Shopping

One thing I’ve noticed is that in grocery stores in mostly white areas, the busiest time runs 4-6 p.m., while in mostly urban ethnic (African American, or whatever the p.c. term for the coloreds is nowadays), you’re talking 8 p.m. to close.  In 24 hour places like Wal-Mart, where occasionally you run into someone urinating on $600 worth of steaks at 1 a.m., I can go in one in a white area around 11 p.m. and buzz through and be the only one in line, while I recently made the mistake of stopping in one in a more ethnically challenged area around midnight, and got stuck in line for 45 minutes.  The lines had stopped down to a crawl, since it was Social Hour, and everyone in line and the cashiers had to all catch up on the latest dirt.  Jesus H. Christ on a crutch I’ve seen this same b.s. session to a lesser extent in the white stores too, but not when the face of my cell phone said 00:24, and not ten minutes per conversation.

I was tired of the bull, but stayed the course because no one is going to annoy me from accomplishing my goal (you can’t smoke me, drill sergeant).  When my turn came, I tried to be social and chat up small talk with the anorexic with the five inch nails, but she rang my order up so fast I hadn’t a chance to get the wallet out, and waved her head left and right while bouncing like she had to go bathroom as I slowly dug out the cash, exact to the penny.  I was tempted to say “excuse me while I go to the back of the store to get the milk I forgot to get,” but figured the worthless meat puppet would win that one by canceling my order. Sorry to bust a bubble, but sometimes even white people have to say, “F You, Mr. Cab Driver.”

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Henry Gates Rant

This comes from Hot Air Pundit:

Henry Gates, Eric Holder, Robert Reich, and all the rest of these flotsam and jetsam are helping me think in terms of race in a way that I tried to get myself from doing.

I understand how the friends and relatives network is so important to getting hired, and how you need to seed a cloud to make it rain.  The electrician’s union, for instance, isn’t going to admit a black member until it admits some, then they’ll get their sons in the way the whites had done.  But at what point of priming the pump do you stop pouring water on top of it?  According to Gates, you pour even more.

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On Breaking into One’s Own Home

Here is a photo of a plexiglass window that was drilled into so I could stick my hand in and unlock the door.  The background story on this follows the commentary.  I feel the need to establish my credibility up front, for some dumbass new reader might not give me the time of day to read the whole post.

Henry Louis Gates is a Harvard Professor who did whatever he could to goad the police who checked up on him after he broke in the back door of his residence.  Last night, His Fraudulency called the arresting officer’s actions an act of stupidity.  The officer, to his credit, will not apologize.

About this time last year, I locked myself out of my house while putting out the trash.  I had a spare key buried in the box garden, but since I disassembled the box, I brought the key in and had yet to find a new spot outside, so there it sat on the hutch.  But I had a sledgehammer in the unlocked shed, so I planned on knocking out a plexiglass window (I was in no mood to deal with broken glass right before bed).  Like the agitator, I have very good neighbors who call the police upon any and all irregularities, and I was about to bust through the back door. We don’t have an official block watch, but the night has a thousand eyes, and no one has of yet gotten away with any vandalism or other crime without a squad getting called out minutes afterwards.  Knowing this, I happened to get a hold of a cop in the area (this is kind of a main drag) and explain that I locked myself out, I was the home owner, and was about to wake up the dead taking a sledge to a 1/4″ slab of Plexiglass to get myself back in.

I am white, in a predominantly white city, with an almost all white police force, many of whom I know (in a good way).  Still, knowing that I was about to assume the actions of a burglar, I knew it would be best to let them know that I was about to break into my own home.

Now Professor Little Fraud has gotten the Big Fraud to single out a police officer by name, and call his actions stupid, in spite of the fact that he was called to check out a break-in, which in fact was what happened.  Perhaps no one blogging has an experience as similar as mine is to Gates’.  And yet I never once thought I could go ahead and do a B&E through the back door and not expect to be doing some ‘splaining to Officer Musclebound Ex-Football Player Who Is Angry He Didn’t Make the College Team.

Gates didn’t get arrested for being black, he got arrested for seizing the opportunity to become a national name by needlessly provoking an officer.

But in respect for Holder’s request for a frank discussion about race in this country, let me say that I really wouldn’t want to live in a substantially integrated place.  Because every f’ing thing from whether I encroached on your yard to mow the grass to whether I rev up a motorcycle at 7 a.m. is because I’m racist.  I’ve had my battles with fellow citizens, office holders, and the whole shebang, and at least I knew we could go on and on about the matter at hand, and nowhere was it going to be called racist because I’m white and they’re not, since we’re all white, or assimilated Hispanic.  I was born and raised in Gary motherf’ing Indiana, not some lily white suburb in south Lake county, so I know these people like the back of my hand.  I’ve played “you can’t win” enough in my life, and got too few years ahead of me left to suffer the fools anymore.  I watched the Chicago Police play that game time and time again in my time up there in my younger days.  If they cracked down on crime in a minority community, they were racist for picking on them.  If they then let up and played nice, they were racist for not properly protecting the citizens, though the criminals and victims were often enough fellow neighbors, and the victims had that no snitch mentality.  I’m just worn down and petered out from trying to cut slack and have it spit back at me.

Oh, the photo.  Well, I finally got my neighbor up, since all the sledge did was bounce off the Plexiglass.  It wasn’t an inconvenience to him, since here was yet another chance to play with some of his 9000 tools.  He brought a drill with him, along with an air compressor.  Yep, an air-powered drill he just got, with which he was itching to find a job to do.  He was like a kid at Christmas.  The first hole was a bit high, so he quit on that one and did the two lower ones, which made a passage for getting to the lock.

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Oakland Police & Lovelle Mixon

If you want to know why people fled from cities like Detroit, Oakland, Gary, and Washington D.C. once they began to become a bit ghetto, once the tide turned and you went from living where you can go anywhere and be reasonably safe to where you know you have a 50/50 chance of getting robbed and assaulted, or coming home to a ransacked house, or being home when someone wants to kick in the door, to where you’re a prisoner in your own house with bars on the windows while thugs run free, read this:

“Lovelle is a hero! Lovelle is a hero!” shouted a woman in the rally.  Demonstrators say Mixon was fighting back against what they see as an oppressive police force.  “I don’t condone what he did, but karma comes around. What goes around comes around,” said a man speaking to the crowd.  “I think coming together as a community and actually putting our ideas together and brainstorming,” said T-Royal, from Youth Uprising.

Lovelle is a hero.  A parolee who was out for assault with a deadly weapon, who was linked by DNA to a rape of a 12 year old girl (hell, now they’re talking about him being linked to six rapes – nice hero you have there, sister-lady).  Who somehow acquired an AK-47 that he didn’t have when he went into his sister’s apartment while holed up there.  Whose landlord was filming a documentary celebrating ten years with the Bloods.

Attorney General Eric Holder says it’s about time we had a frank discussion on race, and I agree.  How come it’s not Chinese who celebrate cop killing?  The Chinese try to avoid problems with the police at all costs.  And not all of them are angels, and their ethnic group suffers from organized crime problems, much the same as all the others who came here.  Same applies to the Cambodians, Vietnamese, Russians, Indians, any group you have here.

God knows that drugs have amplified gang problems for Mexicans, but you don’t see them with community spokesmen saying, “well, you have to understand” every time one of them brutalizes someone.  They don’t have shootouts with border agents: they’re just trying to get a job here, and if caught, go with the flow and deal with repatriation, and make another run for the border later.  They don’t have an axe to grind against the Man; heck, they want to be the Man.

How come when I had a bunch of Chinese move in at the end of the block, I was happy to see the transient white Goths out, while whenever I see a baggy-panted black in a hoodie with a snarl on his face just wandering the commercial district, my nads suck into my chest with worry that one will become five will become 25?

Mr. Holder, let’s talk about who was shooting at rescue helicopters in New Orleans, who was home invading on nursing homes, who tore up the Super Dome.  Who got millions in government aid and cash cards that they pissed away, after they looted the Wal-Marts.  How many whites looted Wal-Mart in the ice storms in Tennessee this winter, or the floods in the Midwest plains last summer?  Why did the crime rate in Houston spike, after it became host city to the hurricane diaspora?  All the while the Vietnamese shrimp industry and community slowly tries to rebuild, one family at a time, with little government largess, some charity, and no crime spree, riots, or cop killing.  If Kanye West wanted to say that George Bush hated a group of people, he should’ve mentioned the Vietnamese.  After all, Bush got more money to fight AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa than any predecessor, including Clinton, the first black President.

Mr. Holder, I think it’s about time that non-blacks got fed up with being called racist when they complain about how the cities they left got destroyed as if they were Dresden in 1945.  Take a photo of the city of your choice that “changed,” hold it in the air while standing in the site today, and see day vs. night, and take a chance getting shot.  Billions of dollars of creation, destroyed out of nothing but spite.  No other part of the country is as much a pit of desolation and human misery as the parts represented by ACORN, community activists, and the good Revs. Sharpton, Jackson, Farakkhan, and Wright.  And this is after decades of Great Society and beyond of billions in government and charitable funds.

Mr. Holder, I think it’s time for this side of the argument to call b.s. on being called racist when we say “why do a lot of your people do this” in regards to the elevation of Thug Life, ghetto, and destruction.  Then you wouldn’t have the coy conversation trying to be held here at SFist.  Go read now before the comment list gets purged.

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