NY Post / Tabloid trash

Blessed Love and Greetings,

You know the cartoon that has many in an uproar was indeed racist. It used obvious symbols that perpetuate ridiculous stereotypes. Artistic license? Yes. But were it a jew or a gay would you brush it aside just like that? Imagine if that cartoon appeared in a South Fla tabloid using a jewish stereotype or a homosexual one. The ACLU would be up in arms. Have Blacks in America been likened to monkeys in the past? Yes. Have issues with the police and police violence against Blacks been paramount in our discussions on race? Yes. To be honest if the cartoonist wanted to stay above the fray while still dancing that tightrope, he should have made the police Black.

What disturbs me more is how there seems to be no outrage at what appears to be an overt threat against our political leaders generally and the President specifically. Had this been directed at any other President to date, had it been then drawn by a Black cartoonist, or worse yet an anti-American communist or Muslim, the phones at the White House would be off the hook. Rush and his peers would be fielding hate filled rhetoric and mantra laden phone calls from the very same individuals who are saying this amounts to little more that satire. Murdock himself, would have no choice but to relieve himself of this cartoonist and make national apologies.

It is an embarrassment to live in a country that eschews such moral holier-than-thouness while still attempting to sweep under the rug what can really only be described as crude, thoughtless and irresponsible journalism.

First Ever

This being the first time ever that I am officially blogging, I decided to actually take it in a serious direction. I guess I have always had something to say about something, but recent events have rachetted up the need and desire to go public.

I was more than a little disturbed when a friend's son was disparaged and ridiculed to the degree of emasculation by his own teacher. The young man is 11 years old. He was told that because of the dreadlocks that he wears, that in her, the teacher's country, he would be considered a girl. And further treated as such. Really? These are the people that we have working in our schools?

I know it has been an unsung policy for decades to emasculate the Black Man through measures of ridicule and bad grades and harsher disciplinary action so that the overall eventuality would force certain self-fulfilling prophesies. I know that I as a Black Man and others like me, need to get ourselves in these schools as teachers and administrators to show these young men who they truly are. I know that we need to require more of the brothers around us when it comes to dealing with our children and our communities. I also know that these young women need to require more from us as well. But my God, when do we say enough is enough? When do we do something to correct this and other such scenarios? It is a destructive cycle that can be arrested if we so choose.

Forgive me a choppy and maybe a little scattered rambling. My first blog as I said and I can only improve over time. Until we meet, until we meet, later will always be greater.