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WilliamPitt (57,502 posts)Trying to Breathe in These "Post-Racial" United States There are more black people in certain zip codes than in your whole state, you dickTrying to Breathe in These "Post-Racial" United StatesBy William Rivers PittTruthout | Op-EdSaturday 06 December 2014It was 1984, and I[1] was in love for the first time in my[2] little life. We had met at a dance, and for a few magnificent weeks we drowned in each other's waters in the way you can only do at that sapling agemixed metaphor alert. She was incandescent, hilarious, beautiful, funny and whip-smart, and I[3] plumbed the depths of my[4] barely-there personality just to keep up. She was wonderful.You were like 10, Will. Either you're talking about your penis, or you're mistaken.And she was Black,Oh, so it was your penis and on the day of the Boston Marathon that year, I[5] was walking down Commonwealth Avenue with my arm around her, and a car cruised by filled with a pile of upperclassmenWhere I lived, we called those kids Freshmen from the school I[6] attended, and the car slowed, and the faces in the windows were all turned my[7] way, and they were a thunderstorm, a caricature of disgust and revulsion and rage and hate. She didn't see it. I[8] did, but I[9] didn't fully realize what was coming.Gonna call bullshit here. We'd have heard about this before now.The day after, back at school, those upperclassmen formed a pack and swarmed me.[10]Dear Penthouse Forum... There was a dress code, so I[11] enjoyed the experience of being pummeled by large people in Navy blue sportcoats, felt their blows raining down while their terrible 1980s ties dangled in my[12] face, and all the while they screamed, "Did you f--k that ni---r? Did you f--k that ni---r? Did you dip your wick? Did you?" as the fists flew.Keep in mind that Will is making this up.The experience was profoundly formative.Yeah, because you've mentioned it NEVER on DU. I[13] was a boy when that happened, when merely being in the presence of a Black person was cause for violence, and this was in the "enlightened" Northeast. I[14] understood much more about my[15] countryYup, it's the country's fault. the day after than I'd[16] ever known the day before.It happened thirty years ago, and we all like to believe in the concept of progress, but Michael Brown is dead today with no consequences, and Eric Garner is dead today with no consequences, and cops send wildly racists tweets back and forth to each other stoking their hatred for the Black men who get shot down.(snip)Eric Garner was murdered by a clot of police officers on a public street in broad daylight for the crime of selling individual cigarettes. Michael Brown was cut down by a police officer who, based on the preponderance of evidence collected by that particularly ludicrous grand jury, panicked and shot an unarmed teenager to death, and that teenager's body was left to lie in the street for hours, and hours. The Medical Examiner, by his own testimony, did not photograph the body because he claimed the batteries in his camera died.Res ipsa loquitor. The thing speaks for itself.Hank Johnson, the Democratic Representative from Georgia's 4th district, took to the floor of the House to deliver a cry for simple justice that must resound in the halls of history for as long as memory exists:Men and boys killed by police.I can't breathe.Impunity for the killers-no justice, no peace.I can't breathe.Militarized police met peaceful protesters on their knees.I can't breathe.Weapons of war-a show of force on our streets.I can't breathe.Disenfranchised youth driven to violence as speech.I can't breathe.Cynical media think this makes great TV.I can't breathe.This cowardly Congress afraid of losing our seats.I can't breathe.Half-hearted reform when there's more that we need.I can't breathe.Just thinking about the despair that this breeds.I can't breathe.Black lives matter. Hear my pleas.I can't breathe. I can't breathe.
Hank Johnson, the Democratic Representative from Georgia's 4th district, took to the floor of the House to deliver a cry for simple justice that must resound in the halls of history for as long as memory exists.
Hank Johnson thinks Guam will tip over because there are too many people on the island.
The day after, back at school, those upperclassmen formed a pack and swarmed me. There was a dress code, so I enjoyed the experience of being pummeled by large people in Navy blue sportcoats, felt their blows raining down while their terrible 1980s ties dangled in my face, and all the while they screamed, "Did you f--k that ni---r? Did you f--k that ni---r? Did you dip your wick? Did you?" as the fists flew.
I had a black girlfriend, her dad was a good friend and coworker with my dad at IBM. 1979, Boulder, CO we broke it off because I was a bit of a pothead, and she had ambition. No bouncy invoked.
I wonder how many stories about the adorable little blackies we will have to endure from the DUmmies. Like this latest revelation from Pitt and MineralMan's bullshit story about the lonely black cashier, they have no idea how stupid and condescending they look.
I'm expecting to learn that Ty the bouncer was a Somali.
What a lying twat.If this actually happened, we would have heard about it long ago, he is making shit up.
Quote from: BannedFromDU on Today at 02:50:38 PM I wonder how many stories about the adorable little blackies we will have to endure from the DUmmies. Like this latest revelation from Pitt and MineralMan's bullshit story about the lonely black cashier, they have no idea how stupid and condescending they look.
Wowzers! A Pitt Post not laded and larded with F-Bombs. Didn't know he's capable of that. That aside, the narcissism is strong in this one.
So Pitt is saying that one of the most liberal cities in America was racist.Also seems that Pitt has become quite the plagiarist of ideas with his own Pome.
Well yeah. WASPS one and all. A brief primer can be found here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_BrahminSchool de segregation brought Boston's White Flight. Pitt is just a half century late to the party moving to NH. It is interesting to note that Massachusetts had one of the first Black Senators, Brooke (R) , who's seat eventually went, I believe, to a John Kerry (who served in Viet Nam).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Brooke
Well I'll be, I never heard that.....did he win any medals?Sarcasm?????....what's that?
He was waxing nostalgic on the Black Orchid of his youth, and the callow Caucasians who tormented him for his open-minded 15 year old lust.
It's a true Romeo-and-Juiliet deal.He was fifteen and white, she was thirty-one and black.He paid her twenty dollars stolen from his mother's purse as she slept off a drunk.The world misunderstood their love.
