#153. A Real Million Man March

Flash back to 1995. The nation was rocked by racial violence as Black people decided not to cooperate with the police. OJ Simpson was in the headlines, but not for his football ability, but rather his alleged knife skills.

Militias were forming across the country in fear of "police state" tactics by the Clinton Administration. Middle American was becoming irate with the way thing were being run by those in power and the country seemed poised for a major rift. Republicans had taken power in 1994 and promised a "Contract with America" that they promptly decided was null and void and decided to do nothing.

Yet, Black people saw their chance and decided to march on Washington DC to show their solidarity in ensuring that they did the following - “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for Black children" - by having a Million Man March:

"One of the primary motivating factors for the march was to place black issues back on the nation’s agenda. In the aftermath of the Republican Party’s victory in the 1994 Congressional election and the continued success of the party’s campaign tool, the Contract with America, the social and economic issues facing the black community fell by the wayside of policy debates. March organizers believed that politicians were failing the black community by “papering over the most vital dimensions of the crisis in international capitalism” and blaming urban Blacks for “domestic economic woes that threatened to produce record deficits, massive unemployment, and uncontrolled inflation.”

At the time of the march, black Americans faced unemployment rates nearly two times that of white Americans, a greater than 40 percent poverty rate, and a median family income that totaled about 58 percent of the white median. 11.1 percent of all black males were unemployed and for those aged 16–19 the number of unemployed had climbed over 50 percent. Further, according to Reverend Jesse Jackson’s speech at the March, the United States House of Representatives had taken dramatic fiscal action against some of the programs that played an integral role in urban Americans’ lives. “The House of Representatives cut $1.1 billion from the nation’s poorest public schools,” and “cut $137 million from head start” effectively subtracting $5,000 from each classroom’s budget and cutting 45,000 preschoolers from a crucial early education program."

Environmental hazards, too, made the lives of urban Blacks particularly unstable. Black men fell victim to homicide at a rate of 72 per 100,000, a rate significantly higher than the 9.3 per 100,000 attributed to the white male population. Aggressive law enforcement and prison construction left “two hundred thousand more blacks in the jail complex than in college” and devastating leadership gaps within black communities and families."

Was this march a success? They did get a lot of Black people to Washington DC, but the Black people behind the event hoped for a million and got about 850,000. 14 years later, most of the goals that Black people hoped to achieve and the gaps they hoped to close have only gotten larger...

Now that we are back to the future and removed from 1995, it is important to discuss what has happened on September 12, 2009. Early, we discussed MARs attacking, as white people were beginning to become upset with the onerous taxation rates that are being levied upon them to prop up the welfare/bailout state.

Black people do enjoy the taxes that white people pay for they do love the fruits of white people's labor, but they are not happy about what middle America is doing in regards to rebelling against Mein Obama and the historic levels of taxes imposed upon them:

"Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.

The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.

Demonstrators waved U.S. flags and held signs reading "Go Green Recycle Congress" and "I'm Not Your ATM." Men wore colonial costumes as they listened to speakers who warned of "judgment day" - Election Day 2010.

Richard Brigle, 57, a Vietnam War veteran and former Teamster, came from Michigan. He said health care needs to be reformed - but not according to President Barack Obama's plan.

"My grandkids are going to be paying for this. It's going to cost too much money that we don't have," he said while marching, bracing himself with a wooden cane as he walked.

FreedomWorks Foundation, a conservative organization led by former House of Representatives Majority Leader Dick Armey, organized several groups from across the country for what they billed as a "March on Washington."

Organizers say they built on momentum from the April "tea party" demonstrations held nationwide to protest tax policies, along with growing resentment over the economic stimulus packages and bank bailouts."

The 9/12 event in Washington actually attracted a million + people, but like the Million Man March in 1995 that saw less than a million Black people come to Washington DC in hopes of changing the future for Black people - they didn't - this MARs driven march will probably yield the same results.

You see, the 9/12 March on Washington was largely a sea of white people - probably 99 percent of the crowd was white - and like the "Contract with America", the results of a white-driven revolution will largely go unfulfilled.

Black people don't like the tea party's, they don't like the birther movement, but they know nothing will come from it. What kind of a movement can grow from a movement that wants to "Abolish the Fed" when the people gathering are to afraid to admit that they are a bunch of white people who have legitimate interests.

At the 9/12 March, white people cheered the prospect of seeing change, real change, in the size of the government and the direction of the country under Mein Obama. But they refused to look around and admit that they were a sea of white people and that it is only white people who care about Pre-Obama America and restoring it.

Black people really have nothing to worry about, but they will still fret. White people have done this before in 1994 when they elected a Republican majority to bring to change in Congress. Nothing happened.

Now, nothing will happen again except higher taxes and the passing of universal health care to insure 40 million - largely Black people - uninsured people.

Black people don't realize that white people are no threat and that even though MARs is showing signs of rising, they will soon settle down again after getting worked up over innocuous issues of taxation.

White people are so afraid of being called racist that even though millions gathered to protest Mein Obama not once did these white people look around and realize they had one thing in common: their racial heritage.

Stuff Black People Don't Like will include a real million man march, but Black people will soon realize that all the tough talk of stopping Mein Obama is nothing more than MARs - middle American radicals - huffing and puffing and threatening to blow down the house, but in the end, not acknowledging that in our age of diversity, white people have legitimate interests too.

Black people will soon realize that the 9/12 march on Washington DC will have the same effect that the 1995 Million Man March and the "Contract with America" had: none.

Black people will laugh after the hysteria from all these "individual" white people dies down and the effort to stop Mein Obama fails and the fury that could have been white people "uniting" ends. Black people will then laugh heartily and say of potential MARs Attack: You lied!

#93. MARs Attacking

Mankind has long been fascinated with the Red Planet, as the prospect that the fourth planet from the sun and closest to our own earth might be home to an advanced civilization has dominated the thoughts of educated men for centuries.

H.G. Wells penned the terrifying novel "The War of the Worlds", which depicted a Martian invasion of earth and the subsequent inability of European munitions to stop the invaders from taking the planet through total war. The book has spawned numerous films of the same name and all end the same way, the death of the martians through inadverdent biological warfare:

"From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain."

Another film that dealt with the threat of Red Planet induced destruction was "Mars Attacks!" - a 1996 Tim Burton film that lampooned the Sci-Fi movies of the 1960s. Earth is invaded by Martians and the combined military's of the planet our helpless against the superior aramaments of our Mars' dwelling enemies.

However, these ficticious residents of Mars have little effect at phasing Black people, but another, more sinister form of MARs leave Black people feeling as helpless as those who listened to the 1930s "War of the Worlds" broadcast by Orson Welles.

MARs is the designated acronym of Middle American Radicals popularized by Sam Francis, an intellectual who in death will gain a larger following than during his award-winning career:

"Middle American Radicals (MARs) are essentially middle-income, white, often ethnic voters who see themselves as an exploited and dispossessed group, excluded from meaningful political participation, threatened by the tax and trade policies of the government, victimized by its tolerance of crime, immigration and social deviance, and ignored or ridiculed by the major cultural institutions of the media and education."

Francis believed that MARs would attack during the Clinton Administration, but the anger of these white people crystallized into the election of George W. Bush and eventually became dormant in the Red States of America.

Black people and disingenuous white liberals look with incredulous eyes toward the Red States as they view these states with suspension and fear. During the 2008 election, Mein Obama had this to say about the MARs who inhabit Red States:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate and they have not.

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

MARs that inhabit America may not come from the Red Planet, but to Black people, Red States are much worse. They have given birth to people who question Barack Obama's right to be president through the Birther Movement; white people who still long for Pre-Obama America; and the Tea Party Tax Day protests that have even seeped into Blue States.

The Henry Louis Gates incident showed that the MARs attack Sam Francis believed would take place in the 1990s was projected a decade early and Black people understand exactly what set off the negative reactions to the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: his race.

MARs might not admit it yet, but the reason they are attacking from Red States is because they believe an alien to Pre-Obama America is now leading them and their beloved nation into ruin.

MARs used to have FOX News Channel to contain their anger, but even that channel is no longer enough to hold off the attack.

The debate about Universal Healthcare has set-off a massive amount of protests from white people, who will pay the tax burden of that proposed system where everyone will insured:

"Those whites that you see at the health care meetings, that was really Ronald Reagan's America," said John Kenneth White, a presidential scholar at the Catholic University of America and author of the newly published "Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family and Religion Ended the Reagan Era."

"Reagan's California exists today only on the commemorative license plate. That California that elected him governor twice and president twice is no more," White said. He believes some of the anger behind the health care debate is from "a sense that power has shifted in the country, and the country they thought they knew doesn't exist anymore."

Names like Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones and even Barack Obama fuel the fire that threatens to turn into a conflagaration of MARs anger throughout America:

Van Jones said: "The American way, manufactuered by these white folks in office. By these rich men here to mock us. The United States is a stolen land led by right-wing, war hungry, oil thirsty. And when it's all said and done they still can't clean their own place because they got people of color playing servant to do that sh*t for them... The true terrorists are made in the US, in this police state..."

Disingenuous white liberals find the MARs Attacking threat to be a burden and worthy of condescension:

"So the birthers, the anti-tax tea-partiers, the town hall hecklers -- these are "either" the genuine grass roots or evil conspirators staging scenes for YouTube? The quiver on the lips of the man pushing the wheelchair, the crazed risk of carrying a pistol around a president -- too heartfelt to be an act. The lockstep strangeness of the mad lies on the protesters' signs -- too uniform to be spontaneous. They are both. If you don't understand that any moment of genuine political change always produces both, you can't understand America, where the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and where elites exploit the crazy for their own narrow interests."

However, Black people know better. They sense in these movements that arise from Red States an omninous warning to THE AGE OF OBAMA and understand that the economic meltdown of the country and the desire to further tax white people to pay for the 40 million uninsured - and largely Black -is finally opening a few eyes.

The fact that Mein Obama has appointed people of his race to public office that hold views that would make George Wallace blush is finally driving MARs to attack.

Even Mein Obama speaking to school children has been met with historic animosity from MARs attackers:

"But the public resentment toward Barack Obama that has been bubbling under the surface has finally boiled over.

The purely racist actions by local and national school systems is a sign of tumultuous times ahead for Obama and his administration. According to online reports, local school principals have ordered teachers not to show a planned Obama address to schoolchildren on Tuesday, Sept. 8."

Stuff Black People Don't Like includes MARs Attacking, for the road to THE AGE OF OBAMA was once paved with the same gold as the yellow brick road, but now, white people are beginning to see the man behind the curtain:

"One black congressman, Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), was quoted last week alleging that opposition to Obama's healthcare policies was "a bias, a prejudice, an emotional feeling."

"Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is president of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, 'How did this happen?' " Rangel said, according to the New York Post."

MARs Attacking is an idea that Sam Francis believed would come at some point, and it is precisely this idea that Black people do not like for we are seeing a Red State invasion unfold before our eyes. And this time, what the radio is broadcasting is not Halloween prank.

And remember, it all started with Sarah Palin.

#132. The Birther Movement

Black people don’t like to be challenged. We have discussed what happens when Black people don’t cooperate with the police and now, something much greater is transpiring in America: white people are questioning whether or not Barack Obama was born in the United States and thus eligible to the President of the United States.

Deemed “Birthers” by the media, these white people have the audacity of incredulity to question whether or Mein Obama was born in Hawaii, Kenya, the United States or elsewhere. To Black people, it doesn’t matter where he was born, for he is the messiah and Ozymandias rolled into one, the actual manifestation of the comic book character in Watchmen.

Like the character in the comic, Obama hopes to unite the world and bring about a glorious reign of peace, tolerance - and like the character in the comic, through any means necessary - and universal healthcare for all. Yet white people believe deception is afoot, primarily through the illegality of the Obama presidency, since no birth certificate has yet to be provided establishing him as a natural born citizen.

These “Birthers” are to Black people the ultimate manifestation of racism, despite the fact that 96 percent of Black people voted for Obama in 2008’s election, and 97 percent of Black people still support the president despite the faltering economy and ineffectiveness of his policies.

These numbers of Black people and their monolithic support of their Ozymandias, their Mein Obama, is not a conspiracy, yet the notion that the Brithers’ hold is laughed at by the media and denounced as a wild conspiracy:

“Conspiracy theories about the legitimate citizenship of President of the United States Barack Obama, and other challenges to his eligibility to become President have circulated before and after his victory in the presidential election of 2008. The primary engine of these theories are a number of fringe activists and political opponents nicknamed "birthers", who allege that he was not born in Hawaii, meaning that he is not a natural born citizen in their view, and thus not eligible to be President of the United States under Article Two of the U.S. Constitution.”

The Birthers have been denounced by many people as racist, a puerile attempt to persuade other people of Barack Obama’s infallibility, and yet to Black people, all they are doing is blaspheming a God-King. The monolithic support that Black people have for Obama will never go away, as he single-handily rescued Black people from the shackles of Pre-Obama America, a world so dreary and white that it had to be permanently put out to the pasture:

"It's racist," said Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC. "It's racist. Just call it for what it is."

Now, the Birthers have been lumped into another group of people who are also engaging in spontaneous protests. Those who are against socialized medicine are now deemed allies of the Birthers as they attempt to hold hostage the debate about the complete government takeover of medicine.

Black people are all for this – socially medicine – for Black people are, as a group, not represented in healthcare coverage as well as white people:

“The health insurance coverage rates for non-Hispanic whites who reported a single race was 89.3 percent. For blacks and Asians who reported a single race, the rates were 79.8 percent and 81.6 percent, respectively.”

Or, as Pat Buchanan wrote about who will benefit from the healthcare reform:

“Who are the principal beneficiaries? The 47 million uninsured who will be covered. Who are the principal losers? The elderly sick who, in the name of controlling costs, are going to lose benefits, be denied care at the end of their lives and have their lives shortened. For half of all health-care costs are in the last six months of life, and cost control is priority No. 1.

Here is where the disparate impact hits. Among those who benefit most—the uninsured—African-Americans, Hispanics and immigrants are overrepresented. Among the biggest losers—seniors and the elderly sick—well over 80 percent are white.”

To Black people, those elderly white people are vestiges of the defeated Pre-Obama America, and they are mere casualties in the Age of Obama and his Ozymandias’ rise to power and potential of uniting the world.

One writer has this to say about the white people who oppose the healthcare reform:

“But they’re probably reacting less to what Mr. Obama is doing, or even to what they’ve heard about what he’s doing, than to who he is.

That is, the driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and racial anxiety that’s behind the “birther” movement, which denies Mr. Obama’s citizenship. Senator Dick Durbin has suggested that the birthers and the health care protesters are one and the same; we don’t know how many of the protesters are birthers, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it’s a substantial fraction.”

Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution went one further when questioned about the racial animosity these white Birthers and ‘minority healthcare deniers’ believed:

“Oh, I’m just guessing, this is just off the cuff. I’d guess 45 – 65% of the people who appear at these groups are people who will never be comfortable with a black president.”

Black people, as we have discussed, are stubborn. They have lined up behind their Ozymandias in hopes that Mein Obama will bestow upon them the riches of Pre-Obama America.

Stuff Black People Don’t Like will include the Birthers, a nativist movement spawned by white people who still cling to the hope that Pre-Obama America will return. It is gone forever. Black people know this and that is why they don’t like white people banding together, for they fear that they might begin to think about what comes after the Age of Obama.

The health care issue is just another example of white people understanding identity politics and that is another SBPDL altogether.