Angry Poll Exposes White Ignorance

Last week, Esquire exposed the lack of empathy White Americans hold for other races:

Whereas blacks and Hispanics get the angriest at how others are treated (as seen in their roughly equal mean QAs), and blacks are the least likely to say “none of the above” (meaning they are the most likely to care enough to care), whites report the least anger about how others are treated (see the low anger quotient) and have the highest likelihood of saying “none of the above.” 

Apparently, being “the racist center of humanity” has deprived White Americans of the ability to care about other races.  Wait, THIS IS NEWS???

Here’s another not-so-surprising gem that characterizes the state of our ‘Trump’ affairs:

Which of the following best describes your opinion of white men in the United States?

• They have historically run the country and still do. 38%
• They are less powerful than they used to be but still have a lot of control. 46%
• They are struggling to keep up, while other groups are moving ahead. 14%

SO 14% of the pollsters think the people MOST OVERLY REPRESENTED in our country are struggling?   Almost HALF of people polled think white men are less powerful, DESPITE dominance in every facet of politics, media, and corporate ownership!  This would be laughable if it weren’t an election year.

THIS is the price of ignorance among White Americans.  Can you imagine how this new emerging minority of Whites will complain when Native Americans, Asians, Latinos and Blacks actually enjoy real voting power?

The truth eludes us as a country.  History books clearly state that our country was founded by the Dutch, who encouraged a multi-cultural environment for the sake of labor.  The Constitution of our great nation clearly drew a line in the sand between church and state to avoid England’s errors in governance.

Thomas Jefferson would roll in his grave if he read this part of the poll:

Which of the following statements comes closest to your view?

For the 4 out of 5  ignorant Christians who have deluded themselves, please note what Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams when he heard Connecticut legally separated itself from Protestantism:  “I join you, therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character.”

It should frighten every American that we are not collectively conscious of the HARD fact that America has NEVER been a Christian nation, and has typically been a racist nation.

Donald Trump leads American polls because there are a lot of ignorant White Americans.

Happy 2016!

TOP 10 MST3K EVERY AMERICAN MUST SEE!!!

Dear Friends of Justice, Freedom and Happiness,You may not have figured this out by now, but your humble blogger is the type of human who only posts a blog entry when inspired, prodded or driven by my soul’s instincts to share with family and friends when I discover something that may slip by you.I have made it my personal mission over the past several months to watch EVERY SINGLE episode of the masterpiece series, Mystery Science Theater 3000, known to fans and the people I love as MST3K.   This program is a Best Brains Production made for the PG-13 crowd (For the most part – PARENTS, certain episodes are not appropriate for kids under 17.  I excuse my own kid, because she’s quite mature for her age), but I must bring to your attention the absolute PERFECT episodes every family MUST watch!Don’t watch it because of any race issue, I’m not always about race, it only makes up about 60% percent (Yes, my favorite parody I’ve written, “All About That Race”, is just a song people, don’t take me too seriously. )Here are the top films from the first 6 seasons you must watch with your children, assuming you’ve already had “the sex talk”, “the drug talk”, “the feminist talk”, “the race talk” and “the white supremacy talk” with the kids, of course: Invasion USA – Not only is the timing perfect, considering our political and cultural divisions in this great nation of ours, EVERY American should make it their mission to watch this episode, which I proudly and confidently dub the GREATEST MST3K episode I have ever seen, now that I’ve watched every episode YouTube has to offer.Dear hardcore fans, I know you love Joel episodes, all the rest of my choices are episodes Joel H hosts, and I deeply appreciate your love of this man, he is absolutely brilliant.  Please do not punish Mike from your love of Joel, it’s not fair, and it’s ill-founded.  Joel is only 1 man out of the dozen or so people that have made this series a labor of love.Invasion USA is not only a film every patriot should see,  it is a perfect synergy of the talent behind this talented group of comics and writers.  Humor, pacing, and a surprisingly good plot is not always something every fan of this show enjoys.  Some of the movies are sincerely painful to watch, but this 4-star masterpiece has topped the hundreds of hours of 3-star episodes I have had the honor to view.  It’s got violence, romance, action, and of course, killer sarcasm, timing and interjections that will please even the most jaded film viewer.  DON’T MISS THIS MOVIE!  I promise, it will not disappoint.Gamera – 4 movies in total.  WATCH EVERY ONE!  You’ll understand why I highly recommend these as a group together.  You’ll understand when you want to strangle an innocent Japanese child actor.  Don’t miss out on the pain, you’ll think you ran a marathon!Hercules – can’t get a definite sequel count on this one, due to missing episodes online, but there are 3 available currently.  Gold!Night of the Blood Beast – masterful, and still funny after the 5th time!  This is THE FAMILY FAVORITE so far!Mitchell – OMG – If you don’t mind a cocaine sub-plot (don’t do drugs, kids, seriously) and have a sense of humor, you will LOVE this classic and pivotal episode, starring Joe Don Baker and Dynasty’s Linda Evans.  MUST SEE for every true fan!Santa Claus Conquers the Martians – nuff said.Yeah, that’s 10 altogether.  Too tired to fight with the auto-counter on this html program.  It all started when I grouped the Gamera movies…  You understand, don’t you?   :)Sorry for the delay between posts, everyone.  At least you’ll have some intellectual meat to sink your teeth into now, during my absences.ENJOY EVERYONE!

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TOP 10 MST3K EVERY AMERICAN MUST SEE!!!

Dear Friends of Justice, Freedom and Happiness,

You may not have figured this out by now, but your humble blogger is the type of human who only posts a blog entry when inspired, prodded or driven by my soul’s instincts to share with family and friends when I discover something that may slip by you.

I have made it my personal mission over the past several months to watch EVERY SINGLE episode of the masterpiece series, Mystery Science Theater 3000, known to fans and the people I love as MST3K.   This program is a Best Brains Production made for the PG-13 crowd (For the most part – PARENTS, certain episodes are not appropriate for kids under 17.  I excuse my own kid, because she’s quite mature for her age), but I must bring to your attention the absolute PERFECT episodes every family MUST watch!

Don’t watch it because of any race issue, I’m not always about race, it only makes up about 60% percent (Yes, my favorite parody I’ve written, “All About That Race”, is just a song people, don’t take me too seriously. )

Here are the top films from the first 6 seasons you must watch with your children, assuming you’ve already had “the sex talk”, “the drug talk”, “the feminist talk”, “the race talk” and “the white supremacy talk” with the kids, of course:

1.  Invasion USA – Not only is the timing perfect, considering our political and cultural divisions in this great nation of ours, EVERY American should make it their mission to watch this episode, which I proudly and confidently dub the GREATEST MST3K episode I have ever seen, now that I’ve watched every episode YouTube has to offer.

   Dear hardcore fans, I know you love Joel episodes, all the rest of my choices are episodes Joel H hosts, and I deeply appreciate your love of this man, he is absolutely brilliant.  Please do not punish Mike from your love of Joel, it’s not fair, and it’s ill-founded.  Joel is only 1 man out of the dozen or so people that have made this series a labor of love.

   Invasion USA is not only a film every patriot should see,  it is a perfect synergy of the talent behind this talented group of comics and writers.  Humor, pacing, and a surprisingly good plot is not always something every fan of this show enjoys.  Some of the movies are sincerely painful to watch, but this 4-star masterpiece has topped the hundreds of hours of 3-star episodes I have had the honor to view.  It’s got violence, romance, action, and of course, killer sarcasm, timing and interjections that will please even the most jaded film viewer.  DON’T MISS THIS MOVIE!  I promise, it will not disappoint.

2. Gamera – 4 movies in total.  WATCH EVERY ONE!  You’ll understand why I highly recommend these as a group together.  You’ll understand when you want to strangle an innocent Japanese child actor.  Don’t miss out on the pain, you’ll think you ran a marathon!
3. Hercules – can’t get a definite sequel count on this one, due to missing episodes online, but there are 3 available currently.  Gold!
4. Night of the Blood Beast – masterful, and still funny after the 5th time!  This is THE FAMILY FAVORITE so far!
5. Mitchell – OMG – If you don’t mind a cocaine sub-plot (don’t do drugs, kids, seriously) and have a sense of humor, you will LOVE this classic and pivotal episode, starring Joe Don Baker and Dynasty’s Linda Evans.  MUST SEE for every true fan!
6. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians – nuff said.

   Yeah, that’s 10 altogether.  Too tired to fight with the auto-counter on this html program.  It all started when I grouped the Gamera movies…  You understand, don’t you?   🙂

   Sorry for the delay between posts, everyone.  At least you’ll have some intellectual meat to sink your teeth into now, during my absences.

   ENJOY EVERYONE!

 

2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helpers prepared a 2015 annual report for RaceAgainstRace.  Thanks and Happy New Year to everyone who makes this blog fun to write!

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,600 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 27 trips to carry that many people.

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First Lady Raps to the Yuut

Brace yourselves…

Not Everything Is About Racism – 60 second Movie Preview!

In contrast to my recent editorial about how white movie audiences accept non-white film roles, I submit this exciting new Leonardo DiCaprio movie.  Like many great films, this movie has the potential to transcend race, and become a film audiences will enjoy for decades to come, like Braveheart or Fargo.  Or it may be a piece of crap, time will tell.

Audiences eager to chomp their intellectual teeth may want to consider “Dear White People” or watch “Star Trek: Into Darkness” for the third or fourth time, both now streaming on Netflix.   Or just wait until the Star Wars movie comes out in a few weeks.  Yay!

Happy Viewing!
R

I’ll Stand By Jews – (Song Parody)

It’s about time Uncle Sam belted out a power ballad for World War III…

I’ll Stand by Jews
To be sung to The Pretenders, “I’ll Stand By You”…

Aw, why you look so sad?
Arabs are your fears,
Come on and treat with me now.

No, don’t be ashamed to fight,
But let me see you through,
We both have dark sides too

We both torture and kill people
Who at least deserve second best,
Take it off your chest, cause I can’t love you less.

[Chorus A]
I’ll stand by Jews, I’ll stand by Jews,
Won’t let terrorists hurt you,
I’ll stand by Jews.

So, if you’re mad GET mad?
The Arab’s angry too.
They’re a lot like you.

Yes, they also mash chickpeas,
Deep fry in some grease.
Let’s eat a falafel in peace.

When you took their land up from them,
Didn’t ya think they’d want it back?
All of your protest, can not make me love Jews less.

[Chorus B]
I’ll stand by Jews, I’ll stand by Jews,
Won’t let jihadis hurt you,
I’ll stand by Jews.  All the way until the treaty hour,
And then I’ll never desert you, I’ll stand by Jews.

[Bridge]
And if,
If we choose not to send you money,
Then at least you’ll know,
You didn’t do it with our dough.

[Repeat Chorus B, until fade]

by Ren Louis

I Want A New Thug – (Song Parody)

Spring Valley Girl Arrested – Yesterday’s News

To be sung to Huey Lewis and the News “I Want a New Drug”…

I want a new thug, one that doesn’t like phones.
One that would flip a girl from a chair,
One who won’t mind breakin’ some bones!

I want a new thug, one who likes to arrest,
One who can cure a gay man quick, or relieve Arab unrest.
One who would make the Arabs, make peace with the Jews,
One that locks a German in a room with ‘You know who’…
When he’s alone with Jews.

I want a new thug, one that doesn’t like brown,
One who helps big business keep those brothers hunkered down..
I want a new thug, one that works down south.
One who smacks a Mexican hard, smack the taste from their mouths.

One that would shoot a lion, extinct the caribou,
One that makes blacks nervous when election night comes too
I take the votes from you.  I’ll take the votes from you baby.

[Insert crazy horn arrangement here]

I want a new thug, one who likes oil wells,
Make teachers teach for free, or have them go to hell.
I want a new thug, one who won’t shoot WHITES.
One who has a big riot gun, and a dog that bites.

One whose wife works home, makes sure she gets paid less,
One who beats her bloody if she wears a mini-dress.
Unless she’s hoooome with you, unless she’s home with you, baby.

[Insert crazy horn arrangement here]

by Ren Louis

The Revisionist and Futurist Doctor Who

Doctor Who, the fast-paced and fantastic TV series, is most enjoyable to watch when the usual perspectives of the characters are subdued in a particular story line, called “The Family of Blood”, starring my personal favorite Doctor (David Tennant) and platonic companion, Martha Jones, played by the talented Freema Agyeman.

Season 3, Episodes 9 & 10 of Doctor Who are two of my favorite episodes, wrapped in social constructs of gender roles, romanticism, race and violence.  The two episodes follow the story of an ordinary English countryside school teacher named John Smith, who doesn’t realize the true complexities of his own brilliant nature — the selfless, lonely, creature he truly is.

“He sort of inherited me,” Martha Jones explains to the curious, as to why she and John Smith are hiding in the plain sight of their enemies.  Martha’s dark skin prevents her from being taken seriously in 1913 England, as a common maid, and can not warn anyone of the impending doom of “the war to end all wars”.  The story is gripping to the end, with great moments of drama, action, and sincerity.

Part of the satisfaction in enjoying science fiction lately, as someone who is older, brown, and has seen more Mystery Science Theater than anyone, is also seeing the changes in how Asians and Africans are represented in futuristic tales.  20th Century science fiction would almost have people believe that there are only white people in the future.

Doctor Who seems to have a better handle than most with regard to representations of race on screen.  My absolute favorite episodes ever are the final three episodes of Season 3, which star Derek Jacobi and John Simm.  Racial stereotypes remain, such as a mysterious primitive Caucasian gang, and worldwide representations of “the masses” in panic always being mostly white, as if there are no other continents of relevance.  A new generation of egalitarian producers will be pitted against the traditionally-minded wealthy in a real-life battle where we, the consumers vote with our ballots and bank accounts.  Which side will you choose?

Will the great Doctor’s skin ever get darker?  Can’t James Bond ever be from Japan or South Korea?

What’s So Bad About Socialism?

Bernie Sanders takes the national stage tomorrow during the first Democratic debate.  His leftist positions have earned him respect among voters in Vermont over the past several years, and voters of all stripes will now get to see how someone labeled a socialist can garner presidential momentum.

“I don’t think this is a leftist, extremist position,” he argued last week in Boulder, Colorado, referring to a proposed $15 per hour minimum wage.  The US moved firmly to the left in 2008, voting for the first brown-skinned president, and now libertarians, liberals, and young voters across the country must consider if a socialist can run this country better than anyone else on the field.

What is so bad about voting for a socialist?  Vermont has often leaned to the left, but referring to a successful Senator as a radical is rather strange.  In truth, Senator Sanders is not THAT radical.  Socialism is defined by Merriam-Webster as, “A way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies.”  This definition is far from accurate in describing the contemporary American socialist.

Let’s look at the Urban Dictionary definition:

“Actual: An economic system in between capitalism and communism, advocating collective ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods.
Slang: Anything that a right winger doesn’t like.  The national highway system is an example of socialism.”

Knowing that Americans will never realistically allow collective ownership, (except by wealthy white people, of course) what’s so scary about socialism in a country with a broken democracy?  President Roosevelt consciously tapped Marxism when he started Social Security, and used government dollars to fund ground-breaking infrastructure projects.  Does that sound like a bad idea to you?

American socialists work successfully in our country as civil servants, attorneys, income equality activists and a Vermont Senator.  Does the prospect of President Trump or President Carson not scare you more?

What do you think?