“The negro is an American. We know nothing of Africa.”

from Who Speaks for the Negro? by Robert Penn Warren pg.216

From Countee Cullen:

What is Africa to me:

Copper sun or scarlet sea,

Jungle star or jungle track,

Strong bronzed men, or regal black

Women from whose loins I sprang

When the birds of Eden sang?

One three centuries removed

From the scenes his fathers loved,

Spicy grove, cinnamon tree,

What is Africa to me?

Split from my body, my awareness occupied no space. I watched in horror as I grabbed my father and threatened him in front of the guests. An unlit cigarette dangled from my mouth as I grabbed him and told him I wasn’t going to stand for his ridicule. My horror came as a result that the others only saw my aggression. My father rarely showed his in public. He always put on a good show for friends, but I think they knew better. They didn’t seem appalled when I grabbed him. Then I realized that I was identifying myself with someone who didn’t look like me. He had a thick dark head of hair and bushy eyebrows and was somewhat short and thin.

The little girl was cute too all of the guests, showing them her dolls and playing with the other kids, but I could see the wicked mischief on her face as she punched and kicked me when the guests weren’t looking. Suddenly she wasn’t there and I held her head in my hands as I sat with her severed head in my hands. It appeared to have been cauterized at the neck. Her jaw was moving and her eyes were closed. The girl herself then walked through the room, her head and body intact, paying no attention to me holding her head. A psychiatrist and his nurse watched in amazement wten the head began speaking and saying nasty things to them, and the psychiatrist concluded that that the head was speaking what the real girl was thinking. A priest who was also standing there thought the head was possessed, but the psychiatrist concluded that the head was simply saying what the little girl had projected into the head while she was interacting with the others whom thought she was charming.

America’s reigning king of racism, Al Sharpton, is at it again, calling for the firing of a golf analyst named Tilghman for making a joke about Tiger Woods. When asked what she thought the younger players could do to compete with Tiger Woods the analyst joked that they should take him to an alley and lynch him.

The only people that would make something of this remark are the racist assholes like Sharpton who continue their denigration of whites in full view of the public without media repercussion. At first, the network which employs Tilghman announced there would be no action taken against her. That was before Sharpton got his lynch mob riled up with his vile stupidity.

It was also reported that Tiger Woods’ agent said that the remark was nothing to take offense at. For this I applaud both Woods and his agent. Of course, Woods has been the target of racism, but this was not one of those times.

As I will continue to write, Sharpton, and I would never consider calling this motherfucker “reverend”, is a pompous, stupid, narrowminded jackass. His stupid racist remarks are on the same level as Osama bin Laden’s hateful rhetoric in that they cause nothing but divide and hatred.

My father and uncles tell stories of being able to go into a tavern in a black area and not worry about hatred and bigotry. It was often told me how black men and women were quite tolerant, regardless of the stupid things you hear in the media. That is not the case in today’s world, thanks to fools like Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. White people cannot ride the public transportation without fear of a group of blacks, whipped up by the Sharpton hate rhetoric, dressing them down and spitting their vehemence. I say racism is growing more and more lethal. And it’s because of dirty bastards like Sharpton who cannot put two sentences of truth together.

It is past time for the media to stop giving air time to this blowhard. Seriously. He is giving black Americans a very bad name and he is fostering hatred beyond repair. I have seen racial tensions spiral for three generations now because of assholes like Sharpton. It’s time for the media to stop turning to this stupid motherfucker every time something is said by a white person that references a past in which the likes of Sharpton and Jackson want us all to think only victimizes blacks. Black Americans don’t need pity. They have just as much pride as any other race. But the lies of Sharpton and his stupid trash talk would have them believe that it is the white people who think ill of them. He is wrong. It is the Sharpton’s of this world who are perpetuating the philosophy of victimization. Most blacks I have talked do not share the thoughts of Sharpton and Jackson. They don’t feel inferior, nor are they made to feel inferior by those around them because of their color. Their experience is not the one of degradation that Sharpton somehow feels. If he wants to be a victim, what a pity. Most of us rise above feelings of inferiority.

So media, stop listening to this clown. He is a loser. He always will be. He has no honor, no integrity, and no credibility. There are too many intelligent black Americans to turn to for insight that all Americans can be proud of regardless of race, such as Cornell West.