The legend of Wesley Snipes...

This is the second part of an e-book I'll be offering for free on Black revolutionaries and their contributions to the diaspora. 

The first part of this e-book is a short bio on Dave Chappelle and his refusal to follow the dictates of emasculating white supremacists. I'll leave a link for that post at the end of this one. 

And if you're wondering why I'm calling brotha Wesley a revolutionary, especially in light of his recent problems with the IRS, I'm about to tell ya'...

So without further ado...here's Part 2:

Recently, I watched Spike Lee's documentary on the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson's 'Bad' album. 

About a third of the way through, Spike showed behind the scenes footage of the 'Bad' video, that aired in 1987. 

And in one scene, Martin Scorsese, who I can't stand by the way, told the story of how Wesley was the clear choice for playing Michael's nemesis in the short film. Now, I'm sure Wesley's acting was clearly up to par, but after viewing the video again, I saw that Scorsese gave the part to Wesley because of his darker skin tone.

Remember, the white elite always wants to keep a Black face on crime; and the darker, the better. But if you watch that video, Wesley gives a stellar performance despite Scorsese's ulterior motives. 

With this video, in one fatal swoop, Scorsese wanted to portray all of darker-skinned Black men as 'nightmares to humanity' (shout out to Tupac for this term...look this up in his poem 'And Tommorrow'), but what Wesley went on to do was give darker-skinned Black men a sexier image than they'd had in years; and his acting career went much farther than Scorsese, or any of Wesley's peers potentially thought it ever would.  

With that said, let's take a look back at Wesley's beginnings...

Wesley Trent Snipes was born on July 31st, 1962 in Orlando, Florida; his father Wesley R. Snipes Sr. was an aircraft engineer and his mother Marian Snipes was a teacher's assistant. 

Shortly after his birth, he and his parents moved to the Bronx, New York where Wesley was raised. 

Showing an early aptitude for acting, Wesley eventually was accepted into New York's Fiorello H. Laguardia's School for the performing arts...better known as the 'Fame' school, for the movie that was eventually made about it. 

After graduating high school, Wesley attended college in Florida; he then moved back to NYC and studied acting at the State University of New York's (SUNY) Purchase College. Shortly thereafter, he also attended classes at Southwest College in L.A.

At 23 he acquired an agent and was cast in his film debut 'Wildcats' with Goldie Hawn. This was a very forgettable film, but it got Wesley's foot in the door. 

After appearing in an episode of Miami Vice, Wesley was cast in Michael Jackson's 'Bad' video. And this is where Spike Lee first saw him. 

Spike offered Wesley a small part in 'Do The Right Thing', but he declined; choosing instead to play 'Willie Mays Hayes' in the film 'Major League'. 

Major League was a hit and went on to spawn a sequel; and this was the first in a succession of mainstream films Wesley was in, like Spike Lee's 'Mo' Better Blues' and 'Jungle Fever'. But it was his next film that cemented his legendary status as a full-fledged star. 

New Jack City was the directorial debut of Mario Van Peebles. Mario's father Melvin, gave us cinematic gems like 'Sweet Sweetback's Badassss song' and 'Watermelon Man'; both classics. And his son Mario, hit a home run his first time out with this flick. 

Released in 1991, the film got it's name from the screenwriter Barry Michael Cooper, who is a New York based journalist. Barry conceived this script from his front page article in NYC's Village Voice newspaper; it's title being: 'Kid's killing kids: New Jack City eats its young'.

Barry says he thought about the 'new jack' gangsters who replaced the likes of Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes in Harlem. He also thought of Teddy Riley's popular music called the 'new jack swing' at the time; hence how he arrived at the term 'New Jack City'. 

Coincidentally, Barry also scripted the films 'Above the rim' and 'Sugar Hill'; he's also credited as the first Black scriptwriter in history to have two films produced in one year; those being the ones mentioned above which were both completed in 1994.

New Jack City was the highest grossing independent film of 1991. It was made for approximately 8 million dollars and it grossed nearly 47 million domestically. 

I always wondered why Mario Van Peeble's was never able to recreate the magic he'd made with 'New Jack'; I didn't realize at the time that the most important element of movie making, is the writing of the script. I remember Keanu Reeves didn't take the easy payday of 'Speed 2' because he emphatically said that the script was subpar. But back to Wesley... 

In 1991, Black moviegoers had basically two choices when it came to cinema fare. These were the stories of self-destructive, gun-wielding, miserably poor and under-privileged tenement dwelling Black people ala 'Boyz in the hood' and 'Straight outta' Brooklyn'; or movies about white male action heros ala 'Terminator 2', Jean-Claude Van Damme's 'Double Impact' or Steven Seagal's 'Out for justice'. 

Even the films oriented towards more of a 'mainstream' Black audience like 'House Party 2' and 'Strictly Business', which are good movies by the way, especially Strictly Business...who could forget Wayman Tisdale? These films seemed to have effeminate or emasculated Black men as protagonists.

Wesley's portrayal of 'Nino Brown', while incredibly notorious, was the first time since the halcyon days of 'Black exploitation' films, that we'd seen a mentally strong and powerful Black man at the helm of any organization. 

Now, understand, I'm not praising Nino's character being a drug dealer, but it was the first time in a long while that we'd seen a darker-skinned Black man who was hyper-fit, fearless and forward thinking.   

And combined with Wesley's acting prowess and charisma, it made Nino's character nothing short of mesmerizing. 

Shortly after 'New Jack' became a classic, Wesley's on-screen presence was slowly turning him into a major action star. This was a title usually reserved for white men. And for anyone over 30, you should remember that back in the late 80's and 90's, a Black man had to be lighter-skinned and very european looking to be considered attractive.

Wesley broke down this barrier, the same way Sidney Portier had done decades before. Black people were finally seeing their darker skin as an asset instead of a liability. 

Moreover, with movies like 'White men can't jump', 'Rising Sun', 'Demolition Man' and 'Passenger 57', Wesley was becoming a bonafide sex symbol. 

I have to include this side note...I remember the scene in 'White men can't jump' when Woody Harrelson's character uttered the phrase, "You'd rather look good and lose, than look bad and win..." pertaining to Black people; and it adversely affected me. 

At the time I was an anglophile, so that really reinforced the white supremacist, school system induced self-hatred that our people are kept in. 

Fast forward decades later, and I see how white elites have shut down this government because Obama's health care initiatives have become law. 

So that says what? 

It says that whites would rather lose with a white man (Bush Jr.'s health care system and how it was bankrupting white americans), than win with a Black man (Obama's health care initiatives which would help the majority of poor and working class whites). But I digress...

In 1998 Wesley starred in the movie 'Blade'; and this film showed Wesley at the peak of his powers.

It was his largest success grossing $150 million worldwide, and behind this Wesley received a star on the Hollywood 'Walk of fame' and an honorary doctorate from his alma mater SUNY Purchase college.  

Blade combined Wesley's athleticism with his strong acting skills and his martial arts training. This is why his fight scenes looked so believable, even though he was playing a superhero (or super'Heru'...again, Heru was one of our ancient ancestor's deities, and this is where we get the word 'hero' from).

Black people had never had a film's superhero they could relate to, or who our young people thought was genuinely 'cool'; Wesley's Blade changed that. 

And speaking of Wesley's martial arts training, I never knew how extensive it was until I did the research for this post. His martial arts pedigree looks like this: Beyond Wesley being trained in the martial arts since the age of 12, he holds a fifth degree Black belt in Shotokan Karate and a second degree Black belt in the martial discipline of Hapkido. His other training includes, belts in Kung Fu, his membership with the u.s. branch of the Shaolin Temple and training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. 

*One more side note: The origins of 'martial arts' are African. The word 'martial' comes from the ancient African word 'Montu', as in the 'Montu' arts; and this is where I got the first part of my pseudonym (or pseudo-name) from. 

The word 'Uhuru' is a Swahili word meaning freedom.

So the first part of my name (MontUHURU) literally means 'fight for freedom'...if anyone wanted to know. 

Back to Wesley in 'Blade'...the reason the sequels never lived up to the first movie, is 'cause the white elites didn't want a darker-skinned, hyper-masculine Black man to be that attractive to the youth. We have to be kept loving whites...so the Blade sequels included Wesley joining with white groups in order to fight off vampire plaques.  

So much so, that Wesley sued New Line Cinema in 2005 for not receiving his full salary, being kept out of important casting decisions and for the studio's cutting his screen time in favor of his white co-stars Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel. 

Okay, now let's discuss what everyone's really wanting to read about...Wesley's travails with the IRS. 

Firstly, let's start with this preamble: In the 1990's Wesley and his brother started a security firm called 'The Royal Guard of Amen-Ra' which provided VIP bodyguards trained in law enforcement. Mind you, 'Ra' is our ancient ancestor's name for the sun or the Sun-God; so Wesley is very knowledgeable about his/our ancestors.  

Amen-Ra was also the name of Wesley's film company, which produced a great documentary about the Black nationalist elder Dr. John Henry Clarke called 'A great and mighty walk'. This doc is on YouTube and is definitely worth a viewing. 

The Amen-Ra company has offices in Florida, Antiqua and Africa. 

Now, Wesley, along with his tax advisers, were invoking what's known as the '861 Position' as defined by america's Federal Tax Code. 

Adherents say this provision, does not list wages as taxable. So Wesley was essentially making a case against having his company's wages taxed.

Now, what he was doing WAS legal; and he had very good advisers processing his paperwork to have this done correctly. 

Problem is, no matter how right Wesley and his team were, this government was going to make an example of him, for fear of other people following his lead. 

This is why I call Wesley a revolutionary, because he was seeking sovereignty over himself and his wages that people are being unfairly taxed with everyday. 

*Side Note: Wesley also bought property in Atlanta, Georgia for the expressed purpose of building a facility where he could specially train security personnel for 'The Royal Guard of Amen-Ra'. After he did this, this government definitely had him under a microscope; 'cause that kind of 'security personnel' sounds too much like an army. 

Wesley not only purchased the Atlanta, GA property, but he opened one of his company's offices in Africa (his return to Africa, just like Dave Chappelle). 

Wesley did all this to further liberate himself from the government sham of his corporate 'strawman'; and I'll explain what that is in a second. 

Now, let's discuss what Wesley was and was not convicted of. 

The felony charges of conspiracy to commit tax fraud and failure to file a tax return were dropped in court. Also, three of the six tax fraud misdemeanors he was charged with were dropped. 

He was convicted however of three misdemeanors, and he received a years sentence for each one. Mind you, misdemeanor charges don't usually require you to do time, especially if you can post bail. But again, they had to make an example of brotha Wesley, so that's what they did. 

Now, in my past posts I've said Black people have lost more to self-hatred than anything else, and Wesley's case is a prime example of that; 'cause it was one person's self-hatred that put this whole witch-hunt in motion. And let me tell you how.

Now, after Wesley's tax advisory team devised a strategy to legally shelter his company from being taxed, Wesley flew the whole staff of his company, Amen-Ra, to the west coast for a meeting. 

At this meeting he detailed to his staff how he wasn't going to take taxes out of their paychecks anymore, and  his tax advisers listed case study after case study of how and why this was legal. 

But there was one anglophilic black person who insisted they wanted to pay taxes. So this person stayed with Amen-Ra, hired a C.P.A. and told that person they wanted to start the process of having their wages taxed. They also mentioned that they worked for the actor Wesley Snipes and he and his company didn't intend to pay taxes. So, this white C.P.A. called the IRS, indictments came down and the rest is history. 

Mind you, if this person was so scared of getting in trouble, why didn't they leave the company?

But this person was very vocal about wanting to pay their taxes, so Wesley should have found a constructive way to get them the hell out of his organization. I think this was Wesley's biggest mistake.   

Now, I commented on Wesley wanting to gain sovereignty from his 'strawman' earlier. So let me explain what that is. 

Ever wonder why your name appears in all capital letters on your social security number, or your birth certificate?

It's because that's NOT you...this is the corporate fiction the white elite have set up that's known to the sovereign community as the 'strawman'. 

When you're born, you're a free, sentient being that is not under the elites control. So in order for the elites to be able to levy assorted taxes and fees on your 'freeman', or your free and unbound human body, they've set up this corporate fictionalized version of you, so you in effect can pay this corporation's debts and be under the control of whatever elitest construct your born into; whether it be europrean, asian, american, etc. 

This is your 'strawman'. 

Remember the whole debacle some time ago about corporations being given the same rights as people...that's what this basically is. 

And how do they get you to comply with this elitist sham? Your parents comply as soon as they sign your birth certificate. Which really isn't giving you a choice at all. And, without knowing it, what your parents are doing is signing you, their child, away as a ward of the state. Meaning you really belong to them. 

Whenever you register something, your basically transferring ownership of that property over to the government. That's what the word 'registration' really means; and this goes for your house, your car, your child, etc. 

And if you remember the 'Wizard of Oz', the scarecrow, or the 'strawman'...had NO BRAIN. This is what white supremacists/elitist governments think of any working class person. 

But the real triumph of Wesley Snipes...besides the fact that he was released from prison recently; is that he's heeding the call of our ancestors and showing us the initiatives we need to take to get free from whatever oppressive corporation/country we find ourselves tethered to. 

Black men being the most reviled persons in this world have the most to lose when it comes to railing against this white supremacist system. And it's Black men like Wesley, Dave Chappelle and Kat Williams who are the ones defying the elitist status quo. 

That's gansta.

Wesley not only took the steps to get himself, his company and a lot of his people free, but he's showing us that with careful measures, it's worth doing.  Actually, it's IMPERATIVE that we get it done.

Now, I know what you're saying, you're thinking...this guy went to jail, how's he suppose to be an inspiration to any Black person? 

And I'm saying the reason he went to jail is because, he's found a way to actually use this government's tax codes against them, to benefit us. 

He was incarcerated, because what he did WORKED; and the white elites don't want anyone else to follow his lead. 

So it's up to Black people to take up the challenge of owning as much of themselves as possible. To REALLY GET FREE. 

Not free to choose between prada and gucci, but free to dig into the guts of this government's laws and really make them work for us.

'Cause if anyone is owed reparations in america, or owed an across the board tax exemption, it's Black people. 

And Wesley's actions are reminding us that sheltering our taxes and/or pursuing financial and mental freedom, is something we should be doing everyday. 

So let's get to work. 

HOTEP and KEM WESIR to the NETJER/NAGA/NEGUS/GOD, and legend, Wesley Snipes!

P.S.

If you'd like to read the first part of this e-book, which is a short bio on Dave Chappelle, you can find it here.

The white elites aren't just doing this to Black men, they're actually going after sistas too. Read my post on what sista Lauryn Hill is being put through here.

Financial crimes and the Black 'triple' standard (Part 1)...Lauryn Hill

In the case of Black people who are associated with financial crimes, there's not only a double standard, there's a 'triple' standard.
--MontUHURU Mimia

This is the first part of an e-book I'll release dealing with the inequities involved with Black people who are convicted of financial crimes. 

This tome will be comprised of three short bios that will chronicle the lives of Lauryn Hill, Wesley Snipes and Jamie Dimon (former JPMorgan Chase CEO). And it will show how absurd the american (in)justice system is in it's dealings with Black people accused of crimes involving pretty paltry sums, while Wall Street and corporate executives who create myriad financial meltdowns that nearly tank this economy, seem to get a free pass. 

It's crazy to me that not one Wall Street executive went to jail behind their part in the 2008 financial crisis. I just recently found out that the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) and the IRS have an ANTITRUST CORPORATE LENIENCY PROGRAM...a 'LENIENCY' PROGRAM!! Basically this means corporate crooks can confess to a financial crime and government regulators who should lock them up, actually work with them to draw up installment plans so they can pay back what they stole; while they remain free. 

Unfreakin' believable.

The first part of this looks at Lauryn Hill and her troubles with the american injustice system. You almost expect this country to be hard on brothas, but when they start lockin' up sistas...especially young mothers to boot, it says to Black people that we really need to get on the move and make some real changes. 

So here's part one, hope ya' like it:

Lauryn Hill was born on May 26th, 1975; she was raised in South Orange, New Jersey and grew up in a musical family who encouraged her artistic endeavors. Lauryn had early success as a young actress when she landed a recurring role in the TV soap opera 'As the world turns'; she also played opposite Whoopi Goldberg in 'Sister Act 2: Back in the habit'. 

In high school, she met up with a young Pras Michel and started a band with Pras' cousin Wyclef Jean; this eventually became 'The Fugees'. The Fugees released two albums, 'Blunted on reality' in 1994 and 'The Score' in 1996. The Score was a breakout success and it took the number one spot on the Billboard 200, selling six million albums worldwide. 

Now, it was the industry's public relations machine that blamed the break up of the Fugees on Lauryn and Wyclef's romantic fallout; they also said this is what lead to Lauryn pursuing a solo career. But I suspect the industry elites seperated Lauryn from Wyclef and Pras; 'cause they're notorious for this kind of behavior. Reference Beyonce and Destiny's Child, Michael Jackson and the Jackson five, Diana Ross and the Supremes, etc.

The miseducation of Lauryn Hill was released in 1998 and received an almost unparalleled universal acclaim for a Hip Hop album. Lauryn was lauded as the voice of the 'Hip Hop nation', and she garnered five grammys for the record. 

On February 8th, 1999, Lauryn was featured on the cover of Time magazine. 

Now, every american knows that this is the mark of someone who's made a revolutionary contribution to this country's culture; and it's one of the white elite's quintessential stamps of approval. Lauryn was america's sweetheart--she was a kinder, gentler and more easily digestible face for Hip Hop culture, thus making it more acceptable for white audiences.  

Lauryn became the posterchild for what the white elite thought was commercially golden in Hip Hop. And with that status came their co-opting of her moral compass, along with their using her to make black women more palatable to white men. 

Take a look at Lauryn's Rolling Stone cover to the right; again, this is another positive branding of the white supremacist's public relations machine. This magazine gives people their opinions as to what is popular and acceptable in american mainstream culture. But if you look a little closer, you can see the sublime messages coming off this cover. Now, beyond the short-shorts, Lauryn looks like the typical american teenage girl; but if you read the titled captions around her, they intimate something else. 

If you look at the left title on top of the Rolling Stone magazine, you'll see it reads 'Larry Flynt D.C. sex cop'. And the right top title reads 'Hole live'; this is basically saying that black women are to be looked upon as sex objects for white men. Beneath the 'Hole live' title there's a listing of the bands 'Sugar Ray' and 'Everclear'; both bands are and were fronted by white men. At the bottom left of the cover the title reads 'white rappers who don't suck'; yet another sexual reference involving white men. 

And of course, the pale-skinned degenerates in the white elite always have to lob a derogatory insult at us; and this comes in the form of the cover's bottom right title which says 'How social security robs the young'. This is basically calling black women welfare queens with the mention of social security, when the elites know that the majority of people on welfare in america are white; it's been that way for decades. When they say social security robs 'the young', they're really saying that Black people make up the majority of the welfare cases in this country to the detriment of young white people. Again, you gotta' love these wiley caucasians.

  

MTV Unplugged 2.0 was the last album released by Lauryn in 2001. It also received a lot of industry acclaim, but not nearly as much as her last endeavor. And at this time Lauryn was getting really disgruntled. See, Lauryn was discovering the REAL price of fame; and she was still distraught about the Fugees break up. This is why she was prone to crying fits like the one she had on MTV's airing of her 'Unplugged' special. She was morally conflicted about what her handlers were asking her to do and had made her do. 

Coincidentally, Lauryn was given guitar lessons by the industry's elites to make this instrument popular again. Once turntables started outselling guitars, the white elites had to do something to make guitars popular with Black folks, because in whitey's mind, this is HIS instrument. 

Oddly enough, white people's connection to Rock and Roll and guitar playing came decades after Black men created the genre. They used to call Rock and Roll jungle music because we created it and were the only ones playing it. Reference Little Richard, Chuch Berry, Bo Diddly, Muddy Waters, etc. It's funny how Mr. Charley (white people for those of you under 25) now see's this genre as exclusively his own. It was Black men who taught whites to play guitar when they were stuck being pianists and playing irrelevant european classical crap like compositions from beethoven and brahms; but I digress.

Eventually Lauryn's dissatisfaction with her handlers directives had her rebelling and making more political music. And she got so rebellious that she became dangerous. 

Cut to today. It's said that Lauryn owes this government a million dollars in back taxes. 1.8 million to be exact.

Now, prosecutors in her case say this debt was for 2008 and 2009 when Lauryn failed to file federal tax returns for 'additional' income she got over the course of these two years. It's said she also owes money for a tax liability to the state of New Jersey. 

What they're not telling you is before Lauryn's last hearing, she repaid $970,000 dollars of this debt back to the IRS. And she had friends like Alicia Keys and Stevie Wonder writing letters to lobby for her freedom. Still, the amer-i-con government said this wasn't good enough and decided to throw her in jail for 3 MONTHS. Mind you, after her three month stint, she'll also has to serve another three months of house arrest, a year's probation and she's gotta' pay an additional fine of $60,000. 

Again, un-freakin' believable. 

Now government officials know Lauryn can pay this debt off, and even in the case of her not having the means to do it right now, she could easily make this money in the near future. But this is the price Black folks pay for bucking america's white supremacist institutions. And the price is even steeper for Black celebrities 'cause they have a measure of influence over the public. 

Now, this was before my time, but I've heard the same thing happened to Billie Holiday after she began performing the song 'Strange Fruit'. For the uninitiated, the song 'Strange Fruit' was and is about the hanging of Black men in america. 

The chorus of the song says: Southern trees bear strange fruit, blood on the leaves, blood on the roots.

It was when Billie started getting too political that white men started pushing heroin on her; and that addiction eventually killed her. Coincidentally, it's also documented that this government worked with the italian mafia to flood the streets of Black communities with heroin to quiet down our political leanings. This was especially true of the time when the Black Panthers were patrolling our streets. Wish they were still around, they might've been able to save Trayvon, but again, I digress. 

Getting back to Lauryn, mind you, she's a mother of six. Now, they're gonna' make a mother of six go to jail for three months for a debt she's clearly able to pay?

Again, the only justice Black people are gonna' receive is the kind we seek for ourselves. It's up to us to organize and light a fire beneath the asses of Black politicians, and tell them, if you don't do for us, we're voting you out...PERIOD!!!

Unity, is the only thing that will save us; and this holds true for us all whether you have a G.E.D. or a P.H.D.

Black people, it's time to put our petty qualms aside; we've gotta' unite to survive the travails that are coming. 

And as Sam Jackson said in 'Do the right thing'...that's the 'triple' TRUTH, Ruth. 

Hotep and Kem Wesir,

MontUHURU Mimia

Why Teabaggers don't deserve tax exemptions...

On Wednesday, May 15th of this year, Steven Miller, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, resigned from his position due to what the media is calling an 'inappropriate scrutiny' of the american teabagger party. Conservatives feel this scandal is bigger than Nixon's Watergate crimes and is a highly impeachable offense. Now...I wonder why anyone would think they had to unfairly scrutinize the teabaggers? After all, it's their first amendment right to be highly scrutinizing of this government themselves; and seeing as they want to reform the ills of this particular presidential administration, I think they're within their rights to use their influence to have whole states secede from this government. (Mind you, the number of states filing for succession under the Obama administration is now at 21) So why would the IRS have any issue with the innocuous teabaggers? Let's take a look at one reason among many:

On April 19th, 2010, The teabagger party held a gun rally nearly eight miles away from the White House. These fundamentalists literally had high powered assault rifles slung over their shoulder as a means to clarify their message. In the above right sided picture, you can see one of these teabagging nuts looking directly at the Washington Monument, that's how close they were to the White House. And their message seemed to be...'restoration' is coming. Restoration of what you might ask? Well, if you listen to their story, it's the restoration of the american government which is being taken over by communist/socialist forces meaning to undermine the sanctity of their constitiutional rights, ala the second amendment. They say they're worried about martial law being instituted and their access to guns and ammunition being restricted. 

A side note: while the teabaggers are worried about martial law being instituted, recently it was in Brooklyn, NY behind a sixteen year old Black young man named Kimani Gray being shot to death by white cops. The community revolts following the incident were the cause of Flatbush, Brooklyn being put under martial law and the media being 'frozen out' so no one could hear about the abuses the community's citizens were suffering. Kimani Gray's sister was actually arrested for protesting her brother's murder, and it was revealed that the cops who shot Kimani all have pending lawsuits against them because of civil rights violations. 

Interspersed with the teabaggers were an assortment of militia groups saying they too feel their civil rights are being infringed upon due to recent gun control measures. But let's get down to brass tacks--these militia groups along with the teabaggers are nothing but gun-toting bigots who are mad at the fact that a Black man is sitting in the White House. This has nothing to do with constitutional rights or law...hell, half these people can't even define socialism. It turns my stomach to think a government official lost their job because he was unfairly 'scrutinizing' a damn terrorist group in this country. That's what they are! They're nothing but un-hooded klansmen/women. I remember when the Black Panthers marched into Sacramento, California's City Hall brandishing guns. Remember what happened to them? If not, here's a little reminder: there was a law created called the 'Panther Law' stating you couldn't bring guns into or around any government offiice, moreover, it said the Panther's no longer had a right to carry guns, period. And I don't have to tell you what J. Edgar Hoover did after this incident; if ya' don't know, he instituted the Cointelpro initiatives that got nearly everyone of them killed. And teabaggers are worried about improper scrutiny from the IRS?!

Please! *facepalm*

They should be glad Obama didn't dispatch the FBI, CIA, or whatever lettered organization you could name, to take 'em out Hoover style.   

And now they want welfare in the form of tax exemptions?! It's bad enough that the majority of people on welfare in this country look like them; these people don't need any more hand-outs! If ya' wanna' be a bigot in this country, that's your right; but it doesn't entitle you to tax breaks. Imagine the Black Panthers asking this government for a tax exemption status! (LOL!) Again, these people have been sniffing gun polish too long!

So in closing I'll say this, not only shouldn't these people be complaining about IRS scrutiny when they're holding gun rallies literally miles away from the White House, but they shouldn't have the temerity to ask for government hand-outs either. Oh, and let's see what we can do about getting Steve Miller his job back! This man should definitely be reinstated since the teabaggers have shown themselves to be a domestic terrorist group without any scruples whatsoever. 

'Til next time,

Ma'at Hotep (Peace and Justice) 

P.S.
You can read more about the crooked cops who shot sixteen year old Kimani Gray here.