The Bus Bench

Films to fuck your downtown state of mind. . .

For the first of three nights of five films to be screened at REDCAT, I missed what I had hoped to be a weekend of jaw-dropping, eye-opening, mind-blowing and highly controversial cinema and debate: All Power to The People: The History and Legacy of The Black Panther Party. (White guy that I am, I opted to see some friends ice-skate while former good friends Leather Hy-, er LISTING SHIP, performed at Pershing Square. From there things turned to a favourite chair that has long known my olde arse at the Biltmore, then quarrelling in the streets and making friends with fellow crazies along midnight on 6th Street halfway to any given mission between San Pedro and Central.)

Anyhow.

So what I missed Friday were three films: "Off The Pigs," "Repression" and "The Murder of Fred Hampton." Three scary films for anyone who understands how things were and, for the lack of daily riotous outbursts, how bad they may well become. Come Saturday and Sunday, however, (and amid all I have to do to get a particular theatre up and running by 21 January), I will be seated to see the rest of this too-brief series.

This could be an epic post, what with my perspectives on anti-statism, violence, mob mentality and rapid change of the world, but I will give it a rest.

-BusTard

Jena 6, stripping away the bullshit and what constitutes a prank

When class is stripped away it’s just between the niggers and the rednecks.

The mainstream liberal media won’t really touch this in a substantial way. Why because they are scared little chicken shits.

Racism in it’s purist form is demonstrated at it’s base in not how you are treated when you’re a good little Driving Miss Daisy black person, but when you get pissed off.

What happens when a black kid doesn’t turn the other cheek?

That’s when you can see how racist a society is and this case along with the young black man in Georgia who is currently serving an adult sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15 year old when he was 17 shows you that racism is alive and well in the United States.

“Well he shouldn’t have been fooling around with those white girls anyway,” old black person.

We need to really shut up with that bullshit. Civil rights doesn’t just apply to people who have your moral or cultural values and you don’t lose your rights because you get mad, have premarital sex (even if it’s with a white girl, a black boy or between people who share the same sexual orientation) or kick someone’s ass when they piss you off or at least it’s not suppose to.

Here’s a memo. You can’t behave your way out of racism. People are racist because people are racist, not because of anything anyone has done wrong.

Prank one from: "Without Sanctuary, Lynching Photography in America" Twin Palms Publishers

Let’s go into the facts of Jena:

1. The six black kids kicking the white kid's ass was not the first incident. Shocking, because even the liberal media keeps forgetting to state that. It seems like these six kids just jumped a white kid for no reason and that they want "affirmative action" in regards to the courts and that is BULLSHIT. I'd expect that from Fox, but this from the "liberal" media, just shows the cowards that they are.There is also something about the safe language they use and they keep stating it's wrong, but they did something. You can be angry, but violence is not the answer and you have to be punished when you do something wrong, just not so harshly...got to remember that. If you read the whole facts you'd know that someone should just kick some of these reporters in the teeth for how their scaredy cat coverage is so NOT helping.

These "liberal" "grassroot" political blogs (Daily Kos, Talk Left, Huffington Post) even a bigger joke.

2. Here are the incidents (roughly, the order is right, but I don't have all of the exact dates) as they went down.

a. First day of school, black kid asks Principal (or Vice Principal, depending on source) could he sit  under a tree (a tree that was an unspoken rule, reserved for white kids who are 80% of the school.)
b. Days later black kids and friends do sit under tree
c. Next day there are three (or two depending on source) nooses hung in the tree.
d. Black and white students clash often the next month.
e. After Thanksgiving a section of the school set on fire (no one caught.)
f. A following weekend a black kid went to mostly white party and got beat up with beer bottles and fists by a group of white kids.
g. Next day same black kid got gun pulled on him by a white kid, he wrestles the gun out of the kids hand.
h. Following day that black kid got charged with theft for taking the white kid's gun away from him.
i. The following week at school that black kid got taunted by a white kid who was friends with the  people who hung the nooses. The white kid was referring to the black kid being jumped by white kids at the party that weekend (see f.)
j. Later that day that white kid got beat up and knocked unconscious by six black kids.
k. That white kid who was almost “murdered” was at a ring ceremony later that night. What a trooper.

Facts dissected from Newsweek, Snopes and Sun Times.

That’s the real facts of the case. Seems like to me those kids were provoked into kicking some ass and if anyone who should be doing jail time (or at least some job up training) is the school superintendent, Roy Breithaupt and the cops for not acting as diligently when the white kids did something as they did when the black kids did something. Or just grossly overeacting in regards to the black kids, because I in no way if the situation was reversed would want some white kid spending adult time for a high school fight, even if he was a total asshole.

The principal wanted the noose students expelled, but the superintendent Roy Breithaupt thought it was just a childish prank because apparently lynching is real funny. Beating someone cutting off their balls, hanging them on a tree and setting them on fire then taking the time to set up a tripod, so you can photograph the event so you can then put it on a postcard where you can casually write, “I’m having fun how about you?” and and then you can even have the United States postal service endorse it and and mail it to your cousin Albert in Mississippi (cause he likes funny stuff) then over drinks when Al comes into town you can all have a little chuckle at the the nigger’s stretched out neck on the funny postcard you sent. That’s FUCKING FUNNY AS HELL!!!!!! Roy what a great sense of humor you have. I'd like to see how you feel about the prank I'd like to play on your dead grandmother.

Prank two from: "Without Sanctuary, Lynching Photography in America" Twin Palms Publishers

The arson incident. Do you think the black kids did that? If they did and people even kind of thought they did it don’t you think they’d be charged? Hell they wanted to charge them all with murder. If a black kid had pulled a gun on a white kid do you think he’d be walking around Jena?

People like to point out that one of the juveniles Mychal Bell had four priors, but ask yourself this if you were living in this piece of shit town and you were a black guy that no doubt was attractive and probably popular with the ladies (and the white ones too, you know how they are in the South about that) your ass would probably have priors too. If I lived in Jena I'm pretty darn sure that I would have kicked some ass before I got to 18.

If you think I’m unreasonable you’ve probably never been to the south. You’ve probably never been in LA while Chief Gates was running the police department.

This all smells of bullshit and the liberal media tiptoeing around this makes me sick.

Let’s be reasonable my ass. Fuck being reasonable. Being reasonable just puts a sign on your back that says kick me and do it hard.

Give to the Jena defense fund or shut your mouth about how your parents didn’t own slaves and asking black people why you can't use the word nigger.

                                   Prank three from: "Without Sanctuary, Lynching Photography in America" Twin Palms Publishers

I don’t know what’s worse dumb kids hanging nooses in the tree or the “liberal” media pussyfooting around this issue as a kind of silent acceptance of it’s ok (or sensationalized stories on the poor whites and how they are "evil," but not the sytem or the superintendent) to let black people die figurative and literally if being cool about it helps the Democrats get in the White House.

Don’t want to seem too crazy and speaking up for black people that makes you look crazy.

Signed,

Crazy Browne

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Photos are scanned from "Without Sanctuary, Lynching Photography in America" on Twin Palms Publishers editors James Allen, Hilton Alas, Congress John Lewis, Leno F. Litwack

Here's an except by Congressman Lewis:

Without Sanctuary brings to life one of the darkest and sickest periods in American history. As a young child, growing up very poor in rural Alabama, I heard stories about lynching and about the knightriders coming through, intimidating and harassing black people. At the time it all seemed nightmarish, unreal--and even unbelieveable. The photographs in this book make real the hideous crimes that were committed against humanity.

Stop blogging about TV. Jena 6. Blackwater. L.A. 9/20

Does everyone that blog want to be on TV, work for TV or are they just fat bastards with no lives, so they watch a lot of TV.

Even with my freelance jobs, drinking hobby and just mostly unpleasant attitude I almost never get around to watching TV. I don’t have cable. I can’t sit down to watch anything. I just don't have time. I have this thing called a life. I missed the MTV awards. What's the point of it now? I knew a bunch of morons would be blogging about it. And I pretty much hate all of the music (I read via the internet) that they play. I like classical music, real jazz, vintage punk and gangster rap (yeah the kind that's not positive and was played on KDAY.)

People want to be on TV so badly and at any cost.

On Hollywood Blvd this woman came up to me and said, “I’m from MTV…” and I said, “How about you fuck yourself?”  I'm unique looking (finding an ethnic like person who speaks English without having to go south of the 10 makes everyone's life easier) so entertainment dumbasses always want to put me on TV. Of course my animosity was misdirected. She was doing her job, but she seemed surprised. How could me a seemingly young and hip individual not give a fuck about MTV.

I know this is Hollywood and that’s the point. People do poetry on the side while waiting for their big break in commercials. Theatre in LA is nothing more than a wasteland of 40 plus actors and actresses hoping that an agent will be in the audience to give them a part in a quirky independent film. People write books hoping they can turn them into a screenplay. TMZ has a TV show, a sucky one, why?

(Don’t you love with the internet how you can just erase your mistakes? What a great tool to manipulate the truth and history. Too bad Hearst wasn’t around to see this day.)

But you know I look at who owns various blogs and I realize possibly it’s not that people are vacuous morons it’s just that the biggest blogs are owned by people who are from the marketing sections of the TV and movie industries. If you don’t remember media prior to the internet you talk about what’s in your face.

If someone with a million dollars builds ten websites and fills them with bubble gum pop stars, well of course that’s what people are going to talk about it.

I’ve actually informed my staff members that I will never approve a post (or pay them for a print story, freelancers reading who aren’t bullshit, contact me) on the following topics:

Brittany Spears
MTV
Paris Hilton
Any musician that is signed to a major label (except Amy Winehouse, because as you know I think she’s rad.)
New movies
Anything that is broadcasted on TV

Why because if I’m going to “not say something nice” I know lots of people I’d rather make fun of; heads of corporations, heads of states, politicians, but you know most of these people are guys. Guys with back up.

I think the problem is that most people who are bloggers lack balls. They make fun of Brittany and Paris, because they have no power and it’s easy, but they don’t make fun of Blackwater and the fact on their webpage they don’t say who owns it.

No comments from the "liberal, bullshit, courage of a five year old without a night light, blogosphere" peanut gallery on the Jena 6. The only blogs that talk about it are the black blogs. What the fuck is that about?

Liberals hate hate hate when you bring up race other than to say Republicans are racist. I don't think all Republicans are racist and I don't think all Democrats have shit that smells like flowers. They won't talk about racism unless they can turn it into a classism slant, which is very hard in a rural southern town where pretty much everyone (black and white) are a step above Calcutta or Deliverance.

The internet has turned out to be a better creation than TV at creating a nation of fucking moronic tools.

At least with TV you know you’re not doing shit.

Browne ShameTrain LA