RIP -- Consequential Person Has Passed Away

A bit of profanity should not have you on the edge of your vanity chair. In fact, nothing about that post should have triggered your emotions so thoroughly. You're responding like it was a reply to you.

Drink decaf, young man. I'm always chilled. Our experiences on different sides of the color spectrum should not cause people like you to think otherwise.

 

I can hear (Everybody Loves) Raymond's brother reading this. I had not heard of him, but RIP all the same.

 

That's such an easy call, I don't understand why anyone would get bent out of shape about it the way Roadkit did.

Gandhi. G-A-N-D-H-I.
He was killed before my time. I didn't get to see a conservative put a bullet in Dr. King's face, but I was alive when it happened, yes.

Dying while things are horrible is as much a part of life as dying when things are less horrible. Melanin gives you some clarity about a given situation that lack of melanin does not. read on.

I'm going to give you a birthdate for the purpose of the discussion. You were born on July 1, 1960. This is YOUR timeline.

You were two when the Beatles came to America, three when Pet Sounds dropped. also Lawrence Welk's heyday.
You were nine at Woodstock.
You were ten when Americans landed on the moon.
You were 15 when Vietnam ended, 20 when the USA won hockey gold. 20 the year Ronald Reagan was elected. You were 41 when 9/11 changed your life forever.

Now. Here's MY timeline.

I was born the year Medgar Evers was murdered. it's also the year JFK was murdered. JFK was unfortunate. Evers was... Black.

I was one and two the year Minister Malcolm was murdered (400 years of deliberate miseducation is a mofo). I was also this age when Jimmie Lee Jackson was murdered.

I was four and five the year Dr. King was murdered.

I got my driver's license the year of the Greensboro Massacre.

I was a senior the year Ronald Reagan was elected.

I graduated from HS the year Michael Donald was lynched.

I turned 35 the year James Byrd was lynched.

I turned 48 the year Trayvon Martin was killed.

I turned 51 the year Tamir Rice was killed.

I turned 53 the year Donald Trump was first elected.

I turned 57 the year George Floyd was murdered.

I turned 61 the year Donald Trump was elected the second time.

I turned 62 the year American history gutted itself lying thru omission about its most vulnerable population.

That elderly man got to see his life's work destroyed before he died.
There's no positive spin you can put on this from a comfortable chalet in Denver.

 

Oh, by the way, since dave has told you how much better his life is by putting me on ignore, I'll point out that I wasn't on his ignore list until Trump's re-election in 2024. He needed a Harris win to maintain his carefully crafted charade that race is no longer a factor in our lives.

I haven't changed. It's just that he no longer has a rebuttal, so he slinks away, stares at the wall for a month, and returns to bully gays and other posters of color while putting the one niqqer who'll fight back on ignore.

The niqqer who fights back gets YOUR skirt twisted. You're better than that.

 

My skirt isn’t twisted and my skivvies aren’t in a wad.

 

Well, that's a good thing at least. But why did you ask me to "chill"? I brought facts and laid them out, pure and simple. There was nothing in the post that should have affected you --all truth and no acrimony suggested there was initiated by me--- but it did.

 

Yeah, I had no idea of his politics, and tolerable workplace humor was what I saw. Funny that a guy who doesn't really have to negotiate the cutthroat private sector job market quite the same way most people do is willing to fluff a system like that. Now that I know his conservative tendencies, I can see the ugliness in his work.

That was the end. Reagan and Iran colluded to make him appear strong, and we've never really recovered.

This is Paul Berry's post, not Smurf's, but it applies to all of us, so I didn't tag him (I've already quoted him once on that post and I prefer not to quote the same post twice unless something serious needs to be addressed)

 

Better yet, Billy West doing Jackie's laugh.

 

The uncle Floyd show was where I saw and heard some of the best bands of my youth. RIP.

 

They basically gave adult middle schoolers a cable show & Floyd was the master of ceremonies keeping the flow (such as it was) going.

 

Yeh, I knew it was sophomoric when you said, "Stern". That guy could be David Hogg, but he wants to be funny.

 

And a Bababooey to you

 

Corporatist.

I fight only outside locally owned convenience stores

 

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

Or don’t. Your choice.

 

That was a totally farcical call.

 

From what I've seen on SM, you ain't real South until you've drunkenly thrown something at a Waffle House employee after midnight.

 

It was a caller from LonGuyland who was pissed that they cut into the Knicks finals game with the stupid OJ chase. I was watching it at a local dive bar with my bro & his GF but didn't hear the audio till they played it on Stern.

 

The OJ Chase is the Heidi Game of my adulthood

 

Those are transplants who want their food quicker. If they can't make their own pecan pie (with an ice cream scoop of butter to put on it), they should learn patience.

 

Source/link?

 

I don't bother with those. You can find one if you look.