tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46390338394894585162024-03-05T09:03:39.915-06:00Thoughts and Rants of an IndependentThe discussion of social issues and happenings across the South (sometimes the nation). Along with some rants about things such as the media (radio, TV, and internet), music, etc. from a socially progressive yet politically independent perspective.kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.comBlogger418125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-71777987681787470222015-12-28T22:29:00.000-06:002015-12-28T22:29:22.371-06:00Atlanta annexations and why should anyone care...I've decided to dust off my blog and post again for the first time in a while. This brief discussion is on the merits and idiocy of detractors of the Atlanta annexation of Sandtown and Loch Lomond areas of unincorporated Fulton County.<br />
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Well, some may not know but the City of Atlanta of only makes up approximately 134 square miles of the sprawling metropolitan area known as "Metro Atlanta". Since the recent and ongoing antics of (aversively racist) white Republicans of the Georgia General Assembly has been to essentially sever the artery of Fulton County, as a governmental entity providing service delivery to unincorporated areas within its boundaries, the City of Atlanta has been offering the possibility to close a historic unincorporated "donut hole/peninsula" in along Cascade Road along with the Sandtown and Loch Lomond areas in unincorporated southwestern Fulton County. <br />
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About this time last year, some city officials coordinated with members of the General Assembly about drafting legislation to provide an avenue for a public referendum to be held to annexing most of unincorporated Fulton north of Georgia State Route 6 (locally known as "Camp Creek Parkway" and the actual waterway known as Camp Creek into Atlanta. <br />
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While as a result the some longtime so-called "pro-black" detractors revived the idea of municipalizing all unincorporated Fulton in a proposed municipality named the "City of South Fulton", which failed at the referendum ballot 2-1 in 2007. This proposed municipality would be majority black and capture those very communities of Sandtown, Loch Lomond, and the aforementioned areas along Cascade Road all of the unincorporated areas in Fulton County. He along with a number of state legislators, whom of which oddly represented parts of the city of Atlanta in their respective districts as well, drafted a bill to revive this City of South Fulton idea. The supporters of this proposed municipality is Roger Bruce, a state legislator I know of whom spends more time gallivanting with ignorant whites like the Good Ol' Boys of Douglasville in Douglas County, an area that is apart of his oddly shaped House District 53. Bruce did everything in his power to stall and prevent the passage of the legislation that allow the Atlanta annexation of southwest Fulton to passage and go to the ballot for public vote. That in fact did occur, but so did bill to revive the South Fulton municipality. But it gets better...<br />
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In April 2015, citizens in those communities of Sandtown, Loch Lomond, and a subdivision named South Oaks at Cascade submitted petitions to the Atlanta Municipal Clerk's office requesting annexation into the city. To date, the South Oaks at Cascade petition was vetted and approved by Atlanta City Council in November, but the Loch Lomond, and Sandtown petitions are still pending. The most controversial one is the Sandtown petition which covered a vast territory including the properties of the Fulton County-operated Sandtown Park and two Fulton County Schools, Sandtown Middle and Asa Philip Randolph Elementary schools. However, this has cause an uproar because many parents outside of the Sandtown community send their children to this aformentioned schools. They have organized against the annexation on the grounds of preventing these schools from being absorbed into the Atlanta Independent School District, colloquially known as Atlanta Public Schools. This is where the lawsuits galore begins.<br />
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The City of Atlanta filed a lawsuit against the Atlanta Public School (APS), the municipal school district and the State of Georgia, repealing the state law requiring any annexed areas the option of sending their children to APS schools or remain in their county school district. Which in my personal opinion is STUPID and should be a no. However, Mayor Kasim Reed thinks this is a way to assuage the interests of the detractors in the Sandtown annexation and allowing this to progress forward. In November, a Georgia Circuit Court, i.e., the Fulton County Circuit Court, ruled that the lawsuit was frivolous and ruled against the plaintiff, the City of Atlanta. However, Atlanta has appealed this ruling all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court to be decided in 2016. <br />
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Here's my summary...yes it makes logical sense for the City of Atlanta to annex these areas into the city limits because they already use the Atlanta zipcode and postal designation, these areas already serviced by the City of Atlanta Watershed Management (the local water & sewer system), property values range around $500,000 to $1 million+, upgrade in law enforcement protection (because Fulton County Police is underfunded due mass municipalization in the county over the past decade), also upgrade in fire protection (same reasons for underfunding for law enforcement with the county government), and finally the logistics would clean up discrepancies with service delivery because of municipality limits of Atlanta are jagged depending on the neighborhoods in southwestern Fulton County.<br />
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I just written a lot but the conclusion provides the logic behind why this should happen. kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-62703831624037737252015-02-09T10:40:00.005-06:002015-02-09T10:46:33.545-06:00Congratulations Birmingham...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/alabama_gay_marriage_starts_to.html#incart_river">Birmingham have beaten Atlanta on the marriage equality forefront</a>. Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/alabama_chief_justice_roy_moor_4.html#incart_related_stories">the regressive fold are beacons of chaos</a> <a href="http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/2_alabama_judges_refuse_to_per.html">about the recognition of marriage equality in other parts of Alabama</a>. <br />
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In other words, if you LGBT or SGL (same-gender-loving) couples go to the Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham to get your licenses...LOL<br />
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SHOUT-OUT TO THE BLACK LGBTQ/SGLs in Birmingham getting your marriage licenses today!<br />
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As I've said, here in Atlanta, these clowns need to get it together, ASAP. <a href="http://blkindependent.blogspot.com/2014/12/im-back-sorta.html">The city has so many thirsty shrews here doing the absolute most and circus tricks for some random dick and ass and constantly disrespecting themselves</a>, but cannot get a steady significant other for peanuts, SMH. <br />
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Oh yeah, above is <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Olanda Smith and Dianah McCaryeo<span style="color: #292f33;">,</span></span></span> the first same-gender-loving couple married in Alabama, and they are black too!kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-18361027455134458922015-01-31T21:00:00.000-06:002015-01-31T21:00:52.644-06:00My take on some tidbits...On this new year, 2015, and oh yeah, Happy New Year, my hometown <a href="http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/01/birmingham_wins_city_chosen_as.html">Birmingham has won the rights to the World Games in 2021</a>. I must say congratulations to Birmingham since it has been downtrodden places for nearly 4 decades where most other Southern major cities have surpassed it in many ways. However, Birmingham has seen itself <a href="http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2014/03/birmingham_makes_list_of_top_1.html">rebound, revitalize, and begin an urban renaissance</a> in the past 5 years especially for its downtown. FYI, Birmingham also has some one of the best restaurant and lounge scenes in the nation, so us foodies and lounge lizards would enjoy the city.<br />
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I don't live there anymore, I'm in Atlanta now. However, it's still has a long way to go on many fronts that are too extensive to diatribe upon in this post without derailing my original purpose, but I digress. (Look up my older post tags for Birmingham, Metro Birmingham to understand that) Birmingham is a major US city to watch, for sure!<br />
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Recent firing of Atlanta's former fire chief, Kelvin Cochran, for distributing his book <i>Who Told You You Were Naked? </i>to his subordinates unsolicited back in 2014. Uh, where do I start? Let me keep it as simple as possible for everyone (including my own) attention span. <br />
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The guy is a moron, he gave his book to former subordinates to read unsolicited and then <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/fire-chief-suspended-one-month-without-pay-for-ant/njFM9/">he was suspended without pay in November 2014 for violating the City of Atlanta Ethics Code</a>. Then in January 2015, <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/reed-to-speak-about-atlanta-fire-chief-book-contro/njg9W/">Kasim Reed fired him because instead of using his time as a lesson learned instead he decided to go on a book tour to further add flames to the fire (no pun intended)</a> and solicit the attention of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention">Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)</a>, the same racist religious denomination that would have hung his black ass up as an effigy less than 5 decades ago. (Sidebar: there are many pragmatic, articulate, and level-head religious leaders of many other nominations so this is not shade or a snipe at you guys) <br />
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I'll get to the fuckery of why us black LGBTs are always caught in between a rock and a dumb place when it comes to fellow <i>folk</i> when in reality we (all black Americans) are in this together on the race front.<br />
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Meanwhile, now he is crying religious discrimination and last week got with the SBC and bunch of maroon black ministers whom are looking for a come-up held a rally in downtown Atlanta. The icing on the cake is <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/ex-atlanta-fire-chief-files-discrimination-complai/njtb7/">his moronic attempt to file an EEOC complaint against the City of Atlanta because of religious discrimination</a>.<br />
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Now the real deal, this idiot doesn't realize the SBC has been using him to pass a downright bigoted law in the Georgia General Assembly that would give any private business owner the right to fire people based on religious grounds. Can you say instant federal lawsuit? Cochran's smug ass and the brigade of black come-up ministers don't realize the SBC is using their asses like a cheap ho, but they are too dumb to 1) read up on the history of the SBC or 2) realize when you are being used. Cochran is a big ole dummy.<br />
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On to the black folk/black LGBT issue, well I'm going to be as objective as possible. Some black people, i.e. <i>folk</i>, will allow themselves to be led to slaughter on the mindless trip of always looking at being born LGBTQ as being a "choice". People don't choose to be born into 2 different marginalized groups (black and LGBTQ). Then you have some <i>folk</i> will even will become as duplicitous look for an enemy from within because some individuals are LGBTQ aka same-gender-love (SGL). Meanwhile, they don't realized that people like Angela Davis, Baynard Rustin, James Baldwin, and Langston Hughes were some of the strongest pro-black foot soldiers in the past, but ironically they are LGBTQ. It throws me off that you have folk of now trying to marginalize, fight, and even downright ridicule their fellow pro-black <i>folk</i>, but gets mad when they find out that most pro-black LGBTQ folk are actually very well-rounded, worldly, and articulated individuals that can hold their own. This is where I get off and say, to black people that are always looking for an enemy from within, please get some psychological help. There is no heaven or hell for you to put pro-black, black LGBTQ people in so get over yourself and stop derailing the fight because of your own insecurities, indeficiencies, and maybe own struggles with your own sexuality that projects itself onto others...<br />
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Finally, the Lee Daniel's show, <i>Empire, </i>which is clearly biting off of Starz show, <i>Power, </i>but that's not my issue. The issues are part of the aforementioned paragraph on folk whom stir up issues over queerism and the other one is Daniel's attempt to push the tacit optics that black folks can't have a functional relationship unless its with a non-black person. Catch that, shade. Yeah, I watch the show, but I know when somebody always is projecting their internal racial issues involving intra-racial intimate relationships. Yeah, Daniels has a Hispanic partner of Anglo European lineage, so am I surprised...no really. I wish there were more depictions of pro-black love even amongst LGBT/SGL people. kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-58043019661888294632014-12-27T17:12:00.000-06:002014-12-27T17:12:15.660-06:00I'm back sorta...It's been nearly 11 months since I've last posted. I'm back and hopefully on a regular basis. Life happens, but I'm working on moving back into Intown areas of Atlanta since I'm starting a new gig in my career field. Hopefully, I can continue to deliver my analyses of the things occurring in Metro Atlanta, Greater Birmingham, everywhere, and some life/social issues.<br />
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I will say this...why are there so many obtuse black gay and bisexual men or males in Atlanta. Let me be more specific, I was just reading a post by another blogger than mainly focuses on porn, yeah the gay kind. He was in shock or thrown off by a) how many people but particularly gay and bisexual males that are two timing backstabbers and b) how few people are truly your friends. I was like, "Uh, I've learned years ago from sheer observation but also some quasi-personal experiences that most of the guys that tend to migrate here are thirsty, whores, attention whores, narcissistic/sociopaths, and finally, the come-up artist aka "stunt queen". The few that do not fit these narratives are usually homebodies, low-key, or too busy with their careers to be caught up in the shenanigans. <br />
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I mean, I have a few friends that happened to be gay or bisexual males, but most of them are not. It's hard enough as it is to encounter and befriend decent people in general in any major city. However, befriending one that falls into the gay/bisexual fold is even rarer. Let's not pretend there aren't thirsty mofos on Adam4Adam, BGCLive and/or Jack'd, (and if you are foolish enough to be on these following ones then the joke is on you) Grindr and/or Manhunt that have profiles based in Atlanta to know what is going on. The thirst in real in this region and I can log onto any of these websites and look at how quick somebody is looking to fuck you before getting to know you. So the porn industry is a dog-eat-dog world for sure. I cannot even begin to tell you how warped the sense of reality because they are already not paid well because it is (black) urban gay porn. Then you have the come-up-artist and "survival" mode mentality then you will likely not find many whom are really a friend.<br />
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I'm not saying, but I'm just saying...<br />
<br />kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-2809207588655033662014-01-09T10:59:00.000-06:002014-01-09T10:59:30.811-06:00This has gotten ridiculousI swear the movement to municipalize all of Dekalb County has gotten to the point of ridiculous. This is the proposed "City of Stonecrest":<br />
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GEEZ!kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-46421043319399501632013-12-29T21:00:00.000-06:002013-12-29T21:00:21.176-06:00I see where you both are coming from, but sorry, you both are WRONG!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have to say the take on the cultural appropriation of black male slang by and the discussion that followed was so ODD. It just shows the rift that exists between the black heterosexual and black LGBTs over such simple issues.<br />
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Anyways, black LGBT author and blogger, <a href="http://rashiddarden.com/">Rashid Darden</a>, wrote on his own personal blog, <a href="http://dopaliciousdistrict.com/">Dopalicious District</a>, <a href="http://dopaliciousdistrict.com/2013/12/24/culture-shock-how-black-women-steal-black-gay-mens-slanguage/">how he is perped by the usage of "black gay male slang" by black heterosexual females in everyday life and on certain TV shows</a>. ***COUGH*** The Real Housewives of Atlanta & Married to Medicine ***COUGH***<br />
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This week’s Real Housewives of Atlanta was quite eventful, and other blogs will give you a proper recap. For me, seeing Cynthia Bailey give Mynique Smith an “education” in gay black slang made me uncomfortable.</div>
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I am a black gay man and for years I’ve seen our culture and language appropriated by white people and by women. On one hand, I can’t be too mad because that’s just the way culture and language works. On the other hand, stop stealing our shit.</div>
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Darden expresses how he feels that many black heterosexual females have stolen the lingo of black gay men for their usage, but many of them are quite homophobic. <br />
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On the flipside, the blog post wind up becoming discussion of the popular black female lifestyle blog, <i><a href="http://madamenoire.com/">Madame Noire</a></i>, where columnist, Charling Ball, posted <a href="http://madamenoire.com/335721/straight-shade-straight-black-women-stealing-gay-black-male-language/">an extrapolated take/rebuttal on the topic</a>. Meanwhile, the commentator comes out on both sites (mostly black females) antagonizing Darden and other black gay males for feeling that slang/lingo was their originally. As a matter of fact, many posters on the Madame Noire site kept refuting this about black LGBT culture:<br />
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<a data-action="profile" data-user="30914824" href="http://madamenoire.com/335721/straight-shade-straight-black-women-stealing-gay-black-male-language/#" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.1s linear; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(219, 83, 85) !important; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s linear;">cheekee baby</a>: <span style="color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 20.98958396911621px;">Ummmm Gay black men have been fashioning themselves after black women for ages. I mean really they are walking around with purses and high heels meant for women. Hello! Too many act like sassy caricatures of black women. So he clearly needs to get over himself.</span></blockquote>
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<a data-action="profile" data-user="52997241" href="http://madamenoire.com/335721/straight-shade-straight-black-women-stealing-gay-black-male-language/#" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.1s linear; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(219, 83, 85) !important; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s linear;">Nikia D-Shiznit</a>: <span style="color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 20.98958396911621px;">So, gay black men walk around looking and dressing like women, behaving in ways that are feminine or what they think women do.... But their language is being misappropriated? I cry why I see a limp wristed man in a dress and high heels saying "hheeeyyyy."</span></blockquote>
While others went to the usual attacks of saying this about black gay males:<br />
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<span style="color: #777777; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 16.99652862548828px;">lockstress:</span> <span style="color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 20.98958396911621px;">So ya'll can borrow and wear our panties but I can't say hunty??? Boo...get a cramp and complain for REAL!</span></blockquote>
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<span class="author publisher-anchor-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 16.99652862548828px;"><a data-action="profile" data-user="86856955" href="http://madamenoire.com/335721/straight-shade-straight-black-women-stealing-gay-black-male-language/#" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.1s linear; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(219, 83, 85) !important; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s linear;">Chaz</a></span><span style="color: #777777; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 16.99652862548828px;"> :</span> <span style="color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 20.98958396911621px;">Why did this writer even take the time out to write this article? He is talking about black females using words that supposedly black gay men came up with? LOL. Wow. You don't see us black females going around talking about how much gay men wanna be women. How they go around calling themselves "girl" , wearing eyelashes, make up, weave, they get butt implants, breast implants... must I go on?</span></blockquote>
Now, I'm not here for homoantagonism nor am I here for misogyny, but this is some bullshit...<br />
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This is where I feel both are wrong because 1) Yes, many black LGBTs have taken their behaviors, manners, etc. from older black women like their grandmother, aunts, mothers, etc. so it isn't for black males to claim originally, but 2) The terminology "read" isn't from black female culture at all because that was popularized by the NYC drag queens popularized by the documentary "Paris Is Burning" and finally 3) Yes, there are some asinine black heterosexual and homoantagonist bisexual females that ridicule black gay/bisexual/transgendered males will use that particular lingo and hypocritically hate on, express strong dislike, or possess hatred for that aforementioned group. <br />
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It is not my place to take sides on this subject because my last point is poignant about the whole topic. Additionally, there is not excuse for black heterosexuals regardless of gender to possess homophobic bias or homophobia towards black LGBTs when we are all in the same boat together in this seemingly anti-black Western society. This has to cease if we are to push forward as a culture. Attacking black LGBTs is as unbecoming of black folks as attacking mixed raced/biracial individuals for only having 1 black parent because they don't possess 2 black parents. Just like black LGBTs didn't ask to be born with feelings of sexual attraction towards the same gender, both genders, or gender dysmorphia about themselves is the same as those mixed race or biracial individuals being born to parents with 2 different racial/ethnic backgrounds.kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-25063268277902643082013-12-24T11:09:00.000-06:002013-12-25T16:13:00.340-06:00Oh the things, I haven't forgotten at all...For starters, I do remember the days when I was younger and saw acceptance from others due to my earlier struggles with my weight. However, when one comes to terms to understand yourself from your race (and for some their ethnicity), it gets even more complicated when you add sexuality to the mix. My sexuality has been more of non-factor for me because I have never really allowed it to be placed at the forefront of my personal identity. On the other hand, when one does began to interact with their peers and form relationships, it does become a kind come into play along with the other aforementioned characteristics such as race, ethnicity, height, and body type (weight).<br />
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Anyways, to get to the point. I came across <a href="http://www.gmfa.org.uk/Sites/fsmagazine/pages/fs133-sexual-racism">this article</a> from GMFA, a UK-based organization that promotes positive and good health practices for gay, bisexual, and queer males. The article is very true and quite on point of some of the things many non-white but particularly black gay and bisexual males have to deal with when they are on their journal of self acceptance and confidence. This interesting segment of the article stuck out to me:<br />
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Honestly, that is my journey to now went except I was 19 versus 17. At the point and time now, I am confident in myself and don't care for anyone regardless of race if they aren't attracted to me. However, I do still sigh for many SGL of color that seek companionship with those that maybe white face rejection for their race. I have said time and time again, that exclusively seeking any group is going to be recipe for constant rejection, but with time I have found myself desiring a long term relationship and companionship with another black male. It's not to say I cannot be with somebody that isn't a non-black male, but the truth is the likelihood is very high considering how so often sexual racism and <a href="http://blkindependent.blogspot.com/2012/10/im-going-to-dedicate-5-minutes-of-my.html">fetishization</a> plays a heavy role in interracial interactions still on a same-gender loving (SGL) relationships.<br />
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At the moment, I have been happily dating someone new for 6+ months and yeah it is a black guy, but I still to remember those days of the past when this was one of my challenges of personal growth.<br />
<br />kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-35981589257269534442013-12-17T18:11:00.000-06:002013-12-17T18:11:37.750-06:00I am still aroundI am currently contemplating if I will be shifting to the WordPress site I own or continue to hold this domain to blog. As more free time and renewed dedication to expressing myself comes clear to me in the coming weeks I will decide. <br />
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Oh yeah, let's me say this. I am annoyed with Beyonce and her hype machine, but that is all. I have never been a fan like that rather appreciative of the artistry. <br />
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On the planning front, it looks like the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham is <a href="http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/12/planning_commission_director_t.html">under fire again</a> by <a href="http://alabamacorruption.blogspot.com/2011/01/birmingham-news-op-ed-board-gives-bard.html">Alphabet Soup</a> but this type using a lobbyist firm. They <a href="http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/12/group_alleges_collusion_betwee.html#incart_river_default">accused RPCGB of aiding environmentalists in sabotaging their pet project</a> that leads to nowhere and goes through nothing but ecologically sensitive environs. Those assholes stay trying to force the Greater Birmingham area to continue to sprawl out into the hollow ground of northern Jeffco with their multi-billion dollar boondoogle. I do mean hollow ground considering I know how many abandoned mines are located in that portion of Alabama's most populous county. Can you say sinkholes?<br />
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In Metro Atlanta, the rush to municipalize all areas within the two core counties that are economically viable and thriving continues. Now the aversively racist white suburbanites (whom are actually urbanites) within DeKalb County are pushing for the creation of the "City of Briarcliff" in North Central DeKalb County. This initiative is another imagination-gone-wild creation of upset over the shift in demographic suburban white Georgians that DeKalb County is no longer a white-dominated haven of years past (see the creation of the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunwoody,_Georgia">City of Dunwoody, Georgia</a>" for proof). The Briarcliff group will release a "<a href="http://www.decaturmetro.com/2013/12/17/city-of-briarcliff-initiative-to-release-cityhood-feasibility-study-results-tonight/">feasibility study</a>" about their imaginary "city" so it can become reality. The true gag is the conflict with the better organized (terms in developmental patterns and actually having a "main street business district") "City of Tucker" initiative over the Northlake Mall commercial and business district. Apparently, there is a battle royale over whom will claim the Northlake Commercial District. Yep, Atlanta is trying to catch up with Birmingham over which Southern major metro has the most balkanized urban core.<br />
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'Tis is all for now.kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-65439134571356081852013-07-24T17:01:00.001-05:002013-07-24T17:01:23.543-05:00Here's something I wanted to say aloudIf you are a black queer (gay or bisexual) male and still running after everything that looks good because "it looks good" then you are a fool! Honestly, I don't know how many times I have reiterate that aloud to so-called grown ass men. Meanwhile, they are the same ones boo-hooing about some "golddigger", "slut bucket", or "game player". Look, we are all human and are fascinated by the "good looking" but after a certain point in life you have to do a cost-benefit analysis involving the matters of heart. Of course, we all want someone that is physically attractive, but you also have to someone that shares your common interest, values, and similar life goals. Additionally, you have to be with someone that is on similar level (economically) or strives to better themselves to your level (or greater). It's all quite simple and if you cannot see these things because you are too busy getting dicked down or looking to dick somebody down then that is on you...<br />
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'Tis is allkaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-86630622533996529422013-06-30T13:20:00.000-05:002013-06-30T13:47:43.686-05:00Now this is ridiculous and interesting…<div class="Publishwithline">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Alabama
and Georgia doesn’t just share a common border.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Instead both state’s Democratic parties share the same damn problems at
the same damn time.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Although I haven’t
been blogging extensively, the Alabama Democratic Party (ADP) has seen a mutiny
of sorts with now former party leader, Mark Kennedy, jumping ship and forming
his own Democratic caucus.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">As a result,
the resident asshole, Joe Reed, and human Goodyear blimp, Nancy Worley, are
running the party when neither one of them are capable or possess the
competency to do the job.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyways here
in Georgia, the Democratic Party of Georgia (DPG) apparently the same thing is
occur where the former chairman, Mike Berlon, whom faced a mountain-load of
criticisms that led to his resignation.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">As a result, both Alabama and Georgia are without chairmen of their
state Democratic parties.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Another
parallel is the efforts of both Democratic parties to have white males as their
chairmen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DPG must have one because
according to Jim Galloway of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Atlanta
Journal-Constitution</i>, </span><a href="http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/political-insider/2013/jun/21/strategic-sense-behind-democratic-mandate-white-ma/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">party rules says that the
chairman and vice-chairman must be “demographically opposite” of one another</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">First, the Charter provides that
the Chair and the First Vice-Chair must be of opposite gender. (C.4.1.2).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since the State Committee elected a female
First Vice-Chair at the last party general election, and that officer is still
serving, the Charter requires that the Chair be male. Second, the Charter
provides that where a racial group constitutes 20% or more of the registered
voters in the state then at least one member of that group must be an officer
as either Chair, First Vice-Chair, or additional Vice-Chairs. (C.4.1.3). The
Party had been in compliance with this provision because the Chair was white.
The resignation of that officer creates a non-compliance situation. The
Charter, therefore, restricts candidates in this special election by race.
Thus, any white male Democrat is eligible to run in this special election.”</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ADP
doesn’t have such stringent rules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Instead, they want to do this to appease to the mostly simple-minded (by
default racially prejudice) white Alabamian voters whom has jumped from the
Democratic to Republican affiliations because of the “big bad negro in the
White House” and the fact that ADP has been too stupid to evolve with the
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ADP has forced-fed the idea
of Alabama House Representative Craig Ford of Gadsden ought to be the de-facto
Alabama Legislative Democratic leader because he is white (shocker
right?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same ideology is behind the
ADP whom wants its face to be led by a white male as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Sometimes,
a dragging ought to be in order like how </span><a href="http://blkindependent.blogspot.com/2013/03/lol.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Alabama House Representative Joe
Mitchell of Mobile did to that prejudiced ass that wrote him attempting to
chastise and patronize him about racial politics and gun rights</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I feel that ought to be the case with the demographic game of shuffle
that attempts to placate the “feeble minds” of those confirmation bias-seeking
types of white Southerners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
annoying to watch after something as ignorant as hell as this past week with
the weakening of the Voters’ Rights Act of 1964 on the grounds of “Section 5
being only applied to jurisdictions with historical precedence of racial
discrimination”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though I do agree
Section 2 ought to be enforced which would guarantee pre-clearance <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nationwide, but we all know by now the GOP-led
US House of Representatives lacks the fortitude to pass such a progressive
statute since it would arguably work against the “grand scheme (of keeping
non-whites out of power in the long run)”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On a
localized standpoint, Georgia and Alabama are both shifting demographically
away being predominately white states.
The rhetoric that seems to be tossed around by *sic (white) commenters
on both the <i>Birmingham News</i> and now
the <i>Atlanta Journal Constitution</i>
websites are that “blacks and Hispanics will wake up and becoming economically
independent and will become conservative”.
Actually, those dipshits don’t realize that the reason why black,
Hispanic, Asian, and other non-white Americans aren’t voting for Republicans is
simple they aren’t here for the mostly white Republican Party racial
prejudice. I’m done for now…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I said yesterday I was moving, but this foolishness has moved me to post while I am in transition.<br />
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NYC ain't shit! I mean how many black and Latino gay/bisexual males have to be killed in prominent places for somebody that NYC is more hype than substance on the front of LGBTs? Yesterday, <a href="http://southern4life.blogspot.com/2013/05/mark-carson-was-gay-man-who-was-killed.html">a black gay man</a> was <a href="http://southern4life.blogspot.com/2013/05/gay-man-was-shot-dead-in-greenwich.html">gunned down in Greenwich Village, the supposedly most gay-friendly portion of Manhattan</a>. I'm like WTF is going on with this city. First, <a href="http://blkindependent.blogspot.com/2012/10/uh-huh-so-you-want-to-deal-with-nyc.html">stop and frisk with all blacks and Latinos</a>, but now this B.S. I've never bought into the bullshit P.R. campaign NYC and its deluded boosters has been trying to shove our throats that "it's the gay mecca". For whom, wealthy, white gay and bisexual men that live the "high life"? Reality check, if you are black and/or of Latino descent and LGBTs and reside in New York, you better watch your surroundings at all times because that city seems to be more dangerous than most originally though.<br />
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As quiet it has been kept,<a href="http://towleroad.typepad.com/files/hate-crime-in-nys-2010-annual-report.pdf"> NYC has seen a skyrocket in the number of hate crimes involving LGBTs in the past few years</a> (<a href="http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/crimnet/ojsa/2011-hate-crime.pdf">2011 NYS Hate Crime Annual Report here</a> shows a continuation of the increase 16% in 2010 to 25.2% in 2011). Both reports shows that anti-homosexual male hate crimes has been in the increase in New York in the past few years. This is the reason why <a href="http://blkindependent.blogspot.com/2012/10/uh-huh-so-you-want-to-deal-with-nyc.html">I was so against moving to NYC years ago when my idiotic ex and his dreams of sugarplums of NYC deluded him out of reality thinking</a> I was going to move up there with him. (To my ex: Yes, this is exactly what I was talking about when we were conversing about NYC years ago. This is why I don't fuck with NYC like that. Hell, at least I know what I'm dealing with while here in Atlanta or DC and Chicago for that matter.)<br />
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H/T to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/16723949771552274515">V</a> and his blog <a href="http://southern4life.blogspot.com/">Maybe's It's Me</a> for the photo and links.<br />
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<br />kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-22518517271321828312013-05-18T15:42:00.001-05:002013-05-18T15:42:32.815-05:00I'm moving to a new placeIn other words, my life has me in an upheaval mode at the moment, thus posting has been scarce at best. Well, I will be somewhat back to posting on a semi-regular upon me getting fully established into my new place. I'm excited yet anxious about this move because it's going to involve a lot of shifting my stuff.kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-25207338008616570042013-04-08T21:10:00.001-05:002013-04-08T21:10:05.307-05:00Let's have this discussionWell, I spent 2 hours of my life that I'll never get back at the AMC -Phipps Plaza theater watching the Tyler Perry move "Temptation". Yeah, I did it because I was bored and wanted to avoid rush hour chaos that Atlanta is renowned for. Anyways, yeah that movies was "slick" but not in a good way about how they wanted to portray HIV as a disease of punishment. The movies main character was initially in love with her husband but was "tempted" by a rich man to engage and give into the temptation of lust. Blah, blah, blah...<br />
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Basically, Perry wrote the ending to show that if you cheat on your spouse HIV is the punishment you deserve. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here screwface about this movie because although I don't have HIV, I have been in a relationship with someone that had HIV. I know for a fact that the disease known as HIV does not discriminate, and many have contracted it from monogamous relationships. The fact that Perry decided to use this as a wedge issue is just plain shameful. <br />
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I'll express more later...kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-18377534616722709732013-03-30T13:02:00.000-05:002013-03-30T13:14:47.845-05:00LOLPaint me as unimpressed with the typical reaction of aversive biased white Alabamians reacting to Alabama House Representative Joe Mitchell's comments to the northern Jefferson County resident, Eddie Maxwell when he wrote his letter to state house representatives warning them to not to even attempt to draft a gun control bill in the Alabama legislature. <b><i>*The audacity and arrogance of this man alone deserves reprisal*</i></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">From: Eddie Maxwell</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;" />
<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:54 PM</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;" />
<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">To: (all members of state legislature)</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;" />
<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Subject: Gun Control and our Constitutions</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;" />
<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Can the officers of our state government change our constitution when the change is forbidden by the people? The Supreme Court of Alabama has ruled that it cannot in an opinion dealing with another matter where change is forbidden. You have sworn to support our constitution. You have defined a violation of an oath in an official proceeding as a class C felony (C.O.A. Section 13A-10-101 Perjury in the first degree).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Do not violate your oath of office by introducing additional gun control bills or by allowing those already enacted to remain in the body of our laws.</span></blockquote>
Mitchell responded at first with response of the nature of why are you worried about this when shit has gotten real for years for black Alabamians...<br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">From: Representative Joseph Mitchell</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;" />
<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 11:59 PM</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">To: Eddie Maxwell</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">cc: (all members)</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;" />
<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Subject: Re: Gun Control and our Constitutions</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Hey man. You have used the word ‘except’ when I think you mean somethin’ else.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;" />
<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Hey man. Your folk never used all this sheit to protect my folk from your slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, incestuous, snaggle-toothed, backward-a**ed, inbreed, imported criminal-minded kin folk. You can keep sending me stuff like you have however because it helps me explain to my constituents why they should protect that 2nd amendment thing AFTER we finish stocking up on spare parts, munitions and the like.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Bring it. As one of my friends in the Alabama Senate suggested – “BRING IT!!!!”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">JOSEPHm, a prepper (’70-’13)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Mobile County</span></blockquote>
Maxwell then responded with a "how dare you...because I have a black friend and my daddy helped blacks...."<br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">From: Eddie Maxwell</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;" />
<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 2:23 PM</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">To: Representative Joseph Mitchell</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">cc: (all members)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Rep. Mitchell and other members of the Legislature of Alabama,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">That’s not the type of reply I expect to receive from a state legislator. The lack of response to your racist comments from your fellow members speaks volumes about the state of our legislature as a whole.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">I’m not a racist and I find your reply to be especially offensive considering the position you hold.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">My parents and grandparents taught me to love God and my fellow man as myself. My father was threatened by members of his church back in 1954 for inviting a black family to attend the church he pastored.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">My father-in-law was threatened when he hired a young negro man to work in his shop back in 1968 in a community where several neighbors were members of the Ku Klux Klan. He didn’t allow those threats to keep him from treating people of all races equally.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">In 1969, I was a draftee in the US Army and bunked with a young negro man named Earl Shinholster at Fort Benning. Earl later became a prominent leader of the NAACP back home in Georgia after serving with me in the Army. When I received numerous racist threats from negroes who knew I lived near Birmingham, Earl warned me of the knives they carried and cautioned me to be more careful around them. Earl had been watching me and he had come to know and respect me for my Christian values. Earl and I became friends and he helped me get through some tough times there.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Racism is not exclusive to my own people. I learned that before 1955. It is just as ugly now as it was then, regardless of the race of the person who is consumed by it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">I love my country and my state, and I vowed to support and defend our constitutions. I expect you and all of our representative to do the same.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Sincerely,</span><br />
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Anyways, Mitchell responded in due regard by reading that motherfucker for the filth and then some. I mean he read his ass...<br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">From: Representative Joseph Mitchell</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 5:09 PM</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">To: Eddie Maxwell</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Subject: Re: Gun Control and our Constitutions</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Eddie. I grew up in Albany Ga. I was a military brat for most of my youth. Air Jump Master and DI USMC. Because I preference my issues with the values that I learned in ‘the heat of battle’ during the mid-fifties through the ‘70’s and into today might tell you what and who I am. I find no need to define it or explain it to you because you can identify with the threats of reprisals against your folk for helping somebody of African Descent. I know ol’ Ft. Benning and Columbus like the palm of my hand.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Where were you during the Albany Movement? Oh…. You shoulda been there. I am certain that your experiences through how your kin folk ‘helped’ colored folk would have helped us a lot when we were bombed in Albany, Leesburg, Newton and Sylvester.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">I apologize for the restless nights your folk endured out of fear of the Klan. At least as they stood on the sidewalk watching my cousins and me get beat up by some of your neighbors they were able to push you out into the street to physically intervene. They did do that didn’t they? Oh …. Well, I rear where you were one of the first to integrate the all-colored school to prove your parents point.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Do you that your fathers ‘black’ friend was unable to get FHA benefits? Knowing about those knives and stuff were of benefit but did you know that colored military typically carried knives to protect themselves from folk who looked like your father? Historically, violence on Black folk was committed by White folk. It’s a fact but is it ‘racist?’ It is ‘racial.’ I had seven uncles and three aunts who served in three different ‘encounters. My father was Regular Army.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Eddie, a person without the power to exercise a threat cannot be a racist because he or she will be eliminated. A person who can, by merely stepping back on the sidewalk’ ore being quiet can support racism and benefit from the ‘first hired,’ affirmative action, preferential treatment fostered by systemic racism and bigotry.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">It is unlikely that I, through sharing my many experiences on the receiving end, will convince you of your errors. For that matter, you will never convince me that our discomforts were comparable. Let the next generations resolve this continuing story.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Lock and load.</span><br />
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Meanwhile, House Representative Patricia Todd of Birmingham, also the only openly gay member of the Alabama Legislature responded with this:<br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">From: Patricia Todd</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 4:41 PM</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">To: Eddie Maxwell</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Subject: Re: Gun Control and our Constitutions</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">Mr. Maxwell:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">I am Patricia Todd, a member of the house. I just received this chain of emails and wanted to let you know that I am with you on the gun issue and am saddened by the tone of my colleagues email. All of us have suffered from the racism of the past and I thank you for your civic and thoughtful response.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">We all have different life experience that shapes our values. I pray that we can all respect, and, celebrate, our differences. That is what make America the greatest country on earth, scars and all.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e5e5e5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.99305534362793px;">This member hears you loud and clear. </span></blockquote>
Now Todd could have kept that $5.02 to herself. Although she has been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Todd#2006_election">a victim to the idiocy of the Alabama Democratic Caucus's and Joe "the Jackass" Reed's Alabama Democratic Coalition's homophobia and racial prejudice</a> because they don't want an openly gay, white woman as the representative for the heavily black 54th house district of Alabama, but still... I am not here for Todd's "oh but I understand...blah, blah, blah..." to that assclown Maxwell from northern Jefferson County. Maxwell's ass feels entitled due to his white privilege, Southern upbringing, and being a male, whom clings to his gun because his inferiority complex to make up for his likely "fear of the <i>others </i>taking over this nation". <br />
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Also<a href="http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/post_44.html#incart_river"> the <i>Birmingham News</i>' website and its comment section is perpetrating</a> allowing individuals that share this entitled and myopic philosophy a way to pretend to be faux victims via this incident. This is why Alabama is held back because so many white Alabamians whine and dramatize things that almost never happen like this but ignores the true inequities like how majority black school districts are underfunded by the archaic Alabama Constitution along with other institutionalized measures. So pathetic.<br />
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Reverend Al Sharpton made an ass of <a href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-02-16/news/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation/">the whore-monger for sheriff of Pinal County</a>, Arizona on his defiance of following <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/01/16/read_president_obama_s_new_proposed_executive_orders_and_legislation_on.html">President Obama's executive orders on gun controls</a>. Oh yeah, the good sheriff, Paul Babeau, wrote <a href="http://www.azfamily.com/news/Babeu-to-president-Laws-created-by-executive-order-are-unconstitutional-188350411.html">a pretty little letter without any real explanation rather than bullshit talking points with no validating evidence </a>(just like his argument with Reverend Sharpton)...kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-84691736789711789642013-01-20T17:48:00.003-06:002013-01-25T12:41:40.020-06:00Ahhh, urban radio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I dedicate this post to what is wrong with WPGC 95.5 in Washington D.C. If you don't know much about me is that I'm an avid listener of terrestrial radio (even in this day and age of mostly corporate-owned radio). Anyways, CBS Radio's former urban flagship is still suffering from the same problems plaguing it back in 2007 when the Portable People Meter (PPM) system was introduced to the Washington, D.C. radio market. (PPM is a system of Arbitron ratings that records instantaneous measurements of how many, often, and how long people listen to a particular radio station.)<br />
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Apparently, there back to the same place they were some 4 years ago in the DC market overall 6+ Arbitron ratings. As of December 2012, the station is currently <a href="http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb015">14th overall in the market</a>. It kind of embarrassing considering CBS hired Jason Kidd, a DMV local to be the station's program director and turn the tide of this wayward ship in 2011. Prior to Kidd's tenure, WPGC began to reintroduce some pop songs only spun on rhythmic contemporary hits radio stations like Z100 in New York, B96 in Chicago, and Power 96 in Miami.<br />
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Although the station has officially moved from the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop panel to the Rhythmic panel in July, its ratings have remained stagnant with only occasional influx of marginally higher overall ratings. The results display that their problems lay with playlist which is a mixture of contemporary hip-hop, R&B, and pop songs. However, the station's mixture of contemporary hip-hop and R&B is mostly chart topper songs from either genre rather than a wider variety of such found on most other urban stations. Although their promotional events like "For Sisters Only" and concerts of the hottest hip-hop and R&B artists mainly targets 25-40 year black particularly black females, but the all-over-the-place playlist is main deterrent. Basically, they have given their core audience, 18-49 year old blacks, a reason to look elsewhere a significant portion of the time. <br />
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My solution, it's time WPGC goes back to its roots of being an urban contemporary radio station that occasionally spins pop or dance music but focuses primarily on R&B and hip-hop song titles. However, the DC region hasn't changed to the point that it would warrant them to attempt to sound like Z100 in NYC because the region has a larger than average black population. Also their numbers are abysmal and there needs to be some serious soul-searching on the station's core demographic group (which has always been 18-49 year old blacks). It's bad when Radio One's WKYS is eating their lunch like it is going out of style in the 18-34 demographic group overall.kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-45753038926867882182013-01-13T11:49:00.001-06:002013-01-13T13:53:14.760-06:00Things I don't miss about the Chattahoochee Valley...this incident reminds me whyThings like this idiotic child. <br />
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He is obviously a product of this environment. Where blacks and whites intergrating into a social setting is this particular area is damn near impossible.<br />
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Anyways, <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.wtvm.com/story/20512441/russell-county-authorities-intercept-school-terror-plot">17-year-old Derek Shrout wrote in a journal that he left at school</a> wanted to commit a violent act against a number of students that attended Russell County High School in Seale, Alabama. Shrout also <a href="http://www.wtvm.com/story/20525710/2013/01/07/russell-co-student-accused-of-attempted-terror-plot-appears-in-court">proclaimed himself a "white </a></span><a href="http://www.wtvm.com/story/20525710/2013/01/07/russell-co-student-accused-of-attempted-terror-plot-appears-in-court">supremacist" wanted to kill numerous black students and 1 assumed gay student</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He plead not guilty at his pending charges. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/01/06/2334878/russell-county-sheriff-teen-planned.html#storylink=cpy">His parents bonded him out at $75,000 soon as his court </a></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/01/06/2334878/russell-county-sheriff-teen-planned.html#storylink=cpy">arraignment was over</a>. (</span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Probably for his safety known this locale is in the middle of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_(U.S._region)">Black Belt</a>, and loaded with more blacks behind bars than whites whom have nothing else left to lose knowing this about that idiot...</b></i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The killing thing is that some of his classmates noticed a change in his behavior in the past few months. Shorout went from <a href="http://www.wtvm.com/story/20516684/classmates-react-to-arrest-of-accused-russell-county-bomber">a being a teen dedicated to the JROTC to a one that congregated and focused around others with white power oriented activities</a> even doing the Nazi salute and chant. He apparently is a military brat and relocated with his family from Kansas to Alabama in the past year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh course, the media (WTVM/Columbus) doing their job of speaking to familiars to this loon. His mother was saying <a href="http://phenixcity.wtvm.com/news/news/60765-mom-teen-accused-terror-plot-he-good-boy">"he is a good boy"</a> (cue eye roll). However, I thank <a href="http://gawker.com/5973485/the-unbearable-invisibility-of-white-masculinity-innocence-in-the-age-of-white-male-mass-shootings?utm_source=deadspin.com&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=recirculation&post=56134926">Gawker for this article</a> because it spells it out in long form why the US media does such dubious things for only white males when everybody else is assumed to be guilty-as-charged.</span>kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-73199348071943766932012-12-26T13:25:00.000-06:002012-12-26T13:25:06.449-06:00Oops! Did he say that one aloud?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I think it high past time for somebody to have said this one aloud considering why 99% of most mass shootings are perpetuated by what white males. If everyone else is being profiled and suspected of "being up to no good" then what is good for the goose is good for the gander as well on these methods of criminal profiling. Kudos to Salon contributor and social commentator, <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/12/17/would_the_u_s_government_profile_white_men/">David Sirota, for saying this one aloud</a>.<br />
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The irony is as <a href="http://southern4life.blogspot.com/2012/12/cnn-why-are-most-mass-shootings.html">some commentators on my buddy V's blog</a> is that "why is that it had to take a white guy to point this one out?" It's troubling that the obvious is avoided until someone of that demographic group is said about most white males. Sorry, but white males tend to be perpetrators of a lot of things in the modern western society and one of them is mass violence.kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-62263666343156628372012-12-05T21:02:00.002-06:002012-12-05T21:02:19.187-06:00Fiscal Cliffhanger<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Is there truly a fiscal cliff or a dramatic cliffhanger for the US media to run-amok with as usual so they have some headline to keep eyeballs captivated? We have so many things going on around this nation at the moment ranging from the <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/02/news/economy/unemployment-rate/index.html">high employment</a>, <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AP_POLL_RACIAL_ATTITUDES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-10-27-04-13-34">racial animus at an all time high</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CFMQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infrastructurereportcard.org%2F&ei=JQjAUPrXOJO-9QTRqYC4DA&usg=AFQjCNENQkiJoX7XbcWdxiEo8D7IIbbZUA&sig2=ZcPlLUwykiheATaKw7of1Q">faltering infrastructure</a>, and let's not forget <a href="http://www.drroyspencer.com/2012/10/what-is-making-frankenstorm-sandy-exceptional/">the climate change on going</a>. <br />
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Now with the psychologically defected exposed nationwide for the racially averse heretics they are, their deranged representatives in DC are now playing chicken with the nation's financial future do the usual "to show that damn nigger in office who's boss". However, what those assholes doesn't realize is that the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/12/04/National-Politics/Polling/release_181.xml">majority of the citizenry will hold their sorry asses accountable this time not President Obama</a>. <b><i> Oops, I bet their asses did see that one coming!</i></b><br />
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Yeah, we have a number of things to worry about right now, so this fiscal cliffhanger shouldn't even be one of them at the moment....kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-1859621919513659832012-11-28T21:13:00.000-06:002013-01-26T01:55:23.386-06:00Tell us something we didn't know...Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) brings in the big bucks for Atlanta!<br />
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I guess it took 2 studies by my fellow planning/economic development professionals on the academic side to affirm this to be true. The <i><a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/marta-economic-engine-for-region-study-says/nTGzj/">Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a></i> reported on the University of Georgia Carl Vinson Institute of Government Study conducted a study from 2007 and this year and the findings confirmed this:<br />
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It's quite amusing that 2 studies had to be published to reaffirm what most of us suspected although <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/voters-reject-transportation-tax/nQXfq/">the majority of Metro Atlantans rejected the T-SPLOST on the 31st of July</a>. I guess you have to dress it up in a pretty bow and ribbon and then say "See it does work". However, we are in the South were the car is king and the way things are developed and funded around it. At the end of the day, Atlanta and Georgia politicos know that MARTA is the reason why so much of the city's prominent existence depends on this public transit system.<br />
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When will the deranged and white males stop gunning down black male youths because they think they are a threat? I honestly don't know but this incident in suburban Jacksonville will go down as another one of those situations. <br />
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Jordan Davis was gunned down last Friday (November 23rd) at a gas station on Jacksonville's Southside while in a car with friends. Apparently, <a href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/article/283666/611/JSO-Shooting-leaves-one-dead-over-loud-music">the music in the vehicle was "too loud" for Michael Dunn's tastes</a>. In return, Dunn confronted the teens in the vehicle over the music which led to Dunn getting his gun and shooting into the vehicle hitting Davis. Davis suffered multiple wounds from the gunfire and was pronounced dead on arrival to the Shands Hospital on Jacksonville's Southside. *SIGH*<br />
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Dunn <a href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/article/284017/611/Man-accused-of-killing-teen-over-music-to-appear-in-court-Monday-afternoon">was arrested in Brevard County at his condominium</a> and charged the following day. While arraigned before a Brevard County justice as <a href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/article/284129/611/Suspect-enters-plea-in-shooting-of-teen-over-loud-music">his reason for shooting up the vehicle was him feeling threatened</a> by the black teens. <b><i>(WTF?)</i> </b>Dunn was extradiated back to Duval County (which is the City of Jacksonville) and had the audacity to say "<a href="http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/article/284370/611/Attorney-of-man-accused-of-killing-17-year-old-Teens-had-a-gun">the teens had a shotgun in their vehicle</a>".<i> </i><b style="font-style: italic;">(WTF?)</b> <br />
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Jordan Davis will be buried in Marietta, Georgia in the Metro Atlanta area. <br />
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<b><i>I knew something was up when actual study showed that anti-black animus was up. This is just more prove that some white Americans have to slow their groove on anti-black & brown racial animus because this nation is becoming more and more racially diverse with time...</i></b><br />
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<br />kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-57969108964306442872012-11-27T02:15:00.002-06:002013-12-25T16:16:50.461-06:00So....In the serious of personal blogs on this site. Here it goes...<br />
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I just realized I am still in love with my ex from years ago. He recently recently came back into my life. I wasn't expecting him to come back into my life at all. There are a numerous of things that goes through my head while thinking about him including good memories, mixed feelings, and even the bad memories. My heart still feel something for him, but my head tells me to stay on the fence with him in a guarded mode. <br />
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About 18 months ago, I had a dream of a wedding and it ironically included myself and this very ex. In the dream, we were standing at an alter and saying a vows to one another and to spend the rest of our lives together. As strange as it was at the time, we weren't together anymore (for nearly 4 months) and were not speaking at all because I broke up and ended all forms of communication with him. Also by that time there was some form of moving on and letting go from that stage of life. As much as I thought that dream was random and improbable at the time, I realized there was unfinished business between us. <br />
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Now here we are now communicating and reconnecting to one another. It also displays the unfinished business is apparent. My feelings are still there and I don't know where to go with them. Also I recently discovered he still has feelings for me as well, but his methods of holding them back is totally different than mine. He displayed this to me when he chose to come to me in a time of true need. I then realized he does still care about me and those feelings for me. This is something of hope but also worry. <br />
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Part of me wants us to reconnect, reunite, and work on us getting back to together again, but another portion of me is terrified. I am taking this very slow, day-by-day, and displaying concern, care, and consideration of reality of our relationship. We broke up for a reason in the past and we have both moved on, grown, and (for me) experienced other relationships. However, I am also a believer that some people are meant to have something with one another and strangely enough I feel as God/Allah/the Creator is saying we ought to be back together again because our yin-yang dynamics that exists between us and draws us together in a way beyond just platonic friendship.<br />
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If he does happens to come across this blog entry then. <i>Will, I want you to know yes I still am in love with you. I do hope and pray that we can work this out in the long run and find a comparable median where we can reconcile and one day grow together. I have chosen to step back and just allow this to play themselves out on its own. Nevertheless, I just want you to know that I do still love you. Call me cliche, but I feel like we are like the Rihanna song <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOGBIbqXwYE">"Diamonds"</a>. </i><br />
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As they say, only time will tell me what and whom he is to me...<br />
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<br />kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-12796051007868171902012-11-01T22:00:00.000-05:002012-11-01T22:00:03.029-05:00So amount of Americans possessing anti-black hate is up, so...Guess what the US, you have more <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AP_POLL_RACIAL_ATTITUDES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-10-27-04-13-34">anti-black people now than you did 4 years ago!</a> Not really I'm not lying. <br />
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It's not really a surprise because there are some many people that hate on President Obama, the sitting president, like they hate on somebody whom is doing something with their lives. Black people beware, we are all in for something fare against more anti-black malice...kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4639033839489458516.post-28195007249290597912012-10-23T22:07:00.000-05:002012-12-26T13:33:14.209-06:00I'm going to dedicate 5 minutes of my life to say this about black-white SGL dating...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rarely nowadays do I comment on the racial politics of SGL male dating, but let me be honest about this whole white-black dynamic. Preface, yeah there are more racial combinations in the world, but in the US the white-black contrast is always the most contentious. Back to topic, white-black racial combo in relationships is always tricky. You may ask, "why do you say that?". Well for starters, black LGBTs are still the bottom of the racial hierarchy in the US because "the mandingo, i.e. supposed 'big black dick'", "they are all thugs", "they aren't very well rounded or educated", "they are lazy and shiftless", or "they all have AIDS and/or HIV" stereotype. Many have taken these stereotypical myths and applied to dealing with black males as only cutbuddies/fuckbuddies or hook up only material rather than dating.<br />
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In my personal experience, there has been a lot of objectification that goes on throughout the gay/bisexual fold of men in general, but there is a special set of rules that seem to exist just for black-white sexual & relationship interactions. Where the black guy suppose to be the "dominant top with a big dick" and the white guy is "submissive bottom that loves big dick". <br />
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Also have to interject the problematic age disparity of some white guys when it comes to dating or being open to having a relationship with black guys. Many will intentionally wait until they are "used up" or 30+ years in age to engage or "explore this" after many of their fellow "more appealing" (in the aforementioned supposed hierarchical terms) are tired of them or unattainable anymore. This perplexes me considering I, like many other black guys whom aren't racial specific, was like this since day one when we encounter white guys whom are much older than us always approaching us like we are "their last resort". My motto is this, "if you didn't want to deal with a black guy when you were a 'hot commodity' then don't deal with one when you aren't anymore". <br />
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Now personally, I am not a "top" at all and generally non-discriminatory when it comes to anything including dating although I lean more towards other black guys. I have dated a couple of white guys and have experienced this silliness first hand. I do find this dynamic annoying to say the least. I also find that this expectation to be off-putting when it comes to interracial dating with guys. Let's not forget in the South and in many parts of the US in general, a significant majority still believe in the aforementioned negative connotation about black guys. It's just a double negative as to why I'm extremely choosy about dating white guys, period. <br />
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If I get a hint of a reason to believe that person is that way then, I'm chucking up the deuces...<br />
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Love is love, and it shouldn't have any color boundaries or limitations because of the social construct known as "race".kaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09235905873202420150noreply@blogger.com1