The Bimp Culture and The Colorado Shooter

The art of an epoch tells us much about the ethos of the times.  Baby boomer generation songs mostly concerned love and propriety.  We all remember Wake Up Little Suzie-like numbers:

Wake up, little Susie, wake up

Wake up, little Susie, wake up

We’ve both been sound asleep, wake up, little Susie, and weep

The movie’s over, it’s four o’clock, and we’re in trouble deep

Wake up little Susie

Wake up little Susie, well

Whatta we gonna tell your mama

Whatta we gonna tell your pa

Whatta we gonna tell our friends when they say “ooh-la-la”

Wake up little Susie

Wake up little Susie, well

Fast forward to today and we find songs like this:

Fuck You

(Chorus)

I see you driving 'round town

With the girl I love and I'm like,

Fuck you!

Oo, oo, ooo

I guess the change in my pocket

Wasn't enough I'm like,

Fuck you!

And fuck her too!

I said, if I was richer, I'd still be with ya

Ha, now ain't that some shit? (ain't that some shit?)

And although there's pain in my chest

I still wish you the best with a...

Fuck you!

Oo, oo, ooo

So, what degenerate would write or sing a song like that?  Cee-Lo Green, a black rap “artist” that Barack Hussein Obama has praised and who has been an Obama fundraiser. According to ABC News, March 16, 2012, Green even had the arrogance to start singing the Fuck You song for an Obama campaign event at the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia.

The generational divide is just as stark concerning motion pictures.  The guy in the black hat now is the hero, the anti-civility and/or anti-American hero.  That brings me to the impetus for this blog: When I accessed the IMBd movie site—a site that reviews and rates motion pictures—I was struck by the contrast between the Batman (1966) movie poster and the Dark Knight Rises (2012) poster.  Nineteen sixty-six showed a photo of physically normal-looking Batman and Robin staring forward with bright bluish background, nothing sinister.  Twenty-twelve, on the other hand, depicted a black, shadowy, Kevlar muscle-coated Batman standing with clenched fists in front of an explosion; above him in upper-case font was written, “A FIRE WILL RISE.”   We find then that the “good guy” has become “bad,” and we are expected to regard that as good.

Twenty-four-year-old James Eagan Holmes, the Batman movie shooter, has been reared in what I call a bimp-oriented society that celebrates asociality and violence.  To refresh your memory, “bimp” is an acronym for black inner-city male persona.  A bimp is an aggressive, narcissistic, psychopathic-like, if not frankly psychopathic, gang-banger personality.  The media feed our children a steady diet of bimp behavior in the form of rap music and hostility-laden books, television, and movies.  Anyone who speaks-out against bimps is labeled as a racist, as though opposing bimps means opposing all black people.  In fact, some white people maintain the bimp demeanor and very few black people are bimps. It is persona and not skin color that determines who is and who isn’t a bimp.

I am not saying that James Eagan Holmes is a bimp.  I firmly believe that he merely is crazy, probably Schizophrenic.  But crazy people express their insanity in a cultural context.  Holmes has grown up in a society wherein violent, asocial bimps receive an inordinate share of attention; the Batman shooter acted out his psychopathology, either deliberately or inadvertently, so as to make the most of his moment in the spotlight, just as crotch-holding, expletive-spewing rap stars do.  

After all, President Barack Obama provided a legitimate political platform from which Cee-Lo Green sang his Fuck You song and got national media exposure.  And who could forget that Obama championed the political career of hate-mongering Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones, the Administration’s former Special Advisor for Green Jobs.  Van Jones’ own rap label, called Freedom Fighter Records, has supported racist criminals including convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal.

When a United States president celebrates uncivil and extremist elements, he sets the tone for the one-time violence that occurred in Aurora, Colorado and for the daily gang-banging and murdering that occurs every day in Barack Obama’s Chicago and throughout majority black inner-cities across the nation.   

Barack Obama: Failed Community Organizer, Failed President

How did half-black Barack Obama attempt to achieve the all-black “cred” required to pretend to become a black racial hero, to dupe the black community into voting for him, and to be elected the first inauthentically black president in United States history?

Community organizing.  That was his “thing.” As a community organizer, he hoped to charge into the south-side of Chicago, Jim Croce’s “baddest part of town,” to thunderous applause from the huddling masses.  With a little luck and a lot of self-promotion, he could set himself up for elective office and, eventually, for the ultimate elective office, the Oval Office. 

In Dreams from My Father, Barack Hussein, the would-be knight in shining black armor, wrote of his community organizing prowess saying he championed:

Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds. Change in the Congress, compliant and corrupt. Change in the mood of the country, manic and self-absorbed. Change won’t come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.”

So, what is Barack’s community organizing legacy?  Where did he lead Chicago?  More specifically, how did the Altgeld-Gardens section, the city section of his organizing efforts, turn out?        

According to http://homes.point2.com/Nei, today’s Altgeld-Gardens demographics are as follows, where 100 represents the national average and the higher the number, the worse the crime:

Total Crime Risk            232 Personal Crime Risk       361 Murder Risk                    435 Rape Risk                        315 Robbery Risk                  411 Assault Risk                    299 Property Crime Risk       146 Burglary Risk                  135 Larceny Risk                   108 Automotive Theft Risk   161

In short, Altgeld-Gardens affords its authentically black, biracial, white, and other citizens the unbridled opportunity to be three times more likely to be beaten or raped, over three and a half times the chance of being the victim of attempted and completed crimes, over four times more likely to be robbed, and over four and a third times greater likelihood of being slaughtered.

Slaughter is, in fact, is the operative word when one speaks of Chicago, so much so that on June 16, 2012, the Huffington Post wrote: “Chicago Homicide Rate Worse Than Kabul.”  Six days later that same Huffington Post promoted the opening of an University of Illinois at Chicago's Jane Addams Hull-House Museum exhibit suggesting that gang bangers should not be treated too harshly. 

The exhibit depicted

…the history and impact of the Conservative Vice Lords, one of the city's most well-known gangs.

And that history is, perhaps, a surprising one, according to Lisa Junkin, the museum's education coordinator and exhibit co-curator. Though the gang's predecessor (the Vice Lords) was a notoriously violent group, the '60s-era CVL were incorporated as a non-profit organization engaged in the civic life. Nevertheless, CVL members were targeted by police during the city's "war on gangs."

Junkin said the exhibition, which features photos, artifacts and audio interviews with former CVL members, "doesn't glorify or demonize gangs."

"Rather, it challenges widely held views of gang members as unredeemable thugs through an untold story of the Conservative Vice Lords fighting for the life of their community," she said in a release announcing the exhibit.

Regardless of the way they spin it, the street, especially the street kids, undoubtedly will romanticize the Conservative Vice Lords and be drawn to gangs no less, and probably more, than they would have had the exhibit never been promoted.

Those who spearheaded the gang exhibit continue the Barack Obama tradition of pandering to the “they’re not criminals, they’re our children” corps in order to win the affection of the black racial identity slavemasters who reign over the 33 percent African American city of Chicago

If there ever was a place that showed Barack Obama’s mettle, it is Chicago.  He served as a community organizer there; he taught there; his political campaigns have been based there; he was state senator there from 1997 to 2004 and its U.S. senator from 2005 to 2008; he was married there; his children were born there; and he has a home there.  Obama’s buddy and former White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is Chicago's current mayor.

Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama has helped Chicago just as much as he has helped our entire country.  If he is re-elected, God save us!

Mitt Romney and the NAACP: A Classic Black on White Double Bind

It is July 2012.  In about four months you will contend for the United States presidency.   Time and financial resources must be conserved and apportioned properly if you are to have any chance to unseat the incumbent president. 

You are invited to speak to a group with the following characteristics: members never have supported your party; 95 percent, at minimum, voted your opponent into office; has a history of opposing virtually everything that differentiates you from your opponent; applaud uproariously whenever your opponent addresses them; readily admit that their allegiance to your opponent is identity-based; has within its ranks an army of campaign workers, donors, and officials with social, political, and financial ties to your opponent; seize every opportunity to praise your opponent and his party and to criticize you and your party.

Do you need to conduct a rigorous cost-benefit analysis to decide whether you are best served by meeting with this group?

If you are Mitt Romney, despite all of the above, you do speak at the NAACP convention. 

What happens?  Surprise, surprise, you are booed and the booing becomes a headline for all manner of news media around the country and the world.  Moreover, the booing has been delivered by a minority group that repeatedly has complained that “the Democrats take us for granted and don’t address our needs.”   

I must wonder why the Democrat take-them-for-granted attitude persists.  Could it be that Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, et al know that the NAACP does not decide political issues based on logic but identity.  As long as the Democrat establishment panders to the NAACP personalities, their allegiance is guaranteed regardless of the Democrat agendas.

So, why did Romney bother to speak at the NAACP convention?  For the same reason that George W. Bush did in 2000: He would have been accused of not wanting to be inclusive of the black community.

The implicit requirement to kowtow, at least initially, to the NAACP is a classic double bind, a situation that I described in my book.   Romney’s address mostly provided an opportunity for the NAACP to disrespect him and for their meeting to receive enhanced press coverage by doing so.  On the other hand, if Romney not made the attempt, he would have been explicitly or indirectly accused of being racist.  exclusivist, elitist, and unwilling to “reach out” to the African American community. 

Now, this entire explanation is well known to everyone, but rarely discussed.  And that is the most damning aspect of this double bind.  If Mitt Romney or anyone connected to him dares raise the dammed if you do and damned if you don’t anti-white explanation, he is shouted down as promulgating racist propaganda.  No white person in authority can even talk about the racial game playing, since merely talking about it is ipso facto proof of the anti-black racism of the speaker.  That is merely one boldfaced example why the black-white divide persists in America.  No genuine racial reconciliation ever will occur until white people repeatedly and stridently talk about the racial double bind that they find themselves in. 

Should Romney be chosen president in November, no one could blame him for doing what George W. Bush did after he was elected: He never again spoke at an NAACP convention.