Like much of the Black blogosphere I'm majorly pissed off at Don Lemon for co-signing with a longtime race-baiting bigoted detractor of our community in Bill O'Reilly and giving him cover, not for what was said.Hell, to be honest, I've trashed saggin' pants on this blog in a song rewrite back in 2009.
But at the same time it is logic defying ridiculous on its face to state that pullin' up saggin' pants as JSmooth eloquently pointed out will magically erase the systemic centuries old racism that negatively impacts the African-American community.
It is also disingenuous of white conservatives to lecture my community about Black-on Black crime when you don't do the same hand wringing over white on whit crime or have control of your own hoodlums as evidenced by the recent Huntington Beach Riot.
Neither do I see white conservatives stepping up to do something about the far too numerous instances of white males shooting up schools, movie theaters and other places with automatic weapons because of your fetishistic attachment to guns, or vigorously calling out the terrorists who look like you in your own midst.
Shoot, from where I sit, y'all need to take a look in the mirror before you even part your lips to insultingly spit the words 'criminal culture' at my people in a sentence ever again.
The things that will fix what ails Black America is long term investments in public and secondary education, making secondary education affordable like it was for my generation, having good manufacturing jobs at living wages, fixing the broken justice system, unhindered and fair participation in the political system and treating African-Americans with respect instead of like suspects.
That's going to take money and sustained government action to make a reality, and we know you conservafools are more like the Star Trek Ferengis than patriotic Americans concerned about the long term health and stability of this country.
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