Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are destroying race relations in America.  It seems that Sharpton and Jackson believe the first amendment only applies to the black population.  Sharpton is a bigot, Jackson has a love-child, and neither of them believes in what their so-called reverend titles would imply.  Reverends?  Of what?  The church of bigotry, hypocrisy, and hatred, maybe?  Jackson’s phrase was “himeytown”, Sharpton’s was “white interlopers” and “jewelry merchants”, and Chris Rock’s phrase is “crazyass crackers”.  Everything is fine and should not be punished if said by a black person.  I for one will stand up for their right to say the idiotic things they have said.  I may not agree with them, but I will face the fact that they have the right to say what they want.  The only “nappy-headed ho” in this whole issue is Sharpton.  Sharpton is prostituting himself in the name of racism.  What is his motive?  It seems Sharpton is playing his race card well on this issue.

This issue with Don Imus means nothing when it comes to the relations between blacks and whites.  You WILL get offended in America, get used to it.  The only people in this World deserving an apology from Don Imus are the basketball players he was speaking of.  These girls at Rutgers are not little pre-schoolers running around on the playground.  They are tougher than anyone is giving them credit for.  If Imus called one of these girls a “ho” in public they would jump on him and beat the hell out of him or they would stand the higher ground and call him a “crazyass cracker”.  Either choice would have been justified. 

Anyone with a functioning mind could determine from the context of the conversation that Imus was bantering back and forth with another host attempting to be funny.  It did not work.  Anyone that is paid to talk will eventually run out of intelligent thought at times.  This is what I believe happened as the context was basically a bunch of gibberish trying to fill airtime.  As a black man stated on one radio show, “the worst thing Imus could be criticized for is speaking Ebonics without certification”.  I do not condone what he said, but I do believe that there is no reason why this issue has become a race war with the black population.  Black people do not want a race war with white people, but Sharpton and Jackson do.  This will keep them in the media spotlight for a while.  This is what they do.

If Sharpton wants a race war, he can have one.  He just does not realize that this war will not be between blacks and whites; it will be between Americans that believe in the first amendment (Americans of all ethnic backgrounds) and those that only blindly follow their bigoted leader Sharpton.  Leaders of the NAACP have spoken out that they do not believe in what Sharpton is doing and that they believe in the first amendment.  Many other leaders in the black community have spoken out also that they do not believe this issue is an issue at all.  In America, being a capitalist and free society, people vote with their wallets and their feet.  If people do not like what a radio host says, they change the channel.  Do we need to call for all Americans who believe in the first amendment to boycott all of the spineless, weak-kneed sponsors of MSNBC who pulled out?  It makes me sad that these companies are bowing down to Sharpton in shame as if they had just slapped their mothers.  Do we need to boycott ANY company who sponsors or condones what Sharpton is doing?  I say not just yes, but HELL YES!

I believe any company or individual condoning this man attempting to divide America should be punished.  Forget the fact that Sharpton has scared them into submission.  Let the numbers speak for themselves.  Let these companies decide if they want to appease Sharpton and the other bigots that join with him or suffer from the vast majority of Americans of all backgrounds voting with their wallets.  Decide what you think is right and vote accordingly.

The major problem with this whole situation is perception.  Al Sharpton is still trying to make all black people think they are still victims in America.  I believe race relations would improve if these so-called black leaders would teach black people to stand up for themselves by improving themselves, not by playing the victim and blaming racism for every problem in their lives.  Many blacks have stated on the television news and radio shows that they do not have time for this issue as it does not bother them.  Why, you ask?  Because they are too busy leading their lives, supporting and enjoying their families, and trying to improve themselves by not bogging themselves down in the “victim mentality” that does nothing for black America. 

Bear “crazyass cracker” Brooks
Author of:
A Jackass at Every Turn!  How to Act Like an American When Everyone Around You Will Not!

Government wastes for average Americans.

    Americans are creating a disaster that will cause this country to fail.  What is it?  Ignorance!  Why is it happening?  Apathy and indifference!  How do we fix it?  Education.

    Ignorance is not a curse.  It does not mean you are an idiot.  The average American will want to punch you in the face if you call them ignorant.  Ignorance is the lack of knowledge about a certain subject.  We (meaning every single person alive) are all ignorant in many ways and we have to do our best to cure ourselves of this problem.

    Bear in mind, when I say the average American, I mean the greater majority of Americans who go out there every day and work to support their families, not the silver-spoon babies who do not worry about where their next paycheck is going.

    The average American will not buy a newspaper, much less read it.  The average American will not buy a book.  The average American gets all, if any of their news and information from only one source; the nightly news.  All we have to do is look at all of the ratings for these television and radio news programs, add with it the circulations of all the newspapers in America, and you will soon figure out that the vast majority of Americans do not get ANY news from ANY source.

    As you can see, there is a reason our wonderful politicians get away with robbery when it comes to spending our money.  They get away with it because the greater majority of us never hear about it.  We just keep chugging along in our daily lives.  We go to work.  We come home.  We try to enjoy our families.  We try to enjoy life, not bothering with the nonsense happening every day in Washington D.C..  The average American does not fully understand the severity and impact government wastes have on each and every American in the United States.  Every penny being wasted comes out of the taxpayer’s pockets.  I do not know about you, but I do not have money to throw away.

    The average American thinks it is just fine for the government to tax businesses and corporations because they think the government is taxing the rich.  The average American thinks it is wonderful that businesses and corporations lose in enormous lawsuits.  No one has told everyone in America that each and every dime taken away from a business or corporation will result in increased prices of goods and services.  These actions basically cause every dime in taxes and lawsuits levied on businesses to come out of the pockets of us ignorant Americans that do not know better.

    What can we do?  We have to educate the average Americans about what is happening in Congress and with our politicians.  How can we do it?  We need someone with a few friends to come up with a FREE newspaper or newsletter that can be viewed by every single person in America.  A FREE newspaper with no partisan politics, just the truth about how politicians are wasting our money and making decisions that the average American would think are idiotic.  How do we get this paper to every American economically?  We use the greatest distribution network in the World.  We get Wal-Mart to distribute the newspaper to their stores for free in exchange for free advertising in the newspaper.  The average American does go to Wal-Mart.  Why advertising, you ask?  The newspaper would have to be highly funded.  With such a litigious society as ours, thousands of fraudulent lawsuits would result after the truth gets out about all of the fraud and robbery being perpetrated on us by our wonderful politicians.  It would also take a great deal of money to print 200 million newspapers or more every time it gets distributed.

    As you can see, I have just offered up a great idea to anyone willing to take it to task.  Advertising would sell out instantly if priced correctly.  Where else in advertising could a company get exposure to that many people?  Nowhere.  I believe the idea would work; it would just take some open-minded people to get it started.
           
    You may be asking yourself, why would anyone waste their time with this?  The result of getting the truth of government wastes exposed is that we would actually be able to get the information to the people that can repair the situation; the voters.  Information to the vast majority of voters that do not get ANY news could actually start a grass-roots movement to throw these wasteful politicians out of office.  Ignorant voters blindly keep voting these wasteful pork and barrel politicians into office.

    We can fix government wastes if we start at the bottom.  Get the information to the voters and you will soon see an uprising to change America for the better.  Can you think of a better idea?  If so, try it.  We cannot continue being ignorant.  We cannot allow this waste to continue and expect America to continue being the greatest economic power in the World.

Bear Brooks
Author of:
A Jackass at Every Turn!  How to Act Like an American When Everyone Around You Will Not!