Post Alpaca Lips Posts

  Photo by   Mark Paton   on  Unsplash . First published on Medium . . Felons are the menace… But whites lock up Black Americans at almost four times the rate of whites because whites are   merely  colorblind to disparate impact and tone deaf to injustice. . I was cautious at one time… But recently, I threw my caution towel in to the wind. . What do we really know? And when will we ever care to really know it? . You should wear a mask to save others and yourself… Unless you’re all messed up like Texas. . Minnesota felons cannot vote because they are disproportionately Black Americans and American Indian. Voting is best done by those able to disproportionately lock up the most people they want disenfranchised. . COVID-19 has killed so many people… Not even Republicans can fathom it. . I broke the heart of the banking system. So now it wants to be home alone. . Experts are needed… Unless it is something like climate change or COVID-19, then pundits and politi...

A Drawing by my Dad , his story after 1st couple paragraphs,  not “meeting” he notes in next pic. First published on Medium . . In 1993 when I was thirty, I was calling around to find a job in the advertising industry. At the first place I called, the agency owner asked if I had a college degree. He said, “I should consider getting one, then call him back.” Can you say, a credentialed meritocracy slap-in-the-face, downer? If that agency was not my first call, I may have kept trying anyway, but I could already hear every future call in the same vain (in vein) in my head. That is what I get for having an overactive imagination. . When on the positive side of things, such an imagination is a wonderful thing. But bad vibes send it down the negative ramp faster than I can reel it back. I did have two years of college, a year of technical schooling in radio, six years in radio, and got kinda good at standup over four years in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Yet these accomplishments ...

The first thing many, maybe most whites will do is deny we have any riotous involvement. How could we Whites be the cause when we are hardly ever seen rioting? Yet there have been infinitesimally few riots where whites were not the central cause . While Ku Klux Klan- type white supremacy was often an instigator, it is the larger white supremacist cohort (see image text below) , which includes most white Americans throughout our history, that has created the greater context, the massive matrix of unlit matches you could say, especially today. Even when riots "instigated" by blacks are included in our rioting history, white structured society would be the true culprit of our significant riotous past, our very recent past as well . The evidence to support this claim is infinite, and begins below. The definition of the term riot can be narrowed down to limit the political formations of violence to exonerate state violence, or violence by preferred citizens. Instead I define ...