When Confronted With Legislation About A Vasectomy Bill, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz Says, “YIKES!”

 

Ted Cruz does NOT want the government controlling the reproductive organs of men, but he has no problem with the government controlling the reproductive organs of women, hence his railing against abortion when women get pregnant thanks in part to the reproductive organs of men, but it is a case of “Yikes!” when the government proposes vasectomies for men in an effort to control a man’s role in reproduction.

Ted Cruz takes aim at Alabama vasectomy bill: “YIKES!”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took aim at legislation recently introduced in Alabama by a state representative that would, if passed, make it mandatory for certain men to get vasectomies – a bill that comes in response to legislation passed last year that seeks to ban abortion in the state.

“Yikes,” Cruz wrote in response to the bill on Twitter on Sunday morning. “A government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take everything…literally!”

The bill would require men to get a vasectomy after the birth of their third child or when they reach 50 years of age; whichever comes first. Alabama state Rep. Rolanda Hollis (D), introduced the legislation in response to Alabama legislation that prohibits women from seeking and obtaining abortions even in instances of rape and incest. And of course, Sen. Ted Cruz was all FOR the legislation aimed at restrictions on women’s reproductive control over their own bodies, but when it comes to men, well now, that’s a different story. According to Ted Cruz, the government does not have a right to regulate a man’s reproductive system because, uh….well…because…he’s says so.

So you white women who voted for the likes of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, who can grab you by your pussy at any time, and also to the white women who donned pink pussy hats and marched in what you considered to be, a protest against Donald Trump, whom you elected to the presidency, get your pink pussy hats out again and go march in front of Ted Cruz’s office in protest of his obvious double standards when it comes to the government legislating women’s bodies while not having the authority to legislate men’s bodies. These are the worthless, misogynistic shits that you gave birth to and so hop to it.  But you won’t because these very same assholes uphold the system of ‘white supremacy’ from which you benefit. And you will screech and wail about how you should have the right to do to your body what you will, but that screeching and wailing ceases when it may affect the system of white supremacy. You’ll shut the fuck up then.

Also, I have covered this issue before and I am going to do something that I have never done and that is to include an entire blog post here and not just post a link because, FINALLY, someone got the memo.

WHAT ABOUT PLANNED FATHERHOOD?

 

I am going to be a mother
but I am just too young.
The father of my child
just stung me with his tongue.

He told me it was my fault.
Protection was for me to use.
How can I tell my family?
Their love for me, I’ll lose.

Oh where can I turn?
What help is there for me?
I heard about Planned Parenthood,
but will they help me out for free?

What services do they offer?
Should I seek advice from them?
Will they blame me for this shame?
Am I the guilty or the victim?

Answers, I need now
before it is too late.
The man can walk away
and leave me in this state.

Where’s the judgment on his ass?
What about Planned Fatherhood?
It takes two to make a baby!
That should be clearly understood!

Written by,
Shelby I. Courtland
©2015 Shelby I. Courtland

I am getting real tired of this double standard bullshit! It would seem that Planned Parenthood is all about the ‘female’ role in the making of a baby because the female is the one whose life is going to be turned upside down no matter what she decides to do with the baby. If she decides to have the baby and she is either underage or single, she is going to have to figure out what to do and society will look at her as the slut who couldn’t keep her legs closed while the man who had a hand in this, as usual, gets to strut away like a peacock, on to the next.

If she decides to get an abortion, this is frowned upon because “Oh my goodness! I am just so self-righteous and the good book(Bible)that is burning up in my sinful hands due to all MY sins, tells me that I should stone this fallen woman, this slutty, whore who is no better than she should be! My stars! Back in my day, sluts weren’t running loose, opening their legs to every Tom, Dick and Harry that wished to crawl between them. We wore chastity belts until marriage! What is this sinful world coming to?”

Yep, that about covers the ‘christians’ view of an unwed mother-to-be. Nothing whatsoever is said about the ‘father’ who most definitely had a hand in the reason why the female is pregnant. No one is planning to defund ‘Planned Fatherhood’ because in reality, ‘Planned Parenthood’ is all about the ‘female’ in the equation and don’t we ALL know it. Planned PARENTHOOD, my ass! Planned MOTHERHOOD is what it’s ALL about!

Oh, there are probably some pamphlets about the ‘male’s role in conception’ in the offices of Planned Parenthood, sitting somewhere collecting dust on a shelf in the basement, but the primary focus is on care for the female if she decides to carry the child to full-term or with help in aborting the ‘fetus’.

And now, we have many a republican blow-hard threatening government shut-downs over de-funding Planned Parenthood, but would the same hell-raising antics be displayed if this was all over an agency called, ‘Planned Fatherhood’ where the male’s reproductive role is the primary focus? Of course not! Those hypocritical conservative bastards would sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up! But women’s rights and agencies that help women with regards to reproduction is always up for grabs and great for capturing headlines and getting the so-called ‘christian right’ all up-in-arms.

Here is an idea republican blow-hards, if you want to stop getting all hypocritically bent-out-of-shape over Planned Parenthood, fetal parts selling, abortions and whatnot, then announce the launch of an historically new concept; that of Planned Fatherhood, placing the emphasis on male contraceptives, male sterilization and male education on birth control and the consequences of going without it. Let’s see how many men line up and head through the doors to take responsibility for their role in the creation of life. Because in here, men don’t get a goddamn free pass, not a bit of it!

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/

Not one man is featured on this site. As usual, contraception or birth control is ALWAYS aimed at the female. Women have come SO far in the year of no lord 2015!

And now that we are all distracted from the REAL issues of child poverty, a school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration, a fucked up infrastructure, failed leadership, partisan politics, drone wars, refugee crises caused by U.S., police brutality, Mid East policy fuck-ups, a homeless epidemic, income inequality, low-wage part-time jobs, a shrinking jobs base and a host of other serious issues, we can continue to rail over the funding of Planned Parenthood. Meanwhile, Rome burns.

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As you can see, I originally posted this blog in 2015  and here we are, 5 years later, still going around in circles. We are still sitting up listening to and putting up with the double standard bullshit hypocrisy from rich, old white men. They are still dictating to us all just what the hell should happen to our bodies. Regardless of whether or not you believe in a woman’s right to choose, remember this, it does indeed, take two to tango.

Men, get that vasectomy and shut the fuck up! And since Ted Cruz approves of the government  legislating a woman’s rights over her own body, then he should have no problem with the government legislating a man’s rights over his body by mandating vasectomies for men in order to stave off the need for women to seek abortions. If it’s good for the goose, it’s good for the gander.

Name One Social Issue Systematic White Supremacy Isn’t Responsible For — The Eye Wall

Is it homophobia?: As Dr. Frances Cress Welsing theorized–and there is a plethora of evidence to back her theory up, in terms of why they castrated black men after lynching them and why they’ve historically done so, over and over again–and more currently why they have used biological warfare to sterilize black people, those who believe in maintaining white supremacy are subconsciously afraid of being genetically taken overtaken (which is dumb as cat shit btw.

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via Name One Social Issue Systematic White Supremacy Isn’t Responsible For — The Eye Wall

Today, the whites aim is still to castrate the Black man by emasculating him, hence why the Black man is imprisoned for everything from selling loose un-taxed cigarettes to driving without insurance because by constantly exposing the Black man to prison life, which basically means conditioning him to accept homosexuality by imprisoning him in a system that has nothing but homosexuals running it, this is why the Black man of today is emasculated as hell!

Meanwhile, as the Black man is chasing dick, the Black female is encouraged to mate with a white male. Remember this article? There are two factions in Amerikkka, the so-called ‘white supremacists’ who only want whites to procreate with other whites and then the other faction that is well aware of what’s about to go down in that climate change is going to further eradicate whites because their flimsy skin cannot withstand the harsh rays of the sun since they lack melanin. Enter Black folks. Ever the useful ones we are to whitey.

However, I get what STP is trying to say, whites don’t want to be, heaven for bid, the MINORITY. Why that’s a fate worse than death and so “kill off those Black skinned heathens!,” is how the so-called ‘white supremacists look at it. They can’t see the forest for the trees in that their days are numbered thanks to what whites set in motion; climate change, global warming or whatever you want to call it.

Now, I have to ask, what organized groups of black people are out here targeting and murdering gays, lesbians, transgenders, bisexuals, etc. like that?  Better yet, what black people have the collective social power to mistreat white people in the LGBTQ community?

Great point! We are too busy trying to survive a system that was set up for the express purpose of keeping whites on top and us, dead. And so what does the LGBTQ community have to fear from us Black folks? Their mortal foe is the white man and what’s more, they know this. And also know this, the white LGBTQ community does NOT stand with Black folks. That is a fact. They never have and they never will! And so to all of you who are Black and identify as LGBTQ, get the fuck over it because whitey LGBTQ ain’t thinking about your ass except to move it out of the way so that he can gentrify your shit!

Black people have absolutely nothing to gain by supporting any LGBTQ initiatives.  In the case of the white supremacists, this is a classic situation of, white people having a civic disagreement with the other white supremacists, about who should obtain dominance and how.

Members of the LGBTQ have never openly and consistently challenged white supremacy like #ADOS members have.

Hear! Hear! I do NOT support ANY LGBTQ initiatives because I am not blind. The white LGBTQ community has never stood with Black people as we try and fight for our right to live in a country our ancestors were dragged to. Those white LGBTQ assholes will try and have us co-sign onto their shit, when they scream about having no rights. You’ve got ALL the rights because you’re white. You don’t view us as equals and you know this even as you say that YOUR fight is OUR fight! Hell if it is! Our people are not fighting for perversion. We are fighting to be treated as humans in this hellhole. Don’t get it twisted.

Is it Feminism?:

Black men don’t have the power to determine where large groups of women, white or black, can or cannot go to college.

Black men don’t have the power to collectively decide a women’s reproductive rights.

Exactly! Who is telling women ALL across this shithole that they cannot have abortions even if the pregnancy was a result of incest or rape? White males! And guess who votes those white males in, en mass? White females! So sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up because you voted for the shit that’s now telling you that if you get pregnant, you are going to have that baby regardless of whether you want to or not. So cut that damn feminism shit out, goddamn it! You cannot have it both ways. You debased creatures want to have your cake and eat it too. Well, that’s not going to cut it. If you don’t want to be told that your reproductive system is not yours to do with as you please, then who is that shit on? But yet you want to turn around and screech and whine about ‘feminism’ when you cozy up in that voting booth to a white male politician who you know is going to say that he and only he can determine what happens to your body. What Black man is standing somewhere telling you that you cannot have an abortion under ANY circumstances? Seriously, white females, I absolutely despise you! You are about the lowest thing on this planet and that’s saying something.

Bottom line, white men are shown as, “You can do whatever you want sexually, and you won’t be punished for it, no matter how degenerate you prove to be.”

Naturally, the white women don’t wanna accept that, but the problem is, they don’t want to give up the perks and goodies that come along with being white.  They wanna make sure they get the same wages that white men make, and they use black women to advocate for their cause.

That is SO true, it ain’t even funny! White women will vote against their own interests just to maintain the status quo of ‘white supremacy’; a system that serves them well even as they scream and wail that that same system is hampering their ability to practice feminism which is the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. You white females don’t want to be ‘equal’ to a man, you just want to maintain the system of ‘white supremacy’ and to do that, you know that you are going to have to get with the program and vote in the very men who tell you that feminism is nothing, ‘white supremacy’ is EVERYTHING!

It is Black women who have fought back against both white males and white females. It was Black women who fought back against Roy Moore in Alabama, a known pedophile running for public office. White females went into that voting booth and voted unanimously for Roy Moore, knowing full well what he was. You debased creatures don’t even give a shit about your own offspring. What you did in Alabama spoke volumes about your character or should I say, lack thereof. Not to mention when you also went into that voting booth and X marked the spot beside Donald “Grab you by the pussy” Trump and Mike “I hate gays” Pence. Oh you certainly showed us how you were just sick and tired of white males thinking of you as merely sex objects and something not to be taken seriously. You’re not to be taken seriously. Look at you. You’re just a bunch of dumb ass privileged racists who are so filled with hatred for us that you will always assume your position several steps behind those debased creatures you call, “white men” just to make sure that your position over us is never in question. “White supremacy” rules your ass which is fueled by white privilege and racism.

Is It the Environment?:

This one is very simple, and I love utilizing this demonstration when I am discussing white supremacy and how it functions with both white and black people.  You, whomever you are on my website, I want you to Google a random American coal or oil company you want.  Let me ask, who are running the operations, and who are the folks on the Board of Trustees?  I rest my case.

Let’s talk about that. You are so concerned about the environment and yet, who is killing us all by killing this planet? Who owns ALL the corporations that are responsible for polluting the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink? Who is responsible for why the oceans are a plastic filled radiated mess? Who dropped atomic bombs in the Pacific Ocean? Who has killed off entire species of plant, human and animal life on this planet all in the name of acquiring more wealth? Greed also rules whites and everything else, be damned. And we are! But know this, your ass is grass as well because you don’t have anywhere to go to when this is ALL just a barren wasteland. You have fucked us all, but that ALL includes YOU! So think about that! You set this shit in motion and you are going to have to deal with it just as we are.

What About Class-ism?:

What About the “Children on the Border” Issue?:

Children were separated from their mothers on a regular basis during chattel slavery.  Children were separated and torn from their families at the drop of a hat, all in the name of building this country’s wealth up.

Where is the national outcry on compensating those families who descended from that systematic mistreatment?  We talk all the time about the individuals held at the border, but never about the black citizens who built this nation and who are owed in the form of financial compensation.

I have just got to post what Kreb said about that!

They tend to ignore those issues but are super interested in wanting to be involved or have an opinion on the issue of slavery reparations. Why? I’m not 100% sure, but I have an idea: money. You see, we know that money means everything to white people because money equals power and with power, you can oppress others. Whites know that if the average household wealth of ADOS equals theirs, they can no longer oppress us. Whites have always known that “education” is not the great equalizer. They know that land ownership and generational wealth creates privilege and nothing is equal to that.

Kreb was spot on and I took it even further, of course.

That’s the reason! You hit the nail squarely on its head as to why whites want to have a say over reparations for Amerikkkan descendants of slaves, hence why Amerikkkan descendants of slaves, at one point, were even denied the right to own land. Hence why the whites burned down the Black Wall Street and had no problem burning down the Black city, Rosewood, all over a vicious lie by a white female parasite.

I have stated many times on this blog that those from anywhere else around the world can come here and the whites set them up; those from India, the Pakistanis, the Asians and even the Russians they claim to hate so damn much. Why is it that when Amerikkkan descendants of slaves head to a ‘white-owned’ bank for a loan to open a business, they get denied? We also get denied home loans or we get steered to subprime loans and then end up losing the home anyway. But yet, if you go to any city, in a predominantly Black area, who has set up shop there? The Asians with their kung pao chicken and fried rice and Black hair care products. You’ll also find those Hindu motherfuckers and their neighbors from Pakistan owning every single convenience store and gas station. Those motherfuckers come over here and are promptly handed money to open up those businesses and they are not taxed. Not one government official ever checks the date on their H1b visas and many have expired and yet they are allowed to stay because they are helping white pasty-ass to fuck us up!

Take Baltimore, MD for instance, I posted a blog about this shit and I included pictures and titled it, “Baltimore…In Pictures!” And in that post, there are nothing but Korean stall keepers in Lexington Market selling ‘soul food’ and every other type of food to mostly Black people. Would you find that shit the other way around? Koreans buying ‘soul food’ from Black stall keepers? Hell no! And I was just in Baltimore last month and the month before that and whitey pasty ass is now running the Koreans out to make way for the white yuppy crowd because whitey pasty ass is trying to take over Baltimore from the Black people and that is why the Baltimore Sun took down Mayor Catherine Pugh. I covered that scandal as well. This is ALL done by design.

When I went to Lexington Market, ALL the Black methadone addicts were no longer in evidence. The whites have ‘cleaned’ up Lexington Market and when they did that, they sent the Koreans packing because the Black methadone addicts were the customer base for the Koreans. Whitey pasty asses didn’t frequent Lexington Market. Lexington Market was so cleaned out, barely 1/3 of the stalls were still open. The liquor store had closed. The stall that sold pizza and beer had closed. And believe me, they were the busiest. The only stall that is still open and selling beer is the one that is run by some whites called, “Faidley’s Seafood.” They and they alone can still serve beer. But the Koreans are packing up and hauling ass up out of there like the hounds of hell are chasing their asses because Lexington Market is no longer profitable for them since their customer base, the drug addicts have been sent packing.

This is why I do this because people need to wake the fuck up, open their eyes and see what whitey parasite ass is up to. And those Koreans and Indians and Pakistanis and whatnot that come over here, when their usefulness is up according to whitey pasty-ass, why they get sent packing as well. When I get around to it, I am going to do a blog on how empty Lexington Market is, complete with pictures.

When the Freddie Gray riots went down, the city officials of Baltimore tried to claim that then and only then were they made aware that Koreans owned liquor stores in Baltimore neighborhoods had not been zoned for them. How the hell do you not know that a liquor store THAT HAD TO BE LICENSED was not zoned for a particular neighborhood? Those fucking pasty-assed devils knew that because they were the ones who issued the Koreans, their fucking licenses. There were as many as four, that’s FOUR goddamn liquor stores on one damn block. Who the hell needs FOUR liquor stores on one damn block? You won’t find that shit in white neighborhoods even as those white-assed motherfuckers LOVE all up and down on some beer, bourbon and scotch.

Those evil, depraved, monsters are without a heart or a soul! And that is why they will do everything in their power to make sure that Amerikkkan descendants of slaves do not get reparations in monetary form. It was fine for the Jews and the Japanese.

Our ancestors had their children wrenched from their arms and sold to other white slave owners and we don’t hear a damn thing about that, but let some folks come here from south of the border and now it is time to declare that this shit ain’t right. Never mind what happened to our ancestors since, at the time, they were declared to be only three-fifths human and so what was the big deal? The big deal is the glaring hypocrisy of this racist shithole, that’s the BIG deal, you debased creatures!

Bottom line, there are no social issues one can reconcile, and this goes for both white people and black people, without dealing with systematic white supremacy head on.  It is the root of all of our problems, and the more you avoid it, the more you will have the live with its consequences as a human being.

Hear! Hear AGAIN! TheStormyPoet gets the last say!

Thank you for posting this one. It is spot on!

 

 

 

 

Opinion: Stop with All the White Women and Other “White Minority Groups” Helping Us Out Nonsense — Kreb Talk

Listen Black people, if you haven’t learned by now that white women and other so-called “white minority groups” generally falls in line with the agendas and policies promoted by white men, then you need to wake your ass up! How many times do these “groups” have to show you that when all is said and, they understand that their white skin (privilege) trumps whatever so-called minority group they identify with or belong to. […]

via Opinion: Stop with All the White Women and Other “White Minority Groups” Helping Us Out Nonsense — Kreb T

Hear! Hear!

Why are Black people still believing that white female parasites are less problematic for us than white male parasites?

White female parasites are actually far worse than their male counterparts and make no mistake, white male parasites are our mortal foe; our number one enemy and yet even before him, the white female parasite is a billion times worse.

Throughout our history in this shithole, it has been white female parasites that have caused lynchings of Black men thanks to their vicious lies. They have caused an entire Black city to be destroyed….again, over their vicious lies. They have sent many, many Black men to their death all because they lie just as easily as they suck air.

It was a white female parasite that lied on Emmett Till and got him murdered in one of the most depraved and horrendous ways possible.

It was a white female parasite that lied and her lies resulting in the Black city of Rosewood getting burned to the ground.

There have been multitudes of white female parasites lying on Black people that resulted in them getting lynched, jailed or beaten to within an inch of their lives and yet through all of this, Black men will still lie down with those depraved slugs. They will marry those debased creatures and help produce something that is not even wholly human for nothing that is half parasite is human. What is wrong with you???!!!

“White women haven’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since the early 1960s. Once the Dixiecrats (racists Southern Democrats who left the Democratic Party) left the Democratic Party in favor of the Republican Party in the 1960s, white women left right along with them. Fast forward to the present, a great majority of white women voted for Trump and the known pedophile Roy Moore from Alabama.”

White female parasites are so damn vicious, blood thirsty and depraved that they will vote FOR a pedophile and so what does that say about what they even think of their own damn offspring? White female parasites, almost to a one, voted FOR Donald “Grab them by the pussy” Trump and then turned right around and put on pink pussy hats and strutted through the streets of Washington, DC, claiming that they were protesting Donald Trump’s misogynistic ass. What the hell for since they voted him in???!!! How are you going to vote for something and then five seconds later, proclaim that he is against your pallid flat ass?!!! That doesn’t even make any sense.

The reason white female parasites voted FOR Donald “Grab them by the pussy” Trump is because he stands for exactly what they stand for; white supremacy, white privilege, racism, bigotry, prejudice and hatred for Amerikkkan descendants of slaves. That is why those same debased creatures voted FOR a known pedophile, Roy Moore in Alabama.

And the only reason, Black men, that those white female parasites will have anything to do with you is because they hold the upper hand on your ass at ALL TIMES! Step out of line and the kkkops will be on your ass so fast, you’ll not have time to blink. They are your mortal enemy and yet, after all this time and after all that they have done to countless Black men that has resulted in their being lynched, set on fire, beaten to death and incarcerated, you will still snuggle up to THE most depraved and debased monster on this planet??!! What the fuck is wrong with you???!!!!

“How often do you see the white LGBTQ community support their Black and brown counterparts? Where was the white LGBTQ community’s support with the Pulse nightclub shooting? Although I have some troubling personal beliefs about the current Black transsexual killings, where are white LGBTQ community on this issue? They also represent a large slice of the community who are gentrifying Black communities all over this country.”

Yeah! Why don’t we talk about that??!! For the Black folks who claim to be LGBTQ, where is the WHITE LGBTQ crowd when it comes to denouncing racism, gentrification, a school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration, income inequality, drug addiction, homelessness, food insecurity and some mo shit? Where the fuck are they? They are not rubbing shoulders with you and denouncing that vile ass shit because they are busy trying to push and shove your LGBTQ Black ass out of the way to make way for their LGBTQ asses to take over where you used to live. The white LGBTQ community ain’t thinking about your Black ass even as you sit somewhere at some so-called ‘pride parade’ droning on and on about how you “feel the love” from THE most ‘love’ deprived slugs on this planet. Those things don’t love. They don’t even know what love is and so what the hell you’re feeling must be gas because it damn sure ain’t love coming from those debased monsters; those creatures.

Keep thinking that ANY white is your friend and you are going to find out the hard way that whites will never be anything more to you than just THE means to YOUR end! Not a one of those motherfuckers has our best interest at heart and the only way that you are going to have YOUR best interest at heart is to stay away from something so vile, it should never have been allowed to slither and crawl all across this planet dragging nothing in its wake but disease, destruction, war, misery and death! And that is exactly what you are courting when you mess with that shit! Fuck with it and fuck it at your own peril!

 

Woman Charged In Fetal Death, Her Shooter Goes Free

I don’t even know where to begin, I am that perplexed.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman whose fetus died after she was shot in a fight has been charged with manslaughter, while the woman accused of shooting her has been freed.

Marshae Jones, 28, was indicted by the Jefferson County grand jury Wednesday. She was five months pregnant when 23-year-old Ebony Jemison shot her in the stomach during a December altercation regarding the fetus’s father, authorities said.

Jemison was initially charged with manslaughter, but the same grand jury declined to indict her after police said an investigation determined Jones started the fight, and Jemison ultimately fired the fatal shot in self-defense.

So, two women were fighting over a man; the same man that helped get the woman pregnant who was shot and later charged with manslaughter for getting into a physical altercation whereas she was shot by the other party. The other party was arrested and charged with manslaughter but a Grand Jury declined to indict her after the police report concluded that the pregnant woman had started the fight.

Let me get this straight, two women were fighting, one was pregnant and one was not. The one who was not pregnant was getting her ass kicked by a pregnant woman and so she took out a gun and shot the pregnant woman in the stomach, killing her unborn child. The woman who pulled out a gun and used it to shoot the woman she was fighting with was arrested, charged with manslaughter and was released because a Grand Jury declined to indict her based on a police summary report on the incident. The woman who was shot and lost her baby is behind bars, indicted for killing her own baby even though she did not shoot herself in the stomach, the person she was fighting with did the shooting.

The police report states that the women were fighting over the ‘fetus’s father’. Okay, so let’s take this even further and indict the ‘fetus’s father’ for putting the ‘fetus’ in the woman’s belly in the first damn place. I mean, she would not have been pregnant if a MAN had not impregnated her. If we are to hold women responsible for having ‘fetuses’ in their belly, then let us include the male in this since the woman could not get pregnant all by her lonesome. Drag the damn man to jail and indict him for his part in why his ‘fetus’ is dead especially since I am quite sure that we can conclude from the fact that two women were fighting over a man, that both were having a relationship with the man who, apparently, was trying to get another woman ‘with fetus’.

What is happening to women, especially Black women is even worse than what went down during the Salem Witch trials and so is it really 2019 and not 1692?

Let’s take this even further. If a pregnant woman forgets to look before crossing the street and gets hit by a car and ‘the fetus’ dies, she is going to get charged with manslaughter because she failed to properly protect ‘the fetus’. She can end up with a breathing tube and paralyzed from the waist down and she will still face a manslaughter charge for killing her ‘fetus’.

And what about if a pregnant woman is cleaning a gun, it accidentally goes off and she shoots herself in the stomach and the ‘fetus’ dies, she will be charged with manslaughter.

I also suspect that if a pregnant woman goes jogging and forgets to tie her shoestrings and she trips over them, falls down and her ‘fetus’ dies from the impact, she will be indicted for manslaughter since she did not properly protect her ‘fetus’ from harm or injury when she neglected to tie her shoe strings.

Let’s say a pregnant woman is in the kitchen cooking and she accidentally spills some water on the floor and forgets about it. She then comes back into the kitchen and slips on the spilled water, falls down hard and her ‘fetus’ dies, she will then be charged with manslaughter because she failed to properly protect her ‘fetus’ from harm or injury by her failure to remember that she had previously spilled water on the floor.

Let’s say a pregnant woman goes grocery shopping and she reaches up on the top shelf to grab a can of peaches and inadvertently brings down the entire shelf of canned peaches, thus crushing her stomach and causing her ‘fetus’ to die, she will be charged with manslaughter because she failed to properly protect her ‘fetus’ from harm or injury by not being careful when reaching on the top shelf for a can of peaches.

Is anyone getting the picture of how ridiculous this shit really is? They are now coming up with laws that don’t even make sense and that shit is sticking. Where will it end if this shit is not reined in? Why are women having to take this shit from men who play a role in helping a woman conceive a child, but his due diligence stops there; his culpability stops there. His responsibility stops after he has exploded his sperm inside a female and so the sole responsibility for a ‘fetus’ is on the woman who CANNOT have a baby all by her lonesome.

And guess who is voting in these stupid, misogynist assholes who are hell bent on taking women back to the 1600s with these draconian laws? White women, who then screech and wail over the fucked up laws their ‘men’ place on the goddamn books! And guess who are overwhelmingly being fucked up by these vicious laws that make no sense whatsoever? Black women.

Sometimes, I just want to take myself into the woods some goddamn where and erect a tent and be done with this so-called civilized society that is anything but! What the hell??!!! What happened to sanity? What happened to reason, rationality; shit that makes sense? We have not evolved. We are devolving, but into what? I don’t even want to know! For the love of !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let’s Talk About It: Abuse In The African American Community — The Divorced Millennial

“And since we all came from a woman, got our name from a woman and our game from a woman- I wonder why we take from our women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think it’s time to kill for our women, time to heal our women, be real to […]

I was able to experience this phenomenon first-hand when I experienced abuse within my relationship. I remember very vividly the way that my mother-in-law made me feel after one particular extra-heated argument that my ex-husband and I had that got out of control. She treated me like I didn’t even exist when she came into my home. I don’t have a child, so I couldn’t tell you what my exact reaction would be if I were in her shoes. But as a woman, I know for a fact that I wouldn’t be condoning or enabling any abusive behavior from any family member of mine, let alone my son. To this day, she never once asked me was I ok or tried to check on how I was doing. Instead, she saw me as the cause of the problem. I wonder if maybe she was able to witness the countless conversations that I had with my mom while I locked myself in a bathroom or my car telling her that I was scared to come out, that maybe she might have been more sympathetic. Maybe if she would have seen me in an actual chokehold, she would realize that her son was not the only party capable of being hurt, and that I was someone’s child as well.

via Let’s Talk About It: Abuse In The African American Community — The Divorced Millennial

I can relate to this woman’s experience on every level. The only difference is that her soon to be ex mother-in-law condoned the abusive behavior of her son towards his wife while my own mother condoned my husband’s abusive behavior towards her own daughter; me. To this very day, my mother still calls my ex-husband, “her son-in-law.” Don’t that beat all? And yet people have the nerve to castigate me for the letter I publicly wrote to my mother. If I thought it would shame her ass at all, I’d write another one. But you can read my “Happy Birthday Wish To My Mother” letter right here!

When my ex-husband beat me and covered me in bruises and I told my parents about it, the only thing they did was encourage me to “work it out with him” because, just as this woman states in her blog, this vicious cycle just continues since my father beat my mother to within an inch of her life, many, many, many times. And so I don’t know why I expected any help from THAT direction especially with the type of upbringing I had.

My situation devolved to the point whereas I had already moved out of the home I shared with my ex-husband and was living on my own, however, that became untenable because my ex-husband would get his friends to watch me coming and going and eventually, he started banging on my door, demanding entrance. Out of abject fear, I had to flee the only town I’d ever known and head to parts unknown with just $700.00 to my name.

So yes indeed, there is much abuse in the African Amerikkkan descendants of slaves community and it should be exposed because only by doing so, will we be able to address the fact that this type of abuse is a serious problem and it needs to stop.

And sadly, as the author of this blog states, this is ALL baggage that is from our history of enslavement in this shithole. How on earth can we be mentally healthy people when we are a product of slavery and we experience racism, bigotry, hatred, prejudice; the whole nine yards to this very day simply because whites dragged our ancestors to this shithole as slaves and still treat the descendants of those slaves worse than shit?! Many of us, apparently, experience self-hatred and project that outward and we are hurting those whom we should be protecting with our lives.

It is still Black women who are on the front lines when racist police gun down our brothers, uncles, fathers, nephews, husbands and sons. We are the ones who do the marching through the streets, the burying, the crying, the demands for justice. We suffer untold atrocities everyday because of our love for our men and yet our men turn right around and beat us senseless? What kind of shit is that? We are not your enemy. Your enemy is the same as ours. If you treat your enemy like some of you treat us, maybe we’d be getting somewhere. You better act like you know! So yes, sista is right on point with this post because I can most definitely relate and I am sure many of you can. I only wish I could not.

The Hard Hitting Truth!

 

 

As many of you may know, I recently moved from the Midwest back to the East Coast and apparently, I was living in a bubble seeing as how the Midwest does not have that many Black people. Since moving back to the East Coast, what I thought I knew, I did not know because I’ve taken up for Black people, time and time again. But no more! What I have witnessed with my very own eyes is just beyond the pale.

I always wondered why Black people call each other “Niggers!” Now, I don’t. I know why. It’s because you are niggers, almost every single one of you and that is a sad ass fact! I have witnessed more ‘niggerfied’ behavior in the four months that I have been living in Baltimore than in my entire existence on this planet and believe me, I no longer consider myself, young. Au contraire! What you niggers are is a different species altogether and you’re not worth a damn!

I am no longer against gentrification because I don’t want you heathens living next door to me. I don’t want to even see you because then I’d have to smell you and I hate the odor of skunk weed. Now, I am not suggesting that other groups don’t smoke weed, but if I’m going to be honest about it, by far, I’ve smelled more weed around Blacks than I’ve ever smelled around anybody else and yet, you want taxpayers like myself to pay your rent(Section 8) while you sit somewhere high as the proverbial kite? You have got to be kidding. I now know why Blacks receive no outpouring of support from other countries when the police shoot your ass eight ways to Sunday on any given street in America on any given day, it is because the people of other countries already knew what it took me to live in Baltimore to find out and that is that you Black folks are just some nasty ass, no account, weed smoking niggers!

I have watched and listened to Black men cuss Black women out without even blinking. I was attempting to get on an elevator with another Black woman and a Black man was getting off the elevator. The Black woman was in a wheelchair and I was pushing my walker and when the doors opened, the Black man just stood there as though we were blocking the exit. The Black woman in the wheelchair asked him if he could please get off the elevator before the doors closed so that we would not get caught between the doors, he called her everything but a child of God. He cussed that woman out so bad, I blushed! When the lady and I had gotten on the elevator, she turned to me and said, “Miss, what did I say that was so wrong?” I replied, “Miss, you said nothing wrong and that is why I say nothing to these people because I would have to shove this walker up somebody’s ass every single damn day! What in the world is wrong with the Black men of today? You have no respect for Black women at all.

The other day, I was in Rite Aid and a Black piece of filth was standing in line in front of me and he was on the phone talking just as ‘niggerfied’ as he could. “Yeah my nigga, I’m at Rite Aid and this bitch ignoring me like she don’t know me. Hey bitch, tell my nigga why you acting like you don’t know me!” For the love of!!! The cashier looked at me and I looked at her and we both rolled our eyes at that piece of Black filth, otherwise known as a ‘nigger’! When he had got out of her face, she asked me who in the world would answer to “Bitch” and I said, “A bitch!” She told me that they obviously need prayer and I said, “They are past prayer. No amount of praying could help that mess!”

Outside Rite Aid, while waiting for the light rail, another older lady was also waiting and I was telling my cousin about how Black people have come a long way and in the process, have come the wrong way because we did not talk to one another back in the day like we do today, we did not treat one another with such contempt and disrespect. We were not shooting other Black people down like dogs; like niggers. The other lady spoke up and said that she also can recall a time when we had not become what we had been called for hundreds of years, “Niggers!” But we are there now and we have no one to blame but ourselves. My cousin got to cussing and carrying on about how bad the weed smelled when someone passed by us and after he went across the street to check on the price of a coat he saw in a store window, the lady that was waiting at the light rail stop asked me what was his relationship to me and I explained that he was my cousin. She asked because he was out in public acting a fool and she probably thought that I had picked him as a boyfriend; not hardly! Unfortunately, you cannot pick your family because he would not have been picked either. Truth be told, not one nigger in my family would have been picked by me and believe me, they’re all niggers because that is what they call each other.

Never in my life, have I seen a group of people have such a blatant disregard for the wellbeing of one another. Families don’t act like families. Children are out-of-control. And this is the norm and then we wonder why Black children are getting body slammed in videos by the police. I’d body slam your ass too because you need to be slammed; you beg for it. What’s deplorable is the behavior displayed every single day by little Black niggers! The U.S. mint could print enough money for one year, hand it over to me, and I’d not take it if I had to take it for working as a teacher. No wonder whites are pulling their children out of schools that’s got niggers sitting up in them, acting out, fighting and otherwise acting just like niggers. You’re not civilized! You’re heathens! And I wouldn’t even want to be around you! And if I were to be honest about it, I had some idea of how bad you niggers are even when I was in the Midwest because I did indeed board a bus in downtown Minneapolis and regretted every single second I was on it because, true to form as you niggers are, you proceeded to act just like niggers; cussing and yelling and screeching all over the damn bus as though you had no home training whatsoever and of course, you didn’t. But you’ve got to be a flagrant nigger; you have just got to make sure that everyone knows without a shadow of a doubt that you are indeed, the baddest nigger to ever live! You’re not! You’re just one of millions. Take a number!

Now, I know that I am going to get a lot of flak for this post and I don’t really give a good goddamn because this is the truth as I see it and I don’t pull no punches, I tell it like I see it and damn the consequences and you can have a hissy fit over this until the cows come home, go back out and come back home again, but it won’t change a damn thing. Look around you. Who is shooting each other in every major city in America by the thousands and then get bent-out-of-shape because the kops are helping you in your quest to kill each other off? Who was fighting in malls all across this country after the holiday shopping season was over? When you pass by a group of niggers, you know it because they’re all calling one another, “niggers!” So, how can I be wrong when Blacks are calling other Blacks, “Niggers!” every day? And Black people have the nerve to pretend to worry about Donald Trump and some of his supporters. What the hell for? Because you are far worse for each other than any racist or bigot could ever be because if you were united instead of divided, clueless and niggerfied, you would have gotten it together by now and figured out that if you come up off that gangsta shit that you live by and personify, you wouldn’t need to worry about how Donald Trump’s policies would impact or affect you. You would not need a Section 8 Voucher. You would not need food stamps. You would not need welfare. You can get your nails done, sport some Air Nikes, possess a smartphone and a Gucci handbag, but can’t pay your subsidized rent??? Stores like Rent-A-Center and Aaron’s Rentals were opened up just to deprive niggers of their money and yes, I know, a nigger has been defined as an ignorant person. Well, that’s true because only an ignorant person would pay someone 800% interest and eventually pay $2,849.00 for a TV that if purchased from Wal-Mart would have cost $209.00. Only a nigger would hand over the title to their paid for vehicle to a Title Loan Store. Only a nigger would need cash so fast that they wouldn’t wait for their tax refund to be mailed to them from the IRS but would instead, opt for a quick loan after hundreds of dollars has been shaved off of their tax refund. Only a nigger would place more value on material things than on an education and then wonder why you can’t get up out of the projects. It’s because you’ve just got to be a pretentious nigger; pretending that you’ve got something when you strut around with your ignorant ass sporting your Gucci bag, smartphone, Air Nikes, fake nails and fake ass European hair. Every week, you’re handing money over to the Koreans, the Chinese, the whites but never investing it in each other or yourself and then wonder why you’re fucked up. This is why, nigger! It is because you’re a nigger and proud of it!

In one of the first articles that I posted upon coming to Baltimore, in it, you can see that Black folks are buying ‘soul food’ from the Koreans in Lexington Market. By now, you could have opened your own stalls and been selling food that got its origins from us. But instead, you stand there nodding over some food sold to you by the Koreans who hold you in complete and utter contempt. I just recently read where a Lexington Market Korean stall keeper when responding to why she does not sell healthy bagels at her Lexington Market stall had this to say, “Look at my customers! They have no teeth! They can’t even eat a bagel!” She was talking about you toothless nodding methadone addicted niggers whose teeth have all fallen out to the point where a Korean will not even sell bagels because she knows you can’t eat them. Was she talking about white folks? Hell no! Was she talking about other Koreans? Hell no! Was she talking about Pakistanis? Hell no. She was talking about you, nigger!

Another sad fact is that the niggers who need to be reading this, won’t be. They’re busy standing around somewhere pretending to be something they’re not while continuously being something they are, niggers. This is also why I hardly blog anymore because my readers are not niggers. They know what’s what and they know why the Black race in America is doing so poorly and it’s not so much do to racism but has everything to do with a group of people who have taken up the most derogatory word in history, applied it to themselves and who is hell bent and damned determined to live down to that word, each and every single day! So niggers, have at it!

Jay Z, To The Klan Decked Out in Blue, “Don’t Shoot Us!”

 

I must admit that I have never listened to even one of Jay-Z’s songs and so I am in no position to review this latest song of his whereas he is ‘telling’ the police not to shoot us, but I am pretty sure that Jay Z has rapped about bitches, hos, bling, gangbanging and the like; being a rapper, of course. I am pretty sure that the majority of songs recorded by Jay Z, were labeled, “explicit.” And so, I wonder is he walking around calling HIS daughter, a “ho?” I wonder is he walking around calling his daughter, a “bitch?” I wonder is he telling his daughter that when she grows up, get with a guy who is gangbanging in an attempt to bring home some dough, just expect to get with lots of ’em because the life of a gangbanger is short, just as the life of every Black man in AmeriKKKa is shortened by inner city violence and crime and by out-of-control killer Klansmen decked out in blue, otherwise known as the slave patrol.

Now, it has been stated that this latest song is ‘spiritual’. What that means, I don’t know and so let me just post a few lyrics and see if I can find anything ‘spiritual’ about this song that’s ‘telling the Klan decked out in blue, to stop killing us.

Yeah, I am not poison, no I am not poison
Just a boy from the hood that
Got my hands in the air
In despair don’t shoot
I just wanna do good, ah

This is what Jay Z calls, “Spiritual?” I am not poison, just a boy from the hood, got my hands in the air, in despair, and I just wanna do good?” Hmmmm……I am not quite getting the ‘spiritual’ connection here. Now, if he had of said,

“I drink from a poison cup each day,
 even at night
when I’m on my knees to pray,
God knows,
I’ve sacrificed my life for my wife and my daughter
and the shit is still hitting the fan in a big ass way.
My hands, are clenched at my side in Bible study
as the bullets pierce my tender flesh.
Lord, what is this mess?
Your creation is killing your creation
and I ain’t feeling the elation.
Where is MY rapture Lord?
Where is MY rapture?
I need some before I die
and I know you know why!”

rap lyrics by Shelby I. Courtland

©2016 Shelby I. Courtland, who by the way, does not rap. So, gi’ me a break!

I’m no rapper and I’ve never claimed to be but to me, writing a song to tell the KKKops that our hands are in the air and so please don’t shoot us is not spiritual, it is demeaning because our hands have been up in the air for hundreds of years and still the only thing that is sought, is our annihilation. Even a blind man that’s been planted can still see this. And, “I just wanna do good?” What is that all about?  Black people don’t have to ‘do bad’ to get shot and killed by racist KKKops. Ask Freddie Gray, just what was he doing wrong that got his spine severed and himself inside a casket. So, according to Jay Z, if we tell everyone that we ‘wanna do good’, why, that is going to make all the difference in the world. Tamir Rice, I am sure, is thrilled to hear it!

AND…and…if this song by Jay Z is so spiritual, than why are these lyrics in it?

Nigga ain’t dozed, I ain’t washed in a week
I ain’t changed clothes ’til the Black Album
Til I tapped out ’em, them niggas is WWE

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to NOT listen to this ‘spiritual’ song whereas Jay Z is still referring to Black people in the most derogatory term ever made up by the ‘whites’. And let me just interject here for a minute with some thoughts of my own. What I am trying to understand and have been trying to understand for quite some time now, is why oh why, are Black people the only race of people that will take up THE most derogatory name in history and apply it to ourselves? What the hell is wrong with us? You see, we have no respect for ourselves as a people and since we don’t, no one else will have any respect for us either and now, I am going to be brutally honest. I am getting to the point whereas I don’t have much respect for Black people, as a whole. I don’t. I never even want to board a bus, ever again because all I hear is “Nigga this and Nigga that!” How many Chinese people do you hear calling other Chinese people, “Chinks?” White Europeans, and this means AmeriKKKans, because they came to AmeriKKKa from Europe, refer to Chinese people using that derogatory term and do you think that the Chinese grabbed it and accepted it? Hell no!

Do you think Mexicans are calling each other “Wetbacks?” Hell no, they’re not! Every group that did not originate in Europe and who were given a derogatory name by Europeans has not accepted or claimed a derogatory name given to them by Europeans except for Black people. Now, that speaks volumes. Again, we are the only group who will look to our oppressors for our identification because that is exactly what Black people have done because more Black people use a version of that word “Nigger” than those of us who don’t. And don’t give me no bullshit about how that is not true because I’ll call you a straight up liar! Every person in my family has used that word to describe another Black person except for me and about 3 others. Even the so-called ‘bougie’ Black folks refer to other Black people as “Niggers or  Niggaz.” You can’t dress that word up. You cannot call that word, “a term of endearment.” You cannot write a ‘spiritual’ song and include a version of that word in it because it reduces your message to one of vulgar noise with no substance. It renders your argument, null and void and if your argument is against the Klan decked out in blue killing innocent Black people, then you are part of the problem and most definitely not the solution.

The Jay Zs of this world made their money off the Black community, hit it big and then turn their backs on it. They no longer even identify with the Black struggle because they and their ‘product’ have been confiscated by their white masters and they do their bidding. Oh yes, we all know that Jay Z and Beyoncé Knowles hit the big time and some of their ‘product’ they purportedly own, but they are still owned, lock, stock and barrel by the ‘white’ man. But still, they’ve got more money than they know what to do with and yes, I had read that Beyoncé allegedly poured a bottle of champagne costing $20,000 into a hot tub in a Nicki Minaj video,  and if this is true, how many hungry children could have been fed with that $20,000? One article of clothing that they wear could keep the lights on for an entire neighborhood and while I do understand that Jay Z and Beyoncé bailed Ferguson and Baltimore protesters out of jail, would they have even been in jail if not for the systemic racism that is endemic to America? Would Freddie Gray have been murdered if we did not live in a society that values Black lives less than it does a cow? For what does it cost Jay Z to put together some lyrics that a child could write, studio up a beat and then sell it to the brainwashed ‘Niggaz’ that he goes on and on about who have raised their arms in the air and who, despite this, are still finding themselves full of bullets shot by racist KKKops? And though Jay Z and Beyoncé and other singers and professional sports players drop a dime every now and then in Haiti and in America as well, they are not the solution to what ails Black communities all across America and the solution to our woes of racism, a school-to-prison pipeline, mass unemployment and underemployment, mass incarceration, abject poverty and homelessness, rampant drug addiction and gentrification will not be solved until we actually believe that we are something other than “Niggaz!”

Why we value ourselves so little is because many of us look to others to define our worth and by doing so, we will always come up short. Our ancestors were assessed for their worth; their value, before having been sold at auction. They were considered to be property and to this day, nothing has changed. We are still considered, ‘property’ to be used and discarded at will. If you are not making money for the ‘white’ man, you are of no value to him and so he has instructed the slave patrols to relieve you of as much of your hard-earned money as he can and then, kill you. That is exactly what happened to Philando Castile as that man was racially profiled over 50 times for seatbelt violations, revoked driver’s license and for having no proof of insurance and Philando Castile paid $6,588 in fines to Massa before Massa killed him by way of the slave patrols; the Klan decked out in blue.

So, as far as I am concerned, Jay Z, you can take your ‘Spiritual’ and shove it up your ass because continuing to ‘spiritually’ or otherwise tell the Klan decked out in blue to, “Don’t Shoot!” is akin to me telling another Black person to stop calling me a ‘Nigger!” It ain’t happening! The time is 3:11PM central daylight savings time, tell me, how many of my Black readers have been called, “Nigger!” today and the person who called you that was not ‘white’? We will never be respected by the ‘whites’, I understand that but the truth of the matter is that we don’t even respect ourselves. And yet, we want to yell and scream that “Black lives matter!” when we don’t even believe that because if we did, we would not continuously disrespect  each other by picking up a derogatory name that was given to us by our enemy and then turn it on ourselves. That’ is like me taking a gun from a ‘white’ man and turning it on myself. There are more than enough of them killing us, they don’t need any help from us and yet, we give them plenty. We shoot each other and then we get bent out-of-shape when a racist fills us full of bullets. Why is that? You don’t mind running through the streets, shooting, indiscriminately; killing toddlers, children and innocent women. Why then, should others who see you do this, think highly of you? You give them an excuse to say, “Well, they are killing each other! Look at what’s going down in inner cities!” Yeah! We all know what is going down in inner cities. Some of what is going down is most definitely not on us, but some of what is going down, is most definitely on us.

Excuse me! But we have lost. And we lost long time ago. We lost when we lost our sense of community, when we lost our sense of direction, when we lost our minds, when we lost our dignity, when we lost our humanity, when we lost who we came from when we lost ourselves. Jay Z cannot find you. Beyoncé cannot find you. But because we choose to continue down a destructive path and because we continue to live down to each and every stereotype of us and because we do nothing with our money beyond buying Jay Z’s latest ‘Spiritual’ and Michael Jordan’s latest sneaker and Timberland boots, our neighborhoods will continue to be taken away from us and we will continue to be herded into prison or to the morgue and despite cries of “Don’t shoot!,” KKKops will continue to shoot! Count on it! Because we cannot even count on each other! And that is why no one has come to our defense. No country that has issued travel advisories that warned its citizens to use extreme caution when coming to America has stated that America’s Black citizens need their help. Other countries see what we have become and they want no part of us. And I for one, can’t say as I blame them. I am tired of standing up for people who refuse to stand up for themselves. I am tired of attending protests to tell others to stop killing us when we refuse to do so. I cannot take to task someone else who is doing the same things that we are doing to each other without speaking out on that fact. Are we to blame for everything that is going down on us? Hell no! But at the same time, we are not entirely blameless since we are aiding and abetting our enemy in reducing our numbers. And so before you head to another protest rally, print two signs. One sign should read, “KKKops, Don’t Shoot!” The other sign should read, “Why Are We Shooting Each Other?”

Nigga ain’t dozed, I ain’t washed in a week
I ain’t changed clothes ’til the Black Album
Til I tapped out ’em, them niggas is WWE

“And Jay Z!, get the fuck outta here with that bullshit!”

Get Up Girl And Live Life To Its Fullest!

Where is the adventuress that has always been me?
How can I get her back and when did she flee?

Who is this person who sits alone in the dark?
Why is she so angry and what lit the spark?

Has she let the horrors of this world get to her?
What does she have to fear from a racial slur?

Tell her you love her no matter what.
Make her understand, she’s got to go with her gut.

Don’t let her listen to the doubts in her mind.
Let her know that she’s got more heart than most of mankind.

Get up girl and live life to its fullest.
Pack a bag and become life’s tourist.

Journey far and never settle for less.
Don’t put up with people and don’t accept their mess.

You’re not stupid and you’re damn sure not brain dead.
So, go where you want to go and not where others have tread.

Written by,
Shelby I. Courtland
©2016 Shelby I. Courtland

I wrote this about me because lately, I have been down in the dumps because there is so much that I want to do and yet, I am hindered by my sense of responsibility. I am hindered by my sense of duty and obligation. I am supposed to be enjoying myself in my lean-to on a deserted island and yet, I am getting cussed out daily by my cousin because the mental health care profession filled him full of anti-depressants and anti-psychotics and when the medications started killing him, he got off them and now his brain is fried. He lost 154lbs. He is no longer diabetic  or obese. He no longer has a cholesterol or triglycerides problem. His pancreas is back to normal. His heart condition is gone and yet, he will never be ‘all there’ mentally. Yes indeed, I have so many reasons to ‘thank’ the ‘health care’ profession in AmeriKKKa, it is unreal! Heavy on the sarcasm!

And now, I have got to cut this short because I just got a call from him, stating that he has run out of money and is stranded and I must come and pick him up. Since I have his POA(Power of Attorney), health care directive and Living Will, I am responsible for every aspect of his life and there is no one else who will step up to the plate. His immediate family gave up on him decades ago and he has followed me everywhere I go. That is why when I mention that I am dining out with my cousin, who else can I dine with because I am constantly getting him out of trouble and so, there goes any social life for me? And when we are out dining, I am usually embarrassed because he just gets to cussing and carrying on at me for no reason. Waiters and other diners stare at us. The last time we were at Fogo de Chao, he sat and sat and sat until even the gracious waiters were looking pointedly at us. When I mentioned this to him, did the high ceilings in Fogo de Chao, vibrate? Indeed they did!

I feel like a person who has been given a life sentence. Goddamn! I want to break free of this jail sentence! You don’t have to actually be locked up behind bars to be imprisoned, believe me, I know!

Just as I was about to conclude this, I re-read the poem and I called my cousin back and I told him, “Get ta steppin! You’ve got a long walk but since you’re no longer overweight, you can do it!”

Ladies, and I am speaking solely to the ladies here, you don’t need a man to complete you and let me tell you something else, every single man that has ever been in my life has done me more harm than good. I can honestly say that when I am doing things all by myself, I do them better and I am always at my best. I have been married and it was the biggest mistake of my life. A husband did nothing but put me through hell, just as my cousin is doing. It is high time that we let these men who say they are “men” be men and take care of themselves. If we don’t look out for ourselves, they won’t. The ‘men’ who have been in my life, certainly did not look out for me.

And so, next month, since I’ve got some shopping and some packing to do, I am going on a journey to find ‘the adventuress’ that used to be ME, again. I am going to understand that I was not put on this earth to be caretaker to every lost soul on it, to the detriment of my own. Sometimes, you have got to be more ‘self-loving, than self-less.

Ladies, take care of you because I am starting right now!

What The Hell??!!!!

 

Black folks, I am going to have to get ugly all up in here! What the hell??!!!

“Pregnant woman executed by her gangland boyfriend for refusing to get an abortion!”

According to the article, Candace Pickens loved being a mother to her three-year old son Zachaeus and she was looking forward to becoming a mother for the second time. Unfortunately, her choice of a partner was her undoing. For the father of her child, she chose a ‘man’ who had a criminal record for domestic violence against another woman who also had a baby by him, not only that but he also had an attempted robbery conviction and in addition to that, it has also been suggested that he was affiliated with a gang.

Now, I could shake my head over Ms. Pickens choice over who she chose to date and have a baby with, but seeing as how the father of her unborn and now dead child, has been charged with their murder, that would be extremely insensitive of me and so I shall just concentrate on the choices we women make when attempting to enter into relationships with men who are absolutely wrong for us in every possible way. It is not only the fact that we know these men are wrong, it would seem that many of us are still into the “I want the bad boy type and yes I know what he did to his other baby mama but he would not do that to me because I am different. I am special.”

Uh, no you’re not! You are just a piece of ass to this type and they will use you and go on to the next, depositing who knows what inside you while impregnating you. And these days, with the explosion of all sorts of STDs that you cannot get rid of, not to mention that Black women in Ms. Pickens age group, statistically speaking, are the new face of AIDS, why are they not better protecting themselves? With information right at our fingertips stating the obvious, we still don’t pay attention and decide that “it’s never going to happen to me. I am the exception and not the rule.”

Newsflash, no matter how special you think you are, to these men, you are not the exception because unfortunately, many Black women have decided that they value themselves so little that they will lie down with a detestable piece of garbage who would shoot his own mama if she crossed him. This misogynistic piece of shit deserves no mercy. Even I would throw the book at his Black ass and never  would he see the light of day!

Somewhere along the way, we have failed our daughters and we have failed in producing sons who respect and revere the Black woman. We have failed our daughters in the sense that they don’t even care what they lie down with. They care so little for the health and safety of their bodies that they become a trash receptacle. And Black men, and I use the term loosely, because a ‘MAN’ would never do this to a woman, have veered so far out into left field that many are just too far gone to reach. I look at many Black men today and I just shake my head, AGAIN because I say to myself, “No way! No goddamn way!” If I was that oversexed, I’d head to Dildo Land before I’d take that mess ‘head’ on.The snake that executed this woman also shot her son in the head and left them both for dead. I just cannot imagine that kind of evil. I just cannot.

We are truly lost!

I go on and on about how Black people are the target for racist KKKops, have been disenfranchised, are victims of gentrification, a school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration, mass unemployment, homelessness and a litany of other ails and then this comes along and speaks a different language to me. It speaks to me of a weakness that is a growing disease among Black people that cannot be cut out. This is not the first time that this has happened and it will not be the last, unfortunately.

But I am not going to let the shit that Black folks do to each other, slide. When I see shit, I am calling it that and this shit makes no goddamn sense at all. A child who just celebrated his third birthday is in the hospital with his eye shot out by a piece of filth that also killed his mother and what would have been his sibling just because he wanted her to abort his baby.

Excuse me, but he didn’t know how to use a condom? He’d never heard of them? And apparently, dead Ms. Pickens had never heard of them either even though, the article goes on to state that she was attending community college and ultimately wanted to be a nurse.

Now, I could go on and on about how Ms. Pickens failed to get her education first before deciding to have children. I could go on and on about her choices over who she decided to have children with. I could go on and on about saving herself for marriage with the ‘right’ man; a man who will love and cherish her and provide for her, not by engaging in criminal acts but by the sweat of his brow. But what would be the point in that? It obviously falls on deaf ears and blind eyes.

And I know this to be true because Friday, my cousin treated me to lunch at Fogo de Chao and since it was prom night, no parking was available downtown and I had to park the car and take the bus downtown. Lawd have mercy, please! Some Black girl was at the back of the bus, on the phone, just a carrying on. I had to listen to,

“I told that nigga that his bitch called me and I don’t know how she got my number and she contacted me on Facebook and his other baby mama started up some drama with me on Facebook and I told her, bitch, you ain’t getting fucked by him, I am. That nigga know who he come home to at night and why you got a picture of my dog on your Facebook page?”

On and on, it went. I was SO goddamn embarrassed to be Black, it was unreal. From now on, if I must head downtown, I am going to first check and make sure that there is plenty of parking available and no Twins games, etc., because I refuse to subject myself to that shitload of ignorance. I wanted to go to the back of the bus and shoot her in her mouth. The least thing I should have done was pepper sprayed her ass and then stunned her. I probably would have received a standing ovation.

Now I see why what happened to Ms. Pickens is going to continue. Young Black girls of today have no respect for themselves or for the children they have with these punks who lie down with them, deposit their seed and then it is on to the next. And we wonder why the younger generation is so fucked up. I don’t. Twenty-five minutes on a bus told the story.

And now, a young woman who had her life ahead of her, lies dead and her young son is in a hospital, fighting for his life. Her unborn child is dead and the father of her unborn child is charged with their murder. Who do we blame for this?

What Happened To Us Along The Way?

Somewhere along the way we got lost.
We strayed from the path of our forefathers.
And as women, we seem to be no longer aware
that we owe a legacy of love to our daughters.

We never flinched when our sisters were called ‘Hos’.
And we never thought anything of this disrespect.
Our men were not taken to task for their misogyny.
Now, of their daughters, we see only the neglect.

What happened to us along the way?
When did we become so jaded and so lost?
And have we ever stopped to wonder why?
Why we are now being made to pay the cost?

You live in a world of people who hate your guts.
And you give to them the respect you deny your mother.
Never do you stop to think that if the tables were turned,
would a white man ever stand up and be counted as your brother?

Written by,
Shelby I. Courtland
©2016 Shelby I. Courtland

This one speaks to all Black people because we have seriously lost our way when we as Black  women, answer to being called a “Ho!” And Black men, you should be ashamed of yourselves in calling Black women, ‘Hos’.  These women gave birth to you and the least you could do is show them the respect they deserve and what about your sons and your daughters? How are you setting an example for your sons when they hear you disrespect their mother and by doing so, you also disrespect your own daughter because if you can call the mother of your children out of their name, then you won’t mind when someone else does likewise to your own daughter. These issues need to be addressed because we need some unity in the Black community especially with all that is going down every single day. If we cannot depend on each other, who can we depend on?

We’d best wake the hell up because at the end of the day, who the hell else is caring about the Black family?