Same Ole Story

In the days since last I wrote a lot has happened but not much has changed. Conservative politicians are still walking around pretending that just because a Black man was elected president twice, racism no longer exists and apparently there are members of the Supreme Court who agree with them. These are the same clowns who continue to cut unemployment benefits, food stamps and training programs and then blame the poor for being poor. The same party of obstructionist who failed on their promise to make President Obama a one term president and continually blame him for the woes of the world. Last week President Obama negotiated the release of the only American prisoner of war in Afghanistan, Bowe Bergdahl. In the five years he has been held as a prisoner of war, conservative politicians have fiercely advocated for his release including Republican Senator John McCain who in February stated he would support a prisoner exchange for Bergdahl’s release. Of course the minute it was announced that President Obama had negotiated the release these same conservatives who had accused the President of dragging his heels on the matter flip flopped, including Senator Pinocchio Hypocrite McCain. Seriously, can someone please tell Senator Sour Grapes that he lost the 2008 presidential campaign, he seems not to have gotten the memo. The man needs help he’s suffering from a severe case of POTUS envy. Anyway, all of a sudden Bergdahl was transformed from prisoner of war to a deserting Taliban sympathizer and the President was accused of everything from behaving like an autonomous king (courtesy of Senator Mark Rubio) to abusing executive powers and threatened for the umpteenth time with impeachment (thank you Senator Ted Cruz). Of course there were some Hitler Nazi references a few Benghazi’s and threats to repeal Obamacare thrown in for good measure. Sheesh.

Meanwhile, Donald Sterling the Master of the Clippers Plantation went on an incoherent sociopathic racist rant in a conversation with his mistress. (I say mistress because I’m much too polite to call her a gold digging manipulating street whore…oops) There was something said about her screwing all the Black men she wants as long as she’s not seen in public with them or brings Black people to his Clippers games. Oh and he takes good care of his slaves employees because he gives them things. In an attempt to exonerate himself he agreed to an interview with Anderson Cooper where he continued his dementia fueled foot in mouth tirade attacking Earvin Magic Johnson stating, “I think he should be ashamed of himself. I think he should go into the background. And what does he do for black people? He hasn’t done anything.” He also implied that the original taped conversation was a set-up so that Magic could become the owner of the Clippers (actually not a bad plan) and questioned Magic’s status as a role model to the Black community saying, "Big, Magic Johnson, what has he done?, He's got AIDS."…wow.  So we should ignore the 20 plus years of Magic Johnson investing in and making charitable contributions to the African-American community. Instead because this nut ball was able to buy the silence of the L.A. chapter of the NAACP with his donation, we should just ignore Sterling’s well-documented decades long history of being a racist bigoted L.A. slumlord, illegally evicting Black and Latino tenants form his buildings.  We should ignore the lawsuit filed by former Clippers GM Elgin Baylor against this racist fossil for age and racial discrimination. I mean after all we have a Black president so racism must be dead...right?

Finally in completely unrelated news, Beyonce’s sister Solange comically kicked Jay Z’s ass in an elevator fueling countless expert explanations and comments for her rage. Among my favorites:

• He looked at her funny.
• That's the first hit she's had in years.
• He’s got 100 problems now.
• She was drunk and took something the wrong way. (Mean drunks are the worst.)
• She’s simply upset because her name is Solange. (Wouldn’t you be? Sounds like a former Soviet bloc eastern European country.)

Oh and Jean Kasem wife of the ailing Casey Kasem threw raw meat at his daughter in an apparent act of defiance after being court ordered to release him to her care. WTF??!!!