“You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.”

Peace And A Bottle Of Hair Grease Be Upon Him

Allah has a blog.

And a wicked sense of humor to boot.

The Things We Do For Love

Juliette encountered the following statement in the midst of a barbershop conversation about applying for college:

“You gotta jump through too many hoops just to get an education! They don’t want us there anyway!”

Sheesh. I’ve heard that before myself. Good thing my mom mandated me and my siblings to go to college anyway.

Moving on, the comment in the barbershop led Juliette to comment further:

This is what it’s all about. They don’t want us there. Those hoops are just there to discourage blacks and latinos from applying to college. Yep, that’s right. No other group of people has to follow the same route when applying for college, according to this man.

So, because they allegedly don’t want us there, we should just forget about going to college.

Isn’t that the most stupid pile of feces you’ve ever read in your life? After all the Affirmative Action, the 20 points for melanin, the black-only dorms, the black-only graduation ceremonies, they don’t want us there. Even if it were true, so what? Getting a college education isn’t a popularity contest—although the Looney Left Liberal professors make a good impression of it being so (which, ironically, would work in a victicrat black person’s favor.)

This is the crux of the problem with too many black Americans. It’s not about jobs, education, money or housing, not really. Black people want you to like them, every last one of them; from Al Sharpton to Condoleezza Rice (okay, maybe not her).

Read the whole thing.

Semi-Related: My two cents on black victimization from some time ago.

Update: Will Leon raises questions related to Juliette’s post and the comments made by readers to it. Juliette responds (and honestly, the planned follow-up that I had in mind ran similar to her words, and that being the case, I will not comment further).

Labor Day Weekend

I was more or less zonked from a hard week’s work yesterday and much of today. The lack of entries was the result in a much-needed gain of sleep.

I’ll be home this Labor Day weekend, and blogging “as the spirit moves”, so to speak — while I socialize with friends for most of the holiday.

Those of you heading out of town to points unknown (maybe Vegas): Drive carefully, have fun, let a sober person take the keys, and get your grill on with whatever fare you choose.

Chill out and relax; come Tuesday, it’s back to work.

PostScript: Jeff Soyer reminds us that not everyone has the weekend off. Be sure to show compassion and gratitude to those who continue to labor so that others may enjoy the weekend.

I Was Wrong

A while ago, I made the following statement:

[Rodney] King is a walking martyr with a lifetime “Get Out Of Jail Free” card. No matter how big he screws up, he is untouchable by law enforcement.

Yesterday, the San Bernardino County criminal justice system proved me wrong — and it’s good that they did.

King pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to a three-month alcohol awareness program and six months of drug treatment, followed by four months in jail. He must also pay a $1,454 fine and will be on probation for three years.

Police said King raced through an intersection in Rialto at more than 100 mph on April 13 before losing control of his new SUV, striking a utility pole, crashing into a fence and hitting a house. King, 38, of Rialto, suffered a fractured pelvis and cracked ribs.

Authorities said tests revealed he had a “significant amount” of the drug PCP in his system.

Deputy District Attorney Jim McGee said that while the treatment gives King “the opportunity to turn his life around,” he deserved jail time.

King’s attorney, Duane Dade, said treatment should help his client but maintains the sentence was “probably over and above what the regular person gets.”

I disagree, Duane. The sentence should have been stronger and with more jail time, but I digress.

It’s good to know that “Teflon Rodney” is being shown that he’s not above the law, his infamous past notwithstanding.

Carnival 49

This week’s Carnival of the Vanities is hosted by Creative Slips.

Guns Don’t Kill. Liberalism Leftism Does.

In response to the shooting death of James Davis, the New York City Council moves forward to tighten the screws on NYC’s responsible gun owners:

About six gun-related bills will be considered at a Sept. 12 council hearing. The proposals place further restrictions on gun makers and dealers in the city.

One of the proposed bills would make gun makers, dealers, and importers liable for damages if their weapons are used to hurt or kill people in the city.

Another bill would ban gun dealers from selling more than one firearm to the same person within 90 days.

Also under consideration is a measure that would require gun owners in the city to obtain liability insurance.

“My hope is that out of the hearing process the council will put forward gun-control measures that limit as much as possible the number of guns on the streets,” said City Council speaker Gifford Miller.

Mr. Miller, here’s an idea for you: Instead of punishing gun owners and gun dealers who obey the law, buy and sell guns legally, and use them responsibly, how about going after the perps and thugs who actually commit crime with stolen, straw-purchased, or heaven forbid, black market-acquired firearms?

And one more thing: How about following your own rules for a change — like mandating everyone to go through the metal detectors at New York City Hall?

Whether the GFWs want to admit it or not, James Davis (for all of his gun prohibition efforts) was a gun owner with a CCW permit. What they fail to grasp is that it was a laxity in the security protocols at city hall (e.g. Davis waving his own murderer past established security checkpoints) that killed him.

It’s ironic that Liberal elitists ideological fanatics (both on the left and on the right, to be fair here) see fit to draft “protective” rules for society, yet they feel that they aren’t obligated to abide by them as well.

Had Othniel Askew been ordered by NYC security to pass through the metal detectors like all other New Yorkers, James Davis would be alive today. It’s as simple as that.

(link via Ravenwood)

John Ashcroft In Concert

The R-J reports on yesterday’s dog-and-pony show.

John Uzo Ogbu, R.I.P.

John Ogbu was an anthropology professor at UC Berkeley whose concentration was on minority education, culture, and identity.

Though he will be missed, the fruits of his research will live on.

(link via Negrophile)

Hud TV

Neighboring blogger and comics writer James Hudnall was taped a segment for a local program to be aired soon on the local UPN station here.

L.T. Smash Returns from Kuwait

Welcome home.

Good Blogs

Via Acidman, I came across two blogs that I think are worthwhile reading: Juliette Ochieng’s baldilocks, and Bleeding Brain.

Pay each of them a visit, especially Juliette’s.

The Right Man For The Board

Daniel Pipes opines on the process he endured as a presidential board nominee for the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Best known for his research and studies on the Middle East, Pipes is the right man for the post. Although it took a recess appointment to give his a seat on the board after being “borked” by his critics, the USIP will benefit richly from Pipes’ expertise.

(link via On The Third Hand)

Of Dreams And Democrats

In a recent column, Thomas Sowell commented on the 40th anniversary observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech:

Both the speakers and the small numbers of people gathered to hear them were a sharp contrast with the multitudes who covered the whole area around the Lincoln Memorial 40 years ago, when Dr. King spoke the immortal words that he dreamed of a time when people would no longer be judged by “the color of their skin” but by “the content of their character.”

Yet the speakers on the 40th anniversary of that occasion clearly rejected the idea of a color-blind society. These were no longer demands for equal treatment but for special benefits, based on the color of their skin. Speakers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson certainly can’t afford to be judged by the content of their character.

The aging veterans of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s keep fighting the wars of the past with the rhetoric of the past, while the very different problems and opportunities of the present are either not addressed or are given prescriptions that fit an earlier time and a different disease.

Also in the column, Sowell provides an example of how the Democrats trump black interests for others:

The Democratic Party will still make its symbolic obeisance and even pretend to take race hustlers like Al Sharpton seriously. But the interests of its other constituents increasingly take precedence over the interests of blacks.

Nowhere is this more blatant than in the most vital of all black interests — the education of their children. Poll after poll shows blacks to be the strongest supporters of school choice to give their children a chance for a decent education, but vote after vote in Congress shows Democrats — black as well as white — to be the strongest opponents of such choice.

When push comes to shove, the teachers’ unions mean more to Democrats than the future of the next generation of blacks. [...]

What is vital to the interests of black “leaders” and the Democratic Party is to keep blacks paranoid and dependent. For that, everything must be blamed on “racism.”

Short Notice

I just found out in today’s paper that the Patriot Act Tour will be in town tomorrow morning.

It isn’t often that I agree with Gary Peck of the local ACLU, but there’s always room for exceptions — especially when citizens are being “asked” by the federal government to give up a little bit of freedom in exchange for a little bit more “security”.