CBWatkins's Blog

This is the thought process of one espoused to intellectual heights and given a voice in the national media.

Does he, somehow, have his finger on the pulse of what America is thinking?
He makes a case that seems to span some 350+ years. He appears to propose that the last 40+ years have been enough to overcome 350+ years of institutionalized disenfranchisements. I wonder if he feels the same way concerning the disenfranchisements of women, or maybe he would also call that a hoax or a con perpetrated by the feminist of 40+ years ago.

Read what he has to say and how MSNBC has agreed with him, through their lack of action or responsible reaction.

WHAT DO YOU THINK??????

" A Brief for Whitey"  and excerpt from  MSNBC's  Pat J. Buchanan

Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running...

This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.

Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks — with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants.

Read the rest for yourself http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=969

I have a question?
Can Obama be BLACK in America and still represent the American?
Or will he have to capitulate to the underlying currents of expectations that silently say, don't be black, just be.

I am not a baseball fan, but I know injustice when I see it. 

The people at the top are blaming the players and the total weight  of retribution is set to rest on the players shoulders alone.

Everyone knew what was going on, and everyone including the commissioner ,owners, managers, and trainers should have to answer the call.  This has been going on for too long for those in control to have no knowledge.

It is about the money, and as long as the money was being made heads were turning the other way.

If they decide to punish the players for activities in the past, then everyone involved during that time period should receive the same fair and EQUITABLE TREATMENT!!!!

It looks like the ones with the most money will win this one, and they ain't the players.

This is concerning Obama's Decision to solicit an openly gay minister to his campaign in an attempt too appease the "Human Rights Campaign", a gay activist organization.

Their challenge with Obama is his choice of Donnie McClurkin. They state that Mr McClurkin is a homophob. They have applauded Obama's attempt to level the field of exposure.

This yet again brings to the national conscience the question of homosexuality and the question of inalienable rights.

I am a black, married, heterosexual, Christian and I do not support homosexuality as a practice. I do not support it on the bases of my Christian ethic and will not be labeled as a homophob, a bigot, a racist, non-tolerant or any of the other misplaced characterizations placed upon those who do not agree with this practice.

Those of us who do not agree with the practice of homosexuality spend so much time on the defensive that we do not stand up for what we believe. The fact is, God will hold those who are in sin responsible for their actions but He will also hold us responsible as HIS Watchmen and Watchwomen for not speaking out.

We cannot allow any agenda to frame the environment of HOW WE FIGHT, it only frames the environment that we fight in.  The community is bold in their statements and stance on their position.  They move united, against anyone who is perceived in the slightest to be in opposition to their collective agenda.

BUT TRUTH ATTACKED BOLDLY DOES NOT MAKE IT A LIE!!!

To stand against sin is not to hate a person but to hate what the person does. I can love you and not love your actions or activities.

But the homosexual community is saying that if you do not accept what I do and who I say I am then, "You HATE ME, as a person !!!!!". These are words of knee-jerk reactions that strike a cord with anyone how hears them. The community states that we who do not agree are intolerant. Well they are CORRECT!!. I am intolerant of sin but not the person as a human soul.

As a Black man, I am troubled by the parallel being drawn between the plight of the black experience and the agenda of the homosexual community.

There is a theory that one can be born a homosexual. I call it a theory because there is no empirical proof that such a genetic predisposition exist. At the present it is just conjecture.

However when I look in the mirror there is empirical proof that I am black. My ethnicity can be genetically tested and will prove a lineage of African decent. I can not decide to not be black, I can not hide the fact. I can not become a recovering black.

This to is dangerous ground, what about the polygamist? They are consenting adults. Who is to say that a man or woman does not have a genetic predisposition for multiple partners.

What about people who just want to be with multiple partners. Everyone is a consenting adult, are they genetically predisposed for that behavior?

What rights do they have should they be allowed to marry. What about the person that is married, should partners outside the marriage be grounds for divorce, if they are genetically predisposed?

Are they being discriminated against because society states that extra marital relationships are not acceptable. Do we redefine what is acceptable and if so on what bases. Should the bases be Moral, religious, Civil, ethical, economical or what?

What are we doing?

The homosexual community has created a banner under which all (who participate in, or sympathetic to, apathetic about, accepting of, or like Obama, agenda supportive for,) have joined in unison and commitment under.

It is time that the Christian who is now becoming a targeted species stand under the Blood Stained Banner of Jesus Christ!!!

In the end God will be the judge. He will judge us for our actions and the lack-there-of.

We are all up in arms about the statements that Don Imus made.  I do not agree with what was said and there should be a consequence for his actions.  However, what we are allowing the media, BET Videos and the like, to do is more detrimental to the fabric and perceptions of our people than anything Imus could every say.

There are nations of people who think that rap music and videos depict, describe and define what and who black people are and thus we are treated accordingly.  The perception is that we, as a people, sanction those images because we do not stand against them, but IN THEM and some stand FOR THEM, mostly in the name of GREED.

We are playing a dangerous game of double standards.  It is alright for us, as a people, to degrade and disparage ourselves; "JUST DON'T YOU DO IT".

We have found reasons for the legitimizing of the word "BLEEP" and the personification of our women as "Bitches" and "HOs"; many times for the sole sake of entrainment and money.

 

I am willing to bet that some of the black and white female students at Rutgers listen or have listened to music written, produced and preformed by people-of-color that has referred to black women in terms much worse than anything Imus has said.

 

We can deal with Imus after we deal with the blatant display of depravity that is being supported and championed against, not a few, but all black women as a whole.  These souls include not only, young women, but mothers and grandmothers.  Perception is the reality that all people live by and we are, in many ways, sanctioning the skewed depictions of us as a race.

 

Who will put everything on the line to make enterprises, ie CBS-BET, correct the main issue instead of using this as a ruse or excuse to divert our attention from what is an even greater plague.

Remember, there are not enough of us buying this proliferation of demise to support the industry.  So the question must be asked, what is the true impetus for the entertainment industry’s continued and aggressive support of music and videos that would display our women in such a fashion.  The executives of these companies would not allow their daughters and mothers to be displayed in like manner.

There is a greater evil here, clocked in the shroud of capitalism.  Blacks, as a people, a collective conscience must begin to pick our battles with greater wisdom and insight.