I was born with a Black card. I use it righteously when and as needed, and here is my spin on Omarosa’s recent public self-devaluation.
On the surface, it is easy to spell out.
There are and always will be a few major keywords used by white corporate America and their extremist rightwing associations when it comes to Black women who start spilling the truth after it’s way too little far too late.
Those words are … “Angry,” “crazy,” “delusional,” “bitter,” “liar,” and “disgruntled.”
Once you see the word “disgruntled,” that’s a biggie smalls...just know that the crazy delusional bitter liar is telling the ABSOLUTE truth even if it is too late. It’s like a conspiracy theory—most of them turn out to be true in the end.
Opportunism
Omarosa being an opportunist is beside the point when it comes to the loss of her momentary case-restrictive Black Card.
Yes, she had one when the obvious racism behind her appearance on Reality Show stupid (starring Donald Trump) was fraught with it. She lost that Black Card when she followed Trump down the Yellow Brick Road looking for something that we already knew wasn’t hers. People who lose their Black Card have lost their courage, their heart AND their brains long before it gets revoked.
Omarosa not only lost her brains, but like OJ Simpson, she also lost her MIND by reaching for them there Trumpanzee carrot sticks they shoveled at her just for public credibility. Who’s zooming who? exactly? Because the majority of Black folks are thinking “They’ve all lost their minds” when they’re thinking “All we need to do is put a few Negro star-shaped scratch’n’sniff stickers on our sleeves and they will roll over and drool.”
Black America is a LONG-suffering people who put up with a LOT of sh*+ before we dust someone off for good. She had to seriously eff up to lose her Black card.
When a Black person uses their racial privilege in a lily-white world to gain access to something, there is a Michelle Obama-esque opportunity they should not take for granted. Even our First Lady had the sense enough to know that she was raising two young Black women in a world that wakes up and takes a daily prescribed dose of racism just to find their own place in a senseless endeavor.
Money and fame has never been an escape valve for racism, so the REAL opportunity came when Omarosa had an obligation to set an example for other young Black women of her demeanor and standing and refused to do so.
Attitude was everything and she took a wrong turn at MeMeMeAllMeMineMyself Parkway.
The Opportunity of Blackness in a White Man’s World
You know why Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura of Star Trek fame, still gets applause and accolades from people of all races whenever she enters a room? Because she isn’t Omarosa.
She is and was the First Lady of Black Television because she was only one of a thimble full who did not become a racist stereotype in her role.
She was beautiful and intelligent and she wasn’t the only one in the world, but she was one of less than five who had a media-specific chance to prove it. She took her role both as a Black woman and as a tremendously famous woman seriously, and during a time when the nation was heavily steeped in the Tea Party of racism and misogyny. There has not been a lot of forward-shifting on those two things since she retired so long ago.
The story goes that Nichols was about to quit the show because William “Bill” Shatner a/k/a “Capt. Kirk,” was an over-bloated egorific narcissist, to put it politely. She hated him and she wasn’t the only co-star who didn’t have much to say about him that was nice.
But she got that “3AM Negro Wakeup Call” from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself. Shatner may not have cared whether she left or stayed on, but Dr. King did.
His words to her [paraphrased]: “You are setting one of the few examples we have of a standard of truth about intelligent and beautiful Black women at this time in history. You are in a place where no other Black women have gone before and these young girls look up to you to find their place in a world that hates them just for being born.”
At the time, Shatner, to his credit, was only one of less than five white men in Hollywood who gave a flying dang about Black women and their media images. Andy Griffith and Rod Serling were the two others. Norman Lear would come along later, but these white men of the 1960s were up on their A-game on race on television before we ever got around to “The Jeffersons,” “Maude,” and even “All In The Family” in the 1970s.
I was one of those young Black Girls Dr. King was trying to protect
Of course he was thinking of his own daughters, Yolanda and Bernice, but by the time I was 12, I knew I was going to work at NASA one day.
And I was told it could never be.
True enough, it took all of these 50 years later to discover that NASA had a closed closet filled with Black female “computers” at the time, (“HIDDEN FIGURES”), but I didn’t come from a state nor a city nor a family that was big on encouraging young Black girls to excel and become great achievers either.
Side Note: Katherine Johnson turns 100 years old in 13 days.
Happy Pre-lated Birthday to her!!!
The Omarosa Effect on Black Womanhood
History will tell us that Omarosa is an overglazed donut dud on the Black woman imagery scale.
She didn’t just lose her Black Card, she lost her soul on the day she heard the N-word inside Trump’s Crony Quarters and did not walk out and spill when it happened. She had a responsibility to toss his behind in an ashcan BACK THEN and did not do it.
There is no doubt whatsoever that Omarosa is telling the truth in her own disgruntled way, the PROBLEM is that her intention was to stay there and keep acting as if she was above it all when we already knew what she was about to get hit with before it happened.
Omarosa lost her Black Card the same way Oprah did — when her money and prestige became more important than the truth about being a Black woman in a white man’s America. Margaret Sanger, founder of what is now know as Planned Parenthood, even did a better job of spelling that out and Black people think she was a hardcore advocate of American eugenics. #not
The Becky and sally ‘DingDong’ Effect on Black Womanhood
Who did not see the handwriting on the wall with Omarosa?
We, as Black women, knew that Kelly Anne who came in with her and Sarah “Sue” who came in after her would still be there long after she was gone.
We knew she wasn’t there for her POLITICAL experience, so regardless of her perceived professionalism, she had no standing -known or otherwise- with the Black community to liase for Trump. That fish was belly-up in the water before she got there, but she would have had her cult fan club. They can’t help themselves.
A white supremacist like John Kelly will always see her and anyone like her as the ‘cockroach on the wall’ no matter what she does or doesn’t do, right, wrong, or somewhere in between.
The time bomb was ticking the moment she walked through the door and we were all sitting here waiting on it. Who didn’t get the memo?
Tick tock tick tock, BOOM, there it is.
It’s like this …
Both Bill Cosby and Donald Trump were the same rapists in the same rooms often at the same time swapping spit in those Hugh Hefner/Heidi Fleiss/Larry Flynt Ho-mansions on the Hill. Yet and still, Cosby had his own special platform and courtroom timelines removed from the statute of limitations in order to accommodate his skin color for the purpose of a conviction. Trump’s skin color ascended him to the White House at the same time, even with the exact same reputation and accusations flapping at his coat tails.
It was his way of telling Bill Cosby, “See I win, no matter what. I can shoot someone down in the middle of Wall Street and still get elected President. You do it, you go to prison.” Even a doctorate degree, a rock solid reputation as a father, and a European government slave name like “Bill” didn’t place Cosby as a racial equal to Trump.
In the end...
Becky and Sally don’t have the education or the knowledge nor the experience of an Omarosa, nor do they have to have it. Becky Barb and Sally Sue Lumpjump will stay there long after an Omarosa type leaves … because, well, in short, SKIN COLOR.
If those Cosby/Trump girls looking for insider sexual favors and fame but screaming rape on Cosby’s dime at Trump’s bidding had all been Omarosa’s type, the judges, the lawyers AND the at-large public would have looked the other way a long time ago.
In Black skin, they are/were all ‘crazy jezebels,’ ‘bitter ho’s,’ ‘delusional sluts,’ ‘angry prostitutes’ and overall ‘wholesale liars’ (-ALL of them at the same time-) … in an SEO keyword, “disgruntled.” — WITH A SIDE ORDER OF ‘BAD ATTITUDE’: Code for “Black Female with a justifiable ax to grind.”
NATIONAL SECURITY: high-ho the dairy-o
That “leaky colander” in the White House can’t be tied to national security, they don’t have any of that left. But Black people have always seen this country for what it truly is and you simply can’t make it great “again” when it wasn’t all that great in the first place.
Not even Black evangelical pastors, Kanye West, and the Chief Chicken George in Charge, Steve Harvey, can fix that.
What is National Security to a Kardashian who can pretend to go to the White House (where she would never have been on Michelle Obama’s watch) and act like she’s saving the life of a Black woman from a wrongful conviction? NO President in the history of presidents -even those who were bona fide backdoor johns- needed the permission of a known prostitute to give him head—way to pardon a person under the penetration, I mean control, of a federal penile, I mean penal, institution.
If that wasn’t a "Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky” thoroughbred white female privilege moment in history, then Lewinsky doesn’t exist.
Back to Reality and away from the Reality Monkey Show in Washington
We’re down to Robert Mueller, who, for all appearances, seems to be the Chief Strategist playing chess-not-checkers with Trump.
Simplistically enough, I would also pick off all the king’s men first and go for the king’s horses (his stable of women who desire nothing more in life than to be p-grabbed by him) afterward. It’s the only way to topple Humpty ‘Three-Chins’ Dumpty at this point.
The Klanswoman brigade, folks like ‘Kreepy-Anne’ Conway and Sarah ‘Chuckabee Slanders’, who have nothing close to Omarosa Manigault-Newman’s skills and education, are Trump’s true stronghold right now and are still of use to him. Until they’re not.
Yet and still, his flagrantly misogynist flabby behind still can’t see that they are his only case in point for maintaining a white supremacist stronghold in America.
When Mueller is done with them all, they will have nothing left to fall backward on except a pre-sharpened blade of lunatic martyress sacrifice.
They are not an educated breed of women, nor are they experienced or adept at anything except holding up cracked walls of criminality and pretending they’re cute while doing it. That is all they are there for, to do for Trump what a man cannot do for Trump.
NOT EVEN ON TRUMP’S BEHALF DOES THIS FARE WELL WITH WHITE MEN
This is not good, not even for white supremacists, because in the end, if Trump has not broken any laws, then the laws stand no more. They simply don’t exist and can’t be taken seriously ever again.
Take the race piece off the table and all you have is a bunch of Klannish white boys who fell off the wagon of grace and political astuteness just because of Trump.
With that, their OWN credibility is shot and so is the “Yankee Doodle Dandy” that came with them. So …
Until the cheese is left standing alone, Maestro Lawrence Welk and I bid you
“ADIOS”, “AU REVOIR”, “AUF WIEDERSEHEN”.
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Tuesday, Aug 14, 2018 · 5:08:38 PM +00:00
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Marjani
CAVEAT — Giving Credit Where Credit is Due:
As much as we love to hate Omarosa for following that squealing pig Trump into the White House in the first place, we have to admit that this is the week she sat Trump on his ass, regardless of what we think about her personal ethics and morality as an American Black woman.