a thought or two-actually a real raving in this case

my friend cv rick sent me a very disturbing email. he warned me and said he was torn about sending it (i'm NOT linking to it nor am i going to post it). i told rick he did the right thing by sending it and at the moment, i had nothing to say (because i felt like my soul was being stabbed a million times). the image involved barack obama and a noose and ugly words and thoughts. (cv rick has an amazing blog. in his rather young life, he's lived things the rest of us have only dreamed. plus he writes a DAMN FINE STORY - both fiction and non-fiction. he's not been updating his blog of late, but i hope that changes soon. please go visit him and read some of his older postings and the serializations of some of his (true) tales. it will be worth it and you'll thank me)

i also saw another incredibly disturbing image on roschelle's blog - sagacious rambling

that one wasn't as violent but it had potential (to be)

i know the people who are responsible for the ugly words and the ugly images are beyond clueless. they have NO idea what they're doing is just plain WRONG. it's WRONG. that seems too easy, but that's it. simply WRONG.

these are the SAME kinds of people who think it's funny to let's say, talk about rape and hurting women. the same kind of person who talks about hanging a man because of the color of his skin can and does write articles like the one i talked about here (i'm not talking about JUST men either. women can have evil ugly souls and speak evil ugly words and have evil ugly thoughts too)

THEY DON'T GET IT. rape is just about as funny as hanging a black man is. i don't care if you don't like barack obama or not. BUT DISLIKE HIM BECAUSE OF HIS POLITICS NOT THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN.

they are not only NOT ashamed of their actions and words and images THEY ARE PROUD OF THEM. they do NOT understand how hurtful they are. they don't CARE to understand.

why are they so consumed with fear?

(and, not only don't they think they are doing wrong, BUT THEY TURN AROUND AND CONTINUE TO ACCUSE OBAMA OF THINGS HE NEVER DID OR NEVER WAS OR NEVER WILL BE)

UPDATE: i just saw this from stephen at drinking liberally in new milford . he has actually posted the picture rick sent me. he also is far more articulate than i and wrote one hell of a posting on the subject.

why is everyone up in arms about rev wright

and no one is saying ANYTHING about 'it'. 'it' goes on to say (allegedly joke) 'it' kills in klan related murders ON CASUAL FRIDAYS. 'it' gets invited on msm to talk. why? why isn't 'it' held in contempt? what makes 'it' an expert? why wouldn't msm ostracize 'it' after 'it' joked about killing (what can only assume to be people of color)? why isn't the print medium (including the net) calling for 'its' shunning?

since i am quoting from 'it', loath that i am to do it, i have to link to 'it'
it's website

He said we are a country that sent "over 4,000 American boys and girls of every race to die over a lie." And Wright said it is a country "where I can worship God on Sunday morning wearing a black clergy robe and kill others on Sunday evening wearing a white Klan robe." (Unless, like me, you do all your Klan-related murdering on "casual Fridays.")

Ann Coulter Jokes About Lynching, Still on CNN
Posted by Jeffrey Feldman, Huffington Post
As usual, Ann Coulter's newest round of violence-tinged pundit appearances included going on CNN to call millions of Americans "traitors" (treason is a crime punishable by the death penalty) and suggest that Sen. Barack Obama is a covert terrorist assassin.
What did Ann Coulter do this week to earn this right to appear on the most trusted name in news?
She published a weekly syndicated column laced with violent-rhetoric in which she suggested that an Obama Presidency would result in the destruction of the U.S. by terrorists and--she joked about lynching Africa-Americans.......

strange fruit

Strange Fruit
By Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol (1937)
Southern trees bear strange fruit,Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.Pastoral scene of the gallant south,The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,Here is a strange and bitter crop.
history is a weapon

why is this happening now, happening all over again?
i was going to post a picture of a lynching, but decided against it. it is far too haunting AND disturbing
In Jena and Beyond, Nooses Return as a Symbol of Hate

By Darryl Fears Washington Post Staff Writer
When he reached his third-story workstation at a construction site near Pittsburgh two weeks ago, Errol Madyun saw the noose -- thick, neatly knotted and strong enough to hang a man.
"It was intimidating," said Madyun, a black ironworker.
More than 400 miles south in North Carolina, Terry Grier, superintendent of Guilford County Schools, saw the same type of noose last month at predominantly black T.W. Andrews High near Greensboro.
"It was huge," Grier, who is white, said of a noose he discovered hanging from a flagpole, one of four nooses placed at the school. "I became very angry. Part of what you think is it's a copycat of Jena."
Law enforcement authorities, including the Justice Department, are expressing concern over a recent spate of noose sightings in the aftermath of events in Jena, the small Louisiana town that has been engulfed by racial strife and was the scene of a recent civil rights demonstration....