So this is where we’re at right now, black folks? Shoot, and here I thought the Love & Hip Hop Atlanta boycott petition on change.org was bad. Now Al Sharpton’s outfit is leading a boycott of the Django Unchained action figures being sold. Jesus Christ! Do we need another black kid armed with Skittles and Ice Tea to be shot because black rage is idle? But seriously, I could think of many other things to be pissed about as a person of color, other than some $299.00 collectibles being sold on Amazon. But hey, I suppose that’s just me being tired of being the angry black dude.

This from NewsOne:

Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network has been largely silent on the raging controversy surrounding Quentin Tarantino‘s ‘Django Unchained’ — until now.

In the wake of the release of action figures in the cast’s likeness, Rev. K.W. Tulloss, NAN’s president in Los Angeles, the progressive, civil rights organization called for a national boycott of the slavery toys which can be purchased for $299 on Amazon.com.

“Selling this doll is highly offensive to our ancestors and the African American community,” Rev. K.W. Tulloss, said to the NY Daily News. “The movie is for adults, but these are action figures that appeal to children. We don’t want other individuals to utilize them for their entertainment, to make a mockery of slavery.”

Now  yesterday I mentioned how this movie has made some of my “cousins” upset. And as I said then, some of them are probably more upset because the film was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino who happens to be white. I firmly believe that most are upset for no other reason than that fact. So, as far as the action figures go? Well, let’s just say that I don’t see them being packaged with chains, branding irons, or any of those ghastly iron masks used to torture slaves. That said, I really don’t see the big deal; because, it’s not like kids are running out to buy them.

It’s just standard movie marketing actually, and the National Action Network is doing a fine job by boosting sales with this frivolous attempt at a boycott of these dolls. Besides, it’s not like black folks are going to break their necks to drop #299.00 on Amazon to buy them anyway.

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So there’s a “Django” action figure being sold now; and, of course, some of my cousins are upset about it — yep, yet another reason yo hate this movie for some. The action figure isn’t actually a stocking stuffer, but I hope it doesn’t have a Kung Fu grip like G.I. Joe. Nope, no need to get Spike Lee any angrier about the movie than he already is at this point. Seriously, how much more disrespectful can they get with this thing? Oh well, it could have been worse. Yes, somebody could have had the bright idea to start selling a crack head action figure after the movie Do The Right Thing.

Oh, and speaking of “angry black men who hate white men with the audacity to make movies that illustrates what it was like for black folk back in 1853″. Did you hear what Tavis Smiley had to say about Tarantino and the movie Django Unchained? Well, like Spike Lee, he too hasn’t seen the movie nor intends to “pay to see it,” like he said in a recent interview featured on The Daily Beast. Like Lee, he too takes issue with a white movie director using his craft to bring to the big screen a film that revels in the painful but often avoided legacy of slavery. Responding to a question about his first reaction to the film, Smiley opens up the interview with the following:

Quentin Tarantino’s film, Django Unchained has as much to do with the history and culture of American descendants of African slaves as Dumbo has to do with the plight of Weimar Jewry. Spike Lee says that it disrespected his ancestors. It does not. It has nothing to do with them. It has everything to do with one white man’s fevered, second-hand vision of what it would be like to be something he probably can’t conceive. It’s like me attempting to write an intimate account of the pains of childbirth. I may have held a baby and changed a diaper, but one would doubt my authority on the subject.

Tarantino obviously knows black people, but only a white man in America could believe that this provides him with the authority to speak on the black American experience. Like 99.9999 percent of the white population, he has minimal intimacy with the culture of the descendants of American slaves. That culture, imbibed from birth by American blacks raised in black American households, involves an intimate, often subconscious acknowledgment of history, of a unique place in the American hierarchy, of a struggle against mainstream paradigms of who and what we are. These are intimacies of which whites are necessarily ignorant — they’re white. Just as I, as a male, have no intimate knowledge of birthing pains, whites have no knowledge of being black. They can gain an abstract conception, but that’s it.

Um, excuse me, I know Tarantino is white and all, but I sincerely doubt whether anyone alive today — including black folks — are able to have more than an abstract conception of what slavery was like. Yes, though many of its scars still run deep throughout the diaspora, to suggest that by virtue of one being charged with melanin comes with a certain esoteric knowledge of slavery even if we’re fifty years removed from Jim Crow. Which is funny because it’s as though being able to endure “the struggle” was woven into our cultural and biological DNA — it’s as if unlike any other race, we’re predisposed to endure any struggle. And thus, we’re exceptional or something.

Of course, Tarantino has every right to make a film on any subject he chooses, and he knows his audience well. The film has become the white literati’s preferred lens into the forbidden territory of black rage (a sort of reverse Uncle Tom’s Cabin). But when blacks discuss it as if this product of white Hollywood is a legitimate expression of our culture or our rage, we do ourselves a gross injustice; we follow the pattern of outsourcing our history and self-image to the majority; we marry ourselves into the grotesque self-images that their history has tried to stamp upon us.

Django Unchained is nothing more than one white Hollywood director’s fantasy of what black revenge would look like. It would be no more to us than another big screen cartoon if we dealt honestly and independently with our own history — a history white studios or directors would never touch. Such history puts the lie to the frames and simplifications with which Americans maintain our halo of historical innocence on matters related to race.

If we lavished similar imagination upon the history of the blacks who fought for the British during the American revolution to escape slavery, the German Coast uprising, the Prosser and Vesey rebellions, the ‘Crazy as St. Paul’ Nat Turner rebellion, the Black Seminole rebellion of 1835, the innumerable anecdotal tales of black resistance against slave-owners, perhaps we wouldn’t glom onto the work of a white director who (with his infantile insistence on his right to fling the word “nigger”) seems frightfully similar to the clueless character in Lou Reed’s infamous, “I Wanna be Black.” If we taught ourselves to regard the Civil War as “a failed war to protect and extend slavery,” and not “a war to free the slaves,” we would be less seduced by the siren song of second-hand revenge fantasy. If we debated among ourselves the virtues and vices of real old-west outlaws like the notorious Rufus Buck Gang, Cherokee Bill and Isom Dart, perhaps one white man’s notion of blacks in the old west would be less noteworthy. If we knew that black freedman populated Indian Territory and that a black lawman named Bass Reeves served as a Deputy U.S. Marshall for “Hanging Judge” Isaac Parker, we’d have a far richer, more complex view of our history than that promoted by the likes of Hollywood and Tarantino.

Yes, blacks are giving this film too much credence, but it’s our own fault. We have outsourced our history to the majority and failed to devise the means to teach our history to ourselves. In a country in which we have been historically subjugated and reviled, we accept instruction about our history and our place in it from those who subjugated and reviled us. That’s a bit insane. As long as we continue to do so, the likes of Django Unchained will rise from the level of mainstream curiosities from black-cultural dilettantes, to fake nipples mimicking the teat of cultural sustenance.

Listen: We can only imagine just what it must have been like for African slaves not just in America, but also those spread all throughout the new world; but even so, we have no earthly idea, despite the documented research, of just how bad it actually was. So what is the point to this post? That I can’t wait for Tarantino to do the sequel where Django and Madea try to bust John Brown the abolitionist, out of prison for killing white folks so everyone can be happy. Yep, let’s try to rescue a white man in the next one, since folk wanna act like he had Harriet Tubman giving lap dances in this one. as cathartic as this film isn’t for some, maybe my suggested sequel will be received with open arms only if a black guy produces, writes, and directs it. Because quite naturally, who else is there better to tell stories of the black struggle than black people, right? After all, last time I checked, black kids are still picking white dolls over black dolls; and, it ain’t like y’all Negroes supported Akeela And The Bee anyway.

So yeah, blame Tarantino for that too.

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OK, let’s get something straight: Django Unchained is not about Martin Luther King Jr, nor is it the black version of the epic The Birth Of A Nation. However, it’s a very timely film.

I doubt very seriously whether it was Quenten Tarrantiino’s intent to spark a conversation on race. But with his new movie Django Unchauined, boy did he ever. Having said that, I’m just going to go on record and say that if Jammie Foxx wins an Oscar for his role as Django, that’s when I’m going to start believing all this post-racial talk I’ve been hearing for the last four years. Now, about the movie, I’m not offended that the word “nigger,” is used 110 times. I have yet to see the movie, so I’m not sure why this may be offensive to some.What offends me, however, is that Django has excellent command of the English. No diss to my ancestors, but I’m having a hard time accepting the fact that a slave in the 1950s is able to understand that the ‘D’ in his name is silent. But hey, maybe I shouldn’t complain; yep, at least they didn’t make him come off a bit Green Mile-ish when there are black folks today who you’d swear they’re looking for Harriet Tubman when you hear them speak.

Now of course this movie has seen it’s share of controversy even before its Christmas Day release. In fact, I blogged about how “certain people” were a bit put off by a joke told by Jamie Foxx while hosting Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago. Yes, and apparently it’s beyond reason for an enslaved African with a gun to “kill all the white people,” like Foxx does in this movie. I suppose, to some, the notion of a slave murdering the un-melanined seems to be bad for race relations in America. Of course this was all bullshit, as I’ve already pointed out. That said, you can imagine my surprise when I heard that there were more than a few black folks who took issue with a few things in the movie. Not surprising, however, was the critique that came from my man Spike Lee, who believes the film is “disrespectful,” to his ancestors who were slaves.

This from Rolling Stone:

Although he hasn’t seen the movie, director Spike Lee tells Vibe that Quentin Tarantino’s new Civil War-era Western Django Unchained is “disrespectful to my ancestors.”

Lee, whose latest film Red Hook Summer deals with race and class in the South Brooklyn neighborhood, said he has no plans to see Django Unchained. He elaborated on his dissatisfaction on Twitter, writing, “American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It Was A Holocaust. My Ancestors Are Slaves. Stolen From Africa. I Will Honor Them.”

This isn’t the first time Lee has taken issue with Tarantino’s films, particularly when it comes to the use of a racial epithet that is used myriad times in Django and appeared frequently in Tarantino’s 1997 film Jackie Brown.

Lee spoke out about the film after apparently telling Django star Jamie Foxx that he wasn’t going to. In a separate interview withVibe, Foxx recalled an encounter with Lee at the BET awards saying, “You know Spike, he’ll let you have it whether it’s good, bad or ugly. And he said, ‘I’m not going to say anything bad about this film. It looks like y’all are getting it.’”

Now I respect Spike Lee, and I’m a huge fan — hell, can’t you tell from the banner above? — and he is of course entitled to his opinion. However, I don’t agree with his assertion. Why? Well, maybe I’m wrong, but I’d like to think that African slaves had more important things to worry about other than being called “niggers.” Was it degrading to them? Assuming that they had a grasp of the English language like “Django,” I’m sure it was. However, I’d like to think that they were more concerned about escaping the horror that was slavery, and maybe even trying to get a paycheck. The way I see it: What better way is there to “honor” our ancestors than to use a film to illustrate just what they endured for a very long time? Sorry, Spike, you’re my man and all, and like you I love the Knicks; but, until Kunta Kinte comes forward and says he feels “disrespected,” I’m not hearing you, bro. But Spike isn’t the only one, as I found out while watching Melissa Harris-Perry last weekend

Case in point, check out this from Melissa Harris-Perry:

So, for Melber who writes:

Django is fighting for his life against slavery, torture, rape, and murder, arming him with a moral clearance to go on a killing spree…

[...] The spectacle is more like pornographic violence than a dénouement, and even if the corpses are not total innocents, the nation’s tolerance for wanton, mass shootings is quite low right now.

[...] There is nothing to be gained from sanitizing our nation’s violent, racist history, to be sure, but Tarantino has shown that sensationalizing it is not worthwhile, either. That is unfortunate, because Django Unchained ultimately boils down to a tragedy in search of a point.

I suppose for him and others who share his opinion, the fact that a black man is doing the this killing makes them a little uneasy. I mean, lord forbid if someone makes a movie about John Brown, the white abolitionist who enacted his “vengeance” upon white men for no reason. Yep, for some, it’s as though Django should have employed Martin Luther King Jr’s strategy of non-violence. Because we all know how well that worked out for black folks during slavery. I’m sorry, but something tells me that Dr. King wouldn’t be above bussin’ a cap in more than a few asses to get back to Coretta.

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But seriously, how dare a slave with a gun “Kill all the White people,” in a movie? A few days ago, Sean Hannity had a huge problem with Janie Foxx and his Saturday Night Live opening monologue last weekend. As you may know by now, in the upcoming film Django Unchained, Jamie plays a slave with an itchy trigger finger — imagine that, a slave with a gun. Yep, leave it to Jamie Foxx to play the first slave with a gun in a movie, who doesn’t start a revolution, right? Yeah, how’s that for Black History? I’m sure Nat Turner would be so proud.

In his monologue, Jamie most pleasurably jokingly mentioned that he kills all the white people in the movie. Now I’m no fan of Jamie Foxx, but even I — though I struggled — had to laugh because it was pretty funny. I mean, if you’re a slave with a gun in the 1850s, um, what else are you supposed to do? Exactly! It’s really a no brainer, right? But no, don’t tell that to Sean Hannity. Forever in search of the elusive Black Bogeyman, Hannity took offense and found Foxx to be racially offensive. Um, isn’t it hilariously funny how a host on Fox thinks that Foxx was racist.

JAMIE FOXX: My name is Jamie Foxx. Give it up, give it up, New York City, Saturday Night Live. Come on, make some noise, man. New York City, New York City, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, it’s crazy. I’m black, and I’m dressed all black cause it’s good to be black. Black is the new white. I’m telling you, how black is this right here? Nice fly, I’m saying. You know how I know black is in right now? Cause the Nets moved to Brooklyn. How black is that? They got black jerseys, black court. I mean, how black is that? And Jay-z is the owner, a rapper. How black is that? And Jay-z only own about this much of the team. But he act like he own all of New York. How black is that?

And I got a movie coming out, “Django,” check it out. Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson. “Django Unchained” I play a slave. How black is that? And in the movie I had to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t be worried about it because I get out the chains, I get free, I save my wife, and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that? And how black is that?

And of course, Hannity found two not-so-unchained folks to have a discussion:

How does it help race relations in this country when a black actor jokes on national television about killing white people?

One has to believe that his opening monologue was approved by SNL’s writers, meaning they were in on it.

Imagine the uproar if a white actor joked about killing all the black people in a new film he was starring in.

That would probably be the end of his career.

By contrast, for Foxx, this will probably win him another Oscar.

It’s a grave new world isn’t it?

Yes, it is a “grave new world,” indeed; but, obviously not much has changed since there’s a black family living in the White House. The truth is that neither Sheppard nor Hannity are interested in helping race relations in this country. If anything, what we’ve seen for the last four years especially, is that black is not the new white as Jamie Foxx suggested. But that may be my penchant for the tragicomic coupled with my ever-present Negro cynicism coming through. Forgive my pessimism, but when I look at the right-wing’s new black fetish, and how they rarely miss any opportunity to demonize people of color. Let’s just say that though it has been four years, I’m not feeling very post-racial. Case in point, check out the following video. Maybe it’s me, but the obvious appeal to the racial sensitivities of “certain people” in America, is blatantly obvious.

Yep, whether in movies or real life, black folks have done a lot of things in America since slavery. Hell, we’ve even been to space for crying out loud. That said, is it too hard to imagine or accept that we’re at a place in history where a black person can simultaneously be president of the United States, while another one uses a gun to “kill all the White people,” in a movie? Or is that, like truth, too much too fast for some to accept? Sorry, but the days of Blazing Saddles are long gone.

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Board of Directors, Pacifica Foundation:

The fact is, it’s not WHAT Tavis and West are saying that has the Black community up in arms, it’s WHY we suspect they’re saying it. After all, couldn’t they wait until AFTER the election, and AFTER we’ve made sure that we’ve protected the Black community and poor and middle-class America from corporate fascists, and THEN have this “intelligent and passionate” discussion? But of course, Tavis and West would argue that once reelected, President Obama wouldn’t have an incentive to listen. But that’s not true. Every president is concerned about his legacy, and as the first Black president that’s even more true of Obama than most. In addition, President Obama has two daughters who’ll have to live with his legacy for the rest of their lives. Thus, President Obama’s actions in office will determine whether they live their lives as American princesses, or pariahs. Certainly the highly intellectual Cornel West recognizes that fact – doesn’t he?

So what’s so important for us to discuss at this particular time that it’s worth sabotaging this election, and possibly, the future of America? After all, it’s not like we have a viable alternative to President Obama. So personally, I can’t think of a thing, and neither can many others in the Black community. The only thing we can see is a personal agenda – and then, when you put that together with Tavis Smiley’s all-consuming penchant for self-promotion, and his close ties to Walmart, Nationwide Insurance, Wells Fargo, and other corporate interests, that leaves the Black community very suspicious of these two characters. In addition, the Black community is not nearly so dense that we don’t recognize that every time these two go on one of their “poverty tours” that they have something to sell under their arm.

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So some right-wing idiot just hit me up and said, “Rosie Perez is an ‘illegal’ and should be deported,” in response to the following campaign ad. Yeah, of course he was white. I mean, what else would you expect? Much like the anti-immigrant crowd, to them, by Rosie being a person of color with an accent, she’s “an illegal.” Don’t believe me? Well, take it from me; I’m black, and I’m also an immigrant. And quite naturally, in right-wing world, this means I’m too lazy to steal a job from myself; yes, and like Rosie, I too have a funny accent. Which is funny because without seeing me, my government name would have you assuming that I was quite possibly a recovering Irish-Catholic drunk — at least that’s what a nun in Catholic school once told me when I was seven-years-old.

But anywhichaways, check out the following ad put together by Actually.org. In their first ad of this election cycle, Rosie obliterates Mitt Romney for jokingly stating that his life would be better if he was Latino, and not the wealthy and successful privileged white man that he was cursed to be.

Oh, and by the way, Rosie Perez was born in Brooklyn.

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It’s been a while since I last watched anything on Fox News, but I did last night. I specifically watched Sean Hannity’s show last night, because he had an exposé on Barack Obama that was guaranteed to rock his bid for reelection. I was told that a secret video of Obama had surfaced, so I was curious.

Aside from being a Obama supporter, a video being in the hands of Hannity really piqued my interest. It was to be an introduction to the real Obama to the world in the form of a speech he delivered in 2007 at Hampton University. I was told that the video in question contained excerpts of a very racially divisive speech by a then candidate Barack Obama. Allegedly, this was a video intentionally hidden because it’s release would have been damaging.

So I watched, and this is what I got:

“I’ve got to give a special shout-out to my pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country.” - Senator Barack Obama

The video, which was obtained in full and posted by the Daily Caller, another conservative Web site, also shows Mr. Obama talking about the difficulties faced by the homeless people and veterans. He says such people “may need help with basic skills — how to show up to work on time, wear the right clothes and act appropriately in an office. We have to help them get there.” (source)

Hell, I was prepared for some weird reincarnation of Obama as Nat Turner mixed with Denmark Vesey, and a splash of Malcolm X. Shit, I figured I’d hear at least one “kill whitey,” or a “cracker-ass-cracker,” or something akin to the New Black Panther Party. But I didn’t even get a “jive turkey” soundbite; and lord knows how that scares white folks. Instead, what I got was a discussion by two white men on Fox about the content, delivery, and “accent” used by Obama. An accent? I’m sorry, but how does one’s accent determine one’s disdain for another race? Can anyone explain this one to me, please?

Check out the second video:

WASHINGTON — The Daily Caller, working in collaboration with Fox News, released a video Tuesday night of a speech President Barack Obama delivered at Hampton University back in 2007. The release was preceded by an all-afternoonDrudge Report banner headline splash, billing the video as some sort of electorally game-changing revelation with racial overtones that was going to affect the 2012 campaign ahead of the first presidential debate.

It ended up being a rerun of a 2007 story that was already well known to reporters and political partisans. So, as a piece of new and incendiary news, it was something of a letdown. However, as a piece of Internet trolling that forced political reporters to bide their time until the evening release of the video, instead of watching the goings-on in the last days of Major League Baseball’s regular season, it was a work of genius. (source)

Lemme tell you something: unless Andrew Brietbart comes back from the dead with a video of Obama at a BBQ with Idi Amin slapping high-fives while running a train on white women in 2011, um, we’re good. Rev. Jeremiah Wright being brought up again and this video is an epic fail on the part of Sean Hannity, Matt Drudge, and Tucker Carlson. Clearly it’s a move made out of desperation to help Romney, but still a nice try. I’m outta here, folks; I have an accent to go work on.

... and then they brought up Rev. Jeremiah Wright!

Besides, where was all this talk of divisiveness when then president, George W. Bush said the following, “poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination which h cut off generations from the opportunity of America…So let us restore all that we have cherished from yesterday and let us rise above the legacy of inequality. When the streets are rebuilt, there should be many new businesses, including minority-owned businesses, along those streets.” Those remarks were delivered from New Orleans by Bush after Hurricane Katrina. But, I guess he has the complexion for the connection; and thus, unlike Obama, he gets a pass on being racially divisive because it’s pretty obvious that he loves black people, and has a different accent.

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Yeah I know, black people like me should be forever grateful to O.J. Simpson. Once upon a time we were told by Conservatives like Ann Coulter that we should be grateful to Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party. Yes, because it if wasn’t for such righteous men line Lincoln, black folks would be picking cotton, even in Black History Month. But I suppose we’re post-racial now; so, now we owe a debt of gratitude to the great liberator, Oranthal J. Simpson. Yep, Johnny Cochran would be proud that his courtroom rhyme made history.

I swear, white folks say the dumbest shit at times when it comes to race. Pardon me, I meant to say some white folks say the dumbest shit when it comes to race. Lord knows I have to be careful not to generalize and be mistaken for being racist like some of you people out there.

Pugnacious conservative commentator and eight time bestselling author Ann Coulter is out with a new book on race that is bound to provoke and upset, in true Coulter fashion.

In Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama, Coulter posits that the left consistently plays the “race card” in order to keep the black vote, by accusing Republicans of racism when it’s not deserved.

[See: Latest Barack Obama cartoons]

“These are fictional battles with nonexistent racists,” says Coulter, who devotes several pages to debunking supposed instances of Tea Party racism. Many, she argues, were exaggerated by the media, “liberal infiltrators” pretending to be Republicans, or never happened.

Coulter, who does not mention Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Mugged, says Democrats pretend that Republicans are racist because it’s the only way they can win.

“It’s the only way this guy got elected and will be re-elected,” Coulter says of President Barack Obama. “The theme of 2008 was that it was historic and you’re a racist if you don’t vote for the first black president. Someone with his youth and lack of experience would not be elected if he was white.”

Fast forward four years and Coulter says the media are still treating Obama with kid gloves. She cites the recent proteststhat spread across the Middle East and North Africa over an anti-Islam video, and what she sees as the media’s lack of scrutiny of the Obama administration’s response to those protests. “The world is exploding, and the media treat him like a child.”

But Obama supporters say the media is just as critical of the president as anyone else. “The president has gotten crazy coverage down to his birth certificate,” liberal commentatorRev. Al Sharpton told Whispers. Coulter accuses Sharpton in her book of having historically played the race card. “When I see bias, I call bias, even if it’s a Democrat,” he says. “I don’t see liberals as playing the race card at all.”

Coulter believes Sharpton “is probably the only black person” who won’t like her book. She dedicated Mugged to “the freest black man in America,” with no further explanation about who that person might be.

Jamelle Bouie, a staff writer at the American Prospect who writes on politics and race, is actually another black person who doesn’t like her book. He says Coulter’s thesis is “insulting.”

“Black people don’t support Democrats because white liberals ‘play the race card,’ they support Democrats because their interests—material and symbolic—are best served by the Democratic Party,” Bouie wrote in an E-mail to Whispers. “This view that blacks have a Pavlovian response to politics is insulting, to say the least.” (source)

I’m not too sure of the point Ann attempted to make in the following interview when she appeared on The View a few days ago. However, I’m kinda glad that there were at least two black women on the panel to properly snatch her wig for the silly commentary. Truth be told, she’s lucky she didn’t say that stupid shit on the set of Real Housewives Of Atlanta. Not that those sisters on that show could properly check her with fats or anything. But it would have been nice to see them pull off some ear rings and go to work on Rageddy Ann as she deserves for insulting my intelligence.

Sorry Ann, but I don’t remember O.J. being a freedom fighter!

It’s like I told you earlier this week when she appeared on Fox & Friends and said that racism would be dead if it weren’t for the media and Democrats. If racism ever died in America, it damn sure wouldn’t be because Ann Coulter killed it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy to see more people engaging in discussions on race. However, when it is the goal of an individual to say whatever the fuck he or she wants, however inaccurate, nothing is gained. Nope, not when you wanna smack ‘em.

Having said that, check out the video and tell me what you think. Seriously, the following is rich with right-wing bullshit. You know, silly talking points like, “The Democrats are promoting voter fraud,” like Ann so eloquently stated in response to being questioned about Republican backed racist Voter ID laws. Or, how about the one that takes the cake where Coulter says, “The ‘Southern Strategy’ was a myth.” You know, the same racially divisive campaign strategy coined by the Nixon campaign that successfully managed to stoke the racial resentment of southern whites — you know, it’s like the West Coast Offense in the NFL: everybody in the GOP is doing it. Yep, just ask Mitt Romney about his talk about “free stuff” and welfare work requirements. Or maybe former RNC chair, Ken Mehlman who apologized for the use of racially divisive tactics to get votes for Republicans.

But enough of that talk, just watch the video and tell me what you think.

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You know, it’s really good to see Barack Obama evolve. Four years ago, he came under fire — mostly from black folks — for having the late Bernie Mack tell a few off-color jokes at a Chicago campaign fundraising event. Back then I defended Mack in the face of criticisms from a few uppity negroes around the internet. You know, the ones who were holding their assholes tight (like they always do) because they spent $2500.00 a plate at a fundraiser in hopes of helping a black man who was beloved by white folks become president. Yeah, y’all pretentious-ass uppity negroes kill me.

But here we are four years later, and the hardest working man in Hollywood, Samuel L. Jackson has a new campaign ad to promote support for Obama’s reelection. And what’s so cool is that he uses the word “fuck” more than once in the ad. Even cooler, is that he manages to have a little white girl repeat the f-bomb at the end of the commercial. Now I say the ad is cool because as you know, I’m not above using certain words in an attempt to get some of you ig’nant people to hear me. Yes, just like the ad, it’s about urgency; it’s about showing just how real this shit is.

No word on whether our Republican friends approve of a little white kid saying such filth in a campaign commercial; however, I’m sure at some point it will come up. After all, you know how much “certain people” are opposed to their children being indoctrinated by Obama and his Hip Hop homies. That said, check out the following video and tell me if you think it’s inappropriate

More importantly, wake the fuck up, will you? Seriously, understand that this election is probably the most important in modern history. Why? Because once upon a time there was this event called the Great Recession; yeah. that happened. Do you remember that? Well, if you do you’ll understand that the guy running against Obama has policies that will, well, make this country look like something out of a Mad Max movie if he wins. So yeah, there’s no need for me to go into much detail more than I have on this site. So yeah, wake the fuck up and get involved, will you?

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There’s something ironic about Ann Coulter saying that racism would be dead if it wasn’t for the mainstream media and Democrats, while peddling a book on Fox & Friends about how racist Democrats are. Yep, this from the woman who not too long ago in defense of Herman Cain said that, “Our blacks are better than their blacks.” Not overtly racially offensive, but there’s a tinge of that “My slaves aren’t as lazy as yours,” thing, to that statement. So I guess it’s no shock that Rageddy Ann purports herself to be an expert on racial politics as the pushes her latest book in the following interview with Steve Doocy of all people. You may not remember, but like Ann, Doocy is quite color aroused himself.

Be that as it may, what’ really sticks out in the following video is how Ann takes white liberals like Rachel Maddow (who supposedly isn’t comfortable around black people), Lawrence O’Donnell, and Bill Maher to task for being sympathetic to black people. Seriously, at one point I thought she was going to call O’Donnell and Maher, “nigger lovers,” but she didn’t. Instead, she said — and I’m not paraphrasing here — that O’Donnell and Maher date “black gals,” so they think they’re “freedom riders.” Very insulting, but funny; definitely more Lisa Lampanelli than Michael Richards.

Rageddy Ann & Ashy Jimmy

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Ann still dating Jimmy “J.J.” Walker of Good Times fame? If she is, clearly by doing so it doesn’t make her a “freedom rider,” by her definition. But given the fact that “Kid Dyn-O-mite” has resurfaced recently as a “slave catcher” on Fox News as he too peddled his book with his critique of Obama. With him being the kneecap-licking, buck-dancing-negro that he is, wouldn’t this make Coulter, well, the daughter of a slave master? I mean obviously she would, given that she “knows” black people and their negro-loving white friends, right?

Listen, I’m not sure if racism would be dead if the mainstream media and the Democrats didn’t keep it alive. In fact, I don’t think racism itself would ever die; and, I think people who believe that it will, are delusional. However, if racism were to disappear, it wouldn’t be because Ann Coulter wants it to.

That much I know.

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