Forum Post: If Nina Simone were alive she'd SLAP the life back into Hermain Cain
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 29, 2011, 1:38 p.m. EST by Tempest4V
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You are the first, my man. I have never put this label on anyone else before but here it is, 100% deserved.
"You fucking black-monkey-nazi"
How dare you mock the victims of a system that has treated them, treated us, our forefathers, our children, our peoples, as if we're slaves, cattle, and sheep all to be herded and slaughtered throughout all times. You will never be elected into office. Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, Dr. King Jr., Bell hooks, Cornell West, and all those before them and all those after them will NEVER allow it.
Deserved or not, I would retract the name-calling. What did Nina Simone, Dr. West, Dr. King, and others teach us? We must rise above the spite and the anger if we really want to give it a voice.
What's the difference between you and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUR9yWzN3zc
It's the difference between saying "fuck this" and "fuck you." Just keep that in mind. Everyone heard Ms. Simone. No one's going to hear you.
I didn't watch the vid. but what you say rings true. It's just that I couldn't have fathomed anyone running such a campaign. I mean, does he think that he can do such things simply because he's a person of colour? Any white person would have been blacklisted long ago if they even spoke of such ideas let alone executing them.
The vid is Mississippi Goddamn. Still cuts to the bone.
I do understand the anger and disbelief. I believe you and I and Dr. King (and I am slightly ashamed at being so bold as to speak for him) share it. I don't criticize that at all. Dr. King was a great man not because he ignored the passion - he never did - but because he had the will to control it. I want, in my animal skin, to roar at the world and tear at its seams. But I think we all need, as human beings, to harness that frustration rather than to merely unleash it. That, to me, is why Dr. King - and others - are exemplars for humanity.