The Hip Hop Anthropologist

  By Dennis Shipman  Th ere's a brutal, undeniable truth echoing across the American landscape, a truth that cuts deeper than any political pundit dares to admit: the only thing Trumpty Dumpty got right was saying we're a stupid country, because we are. Not because of a lack of intelligence in our individuals, but because a pervasive, self-destructive racism has blinded a significant portion of the electorate, leading them to vote against their own material well-being in a grotesque theater of racial spite. This isn't theory; it's the daily lived reality for millions, and a pathology that threatens to be the ultimate undoing of this nation. We are witnessing, in stark and horrifying clarity, how white citizens will vote to perpetuate white supremacy anywhere in the world, no matter the cost to themselves. They will vote for policies that cause their own families to suffer, to starve, to go without healthcare, housing, or other basic needs. Why? Just to deprive those ...

  We have been holding "space" in this country since before our forced immigration here over 400 hundred years ago. The generational trauma to our collective psyche has some of US identifying with our oppressor (Stockholme syndrome) in the vain hope that whitey will be less brutal, release some pressure from his size thirteen jackboot on our necks, while others take an opposite stance. I am personally done because my anger is not directed toward whitey for doing what they do to preserve their 200 year headstart. My angst is directed at deaf, dumb, and blind Black folk who refuse to rise up collectively to effectively push back against the oppression because they are "not all that racist," or "maybe tRump needs to come back," or "I had more money under tRump", or whatever other bizarre rationalizations they can conjure up in their pea brain for supporting a documented bigot. The fact of the matter is chump the brain dead comic carnival barker aka ...

Coronavirus has increased 647 percent since last week. Repugs responded with a half a trillion dollar payday for wealthy corporations. And chump now wants to reopen the markets ... What else can possibly go wrong in this classical comedy of errors?... if chump goes through with this disastrous shift (for the federal workforce although federal employees still have to follow state law) to reopen the government, it would be tantamount to a dereliction of duty - i.e., criminal ne glect - prosecutable as a crime against humanity, period. Barr should be advising against such a calamity. If he doesn't, chump, Barr and the rest of chump's complicit stooges should all be unceremoniously arrested, and hauled to court, like the Nazi war criminals during the 13 Nuremberg trials (if a single person dies when he goes through with this attempt to bolster his waning re-election campaign).