I don’t know how many of you picked up the news feed of G DUBBZ dismissing Disney/ABC’s SAM DONALDSON as a “has-been” when he asked him a question in the White House briefing room. The president was even self-deprecating at moments as he managed to not answer anything and not really even have a clue as to why he was at the podium.
The movie ‘Inconvenient Truth’ was about global warming and our government’s complicit nature for this occurrence. There will be more discussions about global warming in one week than there will be about the real inconvenient truth. Supremacy isn’t new to the U.S. or to the world. It’s the reason why Africa is so fucked the fuck up and also the reason why the Cleveland Indians mascot is named Chief Wahoo. It can be outrightly agressive as when a nation is carved into pieces by people that don’t even live there or it can be as pervasively subtle as a children’s cartoon.
How do we attack this monster? By confronting it everywhere that it exists. By telling it that we won’t drink from the Kool-Aid bowl of privilege any longer. People of color that read this blog unfortunately are powerless to do these two things and effectuate change. Only children of privilege can make this truth no longer viable. Therein lies the heart of the inconvenient truth. If all things were considered equal, from education to empowerment, would children of privilege be able to survive on the planet without their planes, tanks, bombs and guns?
Damn, Bugs came up on 4,5,6. Gully.
Dubyah is SO not a good impromtu speaker, let alone fit to be Commander in Chief. As far as the cartoon goes, I can remember as a child feeling embarrassed when I saw this, and I got so pissed off again just seeing it I couldn’t watch it. It is one thing when we choose to make fun of ourselves, but when others outside the race do it, the pain becomes more defined and direct to cause hurt. Boy, am i pissed off!
George Bush = the bottomless pit of corruption
RD
nice post dallas. nuthin to add, agree wholeheartedly.
That cartoon was fucked up!
yeah, well it may be true that the children of privilege have to tow the line, but you know what? i don’t buy this shit, i don’t support it with my slave wage and i sure as hell don’t walk down the street, bopping my head to the bullshit that’s just part of the larger puzzle of supremacy.
maybe there’d be less money funding all the various methods of destruction if people actually believe that their lives were worth a damn.
Are u fucking serious??? That cartoon, OMGosh, wtf. That ending, seriously? I had never taken the time to really watch that cartoon, I’ve seen it on other sites just knowing that it was banned, but not really wanting to watch. Even now I just glanced at it, but I catched that ending and wow, it makes me pretty sad for humanity. And Bush, well in my opinon he’s a joke and an embarassement to the state of Texas (being that the state that I reside in). He is a horrible public speaker, I mean for being of privilege and for being the President, (I’m pretty sure they reherse and hire people to become better speakers) It never fails, every speech, he stutters or mispronounces a word.
U.S.G. is so thugged out they don’t even pretend like the pres. is smart at all. We know he’s stupid, but he believes in going in with guns blazing.
I once asked a friend why Rage Against the Machine is allowed to be prominent and sell records. His answer: Cause their fans can cut their hair and get a job…black hair stays nappy.
I’m more amazed by the fact of GWB as President than by the cartoon. Unfortunately the latter looked somehow familiar. http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbannedbugs.html
Agree with you on the confrontation of the monster, especially by the children of the privilege it produces (though I’m with Apple H in decrying your use of “powerless”). It’s not an everyday face-off, though; slapping at the extremities may not seem useful but it’s eventually crippling. (I hope in less than the next dozen lifetimes.)
I’ll have to write more to sharpen my analogies.
Children of privelege become and remain children of privelege by convincing the masses that they have nothing and need to buy everything from them. So we sell ourselves and our souls to buy worthless shit. We are not powerless just too scared to say “no thank you” to all the “great deals” that are supposed to make our lives better. We are BORN with everything we need to survive. When we stop being duped into believing that if we don’t have cable and the newest camera phone we haven’t achieved anything, we can move to the next level. So maybe we can start by turning off the Stupid Box and thinking for a minute.