Timbro: Fighting Wars

Review Of The Jeffersons Television Series

I have been thinking about the Jeffersons television series lately. I watched a lot of television growing up. The reality is that while my mother was scrubbing floors and raising other people’s children, television was raising me. In this context the images of people from my community was important to how I thought that I could function in this society.  As a child you have to figure out which spaces you can occupy until you are conscious enough to create your own space. The Jeffersons was one of the crucial shows. It was about a dark man who worked his way out of the hood by running his own dry cleaners. George Jefferson was loud and obnoxious, but he was also competent and confident. George had 7 cleaning stores by the time the show ended, which he ran from his private office. Louise Jefferson was responsible for George’s rise. She did house work while he created the first store in his dry cleaning empire.  George never forgot about what Louise did for him no matter how large he grew. She never had to work another day. Louise deserved to her last days in leisure, but she did not do that. Louise volunteered at the Help Center where she helped other people who were still in poverty. I am in contact with a lot of educated dark people and a few of them are willing to make minor contributions, but none as much as Louise Jefferson. The whole point of slaves becoming free is to help free others. Selflessness is such a simple concept that too few understand. As I look at television today I cannot find one dark character that teaches a positive lesson. The Jeffersons television series has become more important as the quality of dark characters on television has declined.     

Review of Tin Man By Tracy Chapman

The song Tin Man by Tracy Chapman is a great love song. Tin Man deals with the loss of the emotion that one can have when they suffer heart break over and over again. The song stays exciting by straying into the mystical realities of our world. Tin Man has witches and magic men. I can definitely relate to chronic heart ache being an artist and scholar born to a people not interested in culture or thought. Tin Man gives us hope throughout the song that I will not tell you about. I would rather have you hear it. At this point in time, when so much emotion is rubbed out of everything we see and do, it is nice to have a song like Tin Man to listen to.   

Review Of An Encyclopedia Of Assholes By Darlington & Law

An Encyclopedia of Assholes by Kristoffer Darlington and Diane Law is one of the most honest books that I have ever read. We have a lot of assholes in high positions in this world, but thinkers are often afraid to call the assholes what they are. Darlington and Law are not afraid to it call like it is. This is not a book of opinion. This encyclopedia uses facts to point out the negative affects of some powerful people have on the masses of us. Some of the people in the encyclopedia are folks that I like, but the encyclopedia points out behaviors of these assholes that I cannot dispute. Reality is not negotiable. This book includes everyone from Prince to Dick Cheney. If you think you know powerful persons read An Encyclopedia of Assholes by Kristoffer Darlington and Diane Law to really find out what that person is. 

Review Of The Strain By Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan is a different kind of vampire story. The Strain presents the vampires as non human beings that live on earth secretly. Of course there is always one member of the family that cannot stay in line with most enlightened way. One of these creatures is tired of living in the dark. This one is infecting everyone in New York City with ambitions to infect world. The Strain allows us to see what happens when the city becomes deathly ill and transfers death to others. This book shows us who is in control, who suffers the most, who gets treatment and who does not. The Strain also shows us that those who are the most knowledgeable are pushed out into the margins of our society. I know from personal experience about this subject. The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan is the first book in a three book series and I am on the hunt for the other two books in the series. If you read The Strain you will see why.    

Timbro: Black People

Review Of Nigger By Randall Kennedy

The word nigger is like many other words, it is what we make it. Nigger by Randall Kennedy gives a nice history of the word nigger and how it became a violent word by one group over another. Nigger also shows how the victims of the word nigger took the word and made it a term and managed it differently. Kennedy tells us how the word nigger can be a term of affection or harm depending on where it used or who is using it on who. The fact that a word like nigger can still create so much chaos while our empire is literally falling apart shows how insane our society is. We tend to pour too much into some words while we let other words fly. You can read Nigger by Randall Kennedy to see for yourself the power that the word nigger has on consciousness of the United States.

Review Of Negro President By Garry Wills

Negro President by Garry Wills will teach you more about presidential politics than any political science class are willing to teach. This book teaches how slave votes were used during Thomas Jefferson’s day and how the votes of the descendants of those slaves are used today. Not much has changed in this regard. Many people have criticized Jefferson for writing all men are created equal while he was holding slaves and got elected by slave holders. Jefferson was not a hypocrite because he did not think that dark people were full people. I do not think that there is evidence that Jefferson was brutal to his slaves. I do not think that he was overly kind to them either. It seems as though slavery was an institution that had to be managed like any other institution. Negro President also taught me a few things about George Washington that I did not know. You know what happens on the surface of presidential politics, but you may not know what happens beneath the surface. Negro President by Garry Wills looks under the hood and takes apart the engine that drives presidential politics.

Review Of Windtalkers By John Woo

The film Windtalkers by John Woo is a film about empire. In one sense it shows two empires that were fighting for the western world in World War II. The main point of Windtalkers is to show what those at the bottom of an empire can expect from the people who rule and manage the empire. In the film indigenous people of this territory called the United States helps to defeat German Nazis by using their language. The Nazis could never break the code of the indigenous peoples. As you watch the indigenous people kill and bleed for the U. S. you wonder why they would fight for a people that tried to wipe them off of the earth. We also know that nothing has been done by anyone to benefit the peoples who maintained this beautiful land until outsiders came. Watch Windtalkers by John Woo to see who you should fight for. 

Review Of Malcolm X: The Last Speeches By Bruce Perry

Growing up without a father and a mother that was raising other people’s children I had to find elders who cared. Malcolm X was always, and will always be, one of my favorites. Malcolm X: The Last Speeches edited by Bruce Perry shows exactly why. Perry put together a group of speeches by Malcolm X that are just as important today as when Malcolm spoke them. I always loved Malcolm because he gave analysis of whole systems and tied them to our daily lives. He also never stopped growing. If Malcolm saw that an organization was lacking he would move on, creating institutions from scratch if necessary. So many leaders become comfortable where they are. I wish more people had the courage that Malcolm X did. If you do not really know Malcolm X read Malcolm X: The Last Speeches edited by Bruce Perry and you may become a fan.

Timbro: Dark Energy

Review Of Fight For freedom By Carey Robinson

I picked up the book Fight for Freedom by Carey Robinson while in Jamaica. It was the best thing about that trip for me. Robinson tells about everyone from the Arawaks to Three-Finger Jack. As you read through the book you see that all of the slaves were defiant. Genocide could not stop the natives and the slaves from fighting against those who tried to keep them in bondage. After reading Fight for Freedom I began to wonder what happened to that fighting spirit in Jamaica. I saw a country that produces bauxite which is valuable and poverty of the masses. How can you have valuable minerals along side poverty of the citizens? It must be cowardice or some kind of mind control. The people of Jamaica need to read Fight for Freedom by Carey Robinson before they look up and find themselves in chains.

Review Of Terror Attacks By Vivian Head & Anne Williams

You would think that terrorism just started in the late 20^th century, but terror as a political tool has been here for centuries. Terror Attacks by Vivian Head and Anne Williams gives us a history of terrorism. I have been terrorized by the NYPD since I was a teenager, but other members of the empire of the United States are just catching on. Terror Attacks will show how governments are responsible for many acts of terror directly as well as indirectly. The easiest way for a government to implement police control with permission is to carry out an act of terrorism and blame the act on someone else. The state will spend an eternity looking for bad guys that do not exist. Terror Attacks also gives us knowledge of how many destructive groups are funded by western governments. It seems like the west can only deal with global thugs. Terror Attacks by Anne Williams and Vivian Head clarified a lot about who commits acts of terror on who for me. It can enlighten you as well, if you have the courage to see.

Review Of Classic Slave Narratives By Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Many people think that slave narratives are not as important today as they were during the 1800’s. They say we are beyond slavery, but The Classic Slave Narratives edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. will show that slavery never really ended. As you read through these slave narratives you will recognize people that you know right now in the 21^st century. You may even recognize yourself. Classic Slave Narratives may shock you at first, but we all need to be shocked from time to time. No one can grow without some mental struggle. The book shows that some people were paid and some even bought their own freedom. Others earned enough to buy their families. These free people could easily be taken into slavery in a slave territory. If you think that you have more freedom than the old slaves, think about how many of us are in prisons, on probation, and on parole. Classic Slave Narratives shows the brutality of slavery. It is no different than the brutality of police murders or group shootings of today. You should read The Classic Slave Narratives edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and read your situation to get free.

Review Of Native Son By Richard Wright

My sister once told me that Native Son by Richard Wright was too violent for her. I thought that she was so strange to say anything is too violent in the United States. This is the empire of genocide and leader assassinations. Native Son shows us that the U. S. is also the empire of forced poverty and ethnic dominance. A poor boy with simple minded parents is doomed unless he can break out of his experience with his curious mind. Some of us did this by reading books from writers like Wright. The main character never breaks free from the plantation rules that govern the U. S. and he suffers the ultimate destruction. Wright also points out that when the under class blows up from the pressure put on them from above, sometimes other members of the society can get caught in the blast. If you find yourself in a rut because of your position in this society you can wait until a majority realizes that empire is dead and we all have worth or you can read Native Son by Richard Wright to see what not to do. 

Timbro: His Age

Review Of Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison should be read by every dark skinned male as soon as possible. I say male because dark females have their own problems and are not concerned with our fates at all. We should read this book early in our lives because it teaches a valuable lesson. Invisible Man tells us that if we do not control the social institutions that we need to function in this world we will not achieve anything useful for ourselves. Ellison explains that we are nothing if we are dependent on other communities no matter how much work we do. Ellison should not have to remind the children of a people that worked from sun up to sun down so master could live a grand life of this reality. It seems that dark people have some kind of mental block that forces us to have to learn the same lesson every generation. Ralph Ellison did us a huge service by writing Invisible Man. You should do yourself a favor and read this book.

Review Of The 100 Steps Necessary For Survival In America...

I often hear dark people say that they want more solutions. If this were true more people would watch videos like mine instead of videos about foolishness. The 100 Steps Necessary for Survival in America for People of Color by Sam Chekwas is a book full of solutions. The book is small so that you can go through it a bit at a time. The book is easy to read. All of the solutions are self explanatory just like the title of the book. I doubt that many dark people will read it because they are so uncivilized they do not want solutions. As a matter of fact I am going to start reading the first two paragraphs of books so that people who truly want to can become better. The 100 Steps Necessary for Survival in America for People of Color by Sam Chekwas has inspired me and can inspire you if you dare to read it. 

Review Of Custer Died For Your Sins By Vine Deloria Jr.

We often hear about the genocide against the indigenous peoples in the territory now called the United States. Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr. gives details of how the indigenous peoples were dismantled by the foreign peoples of Europe. Deloria shows how the U. S. government never kept any of the treaties that they signed. He also points out the flaws in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Custer Died for Your Sins is not all gloom and doom. Deloria discusses the humor of the indigenous peoples. The book deals with conflict between those indigenous who are enslaved and those who are free. It is silly how these two groups are still divided after all that has been done to both of us. Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr. helped me to know the modern indigenous peoples of the U. S. territory as well as what kind of government we are all living under today.

Michael Jackson Speaks To Me

Michael Jackson speaks to me. We talk about the state of the popular rhythm and blues music today. It seems that the show is more important than the music. A pop star can also make more money on their lives than the music they create. We think that this is more the fault of the population. We have gone insane and people who are mad enjoy entertainment above all. Michael and I joke about how quick the dominant system will turn on you. Michael destroyed his physical form to fit in with the culture in control. They destroyed the rest of Michael as soon as he stepped out line. Maybe Michael should not have bought the Beatles catalog. The one thing no one can take away from Michael is his body of work, it speaks for itself. Michael Jackson has motivated me to create the best body of work that I can. Let others decide how good or bad the work is.

Timbro: No Suicide