Perspective: I hates Ronald Reagan and Wal-mart is cool with us.

This is number 2 in my “Perspective of the month” series. This month July, 2007 the topic is: How come all the people who ever do anything to help black folks is considered a villain at the beginning?

I know I am not the first person to notice this fact (or theory if you are white sadly but probably). That’s sad that it is really like that and nobody white believes it. There are so many things that differ so entirely from black to white perspectives. That’s the funny part, using the same value system, same right and wrong, two sides using the same facts but getting completely and exactly opposite results or conclussions. Its all perspective and the facts seldom if ever change but the diving line is clear and present, yet it seems to us blacks in America that we are the only people who notice, let alone admit, that it exists. There are so many of these impossible yet strangely populous perspective revolutions going on at any one time in America that its not enough ink in a regular pen to write them all. But I’ll use a couple that I know off the top of my head.

What’s the deal with the whole Ronald Reagan almost a saint belief thing? I have an answer but it’s a black perspective answer that generally fits all. When all else fails fall back to the old standard, “White folks hate niggas” or “White folks think blacks is animals, not exactly human.” Usually if you don’t know the answer you can safely fall back on that one. No offense, just keep it real, how I be doing. So from a poor black people perspective Ronald Reagan was not a saint, not even close. I aint one of those fancy pants, show you how smart I am, $4 word using self-righteous ball of hot gas African American phd mothafu#kas that usually seem to speak for all black people in America, that ain’t me at’ll. But I am well-read, regular poor just plain ole black people who don’t speak for all black people usually, but on this I feel safe saying I do. Ronald Reagan was not no saint! Nod eban clos!

It seems like whenever there is a politician or president that does blacks rotten go on to higher positions, they always end up looking good to America but the ones that treat us fairly always end up scandalized. Don’t get all pissy on me because I write a funny blog here, I seldom preach or nothing, I just be wanting to understand is all. It seems like allot of the politicians and leaders that spoke up or speak up for black folks end up forfeiting their lives one way or another. Jail, death, exile, scandal, forfeiting one-way or the other. I guess that’s another perspective revolution in America, black folks don’t believe in coincidence that much. But maybe that’s what all that is about, nothing more. Maybe all the black supporters that died mysteriously throughout Americas history were just coincidences? Allot of times whining may be relentless pointing out instead. That whining insult angers many. Its true. I have the perfect little experience to put us all on the same perspective for a minute.

I had went with kin from the white “sector?” of my family to a movie in a way more than prominently white theatre. We went to see colors, that old sean penn police ghetto movie. And yes the rumors are true, black folks do talk all through movies. But the part that stuck to my brain was a part in the movie where the cops had the “suspected” gang-bangers in the alley on a routine check, (we really do have them in the hood, routine checks that is.) and right at the moment the police told all the suspected gang-bangers to get on their knees and put their hands behind their heads the whole audience laughed, laughed like someone turned on a applause sign. It wasn’t exactly a laugh but that’s the closest I can come to describing it. Just for perspective navigation let me say at the time of the laugh I was riveted, wondering were the police on the screen about to execute these kids, why get on your knees? I kept thinking, what was funny? What was funny? Not saying it but in my head wondering what was funny? I never figured it out exactly but it made me notice things even more than I usually already do. That episode actually hurt a little because I was young. It hurt me because my white kinfolk laughed also. I guess it was a white thang you wouldn’t be able to understand. There ya go.

Whats so all hell bad about wal-mart? They made prescription $4 for people use to paying 100’s, you know that helped the hell out of every black person friend, relative, neighbor or family. How can we be mad at them for making it possible the single mother with 4 kids a chance to afford something new? Why should we be mad that the saved my grandma $600 a month and took her from just surviving to living? I know what I am saying might seem slanted to some people but then that’s the perspective thing. Most blacks feel the same I am sure. Wal-mart is a good thing, not a bad thing. I am not trying to speak for the entire black race in America, but I feel safe saying walmart is a good thing not a bad thing. I know some guy or lady (worst) is gonna chew my whole ass off about this article, but I got to keep it real. And real is that the black perspective about Wal-mart is yes we like them.

I could go on forever but that’s enough for Perspectives for today.
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