*Excerpt from Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get by the Dramatics
I haven’t written anything since September. Nothing to write about except the same old same old. The midterms are over and I feel a tad optimistic.
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Pear blossoms–September Methinks Mother Earth is confused and who could blame her!!!
Midterms–Tennessee: The ignorance and stupidity of the Tennessee voter has no bottom. The governor elect is known to be corrupt and a sycophant of the POTUS. Her response to the citizens needs are the indifferent, non-caring, non-responsive, meaningless words–thoughts and prayers. Tennesseans voted for prejudice, hatred, no medical care, no infrastructure, the sell and use of resources to her “friends” who will deplete and scurry to the next locale to repeat their devastation. The ignorant Tennessee voters have embedded into the Constitution provisions better left to legislation. But, you can’t fix stupid, especially when compounded by ignorance.
But there were Democratic victories–a lot. Just not in Tennessee. Georgia went Democrat–Governor and many of the state-wide elected positions. Mississippi might have a Black US. Senator–the first since reconstruction. (Update: Mississippi has a senator who is Black! Fact I didn’t know-Mississippi has the largest Black population–a legacy from Slavery.) I called my cousin in Texas and congratulated him on Texas’s Democrat status. The vile male of Indian descent, Vivek Ramaswamy, in Ohio, lost. Florida voted in the sycophants and hate like Tennessee. Overall, Black voters, male and female, voted to stop the policies of the current administration. Policies of white supremacy and nationalism, anti-immigration, voter suppression, personal vendettas that use government resources, senseless and costly wars and aggressions, and the rewriting of the history of the United States.,
What did come across loud and clear is that money cannot buy everything. That evil South African tried and so did some other oligarchs. (There was the $90 to certain seniors offered by the POTUS who has enriched himself by billions in just two years. $90 isn’t even a weekly grocery bill for a single person, but certain people don’t shop for themselves, so they’re completely out of touch with the true cost-of-living.) Enough voters have felt the affect of the failed policies of tariffs, tax breaks for the wealthy, the sell of resources to the wealthy, the manipulation of the stock market for the wealthy, the puerile responses to serious matters, the misogyny, the juvenile distaste for the handicapped and persons with any perceived difference from the preferred plastic-surgeoned sycophants, and the back-stabbing of allies in order to gain the insincere transactional personal approval of those who would destroy this country. I wonder if the Democrats have learned the lesson that you don’t parley with the opponent who has shown you by word and deed that they have no interest in compromise, only winning by any means necessary.
United States usage-ringer-a contestant entered in a competition under false representations of identity, record, or ability. (American Heritage Dictionary) Are any of these newly elected Democrats closet Republicans? There’s one in the Senate–Fetterman who says he will not switch parties. He wants to be a spoiler? Or is he one who wants to be on what he perceives as the winning side? That person who has no convictions cannot be trusted. Liars–unfortunately that’s who we the people are dealing with.
Another book that I thought I had read–The Isis Papers The Keys To The Colors by Frances Cress Welsing. She was a psychiatrist like Frantz Fanon. One point she stressed is that whites are the descendants of Black albinos. I have read that before, but I can’t agree with it. If one thinks about human migration patterns–in a generation humans might migrate ten miles or thereabouts. I suppose if there were some environmental disaster humans might migrate further in a generation. but realistically an albino migrating to the cooler climates is a stretch. Unless there was a group migration and they only mated within that group, there is no way for the recessive trait to survive in a population with a melanin dominant and that would have been the population on that trek to Europe and other areas. It makes more sense for the dominance of a recessive gene to be an adaptation to an environment without the sun’s direct rays. Just like straight hair, with its insulating properties, is an adaptation. (The brain needs a certain temperature range to function properly. Ditto for the body.)
Neither Welsing nor Fanon address the toxicity of the patriarchy and how it is the underpinning of current societies. Their acceptance of male superiority as the norm, in my opinion, causes them to make some dubious assumptions. Yes…most males have more physical strength–that physiology. However, in the Continent, there is a history of female warriors who led the men into battle, who negotiated with the invaders in their lands, and who were successful. For example…Queen Amanirenas, of Kush who fought the Romans and won; Nzinga of Angola who defeated the Portuguese; Queen Amina who lived in what is now Nigeria known as the Conqueror; and because of the movie–the Dahomey Amazons who were located in present day Benin. That’s not taking into account the women like Harriet Tubman, the women who led the many Maroon settlements wherever there was Slavery, etc. So, the aggrandizement of males as protectors and providers is overstated.
And there may be some truth to her assertion that racism is a result of the whites’ fear of genetic annihilation. However, recently, I saw a picture of Diana Ross and her descendants, Most of her children were half-white and apparently they married white as the grandchildren in the picture didn’t have any discernible Black features. I think there was an Australian racist who posited that in three generations, if the Aborigines only mated with whites there would be no outward indication of the Aboriginal blood. That appeared to be the case in the picture I saw. So, if whites instituted a breeding program, either overt or covert, then that fear has no rational basis. (The societal insistence that the white female should be the apex goal of all males would qualify as a covert breeding agenda.) (I know fear is usually irrational.)
I do agree with her that we, as a group. must decide who we are in this capitalistic, white racist country. Do we integrate and continue to vainly strive to become acceptable in their eyes or do we seek another path? As I’ve stated before…economic viability should be the goal in any capitalistic society. We have seen in the past two years a great loss of jobs, government and corporate, of Black people, especially women. That should tell us something about pinning one’s future on integration.
I do understand what I consider the irrational need for show. If one has been denied the means for the colorful clothes, the expensive house, the shiny car…one craves those status symbols, things. That’s the mindset of the nouveau riche in any capitalistic society or maybe any society. Things are tangible. Things can be seen. And we’ve only had about sixty years of jobs that provided that type of discretionary income.
Welsing also pointed out many of the male genitalia symbols in this society. Guns, balls, spires, etc. But in a patriarchal society, wouldn’t that type of symbolism be the norm? Males got this Earth in the mess it is today. I don’t think males will be the ones to find a solution. My impression from Welsing is if we give the males more rope, they’ll tie a pretty bow and there will be peace in the home and on Earth. (I’m being somewhat simplistic and facetious and sarcastic.)
It’s November. The leaves are shades of gold, rust, orange, red, and green! There’s a chill in the air. However, as of today, no hard frost. In the past, on or about October 15th was the projected date of the first hard frost.
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Every sunrise brings a chance to celebrate life anew. Anonymous
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