Everything I thought I knew about the Black Panthers was a result of their activities during the 1960s. At that time, they were very confrontational at best and downright hostile at worst to anyone who didn't unreservedly approve of their agenda and methods. While not all of them were guilty of reverse racism, there was nonetheless a general tendency to lay a collective guilt trip on white folks.
To someone like me—who has always despised racism as a rationally and morally bankrupt behavior—I found it pretty disturbing to be stuck in the Bad Boy Box™ just because of the color of my skin. I suppose that was the point—they wanted to dish out a taste of some of the unfairness and injustice that black folks have had to put up with for far too long.
But in so doing, they proliferated injustice—at least, that was true of those who dished it out purely on the basis of skin color, and without regard for the character of those they dissed—the very same injustice they resented in the first place. In other words, some of them were black racists. All racists are morons, and black racists are just as morally reprehensible as white racists. Assholes are still assholes, whether they're black, white, brown, red, yellow, green, or purple.
Anyhow, that was then, and this is now. At least one of the original Black Panthers—Larry Pinkney—recorded a video last year (2013) that scores huge points on the Acknowledging Reality Meter™:
I don't know what else Mr. Pinkney stands for, so I'm not endorsing any agenda he might have. All I'm saying is that there's so much that's right about what he says in this video that it's well worth the time it takes to view it for anyone who isn't addicted to the kind of political narcotics that have been pushed on American citizens ever since the U.S. Constitution was ratified...and has been persistently undermined since then.
Have you ever noticed that the disingenuous deceptions of the global
warmies and other enviro-Nazis are transparent to everyone (with a
brain) but them? They are the poster children of the folly of believing
your own press. Their insidious inveiglement is so cleverly contrived
that it even fools them into believing it. They are clowns who don’t know they are. It’s the irony of enviro-assclownism.
Speaking
of climate-change ass-clowns, the recent Antarctic escapade is high
comedy, innit? If you missed it, a bunch of them voyaged to the
Antarctic to “prove” that the ice caps are disappearing, and got their
ship frozen into the ice in the Antarctic mid-summer. Have you noticed
that huge swaths of the mainstream media are somehow failing to mention
that the reason those enviro-jerks were there in the first place was to
gather more “evidence” (which they're only too happy to cherry-pick in
support of their fantasies) for Climate Change™?
And have you
noticed their strategic shift in propagandistic terminology? It was in
2009 that “climategate” occurred, wherein a bevy of emails between the
global warming movers and shakers revealed their deliberate conspiracy
to cherry-pick the data so as to reinforce the anthropogenic global
warming hoax. In a sinister master stroke worthy of Herr Goebbels, they
shifted their mantra from “global warming” (which no honest
interpretation of the data actually supports) to “climate change”.
See,
in that way, they can blame any temporally localized shifts in
temperature — increasing or decreasing — on whatever they want.
Temperature goes up, it's anthropogenic. Oh, wait...the temperature is
going down? No prollem...it's still anthropogenic. No matter how you cut
it or what the facts say, their no-win mentality insists that “we” are
Destroying The Planet™. Actual truth is irrelevant. Only enviro-dogma is
allowed. And they even have a name to condemn the worst heretics of
all: “climate change deniers”. No one must blaspheme against The
Consecrated Truth of The Church of the Most Sacred Greenage!
Oh,
and when they say “we” are screwing up the planet, they mean everyone
else, not them. They have a special enmity for those who love personal
liberty and seek mutual prosperity for
themselves and others through freedom of choice. And they are
exceptionally hostile to the sanctity of personal property in all its
forms, including the right not to have your life interfered with by their half-assed schemes, like wind turbines, and other engines of anti-progress.
Hatred, envy, and the command and control mentality is the foundation of their Weltanschauung
— aided and abetted, as always, by all the political coercion they can
muster as weapon-by-state-proxy on their own behalf. Any decent humanoid
with an ounce of rational and moral sense should recognize that they
are, therefore, ultimately doomed to fail in the marketplace of human
interaction. In the long run, hatred is the seed of its own failure.
Jeez...I didn't know this was a Google deal. I don't think it was when I first signed up, but I can't remember now. Google is taking over the world. Anyhow, this blog seems to have way more features than Tumblr, so maybe I'll start using it. I like the fact that it puts a timestamp on posts. Tumblr doesn't do that. Also, the composer is way more hip — colored fonts, underline, highlighting (colored background), quoting, numbered and bullet lists, alignment, direct insertion of videos, font selection...that's way more civilized than the impoverished options Tumblr offers. Another nice feature is the chronological index of blog posts over on the right. Way cool! It's also more intuitive. Tumblr seems to have succumbed to the Minimalist Chic™ syndrome, where nothing is labeled and there are no screen tips to help you figure out what the various features are. I do like the look of the blog over at Tumblr, but this one is a pretty close match. Maybe I'll just repost my Tumblr stuff here and see how it works out.
