Showing posts with label Washington DC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Washington DC. Show all posts

Thursday, November 18, 2010

White Rage and the TSA: Comparing Stop and Frisk in the Hood to Pat Downs at the Airport

For those who fly the friendly skies – for business, travel, employment – you will understand the context of what is about to written.

The Transportation Services Administration (TSA) is an organization of inept individuals who take pleasure and delight at having the illusion of power to harass and exploit their hegemony over timid airline passenger’s intent on merely getting through security with their dignity intact.
Stop and Frisk < TSA agents methods

The backlash against the TSA has shown that a push back against the growing police state that has been erected to ensure Black Run America’s (BRA) continued existence is underway, for only through a combination of ambivalence and silence could this tyrannical regime have continued unabated.
The mid-term elections of 2010 showed that strange things are afoot across America and were but a harbinger of something greater, more immense.

After years of state-sanctioned abuse (the preferential treatment of Black people and deference to them in academia, movies, government, corporations, etc), who would have thought that the rise of Middle American Radicals (MARs) would become most vociferous in the realm of airline passengers and pilots finally revolting against the long-arms of the groping state and its TSA goof-troop?

Being subjected to abuse from proles dressed in blue, whom douse the air with a pungent scent of state-ordained authority and demand a removal of shoes, toiletries, belts, laptops and most of all, the dignity, from the passenger has finally agitated the proletariat.

The full-body scanners and the groping imposed upon those who opt-out of these machines that take naked pictures has finally resulted in a full-fledged revolt against a government intent on punishing those who fly with a sampling of what it must feel like to be Black in America.

Black people – who commit a disproportionate amount of the crime in America – have long been subjected to random searches and frisks by police only trying to keep violent neighborhoods safe from continued escalations of mayhem.

Driving While Black has long been a pain for Black people, nearing the enmity they feel when people lock their car doors when they approach. Subjected to high-levels of police surveillance because of the high-levels of crime committed by fellow Black people, innocent Black people protest such intrusions of their civil liberties.

In a word, the TSA decided that every airline passenger was to be considered a nigger (the-word-that-shall-not-be-named), subjecting them to the same tactics that Disingenuous White Liberals (DWLs) and Black racial hucksters complain ghetto Black people experience daily. Instead of random stop and frisks that take place in major cities where Black crime is a common, everyday occurrence, every airline passenger (regardless of age, color, creed or sexual orientation) and airline employee is treated callously by the TSA who deem each passenger a gangbanger until proven otherwise.
Keeping America safe, one nap at a time

Small children are considered terrorists who must be subjected to humiliating searches, while their parents are coerced to watch lest they be denied access to a flight. Elderly passengers are treated like the three “hoods” from the hilarious movie House Party – who terrorize a ghetto neighborhood and are harassed by white cops – and subjected to the same stop and frisk techniques normally reserved for Black people in major cities where Black crime is sad fact of life.

One Web site was even honest in describing the backlash, calling it “white rage”:

White folks are furious that TSA has decided to "grope" them. Guess what, white devils. This is the same shit that black men deal with every fucking day of their lives:

Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by the police in New York City in 2009, but, once stopped, were no more likely to be arrested.

Fuck you and your indignity. You didn't care about the Constitution when someone else's rights were being violated. Why then should anyone care about you when your rights are violated?

Oh, and those police-killing-dog videos that outrage you? Imagine if that was your child being murdered? In the ghetto, it's children being put into body bags.

Are you starting to understand "black rage"?

It'd be great if we could all learn something from TSA's disgraceful acts. It'd be great if white people would say, "Holy shit. This fucking sucks! Now I understand why black people hate cops so much, and why many of them have 'checked out' of society. Perhaps we should put an end to racial profiling, and stop treating black males like a permanent underclass."

None of that, however, will happen. Instead, white people will wrap up their rage in the Constitution. When blacks are harassed, the Constitution will resume its proper place as a refuge for criminals - who are always trying to get off on a technicality. 

The problem is simply this: Black people have a hard time cooperating with the police because they feel that the police are out to get them. White people have complied with increasing levels of TSA scrutiny and finally reached a breaking point.

Police utilize the stop and frisk method to deter criminals, who are disproportionately Black. In violent cities, such as New York and New Orleans, this method has proven effective at lowering crime. An overwhelming number of those stopped are Black, because an overwhelming number of the crimes are committed by Black people.

At airports, every passenger is treated as a potential criminal. Even pilots, who could easily crash the plane they command if they so desired, thus negating a search for weapons but necessitating psychological screenings instead.

Indeed, all airline passengers are considered by the TSA to be nothing more than the word-that-shall-not-be-named, until proven otherwise.

Finally, the people who have been subjected to dehumanizing treatment by TSA agents overdosing on power have spoken.

Being treated like a nigg, er, we mean the word-that-shall-not-be-named finally drove normal Americans crazy. Call it “white rage” or just call it common sense.










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Monday, January 18, 2010

#227. The Martin Luther King Jr. Monument


Soon to stand resolute in the same city where monuments to racist slaveholders attract millions every year will be the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial. This towering memorial to Martin Luther King will be erected to remind all of the sins of Pre-Obama America and the still unfulfilled promise of Mr. King’s “I have a Dream” from finally coming to fruition… at some point.

You see, invoking the famous Martin Luther King “I have a Dream” speech and praising the eventuality of reaching the infamous “content of character instead of color of skin” racially blind society fails to consider the actuality that Black people are desirous of living in a society completely devoid of merit.

If the axiom Martin Luther King (MLK) uttered so long ago were to be fully integrated in 2010, Black people would find themselves in a perilous situation, much worse than what they faced in 1963. Recall, the primary reason Michael Oher was adopted – he was a large, homeless Black male who could play football – and the underlying justification for billions of dollars being sent to prop up the failed Black state of Haiti – so that a Black person-led nation won’t collapse – have absolutely nothing to do with character at all. Just color.

Black people know this monument in Washington DC is not the crowning achievement of some superficial “I have a Dream” movement or the culmination of a century’s old struggle to “overcome” racism in all its insidious forms. All the monument represents is a perverse “wet dream” by disingenuous white liberals (DWLs) who see MLK as an embodiment of the Token Black whose elocution was coherent enough and scholarship ever so close to being original, that he could pass as the righteous leader whom all who come after would find no fault in.

Indeed, hagiographers of King’s life we all are now. Just like those who will stand in awe of the 30-foot statue of his likeness that will soon grace the nation mall in Washington DC, the giant shadow he casts over history acts as a get-out-of-jail card for all Black people and any porous behavior on their part.

“Judge by the content of character,” is the reply levied by any Black person, DWL or other person confronted with Hate Facts.

However, the ingratiating and sycophantic manner in which DWLs heap love and admiration toward MLK doesn’t persuade Black people that his mission has been accomplished, nor that it should be finalized.

Black people instinctively understand racism will never be overcome in the United States, regardless of the concessions made by a placid white population bent on appeasing their Black overseers in any way, shape or form.

Even with the election of Mein Obama, Black people realize that calling a cease-fire in the Civil Rights struggle would amount to capitulation in the war to “shakedown” America and keep a true meritocracy – what MLK envisioned in his famous “I have a Dream” speech – from ever being implemented in this nation.

Regardless, Black people know the statue gives them a foot-print finally in Washington DC, since so many people consider Benjamin Banneker’s work on designing that city a myth and visitors to the district will see the true founding father of America honored finally:

“Atlanta resident Lea Winfrey Young says the "outsourcing" by U.S. companies and organizations to China has gone too far this time. She and her husband, Gilbert Young, a painter, are leading a group of critics who argue that an African American -- or any American -- should have been picked for such an important project.

"Dr. King's statue is to be shipped here in a crate that supposedly says 'Made in China.' That's just obscene," Winfrey Young says…

The statue Lei is creating -- which at 28 feet will be a full nine feet taller than the statue in the Jefferson Memorial -- will be the centerpiece of the tribute to King. The memorial will span four acres near the Tidal Basin between the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, facing Jefferson.

Visitors will first walk through a grove of spruce and magnolia trees by a waterfall and read a selection of the civil rights leader's famous words carved on walls. At the end of their walk, they will see King's likeness emerging from a chunk of granite.

Lei said there was much internal debate at the foundation about how King should look. Some thought the statue should reflect King as an ambassador of peace. Some wanted to present his urbane, intellectual side. Still others wanted to make him into a towering heroic figure. "If there are 1,000 readers of 'Hamlet,' " Lei said, "you will have 1,000 interpretations."

The cost of the MLK statue is a paltry $120 million, thankfully paid for by gracious individuals and corporations bent on paying homage to the Patron Saint of Diversity, MLK, so that these “sacrifices” will bold well for their futures, much like sacrifices to the Gods of old. Sadly, of those who have paid monetary tribute to the MLK statue, a shocking percentage have gone bankrupt, including General Motors, Lehman Brothers and the Circuit City Foundation, not to mention Fannie May.

The checks cleared thankfully from those ill-fated company’s and the MLK statue will be chiseled into reality by a Chinaman, whose final vision of the 20th century’s most towering individual is one criticized for its artistically bellicose nature:

“A powerful federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial on the Tidal Basin be reworked because it is too "confrontational" and reminiscent of political art in totalitarian states.

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts thinks "the colossal scale and Social Realist style of the proposed statue recalls a genre of political sculpture that has recently been pulled down in other countries," commission secretary Thomas Luebke said in a letter in April.”

This is precisely how Black people want MLK to be recalled, as an “angry Black man” defiant to the end and even in death, continuing the war upon white people and America, for no amount of mea culpa’s from white people can absolve them of their collective racist past.

Black people will not rest though, until those iconic monuments to white people are removed from Washington DC, for these statues represent a true totalitarian past and a vivid, constant reminder of the historic stain that haunts the soul of Black folks’.

Still, the MLK monument is included in the register of Stuff Black People Don’t Like, for at only 30-feet the statue will hardly compare to the Washington or Lincoln Memorials. Overshadowed by white people is one thing, but overshadowed by slave-holding and racist white people is a sin heads must roll over.





Saturday, December 26, 2009

The Ninth Day of Christmas at SBPDL - Errant Snowballs


Washington DC is a town known for safety. However, Black people are already known not to like the snow and have a difficult time discerning the myriad complexities of gun safety.

Now, combine snow with gun safety and put these two combustible Black elements into Washington DC and you have a recipe for an ultimate SBPDL.

Black people have long been incapable of cooperating with the police, and this difficulty is exasperated exponentially when a Black person is the one carrying around the badge. There are many competent Black police officers in the United States (Chief Moose and Carl Winslow come to mind), and yet the power of the law in their hands leads to a crippling arrogance that, when compounded with high levels of snow fall and a massive snow ball fight, spells trouble:

WASHINGTON — Washington's police chief criticized a veteran detective Monday for pulling a gun during a mass snowball fight. Authorities said the officer is on desk duty while the case is under investigation.

Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier said she had watched video clips from the weekend confrontation and has no doubt that the off-duty officer pulled his gun after snowballs hit his personal vehicle during Saturday's record snowfall.

Click here for video of the event.

"Let me be very clear in stating that I believe the actions of the officer were totally inappropriate!" Lanier said in a statement. "In no way should he have handled the situation in this manner."

When you click on this story, it takes you to a Fox News link (remember, Black people don't like Fox News, even though the network does little to encourage racism. Here, they picture a white cop with the story who was trying to get the bottom of the event, for a Black detective became irate when he was pelted with numerous snow balls).

A better story can be found here, which delineates the race of the individual who became noticeably offended by the icy projectiles that were flung his way:
"Washington, D.C. police are investigating reports that a detective brandished his gun during a mass snowball fight on a city street after an Internet video surfaced that appears to show the incident.

Police said Monday they were looking into reports that a plainclothes officer pulled a gun after he and his personal car were hit by snowballs. Police say witness accounts and videos from the scene appeared to support the claims.

Hundreds of people were involved in the snowball fight during Saturday's record snowstorm.

Sadly, this Black police who had a difficult time cooperating with snow balls and goofy white liberals (watch the video and tell us these aren't the kind of goofy white people that Stuff White People Like bashes) has been reprimanded:

"A Washington, D.C., police detective has been put on desk duty after pulling out his gun during a snowball fight Saturday.

The off-duty detective, whose name has not been released, was driving past a snowball fight in the city when his Hummer was hit by snowballs. He allegedly stopped the car, got out, and took out his gun. He also pulled out a walkie-talkie and called for backup.

Most of the incident was caught on video and quickly posted to YouTube.

According to an eyewitness, a D.C. Police detective (pictured above with gun) went nuts after kids pelted his Hummer with snowballs at 14th and U Streets NW this afternoon. The veteran detective got out of his car and eventually grabbed for his gun, displaying it to the crowd. He did not immediately identify himself as a police officer. He calmed down once his fellow uniformed cop arrived."
Black people don't like the snow and worse, they find the idea of balls of snow being utilized as weaponry offensive to the rules of civilized war and thus it is incumbent upon them to brandish guns in retaliation for this grievous insolence on the part of goofy white liberals in Washington DC:
A plainclothes police detective allegedly pulled his gun out and waved it at a large group of people in a snowball fight at the corner of 14th and U streets NW Saturday afternoon.

An off-duty member of the Metropolitan Police Dept. was reportedly driving his personal car in the area when the car was suddenly pelted with a barrage of snowballs, according to a statement from the MPD.

The detective stopped his car, got out and approached a crowd of people that might have thrown the snowballs. He then got into a verbal fight with members of the crowd, according to police.

Stuff Black People Don't Like includes errant snowballs, for if an officer of the law can be put in an untenable situation where only a gun can even the score, then it is wise to refrain from throwing snowballs at any Black people. Ever.

As the goofy white liberals in the video state, "Don't bring a gun to a snowball fight," unless of course, you will be in a snowball fight in a majority Black city. Then, you might need one.

Sadly, a snowball fight in Philadelphia did become lethal over this Christmas season in Philadelphia. RIP Teven Rutledge.

And this wasn't the first time a Black person has found errant snowballs to be worthy of reciprocity in the form of a gun, as Joseph Best of Philadelphia pulled a gun on Ebony Smith in 2003, for - you guessed it - an errant snowball:
A 10-year-old girl is fighting for her life after a man whose daughter was hit with a snowball returned and sprayed bullets into a group of children.

Joseph Best, 32, was arrested in Philadelphia and remanded on charges including attempted murder.

Ebony Smith, who police say was not involved in the snowball fight, is said to be in a critical condition with a head wound.

Best's daughter was hit with a snowball as she and her friends walked past a group of girls having a "friendly snowball fight", said Captain Charles Bloom of Philadelphia police.

A scuffle then broke out among the dozen or so girls, aged from 10 to 15. The groups soon parted ways, but Best returned with an older daughter and another brawl erupted, this time between adult relatives of both groups.

Police broke up that fight, but said Best came back again hours later, leaned out the passenger side of a moving car and fired at least five shots into the group of children still playing on the street. Authorities are trying to determine who was driving.

Police said the girl who was shot had been inside a house during the scuffles.

"This little girl had nothing to do with anything. She wasn't involved in the fight," Capt Bloom said. "He just seemed to be randomly shooting into the crowd."
It's just never a good idea to throw a snowball in the direction of Black people, regardless of what race you might belong too.








Saturday, September 26, 2009

#228. Washington DC Monuments




Black people love Washington DC. It is a city that has allowed Black people the honor of having the gifted orator, Marion Barry, serve as its mayor:

"Barry's other run-ins with the law have included a federal sting operation in 1990, when he was mayor. Surveillance cameras caught him smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room.

Despite his fall from grace, he was re-elected in 1994 to a four-year term as mayor. In his latest political comeback in 2004, Barry won a seat on the D.C. Council, on which he continues to serve.

Barry was arrested in 2002 when traces of marijuana and cocaine were found in his car after he was stopped in the Buzzard Point area of Southwest D.C. No charges were filed, and Barry claimed that the drugs were planted."

Washington DC, the nation's capitol, might be losing its Black population though, as gentrification is driving Black people out:

"The city losing black residents is a continuation of a decades-long trend of black flight from the city. The black population in the city has dropped 16 percent since 1990, when 400,000 blacks lived in Washington.

Despite this loss, Washington is one of only five states where a minority is actually the majority. Approximately 68 percent of District residents are nonwhite, with blacks representing 58 percent of the total population. Although the black population in the District has steadily been declining, the white, Hispanic and Asian populations have been consistently on the rise. Also according to the census, since 1990, the number of whites living in the District has increased 2 percent from about 179,000 to 184,000."

This rapid decrease in Black population, compounded with the vexing problem of staying awake while operating a DC Metro Train, is putting Black people's future in DC in great jeopardy. Sadly, the main problem that plagues Black people, regardless of the loss of their population and the high rates of crime, are the monuments that they must look at each day that glorify Pre-Obama America.

Monuments, you might ask? What are you talking about SBPDL? We're referring to the US Capitol Building, The Washington Monument, The Lincoln Memorial and The Jefferson Memorial, not to mention the monument to World War II.

Black people can hardly even look at the US Capitol Building anymore, for the realization that Black people in bondage helped erect the building and so few Black people have served as representatives and senators in that building is too much to take:

"In January, President-elect Barack Obama and his family will make history, becoming the first African-American first family to move into the White House -- a house with a history of slavery. In fact, the legacy of American presidents owning slaves goes all the way back to George Washington.

Twelve American presidents owned slaves and eight of them, starting with Washington, owned slaves while in office. Almost from the very start, slaves were a common sight in the executive mansion. A list of construction workers building the White House in 1795 includes five slaves - named Tom, Peter, Ben, Harry and Daniel -- all put to work as carpenters. Other slaves worked as masons in the government quarries, cutting the stone for early government buildings, including the White House and U.S. Capitol. According to records kept by the White House Historical Association, slaves often worked seven days a week -- even in the hot and humid Washington summers."
The Father of Pre-Obama America, George Washington, owned slaves. The Father of New America, Zod-Obama, merely looks upon his conquered subjects with callous apathy, for each day he is in Washington DC, he must look upon the giant obelisk that glorifies Washington:
"The Washington Monument is an obelisk near the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the first U.S. president, General George Washington. The monument, made of marble, granite, and sandstone, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk in height standing 555 feet 5⅛ inches (169.294 m).There are other monumental columns (which are neither all stone nor true obelisks) which are taller. It is also the tallest structure in Washington D.C."
Yes, Washington is a dead white male, and yes, with a giant monument to him being the most noticeable landmark in DC is a bit tough to take, but this is not the main reason Black people don't like the monument.

No, the main reason is because the Washington Monument looks like the hood of a member of Ku Klux Klan. Next time you are in DC, look at the monument at night. Two windows appear lit at the top of the Washington Monument and the top of the obelisk is triangular, which gives the ominous impression of a hooded Klan-men lording over DC.

Worse though, is the Jefferson Memorial, not for what Thomas Jefferson represents and stood for, but for what is omitted from the monuments quotation:

"For example, inscribed on the marble interior of the Jefferson Memorial are the words: “Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people [the Negroes] shall be free.” Jefferson did not stop there, but went on to say, “nor is it less certain that the two races equally free, cannot live under the same government”—which rather changes the effect.

Another approach to Jefferson is to bring out all the facts and then try to repudiate him. Conor Cruise O’Brien did this in a 1996 cover story for Atlantic Monthly. After describing Jefferson’s views, he writes:

“It follows that there can be no room for a cult of Thomas Jefferson in the civil religion of an effectively multiracial America—that is, an America in which nonwhite Americans have a significant and increasing say. Once the facts are known, Jefferson is of necessity abhorrent to people who would not be in America at all if he could have had his way.” Richard Grenier agrees, likening Jefferson to Nazi Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler, and calling for the demolition of the Jefferson Memorial “stone by stone.”
Even worse than Jefferson is the Lincoln Memorial, built to honor Honest Abraham Lincoln. Martin Luther King delivered his famous oration "I Have a Dream" under the watchful eyes of the Lincoln, and yet the irony of this is not lost on all Black people, as this quote from a debate in the 1850s shows:

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
These monuments will soon be gone, destroyed to make room for the Black world that will all live in now. Black people might be leaving DC, but it is disingenuous white liberals who are moving in and these people hate the past and the sin of being white more than anyone else on the planet.

They will help remove each brick from the US Capitol, demolish the Washington Monument and its KKK Hood, bulldoze the Jefferson Memorial and build one for Sally Hemings and remove Lincoln from his throne and replace him with General Zod-Obama, for Pre-Obama America is dead forever and the memory of it must be eradicated once and for all.

Stuff Black People Don't Like includes the Washington DC Monuments and the memory of the dead white males that resonate with each glance upon them. Thankfully, a monument is being built to Martin Luther King Jr., to pacify Black people until the other monuments can be replaced, for that day is not far off. And not a moment too soon in the eyes of Black people.




Friday, July 10, 2009

#508. Staying Awake While Operating a Washington DC Metro Train


Admit it. We have all fallen asleep on the job before. Perhaps after a delicious lunch and upon returning to the office our eyes just happen to slowly close and before you know it, 5 p.m. has rolled around and its time to go home.

Black people and white people both fall asleep at work. However, white people rarely have a chance to fall asleep while on one job, because of the incredible few white people who are employed by the Washington DC Metro Authority:
"Metro employees are recruited and hired in a way that reflects racial favoritism towards African Americans rather than merit-based hiring. The percentage of white employees at Metro is so shockingly low as to provide powerful statistical evidence of discrimination, since it is much smaller than their percentage of both the qualified labor pool and the general population, both in the District of Columbia, and in the Washington, D.C. region as a whole. The racial breakdown of Metro’s workforce in and of itself easily qualifies as proof of a prima facie case of pattern-or-practice racial discrimination under the Supreme Court’s Teamsters decision."
Not only that, but the Metro system in Washington DC has no problem hiring Black criminals, an honorable thing to do to those who have paid their debt to society, until they get killed in a fight with an off-duty cop:

"The Metrobus driver slain in an encounter with an off-duty D.C. police officer had a violent past that included being charged with two killings and a 10-year prison term for armed robbery.

Just two months after Jelani Khalid Slay was released from federal prison on robbery and gun charges, he was hired by Metro to drive a city bus."

Recently, a teen from Maryland caught a Black person - who was the conductor of the metro train - asleep at the wheel:
"A 14-year-old Metro passenger captured stunning footage on the Green Line in Maryland. Gregory Thomas said he was riding the line June 18 and witnessed the train operator asleep at the controls..."At first he's dozing off then, he's not in a full sleep. I see him start to doze off and his head going limp," Thomas said."
Fallen asleep on the job normally means the potential of your face smashing into your keyboard, or you falling out of your chair. Maybe some drool on your tie. In the case of this DC Metro Train operator, it could possibly mean a fatal crash that could take the lives of everyone on board the train.

Word those traveling in Washington DC; Stuff Black People Don't Like includes staying awake while operating a Washington DC metro train and since the DC metro is overwhelmingly staffed by Black people, it might be safe to just walk. Or not, according to the homicide rate for DC in 2008:
"Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults increased 6.5 percent in the first six months of last year, according to an internal D.C. police report obtained this week by The Examiner. The department has not publicly released the statistics."
It might be best to steer clear of Washington DC all together, judging by the sleep patterns of Black metro conductors, the hiring practices that ensure more sleep deprived Black people will man the trains and the rising homicide rate in our nations capitol.