By The Numbers – The Malaise

By the time Jimmy Carter came into office in 1977, the integration of our public schools was almost complete… except in Boston where the battle continued. So a few months back I was on a website forum where the discussion centered around the new Martin and Coretta Scott King memorial in Boston. As soon as I noted that the statue of the civil rights icons did not depict their faces and that it may have been chosen precisely for that reason… well all hell broke loose. They called me every unholy name in the book and said I was “not” a #!!%$ child of god! So while I expected that from the blue-eyed soul brothers that were on the predominately black site because any attack no matter what the subject matter is on MLK is an attack on the very essence of what they are doing on a black site… that is to protect the black race and our civil right leaders at all cost… even if they have to lynch the backstabbing porch monkey. Well, the attack was not so much from them as it was from other blacks. Now I will not mention the site’s name, but it was a site for folks 50 and over. I was shocked at how little black folks that age actually knew about racism in the North. It really started snowballing after the site owner got into the fray. Site Owner: “Ima make this nigra cry!!” To make a long story short, I had to pull out a couple of ropes of my own. I went straight “Arrested Development” on them… I schooled them on the history of racism in Boston, especially about the school integration stuff, and although it broke my heart when I had to yank the rope up as high as I could to make sure I could see the bottom of their feet… (them mofos said some mean shat)… my last post on the subject was for them to google “racism and Boston.” At the time the very first listing that came up in the search was something about Boston being one of the most racist cities in America… on Momma!! Okay, it didn’t say on Momma, but it left no doubt that if you are black and want to come to Boston, at the very least you better know how to say “Yass Suh Massa” and “Right Away Boss,” in at least three different languages… They were serious about their racism in Bean Town!! I guess they googled it because there were no more reply posts after that except for the site owner who simply said “Wow.”
It’s 1977 again brothers and sisters… let’s recap our criteria and then talk about Jimmy Carter.
10 – You can sit next to the table and watch while we play a couple of hands of bid whisk.
9 – You are able to use the word “Bro” in front of us.”
8 – You can bring something to the barbecue and we’ll put it on the table with the other food.
7 – We will wave at you if we see you on the street.
6 – We won’t side-eye or sass if you bring a watermelon to our family dinner.
5 – You can leave with a little bit of your dignity after saying “My Nigga.”
4 – If we hear you calling for help, we will call the police after we have charged our phone.
3 – We will count to three before we let the dogs out if you come to our house.
2 – We won’t pee on your statue during daylight hours.
1 – Faque Off!!

James Carter – 9
Elected 1977-1981
You are able to use the word “Bro” in front of us.”

Although there were and are very few presidents like Jimmy Carter, I couldn’t give him the highest ranking. For a long time before he was president and before he went into politics and before he joined the service… he was a peanut farmer from Georgia. James Carter was born in 1924 in Plains, Georgia, and do you know what they were doing in Plains, Georgia in 1924? The same things they were doing in the rest of Georgia, making sure they could see the bottom of their feet. Now if Jimmy was born in 1924, that means his father was born in the 1800s. As a matter of fact, I looked it up and he was born in 1894 and was a staunch conservative. He briefly held a position as a state representative for Sumpter County in 1952 the year before he died. Now there is a reason I am going here. You don’t get to be the state representative of Sumter County, Georgia unless you know “sumpin…” In Sumter County, Georgia in 1952 the first words white children learned were not mamma or daddy… they were… “make it happen nigg@r …” Yeah, I’m being ugly, but so were those folks. Anywho, so now I’m just going to briefly touch on something called the Americus Movement. I don’t want to take too much time as it is not in the scope of this article but I will leave a link if you want to find out more. Americus is the county seat of Sumter. So the movement was started by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Its aim was to register black voters and to protest segregation. They would send folks out all over Georgia to protest segregation and register blacks to vote. In 1963 they sent a group to Dawson, Georgia, to try integrating the local movie. The group consisted of about 33 women. When they tried to buy tickets, they were promptly arrested. The youngest was twelve years old. What they did to those women after they arrested them was one of the most despicable acts in civil rights history. As I said earlier, I’m not going to get into it right now, because if I do that means Ima have to sleep next to the window with Mr. Ugly in case somebody wanna come to my house and shut that back sassin nigra up… and then if I have to cap a moe, they gonna put me in the lockup with three large muscular white racists with mohawks and long beards, wearing tattoos of Adolf Hitler on their necks, telling me they don’t allow nigras in their cell… so get out or else. So let me just give you the link where you can learn more about the Americus Leesburg Protest and then Ima go on about my business… Anywho, Jimmy Carter Sr. was a state representative in Americus, Georgia, and as I said earlier, You don’t get to be the state representative of Sumter County, Georgia unless you know “sumpin…”
Jim Crow was the law of the land in Georgia in 1894 and there was no way around it. Either you are with us or you are against us. The same was true when Jimmy Carter Jr. took over his father’s business in 1952. Now although Jimmy Carter Jr. wasn’t with them, he wasn’t against them either. The bottom line was he had a peanut business to run and he needed to protect his peanut business. You can’t protect your peanut business protecting black folks. Racist: “Jimmy do you mind if we string this nigra up on your front porch?” Jimmy: “What nigra? I don’t see any nigra…” So yeah he didn’t get into civil rights and human rights until he got into politics. Even then when he first got into politics he hid his feelings about integration in order to protect his future political prospects.

The Hunt For Enslavia

Judge: Sgt Littledek, I’m charging you with the apprehension of the notorious criminal Enslavia N. Youno I’Amdeeaz!! She is wanted for assault and is complicit in the demise of Private… She broke out of Cottonfield and is known to be in the company of Arthur L. Deadman who is wanted for back sass and disrespect of the gawd fearing! They were last seen heading for Blackity… I want you to go there, arrest them, and bring them back to justice.
Sgt: I’m your man judge!! They don’t call me LIttledek for nothing!
Judge: I wouldn’t touch that with a ten-foot pole…
Sgt: Wait.. what!!?
Judge: You have your orders Sargent… dismissed!!

Ronald Reagan – 1
Elected 1981 -1989
Faque Off!!

When Ronald Regan came into office, I had only had a couple of presidential elections under my belt. I was relatively new to politics. I named this series “By The Numbers,” The Malaise, because I got that from Jimmy Carter when he was talking about the state of the world back then. Gas prices were high, gas lines were long and the US was being blackmailed by Iran. They wanted us to turn over Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, known as the Shah of Iran, who they considered a puppet of the United States and who had now fled the country with billions of dollars. We refused. In protest they seized the embassy in Tehran, holding Americans as hostages for 444 days. Enter Ronald Wilson Reagan. Do you remember how it was when the terrorists attacked New York City in 2001? When the students in Iran seized the American embassy, more flags went up than at a Miss Universe Pageant. Almost everybody was a patriot. Reagan saw the opportunity and took advantage of it, promising that if it was the last thing he did, he would free the hostages. It was the first and only time I voted for a Republican candidate. Less than five minutes after he was sworn in, Iran released the hostages. Reagan was a national hero and of course, Carter became the fall guy. Later we found out that Iran had already agreed to release the hostages months earlier, but Reagan had persuaded them to release them after he had been sworn in. This type of shenanigans would be the hallmark of the Reagan administration. So Reagan used to be a Democrat. He was an enthusiastic supporter of Roosevelt’s New Deal. Later on, after getting a little bit of money from his acting career and hanging out with the well-to-do, he switched horses in the 60s, supporting Trickey Dick… aka Nixon. Well, we talked about Nixon and what a nigra can do for him… well Reagan supported that shat. Two things stand out to mind when I think of Reagan and civil rights. They are the speech at Philidelphia, Mississippi, and the Iran Contra Affair. So the speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi wasn’t racist for what he did say, but for what he didn’t say. It was Reagan’s first post-convention speech and he chose to give it at a fairground not far from Philadelphia, Mississippi. If the city sounds familiar to you, it is because one of the most heinous crimes in civil rights history took place there, the killings of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. They were the three civil rights workers killed during a voter registration drive. The movie “Mississippi Burning”, was based on the crime. The speech was about 31 minutes long and do you know, he did not mention the killings one single time! Everybody was like… “You do know that the mfers that killed them kids can see you talking from their front porch… don’t you?” That’s like going to Mc Donalds and ordering Chinese food. You don’t do that shat! The message was clear… faque the nigras. That’s when I regretted I had voted for him and when I swore I would never vote for another Republican again. The second thing that comes to mind is the most devastating. Reagan was as anti-communist as you could get. So down in Nicaragua, the Sandinistas were taking over the government of Nicaragua and were being supported by the Soviets. Reagan vowed that as long as he was in charge, the would not be a socialist state in the Americas. So he asked Congress for the funds to combat it. Those funds would be given to the Contras and they would start an armed rebellion to defeat the Sandinistas. It was a nickel and dime show for a few months as Reagon would have to go to Congress every time he needed funds for the Contras to buy weapons and the things you need for an armed conflict. So somehow Reagon and the Democratic majority got into a beef over some other shat and they refused to give him money to support his war in Central America. This is where the diabolical shat comes in and the main reason I gave him a score of 1… Faque Off!! His administration started selling dope in the Black and Latino neighborhoods of Los Angeles to fund the Contras. Do you know what they were selling? Crack!! That’s right.. that’s how the crack epidemic started in the United States. When Congress found out about it, Reagon shut it down, but the damage was already down. Generations would suffer and still suffer because of the Reagan Central American war. The story was hidden for many years until Freeway Rick Ross spilled the beans and the media started investigating it. Officially the government has said the claim was unsupported. However, what did we expect… Government: “Yeah we turned millions of you into crack addicts because we let an old senile man run the country who was still fighting the cold war of the 1940s in his mind…” The government fessing up wasn’t going to happen. So yeah… but If you want to investigate it further, here is a link to how the shat really went down. Anywho, that’s our piece on Reagan. I wish I had more time to talk about this, but we have to move on. Besides, there are still “Reagonites” out there and I don’t want to be writing from the federal penitentiary at Umust Becrazee, in Wegotunow, Alabama. Ronald Reagan died on June 5, 2004, at the age of 93. His wife Nancy, who a lot of people thought was the real brains behind the Reagan white house, died in 2016.

Sgt Littledek

Littledek: Hello, my name is Sgt Igotta Littledek and I’m looking for this woman and this man.
Racist Cop: Yeah I saw them a couple of days ago. The nigra ran a burning cross and was disrespectful…
Littledek: Do you know which way they went?
Racist Cop: I think they were on their way to Blackity…
Littledek: Thanks…
Racist Cop: Hey are you any kin to the Littledek around here?
Littledek: No I don’t think so..
Racist Cop: He lives in Getsnone… You might have heard of his wife… Anna Balls?
Littledek: Are you finished? Because the last man that had jokes is in the back of my trunk… well a piece of him is…
Racist Cop: (Laughing) Look I was just having some fun… Tell you what? How about if me and my deputy ride with ya?
Littledek: I could use the help… okay…

George H.W. Bush – 4
Elected 1989 -1993
If we hear you calling for help, we will call the police after we have charged our phone.

While doing my research on George H. W Bush and his stance on civil rights I kept running into opinions that it was complicated. Well, not so much to me. Bush voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Bill. Do you know what he said was his reason? “The new civil rights act was passed to protect 14 percent of the people. I’m also worried about the other 86 percent.” That’s how you say Im a racist without saying, I’m a racist. The elder Bush also ran on the infamous Willie Horton campaign ads. So in 1988, Bush Sr. was running against Michael Dukakis. Dukakis was the governor of Massachusetts and Willie Horton was incarcerated in a Massachusetts prison for murder without the possibility for parole. So at the time Massachusetts had a weekend furlough plan and Horton was let out. He didn’t return. As a matter of fact, he left the state and came to Oxon Hill, Maryland, where he twice raped a woman after pistol-whipping, stabbing, binding, and gagging her fiance. He was apprehended after police spotted the car he had stolen from the couple. Now back in 1974, if you knew anything about PG County, you knew the odds of a convict coming from another state and committing a crime in P.G. was going to end up with somebody having some bullet holes in him. I remember one time they killed a kid that was handcuffed in the back of a police car. Now mind you, the kid was handcuffed from behind! They killed him, telling investigators, “They feared for their lives…” All of the ones involved in the shooting walked scot-free. If they did that to that kid… I don’t have to tell you what happened to Horton… They shot the faque out of him… but he didn’t die. He went to trial and they sentence him to two consecutive life terms plus 85 years. The judge did not send Horton back to Massachusetts saying…”I’m not prepared to take the chance that Mr. Horton might again be furloughed or otherwise released. This man should never draw a breath of free air again.” Willie Horton was incarcerated in the Jessup Correctional Institution, in Jessup Maryland, where he remains until this day. He is 71 now and has been there for close to 50 years.
Anywho, in 1988 during the presidential campaign Bush Sr. dug that shat up and plastered Willie Horton’s face across every major newspaper in the country, claiming that Dukakis was soft on crime. They brought it up at every instance they could. Bush’s campaign manager Lee Atwater said: “By the time we’re finished, they’re going to wonder whether Willie Horton is Dukakis’s running mate.” The Horton commercials were devastating to the black community. They ran an ad called the “Revolving Door” which featured men dressed as convicts moving through a revolving prison door. Now although most of the prisoners were white in the ad, it did feature one black man, who stood out like a sore thumb. However, Bush’s only mentioned one convict in his campaign messages. That convict was Willie Horton and he was black… and there was only one black man in the ad. Jesse Jackson accused the ad’s creators of playing on the fears of voters by creating a stereotype of young black men which associated them with violent crime. Jackson was the runner-up in the Democratic primary and had lost to Dukakis. After Jackson’s comments, the ad no longer focused on Dukakis and crime but became a referendum for blacks and crime. Jackson was not the only one who complained that the ad was racist. The Ohio Democratic Party, Lloyd Bentsen (Dukakis’s running mate), the NAACP, and various news organizations tagged the ad as race-baiting and a creator of racial animosity. There was even a complaint filed with the Federal Elections Commission that wanted the ad remove because they said it technically violated in-kind campaign contribution. That shat didn’t fly and the ad continued to air throughout the rest of 1988. Of course, Bush Sr. won and served one term. In that term, he appointed Gen. Colin Powell as the first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Later his son elevated Powell to Secretary Of State… but subsequently threw him under the bus, staining an otherwise spotless reputation and legacy. We are going to make sure he gets his when we get to him… Anywho Bush Sr. also replaced Thurgood Marshall, the first black man on the Supreme Court, with another black man to maintain the racial status quo on the court. I am using the term black man here very loosely. The man that replaced Marshall was Clarence Thomas. A conservative ideologue whose views contradict the views of almost every black citizen in the United States. That’s a nice way of saying.. he’s an “UNCLE TOM”, big time!! Thomas is the one they can always throw in our faces when we talk about racial representation in the judiciary. Finally, he appointed Dr. Louis Sullivan, founding president of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, as secretary of health and human services. Bush Sr. died on November 30, 2018. He was 94. I guess his legacy to African Americans is that although Bush didn’t close any doors for African American advancement, he didn’t open that many either. He gave us Colin Powell… but he also gave us Clarence Thomas.

You Play Too Much…

Racist Cop: This is it. Pull up right there… Deputy, I’ll go in the front… You go around the back with Littledek…
Littledek: Keep playing with me… Just call me Sarge…
Racist Cop: Okay… Uh Sarge… three minutes from now Ima kick that door open and breach…be ready to back me up!
Three minutes later…
Racist Cop: Hands Up!! You are all under arrest!! Where is she?
Bartender: Where is who?
Racist Cop: Enslavia I’Amdeeaz!! Officer Littledek has a warrant for her arrest!!
Bartender: Is Littledek a cop now? I didn’t know that… Is he still married to Anna Balls? Anna is in the back… Where is Littledek? Is he outside?
Racist Cop: Not that Littledek! ” SARGE YA’LL CAN COME IN NOW… I’VE GOT EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL!” Go tell Anna to come out here…!
Littledek: I see you have everything under control… I’ll start questioning that woman…
Deputy: I’ll introduce you… Littledek… Anna Balls…
Littledek: BANG!! BANG!! I told you!! I told you to stop… stop playing with me!! That’s why you bleeding now!!
Racist Cop: Sarge!! Why did you do that? This is Anna Balls and she was here when I’Amdeeaz was here! The deputy didn’t mean anything! This is Wille Litttedek’s wife!!
Littledek: I got some mo in here… if you want to keep it up… There’s plenty of room in the trunk!! Now say it again! Bandage him up while I interrogate the witness… Ma’am… have a seat…

Well, that concludes Part I of “By The Numbers – The Malaise” Join us next Saturday for Part II of ‘The Malaise.”

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