don’t recall any NAACP or Essence
Lifetime Achievement Awards being presented to him like his predecessor
received and I’m not saying Thomas is on the same planet as Thurgood Marshal,
but the man has been on the Supreme Court for 21 years and has either dissented
on issues that sided didn’t make constitutional sense, but just because, he’s a
Republican and considered to be a conservative he receives these quotes:
"We're
not sure this president is ever going to nominate another African-American to
the court. [Barack Obama]'s African-American. We've got someone who proposes to
be African-American on the court."
Eleanor
holmes-Democrat
And who can forget the ever so colorful
Harry Belafonte, who is still trying to be relevant in any era saying this when
it’s about
Black Republicans. Along with quotes
from another person trying to be relevant, Dick Gregory (Has anyone ever seen
Dick Gregory and “Famous Amos” in the same area?). All I can say is stay this way, Harry.
So can we get along? Let me give you another adventure of the
Black Republican. One weekend, I was
waiting to get my fade straight and an older gentlemen was sitting in the
chair, grinnin’ from ear to ear about Obama’s re-acceptance of his party’s
nomination to continue to be their man for the democratic party, apparently
Obama read a heck of a speech and the man was fired up, oh, dude was black and
he says, “Man, Obama got this wrapped up, he’s in again” I was puzzled, because as a voter and someone
watching the political field, I was trying to figure out what obama did to
deserve another term, after this one. So
I asked him and it went down like this a couple of weeks ago:
Me:
Excuse me, did the unemployment rate go down? (the numbers had just come out)
Him:
No, they the same.
Me:
So I don’t think that gets him re-elected with high unemployment numbers
Him: man, he’s in there, you see.
Me:
How?, no modern day president has ever been re-elected with a bad
economy, the last one being FDR. Did I mention “modern day?”
Him:
oh, you one of them, look, you talking in platitudes, man, look, he’s
done enough
Me:
like what?
Him:
He killed osama
Me:
Sir, my one year old grandson could have given that order, and he wasn’t
born when 9/11 happened
Him:
but he got ‘em
Me:
How?
Him:
What do you mean, how? He got him
Me:
How did he get him?
Him:
He sent the military in there and he got osama, it’s more than Bush did
Me: (realizing this is a merry go
around) okay, where did he get his intelligence?
Him: huh? What are you talking about
Me:
Where did he get his information as to Osama?
Him:
He got it from Gitmo
Me:
So let me get this straight, obama is reelected because he ordered the
death or capture of osama based on information received from one of the
detainees in Guantanamo Bay, the same gitmo that he promised to shut down, is
gitmo still open?
Him:
silent
Me:
gitmo was a campaign promise and one of the reasons why he was voted in
office, next to his unexplained hope and change..gitmo is open like Denny’s,
isn’t it. Why hasn’t he closed it? He
had control of both houses, didn’t need one solitary republican vote to get
anything passed, but he didn’t ! why?!
The only thing he got passed was this disastreous health care bill and
no one wanted that damn thing, so what did he do to get re-elected?!
Realizing that they’re guy was in a
pickle the owner of the barbershop stopped it..it was another JC TKO.
Me: why hasn’t he closed it? Wasn’t
that a campaign promise? Huh? Was it.
Him:
man, this is what’s wrong with us, we get a brotha in the white house
and we got our people to knock him down…
Me:
Wrong, this is what is wrong with our people, there seems to be a rule
that we all must talk, think and breath the same thing, when we’re all
individuals with own individual thought. I don’t dislike obama, I disagree with
his platform and his politics, period point blank! There’s no rule that all
black folk vote for the same party every bleepin’ year!
And this is what is wrong with black
folk, we all have to support obama because of fill in the blank or lack of fill
in the blank reason. That is crazy! And oh
historic note, WEB Dubois did not agree with Booker T.Washington in regard to the
direction of black folk and! Dr. King did not agree with Malcom X., but the
main point is the direction of blacks was in their best interests. Today, no one can say that the interest of
blacks are the point of any so called, self elected, self selected and media
appointed black leader. Even so called
black leaders or community leaders can’t agree to disagree, you remember what
happened to Tavis Smiley? Need a
reminder? Let me help.
Here
is simple explanation as to why Smiley left the Joyner Show, it seems to me
that Tavis should have told Tom that “damn man, if you can’t stay on in Los
Angeles, I got to roll, even I had a radio show in L.A.” sorry low blow for Joyner’s inability to be a
hit in Los Angeles, but it’s not Joyner it’s my favorite hypocrite too!
Here is Steve Harvey actually calling Smiley
and West Uncle Toms.
So when black libs disagree, they are ostracized
and ridiculed. I’m not a Smiley or West
fan, but I do have to support their rights to express their views and
rightfully disagree with them.
What happened to Dash, Nikki Minaj and
other black republicans are uncalled for and in my opinion, just ignorant.
posted by J.C. "Fanz23" Lewis, Jr | 6:00 PM
