Making Black Lives matter to Black people as much as we care about making it matter to Whites

The call for Black lives to matter is on the whole a good thing. My problem is that like charity, affirmative action and religious impulses to proselytize, they are better served starting out at home! Loving as Jesus was (and is reputed to be), even he said he came to house of Israel first; that is to say his own.

Let me repeat, my Negroid brothers and sisters that affirmative action, charity and religious proselytizing start at home. Indeed can we make the argument that White folks should affirm us (economically, politically, culturally) when we don’t affirm ourselves? Can I argue more White people need to hire us when nearly every convenience store and gas station in nearly every Black majority area in the United States, the Caribbean, Canada and South America is owned by immigrants quite often with limited English language and western business skills? It seems as though we are affirming recent immigrants and not ourselves.

Can we make the argument that non-violence and Christian ethics towards Whites and the government animated the leading personalities of the Civil Rights Movement and won us victories but not ask Black people as a community and population to be non-violent towards each other and our children? How does our virtual inventing of western political non-violence as a strategy for liberation and justice jibe with the fact that we don’t practice non-violence on each other in our communities (as evidenced by the murder rate)?

I’m going to preach today. You chant ‘Black Lives Matter’ till your lungs are blue and you pay lip service to being Black and proud but time you get a couple hundred dollars in your pocket and don’t need Negritude to be the zeroes in your rallies and events (as in Nietzsche’s famous dictum, if you want followers, like any numeral can be multiplied exponentially simply by adding zeroes); you go running to ‘shake and bake’ with White folk and White women; idolizing White femininity after all your aunts, your sisters, your mothers and your daughters (will) have experienced in America!

In essence Black men are thus complicit in legitimizing and justifying Black women’s historical trauma at the hands of White folk and thusly legitimizing their own trauma and completely undermining Negro socio-political critiques of White mainstream American culture and politics. In essence, we niggas end up legitimizing our trauma as if we deserve it because compared to ‘idolized’ White women something is wrong with Black women (but of course by default something is wrong with ‘us’ Black men and women not just one sex or the other). If you don’t want YOU, something ‘else’ has to be wrong….that is not simply a matter of random personal preferences.

A perfect example of this is the Korean Comfort women issue. During World War II the Japanese turned hundreds of thousands of Korean girls and young women into virtual sex slaves for Japanese soldiers called ‘Comfort Women’. Traumatized by these events and shamed and ignored by their own Korean government and families for years, many of these women remained silent about the traumas and injustices they faced during those times.

But a few courageous Korean ladies, by then in their 40’s and 50’s started protesting and bringing attention to the issue. As knowledge of the ‘Comfort Women’ situation increased and protests increased the Korean government stepped in and demanded acknowledgement, reparations and apologies from the current post-World War II Japanese government and people.

Ladies and gentlemen of Negritude, what Black African descended women in America, the Caribbean and South America experienced over 450 years in the western hemisphere of the very same sexual slavery is not fair to either side to compare to what Korean women experienced of Japanese aggression from around World War I to the end of World War II, perhaps 50 years. I’m not comparing suffering but what happened to Black girls and women was intercontinental not simply regionalized in Korea, China and other parts of Asia. What happened in those places lasted perhaps the 50 or so years of Imperial Japanese expansion and dominion culminating in the end of World War II and the dropping of the bomb. What happened to Black women in South America, North America and the Caribbean occurred over 450 years not just 50 (no disrespect intended).

II

Today in post-modernity the White man goes all over the world trumpeting women’s rights and how other societies should treat females. I sure wish the White man would have had that same spirit for the past 450 or so years. What qualified you O’ white man to denounce everyone else keeping sex slaves….you having kept negroid women intercontinentally for 450 years?

Do you really want to know how much the White world loves women, womanhood and femininity? Really? So America goes into Afghanistan, why, because of revenge and anger for September 11th and tear the whole country up in the process (as opposed to going after just the guilty). This the White man justifies this by arguing that he knows how everybody else is supposed to be living….for all times and at every stage of human development. White folk have seen the promised land and they can show it to you and you can invest in his promised land yourself…..for a small fee. But I digress.

So here we have Afghani women thankful to be educated as a result of White western intervention. You remember Malala don’t you; the young lady that got shot up by the Taliban when in school that became a ’cause celebre’ for White western liberals, feminists and their poor womanist cousins as they justified military operations in Afghanistan and the Middle East and Asia more broadly by their great concern for females and the girls and women of Afghanistan and Iraq? How convenient.

But your precious rationalist humanist White folk and Europeans, with their anemic religion unless it’s some other culture’s religion and they are just appropriating it knew damn well that when Donald Trump, Joe Biden and their lackluster European allies withdrew unconditionally from Afghanistan they were condemning generations of Afghan girls and women back into what passes for sexual slavery in the west. Too bad there was no Tom Cruise as the Last Samurai, Lawrence of Arabia, Steven Seagal doing ninja shit, or maybe Iron Man (or rather a white man in iron) Disney’s white boy hippy Iron Fist reinterpretation or some other White man to save them. What happened? Where are the feminists and womanists decrying such a thing in the name of Womanhood? Everybody knows damn well we are watching at least a few generations of Afghan women condemned to ignorance, sexual slavery, poverty, pregnancies and varying forms of possible abuse. What happened White western liberals, feminists and yes transgender women? Where is the outcry for them; real sexual slaves, not sexual slaves because they think they were trapped in the wrong body or they think they need more representation in the executive suites and board rooms? Real sexual slaves, not former men who need liberation so they are free to swim and compete against biological women? Real sexual slaves, ladies of west! Would you feign tell them ‘girl power’ and pump your fist?….Real sexual slaves not ones that want better jobs or statistically equal wages to men. Real sexual slaves….not ones that read books like 50 Shades of Grey and pretend to be sexual slaves in their sexual fantasies. Where is the liberal elite world outrage on behalf of Afghan women…..and why….because you liberals knew damn well how inconvenient it was to the United States and European governments and your cultures to stay in Afghanistan for any reason…even the reason of condemning by your inaction, generations of Afghan girls to sexual slavery and ignorance. But I digress.

III

Yet where is the Black outrage for the wrongs done our women in the Caribbean, South America and North America? Do you know why there is no outrage? It is because unlike Koreans, we descendants of Africa in the Western hemisphere actually came to believe that the bastardized mulattos of the rape of slave masters was actually the most attractive ‘Black people’ and the ones most ‘deserving’ of success! How can you critique the rape if you yourself identify the child produced by the rape as of a more attractive quality than the natural full bred nigger? Let me repeat, how in the hell can you critique the rape if you self identify the product of the rape as having more positive value than its original African featured component?

Furthermore how can you critique the rape if you niggers can’t wait to get your hands on a White woman and will accept any humiliation to do so and humiliate generations of Black women to do so. What the fuck was Jack Johnson really thinking in his obsession with White women? We niggers laugh as we assume he was getting back at the White man but to argue he was as happy in those circumstances he found himself in with White women as he would have been had he contented himself with the domestic realities of a Black woman is completely disingenuous. Are you really happier going to court every other week and making yourself a target…so you can prove to the White man you can fuck the brakes off his woman. Really? No disrespect intended but has anybody ever argued from Jack Johnson to Kanye, to the poor fat White chick at the grocery store with the mulatto kids Black men get the crème of the crop of White women? Does anybody talk about Kobe’s widow’s job or her professional life? Perhaps Michael Strahan’s White ex-wife he is paying $80,000 per month in child support, is some professional or has some talent…oh no, maybe one of Michael Jordan’s wives who in addition to being White or close enough to pass, have PHDs in Physics or Neuropsychology like Miam Bialik.

I suppose this is why Kanye goes on stage not only begging like a dog for Kim to come back to him, but is still chasing behind and only dating White women like a psychologically rabid dog. Kanye has the spiritual equivalent of rabies and scabies. You heard it from me first. Soon he will be diagnosed as such.

IV

I’m not letting Black women off the hook either. Now y’all have embraced singleness; not only as a necessity but a Black female rite of passage! The White liberal elite world is all to happy to take advantage of this and quite prepared to reward the Black woman more for her singleness than her affiliation with her man. Make no mistake about it, the White liberal elite rewards Black women for distancing themselves from Black men. It is useful to White feminists’ and the gay communities especially.

Beware sisters, the White liberal world needs you atomized and split up from your man, making a mist out of what should and could be a mighty river. White liberal elites have given Black women the keys to the kingdom (as long as she doesn’t bring her trifling man, nephews and sons along)…..long before her man did or possibly could have.

There is another dimension of feminism/womanism and the transgender movements I find absolutely fascinating. It seems as if a significant part of feminism and womanism is acting like men and taking on male physical and stereotypical psychic behaviors and feelings associated with maleness . A woman has thus liberated herself like Chaz Bono from patriarchy by……wait for it….wait for it…acting like a man! That is to say, hating men but acting like them (or rather stereotypical versions of what they think maleness is physically and emotionally)…..does that not strike one as a contradiction? You hate him so much you imitate him? Really?

Chaz Bono (who transitioned to a male from being born a female) got arrested some time ago for beating up his/her girlfriend. Apparently according to feminist-womanist logic, Chaz was the man, or rather she was imitating a man and carried the ruse so far and to such a great extent that in pretense of patriarchal historical rights of excess she beat the crap out of her girl friend. Or as Dave Chapelle would say…in reality two bitches just got to fighting…..only one wasn’t wearing heels and was dressed like a man….and imagine everyone’s surprise when she got booked into the San Francisco jail ‘accidentally’ with men….to carry the ruse to its fullest extent mind you. Imagine the surprise when her cell mates find out the old fashioned way when her monthly courses run. Surprise! Imagine the shock! Who knew? Speaking of how willing one is to go to affirm their chosen sexuality, how long do you think Chastity, now Chaz bono was in the male lockup? Chaz will take her case for equality to the Supreme Court but will she take it to the male lock up in San Quinten?

I was looking at a documentary on Brittany Griner one day. She is one amongst many of a rugged sort of feminist/womanist standing up for feminism by imitating men. She has taken imitating men so far in the name of her liberation that she has a plethora of tattoos, her manner of speaking, her voice. Hey, I get it. In the documentary they showed her 4 wheeling through the mountains in an all-terrain vehicle. It was like she was proving she had the same predilections as other similar NBA players from a similar class and background.

Watching Brittany’s documentary was like watching some dude, all be it a kind of effeminate looking dude that happens to be 6 ft 7. And now Brittany finds out the hard way that playing in Russia ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. Many people have made videos mocking the lack of interest in the women’s NBA movement. They mock the missed shots, missed layups, scores under 70 points (both teams combined) etc. They mock the fact that whatever team won the WNBA championships last year had less people at their parade than Trump had at his inauguration. And now Brittany finds out the hard way that playing in Russia ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.

The point I’d like to make here is to American liberalism, the WNBA is very safe, very safe, like elections in Nigeria are ‘safe’ according to Afrobeat genius Fela Kuti, ‘because Obasanjo planned them very well’. That is to say, women’s basketball is too big for liberals and the LGBTQIA transgender communities to let fail. It doesn’t matter if 13 people show up at the games the liberals’ are going to make sure it gets just the same amount of confetti and the same amount of air time on local television as if the men did it. And spend the same amount of money from a government resources point of view for the spectacle (or lack thereof).

Part III

We find in Jussie Smollett a weird case of something being to big to fail for the liberal elite again. Who is arguing that he disrespected Black people by feigning something men like George Floyd and Ahmad Arbury suffered for real. At the exact same time he disrespected the gay community by here again, feigning something that happened for real to Matthew Shepherd and during the Stonewall riots.

Just recently here in Atlanta there was a young man (Joshua Dowd) undeservedly beaten and left for dead because of perceptions of his sexual orientation. I’m sure I’ll get more criticism for even bringing him up than Jussie Smollett from the liberal media because Jussie mocked any gay person that has ever experienced real hate crimes and discrimination (and they are many). Too big to fail. When Chris Cuomo defended his brother it was an unforgivable fatal flaw, when Don Lemon defended Jussie Smollett for longer than otherwise would be warranted, cancel culture didn’t come after him did it?

In these kinds of ways Jussie exposed the hypocrisy of the politicized sexuality movement but where is the liberal outrage towards Jussie. Can you imagine the outrage from the left if a Black or White preacher or conservative personality gave himself a Black eye and said some gay people, or transvestites did it. On one level that would be the most humorous beginning to a future novel of mine that I could ever imagine. It’s rare that you hear the argument that two Nigerian transvestites built like Ving Rhames and Wesley Snipes in their cross dressing movies (Too wong foo) whooped my ass on the way out Subway and hurled insults at me the whole time….at 2 AM. Thank goodness I kept my Sub sandwich unscathed during the entire attack and ate it later on at the police station during my interview.

The fist liberal critique would be what, a preacher out at 2 Am must be doing dirt….but no that wouldn’t be the main issue. The issue would be that the left would decry the conspiracy to make the gay community look bad and go looking for conservatives of all stripes to punish.

Jussie insulted the press, he insulted Black people who still experience real racially motivated hate, he insulted his friends (in the gay community and outside it), he insulted his family, he insulted and betrayed the two Nigerian dudes and trainers. He insulted his religion and perhaps worst of all (I’m joking) he insulted MAGA hat loving White men and women all over the world. Let’s discuss another aspect of the hypocrisy of the gay and transsexuals’ movement. If Deshaun Watson and apparently quite a few other athletes magically happen to get trainers and masseuses that are easy on the eyes and presumed to be pliable and available that is a man abusing his position. If Jussie needed personal training he could have gone down to the local Planet Fitness or YMCA or for that matter hired a personal trainer that is a woman that looks like a man….but no he got two big strong, fit Nigerian men happy to be in America (perhaps susceptible to manipulation by issues of money, power and privilege) to be his personal trainers but no feminist/womanist/transsexuals’ would ever say Jussie was abusing his privilege.

Part IV Rondo – The Legend Of Bubbles the Chimp

Yep, two White dues in MAGA hats riding around New York looking for mischief with Bleach and a noose. And here we all thought MAGA loving was a rural, southern or midwestern thing. Jussie told my friend ‘Bubbles the Chimp’ (Michael Jackson’s old chimpanzee best friend) the story over drinks at an LA bistro one evening and later I interviewed Bubbles.

The following reflections are a ‘true’ story I received first hand from Bubbles, Michael Jackson longtime chimp best friend in an interview I did with him at the sanctuary/asylum in Florida where he now resides. Have you forgotten ‘Bubbles’? Let me refresh the reader.

Bubbles (born April 30, 1983) is a common chimpanzee once kept as a pet by American singer Michael Jackson, who bought him from a Texas research facility in the 1980s. Bubbles frequently traveled with Jackson; during the Bad world tour, Jackson brought Bubbles to Japan, where they drank tea with the mayor of Osaka.

Bubbles was initially kept at the Jackson family home in Encino, Los Angeles, but was moved to Jackson’s home, Neverland Ranch, in 1988. There, he slept in a crib in Jackson’s bedroom, used Jackson’s toilet and ate Jackson’s candy in the Neverland movie theater. By 2003, Bubbles had matured into a large and aggressive adult chimpanzee unsuitable as a pet, like many captive chimpanzees, and was sent to a California animal trainer. When the trainer closed his operation in 2004, Bubbles was moved to the Center for Great Apes, a sanctuary in Wauchula, Florida, where he has lived since 2005.

My interested in Bubbles was stimulated by a good friend of mine that spent the late 70’s, 80’s and early 90s in the Los Angeles and Hollywood Black communities. He has a wealth of stories from that time period that perhaps I will relate in other works but for the purposes of today’s essay, I content myself to the story he related to me about his one encounter being in the same room with Michael Jackson and Bubbles. He related the story on this wise.

Back in the late 70’s when Michael Jackson still hung around Black people and was not ashamed of looking Black (see Off the Wall Album Cover), he used to go the parties other Black actors, actresses, musicians and entertainers in the Los Angeles area would host. My friend was at one of these parties and told me that nearly everyone was drinking, smoking, doing coke, pills, behaving aggressively sexually and hooking up in side rooms etc, of course Michael abstained.

At some point during the evening Bubbles bit somebody. Needless to say, a monkey at a party like that of course everyone would think getting Bubbles high would be hilarious. Well, Bubbles got too high and bit somebody apparently. As bizarre as that is, what made it damn near unbelievable was that my friend told me Michael Jackson responded by punching Bubbles in the face. What! Soft spoken, childish and infantile Michael Jackson punched a monkey in the face with a closed fist? According to my friend, whom I have asked over and over is that really true, said indeed it is true. I don’t know I wasn’t there but for the most part I trust my friend and as wild as some of the stories he has told me are, I’ve never found one to be completely false, maybe exaggerated around the margins but not false. Anyway, Michael Jackson hauled off and punched Bubbles in the face. Thusly began my fascination with interviewing ‘Bubbles the Chimp’.

The first question I had for Bubbles was about Jackson’s child molestation trial when he got subpoenaed to testify because he was at most of the pajama parties Jackson would have with preteen boys. Bubbles would be in the bed too and perhaps may have been a witness to something that could prove Jacksons guilt or perhaps expose Jackson’s naivete and innocence in these and similar matters.

So I asked Bubbles point blank, did you ever witness anything unusual? He said “I was a 3 year old chimp butt naked in the bed except for a diaper with a 50 year old man and 2 or 3 White boys in their tighty-whities and superman pajamas, nope nothing unusual about that. Nope, no nothing unusual happened.

It was apparent to me that Bubbles was still living in fear of Michael Jackson even from the grave. Bubbles told me that even though Jackson looked effeminate and had a high pitched voice he was a terrible task master, worse than Pharaoh. Every time Bubbles turned around Michael was showing him off. ‘The kids loved me, his crazy entertainment industry friends loved me and were getting me drunk and high every day’. Between Jackson’s demanding and merciless treatment and his friends and staff indulgence ‘I felt like I was going crazy’. ‘First Michael carried me everywhere in his arms and I got used to that’. Then he wanted me to follow him dressed like him, a chimp ‘mini me’. I tried but it wasn’t a good fit for my hobble legs. He’d yell at me and and my hobble legs and tell me that I wasn’t trying hard enough as he beat me with a belt on my legs. Thank God the hair absorbed some of the blows. I tried and tried to walk like Mike, dance like Mike, do flips off of his shoulders and everything he wanted me to do. I tried to wear the loafers with bedazzled socks made popular during the ‘Thriller’ years but obviously to everyone except Mike, my feet were not designed for loafers and my feet bled at the end of the day.

Finally he’d just trot me out for the kids at Never Never Land and go with him to nigger parties, as a matter of fact a great Negro author and journalist sent him a script for ‘Niggers in Space’ and/or ‘Space Niggers’ that I was to star in but it never materialized. But the food was good and I met Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges from Different Strokes and we’d have orgies with groupies and get wasted.

“As the wikipedia entry shows, the entire lifestyle had me feeling like I was going batshit crazy!”

Bubbles was kept at the Jackson family‘s Encino home until 1988, when he was moved to Jackson’s new home, Neverland Ranch, in Santa Barbara County, California.^[5] Bubbles slept in a crib in Jackson’s bedroom,^[6] ate candy in the Neverland movie theater,^[7] was fed at the dining table,^[6] wore a diaper, and used Jackson’s toilet.

At Jackson’s 2005 trial, Jackson said that his chimpanzees help with housekeeping chores: “They run around, help me clean the room. They help me dust, clean the window.” Jackson’s housekeepers testified that they disapproved of the chimpanzee behavior. One said she had to clean feces hurled at the bedroom wall, and another described a chimpanzee tearing off his diaper before crawling into Jackson’s bed.^[8]

“I was an unhappy camper,” Bubbles reflected and “when I started beating off 4 or 5 times and day no matter who was looking and throwing shit at the staff and kids and getting punched in the muthafuckin face I had to go.