Back when I was growing up, we used to visit our relatives who had moved from Virginia to Washington, DC. We would get in cars and an entire caravan of us would head to D.C. for family get-togethers. It was called, “Lynchburg Day” because many of those who once called Lynchburg home moved to Washington, D.C. Those of us who remained behind in Lynchburg were always considered to be “The country cousins.”
I remember looking around the park where the event, “Lynchburg Day” took place and I noticed that there were so many Black people having a great time, barbecuing steaks on the grill; huge steaks. I saw ribs, hamburgers, hot dogs; the whole nine yards. The adults were having fun talking while us kids had the run of the park. No one was sitting around talking about homelessness or drug addiction or prostitution or gang activity; not any of that stuff and year after year, we would get into the cars and head to D.C. for fun and laughter with family and friends.
But something changed. Something or ‘someone’ or someTHING put an end to ALL of that. I started hearing about drugs and gangs and homelessness and prostitution and then there were no more trips to Washington, D.C. for “Lynchburg Day.” Families did not behave like families anymore. Things changed and I wondered about that because though I did know that the only constant is change, I figured that family was family and we’d all continue to treat each other as family like we used to. Nope, didn’t happen.
Fast forward to the news out of Washington, D.C. today and well, things are even worse than ever.
At a homeless shelter in D.C., a special — but bittersweet — Thanksgiving meal
Marc O’Brien was panicking.
Like millions across the country, he was in charge of preparing a Thanksgiving meal. But instead of a family or party, he stood to disappoint 400 men — many of them ravenous, some who had not eaten in days. At the Central Union Mission homeless shelter in downtown D.C., this was the most important meal of the year.
D.C. has one of the highest rates of homelessness in the country.
This is truly sad, truly sad. Washington, D.C. was once known as “Chocolate City” and now it has been gentrified and those who once called “Chocolate City” home are homeless thanks to whites coming in and tearing down rental housing that Black people at one time could afford, but who are now finding that they must move on. Black people who once owned homes in Washington, D.C., are elderly and many have passed on just like those in my daddy’s family. My daddy’s aunt used to work for the Pentagon and she owned her own home. Her daughter owned a condo in Southeast D.C. When my daddy’s aunt died, her daughter and her son sold her house and her daughter also sold her condo and moved back to Lynchburg where she recently passed away.
What I have noticed is that with the passing of the ‘old guard’, the ‘new guard’ is not faring so well. It’s like the whites were waiting on just the right time when the Black folks who were once out in the streets protesting during the Civil Rights Movement and who were responsible for successfully boycotting to get things done started getting up in age and passing on, that is when they put a new plan in action and now, it is the beginning of the end.
Everyone has been dumbed down, made lazy, apathetic and complacent by all the new technology that this generation has embraced even as the older generation would never have because they would have known better.
And so we come to this!
Richard Bell, 53, said he appreciates the effort that staff puts into the event but hopes that after two years at the shelter, this will be his last Thanksgiving here.
After losing his job in 2011, Bell fell into alcoholism and stopped being able to afford his rental apartment in Charles County, Md. His wife and daughter moved in with other family, and Bell moved into a hotel, where he attempted suicide.
Black people, once seen as strong, are now attempting suicide as a way out of the despair of being descendants of slaves in a land that never accepted us, never included us in any bill of rights, constitutional documents or anything else that gave whites all the rights to freedom, justice and the pursuit of happiness. And their happiness is at the expense of millions of American descendants of slaves who are here through no fault of our own. I have stated this before and I state it again, this is ALL done by design. None of this is by accident.
If you look down through the annals of history, you can see a pattern developing. Every single time it seemed that Black people would be able to stand on their own, the whites pulled the rug from underneath us. We built our own cities. We owned our own businesses. We had our own Wall Street. We had our Movements and what happened? The whites put an end to all of that and now look where we are; sitting up in a homeless shelter partaking of a ‘Thanksgiving’ meal and getting noticed on one day out of a 365 day year. We are touted out to have a camera pointed at us and told to smile for the camera just as our slave ancestors were stood up on auction blocks and had their ‘finer points’ pointed out to potential buyers, stripped of any dignity then as we are now because some white mission owner is preparing a meal for the poor homeless Black people who cannot make it in this white man’s reclaimed swamp once known as “Chocolate City” that at one point in time had a beloved Black mayor, who was set up by the whites, Mayor Marion Barry.
And though Washington, D.C. has a Black female mayor, Mayor Muriel Bowser, she is quite obviously, just a figurehead for what is she doing for those Black people who refuse to leave their home, Washington, D.C. even though they can no longer afford to live there? She is doing the same nothing as her counterpart a mere few miles up the road in Baltimore, MD for his Black constituents. Make no mistake, just because you see a Black face in what you would think is a position of leadership, you couldn’t be more wrong. Just ask the recently disgraced and scandal embroiled former Mayor of Baltimore, MD, Catherine Pugh, who is awaiting sentencing for her “Healthy Holly” books shenanigans. Whites played a role in her downfall, but Pugh is the only one who is taking the fall, just as deceased former Mayor Marion Barry was set up by the whites to take a fall.
Black folks, what I am trying to say to you is that we are ALL being setup by the whites to take the fall for the shit that they have done. Our lives, from cradle to grave, is a setup. We are setup to fail especially if we are outspoken and refuse to play by the white man’s rules. If you step out of line, you are dealt with, severely. Believe me, I know. Many of us know and that is why millions of us are six feet under because we refused to take the white’s shit and act like we like it. With nothing to lose, why do we still shuffle our feet and bow our heads around the whites. No amount of shucking and jiving, no amount of “Yessum boss! Yessum massa!” is going to help our situation because the whites are depraved and insane and have always been out for our blood since the first one captured our ancestors and dragged them to these shores. They have never been our friends and they will never be our friends. This you must understand, accept and act accordingly.
Some Black people look at a few Black folks who the whites have favored with fame and fortune and they think that those people are the lucky ones. Uh…no..that is so NOT true. Look at what happens when even Black people of means, somehow draw the ire of the whites who once propped them up. They tear them down; quick, fast and in a damn hurry. Look at what they did to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Bill Cosby, R. Kelly, Lauryn Hill, Wesley Snipes and the list is endless.
There is no man more deviant, debased and depraved than the white man and yet, what white man is sitting behind bars for what the whites claim Bill Cosby and R. Kelly has done? What happened to the #MeToo shit? Whites merely snap their finger and that shit goes away while we get put away behind bars. And whites will ‘suicide’ other whites to keep their pedophilia and sex trafficking scandals under wraps.
Like 2Pac’s lyrics say, “We ain’t meant to survive, cause it’s a set-up.” And believe me when I say this, “The whites? They ain’t never gonna let up.” Just look at the above picture. All you see is a sea of Black faces; all homeless and sitting in a homeless shelter on Thanksgiving Day, eating a donated ‘Thanksgiving’ meal with cameras surrounding them, on display for ALL to see that the white man still has to feed his “slaves.”
I think this goes well with this article. America is in sad shape. You can see it at the street level. Along the gulf coast there are fer seagulls or birds at all. Rents are so jacked up all over the country, people are barely making it. Like the great depression. The orange haired turd and bastard repuks is what we got for it. The same corporate devils with the fake progressives that caused it. My grandaddy is rollin over in his grave.
Most of what people think they see, in murica are gutter lies, manipulative smelly horsecrap, psychotic conspiracy confabulation madeup by rightwing hacks, hyperintellectualized inanity. Many people like me have done every job there is, in crudhole murica. Worked in nuclear plants. Breathed industrial chemical poison, or radioactive dust in muricas backbone ,industrial pukeholes.
We have cleaned at mcdonalds. Bagged groceries. Dug ditches. Shoveled horse crap. If people came even close to getting payed, by how hard, they had to work, and how dangerous a lot of peoples work is, maybe things would be different. The entitled think the sugar machine never ends.
It is now becoming the law of diminishing returns. If many more people were given decent places to live , decent healthcare in this rotten place, maybe things, would be a lot different . Maybe things might be different for many, in this assinine blowhard, parallel universe . This degenerating-crudhole society. But they are not.
If every month a person like a sociology college professor, a quack blowhard doctor who constantly misdiagnoses overprecribes garbage drugs , and spends most of its time bitching about crappy private and medicare reimbursements had to really work. If a slimeass lawyer, had to work a day a month, at a burger king or, in a smelly dangerous chemical industrial plant, or as a low end medical aid or bedpan nurse . If they had to work a day a month at amazon or at walmart, or as a cop, things would be different.
If they had to pay 2/3 of their income in a ghetto tenament for rent, w no access to medical care, barely paying bills, watching this crummy society fall apart around them…….
If crooked politicians and their sire …….
Maybe people who work hard, would get paid ok . Maybe more would have a decent place to live, healthcare, food that is not riddled with nasty-poison chemicals, maybe things would be different. Maybe the people who have comforts, would stop bitching about the other people , they percieve less than human and, become semi
-human themselves.
If more people here, saw the real murica, maybe there would be some changes.
If people from africa saw the way things really are here, for most people:The garbage, the violence, the smugness. There is the fraudulent- med care there is overindulgence in the junky phoney-wasteful, fake society . Piles of chemical and redioactive garbage. The chronic illness from the pollution and poisonous-fake abundance, the overconsumption.
It they saw, what most likely awaits most of them, if they come here: The hate, the itinerant shelter, maybe they would rally to save their own countries that still have some clean water , air, and soil. If scumwad muricans saw reality, maybe they would do something with the evil demon
Killers leaders. The liars and scumbags that make a mockery of democracy. The criminal politicians , that are destroying africa and the rest of the world. That are destroying this country.
Maybe there would be incentive and help for the africans to do something about their own countries.
And yet, all the dumn monkeys here, ignore the ecocidal destruction of life support that makes them fat, stupid, makes their children be birth defects, makes everyone hate everyone else, in this chemical-radioactive sewer.
If you saw the lousey, delapidated boarding houses, with 100 rooms in major cities. The firetrap boarding houses that have feces on the walls in the main halls, shared toilets an 8 by 10 room for 800 hundred a month, with 3 african refugees in each 8 by 10 room . African refugees that go to Mcdonalds down the street, for free wifi.
All the chaos, waste, violence, nonsensical bullcrap, walking over homeless people in craphole cities. If you stopped and really saw and, talked to young people who cannot afford to move out of their parents houses. Talked to young people and working poor families, that work three crap jobs, to pay 1100 a month for a slumhole.
There are the more priviliged, working at chemical plants. They breath smelly-crap-poisons, that will kill them in 15 years. Working in filthy-chemical plants, makes half the kids they sire retarded with birth defects. They work there, so they can drive that nice big truck. So they can contribute further , to the huge islands of garbage in the ocean, the size of texas. Have more water, full of radium from fracking and cars and coal plants, yet the illusion must go on.
There are a lot fewer birds in many cities in murica, not many because of pesticides, fuku, car exhaust, nucular power trash. 75 percent of insects in n hemisphere dead.
Nuclear power plants on the verge of blowups and fuel fires , that constantly belch radioactive tritium dioxide in with the water vapor from their cooling towers. Deadly tritium dioxide dispersed en masse, into the environment.
Whats left of wildlife in murica, are coyotes and crows, moving into degenerate-urban human sprawls, to eek it out for a while.
There are the molycoddled sycophants and suckasses of the entitled, who have lived comfortably, as librarians et al, and cannot really think for themselves . They prattle on about payed political hack racists and demagogues. Canned republican neoracist gibberish w Loser demagoues and pseudointellectual trolls to boot.
Demented idiots living on social security and or some bloated pension, they do not deserve, watch fox tv. The same fox tv, where a talking head tells them to vote for asses, that want to further degrade them, screw them and everyone else over. The talking heads want to bomb more innocents all over the world into oblivian. They relish keeping murica, up to its neck in blood.
Their are engineers and workers. There are adminstators, vampire ceos, sukasses, criminal politicians, wall street vampire squids living comfortably. They create the weapons and munitions . The death machines for the empire, to massacre innocent people, all over the world. Death munitions, arms, and machines that turn people outside murica into refugees.
Depleted uranium munitions.
Of course, the refugees are forced to cum to this degenerating-chemical-radioactive , sewerhole . Many end up in poverty or, maybe 1 or two can be sociology professors..
Meanwhile, The Vampire squid shitheads that pedantic college professors call, masters of the universe, in their suckass intellecualized diversions talk, enourage the propaganda. Wall street vampire squid, hedge fund “managers” are destroying peoples pension funds, gulping resources en masse, killing what is left OF THE ENVIRONMENT,. They are pushing more people to the edge, in this damnable-eraserhead nightmare.
What is left of an eco-system, in this fake fraudulent chemical, radioactive craphole, In this police and, nuclear-security state, is rapidly dying.
There are far fewer birds, anywhere in the putrid usa. All of the puppet-show people with their rosecolored glasses, never notice it. There are not so-many birds because, of pesticides.
There are the chemical and coal plants. There is the fracking , that poisons our water with radium. There is the jet exhuast, the car exhaust, nucular power trash. 75 percent of the insects, in the n hemisphere are dead. Most birds are gone. U cannot eat fish, from the great lakes. Really, not even the ocean.”
harsh reality
This comment is spot on!
People, Wake The Fuck Up!
Your fake ass Disneyland Cinderella could be homeless! But you’re not telling little Ryan and Doreen that shit, oh hell no! You’re not telling your children that those workers who are decked out in cute, cuddly costumes are in reality, living out of their vehicles or are 5 deep in a motel room to cover the cost of working for low wages at fake ass Disneyland.
Millions of people are living in deep poverty who are working but because America has now become the land of the haves and the “I got nothings,” that is okay.
But wait until Disneyland decides to do away with humans which is most definitely Amazon’s intent in a few years and Cinderella will be a robot and Mickey Mouse, as well.
Take a look around you, just a few short decades ago, we were not as sorry, sad and pathetic as we are now. I noticed years ago, that there were no fireflies anymore. What has killed them off? The same thing that’s killing us. Pollution! Pesticides, runoff, toxins. We are all walking toxin factories and still, we don’t have a clue as to how bad our situation really is! And chances are, it is already too late to do a damn thing about a damn thing! But right now, we’ve still got Disneyland! A magical kingdom of make believe. Well, believe this! The mirage will soon fade away and what will be left? The reality of poverty, homelessness, suffering, despair and not a decent paying job in sight!