tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67783038537890960342024-03-13T17:08:29.610-07:00CWATICReporting live from the Pre-Occupied Territories of America and throughout the world, it's my personal blog, discussing everything from art to society in general, which influences the art. Quwwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775107972048465492noreply@blogger.comBlogger394125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778303853789096034.post-64458961013837760502022-08-15T03:34:00.000-07:002022-08-15T03:34:04.756-07:00Heads Up Y'all(Podcast Update)<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/oeh22vTwdKg" frameborder="0"></iframe>Quwwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775107972048465492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778303853789096034.post-42452953565147016562022-08-13T23:48:00.001-07:002022-08-13T23:48:47.057-07:00Podcast Trailer 1<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/pfK8cnC5xjQ" frameborder="0"></iframe>Quwwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775107972048465492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778303853789096034.post-6664236251576840072021-05-25T11:17:00.001-07:002021-05-25T11:17:22.041-07:00Man killed when IED he was making explodes in garage<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Ey_UpYAF61Y" frameborder="0"></iframe>Quwwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775107972048465492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778303853789096034.post-72636133287816739902020-08-14T15:50:00.002-07:002020-08-14T15:51:02.828-07:00Where Have I Been?Where have I been? Good question, probably deerves a good answer, but I don't think you have the time right now. God willing, I will be posting more frequuently, and in the meantime, check out one of my projects I am working on. Peace.
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color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">From the podcast: "China will say that it's not about a religion, and that it's about extremism thought, but then it will describe certain behaviors as "extremist" like, such as GOING TO THE MOSQUE, or PRAYING TOO MUCH or WEARING A VEIL ...so the government had to set a live feed surveillance system all over the mosques in that county. 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This is just an <b>FB</b> post I made a couple of days ago, explaining my disdain for the constant complaints from some in the Black community regarding not receiving recognition for certain awards or "achievements." In this case it concerns rapper <b>Cardi B</b> receiving the <b>Grammy </b>for <i style="font-weight: bold;">Best Rap Album of the Year. </i>I've spoken somewhat at length regarding my feelings towards these "award shows" at what they really mean. In my opinion it's time to move on from our emotional attachments with these so called "achievements", otherwise we'll continue to spin our collective wheels, and not make one bit of progress concerning true justice in this country.</div>
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<br />Quwwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775107972048465492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778303853789096034.post-7541382035666801972019-02-13T17:29:00.001-08:002019-02-13T17:29:33.375-08:00Poverty Style- A Watercolor Time Lapse Video<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ji7-tbuWipI" width="480"></iframe>Quwwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775107972048465492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778303853789096034.post-8709278180035081242019-01-27T13:55:00.000-08:002019-01-27T17:57:04.284-08:00New Year, Same Old B.A.D News<i>Blogger's Note: This blog may be a bit challenging to those with short attention spans. But it's about time to let it out. If you're patient in reading this, I pray that your patience will be rewarded</i>.<br />
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No, I'm not doing this age challenge thing that's going around on social media lately. Although it has occurred to me that it has been 10 years now since I've officially started blogging, and if I must say so myself, I am quite amazed at how I continue to do this. It's not like I'm getting paid for it, it's not like I have a lot of followers or readers, and recently it's been quite hard trying to muster up the energy to do this. Over the past couple of years my postage has dropped significantly, first from just doing too much and fear of redundancy, and now just from burnout. It must be some passion to this.<br />
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2018 was particularly brutal for me, as throughout the entire year I found myself constantly in a state of mood swings, mainly due to deaths of relatives and friends, beginning with the first day of the 2018 itself. I found myself having to go to a longtime friends' house before the crack of dawn, and it was cold too might I add, to see a friend who apparently passed away in his sleep. I didn't get the chance to see his face, due to the paramedics blocking off the entrance way. That sudden death affected me very deeply. If it wasn't for the cheap phone I had breaking down on me, I'd probably still have the voicemail I received telling me of his passing.<br />
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In all, I experienced over 10 deaths of relatives and friends last year, each one having it's own significance, and a couple more close shaves. These were lifetime friends, and relatives I grew up with. Not just mere acquaintances. Those memories last, and the pain never really goes away.<br />
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Not all of the past year was gloomy, there were a few bright spots here and there. I got to showcase my work in two exhibits, the <b><i>Art 214</i></b> exhibit, showcasing the local <b>Dallas </b>artists, and the <b><i>Unapologetic Exhibi</i></b>t at the <b>South Dallas Cultural Center </b>last May. Along with my mural being hung in the local library last <b>January</b>, there were some pick me ups along the way to help me keep my chin up. But there was more to be sad about last year than happy, at least on a personal basis.<br />
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But those were personal issues, and thankfully, I am able to keep standing, smiling, and swinging when I need to. Once I'm reminded that this life is a test, I feel that my faith will help me get through those times.<br />
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Now dealing with the societal matters, that's a different story. You have little or no control over these affairs, and very little say. And to make matters worse, very few people are willing to listen anyway. Social media dialogue is basically people talking AT each other, unfunny, ignorant and misinformed memes, and the same propaganda that I thought with this so called "democratization" of information, was going to diminish due to corporate media not having as much control over the media...Boy was I freaking wrong.<br />
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You're subjected to watching groups of people gripe and moan, point fingers, and complain about issues that either don't get to the main point at hand, or even worse are fabricated lies, bent on persuading people to see things their way.<br />
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Last year we witnessed <b>President Donald Trump</b> use all types of mis and disinformation to drive home his "need" to change immigration laws, and build some wall designed to "keep out" immigrants who as he would put it, take jobs and bring about mayhem and decay to good old "American society and values." He did this despite the blitz of mass murders and shootings in schools, houses of worship, yoga studios, grocery stores, nightclubs and shopping malls inside America alone, and committed mainly by White men. He and other deniers chalked that up to "mental health" issues, which is now also becoming the buzz word for America's growing obsession with depression, suicide, escapism of all sorts, violence, drugs and bigotry.<br />
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His separation of some immigrant children from their families and holding some in detention cells became widespread in social media, and hard to even look at in many instances.<br />
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He even blamed the death of <b>Indianapolis Colts</b> linebacker <b>Edwin Jackson</b> on the failure to do something about the immigration laws, and not on the fact that he was a victim of a drunk driver, one of tens of thousands of people killed every year in America because America refuses to acknowledge alcohol kills more people here annually than any drummed up terrorist act could ever accomplish. Only a fool could think the slogan <i>"Drink Responsibly"</i>, which was preceded by <i>Think Before You Drink</i>, before breweries realized that slogan actually represented a conflict of interest, could ever have any major impact, or actually be some sort of resolution towards alcoholism and drunk driving.<br />
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He and others either failed to read, or completely ignore recent stats from the <b>National Institute on Drug Abuse</b>, which the picture below shows an astonishing 72,000 people died from overdose in <b>2017</b> alone. This is not even talking alcohol and cigarettes! Add those in, and add the 30+ thousand suicides committed yearly, and what you have here is a great deflection of the problem in America, people focusing on their own intolerance and prejudices, instead of honing in on the real issue at hand.<br />
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One can only imagine what the stats will be now that he's taken it to a level of actually shutting down the federal government, sacrificing the well being of many employees, many who voted for him yet still think for some reason this is a good idea to hold the nation hostage over a supposed wall. It reminds me of <b>Reagan </b>and his <i>"Star Wars"</i> rants back in the 80's, trying to conjure up support for satellites and things in space, all designed to protect us from the evils of Russia.<br />
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Hate and fear-mongering at its finest. And yet America continues to eat itself alive.<br />
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This "wall" he is willing to shut down the government over will only keep out the "external" issues he and his ilk continue to demonize.<br />
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But not to be outdone by the likes of Trump and his ilk came the liberals with even more insidious accusations and injustices of their own. 2018 was also the year of deflection for the liberals and feminists as we saw the likes of <b>David Hogg</b> and his tirades concerning gun control, using the Parkland High School shooting in <b>Florida</b> to spearhead his campaign against guns. Virtually every shooting that occurs in America now is classified and propagated by liberals as gun violence, whereas conservatives point to "mental health" issues as the problem, but that's only in the case of a White man being the culprit.<br />
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As if the gun has a mind of its own. People, the gun is an instrument used in the killing of people. To rant against gun violence every time someone is shot in America makes no sense. But again it's people's politics that are more concerning, not the truth of the matter.<br />
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We seem to forget about the impact of the bombing of the Federal building in <b>Oklahoma City</b>,which took the lives of 162 people, and hurt many others. Maybe because it threw a serious curve into people's politics. I mean you couldn't blame it on so called radical Muslims and immigration, although they tried, and you couldn't point the finger at gun control either, because guns were not used in the killing of people in this instance. It was a deep and dark reflection of what's wrong internally in America, and yet almost 25 years later, we still don't get it.<br />
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All we see mainly from liberals are marches which stir up emotions with speeches, sloganeering, chants, and now with silly hats, much like conservatives, but refuse to lay down much analysis and critical thinking. Along with marches for gun control, we saw women's marches all over the place. We even witnessed rapper <b>Common</b> reciting the lyrics to his song <i>"The Day Women Took Over"</i>, at an event supposedly advocating "gender equality". Go figure.<br />
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But one march that was grossly overlooked in 2018 was the march against suicide, the <b><i>Out of the Darkness March</i></b>, which took place in three cities, with Dallas being one of the cities.<br />
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This received scant, if any coverage by any of the major media markets. It serves as a testament to the selfish concerns of political parties and special interest groups in America to overlook the real concerns with the masses, yet dupe them to blindly follow their personal whims and wishes. According to this site, 30,000 people in America alone commit suicide, and countless others attempt to every year, but since this tragedy cannot be attributed to people's political agendas, it's swept under the rug, with the best that can be done is labeling it a "mental health issue", and the distribution of pharmaceuticals and psychotic drugs.<br />
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But 2018 seemed to have brought out the worst in feminism, as we were hit with a barrage of victim narratives aimed only pointing out this "toxic masculinity" and "misogyny"conspiracy. In 2018 women were encouraged through feminism to render themselves as conveniently stupid, 'misled" and oppressed, all in an effort to absolve responsibility and accountability for their own actions and predicaments.<br />
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Women were encouraged through the likes of former strippers <b>Amber Rose </b>and rapper <b>Cardi B.</b>, porn stars, and other women, mainly feminists, that for a woman to tease, taunt, tempt, floss, exhibit, flirt, arouse the senses in men with her actions, speech and dress should not lead to any ill-conceived notion that such a woman wants sex, is interested in having sex, and should not be misconstrued as a woman of ill repute.<br />
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That the plethora of pornography (which modern feminists find no problem with, and exhort other women to produce as long as they are the producers, directors and manufacturers of such media) , provocative songs and videos and writings should not have any connection with the degeneration of morality here in America. To them, that's just "men being men."<br />
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Even worse, in this so called world of "toxic masculinity", "patriarchy" ,"rape culture" and "street harassment", women were encouraged more to "flaunt it if you got it", despite the ill consequences that comes from such open sensuality. To exhort modesty or take responsibility, you will be pelted with accusations of victim blaming, slut shaming, and being a part of some patriarchy. Baloney.<br />
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It defies all logic, reason, nature and conventional wisdom. Everyday we close and lock our doors and windows to our homes, offices, automobiles and filing cabinets, we encrypt our online information with passwords to keep all private information shielded from potential violators. But the woman, with her body, is encouraged to expose it to the fullest extent, and not expect any type of reciprocation from the male in either speech, thought or action. Along with this hideous idea comes the vilification of those who admonish women to "act like a lady" or simply "take responsibility" of their own predicaments. And any woman who takes up modest dress, especially religious women, and in particular Muslim women, are attacked through media outlets and liberal groups. No longer are Muslim women attacked by conservative White men, they are also attacked in a passive aggressive manner by liberal White women.<br />
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I can never forget the question I received from a Black woman last year who inquired why should Muslim women be executed for committing adultery. If one is not astute to the ways of feminists, both Black and White, one would not catch what she is actually saying. She was not concerned about why are people, both male and female, are executed when it comes to adultery, just women.<br />
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We also saw the PR metamorphosis of prostitution into "sex trafficking", a more appropriate term for feminists, since it implies that all female prostitutes are "forced" into this lifestyle by lecherous, parasitical, predatory males bent on dominating the woman. All women became sexually exploited creatures, and the decision to use her body for monetary gain could not come from the woman herself.<br />
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The picture of the sensual prostitute on <b>Donna Summer</b>'a <i><b>"Bad Girls""</b></i> album cover has been replaced with repetitive propaganda of kidnapping, bondage, enslavement, misogyny, and outright cruelty of women by the hands of men.<br />
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We forget to acknowledge of how that famous jazz singer named <b>Billie Holiday</b> was a young prostitute at one time, along with her mother. To my knowledge, she did not have a male pimp.</div>
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I went to an art exhibit held last April, which supposedly addressed "human trafficking", but it was nothing but women and liberals railing against female prostitution. No mentioning of slave labor, sweatshops, child labor, slavery of that type. Just paintings, photography, of women in fetal positions like little children, one picture was a smartphone, which supposedly symbolized predatory men on social media, one picture had a woman with her mouth taped shut, and information posted about human trafficking by the University of Texas is what was exhibited. This is the same university that had an campus carry rally in 2016, where organizers passed out rubber penises to students, and slogans such as "cocks not glocks" where broadcast without shame. I can't possibly put the pictures to this event on this blog, but trust me, it happened. If you want to, Google it on your own time.<br />
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<i>BLOGGERS' NOTE: Please do not misconstrue this to mean I do not think that some women/girls are not kidnapped and sold into prostitution. However, based on the evidence I've seen, I've come to the conclusion that it's another propaganda tool to indict ALL men, and to absolve ALL women and girls of exploiting their bodies for monetary gain. This "sex trafficking" conspiracy is to modern day feminists like pornography was to the feminists of the '50s and such, before women starting declaring their own "sexual liberation".</i><br />
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We saw the unjust, oppressive and deceitful #<b>metoo movement</b> claim victory in the conviction of <b>Bill Cosby</b>, who was accused of "sexual assault" by <b>Andrea Constand</b>, a woman who not only could not remember what day she was "assaulted", but called him several times after receiving a drug from him that she claims, had her "crying" on the inside. She did not call police, She also brought him gifts. What "victim" does that? Don't give me no <b>"Stockholm Syndrome"</b> nonsense. Either she liked what he did, or she didn't. Obviously she liked it.<br />
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This same movement, which harbors actress <b>Alyssa Milano,</b> not only justified the results in the Cosby case, but apparently endorses her statement that the #metoo movement defines what "due process" is. Basically every man accused of rape/sexual assault is guilty until proven innocent. Sounds familiar Black people? Yet these feminists rant about White privilege, but only in terms of White men.<br />
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Yet this same movement was left with their deceitful mouths open after the allegations of sexual assault against actress and #metoo advocate <b>Asia Argento</b> came up. They were left scurrying to find all types of deflection and damage control to diffuse the situation. In an article in the <b>New York Times</b>, the author resorted to typical feminist pettiness by exclaiming "men do it too." This movement does not want to get to the real truth of the situation that rape and sexual assault is not about power, because it forces the women to admit their culpability and contributions in the decline of sexual mores of this society.<br />
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We also saw<b> Serena Williams</b> accuse a referee of sexism after receiving a mere warning for receiving coaching from her coach in the audience. A mere warning became a conspiracy theory of misogyny, White Privilege, and pulling out the race card, by both sides might I add.<br />
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We also saw the public relations makeover in the <b>Cyntoia Brown</b> story, which has now resulted in Cyntoia being granted clemency from serving a life sentence for the murder of a man who solicited sex from her. By painting her as a "sex slave" and a "victim", she was finally able to convince at least the judge of being "too young" to accept such a harsh sentence. Never mind the fact she was a reported drug user, also former prostitute (which the state of Tennessee does not accept that label when referenced to prostitutes under the age of 18, thanks to women's propaganda) and all around delinquent, who shot a customer in the back of the head at close range, and robbed him of his vehicle, guns and money. She was a "victim" in the eyes of feminists, and sad to say, a growing number of duped Black people in America who not only will judge an individual based on pure emotions and not facts, but will judge a person based on a one sided story seen on TV, or heard through the jokes of a comedian. <br />
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And although the liberals portrayed Trump in heinous forms regarding the separating and detaining of immigrant children from their families and parents, they conveniently forgot to mention the ongoing war in state and federal circles regarding abortion, which they've neatly repackaged as women's rights" or"reproductive rights." Women are constantly in battle about having the right to terminate a life, to which many have contributed in the reproduction, but don't want to keep for whatever reason. Now a bill has been passed in New York state that will grant a woman the right to abort up to 40 weeks. So the woman can wait until the baby is ready to come out, and on a whim, decide to terminate...wow.<br />
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And now many of these same women, with this same line of thinking want to run for President in <b>2020</b>. Am I supposed to feel any safer with these people?<br />
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It gets to be a very tedious task trying to explain to a society bent on self destruction, prejudice and intolerance about impending doom to such a society, unless some drastic changes take place. Changes that could mean true justice for all and a true spirit of truth, justice, peace and unity for all, but only through the elimination of personal desires and beliefs contrary to the true nature of human beings and their purpose here on Earth. I'm learning more day by day of how mankind is not a creature of rationale, but a creature of emotions and desires, and those desires, wishes and emotions will lead to his destruction when the ultimate goal is personal fulfillment. </div>
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The more I reflect on the <b>Brett</b> <b>Kavanaugh</b> hearing going on at this moment, along with <b>Bill Cosby </b>being sentenced to prison, <b>Jameis Winston</b> being sued by the <b>Uber</b> driver, and other events where men are accused of assault/rape, the more I keep going back to <b>Serena Williams</b> and the <b>US Open</b> controversy, which took place a couple of weeks ago. The world got to witness up close firsthand, uncut, live and in the flesh what happens when a woman accuses a man of sexism without evidence, which is slander, and the reactions by those who support her without factoring in any evidence that points to the contrary.</div>
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The following days proved that many of us missed the point altogether.<br />
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It was an open and shut case that proved how human beings are not creatures of rationale, but creatures of emotions and desires. Emotions and desires are great, when used in the right context. But when love and hatred blinds one from seeing that which is clear and evident, there is no hope for truth, justice and guidance.</div>
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Serena Wlliams' antics at the US Open were only a continuum of the ongoing story of the mythological Champion of Women's Rights aka <b>Feminism</b>, that Serena has fallen victim to. This was not an isolated incident, nor was it the first time for her to rail against what she sees as sexism.<br />
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When Serena was nominated as <b>Sports Illustrated's Sportperson of the Year</b> in <b>2015,</b> it marked a monumental point for feminism. Around this time we saw a rise in feminism, politically helped by the <b>Obama</b> administration( and no I'm not Republican either), and repeated over and over in the media, which lead to other token feminists getting their shine, especially the likes of <b>Beyonce</b>'. Remember the <b>Super Bowl</b> halftime show, and the preceding video <i><b>"Formation"</b></i>?<br />
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Around that time Serena seemed to began chanting more about advocating "women's rights" and dedicating her matches for "women's causes" and the like. <br />
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This past summer we found Serena at a <b>"Purple Purse"</b> event, advocating "awareness" against domestic abuse, a feminist pseudonym for men hitting women. When addressing the topic of domestic abuse, she calls for not only men, but boys to be educated about domestic abuse.. She also uttered "That could be something my daughter could face and that's not cool." My question to her would be "what if your daughter is the perpetrator?" Domestic abuse is not just men abusing women, but women abusing men as well. But we all know feminists don't see it that way.<br />
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This past summer we also found out #<b>MeToo </b>advocate and one of <b>Harvey Weinstein's</b> accusers <b>Asia</b> <b>Argento</b> has been accused of trying to pay off former child star <b>Jimmy Bennett</b>, for an alleged sexual assault incident occurring in <b>2015</b>. The <b>New York Times</b> wrote an article about the incident, but quickly deflected the issue by proclaiming "men do it too", and reiterating their bogus claim that sexual assault and rape is about "power and gender". and not sexual mores.<br />
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The parasitical MeToo and Times Up movements are misleading people, and merely exploiting those who have truly suffered from these traumatic experiences. Under these quasi-justice organizations, the true victims are being relegated to the status of pawns, tokens, expendables and collateral damage in their so called war. The very moment they publicly stated rape, sexual assault/harrassment, and domestic abuse were issues of power and gender, and not declining sexual morals and morality in general, we should have known their intentions, but we failed. We dropped the ball.<br />
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Some of those who disagreed with Serena's antics also dropped the ball by asserting race was implied. The infamous comic strip drawn by the Austrtailian cartoonist clearly accentuated stereotypical Black/African American features; big lips, large, volatile and angry women, yet it was insisted that race had nothing to do with the cartoon.<br />
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Some broadcasters clearly accused her of also pulling out the race card, to which I did not hear any instances of race in her tirade, nor in the post-game press conference. Reviewing the clips will show she clearly stated she was trying to stand up for women's rights. Instead of focusing on the fallacy of feminism, some people took it as part of a broader issue to attack what they call "identity politics" and "social justice"in the broader sense, and left wing politics, with multiculturalism being mentioned as well, a pseudonym for race-mixing.<br />
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Frankly speaking, I don't see how she can rage against racism, or especially White Male Privilege, seeing that she's married to a White man anyway. If anything, Serena, like <b>Bill Cosby</b>, <b>Monique</b> and other Black celebrities suffer from the illusion of inclusion. This usually occurs after achieving some sort of mainstream acceptance, or adulation. It causes them to either give unbalanced and unfair criticism at poor Black people , while downplaying or avoiding racism and bigotry, or to harbor grandiose feelings toward one's personal achievement, and totally deny racism altogether. In the end, most of Serena's talking points, like feminism itself is mostly White liberal-influenced talking points.<br />
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The masses of people are being misguided by those who desire something other than truth and justice, and here belied the opportunity to begin to detect and rectify the matter. It was served on a plate, for all to see, reflect, and begin to repair. But we turned it down. Instead we went to our colored corners, one corner blue, and the other corner red, listened to the pundits whisper in our ear, and came back out to the center of the ring, swinging away, and not hitting a darn thing.<br />
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We still don't get it.Quwwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775107972048465492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778303853789096034.post-77817964961833299572018-09-10T14:03:00.001-07:002018-09-10T14:03:45.724-07:00Serena Willams cites sexism after dust-up with chair umpire | FIRST TAKE...Interesting segment on ESPN's FIRST TAKE, involving a debate between Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman, regarding this past weekend's U.S. Open, in which Serena Williams accuses the referee of sexism regarding docking her a game, and ASSUMING she cheated because the official gave her a violation when he sighted her coach making coaching gestures. Her coach later in the evening admitted to making gestures, which is a violation. I hope to do a blog on this issue very soon regarding Serena's feminist antics, which stretches farther than this incident.<br /><br />
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It's been a minute since I've actually blogged, for several reasons, some personal, and on some occasions it just felt as if the timing wasn't right.<br />
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For example I wanted so bad to discuss these plethora of marches that are going on, especially in the <b>U.S.A</b>, especially doing a close-up on my opinion of one <b>David Hogg</b>, and the <b><i>March For Our Lives</i></b> event that took place last <b>March</b>, but other things got in the way, and after trying to discuss this issue with people, it seems as if I needed to gather my thoughts before I go full blast on what I see as a serious failure to connect going on in <b>America</b>, which concludes in all of these marches and rallies going on in this country.<br />
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Trust me. I haven't left, nor forgotten, because I just have a funny feeling things will come back around, and this situation will be discussed at length again. Why do I feel this way?<br />
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Simple, we haven't learned our lesson yet. So we're doomed to repeat it in some form or fashion.<br />
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But in the meantime and in between time, I wanted to show a couple of pics from the <b><i>ART214 exhibit </i></b>going on right now in <b>Dallas, Texas</b>, where 4 different cultural centers celebrated this occasion by selecting artists residing in the <b>Gre</b><b>ater Dallas</b> area, the <b>Bath House, Latino, South Dallas, and Oak Cliff Cultural Centers.</b><br />
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My piece entitled <b><i>"Envisioning Freedom"</i></b> was selected to be displayed at the Bath House Cultural Center, located at <b>White Rock Lake</b> in Dallas, Texas.<br />
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Envisioning Freedom is simply a token gesture at paying homage to those previous generations who strove for freedom and justice against great odds being levied against them. Regardless of whether I agree with some of their stances and tactics, they must be given their due respects, and their histories fully narrated and analyzed, whether the outcome was successful or not, in order to continue the struggle, and claim victory in the end.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is not the first time I've done such a piece, I did a piece for Staff Sgt. Homer Hogues in 2013, and presented it to him at a tribute for his contributions to the Tuskegee Airmen. It was a great event, and the piece was well received by him and the family, as well as the community of Highland Hills, who finally got a chance to pay tribute to a legendary figure, who lived in the area. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Doing pieces like these has taught me a great lesson in telling stories, regardless of my personal opinions. </span></div>
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I'm now waiting to hear word from an upcoming exhibit, <b><i>Art and Activism</i></b>, slated to be held at the South Dallas Cultural Center from <b>May 5th</b> to<b> July 29th, 2018</b>. I'll be sure to keep y'all posted....<br />
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Until next time....<br />
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<br />Quwwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775107972048465492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778303853789096034.post-55887102332229344242018-02-15T11:31:00.000-08:002018-02-16T18:00:07.649-08:00Still Ain't Gettin' It (More B.A.D News For America)<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>"No child, teacher, or anyone should ever feel unsafe in an American school."</i></b></div>
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<b>President Donald Trump after the Parkland, Florida school shooting, which just occurred yesterday.</b></div>
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<b>And to think</b>: Here I am scolding myself for not speaking about the President's latest tirade (well now it's old news since he made statements about cutting food stamps and giving poor people boxes of food.). This time he blamed immigration laws for the death of two individuals, one being an <b>Indianapolis Colts</b> linebacker, <b>Edwin Jackson</b>.<br />
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Never mind the fact the suspect was allegedly drunk, just like the other tens of thousand traffic deaths attributed to drunk driving on a YEARLY basis. Nope, look past that, and get to the heart of the matter, at least in his eyes, illegal immigrants. So now only illegal immigrants are going around in a drunken state, killing others on the road. Wow.</div>
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I sat here being mad, trying to find some sort of excuse for why I didn't jump on this latest obvious display of bigotry by the so called Leader of The Free World. Could it be that I was procrastinating, as I usually do? Or was it out of fear of sounding redundant? Or was it because I didn't want to come across as the usual Trump-hating liberal?<br />
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Whatever the case, there's always something happening in America to bring events such as this back into perspective, regardless of the age of the issue. This country is draped in enough bigotry on all sides to never have to worry about running out of incidents to compare or reflect on the constant double standards, hypocrisy and denial that continues to plague this "Land of the Free."<br />
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Yesterday's shooting in a suburban <b>Florida</b> high school is another constant reminder of what bigotry can do to a person, as well as a society. It makes those who engage in bigotry not see the true reality of things, how the decline of morality, values, and intelligence is a direct result of their own doing, and not some outside entity, as many are led to believe.<br />
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We have witnessed during this administration alone SEVERAL mass shootings in a frightening span of only a FEW months. When the church shooting in a Texas small town killed 26 people late last year, people were assured by the President that "God and YOUR COUNTRY are with you." In the Las Vegas shooting we heard practically the same speech, yet no reason why. We witnessed in <b>Plano, Texas</b> last year a shooting at a football watch party that took the lives of 8 people, which included the shooter himself.<br />
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So far in only 45 days into this new year, there has been 5 school shooting incidents whereas someone has either been injured or killed. And neither of these incidents happened in <b>Chicago, Illinois</b> or <b>Chiraq</b>, as some may say.<br />
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Yet when the smoke clears, the bodies have been buried, and all of the tributes and memorials have dried up, for some reason we go right back to hearing about wild immigrants, shithole countries of color, persistent threats of terrorism from someone who just can't stand America's toxic freedom, or poor people inside the country supposedly tearing this nation down, the usual conservative banter.<br />
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But Conservatives are not the only collective of people that can be called into account for displaying bigotry. Liberals and the like are not absolved from such accusations either. Clear case in point is the the out-of-the-blue video from CNN of all people, that supposedly shows Africans being sold into slavery in Libya. Black Americans went up in arms again at the sight of seeing or being led to see Black people once again in a state of captivity, oppression and slavery.<br />
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The usual emotional response? Attack Arabs and Islam, of course. Spread vitriol hatred against a whole group of people, and accuse a way of life as the catalyst for such actions.<br />
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Imagine CNN, the news network that doesn't like the antics of the <b>Black Lives Matter</b> movement, but just can't seem to expose the movement for what it really is: a movement led by Black feminists and members of the <b>LGBTQ</b> community, using the plights of unarmed Black men who were murdered at the hands of police, but only as a mechanism to get into the psyche of the Black collective. They can't seem to show the real intentions of the movement in their own land, how it poses as a conflict of interest to heterosexual Black men, families led by Black men, and how they wish to subvert the Black community from the inside to inject its matriarchal beliefs. But they can tell you what's going on in another part of the world. Yeah right.<br />
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But it's easy to get the Black public in America. Just take a look at the Disney-produced Black Panther movie. Oh, and let's not forget the pseudo-Black Panther, Black-empowerment tribute from Beyonce at the Super Bowl two years ago. Nothing has changed.<br />
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I encountered such a bashing against Arabs and Islam a couple of weeks ago on a Youtube page, whereas a so called Pan Africanist posted a video from of all people, White conservative media reporter <b>Alex Jones</b>. This video has Alex Jones spewing the most agregious lies against<b> Islam</b>, alleging that the <b>Qur'an</b> speaks in the most hideous of terms about Black people, although he could not bring up one shred of evidence. He played off as if to say there was so many bad names given that he couldn't list them all, although he couldn't even list one name and show one single verse.<br />
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He then proceeded to claim that these some of the slaves are butchered, and then fed to other slaves, who are then forced to eat the remains before they are executed, with the belief that this will make them enter Hellfire.<br />
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Yet this person supposedly holds fast to the <b>Ten Commandments</b>, which also includes <i>"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."</i><br />
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Sad to say, most of the responses from the video proved true about what is said about many Black people, especially in terms of lacking critical thinking, doing extensive research on any given subject, using emotions over intellect, and jumping to conclusions. It also proved that as the old saying goes "stuffed shirts comes in all colors."<br />
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When I challenged them to bring one shred of evidence to prove <b>Islam</b> denigrates Blacks and encourages slavery, not one could do it. Just the usual crying out and accusing Black Muslims of being brainwashed and misled, among other name calling. However one such person tried to reason that his displeasure towards Arabs and Islam was due to some Arabs who sell liquor, pork and lottery in inner cities. <br />
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There was a time when such people would chide those who claimed Islam while engaging in acts they knew were forbidden in Islam. Those days are gone for many.<br />
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Like Donald Trump, these actions are now used to masked their hatred and bigotry towards Islam, as well as other races of people. One such individual expressed his joy over some of the atrocities that are happening to the Arabs, even the killing of women and children. He cited that this is the ultimate example that Islam is not true.<br />
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Little does this guy truly understand Islam, and how in Islam, the Muslim community can also be punished, if evil and disobedience is prevalent in the community. The Creator will dole out punishment to those who profess belief but act otherwise. However the punishment for the Muslim community only resides in this life, not in the Hereafter.<br />
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But this is the problem with bigotry and racism. The hatred of others and desire to be better than another based on superficial factors such as color, ethnicity, class, pedigree or whatever clouds their intellect. The mind knows right away that in terms of race, one's skin color does not dictate intelligence or lack thereof, but a corrupted heart, filled with undue arrogance, hatred, and intolerance will lead one to believe the most ridiculous and illogical of stories about another person or culture.<br />
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How can the Black community cry foul against racism and White supremacy, when they may hold the same racist beliefs as described in those Hidden Color documentaries? How can they possibly hope for justice when they're willing to believe the first lie that comes to them about someone from another belief or nationality?<br />
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Once I reflected on this, it gave me a whole new perspective on why we witnessed all of these recent slave narratives. As one imam said in a lecture about the New World Order, they were preparing us for something.<br />
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This country and its inhabitants point fingers at everybody else and everything for the dismal plight and the decline of this country. Meanwhile claiming superiority over all others at the same time. Yesterday's shooting is a reminder that something is horribly wrong with this democracy we claim we live in. It will not be fixed with the usual finger pointing and name calling that occurs on all sides. It will only come starting with an honest reflection about this society and freedoms we claim to enjoy. Until then it's business as usual.<br />
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<b>Whatever reaches you of good is from God, whatever befalls you of evil is from yourself</b>. An-Nisa verse 79</div>
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Over a year ago I started a blog about rapper/actor <b>Common</b> (formerly known as <b>Common Sense</b>) commenting on statements he made at that time, some were deemed controversial, such as the statement he made suggesting that Blacks in America should just put away the past, shake hands with White people and just love each other. </div>
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I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, due to the fact that he came across at that time as a <b>Christian</b>, and knowing how <b>Black Christians</b> were always taught to "turn the other cheek" whenever assaulted by someone, especially a White person. I had a Black Christian upbringing, so I know very well the passive demeanor that is indoctrinated in Blacks, although White Christians, especially the conservative Christians, don't have to adhere to such doctrine, especially when they "feel" threatened by people, beliefs or systems that are alien to their way of life and thinking. </div>
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When he made comments about how former President Obama's legacy impacted him, I started to go off on him, seeing that Blacks in America continue even unto this day to deem the Obama administration as the greatest thing to happen to this country. Never mind the open air attack on Black men proliferated with the deaths of <b>Trayvon Martin</b>, <b>Eric Garner,</b> <b>Michael Brown</b> as such. , The Feminist movement amped up their attack on men under Obama's watch, especially Black men with the likes of <b>Bill Cosby</b> and <b>Afrika Bambataa</b>. Not to mention giving <b>Israel</b> 38</div>
billion dollars at the end of his administration. Yet somehow, for some reason or another, I let it go.<br />
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But after watching two recent snippets of him, one snippet of him standing and clapping at Oprah's tired propaganda speech at the <b>Golden Globe Awards</b>, and the most recent of him reciting a poem this past weekend at a Women's March from a song entitled "<i><b>The Day Women Took Over</b></i>", one cannot help but think what the hell is this guy thinking?<br />
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These two recent incidents made me so happy in knowing that in <b>1995</b> a Reggae band of the name <b>Common Sense</b> sued Common and made him change the name, to which he removed the Sense from his moniker.<br />
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He hasn't been showing much common sense to keep such a name anyway.<br />
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Regarding the trifling acceptance speech by Oprah Winfrey, research from the official Golden Globe Award website show that Oprah was nominated for the award for her work in the <b>1985</b> movie <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Color Purple, </i>a movie from a novel of the same name by feminist <b>Alice Walker</b> and directed by <b>Steven Speilberg.</b><br />
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Stop and think for a moment. She's being awarded for a 33 year old movie? Really? And people accept this blindly? And what was this movie about you might ask? This movie depicted Black men in the most horrible terms, It was a Black feminists' dream and a Black man's nightmare. And as for the author, Alice Walker, a Black feminist who was instrumental in criticizing the Black Panthers and anything else Black and masculine, it should be noteworthy of her <i>extreme</i> hatred towards men, Black men especially. In a <b>BBC</b> documentary about the drug-riddled, troubled life of jazz legend <b>Billie Holliday</b>, Alice had this to say about Billie's bisexuality;<br />
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<i>When I learned that Billie Holliday had partners of both sexes, I was <b>delighted</b>, because I like to think there were women who were equally as savvy, equally as canny, equally as voluptuous and equally as loving, and as fierce as Billie Holliday, and they had a wonderful time. </i><br />
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It should also be noted that Cecil B. Demille, whom the award was named after, was a CIA asset hired by then director <b>Allen Dulles</b> to serve on board for a quasi-organization for <b>Radio Free Europe</b>, which was really a propaganda tool to fight against Communism in the 1950s.<br />
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So this PR campaign, which obviously supports the subversion and manipulation of the so-called Women's movement, gives a Black Feminist an award for a 33 year old film that depicts Black men in the most hideous of portrayals, and then Oprah gets on the podium and gives this contrived speech of female victimization, as if only women are the victims of rape, and only men are the perpetrators of rape and abuse, and where is Common in all of this? Clapping as if this was actually an accomplishment.<br />
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Then to see him at this Women's March, which was supposed to be about equality(or so they claim), spitting the lyrics to a song entitled "The Day Women Took Over", which gives the impression that things will be so much better if women took over rulership of nations and governments, one has to wonder what is this guy thinking? Is he really that unaware, or is it calculated?<br />
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How could he recite such dribble to a crowd of women and a movement who DELIBERATELY omit the sufferings of men via domestic violence and rape with a metoo campaign? Bullying those who dared to challenge or even discuss rape, sexual abuse, and mistreatment of men BY WOMEN by name calling? Flooded the MEDIA with open letters and allegations of rape by men, such as the allegations made against <b>Russell Simmons</b>, and sent waves of allegations of rape by men resulting in suspensions and firings without due process? Does it make sense that their definition of justice and equality is to emasculate men, heap untrue allegations and absolve women from accountability of their contributions to the moral decay of society?<br />
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So tell me <b>Mr. Lonnie Rashad Lynn Jr</b>., aka Common, is this how women are going to take over the world? With the same underhanded, deceitful, lying, manipulative tactics that they claim keeps the so called patriarchy alive? Can't you see that any so called gains made by using these tactics are just as unethical as if men did it? Or do you think women don't lie and cheat? Remember <b>Emmitt Till</b>.<br />
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Is this what happens to the minds of Blacks when Black people win awards? Apparently so. Now we're having to put up with the all-of-a-sudden Black antics of Academy Award winner <b>Mo'Nique</b>, who now wants Black people to boycott <b>Netflix</b> for what she calls "gender and racial" bias, simply because she doesn't feel she's being compensated properly... We have to remember she won an Academy Award for her ghetto role in the movie <b>"Precious". </b><br />
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Get real...Go take a seat over there with <b>Colin Kaepernick, Jada Pinkett Smith</b>, and the rest of the middle class Blacks who scream racism and boycott only when they don't get THEIR way.<br />
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Should I recognize Common's winning an Academy Award for a song he did in the movie <b>"Selma" </b>as an "achievement" when that same academy gave the same awards a few years back to a group who created a song entitled <i style="font-weight: bold;">"It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp"? </i>Really?<br />
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Oh and I forgot all about the Black Panther movie coming up...Give me a break, please...<br />
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I sit here wondering just when Black people are going to realize this illusion of inclusion in <b>America</b> by both conservatives and liberals is only just that? An illusion?<br />
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After becoming <b>Muslim</b> in 1992, I stopped celebrating the usual holidays and certain cultural festivals. I figured <b>October</b> wouldn't have that same creepy feel or atmosphere, since I no longer participated in <b>Halloween</b> festivals, both on the job and at home.<br />
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Yet another form of creepiness has started taking place in October that seems to get worse every year. One that has devastating and frightening effects on society, and unlike Halloween, is far from fictitious.<br />
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It seems to have started before the turn of the decade,when the <b>NFL</b> jumped on the "humanitarian" and PR bandwagon, and decided to promote <b>Breast Cancer Awareness</b> to its fans, by making the players add pink to their usual attire....<br />
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Let me pause for a moment to let that sink in. So the NFL took the opportunity to publicize its support for Breast Cancer Awareness, a condition mostly experienced by women, who at this time only made up a small fraction of the fan base until 2009, and even to this day has very little to no female personnel on the field, by making the team players add the effeminate color of pink to their attire.<br />
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This also allow the NFL to promote Breast Cancer Awareness by selling pink NFL paraphanelia to its patrons.<br />
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One would begin to wonder since this is a sport dominated by males, shouldn't the NFL at least provide some sort of balance by promoting prostate cancer as well? It's only logical, but for some reason, they've failed. I guess they figure the only thing men should be concerned with is erectile dysfunction, but even that's gone now, since Viagara and Cialis have pulled out of sponsorships due to loss of patents.<br />
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So I sit here, years later, still trying to make the connection between breast cancer and tossing a football around a field, and trying to avoid getting clocked by a 250-pound linebacker who runs a 40-yard dash in 4 and a half seconds. My primary conclusion seems to be to tap into the largest consumer bloc in the world, being that of women.<br />
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My one sole consolation in all of this is that I no longer had to watch <b>Jessica Simpson</b> prance around <b>Texas Stadium</b> and abroad with that God-awful <b>Pepto-Bismol Tony Romo</b> jersey. Good riddance to both.<br />
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But then it got creepier, as the <b>Ray Rice/Janay Rice</b> debacle in 2014 kicked into overdrive, causing Ray Rice to lose his livelihood and be stripped of his constitutional rights of not being punished for the same "crime" twice by the tyrant and protector of feminists' interests, commissioner <b>Roger Goodell</b>. But that didn't matter, nor did it matter that Janay instigated the altercation by spitting and hitting Ray. The only thing that mattered was that Janay seemed to have started something she could not finish.<br />
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The NFL announced in October of 2014, primarily as a response to 16 female senators and other womens' groups trying to throw their biased and partial influence around, it was adopting a "No More" campaign, where NFL players this time had to appear on a series of commercials taking a stand against "domestic violence", which is really a code phrase for violence against women. The month of October is now also recognized as well for <i>violence against women, or domestic violence.</i> In addition to having a pink ribbon to commemorate BCA, now a purple effeminate ribbon is now introduced.<br />
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Never mind the fact that a growing amount of studies show the rise of abuse of men by women. Forget studies showing that a growing number of altercations and domestic abuse are instigated by women, the only concern is what happens to women.<br />
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The No More campaign had some very head-scratching moments, to say the least. My biggest question was what in God's Holy Name is <b>Ice-T</b> doing on such commercials? Mr. Ice "Mutha-F***in'" T, who introduced himself as <i><b>"The L.A. Player"</b></i> on his first album <i style="font-weight: bold;">"Rhyme Pays", </i>who cites the late pimp and author <b><i>Robert "Iceberg Slim" Beck</i></b> as a main influence, whose songs about sex and women would make Tipper Gore's face turn red with rage, is now concerned about "domestic abuse?" Wow.<br />
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Then in October of 2015, <b>Ebony</b> Magazine tried to get into the act, amidst multiple accusations of sexual assault against comedian and TV star <b>Bill Cosby</b>. They conveniently used the month of October, designated as Women's month, as a springboard to promote a <b>November 2015</b> issue entitled The Family Issue(s). Yeah, I'm scratching my head at that propaganda move to this day. But it also gave a chance to show-off the new editor-in-chief and self-proclaimed black feminist <b>Kierna Mayo</b>, as she took to national news to discuss the edition with other White female journalists, who obviously threw softball questions at Kierna, all designed to not only subtly implicate Bill in the accusations, but to generalize ALL BLACK MEN as monsters and predators, and to subvert the traditional definition of a nuclear family, which included both a mother and a father, and the father is normally the head of the household.<br />
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Suddenly October no longer seems like a month to promote the overall well being of women, but to scandalize and propagate feminists' man-hating notions, and promote power trips by using issues such as sexual harrassment and assault, street harrassment, rape, and the totality of no good men. October looks less like a month of preparing to dress your kids up like ghosts, goblins, witches and warlocks, and more like a male witch-hunt by malcontent feminists.<br />
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But October of this year has been the creepiest yet, especially in light of the sexual assault allegations of film mogul <b>Harvey Weinstein</b>. With numerous charges and allegations being levied against Harvey, two of the craziest incidents occurred. </div>
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The first concerned <b>Donna Karan</b>, the famous fashion designer, who briefly added in a short interview that it is women's responsibility of how they project themselves in public, which opened the floodgates of howls, boos and hisses from the feminists. Donna apparently broke the first feminist commandment;</div>
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But Donna has an undeniable point here. Women are responsible for how they project themselves. Yet these feminists continue to feed their foolish desires using irrational opinions, trying to assure women that sexual harrassment/assault is an issue of power, and not of declining morality, in which both men and women have aptly contributed to. </div>
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The other incident involved this ridiculous #metoo campaign, where women who were victimized by sexual assault/harrassment/rape posted their experiences on social media to a broad audience. Why this was done was beyond me, for as I stated in a blog of 2016, courting public opinion is not always a good thing to do in this society, and in many cases will come back to haunt, such as the so called War on Drugs, and the War on Terror. Well now add the War on Men to that list. </div>
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Using Harvey's allegations and <b>President Donald Trump's</b> comments, feminists used these men, as well as Bill Cosby, and other male public figures to suggest that sexism and assault/harrassment are issues of power, and not of declining sexual mores. That's why it's important to them to leave out the male counterpart narratives, because it exposes their faulty logic. </div>
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I'm through with the <b>NFL, </b>and no, it has nothing to do with <b>Colin Kaepernick. </b>That's another topic for another blog.<br />
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The NFL has been sticking its foot in its mouth since it decided to create its own moral compass, and institute a personal conduct policy in 2007. This was supposedly designed to curb and deter irresponsible off-field behavior from players, and to retain a "clean" public image. Since then it has done nothing but dug an even larger hole for itself with seemingly selective justice against certain teams and players, hypocrisy, inconsistent punishments, double standards, and above all created a tyranny in leadership in the form of current commissioner <b>Roger Goodell</b>. Now players can receive long term suspensions for off the field behavior that have no impact on the game whatsoever, while actions that can directly jeopardize the impact and integrity of the game either go unabated or receive much smaller suspensions, as what has happened to the <b>New England Patriots, </b>head coach <b>Bill Belicheck</b>, and quarterback <b>Tom Brady</b>.<br />
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So much for integrity.<br />
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Last week <b> Dallas Cowboys</b> running back <b>Ezekiel Elliott </b>was placed on a six-week suspension for "violating" its vague domestic policy, where he was accused of assaulting his then-girlfriend in July of 2016. This happened despite not being charged by the local police department, citing inconsistent evidence from the accuser, and an affadavit from a friend who states the accuser was lying. This comes after a <i>year long</i> investigation performed by the NFL, after the <b>Columbus, Ohio</b> police department decided not to press charges. A 14-month long investigation.<br />
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So much for due process.<br />
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In its statement last week, the NFL stated it received "<i>substantial and persuasive</i>" evidence that led them to believe Elliott committed the offense. Sounds like circumstantial evidence is being used here.<br />
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So much for innocence until PROVEN guilty.<br />
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This reminds me of an article written in a local newspaper sometime in 2013. The author, a black female public figure, came up with this erroneous opinion that if a young woman accuses a man of sexual assault or violence, and the evidence appears inconclusive, your safest bet would be to take the side of the young lady. She reasoned that if in the final analysis the man is actually innocent of the charges, he can recover, whereas if the accuser is correct but not believed, it can have devastating effects. Wow.<br />
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So according to her analysis, if a man who spends time in prison for assault/rape is found innocent, he should be able to fully recover with no problems at all. Even if he can't get back the 1-10-20 years he spent in prison falsely accused.<br />
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Recently Elliott has joined with the <b>NFLPA</b> and appealed the decision. This promises to get very messy.<br />
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Even messier than the <b>Ray Rice</b> fiasco in 2014. Nobody likes to recall that public relations nightmare, however reflecting on the Ray Rice incident again provides us with much insight on why the NFL continues to suffer from bad PR today, and who may really be behind all of this mess.<br />
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Ray Rice and his then-fiance <b>Janay</b> had an altercation in February of 2014. He was charged with misdemeanor assault, arrested, and shortly after released. The NFL in response suspended him with a two-game suspension later that summer. From the initial response, both Ray and Janay were content with the decision. Goodell even defended the decision shortly after when confronted by women's groups.<br />
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Then things took a turn for the worst, but not by their hands. Somehow that celebrity-gossip tv show-suddenly turned- reliable news source <b>TMZ</b> got a hold of the videotape and broadcast the incident on their show. Then the crap really hit the fan.<br />
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The "public outrage", mostly comprised of women's groups, forced Roger Goodell to reverse Ray's punishment, suspending him indefinitely, after the initial suspension. So now we have double jeopardy. <br />
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If one looks at the tape without others' commentary, they will clearly see Ray Rice backing up from Janay, and Janay charging at Ray, to which he quickly reacts by punching her, laying her out flat on the elevator floor.<br />
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It's not a pretty sight to see, however such a sight should not lead us to judge by our emotions and jump to conclusions, which is obviously what happened here, referring to the altercation as"domestic violence", which is code language for men who have the audacity to hit women. They could not claim spousal abuse because clearly it was a fight between two people, and Janay started the altercation by slapping him.<br />
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So despite the cries of feminism and equality, we still seem to have this contradictory ruling that a man cannot defend himself when a woman charges at him.<br />
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If I stated right now that the average man is physically stronger than the average woman, I would be called a misogynist. You know it's true. But a woman can use that same analysis to prove that a man should not put his hands on a woman. This is the problem humans face when using double standards to achieve "equality" among the sexes.<br />
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Shortly after the indefinite suspension, Goodell received a letter signed by <i>16 female senators</i>, comprising of fourteen Democrats and two Republicans, stating that under no unconditional terms should a man who hits a woman be given a second chance to play.<br />
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Listen to the language, and how she says Ray admits to "beating" her, not hitting her. When did one or two punches constitute a beating? She describes it as if Ray was constantly punching Janay even as she lay on the floor unconscious and defenseless. The video shows differently. Then she describes the reaction by the league and team in a way most typical of feminists/liberals, that of this "patriarchy" where every male is out to get the woman, and will cover up any damning evidence that could incriminate them.<br />
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Seems to me the people were more upset that Janay was knocked unconscious rather than the fight itself, but honestly ask yourself, if Ray <i>charged </i>at Janay, and in self-defense <i>she</i> happened to knock him unconscious, would we have the same reaction towards Janay?<br />
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Even Janay herself took to social media to voice her opinions about how the media and the public blew things out of proportion, and also to show support for her husband. But what was the response by the media?<br />
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Mostly to view her as a co-dependent, beaten and battered woman.<br />
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Wow. I wish the Democrat senators had that same passion and sympathy for those little babies they feel have no right to live, using ridiculous pseudonyms such as "reproductive rights", code name for abortion. Rather than show compassion, they develop sick theories and redefine rape to include men who have sex with women without verbally asking, "honey, can we have sex?" or "baby, can I have some of you?"<br />
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And having stripper/models/porn stars to advocate this mess does nothing positive for your credibility.<br />
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I wish those same Republican senators would've kept that same pacifist approach that they try to spew on those countries and populations they wish to oppress and take their resources.<br />
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So much for compassion.<br />
So much for unconditional love.<br />
So much for forgiveness.<br />
So much for equity among men and women.<br />
So much for loving thy enemy.<br />
So much for turning the other cheek.<br />
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And some of us actually felt that the likes of <b>Hillary Clinton</b> would be a better choice for President of the United States than <b>Donald Trump</b>? Really? As one person stated, they're both two wings on the same dirty bird.<br />
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And while we're on the feminist topic, since they're so upset with <b><i>White Male Privilege</i></b>, where were they to add support to the Native Americans for the removal of the racist <b>Washington Redskins</b> nickname? Where was Blumenthal in all of this? Where was his legislation to enforce the removal of such an offensive name? Where was the outcry for the removal of Team Owner <b>Daniel Snyder</b> for upholding the name?<br />
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So much for women's rights. It's been proven time and time again that it's not equality they seek, Their actions have proven that even THEY don't believe in equality, nor do they respect diversity. They would rather try to disrupt a current order, regardless if it is just or unjust, or even worse gain an upper hand, an advantage. They seek the same privileges they accuse men of fostering. And now they have an upper hand in the decision making in the NFL. Roger Goodell answers to nobody...<br />
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But the NFL has no one to blame but themselves for this mess. I can say it all started when they decided to court the largest consumer bloc in the world; women.<br />
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Using <b>Breast Cancer Awareness</b> as a Trojan Horse and creating a slick PR campaign, the NFL decided to tap to the female market in 2008. Players were then "encouraged" in the month of October to add pink to their uniforms. The playing fields became decorated in pink, and <i>pink paraphenalia containing the NFL logo was heavily promoted and sold during this month.</i><br />
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Since then it has done nothing but made a mockery of itself, insulting the intelligence of its fans, patrons, and it has given selective outside entities certain entitlements, while leaving the very players who sacrifice their health, reputation and overall well being at risk in order to patronize a certain demographic that at one time had no say nor impact in the affairs of this institution.<br />
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My interest in watching football began waning back when the colleges began succumbing to the corporate "sponsors". All of a sudden, the <b>Cotton Bowl</b> kept switching sponsors and names from <b>The</b> <b>Mobil Cotton Bowl</b> to the <b>AT&T Cotton Bowl</b>, to now having the annual New Year's Cotton Bowl game being played outside the Cotton Bowl itself. Then the collegiate stadiums and the bowl games followed suit and became known for their sponsors name.<br />
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Then the corporate fever hit the professional circuit. With teams leaving cities abruptly, billion-dollar stadiums surfacing, people being displaced from their homes, among other things, football seemed more like a political bargaining chip more than mere entertainment. And now this. Too many outside interests have spoiled a great spectator sport, and a game I enjoyed playing in the yard as a child.<br />
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<b><i>O you who believe, stand firm for Allah(God) as witnesses of Truth, and do not let the hatred of a </i></b><b><i>people cause you to be unjust. Be just, that is closer to God-consciousness. And </i></b></div>
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In the 90's I used to deliver cleaning equipment and mats around the greater <b>DFW</b> area. One stop in <b>Ft.Worth</b> there was an older White man who worked in the back of an <b>Albertson's</b> grocery store, who I met on a weekly basis. Shortly after becoming a Muslim in 1992, I started wear a particular hat, a black kufi, trimmed with silver threading throughout. Once this man saw that kufi, he started asking me about Islam, but then he started mentioning about a Black controversial politician by the name of <b>John Wiley Price</b>. Those who know Mr. Price are familiar with a lot of his antics, but for the sake of brevity I won't delve into that subject.</div>
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statements and actions from this man, as if I knew this Mr. Price personally, and I supported EVERY action he took. For some strange reason he drew parallels of Mr. Price's confrontations with <b>Islam</b> and Black people in general. I grew tired of these encounters, and one week I really got to him. He came to me ranting about the police needing to arrest Mr. Price following certain altercations, to which I replied that it doesn't matter to me if they arrest him, but just be consistent. Do the same with unions and other people or groups who commit the same offenses. He didn't like that by any regard. It seems some Whites are quick to lump all people of a different race or belief into a monolithic entity, but don't hold that standard to themselves.</div>
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I recall that anecdote whenever situations pop up, even to this very day, because it seems nothing has changed in the American climate of hatred and bigotry. Every time a Black person, or a Muslim is accused of something in America, either certain organizations or the whole collective community is accused of sanctioning such action, and the whole collective community, beit Black or Muslim, has to bear the brunt of such scorn. </div>
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We've seen this too many times in the past, and we see it now, where marginalized people are blamed for the decay in this country, and steps are taken to justify and consent to the removal, slaughter, or incarceration of collective groups of people in America, all because of somebody's bigotry. Very little truth, if any, is broadcast about such groups, and the masses of America become inundated with distorted news articles, soundbytes, and cut and paste video, all claiming to be accurate and non-partial information. And now with Youtube, the madness knows no end.</div>
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Then we find such collective groups and/or certain organizations holding press conferences to publicly denounce and condemn actions that were neither sanctioned by the groups, or explain if such group has any affiliation or relationship to the accused at all. This is especially for Muslims, who we find are always having to fend off accusations o f terrorism and/or affiliation with such "radical Muslims", whatever the hell that is.</div>
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If I have not stated before I will state now I do not support the <b>Black Lives Matter Movement</b>, due to ideological differences regarding Black feminism, whereas a false premise has been created where Black men are accused of systematically suppressing Black women from all socio- economic and political endeavors in America, as if Black men were enjoying these privileges themselves to begin with. I also oppose this notion of intolerance behind the <b>LGBT</b> community as well, which <b>BLM</b> states, creating buzz words ( and hard to mention buzz words at that) such as heteropatriarchy and heteronormativity to use as some form of victimization from Black men in America. </div>
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But with all of that being said, I also disagree with associating acts of violence with Black Lives Matter, such as the recent social media incident involving four Black youth and a "mentally challenged" White youth in <b>Chicago, Illinois, </b>or with the shooting last year in <b>Dallas, Texas, </b> whereas an alleged lone gunman opened fire, killing 5 police officers, at a rally following the deaths of two unarmed Black men by police, <b>Philandro Castille</b> and <b>Alton Sterling</b>. Those who remember can recall many newscasts labeled the rally a "Black Lives Matter" protest, when the reality is the rally was organized by the <b>New Generation Action Network</b>, along with others. </div>
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In addition I am a <b>Muslim</b>, and I am familiar with <b>Salafi</b> movement, and have fundamental disagreements with them as well, however I also disagree with associating terrorism with such a group as well, and the labelling of <b><i>Wahhabi</i></b>, which is actually one the Names of <b>Allah</b>,<b><i> Al-Wahhab</i></b>, meaning <b>The Bestower, </b>and not this conjured up concept by bigots who hate the <b>Islamic Way of Life </b>by manufacturing lies about a group of people, claiming they are hell bent of forcing the whole world to believe in what they believe, employing young women, and in one case employing a young "feebleminded" teenage girl to perform a suicide bombing in Nigeria as reported, or random acts of killing people without true evidence, such as the <b>Orlando, Florida </b>incident last year as well.<br />
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Quwwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775107972048465492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778303853789096034.post-20062529392134412072017-01-04T15:27:00.000-08:002017-01-04T15:36:15.794-08:00What You Watchin' Common? A Response To Common's Comments About Obama's Legacy Pt 1.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><i>...There is no difference between the Democratic and the Republican Party. The </i></b></div>
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<b><i>But a lot of you (Black people) running around, talking about you Democrat, </i></b></div>
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<b><i>and the Democrats got you in the biggest trick going! They tell you "it ain't our fault,</i></b></div>
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<b><i>of them's wife got cancer. But you go for it. You go for it because you're chumps...</i></b></div>
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I even found myself coming to his defense somewhat after the backlash concerning comments he made in a <b>2015</b> interview with former host of <b><i>The Daily Show</i></b> <b>Jon Stewart</b> about Blacks "getting past the history of racism and slavery" by extending their hands in love, and not fists. This and other comments raised the ire of many Blacks, which led to calling <b>Common</b> names such as <b>Uncle Tom</b>, <b>sellout</b>, and mostly the word used so popularly now, c<b>oon</b>. While wildly disagreeing with his stance concering racism in America and how to deal with it, I can neither agree with the oversimplification and the dismissive nature of those who oppose his view by simple name calling, and especially a sellout, or a coon. It goes to show how those who utter these words ad nauseam do not have any idea what they mean.</div>
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<b>Common's</b> stance towards racism is a typical <b>Black Christian</b> stance, a passive, "turn-the-other-cheek" stance, which goes over well concerning both White conservatives and liberals' interests. Neither of the two can fathom the idea of Blacks and other people of color or minorities going beyond mere marching, singing and voting, and becoming more aggressive and even militant in seeking justice from a country which has basically turned a deaf ear to the cries of the slain and marginalized.</div>
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But what worries me about <b>Common,</b> as well as others who uphold this approach is the lack of understanding of who really benefits from constantly turning the cheek at those who continue to strike, maim, and kill Blacks without any impunity. It's not about Blacks wanting mere "payback" or "getback", or "kill Whitey" but there is nothing in place in this country to deter these hateful people from committing these heinous crimes. Years of singing "all you need is love" and passing ineffective hate crime and civil rights bills have produced nothing, at least for Black people, and in particular Black men. </div>
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While he and others like to push <b>Dr. Martin Luther King's</b> philosophy of non-violence, even at the expense of self-defense, it seems that it only encourages the aggressors to amplify their "terror" (YEAH I SAID IT...TERROR!) and terrorism. The reality remains that these actions stem from a ideological belief, and only the removing of these racial fallacies that encourage racists and bigots to disenfranchise and slaughter those who they deem inferior and blame for the moral decay of the nation( nevermind the statistics proving otherwise) will begin the process of healing. Love cannot conquer hate, despite what <b>Marvin Gaye</b> said. </div>
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<b>NOTE: </b>I didn't mean to go this far into depth concerning <b>Common's</b> past comments on <b><i>The Daily Show</i></b>, however after careful consideration I felt I had to elaborate further on it, due to the emergence of a peculiar pattern that seems to land <b>Common</b> on shows like <b><i>The Daily Show</i></b>, and recently <b><i>Chelsea</i></b>, with host <b>Chelsea Handler, </b>which provides Blacks who hold similar views a platform to broadcast their "views" and "opinions". In reflecting on this I'm reminded of a statement </div>
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Seems like a long time ago when <b>Mos Def (now Yasiin Bey)</b> boldly declared on <b>Bill Maher's</b> show that <b>Osama Bin Laden</b> was not responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Nowadays Bill spends time talking about "radical Muslims" and "terrorists" with panels of people, and not one of them will include an</div>
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Last week was a momentous week for certain residents of Highland Hills, a small community located in Southeastern Dallas. For the past 8 YEARS the area lacked among other basic necessities a grocery store. Imagine 8 YEARS without a grocery store. Imagine having to go to another city to get food. Imagine having to ride the bus to go to another sector of Dallas, to go to a store and get fresh food. Imagine having to walk as much as 45 minutes to an hour to and from an adequate supermarket to get food. Imagine having to bring backpacks on your journey to load up with groceries to take back to your home. Imagine having to hop on the bus or walk with a couple of bags of chicken, a 15 pound bag of potatoes, a gallon of milk, bread, veggies among other things. I did all of that, and wore out numerous pairs of shoes in the process.</div>
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The previous local store, <b>E-Zee Shop</b>, which existed even before my parents arrived here in 1972, had become a shell of a supermarket until it closed around '07/'08. The atmosphere was dreary to say the least, and most of all meat, fruits and veggies were not up to par, the refrigerator equipment had become well outdated, causing meat and fruits/veggies to lose their freshness. Bread was rumored to have mold and droppings in them. I say rumors because I didn't witness it myself, but I clearly remember seeing Flour Weevils in a couple of cake mixes I purchased. When I went to the owner/operator to tell them what happened, they informed me of a switch in warehouses, mostly likely an older warehouse, as the reason for the change in the quality of food. </div>
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Plus the people there were not always the best when it came to customer service. Some people had run ins with them. The old man who owned the building was somewhat cool, but after his death, it was off the hook. The story as some folks tell it was they closed up because they were robbed at gunpoint. Typical hood story, yeah I know.</div>
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However a neighboring tenant who ran her own tax service stated they were not only mean to customers, but also to her as well, and cited that mistreatment among local citizens may have actually caused the robbery, as an act of retaliation and not just some attempt to get money.</div>
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I can agree with that analysis, because after closing shop for several months, the same people came back as another so-called grocery store, this time they called themselves <b>Value Giant,</b> promising to open up as a totally different store, even promising to open a deli, and allow customers to rent DVDs. Doesn't sound to me like the robbery attempt affected them that much. </div>
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Within days, maybe less than a week or two, <b>Value Giant</b> had to close down, selling off their meat at prices like 25 cents a pound. Did another robbery cause this to happen? Not at all. What happened was <b>Value Giant</b> was using <b>E-Zee Shop's</b> old outdated equipment (since they were the same people anyway), including the refrigerator, causing the meat to become brown and aged, and ultimately they could not operate any longer. My question is simply why would you try to re-open a store using the same antiquated, broken down, substandard equipment anyway? What does that say about your perception of the community you claim to serve?</div>
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Well you know how it is in the hood right? It's never their fault as to why these areas become targets of urban neglect, right? It's not the city's fault as to why a prison was built in the surrounding area before the crime actually came, right? It's all these damn criminals around here, right? Even if crime was not a problem at all, even when <b>Highland Hills</b> was considered a lower-middle class neighborhood designed and built especially for African-Americans who were looking to move their growing families into actual homes they could afford to buy, before the crack and drug era, before the proliferation of street gangs, but hey, let's not blame them, and definitely do not bring up the subject of racism. Racism and <b>Dallas, Texas</b> does not go together at all, even if in 2010 they allowed a casino named after a Native American tribe to post an offensive giant size advertisement in the middle of Downtown Dallas.</div>
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It's always the citizens' fault, and we blindly jump right on the bandwagon, with our self-hating, one -bad-apple-spoils-the-whole-bunch, believe everything they say about us, selves. Can you believe local ex and current politicians actually believed that developers refused to assist in "revitalizing" and investing in the area because of a few young Black men who wore baggy pants, and the supposed crime in the area? </div>
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During a talk about art in 2013 one ex-politician tried to challenge me on not believing such an idea, leaving me to present the flyer that the city of Dallas was sending out in 2010, encouraging local residents to vote yes to allowing liquor and beer to be sold in local stores, claiming the money accumulated would help build roads, parks, and aid in the police force.</div>
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For more information on this please read my blog <b><i>"Sobriety Is The New Enemy."</i></b> Here is the link: <a href="http://realquwwa.blogspot.com/2010/10/sobriety-is-new-enemy.html">http://realquwwa.blogspot.com/2010/10/sobriety-is-new-enemy.html</a></div>
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So imagine this community being persuaded to allow a store that we don't have, because nobody wants to invest in such a "crime-ridden" area (code word for "a place filled with niggers") to sell a DRUG which contributes to up to 20,000 road deaths ANNUALLY, but not good enough to actually put a STORE with FRESH, QUALITY, AND REASONABLY PRICED FOOD in a neighborhood to aid and assist its citizens? And don't tell me nothing about paying taxes...We all know about taxation without representation...</div>
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<br />Quwwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775107972048465492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778303853789096034.post-49427127903538804742016-08-25T11:39:00.000-07:002016-08-25T11:39:36.824-07:00Still At It....<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Just when I got into the groove of blogging, other things pop up, and blogging takes a back seat. I'm preparing for a showcase coming up in which yours truly will exhibit my work to my local community, something I haven't done in 5 years, and it's been long overdue. This one here promises to be somewhat different than the previous showcase, due to changes in certain areas, especially in the rebuilding of the local library. This is a big plus for me, because not only do I get to exhibit my work, I can also access classrooms with projectors and screens, and trust me, I do have something planned for that as well. I don't want to spill all of the beans right now, but just to inform those who started getting into the habit of reading my blog regularly that I would be off the social topics for a while, but only on this platform.</div>
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I know I had not finished the blog concerning Leslie Jones and Milo Yiannopolous, but in this age of fast food information and hot gossip, it's become passe' anyway, not that it's no longer important to discuss the issue, but one with much insight will see this issue pop up in another way shape or form, and the Leslie vs. Milo incident can be used as a reference point. But that's for people who value critical thinking and reasoning, which is not what our world is concerned with. </div>
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Anyway an extra special thanks to those who take the time to read my lil' ol' blog, it is greatly appreciated. Not to get too involved with stats and metrics, which brings me back to my old customer service rep ways (UGGGH!) but last month set personal records for my blog in terms of views and readership. It's only fitting that I show gratitude in some form for those who take the time out of their busy schedule to come and See What I See (CWATIC). </div>
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<br />Quwwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775107972048465492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6778303853789096034.post-84287413977714330682016-08-06T09:34:00.000-07:002016-08-06T09:44:02.116-07:00Leslie and Milo Part 2<b>TO CONTINUE:</b> This past week I went to an event held at my local library where the poet, <b>Jamaal May</b>, recited a few poems and spoke briefly about certain aspects of his poetry, and current events surrounding us. He touched on something that impacted me in my blogging approach, where he stated that things happens so fast and are captured by social media outlets so quick, what could be news today will be considered old and irrelevant in a matter of days.<br />
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That is one of the main reasons why I try to approach my blogs differently,<i> not just focusing on what just happened</i>, but the lingering after effects of what occurred, and to see if there were indicators that would have led to incidents like this. The situation with <b>Leslie Jones</b> and <b>Milo Yiannopulous</b> was to me not just an event that happened on social media, then came the ouster of <b>Milo</b> from <b>Twitter</b> and so forth. This had been building up apparently, when one research both individuals past, and how it was really only a matter of time before something like this would occur, for both <b>Milo</b> and <b>Leslie</b>.<br />
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It just seemed that no one cared when <b>Milo</b> went on to defame <b>Islam</b>, while acknowledging on <b>Joe Rogans' Youtube Show</b> that this world will be better off if people adhered to <b><i>Judeo-Christian</i></b> values, which he happens to be a frequent violator of. Some of the values he blasts <b>Islam</b> for holding are parallel to values he claim to espouse, especially the prohibition of homosexuality, sex outside of marriage althogether, the man being the head of the household, among others. That's what makes him suspect, the obvious pandering to the <b><i>Judeo-Christian community</i></b>, while accusing <b>Islam</b> of holding the same values. It should be considered shameful to see some conservative groups and outlets use this person as some form of resource to debate and attack others' beliefs as well as signifying a sign of desperation. This is not the first time this happened. Remember <b>The Cold War?</b><br />
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This form of bigotry would ultimately catch up with him when the <b>Twitter</b> catfight took place, prompting several other unintelligent minds to hurl the most hurtful of slurs at <b>Leslie Jones</b>, especially the reference to her as an ape. <b>Milo's</b> continuing rants and antagonistic ways opens the door for the most insidious of racists and bigots to hurl insults at those they hate, all the while confirming the backwardness of this society, as well as the world itself, despite the so-called advancements in technology, proving that people can still degenerate and stoop to the lowest forms of stupidity, and behave in levels of ignorance one could never imagine.<br />
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But don't think for one minute that I'm pro-Leslie here. Although the incident was sickening and uncalled for, I cannot say this caught me by surprise. Not to toot my own horn, but in March of this year, after watching the <b><i>Ghostbusters</i></b> trailer on <b>Youtube, </b>I found myself adding Leslie to the list of Black women being protrayed in the media in some of the worst ways imaginable.<br />
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And this was before I did any true research on Leslie, but more on that to come.<br />
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<b>Click Here for Part One <a href="http://realquwwa.blogspot.com/2016/07/leslie-and-milo-two-branches-off-same.html">http://realquwwa.blogspot.com/2016/07/leslie-and-milo-two-branches-off-same.html</a></b>Quwwahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775107972048465492noreply@blogger.com0