Wake Up: The Who’s Who in Politics and What We Should Know.

*Ring Ring*

Hello?

Yes, I’m here.

Okay.

Okay. Now, think about all of the judges that Trump has appointed.

–because there’s a panel that they’re supposed to go through, it’s a like a law review where they determine whether or not a judge is recommended for higher court. Whether or not they’re qualified. And most of them have been considered unqualified have been appointed as judges.

Oh wow.

You’ve got racists, you’ve got sexists, you’ve got people who have never ever tried a case in their life on these judicial appointments.

I’m serious.

Now imagine this.

Imagine that the The Dred Scott decision comes up in lower court.

That said that African Americans are not human beings. Just imagine that we’re not citizens and imagine it gets referenced in a court case and gets taken to a higher court, and the higher court has a Trump appointee on it. And he upholds that decision and it goes to the next higher court and…a Trump appointment upholds that decision.

And then it gets to the supreme court… where there’s a 6-3 majority, right?

Do you know that and that being the law of the land, they can overturn Roe V. Wade, they can overturn Gay marriage, they can also overturn….

Hello? Aunt??

Hello?

Yea, they can overturn um… the Voting Rights Act, which makes sure that Blacks and no person of color ever can vote ever again in this country. Which would mean that they would maintain a republican house and a republican senate and basically the republican presidency if they remove people of colors’ right to vote. And with the 6-3 majority we could be slaves again and would be completely fucking legal.

And that’s what he means by “Make America Great Again”. He means, ‘Make America White Again’.

And the test was putting brown babies in cages. They’re snatching them away from their parents, putting them in Betsy DeVos’ adoption agency and giving them away to people with money.

That was a test to see if Americans were outraged enough to do something about it

Have we done anything about it??

NOPE.

Congress told ICE that they can’t open up any more detention centers.

They opened up two more this last week!

Black people need to recognize what’s going on. And again, this is the reason why we need to vote:

We need the opposite of Trump. Kamala Harris was a law and order prosecutor–DA, intelligent, from LA, Half Indian and half Black. She was the best possibility of the opposite of Trump. You know what I’m saying?

George W. Bush was the opposite of Clinton. Family man, married one woman. Didn’t drink. Didn’t have sex with the colored girls. Faithful to his wife. Clinton worked his way through college. George’s father paid his way through college. Clinton was a scholar, George W was a ‘C’ student.

And because he was so damn dumb, we elected the smartest motherfucker that we knew. Obama, the anti-George W.

Trump is the anti-Obama. He is the complete and total opposite of Obama. So what we need to bring this country back together is— to bring democracy, to get back to some kind of sensibility, is the opposite of Trump.

Mhhhmm, Yes ma’am.

Well now you can encourage people to get behind:

Duvall Patrick,

Cory Booker,

Elizabeth Warren and

Amy Klobuchar

Then there’s Pete—-but I wouldn’t…

Those are the four best choices.

And the reason I say that is because Bernie had a heart attack, he’s a million years old. Bernie’s a disheveled jew.

Hahahahah

Because he’s older, young people won’t vote for him.

Because he’s Jewish, a lot white people won’t vote for him.

You understand?

Yes, I do.

Because even though America was a country that was founded on freedom of religion, it’s still a christian country. There’s more christians here than anything else.

And when the christians have an opportunity to turn on muslims, they do don’t they.

They sure do, yea.

When the white folks were marching in their khakis and their polos down in Charlettsville, what did they say? “Jews will not replace us.” right?

Mhhhmm.

What is Bernie? A Jew that would be replacing Trump, they’re not having that.

Also Bloomberg, he can throw as much money as he wants to at it doesn’t matter he’s still a Jew. The Evangelical right are not voting for a fucking Jew.

So Bloomberg and Bernie are completely out.

Here Are The Others:

Tulsi Gabbard— That bitch, she’s a Russian asset and she’s a homophobe — So anybody gay or gay-friendly is not going to vote for her. And she was endorsed by the KKK, so no we’re not voting for her.

Andrew Yang — Bless his heart. This country is so divided already, there’s no way they’re going to elect an asian as president.

Julian Castro — As much as I love Julian, we’re putting people that look like him in cages! They’re invading the border–he doesn’t have a chance.

So as far Amy Klobuchar — She’s right in the middle. And because she’s right in the middle and from the midwest middle, regular ass white people will vote for her. So does she have a chance to win? She actually does.

Riiight.

No ones gonna vote for Tom Steyer because he’s a fucking billionaire. Nobody’s gonna vote for the people with money because we’ve already seen what a billionaire can do.

Pete Budajest – Number one: His name fucking sucks. #2 he can get the millennial’s vote because he appeals to young voters, but he appeals to young white voters. He’s gay, he appeals to gays. And you know what he’s multilingual. So you know what that means? He thinks he’s better than us! He’s an elitist with his 7-language speaking ass. So there’s gonna people against him for a lot reasons. He looks great on paper. But Black people aren’t going to vote for him because he does not speak to Black people. And he doesn’t appeal to the evangelicals that are against homosexuality as well old Black people who are more homophobic than anything.. There are a bunch of people that are not ready to see two men dance at the inaugural ball. They’re not!

And two white men at that? Oh, fuck no! We can’t have that.

Right.

And you’ve got Elizabeth Warren. The billionaires don’t want her and the billionaires will pay to get rid of her because she wants to tax them. But she resonates with me. She’s a woman, which is anti- Trump, she has socialist values, anti trump. She’s smart, and she’s for the people which is Anti-Trump. So she has a real shot.

Listen, it’s starting to be us agains them because there’s less white people in the world; they’re seeing more people of color, and they feel like they’re being invaded–They feel like every advance that people of color make is taking something away from them.

So, that’s why we need to vote more than ever.

Poor Republicans will always vote against their own interest unless they’re rich. That’s why Kentucky, Alabama, and Mississippi remain poor. They remain unhealthy, they remain last in education because they vote against their own interest.

Black women in Alabama are using their vote, the thing is that now voter laws have gotten stricter in Alabama making it more difficult for Blacks to vote. White Alabamans keep electing losers and that take away their rights. Mississippi and Kentucky too. People in Ohio now are starting to vote against their own interest.

Mmhhmm, Yes ma’am.

Grassroots movements, encourage other people to get out and vote. These are the things that we can do.

Part II: Pittsburgh Needs White People’s Fried Chicken

The worst thing that could’ve ever ever happened to any of these Asian hair stores is the natural hair phenomenon.

Yuup.

Black people going all natural. And now they’re trying to market natural hair products? Come on now.

Dudley’s in North Carolina, is a Black hair care company, right? That was created and founded by Black people. They actually give back to the Black community, because you know what Dudley does every year?

What’s that?

A Mega Hair show. Where all of the Black barbers can come and show their talents, and all of the Black hair stylists can come and show their talents. And there, you know ,they have half-off hair care products that they give to you as a discount if you’re a stylist or a barber.

Wow. That’s great.

They have grants to send Black kids to college and shit!

Black owned and operated hair care company that actually is for us, by us and is marketed to us. Okay?

So…what do you think the reason is that they come in to our community and feel like they can come in and take not give back. What do you think is enabling them?

Oh! It’s very simple! Verrry simple. I mean, Um…Black people spend more money than any other people in this country. We spend billions. We spend billions but we don’t have billions. Jay-z’s a billionaire, Oprah’s a billionaire, Michael Jordan is a billionaire, Tiger Woods was a billionaire until he cheated on his wife. Now he’s a millionaire again.

Hahahaha

Magic Johnson….there’s another Black billionaire who just wrote off all of the debt for all of the kids graduating from a historically Black college. Dr. Dre with the Beats…There’s a few Black billionaires.

But….

We as a community, although we are not billionaires, spend more money than any other race in this country. That’s why, you’re seeing more Black shows on television. This is why you’re seeing more Black movies get green lit to go to the theaters, because we showed them that we’ll come out for Black Panther. We showed them that we’ll come out to Black movies that are marketed to us, for us. We go to more comedy shows because we have the best comedians, we go to more concerts because we have better musicians.

So…you’re saying that-

What I’m saying is that the Black dollar is powerful.

So they have to market to us because we spend, even when we don’t have. Black people will spend more on Christmas because that’s what we do. We’ll go into debt, run up our credit cards if we got em , we put shit on layaway in Jun. So what it is—-is that they know there’s a huge market for food in the Black community because many Black communities in the country are food desserts

You know what a food dessert is, right?

Uh…It’s just a neighborhood that has a lack of restaurants and-

No, no. A food dessert is a city that has a grocery store closed down. The local grocery store closed down. So they call it a food dessert because you have to go 15 miles out of your way to get fresh produce.

Aaahh okay, yea. that was going to be my second answer. Kind of like how my neighborhood, Duquesne was.

Yea. And because you’re poor and you don’t have a car, you can’t go grocery shopping 15 miles away.

So where are you gonna go? You’re gonna go to your local convenience store to get toilet paper, butter, cheese, flour, you know…whatever.

Then you have the Palestinians and the Koreans coming. They move in to your community because they know you have to pay $5 for a stick of butter because they know you got food stamps, and you’ll pay whatever it costs. Because you can’t afford to get to where it costs less, where it’s fresher. To get to where the born-on date is next year instead of next month. You see what I’m saying?

Yes ma’am.

They move in to these Black communities because they see us as easy prey. They see us as ignorant, they see us as gullible. Because everything they know about Blacks in America they learn on television, white media, right? White history. White history isn’t our history at all. But what they portray us as is under educated, illiterate, ignorant. We get followed around by them in these stores because they think we’re always stealing. Because everything that they’ve learned about us, historically, is that we steal. Our women are whores, are all on welfare, all smoke crack and drink 40 oz’s, right?

Mhhhhmmm

The image that white America’s put forth about us out in the world is the image that people pick up. Like, you’ve traveled around a lot, you know some of these different cultures try to emulate Black culture.

Mhhhm.

Now, you could say that, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But what their idea of Blackness is–is cornrows and afros–it’s marijuana leaf earrings and dookey chains, and it’s “Straight Out of Compton” t-shirts—and it’s Timberlands and it’s rocking your pants sagging.

Yea…I never thought that stuff was okay though.

Right

But instead of looking at us, instead of looking at all of Black America, all of Black culture–They just pull from the hip-hop portion of the culture. And not even the true hip hop.

They don’ t go back to Grand Master Flash and the Furious 5

KRS,

The Poor Righteous Teachers,

De La Soul,

Queen Latifah!

or Even Q-Tip.

I mean, there was a time when rap was intelligent and empowering. Rap was giving you some type of knowledge of self.

But white America grabbed on to it. Bastardized it and made it negative

They leaned more towards the NWA, Niggas right in the name. Gangster rap. And they steered away from the more intellectual rap.

White America leaned away from the love story in rap and moved more towards the negative, drugs, guns disrespecting women…

Everyone remembers when NWA came out. And “Straight Out of Compton” was hard as fuck, right? They were hard as fuck.

Yes, it was.

We liked “Fuck the Police”!

But on that same album, was a song about raping an underage girl…what the fuck is that?

Yeeeeeeaaa…

Listen, nobody is going to glorify raping an underage girl. But that gave way to DRS.

DRS, Dirty Rotten Scoundrals. And they had the song, “This is for my homies”. And everybody ran and got the album. Because when you have a homie that died, and he’s in the gangster lean-that’s a good song, right?

Yea!

But if you listen to the rest of it– There’s a guy on there called “Pick the Bitch Killer”. And he has a whole song about fucking a bitch after he’s killed her.

Woah, wait! What was his name?

He’s a rapper in DRS, and then he has a whole song about killing this bitch…and fucking her after she’s dead.

Wooooooow, that’s really sad.

As a matter of fact, the whole album, besides “This is for my homies” is really disgusting, gruesome and really really fucking scary.

And I own it.

Ha!

Because I thought there would be more songs like “This is for my homies”!

Omg, Aunt.

No no, it’s really bad.

Dang, you couldn’t just get the single?

Well, at the time you gotta go back…and…anyway I wasn’t buying no singles.

Hahaha

*Takes a big sip*

I’m not wasting my money on singles!

I was buying whole albums because, I’m thinking: I got “The Dog Pound” by Snoop, right; I liked the whole album. I got Ice Cube, and I liked that whole album. Christoper Williams, TLC….

So what do you think is the separation? You think that they want to get us out of these areas so they can make money…?? What do you think it is?

What it is..is White Flight.

White Flight caused the loss of valuable real estate. Because white people did not want to coexist with Black people.

When a Black person moved into an area…Homewood was all white, Breezewood was all white, The jews primarily lived on the Hill, but the Blacks lived on the Hill with the Jews. The Jews primarily lived with the niggas because nobody wanted Jews in their vicinity. When the Blacks started moving in, the jews knew they had to move out. they moved themselves and their families out of the hill and into Squirrel Hill. And the white people moved out of Squirrel Hill because the Jews moved in–So the Jews made Squirrel Hill Jewish.

The Polish Jews remained on Polish Hill–But the Blacks stayed on the Hill because at the time the Hill District was thriving–Lena Horne, Billy Eckstine were performing…the Hill had nice, Black owned bars and restaurants.

And then there’s Stanley’s+, now that’s not on the Hill, but it was another place that performers loved to go to…

In fact, most of the bars on the hill, now are all Black owned.

Oh really?

The ones that are left. Because they closed down a lot of them–most of them actually. The Hill used to have as many bars as churches.

Wow..

They really did.

What they did was…they gentrified the lower part of the Hill below the police station and the upper half was still Black.

Now the police are in the midle.

The police are in the middle. Their job is to keep the Blacks on the upper part of the Hill away from the rich folks on the bottom half. But they were only able to get half of the Hill– just like now they’ve got about half of East Liberty. They’re going after the rest of it.

But the idea was that they moved away from the Hill, and moved to Homewood/East Liberty and Breezewood, where they thought they would be safe from Black people.

And then when the Black people started moving into the Homewood area and the East Liberty area. The whites then moved to Wilkinsburg.

Oh okay

There used to be a time where if you went into Wilkinsburg after dark you might get lynched or killed.

Okay?

I’ve heard.

Well, Blacks starting pushing into Wilkinsburg…but the whites kept us out of Breezewood, trust and believe.

But when the Blacks starting pushing into Wilkinsburg, the whites starting moving to Penn Hills, and then when we started moving to Penn Hills, the whites starting moving to Monroeville, Plum and Wall Borough.

Farther and farther away from the city.

Yea, but…now the problem is the whites work downtown and now it takes too long to get to and from work.

They go to the hockey, Pirate and Steeler games downtown. So now they’re drunk and they gotta drive to Plum…or all the way to Wall. You know what I’m saying? It’s too fucking far.

So they decided to take the Hill back.

So they took the hill back so they could go to their hockey games and their Steeler games, so they could go to their 9-5 with comfort.

And then they were like, “Well fuck that. You know, we can take back East Liberty and have everything right there on Penn or Liberty avenue.” So they took it back. East liberty is a straight shot to downtown, straight shot to the Strip District, straight shot to everything they need. They took at least half of it.

Bakery Square, Trader Joes, Whole Foods…all of those new businesses they gentrified that whole area. Moved the busway so the niggas can’t catch the bus there.

Blacks are out of sight, out of mind, right?

Yea..unfortunately.

And now they’re planning on taking Homewood and Wilkinsburg back. And I know this because when my husband’s father died, my in-laws had to leave the wake to go to a community planning meeting where they were talking about what they were going to do to the houses in Homewood.

So you know what happened to their house? The white folks said….

We’ll come in and fix up your house, you don’t have to pay us anything. You just have to stay there in the house for at least 2-5 years.

Okay…

You saw the hardwood floors? They weren’t there before. They came in and gave them all new floors. They put a hutch over the stove in the kitchen, fixed all the plumbing, Re-did all of the duct work, put in a new furnace–They gave them all new windows. And basically, fixing the house so that when they leave it’ll sell for 2-3x what they paid for it. They paid $26,000 for that house.

So they’re banking on them leaving….? What does that mean, somehow they’ll get the property taxes up?

Yea because down the street on Race street [Homewood], keep in mind, still in Homewood, still a bad neighborhood, my in-law’s brother and his wife just bought a house for $90k. Just one street over! They’re doing that all over Homewood, they’re taking distressed properties–

*takes a sip of her drink*

….and–if you go to Homewood right now you’ll see white guys riding around, and you know why they’re riding around? Because they’re planning on buying up the empty lots, empty properties and flipping them.

And they’re banking on in a couple of years, Homewood will no longer be a Black community.

So…if they need Black people to go to their business…why are they pushing for…I don’t understand…how it benefits them.

Oh no.

No, no no no no.

No, no.

White people do NOT want Black people to go to their businesses. They want Black people to NOT go to their businesses.

Perfect example:

Buffalo Blues when it first opened in Shadyside? When it first opened, I used to go there because they played blues music and jazz. Right?

Yes.

Buffalo Blues! We would go there so we could listen to the live bands. They had wings they had Heinekens, they had Hennessy and they had a pool table and dart board in the back.

And Black people were going there in droves–because it had live jazz and live blues and good food and a pool table, Hennessy and Heineken.

The first thing they did to discourage Black people from coming is they got rid of what we drink. They got rid of the Heineken and they got rid of the Hennessy.

You could no longer get Hennessy or Heineken there.

Oooooh….

Black people were still coming in though, right? So they got rid of the dart board and got rid of the pool table.

Oh wow. All of that for…?

Then they got rid of the live jazz and got rid of the live blues.

Do you think they might’ve gotten rid of the Hennessy or the live music because of money though?

No, because here’s the truth: Buffalo Blues on a Friday night–filled with niggas. Saturday night–filled with niggas, and on some Sundays too because of Football. And I can tell you all of the people that used to hang there, because I was there. And because the guys I dated started drinking whatever I drank, so they ordered lots of Hennessy and Heineken. Besides that, my friends would be there every weekend, my cousins and their friends–their boys would be there.

Some of these cats were big dudes and would go down there and order pitchers and pitchers of beer and plates and plates of wings. So I know for a fact that their Heineken and Hennessy bill was getting paid because they were charging too much for it. Now, they’re charging more than what they should to black folks and they’re still paying for it. That’s more than cost-effective.

So they don’t want you to come there.

Then there’s Constantine’s [Re-opened as Capri’s] which is in East Liberty right now. You can go into Constantine’s you can sit and order pizza or something have a couple of drinks, hang out, right?

Yes ma’am.

But if you get a call on your cell phone and it’s too loud and you step outside to take the call and you’re Black…

-They will come outside and say, “What are you doing?” and you’ll say, “I just came outside to take a call because it’s too loud inside.” Then they’ll say, “No loitering. You either walk on, or you go back inside.”

Oh damn.

And that’s the police presence in East Liberty right now. They don’t want you in their businesses.

The people that want your business are the Middle Easterners and the Asians. The Asians set up shop and they know Black people spend money on hair and nails.

So they set up the cellphone places because our phones are always getting cut off and we gotta get a new one.

Ha, I mean it’s true.

-And convenience stores that sell loose cigarettes, crack pipes, lighters and overpriced food. Because we can’t afford to go to Giant Eagle.

There used to be an A&P, and a Giant Eagle in almost all the Black communities, right!

Yes ma’am.

Most Black communities don’t even have a grocery store anymore, most Black communities don’t have a state store anymore. Did you know that?

Have a state store?

Yea, there used to be a liquor store on Larimer avenue, right. It’s not there anymore. There used to be one on Penn avenue in Wilkinsburg–Not there anymore.

There used to be a liquor store right there in the heart of East liberty. Not there anymore.

There’s a store by the Dollar store and Giant Eagle, but that store’s been robbed twice already. So it’s still there but it’s now in a community that’s over policed and gentrified. So where white people are, there are more police to make them feel safer.

You know what ain’t around though? The Name of the Game and “Top of the O”. Did you know there used to be a top floor to Originals??

I didn’t know there was a bar up there!

There was always a bar upstairs. The bottom was called Dirty O’s and the top was the bar.

Oh, cool.

You could go upstairs with your pizza and get drunk.

But because Black people used to frequent the top of of the O, they got rid of it. They got rid of the Black presence at dirty O’s.

You come in, you get your pizza and you fucking leave.

See what I’m saying?

Yes ma’am.

Constantine’s, Buffalo Blues, The Horoscope, the L&M, Todd’s… Black Beauty refused to sale, so they’re still on the Hill.

There’s very few bars on the Hill. Because they wanted all of them shits gone.

So what I’m saying to you is, when they come in–the gentrifiers come in and buy up all the property. They offer you more than what your house is worth to sell, so you take the money and you leave. Like right now. They know that they bought their house for $26,000 and now they’re offering them $50-80k. My In-Laws would be fools not to take it, right?

I guess…

And then they’re going to fix it up further and then they’re going to sell it for 100 to 200-300k dollars. Because Homewood would be the place to be.

So what do you think the message is that those two people that have been opening up these restaurants and have been completely disregarding Black culture. What do you think the message is that they’re trying to send us besides the obvious?

The message from the couple is this: You don’t matter, we’re not marketing to you. We’re marketing to a specific group of people that don’t look like you.

We’re marketing to the yuppies that work at Google and the like.

Because at Penn Plaza, they used to offer 1 bedrooms for 250 a month, right.

Yes ma’am.

Two bedrooms for like 400 a month. I think the most expensive apartment in that building was 750 a month and it was completely remodeled it was gorgeous. It wasn’t roach free believe that, but it was roach free when they moved in.

The point is…we don’t matter…

I need you to understand something.

When Ruth G dies. IF we don’t get Trump impeached, we still have a republican held senate so, he’ll still be in the house. So they can impeach the fuck out of him in the house but with the senate and the majority he’ll still be in office. Understand. He’ll have been impeached but he’ll be in office, just like Bill. So because he’s still in office and because Mitch Mcconnell has not passed any of the 400+ bills that the house has put up to be voted on by the senate. Instead of passing bills in the senate you know what he’s doing? Confirming judges. So far, Donald Trump has appointed over 125 judges all over the country. Okay?

125 you said?

Over 125. And these are lifetime appointments.

And Ruth Ginsburg is hanging on by a hair. Right now there’s a 5-4 majority in the supreme court. That’s the law of the land ain’t it?

Yea….

If she dies–she’s already in her 80s, she’s already survived cancer twice–she’s in bad shape–then that means Trump and Mitch McConnel will be able to put a third judge on the supreme court making it a 6-3 majority.

*silence*

So how does this affect us more on a local level??

What I’m saying is that gentrification is taking place all over the country and will continue to happen.

So you’re saying that…it doesn’t matter what we think and feel, they’re just going to keep running us out?

Yes! That’s exactly what I’m saying.

YOU. You got priced out of your neighborhood [Capitol hill, Seattle] Your neighborhood used to be diverse, gay and beautiful.

It sure did.

It was live, and fun and inclusive.

And what did they do? They raised the rent on your three-floor-walk up to something that you couldn’t afford and out-priced you, and people like you, out of the fucking neighborhood.

And guess what you have in Seattle? Homeless people everywhere.

Yea, it’s really sad!

Silicon Valley, they out-priced EVERYBODY out of San Fran. The Gays, the Blacks, the Asians, Hispanics. If you don’t have money, you can’t live in San Fran right now.

California as a whole. They have more homeless people than any other place in the country. You know why?

Because money moved in and they priced people out of their homes.

In San Fran they have an abandoned fucking house that is on sell for like 1.5m. It’s abandoned and condemned. But the property it sits on is going for 1.5m. So the thing about it is, you force the lower class out and they can’t afford to live anywhere else so they’re basically homeless. So then you do what Las Vegas, Nevada did last week.

What did Las Vegas due last week? I don’t know.

Made it a crime to be homeless in Las Vegas.

What in the world.

Look it up!

So now you’re homeless, which means you don’t have anywhere to live. So they lock you up, and now you have to pay court costs which you can’t afford because you’re fucking homeless. And! You have to pay a fine for getting caught being homeless but you can’t afford to pay the fine because you’re fucking homeless and you’re in jail.

So what’s the point of any of it??

It gets better!

In order to get out of jail you have to have a home to go to…but you’re fucking homeless!

The point is…they privatize prisons and the prisons make money off of bodies. The tax payers pay for every body that you have housed in your private prisons. Michael Jordan and the likes invest in these prisons so everyone is making money off of their investments. The middle class is where the money is coming from because they can afford to pay taxes, but the rich don’t have to because they can afford to hide their money so it won’t get taxed. So if you make it illegal to live, then it’s easier to lock people up that can’t afford to be out of jail. Okay?

So Aunt, what can we do??? What can the average colored person do to elevate themselves?

*Glass slams against table*

The number one thing we can do?

Exercise and use our right to vote as long as we have it. We have to vote women and people of color into office. It broke my heart that Kamala Harris dropped out from the Presidency, because I really wanted her to win.

Yea, I was disappointed too.

But they demonized her, and made her unlikeable in the Black community. But anyway, you can either run for office, or vote for someone that looks like you, shares your values or has your interest at heart.

So the first thing we can do is:

Elect more people of color and elect more women, like we did last November. And that scared the shit out of them so they went harder in the paint. You know what I’m saying?

Yes ma’am.

So that’s the first thing. Use your vote. That will uphold and fight for your rights.

Elect more people of color and more women. We elected more women

Next thing you can do is:

Hold your elected officials accountable. If they are elected, they work for us. They don’t work for Trump, they don’t work for Putin, they work for us. I mean people have been doing sit ins at town halls, at elected officials’ offices–They have been calling them, confronting them in public. Make sure you bother the fuck out of them so that they might have a conscious and do the right thing.

The Women’s marches, the kids walking out of school….young people are concerned about their future. Because their future depends on what happens in Washington. And young people are becoming more of a voice because of gun violence. And this is because the republicans aren’t doing anything about gun laws, even though the democratic house put 4 fucking bills, gun bills, in front of the senate and Mitch Mcconell refuses to vote on them because he’s bought and paid for by the NRA.

Mhhhmmm

Final Thing is:

Make sure you have a passport because we might have to leave this motherfucker.

Haaaa!

I’m so serious

What about a Black person that doesn’t have a passport, doesn’t know much political culture except for voting. What can they do?

That Black person needs to vote. My nephew voted when he was 12 fucking years old, man.

Hahahaha! What?

I’m serious. He campaigned for Obama and stood in front of Giant Eagle and made sure that every black person that came through the Giant Eagle’s doors signed up to register to vote–and because he was signing people up to register to vote, he signed himself up and voted for Obama. I’m just saying

Hahaha

I’m not saying it’s right, I’m just saying it worked for me.

You all need to know that your vote counts.

Don’t be tricked by social media

Don’t be tricked by Russian bots.

You know I’m saying?

Yes ma’am.

Recognize the issues. Patronize your own restaurants. Patronize places that are welcoming to you. If they don’t want us there, we don’t have to be there.

The message these people are sending is that, they’re looking forward to a bright white future.

Alright, that’s what I’m going to write.

Okay, go, head. Love you!

Love you too, byyeeee!!!

Bye.

I’m asking all black people who are a little lost to check out the page “Politics and Who’s Who“. It’ll help for sure.

Sources:

Homeless issues in CA: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2018-12-19/west-coast-states-have-highest-rates-of-homelessness-hud-report-says

Illegalities of Homelessness in Las Vegas: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-06/las-vegas-street-sleeping-law

Stanley’s+ Unfortunately does not have a site but feel free to check them out!

Pittsburgh Needs White People’s Fried Chicken

There’s an article+ (+ for sources at bottom of page) out in Forbes Magazine about a white couple opening restaurants in Pittsburgh, PA because, apparently, they think we’re lacking in food culture.

To our relief, a colored woman, Ms. Felicity Williams, wrote a response to the author of said article scolding him for his irresponsibility in journalism and promotion of racism.

For those who don’t want to read the main article: A couple named Adam and Diana Kucenic opened several restaurants in Pittsburgh serving food we supposedly didn’t have including Oysters and Fried Chicken. They also opened up a “Speakeasy”, with the article saying, “At first glance, the concept seems better to fit larger, trendier cities like NY or LA, but maybe it’s simply a sign of changing times for the Steel City.”

Word?

I sent the articles over to my Aunt and called her up to get her side of the story.

It’s just another Tuesday night, let me see what’s she’s up to.

*Ring Ring*

Hello? Aunt?

Yea, so I read those two articles.

*Ice clinks in glass*

(Awesome! It’s on now!)…And what do you think?

Well, the first one started being offensive from the onset, as soon as they said there was really no place to get oysters in the city…we have a place downtown that’s called the Oyster House...that’s what the fuck it’s called!

Hahahaha

No seriously! That’s what it’s called!

I went there for my 14th birthday! My sister took me, I had oysters on a half shell before we went to see Purple Rain….of which she bought me the album for my birthday that year.

Oh…wow that sounds great.

Oyster House has been there, been around forever and it’s still there, and they have pictures of Michael Keaton there, because Michael Keaton’s from Pittsburgh, right?

Mmmhhhmm.

And they have pictures on the wall of all the famous people from Pittsburgh, of which there are many…So, we do have oysters.

At a place…

called the OYSTER HOUSE.

So,

I don’t think you would name something the Oyster House if you couldn’t serve oysters to the community.

No, you’re absolutely right! Yea.

Secondly, there’s Monterey Bay Fish Grotto in Mt. Washington, Pittsburgh. It’s expensive as fuck and they keep all of their Hennessy locked up in a glass case.

And, you’re not going to believe this —

It’s a fucking seafood restaurant!

So yea, they’ve got the Hennessy Richards, the Hennessy Paradis’, and the Hennessy XO—$80 a shot, $200 a shot, just for a shot okay? Shit tastes like butter going down.

Wow. I want one…

Short story long, it’s called the Monterey Bay Fish Grotto because they serve fucking seafood!

Hahahaha

Then you go down to the Strip District, you got Rob Wholey’s and, shocking! It’s a goddamn fish supplier.

Sure is!

And you can get a fried fish sandwich at Wholey’s itself. So they have fresh fish that come in and people can go in and get. And right across the street, is Roland’s!

Roland’s is a fucking seafood restaurant.

Pittsburgh, is also a foodie haven. Pittsburgh has some of the greatest food in the country. I mean we can hold ourselves up to Chicago. And New York and other major cities BECAUSE Pittsburgh had mines– mining coal and steel for steel mills which made it a haven for immigrants seeking out work.

So we have Hungarians– that’s actually where the word hunkie came from, it came from Pittsburgh by the way.

Whaaaat? Forreal?

The word hunkie? Yea, the word hunkie came from Pittsburgh and we used honkie to describe Hungarian people. Because there was a lot of them working in the steel mills and the coal mines.

Ooooooh. I didn’t know that.

The Big Mac was invented in Pittsburgh. Okay? So was the Klondike Bar.

The Klondike Bar was invented in Pittsburgh?

The Klondike Bar? Yea!

We put french fries on pizza, salads and fucking sandwiches! How you gonna say that we were lacking?!

We were lacking restaurant culture? Are you fucking kidding me?!

So That’s offensive, RIGHT THERE. Because Pittsburgh always rankest highest in the foodie places to live.

Up on Polish Hill – we have Russian food, Polish food, German food… we have a Greek Festival– then Bloomfield, another neighborhood–which is little Italy, right? And you know, Larimer avenue used to be Little Italy back in the day. And Homewood used to be all white.

Larimer avenue????? Oh..wow.

Yea, all Italians lived on Larimer. ALL Italians. That’s why at the end of Larimer where the Larimer Avenue Bridge is…?

Yes?

Where the Larimer Bridge is, there’s an Italian store that sits there and they have chucks that sit on the side…and it’s the only Italian place that still exists in that area.

And the reason it exists, is because we know better not to bother it.

Nobody bothers it. It’s theirs.

Italian pizzerias in the Hill District…

And all of the Giant Eagles except for the one owned by a Black a woman, are owned by someone with a vowel at the end of their name.

Hahahahah

And I know for a fact, because I used to have to contact all of these places for work. So there’s that.

So, we have the Italians, the Irish, The Hungarians, The Greeks…

And we now have a decent Chinese population–The Puerto Rican’s have come. And we have Mexicans now…like a substantial amount, because they come to do the landscaping for rich white people.

With that being said, Squirrel Hill is all Jews. And what do they come with? They come with Jewish deli’s.

Yup

So,

-that is very insulting to say that we were in need of some type of restaurant that offered what we already have in Pittsburgh.

So, what do you think drove them to say that or drove them to think that way about us? Or do you think they just wanted to capitalize on the area and used it as an excuse?

Well…Let me finish.

Okay, sorry.

Pittsburgh still has something that alot of major cities don’t have.

We still have actual, real, speakeasies.

So THAT speakeasy restaurant, is an insult.

There’s a place on Hamilton, right now, where if I go knock on the door-they look out the door, they see my face, they let me in, and I can get a beer–I can get a pint of liquor, and I can get a shot. On the fucking weekend, on the holiday, after everything is closed. I can go and walk pass the white Pit bull, and get something to drink–and it’s a speakeasy. And on Larimer avenue in the back there’s a speakeasy there that you can go get a pint-half a pint of liquor on the holiday or on the weekend because it’s a fucking speakeasy. Okay?

So this city still has real life actual speakeasies and this little niche…

..they’re little niche of a speakeasy, (that they’re calling a speakeasy) is an insult to all Black speakeasies that I know of, or frequented in my life. So there’s that.

“They’re little niche ~~speakeasy.~~..is an insult to all Black speakeasies.”

I completely agree.

Also, the person that wrote the article did zero research. Just like the letter to Kenny Gould, said. Because if they had, they would’ve known about how Pittsburgh’s restaurant industry has been.

They also would’ve knew that there was NO lack of fried chicken, anywhere in Pittsburgh.

If you wanna know, go down to Arts Tavern+, down in the Strip District. Arts has the best bar chicken wings in the world that I’ve ever had. I don’t know if while I’m eating them I’m just drunk, or they’re just that good.

Hahaha!

Arts keeps a fat, Black woman in the kitchen. And she burns on the chicken. Like you go in there just to get drunk so you can eat some chicken after.

They give you wipes and a basket of wings and that shit is delicious. Not only Arts, but we used to have, before gentrification, The Crawford Grill on the Hill District.

It was actually um…what do you call it when a place has been there for so long….?

It was a historical landmark!

Yes. It was one of the landmarks.

It was one of the oldest and best soul food restaurants in Pittsburgh. And yes, they had fried chicken, but gentrification made them move to Station Square. And people on the Hill wanted to go to the Hill, they didn’t want to go to Station Square. So, ultimately, it failed.

Hhhmmm…..

They did a ‘nuisance bar’ on the Horror Scope–Also had great chicken, right?

There was also Sheba’s. Sheba was really close to your family, and Sheba cooked her ass off. And she used to cook at the 30/30 and then opened up her own place on Homewood ave…but what i’m saying to you is…

I can go to Pittsburgh right now, and got to 900 places and get some good fucking fried chicken.

So that was a lie. That was false.

The person that did the article didn’t do any research. Especially on the chicken…didn’t research the Oyster House or any of the multiple places that I could go and get oysters…

I can even take you to places where you can get fried oysters!

So true!

Basically what they’re doing is…they went to the East Liberty area of Pittsburgh, that used to be a Black area, and then they tore down all of the high rises, and they kicked all of the Black people out–and they put in a serious police presence that would discourage Black folks from loitering or loafing.

Also moved the MLK busway so niggers [hard R] wouldn’t be hanging out at the busway trying to catch the bus there, you know? Making white people uncomfortable. So basically what they were doing was they were um…dis…

They’re disregarding the Black culture and peddling to the white culture.

Because, they’re saying there’s not a good place for WHITE people to get chicken.

Yeaaa! How about that!

Right there in Bloomfield there’s a restaurant that a friend used to work at, and a distant cousin actually owns, it’s called Sugar and Smoke.

Sugar and Smoke soul food restaurant – black eyed peas, salmon cakes…but short story long guess what they specialize in cooking there? FRIED CHICKEN

So how you gonna tell me you can’t get fried chicken and there’s a whole soul food, comfort restaurant there?

And that’s in a gentrified part of the city. So for you to say, that there’s no market for oysters and there’s a whole oyster house that’s older than both of you people speaking, that’s ridiculous!

And then to have a Russian…making fried chicken and marketing it with watermelon, at Muddy Waters…..

Yea that was…

That was fucking racist. Just like that school did for Black history month- offering the students fried chicken and watermelon….

Knowing the racist connotations has!

We need the readers to try and stay closer to Black food. I mean, okay come on…

We’ll always give the Dirty O’s our business. We like them and they like us.

There’s a chicken place in Penn Hills. That has 75,000 different kinds of wings!

Do you remember the name?

Nah, but my cousin does.

*face palm*

Also be careful with places targeting Black neighborhoods, The Hook Fish’s, Rally burgers with the curly fries…Black people were going to Rally’s like crazy! These are middle eastern owned businesses–now there’s nothing wrong with middle easterners or them owning businesses–

–They also opened up the Shuman’s Market right up there on Frankstown ave and Black people go there like crazy too, but….

They sell crack-pipes, loose cigarettes, crack lighters.

Ooohhh…..

They sell loose cigarettes to children…to minors. All of the shit on their shelves is dusty, old and over priced. So basically,

The reason I say this is because these people specifically moved into the Black communities right–

*Takes a big sip of her drink*

They moved into the community to take from it, but not to give to it…or to give back to it.

They supply all the crack heads that be down at Rosings with lighters and crack pipes and loose cigs…for a dollar because they can’t afford a whole pack. If a teenager, an 8 year old or 5 year old kid, fucking goes in there and asks for a loose or two, they’ll sell it to them.

They disrespect our women, they disrepect our men.

They’re fucking disrespectful. They’re in the Black community praying on the Black community, taking money from the Black community, but they don’t live in the community, and they don’t give back to the community. They own these restaurants!

And it’s just like the Koreans with their hair supply stores. Who are they marketing to?

Black women. But do they give back to the community?

No ma’am.

No, they do not.

To be continued in Part II

+Sources:

Arts Tavern Doesn’t have a link, but feel free to check ’em out online!

On Black Spending: https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/article/2018/black-impact-consumer-categories-where-african-americans-move-markets/ black spending

https://dudleyq.com/products/ Dudley Hair Care

https://www.rolandspittsburgh.com/ Roland’s Seafood Restaurant

https://wholey.com/ Rob Wholey’s

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kennygould/2019/11/27/try-this-new-speakeasy-in-pittsburgh-pennsylvania/ –THEM

http://originaloysterhousepittsburgh.com/
https://medium.com/@williamsfa89/an-open-letter-to-kenny-gould-on-black-culture-erasure-and-gentrification-in-pittsburgh-e78b966f1e4d Ms. Felicity’s Article

https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/a-pittsburghers-determination-gave-us-the-big-mac/ The Big Mac’s History in Pittsburgh

https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/brian-butko-returns-for-more-on-the-history-of-isalys-and-its-iconic-klondike-bars/Content?oid=1956188https://www.post-gazette.com/local/neighborhood/2018/12/27/Neighborhood-Pittsburgh-top-food-city-2019/stories/201812270143 The Klondike Bar’s History in Pittsburgh

https://www.post-gazette.com/local/neighborhood/2018/12/27/Neighborhood-Pittsburgh-top-food-city-2019/stories/201812270143 Pittsburgh 2019 Food City of the year

https://www.mic.com/articles/169294/white-high-school-served-fried-chicken-to-celebrate-black-history-month School Serving Fried Chicken and Watermelon

https://www.sugarandsmokepgh.com/ – Unfortunately is Closed

The Taste of (subconscious) Greatness: the Popeye’s Chicken Sandwich.

It’s a Tuesday night, there’s nothing else to do. Which means my Aunt is probably sipping. Let me give her a call

*Ring Ring*

Receiver: Hello?

Me: Hello? Hi Aunt! Do you have some time tonight?

*Ice clinking in glass*

Aunt: Yes, I do.

Me: (Yes! Perfect timing) Okay, let’s talk about this Popeye’s Chicken Sandwich.

What’s the fanaticism???

Okay, Let’s go with Harriet Tubman, I just saw that movie tonight; Do you one of the reason why she carried a gun?

Why?

It wasn’t just for her personal safety, it was to kill any nigga that didn’t want to go.

Any slave that would jeopardize the mission. Because as the movie depicts in real life, there were slaves that didn’t want to go.

Slaves that didn’t want freedom. Blacks couldn’t unanimously get behind freedom…. You had the black muslims with Malcolm X, the MLK non-violent faction, there were entertainers that were going about it one way or the other, it’s so hard to get black people to unite behind causes that are good for them.

Mmmhmmm

Drake got boo’d off stage because he wasn’t Frank Ocean. We booing Drake now??

Right.

I mean you got the Cardi B’s and the team Nicki Minaj’s… You can’t get black folks to unite against anything except a chicken sandwich.

Remember Black Lives Matter?

Yes ma’am.

Me too.

Hahaha

When you look at us, black people, we’re not fanatics about freedom, not fanatics about civil rights, not fanatics about much but a fucking chicken sandwich? We’ll kill a motherfucker over a chicken sandwich. Think about it: there are people that wouldn’t kill for voter rights but they would fight and kill over a chicken sandwich? I’m just saying! I know it sounds crazy…

Nooo, you’re so right. I completely agree with that. I think part of this is due to how it was presented to us, like by Kev on Stage.

Yea, I watched them eat the sandwich and guess what?

I wanted one! That shit looked good. And the way they described the bun and the way they described the pickles being crispy and the chicken being crispy and moist…the comparisons…they did a side by side comparison of the Chick-Fil-A sandwich vs Popeye’s sandwich, I had to have one too, I really wanted one!

Mmmhhmmm

Because, the description. You know what I mean? And I’m not gonna lie that’s a damn fine chicken sandwich.

But you’re saying it’s not slap ya momma good?

No, it’s not. Its not body slam a senior citizen good, it’s not a wave a gun through the drive thru good. It’s not ‘you jumped in front of me catch these hands’ good. It’s a chicken sandwich.

I think that maybe people got behind it was because, it’s a part of our culture that we can all agree on.

Chicken?!

Yea!

Or Violence?

We all just wanna eat.

Yea, okay but look. The saddest thing was Janet Jackson with her security detail. This bitch actually had police officers. She had uniform cops, give her a police escort into Popeye’s because of a chicken sandwich. Janet Jackson walked in with a security police detail, I guess they were off duty cops, I hope they were off duty, but again if you were on-duty and Janet Jackson called you, you would still go. You know?

Hahahaha. Sure would.

It’s Janet Jackson dammit! (to her husband) Its Janet Jackson, baby, you would go. I know that you’re married to me, but let’s just say you were single…Okay your uncle he’s the heart. He’s a hold out for Janet Jackson.

Awwww

So Janet Jackson had a police detail escort her into Popeyes, they hand her the sandwich and then she comes out with the security detail. Do you know the optics of that? It just looked terrible.

HAAAAA!

Our divas our getting escorts for…what? That would be like Whitney Houston or Diana Ross getting a damn escort for a chicken sandwich. So it’s like, damn if Janet is getting police just to get her a chicken sandwich I gotta get me some of that chicken sandwich.

Right!

So, the next thing you know you got people throwing hands, stabbing, waving guns. I mean I’ve actually seen people, on facebook, driving around from one place to another, and then it’s sold out here, sold out there. And what it boils down to is, the majority of the people that have physically fought or have become hostile with one another, didn’t get the sandwich. So the acts of violence aren’t about the sandwich– the Maryland guy, he didn’t get no sandwich. And the guy that went to prison for killing him, he didn’t get no chicken sandwich neither. Here’s what it is:

You have a bunch of people from desperate communities. You have people that are poor and are struggling, grew up poor and aren’t struggling—but you know a lot of people in today’s climate are struggling and they’re fearful you know….they don’t know what’s around the corner because of police brutality, Trump, whatever. But you know we’re growing up in fearful times when a cop can just pull you over and you may or may not get out alive, right?

Right.

Your kids, hopefully live in a nice neighborhood, or if not you live in a shitty neighborhood, and they’re going to a shitty school that’s only going to get shittier because you know because Betsy Devos is Secrertary of Education and she’s cutting everything that children need to learn and grow. So you factor that in– You’re worried about your kids and the bullying climate and the excessive racism with the rise of supremacy…….

……and then you’re standing in a long line for 2 ½ hours in a confined space with a bunch of other niggas, right?

Mmmhmm

Who have some type of struggle! James Baldwin says, “…To be black in America is to be in a state of what? …Rage.

Who?

James Baldwin, he’s a fantastic writer, “If Beale Street Could Talk”, he wrote that.

Oooh Okay!

Yea! that James Baldwin, so you’re black in America standing in line for 2 1/2 hours. Think about it. That’s half of a part time job plus a half an hour. Right? Waiting on a chicken sandwich. You’re already tired, for whatever the struggle is that day. Your kids are bad, your nigga is cheating on you. Something is going on. Your boss is an asshole. Whatever it is. But you’re in line for this chicken sandwich. And you get to the end of the line and they say “We out.”

No, no.

Noooo– nigga no.

You should’ve said something a half an hour ago. You should’ve said something an hour ago. You don’t tell me there’s no chicken sandwich 2 ½ hours later, after I done stood in this goddamn line. Or you can’t tell me there’s a 3 chicken sandwich limit when I got a family of five. You know what I’m saying?

That’s when you see the guy waving the gun, or the other guy cut in front of him. You did what? Come on now we’re talking about a people that will shoot you for a pair of Jordan’s.

Mmmhmm

Same people! Same people that would shoot you for an 8 ball jacket in the 80’s or the 90’s and a pair of J’s. Now you’re telling them that you’re going to cut in front of them for a chicken sandwich. No, you’re going to die today!

So why is it so important for people to feel the need to get the sandwich

Because of the hype!

It unfortunate but black people will stand in line for hours and hours, for the new Jordan’s.

But you know who doesn’t wear Jordans? Michael Jordan.

Hahaha

I mean you see them! They stand in line overnight! Or you’ll see them standing in line for the newest iPhone. You just spent $1000, $1500 on the newest iPhone, meanwhile, your child support is in arrears. I have a friend who has 6 kids and he bought an iPhone when it first came out. I said, “You paid what for that? That’s $100 per kid!”

I remember working at **** on the Northside….and two ladies I worked with took time off from work to go stand in line for the new 50 Cent concert. This is like when 50 Cent first came out, his very first album.

I remember my husband’s daughter, she’s a teenager. She came to the house and she was like, “I’m not wearing no shoes that cost less than $100 dollars–these shoes cost, $100, these shoes cost $150…” and she’s pulling all of these shoes out. And I’m like, they’re shoes…

When I was young, I remember looking in the fridge and there was still no food. And I was scared. But then my mother came home with a bunch of groceries and put em on the table and I was like, “Oh yea she got money we got groceries.” But then I looked, and she had a bloody bandage on each arm. My mother gave blood and plasma to feed me.

I’m not hungry, I’m not starving and I’m not desperate now, but if I was I would be the nigga standing behind Tump with a sign.

So why do black people need to be a part of the hype though?

What I’m saying is Deprivation Guides Hype.

When you’re little and you’re hungry, and you don’t get enough to eat. You feel like you never get enough to eat, you’re never satiated, and you mess around and when you become a person of means you’re subject to hoard. Over-shop or overeat because it wasn’t an option for you as a child. When you don’t have enough money and you struggle, when you get older, you don’t want that for your kids. So you’ll find the name brand that’s a big deal in the black community. They don’t wanna wear Tuffies, they wanna wear name brand.

Hold on the damn dog done ate the blinds.

Uh-Oh…

Okay, Hello?

Yes ma’am.

I think we put so much emphasis on material things because, in society, because we’re devalued as human beings. When you look at the racist videos on facebook, the first thing out of a white person’s mouth is “NIGGER!” “You black this, you black that!” “NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER!” So they use that word, they wield that word as a weapon to make you think you are small and less than they are or unworthy… That you’re a second class citizen.

And we can’t change the color of our skin, but we can change how we dress it.

Look at LeBron James, look at Gabrielle Union, look at Dwayne Wade look how they dress. Look at the Basketball Wives or the Housewives of Atlanta. They go out and get these $600 pedicures and they put on these $6000 dollar gowns and then they throw bottles at each other like they’re niggas in the street. So yea, they go out to these fancy restaurants and they’re extremely pretty and their hair and nails look amazing, but you’re acting ghetto at a 5 star restaurant.

You think that getting a sandwich is blacks being a part of something greater than themselves on a subconscious level?

Yea, we put more emphasis on hype and material things. Like, I have an android phone because I am not buying into the apple hype. You’re not going to make me pay 1000 bucks for something that cost a poor little suicidal Chinese woman, $12 to make.

I agree.

You know how many pairs of Jordan’s I’ve had in my lifetime?

How many?

Exactly 0.

I have never owned a pair, have I thought about it? Yea. Did I want some? Yea. But I didn’t feed into the hype. Do I like nice things? Absolutely. Do I have name brand things? Absolutely, I do. But I am not willing to stand in line. Time is precious. Time and youth are the only two things that you will not get back.

You’ll pay taxes and you’ll get tax money back, but you’re not ever going to get your time back.

So to waste your youth and to waste your time are two of the worst things that you can do.

And you waste youth and time….standing in line for a fucking sandwich!

So what’s the message to people who just want a chicken sandwich?

Consider, what its worth? At what cost?

How much does your soul cost?

There will be other things that will be hyped up. But it’s not worth your dignity not your life, not your freedom. No chicken sandwich is worth a murder rap. No chicken sandwich is worth assault and battery charges. Because that shit will follow you.

It’s like you’re trying to get a job and they’re like, “..Have you ever been convicted of a felony, “Yes.” Please explain on this line. “…Okay well I was in line for this chicken sandwich and….”

Hahaha Well, what if someone just wants something quick?

Wendy’s, something. Or anything else. But that’s not the point!

Moral of the story: Do not let someone else’s opinion guide you to destruction. We lost our minds about this chicken sandwich. Kev on Stage’s opinion on this chicken sandwich is part of the reason we got people getting stabbed and body slammed–we have to believe in something else. Something bigger than ourselves.

We need to unite behind something, but not a goddamn chicken sandwich. if everybody who tries so hard to get this Popeye’s chicken sandwich over the past few months had been that united in the civil rights movement, MAAAAN we would’ve been overcome.

If everyone had united behind MX, like they did the sandwich, it wouldn’t have been any means necessary, the means would’ve went. We would’ve been free. And if everyone who went out of their way to get a Popeye’s chicken sandwich had been that united in our right to vote, we would’ve been voting.

Chicken sandwiches do nothing for the race as a whole.

Right now the republican party is united in trying to take our voter’s rights away from us. Right now. The voter ID laws have been weakened by the Supreme Court –under Clarence Thomas’ black ass –and they just decided that voter’s rights act, didn’t need to be in there anymore. Because as Clarence Thomas put it, “Racism is essentially over.” So as soon as they struck down those parts of the voter’s rights, the voter ID laws in NC got ridiculous and with, “surgical precision”* they attacked black voters, okay?

These are some of the most important elections of our life. 2020 is when we say “Hello, welcome back democracy!” or “Goodbye to Democracy forever.”

But instead of worrying about whether or not you’re gonna be able to vote, or the police officers that are striking us down, you’re worried about a fucking chicken sandwich.

The bright shiny light, follow it while we dismantle your freedom

And yea that chicken sandwich is good as hell.

*Sources

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/poll-prri-voter-suppression/565355/

Introduction to Big Booty Girl

She speaks, I listen.

We created this site to help colorful folks come together and navigate to the direction we need to go in. Because let’s be honest, there are a good number of people out there that don’t know what good food looks like, let alone tastes like. As minorities, we live in tight-knit communities where celebrating food together is a huge part of our culture; it’s how we bond, where we gossip and where we remember our place in our family. Going out to eat is a treat, and coming from a background of a culture of rich food, no one wants to be let down. So what? What makes us qualified to rate food? Because most of us grew up under the world’s greatest chefs, struggling and working with what they had. And everyone one of us who values good food is a chef at heart. This site will, hopefully, help to keep us from making the terrible mistake of taking advice from people who didn’t, and don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.