June 01, 2018 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Welcome to The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.
My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
These made my day! Thank you.
You know, I come here every day, but when I look in the mirror, I don’t look any better. Not much of a beauty salon, but quite good for the soul or something. Trying to make a joke here, but it ain’t working.
1Mike
Oh, how I wish that the last one could be put on billboards all over the country!
2What did Ivanka say to Samantha Bee?
3“I do not have freckles!”
All good ones, and a sad reflection on what our country has become.
I second Lunargent!
4Why is it that those people that spout “superior white race” look anything but superior? I am sure there is some sort of connection. Deep-seated inferiority about themselves – and this is how it manifests?
5Cheryl, it’s guilt. When not honestly addressed guilt gives root to fear and all manor of incongruous ‘justifications’ of which ill-founded and groundless fear becomes the driving force. Consider the Second Amendment born of fear that imaginary “angry black men” would rise up after the Civil War a to murder plantation owners in the beds. The problem will not go away, until as a nation we address our guilt, redress our crimes and offer reparations.
Rev/ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man of genius. Not only for his rhetoric skills, but for realizing that removing that “fear” from the racist misnomer of the “angry black man” was essential and recognizing that equality means economic equality and opportunity.
Whether one’s forefathers were on the right side of the Civil War, or we arrived in the US last week, we all share in the guilt, too. Yes, slavery was wrong. Jim Crow was an abomination. The issues today are the rates of poverty, extreme Black incarceration rates with unduly harsh sentences, and the evils of systemic racism.
Not being at all well grounded in the social sciences, I don’t know how to best address reparations. But I do know there are answers and for a beginning, we must demand leadership from our elected representation. We can move our experiment in representative democracy forward to a just and equal society. This should appeal to Republicans/fiscal conservatives. If everyone is doing well, we all do well. It’s a win-win.
6PKM, the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791. Are you thinking of a different amendment?
7slipstream, meant the 2nd Amendment, but should have been much clearer the intent was the reactionary fear of nonexistent revolts that didn’t happen in the aftermath of the Civil War nor at any time later. So 25 years later or more, certain ‘whites’ still felt a “need” to arm themselves.
Aside on the “angry Black man” excuse that is still used today. I admire the patience and restraint of the African-American culture. Despite beyond ample provocation, the protests have been peaceful, the requests reasonable, and the wait unconscionable.
8Jane & PKM, the linguists are finding pretty solid evidence in the writings of the time that the second amendment was really about fear of government being too strong (not blacks getting guns), and everything in the literature of the time suggests that “bearing arms” meant “fighting in a war for the country.” “Keeping” them was necessary because at first we didn’t have a military, and citizens were expected to have weapons and be part of a “well regulated militia” to preserve the freedoms we had just fought so hard to gain. Which is to say that Antonin Scalia was wrong in the Heller case.
The twisting into the fear of blacks came much later, probably during Jim Crow, after the civil war ended–about 75 years after the amendment was ratified.
9djw, the history you’ve added along with that provided by slipstream clarifies the gun/government issues. “twisted fear” as you state or the deep irrational fear of Blacks was probably fomenting before those slavers chained their first ship of slaves. Crazy ideas formed early, continue to erupt (Dotard45), and is a good metric of the work ahead of us to eradicate their nonsense.
10Number Six. It also fits his base. They are not at all interested in the economy etc. They are just interested in flinging poo.
11I especially enjoyed the Wedding cartoon. pres Animal Shithole would be Putie’s blushing bride if Putie just crooked a finger. It’s truly accurate and truly nauseating.
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