“The Audacity of the “House Niggers!!!”"
As I listened to several different viewpoints of Obama’s Historical speech, I realized it was time to address this issue head-on… Let me say, I am not speaking for all African Americans… I am speaking as one who believes that “we as a culture” have to take a hard look at ourselves sometime…
And if the shoe fits, well then…
If not pass it by… Be honest!!!
Let’s start by saying that Obama’s Pastor had the right to say everything he said… That’s why we call this America… This is the only nation on the planet where one can speak their mind without threat of being put in jail…
It’s called the “First Amendment…”
Dahhhhhhhh!!!
Also for the simple fact that the Pastor is ex-military, he has a certain amount of frustration from the spill over of the thoughts of his comrades in harms way now… It is almost impossible for ones who has put on the uniform to not feel the pains and frustrations of the soldiers in harms way…
Soldier PTSD is for real…
And if you have not been there, you don’t have a clue as to what I am speaking of…
But that’s another post…
Another point about Obama’s Pastor is that he spoke his words from the pulpit… Men called of God are tools of God…
And we all know that the Lord works in misterious ways…
No-one can deny that if God had not worked in this way, Senator Barack Obama would not have made this historical speech…
Hummmmmmm!!!
So now we are here at this point in time where history has already recorded this “call to order.” We the people of the United States of America must openly and honestly deal with our race issues head on… We cannot and need not turn back the hands of time…
The call has already gone out…
“So let’s have at it…
“Yes, what “Jack Nicholson” said (Costella) about “niggers” in the movie “The Departed” is a very powerful statement…
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4492/THE-DEPARTED-script…
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“That’s what niggers don’t realize. If I got one thing against the black chaps it’s this. No one gives it to you. You have to take it.”
http://culturallyconscious.blogspot.com/2007/11/is-jack-right.html
Again I have to say that this is a powerful statement… It is blunt and direct and hard to swallow, but a powerful statement yet the same… I was reminded of this statement while listening to hardball with Chris… One of his guest was “Pat Buchannon!” Every body know Pat, who is a regular on that show… As I listened to the remarks of these two white men, I realized that they can only effectively deal with issues in their communities… It is up to black people to deal with issues in our communities… It was refreshing to hear them talk with such open candor, but (yes, the great big but in the room.) they were talking about their community…
What about my community???
What about people that look like me???
Well, this train of thought caused me to reminisce on the challenges I have had getting anything done in my community… These guys where talking about how this part of their community works and that part of their community works… I am thinking to myself, I can’t even get my Representative to call me back… This is what is wrong with my community…
So Obama was right when he said that we can’t make the mistake(s) of his Pastor… And one of those very significant mistakes is to point a finger at the other side of the house when our side ain’t in order…
Hummmmmm!!!
So when I look back over the last forty years, I see countless situations where “The Audacity of the “House Niggers”" have failed our own community…
Ok, if it’s about race issues then the critique starts at home…
So let’s have at it…
What do I mean by “House Niggers???” Well as most of us know that during the time of slavery there were the “field niggers” who worked in the fields and the “house niggers” who worked in the master’s house… The field nigger was guaranteed to stay dirty, cold, wet, and hot with lots of hard labor from sun up to sun down… The house nigger was guaranteed a lot better lifestyle with all the benefits of cleanliness, warmth, and plenty to eat… The differences between the two lifestyles were drastic… The field nigger often times carried resentment toward the house nigger… A great depiction of this fact was quite obvious in the Haley Barry character in the movie, “Queen!” In the movie, Haley played the part of a house nigger who found herself among the field niggers when the “Civil War” ended slavery which made her an out cast… Haley’s character uttered the line,
“I’s nigra too,” to make the point of how the field niggers felt about the house niggers…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen:_The_Story_of_an_American_Family
Now we have black members of the House of Representative on the state and federal level who are “House Niggers!” They are voted in by the field niggers who work hard everyday to make ends meet… The field niggers expect the “House Niggers” to be graceous to them and help them in any way they can… But instead it seems that for the most part the “House Niggers” totally forget the field niggers until it is time to be voted in again…
Let me speak plainly… What Pat said on Hardball in essence was, “I don’t want to hear about how bad the blacks have had it in this country for the last forty years. We have given them “House Niggers” to address their needs…”
And guess what, I hate to say it but (yes, the big Black But in the room) Pat is right…”
If black folks have an argument about anything, we must first look within to see where the problem is… How is it that we have had all these superstar athletes, movies stars, singers, and lawyers; all “House Niggers,” and we are still blaming the other side of the house for our problems…
The other side of the house says, “what about all these superstars (House Niggers) your communities have???
Why aren’t they taking care of you???
Good question, “Why aren’t they???”
The line in the movie “Departed” says that the other side of the house thinks we are stupid if we don’t take care of our own…
And they are right…
I have a non-profit… I am sure several black folk have non-profits as well, but (yes, again the big Fat Black But in the Room!) we can’t get these superstars to contribute money to our non-profits to help us help our communities… Who’s the blame, the other side of the house???
I don’t think so…
The blame is “the Audacity of the “House Niggers”" to forget the field niggers until they need us…
What is that about???
Remember we are talking race here…
Obama gave us the permission…
So let’s have at it…
I will give you a prime example of a “House Nigger” failing the field niggers…
The Jena 6 case…
I can hear you now saying, “I knew he was going there…”
You have got that right and I hope you feel the sting…
Young mens lives are ruined because a “House Nigger” by the name of Donald Washington - Federal Attorney of Louisiana, who was appointed by President Bush failed the “field niggers” when they needed him most… I believe most of you know the story how this one “House Nigger” had the responsibility to make a case that what was going on in Jena was a hate crime and the feds should have stepped in but (yes, ladies and gentlemen here is the Big fat BUt in the room) the “House Nigger” did nothing…
What was that about???
Can we blame the other side of the house because the “House Nigger” did not do anything???
I dare say not…
Look at the Duke 3 case…
Every white man with power to do something to help them guys win that case jumped in and did… From the state to the feds and through-out the system…
And we want to cry “racism!”
No! No! No!
Maybe we should do as another “House Nigger” who has not forgotten her position to the field niggers did when she addressed Donald Washington:
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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee criticized Washington for not getting involved in the case by saying “I want you to tell me why you, the first black [Western District of Louisiana] U.S. district attorney, did not do more, and I want to know what you’re going to do to get Mychal Bell out of jail!”
http://www.civilrights.org/press_room/buzz_clips/civilrightsorg-stories/jena-6.html
It is the “House Niggers” we as a people must first get straight and let them know that we are no longer going to put up with less than the best from them…
Not this time!!!
Time is up for no representation…
Time is up for less incorporation…
Time is up for not being heard…
The field niggers have a mouthpiece, it is the “House Niggers…”
And when the “House Niggers” don’t speak for us then we can’t blame the other side of the house…
Oh no!!!
Not this time…
No baby, we are coming to you, “House Niggers!!!”
We are going to ask you the question, like Comgress woman Jackson asked, “I want you to tell me, “Why???”
Not this time…
It is not going to take another Jena for us to get meaner toward “The Audacity of the “House Niggers!!!”"
Not this time…
We are not going to sit still and say nothing when “Jack and Pat” can’t believe we are lashing out at a government who has given us the same opportunities to take what we need to be successful for forty years… They are saying, “you have the “House Niggers!!!” What are they doing???
If this sounds like a call to action…
Then so be it!!!
We get angry at “Bill Cosby” when he simply tells us the truth because we don’t want to hear it from a black man… But the fact still remains, “who are we going to blame???”
If we let the “House Niggers” not take care of the field niggers, who then are we to blame???
And even “House Niggers” don’t take care of other “House Niggers!”
Look at Rep. Cynthia Mckinney!
When she had the run in with the Capital Guards, she was cast out… She was thrown back in the field… This is a lesson for those who get to be a “House Nigger.” There is always the field…
But (yes, there is that big fat But again) if the “House Niggers” had stood up together, maybe a reprimand…???
Let me go lateral here for a minute…
I know so many women that would cut your arm off if you grab them… What Rep. Mckinney did was a “cultural response” to someone touching her that is built into her blackness… She could not resist the urge to “forcefully pull away” because it is apart of her “Cultural DNA Self Defense Mechanism!”
And every black woman I know have it…
Rep. Mckinney is the type of “House Nigger” that will not take back and not take down… But (yes again…Big Fat Black But in the room!) like “Bill Cosby,” who may I say has done his part and more to give back to the Black community, we throw them back to the field…
So you see as a people of color, we need to be more accountable to ourselves, our neighborhoods, and our country… I am not saying that a lot of us have not, but (and here we go again with this Big Fat Black But in the room!) if the shoe fits, put it on and change…
Obama openned the door… It is up to us to keep this door of dialogue open and move on through it to our next door of self improvement…
I have used the “House Nigger” metaphor to get your attention and to make a very serious point… I hope I have done just that…
If you are affended about this use of words, you should not be… “House Niggers” were apart of our not so distant “Cultural Past…” One that is not that far removed from us even today…
As of recent days, I have heard several commentators from the other side of the house make comments about hearing their ancestry use the “N” word on occaisons…
This was a direct result of Obama’s speech…
I hope to hear more dialogue from both sides of the house for all of us to find common ground and most importantly to heal our lands… 2 Chronicles 7:14
I hope this writing properly let the “House Niggers” realize that the field niggers are dependent on you to be there for us… I have been trying to get my House of Representative call me back for several month about a very serious problem I have, with no response…
I am depending on him to be there for me…
I am sure there are several other field niggers who are having the same problem… We can continue to blame the other side of the house or we can “say it loud, not this time!!!”
“House Niggers call the field niggers back…”
“We are depending on you to be our support…”
“The Audacity of the “House Niggers!!!”"
March 20, 2008 at 4:23 pm
What will we be doing forty-five years later…August 28, 2008?
“If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything … that smacks of discrimination or slander.”
Mary McLeod Bethune
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid “pass laws”. Proclaiming the Day in 1966, the General Assembly called on the international community to redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination –> http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/racial/
Racial discrimination is alive and permeating the global community. As an Black citizen in the United States of America, I am concerned with how this nation is upholding, advocating, and supporting racial equality and eradicating racial injustice within our socioecnomic sytem.
A review of the United Nations assessment on America’s progress in this area reveals that this nation is not yet brave enough to take the steps necessary to create a nation that is truly the land of the free. Read and review for yourself, http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/12708/ .
Racism in America is not resolved because we as a nation refuse to come to the table and look at the historic development and present sustainment of racism. An honest dialogue cannot be had when the terms are pre-defined and the outcome pre-determined. We must be willing to remove all vestiges and verbage of discrimination.
We cannot hold ancient documents more precious than human dignity. America needs to form a Racial Repentance and Resolution Forurm. This body would begin the endeavor of creating a more perfect union by having founding documents of colonialism and racism removed and call for the drafting of documents that create a society that is not built on racism or patriarchy.
The uplift of women is, next to the problem of the color line and the peace movement, our greatest modern cause. When, now, two of these movements-woman and color– combine in one, the combination has deep meaning.
WEB DuBois
Continuing to add to documents that were wretchedly and patently discriminatory in their creation does not transform those documents to egalitarian. We cannot recreate using the same pathetically flawed reason and expected to reach conclusions that will be reasonable and right.
In America in the new millenium Blacks experience disparity is social and physical ills. Our generations suffer from Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome, and Racism Denial Disorder to the point that even some Blacks have begun to believe the delusions fed to them by mainstream media and society. Sadly, some of us have become so desensitized to the vernacular of racist code that we do not recognize or translate the meaning. For example, the encouragement for Blacks and other minorities to adopt and adapt to ‘American Values’ = Assimilate.
There is also a faction of Blacks refusing to assimilate who are just as toxic because they want to hold the community of Blacks hostage to the past and demand that we as a race stagnate. These confused souls want us to hold on to the dear and departed leaders and their practices as if there is no possibility of new generations bringing forth dynamic, intelligent, and focused leaders for the present. We honor the past; however, we must embrace, uplift, support, and respect those rising from our communities to lead our community beyond the point that Medgar, Malcolm, and Martin left off — far too early.
Our children are more likely to experience incarceration than education, our health is impeded by capitalistic system that denies health insurance by sending our jobs overseas or refusing to create jobs with living wages and benefits in our own nation. Our communities suffer economically and ecologically as businesses flee the urban core leaving huge plants and waste in our neighborhoods and our people unemployed.
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. What will we be doing forty-five years later…August 28, 2008?
The revolution is at hand, and we must free ourselves of the chains of political and economic slavery. The nonviolent revolution is saying, “We will not wait for the courts to act, for we have been waiting hundreds of years. We will not wait for the President, nor the Justice Department, nor Congress, but we will take matters into our own hands, and create a great source of power, outside of any national structure that could and would assure us victory.” For those who have said, “Be patient and wait!” we must say, “Patience is a dirty and nasty word.” We cannot be patient, we do not want to be free gradually, we want our freedom, and we want it now. We cannot depend on any political party, for the Democrats and the Republicans have betrayed the basic principles of the Declaration of Independence. MLK 8-28-63
The opinions and positions are indeed mine!
Pastor Kelly Oglesby
Peace and power are in Jesus Christ alone!
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April 6, 2008 at 5:16 pm
you are a nut
April 6, 2008 at 11:32 pm
so youre point is “if the some whites do it then its ok?” Its just easier for me as a white man to be racist with bullshit logic that is on your page. You are just watering down your own racism and you know it. Im so tired of the angry black man act. take some responsibility for your own life and stop making excuses
April 13, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Obama is Harvard educated, thinks he must be very smart. However, from what I see from his wife’s documented background, his pastor tirades, and BHO own not so underlying left wing messages of hate, he is only a HARVARD HOUSE NIGGER! AN UN-AMERICAN HARVARD EXPERINMENT!
May 2, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I LOVE THIS PAGE!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR SAYING WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG!
REV. WRIGHT SPOKE THE TRUTH AND OBAMA IS A CHICKEN-GEORGE-UNCLE-TOM HOUSE NIGGER.
If he is elected, he will forget about the blacks in America and start talking that “We are all Americans” bullshit.
If the Pope said the same shit Rev. Wright said, white folks would be licking his ass and kissing his feet. Blacks in America must get a reality check. Quit voting for Obama because he’s “black”. Hell, he’s not gonna do crap if he is elected.