anotherlook

I am deeply disturbed by the recent picture in the New York Times – the monkey representing the “stimulus bill”, being assaulted and killed by two cops, while the caption reads “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill”.

The denial of what this really represents is even more disturbing because it indicates that even though we have a black president and a black attorney general – who by the way I am very proud of for saying what he did about racism in America – nothing has really changed in terms of the attitudes of people and they never will based on the denial of this picture.

From my perspective “the chimp” represents President Obama since this is ultimately President Obama’s “stimulus bill” even though he may not have written it. None the less, it will go down in history as President Obama’s bill. The chimp also represents, as well, the historical concept that whites have of associating monkeys with blacks (ooh there goes that word again – derivative of “associate” which has plagued Obama since…).

The cops represent the fact that cops all across the country have the permission that has turned into the right to fire on and kill blacks at their discretion without being punished on the level they should be punished, all too often they get away with this crime with simply a slap on the hand.

In killing the chimp and literally saying those words, indicates they have just shot the President and since that president is black and because of the historical significance of primates being associated with blacks by whites, there is only one way to view this depiction.

Now people have argued that this was taken out of the headlines with the chimp that was shot for attacking the owner’s friend but, as typical of white America, the undercurrent of what this really represents is ugly and offensive and you can dress it up in denial anyway you want but - it is what it is when you really break it down, as well as consider the source.

This was an ignorant display of racism and this is the same reason why race relations break down between blacks and whites because whites believe they can say anything ignorant in the presents of blacks putting them down in a negative and inhumane way and black people are too stupid to understand the undercurrent of stench that has been smelling up our lives for generations.

In America, white people have played the game of racism for so long that it is embedded in the very fabric of their souls. They have played the game of racism so intensely they have lied to themselves for so long about their superiority that they believe the lies and therefore have not moved beyond the lies and denials because they feel justified in their assumptions.

Then they turn around and try to convince blacks that they are too sensitive and things are not what they seem or you are imagining the implications because to admit to themselves the lies they have been telling themselves for all these generations would truly take them to a place of darkness within themselves, a place they do not want to go, a place of ugliness, inhumanity, callousness and as far away from the very religion this country was founded on, that it would blow their minds and show to themselves how truly horrible as people they are.

To emphasize briefly what Attorney General, Eric Holder, was speaking of when he said the words that American’s are cowards when it comes to race relations. This is something that has truly bothered me for all the years I have been in the world.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors. The way whites in America have dealt with this verse is to move out of a neighborhood when blacks start moving in, this way they have neither black neighbors nor love for black people, thereby basking in the sentiment and living according to the Bible. This is a typical game, played by white Americans, that has been going on since blacks have been economically and legally able to move where they choose.

Now you can deny this or dress it up any way you want – but it is what it is; I have seen it happen too many times and statistics speak loudly of this trend. This is just one small, visible and apparent way, in a long list of other ways, that whites show a total desire to alienate blacks from their lives and limit the rights of blacks, to this day, in America.

The list is long, full of denials, lies, ignorance, unfounded/unjustified hate (whites kidnapped, paid for and brought blacks to this country against their will - they have no reason to hate us) and undercover ugliness that I and many, many blacks are dealing with on a daily level here in America and this comic strip is proof of the ugliness that still exists.

My opinion, until white America can claim the ugliness they perpetrate daily on the lives of black America; until they claim the methods they use to keep the ugliness alive and active in our society; until they collectively ask their god to forgive them for this ugliness, because only in asking for forgiveness are you truly admitting your sin, this ugliness will continue.

Play your games, lie to yourselves, and the world, if you want but everyone sees, on some level, who you really are, most of all God sees who you really are and how you play the game of lies, inequity, hate, unrighteousness, inequality; all the things that my God verbalizes as abominations, ironically, the same word you use against gays, and this is the same God that you have built your great nation on – this may be your last call to recognize the error of your ways.

And that’s the way I see it!!!!!!!!!!!!