GRAB SOMETHING, A COFFEE, TEA…..A BLUNT…….something, because this is going to be a long one….and I want to start with this…..
WE SHOULD MEASURE….the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires…..but by the absence of poverty…..the prevalence of health….the efficiency of the public schools….and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books……W.E.B. Du Boise
A CHILD…..educated only at school….is an uneducated child
WHAT IS ORDINARY….is that people look for something special…..but what is special….is when people settle down in the ordinary
SO YOU DIDN’T LIKE THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW?…..that’s okay….because we didn’t like what you did to the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6th
IT’S THE SMALL HABITS….how you spend your mornings….how you talk to yourself…..what you read…..what you watch….who you share your energy with…..who has access to you…..that will change your life
BOSS:….I know it’s your day off but I need you to come in
ME:….sorry but I can’t…..I’ve already started drinking
BOSS:…..But it’s only 9am
ME:….Yeah, what’s your point?
SOMEHOW…..I’ve lucked out and have an 8-year-old…..who thinks secretly reading under the covers past her bedtime……is an act of rebellion…..and it hasn’t yet occurred to her….that her flashlight never seems to run out of batteries
WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU….that segregation was “so long ago”…..remember that Ruby Bridges is still alive and well
A PERSON WHO TRUSTS NO ONE NOW……once trusted someone…..fucking too much
BE BRAVE ENOUGH…..to suck at something new
OPERATOR:…..911, what’s your emergency?
MAN:…..a guy just got hit by a car and I need an ambulance
OPERATOR:….what’s your location?
MAN:….I’m on Eucalyptus street
OPERATOR:…..can you spell that for me?
MAN: (long awkward pause)
OPERATOR:….sir, are you there?
MAN:….I’m gonna drag him over to Pine street and call you right back
SOME PEOPLE…..refuse to be broke…..I refuse to be ignorant
APPARENTLY….when you treat people like they treat you…..they get upset
TONIGHT….we’re having Himalayan rabbit stew for dinner…..we found Himalayan in the road…..(Dave it’s nice to know…..you still stooooopid…..love ya!)
I’M ALWAYS “MORNING”…..instead of good morning…..because if it was a good morning….I would still be in my bed…..and not talking to people
I’M…..such a look at the moon person
SOME STRANGER…..somewhere remembers you…..because you were kind to them
YOU CALL THEM…..swear words….I call them…..sentence enhancers
A SCHOOL BUS DRIVER…..in Minnesota was shot in the head on Wednesday…..while young children were on board…..in other countries….that would dominate the national news….in America…..it’s just another day
I WENT TO THE PSYCHIATRIST TODAY…..she told me I had a split personality and charged me 160 dollars…..I gave her 80 dollars….and told her to get the rest from the other idiot
FRIEND:…..any plans for the weekend?
OTHER FRIEND:….Triathlon
FIREND:….wow….swim, cycle, run?
OTHER FRIEND:….no….book, bath, nap
SOMETIMES….people come into your life…..and they need to stop doing that
ME:….be kind…..you never know what someone is dealing with
ALSO ME:…..nice turn signal…..fuck face
AND MY FAVORITE…..
MY WIFE AND I…..got stuck in an elevator….and when we got home we told the story to our kids…..they looked at us and said….. “Sooooo….did ya get out?”…..my wife and I looked at each other and made a pact…..to go ahead…..and start drinking away their college fund……before I let you start your day…..I found this….in a few books collecting dust on our shelves……
ARISTOTLE…..labeled Africans “burnt faces” – the original meaning in Greek of “Ethiopian” – and viewed the ugly extremes of pale or dark skins as the effect of extreme cold and hot climates…..all of this was in the interest of normalizing Greek slaveholding practices and Greek’s rule over the western Mediterranean…..Aristotle situated the Greeks in their supreme, intermediate climate……as the most beautifully endowed superior rulers and enslavers of the word…. “Humanity is divided into two…..the masters and the slaves….or if one prefers….it is the Greeks and the Barbarians…..those who have the right to command….and those who are born to obey.”………..From their arrival around 1619……African people had illegally resisted legal slavery……they had thus been stamped from the beginning as criminals…..in all fifty suspected or actual slave revolts reported in the newspapers during the American colonial era…..resisting African were legally always casts as violent criminals…..not people reacting to enslaver’s regular brutality…..or pressing for the most basic human desire…..freedom…..(Stamped From the Beginning – Ibram X. Kendi)
NAZI STERILIZATION OF AFRO-GERMANS……In order to secure…the peaceful White settlement against the bad, culturally inept and predatory native tribe…..it is possible that its actual eradication may become necessary under certain conditions….(Dr. Paul Rohrbach)…….If you think that we scientists do not join in the call “Heil Hitler” you are very much mistaken…..we the German scientists are very much aware of what we owe to Adolf Hitler…..not the least the purification of our people from foreign-race elements…..whose way of thinking is not the one we have……(Dr. Theodor Mollison)…..We want to prevent…..poisoning the entire bloodstream of the race…..(Counselor of the Reich Ministry of the Interior)…….there’s not only an ideological unity between eugenicists in the U.S. and Germany…..but a direct and ongoing relationship from the turn of the century through the Nazi era…..Nürnberg laws and other statutes forbade the sexual liaison between Aryans and other races…..the Nazis wanted to guarantee that the generation of mixed African and German children living under National Socialism would be the last…..the racial attack on the Rhineland children and the use of a discourse on race driven by biology did not begin with the Nazi period in Germany……in three decades leading up to Hitler……thriving eugenics movements existed that produced a number of key race doctors who emerged in the 1930’s…..and the largest figure in Germany’s pantheon of eugenicists…..were trained in the United States…..(Hitler’s Black Victims – Clarence Lusane)
THE WHITE MAN’S GOD…..is just like the White man…..he thinks that he is the only God….just like the White man thinks he is the only man…..but the only reason he is God instead of Nyame or Chukwu or whoever is because we “let” him be…..we do not fight him….we do not ever question him….the White man told us he has the way and we said yes…..but when has the White man ever told us something was good for us and that things was really good?…..they say you are African witch…..and so what?…..who told them what a witch was?…..(Home Going – Yaa Gyasi)