Say It Loud: They're Black and They're Tools

The contributors to this website think that it's just terrible how people rioted in France following the recent presidential election. Apparently, having a far-right xenophobe leading one of the most powerful nations in the world is A-OK with black Republicans. What's got their thongs-tha-thongs-thongs-thongs in a twist, though, is that people actually went outside and made their displeasure manifest.

The author even tries to draw a parallel to the 2000 US election when, he asserts in total ignorance of facts, Democrats wanted to make street fighting a form of political expression! You would be correct if you noticed that this person thinks the French left and the American Democratic Party are the same thing. Worse, he thinks that Sarkozy's "pro-American" description means he's just like a Republican! Well, Macaca, Jr., why don't you try to emigrate to France and see how cuddly Nicholas Sarkozy is? I'll bet that this person is a college graduate...

Further down on the site is a snippet from some black Brit who is running as a Conservative in England. Why is he on a website that's run by American black Republicans? Because these black Republicans think the British Conservative Party is exactly the same as their own party! Are they drunk, or just stupid?

Shaun Bailey, an aspiring MP from Hammersmith, is a religious conservative and a zero-tolerance, anti-drug candidate. That checks out with American conservatives, who either have their heads in fucking la-la land about these things or else secretly indulge in all manner of twisted shit while publicly forbidding it. I wonder if Bailey also has gay sex while high on meth?

Here's what Bailey has to say:

On drugs: "I know one guy who's only 17 years old and is a very successful crack dealer."It's not so much the money, Shaun," he told me, "it's the fact that I've got people who work for me."For rock he was able to get people to wash his car, clean his house, beat people up, steal stuff for him, send them on missions just because it made him feel powerful.Crime starts younger, spreads wider and goes further. The number of kids growing out of crime is getting smaller. It's why we get this horrible stuff with guns and knives: the serious nature of their offences is growing as the percentage of kids staying in crime rises."

Now, that sounds pretty simple. Shaun Bailey is anti-guns. He didn't whack his crack-dealing friend with a Bible, nor did he turn him in. Nor, because it bears repeating, did he get high with him and blow him, like some American conservatives we could name. He is trying to understand why people buy and sell drugs, which is pretty fucking basic, but it's far beyond anything that cuntbag Nancy Reagan or her addled husband ever thought of.

What else is on your mind, Shaun?

"The estates themselves are part of the problem. The blocks were badly designed. We are all too close to each other. On top of each other. One of the estates was built for 1,100 people but now houses 1,450.There are a lot of Moroccans, a lot of blacks. Everybody there is poor.Overcrowding has an impact on how young people behave.Most of the flats are built in such a way that nobody can sit around a table.Traditionally a table is where a family has discussions, where parents give attitudes to their children. If children come home and their parents are cooking them food, it establishes their dependency. It gives the parents authority. They can say: "You need to come in for dinner." They can set rules and boundaries.That doesn't happen here. There is no room for a table. We all eat dinner off our laps. Families start to not eat together because there is no point. We don't have any space at any time. That's why some parents can't love their children. They are too busy surviving."

Hmm. I'm confused. It sounds like this bloke thinks people need better housing in order to realize their human potential. Dude, haven't you heard? Your American Republican blood-brothers should have told you: poor people live in shitty houses because they're poor. I mean, if they wanted to be happy, they'd be rich, right?

"If you talk to those families where children are behaving the worst, you find that the kids have no rules and no boundaries. The reason is that the parents have never had any point at which to put them in place.Many of the young people I deal with have never spent any meaningful time with their mothers or their fathers. Their parents didn't do anything with them and they have no set of family rules that govern them.If you are the younger end of an overcrowded family you share a bedroom with your older brother. Maybe there are three of you in one small bedroom. You have no privacy so you come out of your flat for privacy. You stay on the block because you are comfortable there. It becomes your extended bedroom."

Oh, Jesus. Next, you'll be blaming WHITE PEOPLE for the fact that young blacks are assumed to be criminals!

"As time has gone on, the people who hang around the block have aged from cute little five-year-olds to 15, 16, 17, 18-year-olds. In some cases 21-year-olds are still hanging around.On one of the estates here there are 1,600 young people and kids under the age of 19. The sight of a big group of young people just terrorises most people. This is where it starts. The kids are perceived as a threat. They are dealt with in that manner. Then they take on the role they were handed. Put that with difficult parenting and you've got a problem."

Well, dammit Shaun! Pull yourself up by the bootstraps man! I mean, look at whites: they made it out of the ghetto!

"This was an area where poor white people were sent who couldn't afford to live anywhere else. The estates have also become home to London's largest Moroccan enclave and to Jamaican, Portuguese and Spanish communities. But, although we have been housed in our racial groups, racial tension is not a feature of life here."

Um, wait. Are you saying you like it there? And that residents, with a little help (read: common human decency) could make it a nice place to live, and that not everybody wants to be a millionaire and live in America and go ficky-ficky all day long?

He's a madman! Run for your Republican life!

Unless, that is, Shaun's going to be sensible. Minorities and poor people are really the ones responsible for their own misery, right Shaun? RIGHT, Shaun??

"The kids here also feel they have to have money. When you are poor, you see people on telly with phones, cars, iPods. To you the gang is the best way of getting this stuff because they steal, they rob.The great majority of them who are "going out there" -that means going out to rob, to make money -are just 14 or 15. They use terms such as "running up in your house" (aggravated burglary). They talk about needing Pounds 100-Pounds 400 a week. If you have that kind of money, you have respect and you can buy all the cool stuff and you can show them you've got it.

"If you stand around with these boys, it's not long before someone pulls out a wedge of money. They won't say anything; it is just to look cool.

"Young people here watch a lot of television, particularly MTV. It shows them cars and cribs (houses) and girls. They want it all. They don't learn about real economics, (so) Mustaf Jama, right, and Muzzaker Shah were being hunted by police last night for questionning over the murder of WPC Sharon Beshenivsky. (Jama, originally from Somalia, lived in the area of west London where Shaun Bailey grew up.) That's why you see them performing some really ugly crimes now, because that is the only way they can finance this lifestyle."

Oh. Oh dear. Apparently, "British Conservative" means "Godless Communist Who Hates America"!