The Late Summer of Hate

THE LATE SUMMER OF HATE.
by brandon bowlin

It’s seems to have grown on the season like an ideological herpes. Today’s Republican Party. It is hard right, super conservative and suffering from a nervous breakdown. Not just because President Obama is President and they have to say President Obama when speaking of the President of the United States of America, but because, when given the chance to govern…they f#ck’d the country up.

And now they’re left (so to speak) with a name calling campaign. But they wanted this…They let loosed the shocked and twisted far right-winged Americans and gave them a  vocabulary for a more “inside” kinda hate. “Soft Klanning” I call it.

So the President wasn’t a nigger but a socialist which is said with as much vehemence and vitriol as the old standard. Then he wasn’t even an American. Then ..well…it’s whatever they can think of now.

All along, Fox News has been there like a doting wife of misdirection and fallacies. Sometimes yelling just as loud while holding tea cakes. Other times sitting quietly in the corner while facts are repeatedly beaten to a pulp.

So here we are. August has turned into Cesspool month: The time when Republican high tide of the year’s grumbles rise past credulity with the stench of fear and bigotry and overflow into the basements of hard-hit and vulnerable Americans. To lay there, in ideological excrement. To mix with rightful fear, worry and pain.  All this creates just enough to justify yelling for no reason….literally no reason…for their leaders offered no plans or legislation. No measures or blueprints. Just open arms of fear and the lying whispers to notch the hysteria up a bit. Right into the Late Summer of Hate Season.


The what…?

The War you idiots. Where was all this marching and screaming and howling after the weapons of mass destruction WEREN’T FOUND. After both Cheney and Rumsfeld were seen, heard and read actually lying. What about today, when the revelation of the 1.3 Trill it has cost? I mean I don’t expect any Tea Bagger to mourn the death of 655,000 Iraqis but what about 4000+ American soldiers? No WMD’s…No Al Qaeda. Not one sign calling for the trial of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell or Bush. Not one speech devoted to how the wars have drained the treasury, not of just today’s loot…BUT TOMORROW’S. Nope…instead they think of unimaginative name callin’ (actually not even better than ours).


Immigrants and the $24 Avocado.

This is easy…Arizona is an embarrassment. It is also a window into the future when Whites, as leaders of that State managed it so badly that they had to sell the capitol building and RENT IT BACK, become a lesser majority. That’s right they are still the majority but  if’n those compadres get to birth’n well who knows what will happen…? Children of immigrants. And we all know how lethal THAT can be! Just ask an Indian…if you can find one.

Anyway, ’Zona was/is going down the tube so what do you do? Scapegoat dark skinned folk (you can write in illegal alien but ain’t no Croats hangin’ around the dessert). In the annuls of fear mongering, having a whole state rattle the cage with the law must be a first.

Also the great migration right before the law took effect must hold some kinda record too. Many Mexican-Americans left as well and they ALL took their money…to the tune of some 72 million dollars. Plus…what about the, you know, work? How can folk get things picked and picked up for immigrant wages when no one’s an immigrant? White’s and the sons of Whites will soon hafta apply to be Strawberry pickers or worse…then they’ll unionize and then demand what White people believe that they are worth and then Avocados with be…$24 a piece. This will all take 6 days of hot Arizona sun to complete.

But you got to spit out some names.

If only I could take communion in Mecca

You know about the 9/11 community center billed as “Mosque” by the consistently ignorant right. I’m not gonna retread here but what I will say is that…no…it is not holy ground. It was a target of war. Like many streams and hills throughout America which once housed Native Americans…and bled red with blood when a lil known cat named Custer showed up.

Newt Gingrich is a fat immoral rat bastard. Okay I don’t know how fat he is. Nor do I know if bastard applies to all the things in his life…but he is without a certain level of morality. At least that is what his wife said….Marianne Gingrich said that Newt asked her to marry him before he was divorced from his first wife. Later he would…well here is an excerpt from an interview in Esquire:

"There's somebody else, isn't there?"
She kind of guessed it, of course. Women usually do. But did she know the woman was in her apartment, eating off her plates, sleeping in her bed?
She called a minister they both trusted. He came over to the house the next day and worked with them the whole weekend, but Gingrich just kept saying she was a Jaguar and all he wanted was a Chevrolet. "'I can't handle a Jaguar right now.' He said that many times. 'All I want is a Chevrolet.'"
He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused.
He'd just returned from Erie, Pennsylvania, where he'd given a speech full of high sentiments about compassion and family values.
The next night, they sat talking out on their back patio in Georgia. She said, "How do you give that speech and do what you're doing?"
"It doesn't matter what I do," he answered. "People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live."

And he’s protesting the Islamic Center based on moral grounds….THAT’S THE RAT BASTARD PART.

And what do we get for all this bait and switchin’? And fear mongering? Why is it significant ? Because like always, fanatics take the reins. And the Right Wing has always had a more lethal effect than anyone else in these here United States.

-In Tennessee a Mosque construction site was set afire via arson.

-In New York a man was stabbed and slashed.

-a self aggrandizing preacher is gonna burn Qurans.

Gingrich exclaimed that the center shouldn’t go up..

"so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia."

Wow…what a punk. There are no strip clubs in Mecca. Or a bar down the street for when you Hajj . But he knows that this is the USA. A republic. Freedom of speech, religion and being a whore. Saudi Arabia is a Monarchy. A rather brutal one and he likes it that way because brutal folk follow the money NOT their hearts.

It’s a false equivalency anyway. Having no Church in Mecca is like having no Mosque in Vatican City. But you wanna know where Mosque/Church/Temple come together? Jerusalem.

But Ratman knows this…however most of his flock doesn’t and doesn’t care. They are willfully ignorant.

Which brings me to Beck…

Glenn Beck said…“White’s don’t own Abraham Lincoln…Black’s don’t own Martin Luther King.”

Hmmm first all it’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Secondly his family actually DOES own his papers and much of his likeness(that in another blog).  Moreover…Dr. King wasn’t selling gold and the ‘civil rights’ march was actually called the Freedom and Jobs March, and put together by a BIG union organizer, Phillip Randolph and a gay Peace activist Bayard Rustin. Both King and Randolph were about social justice (something Beck despises).

After spewing fear and ignorance to the point of calling the President a racist, Beck put on a march to “reclaim” the civil rights movement.

Well…no. You can’t have it. Because the roots of the “right” are coated in the blood of them who merely wanted to be considered equal. Your movement’s lineage goes not to  the Freedom riders, but to the pipe wielding thugs along their route. Your movement’s lineage goes not to the dignity of a beautiful little Black girl’s walk to class in 1960, but to the families across the street yelling and screaming at her. Your ideological lineage, Mr. Beck does not reach to the lofty ideals of a Southern Preacher who called for social justice, but to the men that stowed a bomb beneath the steps of a church and blew 4 Black girls to bits…2 weeks after King spoke.

Claim whatever you want but you can’t have him Beck. He is ours. In pain, in fear, in courage and in blood.

-brandon bowlin the Darkroome  

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