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POLITICAL PROPHECY

 

As usual, Tubularsock was minding Tubularsock’s own business while sitting in Tubularsock’s top floor corner office in Tubularsock’s underground bunker that overlooks Washington, D.C. (see Bunker Tour).

And through the grape vine the following information was passed along after Tubularsock’s second glass of wine.

It pertains to Octavia Butler who was a Black visionary and a novelist as well and she put forth some excellent thoughts that apply today more than ever even though she died in 2006.

 

 

Ruminate on this gem,

“To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”

That pretty much covers most of the Presidents of the United States and is even more poignant at this moment in time.

But the REAL thought provoker for Tubularsock is this statement that encapsulates our present moment.

“When vision fails 
Direction is lost.

When direction is lost
 Purpose may be forgotten.

When purpose is forgotten
 Emotion rules alone.

When emotion rules alone,


Destruction… destruction.”

Tubularsock is sure you have noticed that WE as a nation HAVE NO VISION.

Trump wants to take the nation to the brink of destruction

AND

Biden wants to take us BACK to the same economic and foreign affair policies that lead the nation to even consider Trump.

And not to beat a dead horse,

WE as a nation HAVE NO VISION.

So here we are floundering and why is that?

Well Tubularsock has thought long a hard about our predicament and it really comes down to this ……… it is not the leaders that are the problem.

The leaders are just the reflection of those who put them in office!

THE PROBLEM IS US! And the problem exists because the citizens don’t take responsibility and rather than DEMAND good leadership we acquiesce to the default position …….. “the lessor of the two evils” AND THAT IS WHAT WE GET!

In Octavia Butler’s last novel published in 1998, Parable of the Talents, she introduced a situation that occurs in 2032 where a Black woman protagonist, Lauren Olamina, located in Northern California had to provide refuge for outcasts facing persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative president who vows to “make America great again.” And President Jarret’s reign of terror and oppression targets a minority religious faction led by a young black woman that Olamina was protecting.

Interesting, yes?

Remember that it was Ronald Reagan that coined the slogan “make America great again” back in 1980 and it is possible that Butler just projected this future President basing him on what she was seeing during the Reagan Administration.

LET Alzheimer RULE!

OR just maybe by 2023 the way things are going, none of this will really matter because

“When emotion rules alone,


Destruction… destruction.”

 

KAMALA HARRIS: THE BUS STOPS HERE!

 

Now isn’t America Great?

One moment you’re a little black girl being bused to a white school and the big old evil white man is attempting to stop the little girl and in the process praising segregationists.

And the next minute the big old evil white man is surrounded by Black children on a playground pronouncing that, “I love little children sitting on my lap”.

AND BAM ……… Kamala Harris becomes Joe Biden’s VP pick.

Gag Tubularsock with a spoon …………..

But hell it fits ……… A white guy who discouraged busing and passionately passing a crime bill that put more Blacks in jail than ever before and a mixed Black-Jamaican/Asian-Indian who helped put a huge numbers of Blacks into jail in California as well as working in court to uphold California’s death penalty, despite her personal opposition, and for her threats to jail parents of chronically truant schoolchildren.

Guess Black Lives Don’t Matter after all.

Anyway, does it matter?

There is no surprise here. The writing was on the wall the entire time. Kamala was able to turn, twist and sell out the few principled beliefs she held to be picked by the no principled doddering old white dude. The corrupt Corporate Democraps stand firm and are prepared to fuck over the working class in the name of …. “we are better fuckers than the corrupt Republican’ts”!

The bottom line YOU lose!

But not all is lost.

Looking for the silver lining?

Stay tuned ……… Remember, the fat lady STILL hasn’t sung yet!

Aunt Jemima: PANCAKE LIES MATTER!

Now just hold on a minute! Tubularsock’s White Privilege is being stepped on and there is just no call for it!

Ok. Ripping down Confederate Generals statuary and tossing them into to the dust bin of history is OK with Tubularsock.

But melting down ALL those fucking American Generals and all that statuary with the lowly solider sacrificing to get the fucking imperialist flag to the top of the hill as a symbol of “winning” must be destroyed as well.

Just promoting that shit should be a fraudulent offense with substantial prison time.

And while Tubularsock is at it, lets remove and destroy all that statuary that show all those abolitionists promoting freedom from slavery!

And all those bronze lifeless slaves reaching dramatically for freedom frozen in time does not improve the facts on the ground!

So get busy right now. There is something scary about a society that will spend its money on bronzing the past and not changing it in real time. It is looking and idealizing in the WRONG direction!

Which of course leads us directly to Aunt Jemima.

Aunt Jemima isn’t the old school Aunt Jemima with the “do rag” on her head and a skillet in her hand any more. They (the corporate interests) upgraded Jemima all the way back in 1989! Her label image looks more like Doris Day, a solid white lady!

Get up to date!

Now there is no question that there is a racial stereotype built into Aunt Jemima that carries the idea that Black woman are caretakers and great cooks and great storytellers.

Wow. We all know that those stereotypes are JUST NOT TRUE! Right?

Especially if you spend any time around Black women. They yell at their children, they sit like fat queens on their welfare couches sucking in the government dole, and they argue with their deadbeat husbands constantly. Right? Hmmm.

That may be just a different stereotype which when it comes to any subject, the view always comes from the viewer. And is ALWAYS loaded with the viewer’s beliefs and prejudices. Not very solid in facts as it comes from the eye of the beholder now is it.

But there are some facts that do exist around Aunt Jemima which are fascinating. Some of those facts may have been overlooked. And those facts go like this.

In 1889, Aunt Jemima became a pancake mix spokeswoman for the Peal Milling Company but that Aunt Jemima was based on a minstrel show performance where a white male actor would, dressed as a woman in black face to perform the Aunt Jemima character.

Though popular in Minstrel Shows which at time were horrendously racist this Aunt Jemima rendition didn’t really work as a pancake mix promotional technique.

However after Peal Milling sold to R.T. Davis Milling Company, the new company hired a “real-life former slave” named Nancy Green who for the next 33 years would work as “Aunt Jemima” and would conduct pancake seminars at fairs and travel to towns across America to spread the word about the pancake mix.

Lets ponder that for just a minute. A former BLACK slave was hired for 33 years to act out a part to sell pancake mix.

Employment for 33 years. And a BLACK woman in the 1890’s!

From another point of view, talk about the power of women and feminist freedom rather than “slavery” and this story becomes pretty much a success story.

It is all in the way one wants to views it.

After Quaker Oats bought R.T. Davis Milling Company, which by this time had changed its name to Aunt Jemima Mills Co., there was no real life person “playing” Aunt Jemima for the next decade except for a short time.

Between 1933 to 1935, Anna Robinson played the character for Quaker Oats until she was replaced by Anna Short Harrington.

Anna Short Harrington came from being a sharecropper with her husband and raising five children to being hired by Quaker Oats Co. as the new Aunt Jemima around 1935.

“Chauffeured or flown by jet around the country, Harrington served Aunt Jemima–brand pancake mix at store openings and other public events, living a lifestyle that eluded most blacks and whites. By the time of her death, the former sharecropper owned two homes and lived in an area occupied by the black elite of Syracuse.” (South Carolina Encyclopedia)

Again, a former BLACK sharecropper HIRED for nearly 20 years to act out a part to sell pancake mix.

Employment nearly 20 years. And a BLACK woman in the 1930’s!

It is all in the way you look at Aunt Jemima.

Racial stereotype, or employment opportunity.

In 1989, Quaker Oats updated Aunt Jemima’s look from the “do rag” head gear to a more modern “Doris Day” look.

Using Harrington’s youngest daughter Olivia Hunter as the “new-modern-look” of Aunt Jemima.

And now there is a call to boycott Aunt Jemima products because of the Black Lives Matter movement

position that ahhhh ………. well pretty much a silly waste of energy and direction.

 

Maybe AUNT WHITE BETTY’S pancake mix would be a better name anyway. Even if it would end black female employment!

Guess it is all in the way you look at it!