This country has its own brand of Talbanism. Some churches actually teach that wives should be subservient to their husbands.

The way that women are treated, who would believe that they’re our mothers, sisters, and aunts–the bulwark of society, and the glue that holds it all together, with or without the support of men?

Many whites are a scared bunch, believing that the rest of the world envy them for their success, when it fact much of that success has come at the expense of exploting a lot of people.

These whites know this, which is why it’s almost political suicide to talk about cutting the defense budget, and why the Right-wing keep reminding Americans that President Obama is anti-American for “apolgizing” to our enemies–that is, Arabs, Muslims and Afghans.

Colin Powell weighed in on this in a recent interview with Sean Hannity, basically calling this “apology” contention pure nonsense. Yet, the Right keep pushing it, for obvious reasons.

Case in point: After 9-11, and the Anthrax Scare, whites stayed home in droves. Bush had to make a special television appeal to get them out and about again, and buying something–many of the Box Stores were uncharacteristically empty of shoppers.

That was the beginning of our economic woes, and the first signs of a recession in the offing.

Most of these black Panthers can’t passed the “paperbag test,” and that’s on purpose–the blacker they are, the scarier they are.

What’s the likely outcome in a political race if blacks sit out–disenchanted with Democrats and President Obama–Republicans win the presidency and congress.

What better way to scare white people to the polls than to scare them half to death–Bush’s tactic with the War on Terror, and now Republican’s tactic by elevating “fake-ass black militants.” With Bush it worked too well!

Yes, these scary black guys are being used to scare whites, but, at the same time, these black guys are making megabucks under the table for their efforts.

As you also stated: The presence of these fake militants in our society sells guns by the dozens, as these fools are also told that Obama’s gonna take their guns–providing double motivation to load up (pun intended).

This Neo-Panthers group serve many purposes in our society, political purposes, for one, and the motivation of scared whites to spend money on things they might need, for two, if Obama goes all black on them, and a race riot ensues for good measure.

Fear works when bigotries are ripe for the plucking.

Go read some Soul On Ice or A Taste of Power or read about Bobby Seale, Fred Hammond, COINTELPRO and Huey Newton, and maybe then you can tell me something about what REAL brothers and sisters who were serious about revolution, not play-acting that shit for Fox News and right-wing blogs.

Until then, I don’t think you can tell my you know the difference between the real Black Panthers and the dick-riding wannabees.

We can do better.

And of course, ..Zimmerman wasn’t in Trayvon Martin’s backyard….or Trayvon Martin’s stand your ground rights didn’t matter, only the guy who thinks himself buddies with the ‘law’.

And last, only a very unexamined person would ever conclude that you can’t be Latino or other and also harbor race based feelings or beliefs that you might act upon. Oh no, that is utterly impossible if you are “multi-racial” or “hispanic” (which simply means you speak spanish).

Sorry to bust that bubble, but some of the most racist folks I ever met were an ironic contrast to their own roots in relation to American power structures. I’ve listened to Mexicans, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, etc tear each other up and hold racist feelings towards Blacks. Slavery wasn’t the sole domain of the United States and in order to get slavery to be acceptable, the southern slavery below the U.S. border is well documented.

Only ignorant Americans believe that racism is only a white thing. Wrong.

Thanks for your blog, Jeff.