Heckraiser! Because Hellrazer Was Taken...

Stolen Valor One morning I’m listening to a review of an Ann Coulter interview with the Washington Post and social media platforms were bombarded by alarmed voices. “Racist, Racist, Racist!” the liberal media lambasted! Whew, were they mad! I thought some would spontaneously combust. What racist thing could Ann COULTER say that would be newsworthy, alarming, and not par for her course? Ann said Kamala Harris is not a Foundational Black American. I listened a few times. I must be missing somethin’, she had to have said more than that. Nope, that’s what threw liberal media into a tizzy; she made her case by defining FBA (Foundational Black Americans) and for why this was important. If she’s lyin’ I’m flyin’. At this moment I realized stations badmouthing Ann Coulter over this, like CNN, liberal social media, and msnbc were promoters of race consciousness and more importantly anti-blackness. They are propagandists smiling ear to ear like benign smiling foxes rolling over presumably to get their bellies rubbed. Astoundingly, as many black folk who make up and support the Democratic Party it is actually anti black. Democrats hone many political weapons that make them look like they are for “black people”. One of their goto tools, beside empty rhetoric, is virtue signaling. For instance thank you Mr. President for making Juneteenth a holiday. Many of us have celebrated this since forever, even before you and Cornpop. Your political nod does absolutely nothing for ADOS/FBA. And thank you Nancy for the kneel and Kente cloth. Yeah that helped black folk get ahead. “There are many whites trying to solve the problems [anti blackness] but you never see them going under the label of liberal. That white person you see calling himself a liberal is the most dangerous thing in the entire western hemisphere. He is the most deceitful. He is like a fox and a fox is always more dangerous in the forest than the wolf. You can see the wolf coming, you know what he’s up to, but the fox will fool you. He comes at you with his mouth shaped in such a way that even though you see his teeth you think he’s smiling and take him for a friend.”- Malcolm X The more Democrats change the more they stay the same. Huh, where did right wing ultra conservative Ms. Ann come by this knowledge exploding like dynamite across the Internet? Probably from Good Times’ Jimmy Walker. Just a guess. Was she aware of American Descendants Of Slavery? Joy Reid never used these terms. Rachel Maddow, Ari, Dana Bash, Carl Bernstein... as much as these folks watch and talk about black folk none of them use these terms on the regular. I assumed these terms were occult specific to deepest darkest Black community. Or wouldn't all journalists and wordsmiths be using these terms in lieu of nonspecific “poc” when referring to 12 percent of the American population purportedly with ties directly to Africa? Why would professional wordsmiths be less accurate? Why would they not recognize us as a specific group? In essence, why would they water us down? I never heard Al Sharpton or Roland Martin use these terms either. Hmm wait a minute, not even Mr blackish democratic blackity black ,”we doin’ this work” uncle Ro Ro was using these definitions? Beside Miss Ann I cant think of any conservative talking heads referring to us as ADOS or FBA. Angela Rye, DL Hughley, Ricky Smiley, not even Spike Lee, the most adamant democratic mouthpieces seemed aware we are “a peculiar people.” Could it be ADOS/FBAs are different from every other poc in the United States or on the North American continent even or on the planet? Yes, significantly different. We have to learn the import of who we are and to get on ADOS/FBA code and realize we have few friends far and between so we better make it our top priority to love and honor ourselves, each other. And not only that but plan and fight and educate ourselves about our paths forward. Time is running out. Being defined as a Foundational Black American or an American Descendant Of Slavery is a much more verifiable, correct, concise, faithful, substantial, solid, exclusive, meaningful, definition than anything else to which black folk in America have clung. The terms Colored folks, Negros, Blacks have served there purpose but as of 1965 when we opened up immigration in the United States to the world these titles must now make room. For Barry and Kamala to claim to be ADOS or FBA is stolen valor. Not only do they walk in the purposeful lie they are who they are not; it shows them to be disingenuous thieves of the worse kind, and the truth aint in ‘em. If they will deceive us about their very identity for political and financial gain, what will they not stretch the truth about? Like Belle Boyd and Aldrich Ames, Kamala and Barry present themselves one way, but unlike Belle and Aldrich knowing full well there may be little consequence for being revealed if indeed their covers are blown. Well it did cost Kamala some of the black vote but with the public’s short memory and the majority not even realizing she is a lying spy she may not be finished, even though she spent money like a rock star and is now in debt. Now how many veterans, drafted or volunteers would vouch for someone’s military service they know is not a military brother in arms? Unfortunately cynical pompous boulé shills try to take advantage of a remnant of ignorance that remains in blackville . The first pompous boulé shill I remember was lawyer Angela Rye sounding angry and aggressively squawking,” Kamala is black! Bwak! She graduated from Howard, bwak! and pledged AKA,"you don’t get no blacker than that! Bwak!” Rachel Dolezal graduated from Howard but unlike Kamala and Barry she rolled up her sleeves and her heart led her to pour her life’s work into black concerns. Kamala’s and Barry’s lives were not also thrown into even just a little disarray for doing the exact same thing Rachel did. Why not? The consequences were much more severe. Contrary to popular demand I’m very willing to give Rachel an honorary black card and ask Angela, DL, Ricky and Spike to check it in. Ricky Smiley’s rhetoric said that Kamala was black and added what was wrong with yall (ADOS/FBA?) for asking for something in return for your vote? “Just vote Kamala!” Oh my Gawd! This nigga here... It’s a wonder we’ still not in chains. Angela has a law degree from Seattle law school. She is no dummy but must be really be “a bit touched in the head” to think we are dummies; that she would seriously beat us about the head and shoulders with this pathetic pronouncement. I was angered and offended by Kamala sicking this boulé on us. Today (in Kamalas post election defeat) Angela cries publicly and wonders where she can look for honesty, apparently overlooking her most egregious lie that kicked the campaign off for the second time counting her failed presidential bid. She has now come to the conclusion many ADOS have come to, that the democratic party needs to be torn asunder. Angela leaving the plantation? Actually she’s tethered and wants to rebuild the party. Impossible mission if you ask me but you go with your black girl magic! Run Angela run! Just head blackward sista. Kidnapped Africans brought to North America have been looking for friends and allies since we arrived here in the 1600s. Since first arriving, we’ve known who, we are not and who we are according to white folks but until a decade or so ago we were still sorting out who we were. With help from white people collectively we called ourselves Colored People (NAACP). Maybe that was cumbersome- colored people. Until 1965 most whites and we ourselves referred to us as Negros. You know, as in, United Negro College Fund, National Council of Negro Women, and “negro have you lost your mind?” Chinese and other groups were here in these united states but what they called themselves was not part of an intramural conversation. They were Chinese and unlike ADOS/FBA they were not chattel property and could trace their roots back exactly from where they decided to leave the motherland. Also we were leaning on white folk a little less to identify us and weren't quite satisfied with Colored People. “Colored people” is quite nebulous like poc- people of color, when ADOS/FBA aint the only happenings on the block. Literally most of the world is poc. Due to great White People marketing the world over people think the opposite. Unfortunately extant are the days people psyche out black folk to getting into office on their skin color, code-switching skills, Al Green impersonations, Martin Luther King impersonations; or because our melanin infused pastors turn over to them their pulpits and an honorary blacklikeme passport at election time. Once upon a time in the 90s, we were so thirsty for an ally who could hear us who would see us even be one of us. We saw Bill Clinton on Arsenio with sunglasses, a sax playing American Classical Music and the next morning much of black America led by the DLHughley class, had declared him our first black pres. Yes it was tongue in cheek, mostly sorta. Ok where was I? Colored, Negro... oh yeah James Brown gave us permission to be black and proud of it, so we had black. Some readers are too young to remember that among black folk, back in the day, it was fightin’ words to call someone black or even African. White supremacy had our minds fried, dyed and laid to the side. Good hair was straight like white people,nappy hair ugh! “If you’ white you’ aight, if you’ brown stick around, if you’ black get back! “These remnants are held in trust in the catalogue of black humor. Well actually many black folk mainly women may not be totally over the hair thang. The New Grio history of our relationship with our melanin and non ADOS/FBA folk is catalogued in our music from the field holla to blues, jazz , hip hop and all. From “why am I so black and blue” to “GODDAM MISSISSIPPI!” to KRS1’s Fight the Power and Ice Tea’s aspirational somewhat biographical Cop Killa, to “the Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” To be clear, our music is your music, our language, some of which we took from poor southern whites, is yours, our food is yours ... you’re welcome! Jesse as in Jackson gave us the mantra, “I am somebody." So here we are standing in our somebodiness and exclaiming our unique station in American and world history; we’re American Descendants Of Slavery aka Foundational Black Americans. We claim this through ethnicity and lineage. It is that simple. The next boulé shill to accost us I was aware of was DL Hughley with his GED self. This cat has been filling stadiums with his special brand of comedy for 30 years, he is also called one of the Kings of Comedy. However, he started talking about Kamala without checking his facts? He’s that irresponsible and doesn't understand the power of his platform? But we should believe him now that he looked stuff up and get it, well, not right but on democratic code. Now he’s best buds with Kamala. When they sat down together I'm sure she gave him the unadulterated truth about Kamala Harris. According to him he’s on point scientifically seeking to prove his misgivings about Kamala wrong. So he sits down with her to get the straight dope and she straightens him out. I had to say that again. I’m not the smoothest rock in the river but that doesn’t sound right some how. We ados/fba are defining ourselves according to lineage, according to ethnicity and not the color of our skin... Even in our lineage “not all skinfolk are [sic] kinfolk.” Not many have the sensibility of culture and community above self. It’s difficult and easy to get off track. So maybe a little sympathy for the devils who betray us. A little sympathy when a lot of us have to admit to ourselves we could do better. Ricky Smiley, DL Hughley, Spike, Luther Campbell and others easily bestow our valor on those to whom it is not due. And for what? Not for ADOS/FBA. Other boulé shills like Al Sharpton agree with the boulé party line. People from the black press core are surprisingly not much more enlightened and readily vouched for Kamala’s pseudo blackness. From now on in my book black American is synonymous with American Descendant Of Slavery or Foundational Black American. Not poc. ADOS can be POC but POC ain't necessarily ADOS. FBA can be POC but POC aint FBA. Just like a square is always a rectangle but a rectangle aint always a square. Because of our joint history in American slavery,lynchings, the destruction of black Wallstreet, Rosewood, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment (that didn’t conclude ‘till the seventies, 1970s, Jim Crow, Redlining, Sundown towns; Generational trauma is often a component ADOS/FBA likely share. Generational trauma, also known as intergenerational trauma, is the psychological and physiological effects of trauma that are passed down through generations. It is also called intergenerational, transgenerational, or ancestral trauma. Generational trauma can affect individuals, families, and communities for decades and longer. It can manifest in many ways, including: Anxiety Depression PTSD Hypervigilance Fears of death or no hope for the future Mistrust of outsiders Low self-esteem Issues of addiction Domestic violence Sexual abuse Since we, American Descendants Of Slavery/Foundational Black Americans (ADOS/FBA) were stolen from Africa, brought to America we have been deprived of our root stories having, supposedly, come from different mostly west coast African ethnicities. However we are very aware of our collective history since being brought to America against our will in chains in the 16 hundreds. We have at least one set of facts that bind us together that the poc world don't claim. This binder has given us our culture, our music like American Classical Music, our food, our world view. While we’ at it enslaved Africans also brought watermelon, okra, yams, and black-eyed peas . The porch is an African invention like the shotgun shack. This binder has given us our stories, our victories and defeats that impact us and only us to our core. Our disposition and world view emanate from the historical cauldron of mental and physical bondage from which we seem destined to have to continually free ourselves. As of late we have gone through the 13th & 14th amendment together. We built this nation for free and shed our blood in every American war only to be relegated to less than 2nd class citizenship. In our dna we bare the loss of our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers thrown overboard of ships like the Clotilda, the last slave ship to bring slaves from Africa to America. Our souls bare the scars of lynchings for supposedly looking at white women. We bear the pain of degradation in our dna. It has not made us resilient and strong but revealed our strength and resilience and mastery. “You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.”-Maya Angelou It’s in our nature. One study found that there were "4,467 total victims of lynching from 1883 to 1941. Of these victims, 4,027 were men, 99 were women, and 341 were of unidentified gender (although likely male); 3,265 were Black, 1,082 were white, 71 were Mexican or of Mexican descent, 38 were American Indian, 10 were Chinese, and 1 was Japanese. The remnants of our lynched and often burnt bodies were captured on film by professional photographers and sold as mementos. Lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916. He was repeatedly lowered and raised onto a fire for about two hours. A professional photographer took pictures of the lynching as it unfolded. This history is what makes us American blacks, that is to say, American Descendants Of Slavery or Foundational Black Americans. Barry and Kamala have no part, no family history that allows them to claim ADOS/FBA common valor and nothing in their behavior hints at any such allegiance. How dare they. Let’s talk Social constructs. A social construct is a concept or idea that exists because people in a society agree to give it meaning. Social constructs are not natural or universal truths, but are instead products of human interaction and can change over time. I think these are such constructs: black people are lazy. black people are animalistic. black people have below average intelligence and are childlike. Wet white people smell like wet dogs? Poor white people are a waste of whiteness... Let’s not trivialize constructs because we claim they are not real. To the contrary they are real and powerful because we meticulously construct them, we spend time putting them in place and holding them there for our good pleasure and often with good reason. We construct them though they are subject to change; often very slow change. Many think introducing this FBA/ADOS distinction is racist or separatist or ridiculous. Puerto Rican Rapper Fat Joe, who recently stepped down from hosting BET Hip Hop awards says FBA is racist. He most likely meant to say prejudiced or bigoted but it was clear he was projecting. And his latest album after 10 or so years needs some help. Just sayin. Italian Sicilian what’s the dif?. I heard two elders at a cigar shop in Cleveland’s little Italy chatting and it came to light one was Italian and one Sicilian. I asked them, “Isn’t Sicily only 100 hundred miles from Italy?” “Ooh a huge difference amico mio, two different peoples.” I looked it up; A "Sicilian" is someone from the island of Sicily, which is part of Italy, while an "Italian" refers to someone from the entire country of Italy; the key difference is that Sicilians have a distinct culture, language (considered a dialect of Italian, called Sicilian), and culinary traditions due to the island's unique history of foreign influences, making them a specific regional group within Italy. Key points about the difference: Language: While Sicilians speak Italian, they also have their own dialect called Sicilian, which has been influenced by Greek, Arabic, Norman, and Spanish languages, making it noticeably different from standard Italian. Culture: Sicilian culture has its own unique traditions, clothing, and customs that may differ from other parts of Italy due to its complex historical background. Food: Sicilian cuisine, while part of Italian cuisine, has its own distinct dishes with flavors influenced by the island's history, including more use of seafood and specific ingredients like capers. This is not a subversive, divisive fact and no one blinks an eye. So what is the brainwash that causes intelligent people, black, white, and other, to lose their minds, and misplace their logic when we accurately define ADOS/FBA and cause them to be a discreet exclusive group? So one day here in the USA I passed a brotha with dreadlock. As long as I had hair I had dreads too. I greeted him with, “what’s up dreadie,” which used to be a greeting of mine to other dreadlock wearing people. ≈ “I no dreadie I rasta!" he snapped and growled.. “Oh shit!” I thought he wanna fight! I looked like him, we were both... not white and we both had dreadlocks. The difference? Petoi of course. Well not only that though that difference is significant enough. Jamaica is about 1638 miles as the crow flies from Cleveland Ohio, not a measly 100 miles like from Sicily to Italy. One huge difference as I found out as we talked, well as he lectured; he was part of Trenchtown in Jamaica in the late 60s into the 70s.: “The lower part of Trench Town below Seventh Street was sympathetic to the JLP (Jamaica Labor Party), in the 1970s it went to war with its literal northern neighbor Arnett Gardens, a PNP (The Progressive Party of Jamaica) stronghold. The road connecting the two, Seventh Street, became the frontline in an all-out war, where the entire two blocks of Government Yards between Fifth Street and Seventh Streets was demolished.” I was from the streets of Cleveland, Ohio and shared no such history, had no idea. Guess what. Rasta man had no intimate knowledge of the ‘66 Hough riots insurrection or how American white supremacy and ADOS/FBA culture had raised me. Queue the music and forgive me if I screw this Marley classic;”No Woman No Cry” which references Trench Town: “Eh, said, said, said, I remember when we used to sit In the Government Yard in Trenchtown, yeah And then Georgie would make the fire lights, I say A log wood burnin' through the night, yeah Then we would cook cornmeal porridge, I say Of which I'd share with you, yeah My feet is my only carriage And so I've got to push on through But while I'm gone Everything's gonna be alright” Bob Marley When I was in Jamaica with my shoulder length dreads and 8 gauge nose ring, the local folks assumed I was one of them, though the nose ring through them a bit. When I’m there I am constantly greeted with, “hey Rasta!” Yall know the rest, “ride the tide””Go wid da flow.” Often ADOS/FBA seem to know from whence they are purged but have little appreciation that they would so easily trade in on our birthright for a bag or even worse for a democrat. I think this is the impact of WS on us. Even well after the black power and civil rights movement we still don’t appreciate who we are, our strength and what is ours by right. We still look to “the white man” for the final word. While in cleveland a some time back at a local cigar bar I made a case for us paying attention and defining ourselves. However, two black men agreed it didn’t matter what we called ourselves when a cop brought that stick on the back or the head we were all the same to him. Hmm in some places our brains are still fried, dyed, and laid to the side. There is a WS joke that eloquently makes their point. Ques: what do you call a nigger with a Ph.D? Ans: nigger. The desire and right to name ourselves is eclipsed by the power of others to define us as they desire and we seem to willingly submit to their wish. Kunta Kinte is rolling over in his grave. This ideology is falling by the wayside though. It is a momentary setback so don’t get it twisted. Everyday we are closer to self knowledge, self love, binding together and acceptance. And to be clear, we’ comin’ for our check. “…Our government was giving away millions of acres of land…not only did they give the land they built land grant collages {sic} with GOVERNMENT MONEY to teach them how to farm NOT ONLY THAT they provided county agents to further their expertise in farming NOT ONLY THAT they provided low interest rates in order to mechanize their farms NOT ONLY THAT TODAY these people are receiving millions of dollars not to farm and they are the very people telling the BLACK MAN that he needs to lift himself up by his own boot straps… this is what we are faced with! THIS is the reality! Now when we come to Washington in this campaign we are coming: TO GET OUR CHECK!” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The End wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwqqwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Are you Dominican-American, Haitian-American, Jamaican-American, European American,Chinese-American? 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