I just grew more bitter
Wed Apr 30, 2008 at 04:00:45 AM PDT
In the early 1980’s when people were dying left and right from AIDs, it really was thought by many in my peer group to have been a government plot to rid the country of gay people. Some people thought that the virus was tested in the jails and then spread from there. No matter what the government says, deep inside, I do not believe them and have moved on.
This is what happens when you have no trust in your government.
Just look at the Iraq War.
No weapons of Mass Destruction.
No connection to AQ
Thousands dead and wounded, billions spent. Where did the money go? Who got paid?
8 years of making up shit and lying to the American people and the world.
Where is the outrage? No, Pastor Wright, who is not running for President, is way more important.
The media is in collusion with the government. It is just propaganda, pure and simple. There to distract us from the true issues, that matter.
Remember Iran-Contra? Bush Sr. and his cronies, selling cocaine to buy arms for the rebels in Nicaragua? If you were in NYC at that time, cocaine flooded the market. It was easy to get, everyone and their mother was selling it. Pink flake, blue flake... and the Contras got armed.
I totally believe that the government was in deep with the cocaine trade to get the money, that congress denied them, for arms to the rebels that they supported. It is not a big stretch for me because I do not trust the government. There are folks who think Oliver North is a hero instead of a coke dealer.
We do not torture. That is what Bush said right? And we do.
Where is this in your mainstream media? Oh, but it is not their job to report anything of value. Pastor Wright is way more newsworthy. I understand that their job is to get as many viewers as possible so their advertisers are happy and they make a profit. This is the mainstream media’s job. Not to be of service to the American people. Why in God’s earth do we think that or even expect it?
It is very easy for me not to believe in our Government. I just have to pay attention and there are glaring lies that have had a high human cost.
Iraq.
Farrakhan is a hero to many black Americans because of the service that the Nation of Islam has done in the African American community. Ed Rendall, Governor of PA thinks so as well. I grew up in Philadelphia, North "Vietnam" Philadelphia with bean pies, no eating pork relatives who are in the Nation of Islam and they are good people who are not racists. We didn’t sit around the dinner table and go, white people this, or white people that. But their experiences make them highly suspicious of white people and I cannot say I blame them. My life experience took me down a different road. My husband is European. But they welcomed him as if he were one of the family. No drama, no wringing of the hands and moaning, "What about the children????" That was my experience; some other person may have different experience.
Wright’s meet the press would have been more interesting if Clinton’s Coe and McCain’s Hagee and Parsley were there. Now that would have been something to watch and maybe comment on. Then we could see everyone’s Pastor. But just to have Wright was a hatchet job and just another thing for black people to be totally skeptical about the Status Quo and many people’s reaction to it. Oh no! The sky is falling.
For me, Wright is a non-issue. He is not running for President and it is a totally bankrupt media system to go on and on about it as if it were more important than torture, food and gas prices, the lies of Iraq, 500 billion dollar bailout of Wall Street, Clinton’s obliterate Iran and McCain’s bombing of Iran, healthcare, Veterans, War crimes...etc.
But I am not surprised. As a black person, I never thought the media had any of my interests at heart. I wonder when white people will finally get it? You are just consumers and sheep to them and they want to keep you nice and controlled with fear and shitty drama.
I denounce and repudiate the corporate media. They are a danger to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They just want to keep us fools and we let them, easily.
Pavlov's dogs anyone?
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