\u201cOh say can you see by the blood in the streets \/ That this place doesn\u2019t smile on you colored child \/ Whose blood built this land with sweat and their hands \/ But we\u2019ll die in this place and your memory erased \/ Oh say, does this truth hold any weight \/ This is not the land of the free, but the home of the slaves! “<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
There was a time when the folks running the sound system would have pulled the plug on this kind of crap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wasn\u2019t going to give this rancid bitch any more publicity but DAMN! Who the hell does she think she is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apparently, she was singing at the Essence Festival. Essence of what, stupidity<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n Hypocrisy much CUNT?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a rich ass bitch who, if she was enslaved, would be paying all her money to Massa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n More likely if she was enslaved and if America was everything that she and people like her believe. Not Black necessarily, but weak minded, idiots the progressive leftists have deluded and corrupted, she\u2019d be singing Camptown Races<\/em> picking cotton in the fields. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I thought a number of much stronger things than I have written above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then I thought \u201cWhy did we bother to fight the civil war? After the war, there were some who thought that the Africans should have been repatriated to their country but that was too expensive. There were others who thought that the Africans should be put down like diseased beasts in the fields.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cooler, kinder heads prevailed. Sure there were still issues in the South, members of the KKK wrapped themselves in bedsheets and did horrific things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But the incidents, while deplorable, were not nightly events contrary to what believers in the 1619 project might believe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Members of the KKK were farmers and businessmen after all, they had families to feed and business to attend to, they didn\u2019t have a lot of free time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s one of the problems with revisionist history. Mine, Yours, Governments, or anyone else\u2019s. There\u2019s a tendency to frame the events and the people in contemporary terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Farmers in 1866 got up at dawn, fed the animals, hooked up the Ox, or Donkey, or Horses, to the plow or other farm implement and plowed a large an area as they could physically work. At night, they might read a bit of the Bible, after a simple dinner and then they\u2019d go to sleep exhausted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From their plot of land, they fed their families. They prayed to have enough rain, that locusts wouldn\u2019t eat everything and hoped there\u2019d be enough to sell come harvest time, to buy what goods they needed for the winter and the next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They didn\u2019t have tractors, or much in the way of mechanized devices. They didn\u2019t live long. A simple cut could be a death sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The human equation was pretty simple. Work or Die. Just like all the rest of the animal kingdom. You have to realize that the term work encompasses hunting and gathering as surely as going to an office every day. Going to an office is just Hunting and gathering with extra steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even criminal enterprises like robbing a train is technically work. The thing to remember about criminal behavior in the streets or towns back then is; crime was dealt with in brutal fashion. You\u2019d be lucky to live long enough to see a judge or magistrate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The truth is; <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was then, and is even today, cheaper to put a bullet in someone\u2019s head, or cut it off, than it is to house them, feed them, and clothe them, in jail or prison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nobody gave you anything for free. That was pretty much a true statement right up until the 1930s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Farming wasn\u2019t the only option, but generally speaking no matter the profession, life was hard work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sure, there were some rich people, there are always rich people, but the average person was living hand to mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The lyrics this lady sings make it sound like slavery is still a thing in this country. That offends the shit out of me.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n Why aren\u2019t people like her singing about real slavery going on today in other countries? Why aren\u2019y people like her singing about child sex slavery south of the border and now moving north. Why aren\u2019t people like her applying their immense wealth to stopping any of this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh right these people are still bitching about something that happened 150 years ago. Something that no one alive today was a part of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This bitch has said publicly that she\u2019s considered leaving the USA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I say, \u201cyour terms are acceptable.\u201d I\u2019d love to see her hustled onto a plane, flown across the ocean and dropped in Lagos. Give her $100.00. Put all the rest of her money in trust to pay her debts off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps I\u2019m being cruel. But I have gotten really sick and tired of this kind of shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, we have problems, but what these people are doing isn\u2019t helping anybody at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope her career crashes and burns. I don\u2019t listen to R&B so I can\u2019t boycott her. 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