BOY, IT'S GETTING KINDA ANGRY OUT THERE!

     Finally, health care reform has been passed.  Watered-down as it was, it seems to brought out the worst of a certain segment of our society.  The Tea Party movement came out in force after passage and signing of the bill.  Unfortunately, they came out behaving like pouting, angry children.  I'm sure this will play out as a great recruiting tool for the party of  "no" (republicans) and the party of "we're white, pissed-off and what ya gonna do about it!"

     Now don't get this old black guy wrong, it so happens I agree with many of the Tea Party complaints.  What I tend to question is the timing.  As I've asked before, where were these people for the past nine years when Bush basically mortgaged the country to China to pay for a war he lied to all of us to get into.  And another war based on some frivolous pipe dream of wiping out an ideology (never been done, never will be done)  The two wars combined have set the USA back close to 3 trillion dollars.

     The hot minute a black man is elected President and runs up a trillion dollar deficit to fix some of the problems Bush deemed not important (as long as the military-industrial complex and the oil companies were happily pulling in the no-bid contract bucks).  Somebody comes along to try to help the average main-street Joe and Joan and the average main street Joe and Joan get pissed-off and morph into neanderthals.

     Fear is a powerful force.  The republicans have been using fear to control the non-thinking masses for decades.  The used fear to try to stop the Civil Rights Act (would you want your daughter sitting next to niggers at the Woolworth counter?)  Social Security and Medicare are going to bankrupt the country, even though they turned out to be successful life-lines for millions of older Americans.  They have to take away some of our rights because the Islamic Terrorists are going to get us if we don't! (even though the Mexico border is still wide open and any terrorist simply need to hop across the "fence" and enter the country.  As long as poor Mexicans can sneak in and work for slave wages for greedy businesses, it's okay.)

     Now it's fear that Obama and the Democrats are taking our rights and our country away from us.  Too late for that, Bush already handed our economy over to China years ago because God told him to invade and occupy Iraq.  Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, what the hell are 3 draft dodgers doing starting wars, anyway!!

     Anyway, I've figured out how to make the Tea Party people happy and bring peace once again to the political process.  Give them white folks some jobs!  White folks cannot handle hard times.  They can't deal with unemployment and being broke.  Their self-esteem plummets and they think everybody is getting a better break than they are.  Whites have always been about money, money, money.  Their self-esteem is tied to how much money they have. That's why they mortgaged themselves to the eyeballs, using their homes as atm machines, just to show everybody how much money they got by using credit to buy shit they didn't need (swipe that plastic, baby! I'm living large like Trump!)

     And when the inevitable pink slip arrives because the banks played roullette with opm (other people's money) they get panicked, stressed, hateful, bigoted...basically a bunch of spoiled brats on steroids.  When you pick Sarah Palin as one of your spokespeople, that shows true desperation.  That moron couldn't even find Iraq on a map (too busy watching Russia from her backyard, I suppose).

     I know this sounds strange from an old black guy, but I'm enjoying every minute of this stuff.  I do derive a certain sick pleasure watching whites spazz-out over shit black folks have been dealing with all along.  Simply, black folks are used to hard times. No matter how good the economy, we always had hard times.  You don't see us spitting on congressmen and insulting disabled people about it.  And the coffin thing, what was that all about.  That Hennessy guy really needs a real job (obviously too much time on his hands) 


     But, mark my words, as this movement grows, unchecked by so-called leadership, they're going to spit on the wrong congressman, hassle the wrong disabled person, and the silent, optimistic and hopeful majority is going to start fighting back.  Childish behavior gets old after a while.  I think it's time for black folks to start thinking about the possibility of having to go toe-to-toe with these assholes.  Simply put, we'd win.  Black folks have 4 centuries of anger under their belts.  That trumps a couple of years of silly anger, any day.  Black anger is real and not a genie you'd want to let out of the bottle.  


     Lastly, why is Ed Martin's column in the Evening Whirl, of all places?  This guy is a Tea Party shill.  He had the audacity to site the misbehaving Tea Partiers as "scum".  Well, guess what, Ed.  They're your "scum" and what does that make you?  When blacks rose up and protested, we were peaceful, but then, we had a REAL leader.  The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would never have tolerated such crude and pathetic behavior.  So here's a little advice for Ed and his cronies from the good Dr. King himself...


               Before a protest can be approved by a responsible leadership, they must  answer the following questions.
1.  Do we have a just grievance, or is our purpose merely to create confusion for it's own sake, as a form of revenge?
2.  Have we first used every form of normal means to eliminate the problem through negotiation, petition and appropriate appeal to authorities?
3.  Having found these channels useless or forcibly closed to us, when we embark upon any kind of lawbreaking, are we prepared to accept the consequences that society will inflict, and maintain, even under punishment, a sense of DIGNITY?
4.  Do we have a CLEAR program to relieve injustice, that does not INFLICT INJUSTICE ON OTHERS, and is that program reasonable and grounded in ETHICS and the BEST TRADITIONS OF SOCIETY?

a few good points for Ed and Dana to follow.  Unfortunately, they won't.