Mexicans aren't native North Americans

Most Mexicans are as European as white people. SOME Mexicans may have indigenous ancestors, but those ancestors were from central America.  Unless your ancestors are from an indigenous tribe native to NORTH AMERICA, the US and everything north of the Rio Grande ain't yours, sweetheart.  Mexicans, Latinos, Central and South Americans or any variation thereof are NOT native to my land and have NO RIGHT to tell me to go home.

I'm sick of this immigration debate.  Not because I think all Hispanics need to be deported or because I'm ok with illegals trying to make a better life.  I'm sick of the bullshit about who this country really belongs to.

History lesson: land belongs to whoever conquers it.  It doesn't matter what was here before.  It only matters what is here now.

I'm not going to justify genocide because that's what happened to Native North Americans and it was wrong.  But they were conquered because they were an inferior power to the invading Europeans.  It sucks but it's the truth.  But ya know what else?  The ancient Scotts were no match to the English.  Pretty much everyone was inferior to the Romans.  The world has been conquered into creation.  That's life.  Read a history book. Persians, Mongols. Invasion after invasion.  Even what we now call Native Americans were fond of invading one another.  African tribes did the same thing.

And sorry if you have bad feelings about your ancestors bad luck, but for Mexicans to come to the US and say they're taking back from the white man what was theirs is ludicrous because it was NEVER THEIRS.

If you want to take back your land, take back Mexico.  That's YOUR home.  That's where YOUR ancestors came from.

And I'm sick of this Mexican pride shit. Take enough pride in Mexico to fix its problems instead of running away like babies and bitching about Europeans already being here.  You don't have Mexican pride, you fakers, or you'd fight for your REAL homeland.  You'd fight for Mexico.  You'd fight the drug cartels and corrupt government.  You would have built an empire of your own instead of running away.

If you had any REAL Mexican pride.

Look, we can't change the past and the past isn't a pretty place, but we also have to live in the present.  You don't make better worlds by holding grudges about stuff that happened before you were a twinkle in your mama's eye.  I didn't invade Mexico.  I never owned slaves.  I don't owe you anything.  Leave me out of it.

No.  You make a better world by taking the PRESENT and building a FUTURE.  You don't look back at all the past injustices and demand reparations.  You learn from them and then prevent them from happening again in the future.  Why?  Because ALL lives matter.

White liberals keep talking about this.  We can bemoan white people, claim white privilege, call them racist, but they're getting something others aren't.  They understand equality.  They fight for it.  For everyone. Not just black and brown people.  They look at the world and say let's love EVERYONE.  Then they do.  They get mocked for it.  They get accused of destroying the black community for it.  They're called invaders for it but they do it anyway.  They're forward thinkers.  They know how to get things done.

Damn.  Maybe that's how you build an empire?

But Mexicans, seriously.  The United States belongs to the people who are born within its borders.  Bill of Rights says so.  Don't come to my country, legally, illegally, anchor baby or whatever, and think you own the place.  Don't you dare tell me to go home.

That isn't your right because I already AM home.

Theories are not facts

We as a species are curious about everything. For example, we can't just accept that the sun comes up in the morning. We have to know why.  So we made up theories about it.  To the ancient Greeks, a god pulled the sun across the sky with his celestial chariot.  To the ancient Egyptians, the sun was a god.  Who was right?  Neither of them.  Science later proved for a fact that the sun is a star, a giant ball of really hot gas.  No chariots. No sentience.

And that's the thing about theories.  They're ideas, possibilities.  They are NOT facts.

We take far too many theories as facts.  Big Bang Theory.  Evolution. That all human life began in Africa.   All theories taken as fact but could very well not even be true.

Because we have no way of proving them.  No way of saying with indefatigable certainty that the universe began with an explosion. Why?  Because there's no record of it and we weren't there.  It's a guess someone made because the universe (as far as their technology can tell them at this moment) shows signs of expanding.  So they conjectured that the universe was more condensed in the past and something had to make it start expanding.  Must have been an explosion.

What came before the Big Bang though?

Apes share remarkable similarities to humans and we found some really old human like skeletons that don't look exactly like us so someone made a guess that our ancestors were neanderthals and we evolved from them.  Couldn't just be a species of man that died out huh?  Other animals have various varieties.  There are dozens of different types of bird some of which are now extinct.  House cats and tigers are both felines, but which evolved first?

And what exactly happened to create human life in the first place?

So the oldest remains we found so far happened to be in modern day Africa.  That doesn't mean there aren't older signs of life in Siberia we just haven't found yet.  There's zero proof that Africans are the true master race, the Israelites, and all other races are genetic mutations some how.

And why is it acceptable for blacks to express black pride when whites expressing white pride automatically makes them racist.  Another topic though.

Truth is, any history prior to what was written down is ALL CONJECTURE.  We have no record of what Stonehenge was really for.  Someone just guessed it had something to do with druids.  We have no records of where the first humans came from.  It's just a theory.

Theories are ok.  It's great to be curious, to try and understand things, but we have to be smarter than this.  We have to first understand that guesses are not facts and our theories could be wrong.  We have to keep an open mind.  We have to keep searching for answers and we should NEVER mistake opinion for truth.

Hermione's Transfiguration

Well, Potterheads, you've gone off the deep end again.  This time thanks to a new play.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (because JK Rowling just can't find anything else to write about) is about an adult Harry, Ron and Hermione dealing with kids and some magic stuff and something.  I have no idea really.  The wizard train left the station long ago for me, but it's being called book 8 in the series so there you go.  And while there's been eager anticipation by the folks who still think owls make good pets, it's being overshadowed by the fan's fury at the audacity to hire a black actress to play Hermione on stage.

First, it's a play.  Second, Hermione's not a real person.  And for all the fuss, it's a play most Potterheads won't even have a chance to see.  Do you know how expensive tickets cost?  Do you really think they'll be a performance outside of Brittain?  And if there is, that the same actors will be in it as the version you're all so freaked out about?  Look, I'm sure the lady is a fine actress and it'll be a fine play so calm down.  And if you hate the idea that much, you don't have to watch it.

God, I'm tired of everything in life being about race.

But here's the part that pisses me off.  Rowling has the audacity to say Hermione was always black.  Her race was "never specified" in the books so she could very well have been black all along.  Ok.  If Hermione was always black, who the hell cast whiter than white Emma Watson in the MOVIES?  Why was Hermione ALWAYS portrayed as white until NOW?  Don't con me lady.  This is a publicity stunt to get butts in seats for your stupid play.  It's as transparent as Moaning Myrtle.

I don't care who plays Hermione in the play.  I don't care if Ron doesn't have ginger hair.  Because it's a play and the original actors probably weren't available and things are always different in plays.  Black Hermione, more power to you.

But I take offense at Rowling making claims that obviously aren't true in order to sell tickets and to make her books appeal to black audiences by using their race to appear more inclusive.  Your books were about white kids, JK.  Don't go changing the narrative now because you're pressured to be more politically correct.  You should have thought about political correctness when you first created the characters 20 years ago.  It's a disgusting publicity stunt and I'm very disappointed.

A million points from Gryffendor, Miss Rowling.

Racism: An Equal Opportunity Problem

Listen to the rhetoric on any thread tweeting "Black Lives Matter" and you hear it.  Read the comments section in any online column regarding police brutality and you hear it.  Take a walk through the ghetto and listen to people talking in their own front yards and you hear it.  Black racism.  It's everywhere black people are in America and we can't keep looking the other way.  We can't pretend it isn't there because it isn't socially acceptable to admit it is.

There is a growing movement in the black community that is hardcore Afro-centric.  If it ain't black they don't like it.  In their ideology, blacks came first and lighter skin is a genetic mutation.  YouTube is littered with claims of "new scientific evidence" that blacks are the master race, the race all other races sprang from, and therefore are the most purest.  Blacks are the purest humans, by default the most noble, and everyone else are dogs beneath their majestic feet.  They are royalty oppressed by lesser beings who fear them.  Sound familiar?  Sounds Nazi-esque to me, but this what they espouse.  This is what they got out of humanity's turbulent history.  A big ego.  They learned nothing.

They even believe Native Americans were not the original inhabitants of the Americas.  They claim Africans settled America and that Native Americans are the result of white Europeans raping African women.  Same thing the world over.  Hawaiians were black originally and Asians raped their women and that's why native Hawaiians look Asian.  Yes. Pseudo history is everywhere and always the myth that the black race came first and was beaten and oppressed by the evil white man, who is a deformity in the genetic code.  Hell, the idea that Africa is the birthplace of all life on earth is a totally unprovable theory now taken as fact.  Pseudo history is everywhere and should be taken with a grain of salt until concrete evidence proves otherwise.  There is NO WAY to definitively determine the true origins of man.  Get over it.

But it's more than just faking history to make yourself feel special.  What's truly maddening about the whole Afro-centric movement is the rampant increase in racism and calls for racial violence that come with it.  This isn't a celebration of black culture if it ever was.  It's a call to arms for the black man to fight the white man and it's as dangerous as anything ISIS can come up with.

While the racism extends to several groups, most notably Asians, most black racism targets white people and they are quick to use a racially tense history to justify it, but does that make it ok?  Does the slavery of the past make it ok to be racist towards white people because of something their ancestors may or may not have done? I say may not have done because, contrary to the rhetoric, not all white people have ancestors who once owned slaves. A lot of whites are the descendants of Italian and Irish immigrants who came to this country at the turn of the century long after slavery was abolished.  They were usually poor as dirt and there's no indication of many of them ever owning slaves. But all white people are continuously blamed for slavery to this day even though no one alive today has ever owned a slave and no black person alive today has ever been a slave.

Unless you count sex slaves and African ladies who sell themselves into virtual slavery as housekeepers in order to be fed.  But that's not the white man's fault either because white people are not actively running an African slave trade anymore and aren't the only ones who market sex slaves and housekeepers.  Yet do black Americans hold those Indians who purchase housekeepers or their black African cousins who keep sex slaves in the same contempt they keep holding whites in for something that isn't happening anymore?  No.  Heaven forbid they acknowledge that 300 years ago blacks sold other blacks into slavery for money and alcohol.  It would mean holding their own ancestors accountable for slavery too and it's much easier on their egos to just blame white people.

The white man owes you nothing anymore.  We won't forget slavery happened because it was a horrible thing, but we learned from it.  We now will never see it happen again in this country and we fight to stop it from happening in other parts of the world.  We learned from our mistakes.  Why can't you?

Most whites are all for racial equality.  We protest for black equality too.  Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago.  Young white liberals took to the streets demanding justice just like blacks did (only probably not as violently).  Whites marched with King in the 60s.  Whites ran stops in the underground railroad. It's obvious that not all whites are out to get the black man. All that keeps getting ignored though.  All that doesn't matter.  Whites are and always have been the villains of the story.  Can you blame whites for being tired of it?  Tired of the scapegoating, of constantly apologizing even though they personally didn't do anything wrong?

Listen to the rhetoric coming from a large portion of the black community these days.  They aren't calling for equality.  They don't want to be equal to the white man.  They want REVENGE.  They want to make the white man their slaves.  That's the only way they will feel content.  Dominance is the only reparation they will accept.  It's a sick attitude that is so pervasive, it's undeniable.  Whites see it and they are afraid.  They recoil from it.  When a white person crosses the street at seeing a black man walking towards them, it's out of fear and NOTHING ELSE.  Generations of whites have been taught to be extra nice to blacks because of our past.  Don't offend black people.  That's the mantra.  Generations of blacks have been taught to hate whites for something that happened before they were born.  Then you see blacks being violent on tv.  Then you hear angry rants about getting even.  Get whitey night.  It's not a white hatred of blacks that keeps most of us away.  It's the fear of what blacks might do to us if we're not protected because we have been threatened.

I know not all blacks feel this way, but enough of them do and the numbers of those who do are increasing so rapidly that it's going to become a problem when blacks start out ranking whites in a few decades.  Reverse racism is a stupid name for it because racism is racism no matter who it's directed towards, but the painful truth is, a lot of black Americans are extremely racist and things are going to get worse the more extreme they get.  Not just towards whites, but to everyone of every color because that's how racism works.

Let's be perfectly clear about black racism.  It exists and it's just as wrong as racism from any other group.  Whatever vitriol you think the KKK may have, the Black Panthers have just as much.  Blacks can be racist too.  It's a fact.  I'm not being racist for pointing it out though I'll no doubt be accused of it by more than one reader.

Because we don't acknowledge black racism.  The media even goes out of its way to ignore it.  Never do you see it when a black cop does something wrong. Only white cops make the news.  How many Native Americans and Hispanics have been injured by police?  It's never reported.  Only when it involves a white cop and a black person.  It's like the aristocrats running the media WANT a race war so we'll be too occupied fighting eachother to pay attention to how they're robbing us blind.

I'm sick of it.  Blacks keep saying we need to have an honest discussion about race in the country but every time we do, white people are always the only bad guys and everyone else are always the poor victims.  AND IT'S NOT TRUE.

I'm not going to pretend there aren't white racists, but I'm not stupid enough to presume only white people are capable of it.  Racism is NOT a white only problem.  It's not nor has it ever been something only white people do. Every racial group has its fair share of racists.  Hispanics, Asians, Arabs, Blacks.  Doesn't matter.  They all have racists among their ranks.  Until we acknowledge that, until we approach the issue fairly instead of just bashing white people, we're never going to solve the problem.

Black people keep saying we need to have an honest conversation about race in this country.  They're right we do.  But blacks need to be honest too or there isn't a point.

You have no friends on Facebook

So there's this show called Catfish, based on the movie by the same name, that highlights stupid people who fall in love over the Internet without ever meeting the love of their life in person or in most cases, even seeing them.  I don't feel sorry for people who get "catfished".  If you do stupid things, you deserve a broken heart.  DON'T DATE SOMEONE ONLINE.  MEET THEM IN PERSON.  Duh.

But that's not what this rant is about.  In the show, the hosts often turn to the suspect's Facebook page to determine if it's a fake or not.  One of the ways they do this is by counting how many Facebook friends they have.  If they don't have friends numbering in the hundreds, they consider the profile fake.  Well, that's stupid.

First, not everyone on Facebook is going to have hundreds of strangers friended.  A lot of people just use Facebook to stay in touch with family.  It doesn't mean they aren't real people or that they're running a fake sight.  Your logic is flawed if you think that.  Most people don't know hundreds of people personally.  The ones who claim to are the liars.  Therefore, anyone with more than a hundred friends on Facebook are the ones to look out for.

But to another issue that pissed me off.  People, we need to learn the difference between FRIEND and ACQUAINTANCE.  Facebook may call them friends, but that's just because acquaintance was too long a word for them.  Just because you friend someone on Facebook, it doesn't mean they're really your friend.

I prefer the Twitter terminology.  You don't have friends on Twitter.  You have people who follow your profile.  Guess what.  The same goes for Facebook.

A friend is someone who will come pick you up at 3am if your car breaks down.  A friend is someone who's been to your house so often they know their way around your kitchen. A friend is someone you can fart in front of and not be embarrassed.  A friend is someone you trust watching your kids.

If you can't do any of that with your Facebook friends, then they're not real friends.  They are acquaintances.  They are people you know casually but that is where the familiarity ends.  They are people who follow your profile and nothing more.

Would you know your Facebook friends birthdays without Facebook reminding you?  You would if they were a real friend.  You know your friends favorite foods, colors, what books they enjoyed as children and most importantly, you DON'T forget.  Because you're their friend.  With an acquaintance, you only know what they post.  An acquaintance is someone you just share cat memes with.  A friend is someone you share a bond with.

And don't tell me it's ok if you've met them once and liked the conversation.  That's not how friendship works.

Friendship takes time to cultivate.  It takes effort to maintain.  You don't instantly become friends at first sight.  There is no love at first sight either.  There's an interest at first sight followed by months and sometimes years of getting to know eachother before taking the step beyond acquaintance to a real friendship.

Truth:  You have no friends on Facebook.  Ok, you may have one or two, but outside that small circle, anyone you have a strictly online relationship with or who you've only ever met a handful of times, is NOT your friend.  They are merely an acquaintance.

Catfish is stupid and so are people who mistake a friend request from a stranger for a friendship.

Let the past go or else

I'm so sick of being blamed for crap that happened years ago before I was even a twinkle in my daddy's eye.  I don't care what color I am.  I am NOT responsible for slavery.  I am NOT responsible for Jim Crow.  I owe you NOTHING.

Every African American I've ever come across seems to think the white man owes them.  That everything wrong in their life is white people's fault.  Not only is that stupidly wrong, it's incredibly detrimental.  Why?  Because scapegoating doesn't address the REAL issues.

Blaming white people may feel good.  It may make you feel better about yourself.  Go ahead, burn down your own neighborhood if it helps you feel important.  But it doesn't do a damn thing.  Blaming white people doesn't CHANGE anything.

Black folks have had plenty of opportunities to change their lives for the better and didn't take them.  They won the right to vote and didn't use it.  They won the right to an education and still have the highest drop out rate in the country.  They can be doctors, lawyers, politicians, teachers, cops.  Whatever they want to be.  All they have to do is work for it.

And a lot of them understand this.  They made something of themselves.  Kudos.

But a hell of a lot more are sitting in the hood, smoking their weed, gang banging with their pants falling off their asses, rap music blaring, living off welfare, unable to use proper grammar complaining about how oppressed they are instead of doing anything about it.  And I don't mean burning down the hood because that's stupid.  YOU LIVE THERE.

No, what I mean is they aren't interested in getting an education.  They want to be ballers, rap stars.  They may take honest jobs to pay the bills, but that's it.  McDonald's is as far as their expectations go.  Like the Civil Rights movement was a giant waste of time.

For the record, my ancestors were poor Italian and Irish immigrants who came to this country years after slavery ended. They never owned slaves.  Know something else? They were discriminated against.  Ever see an Irish person?  They're white.

If you're not going to take responsibility for your actions, it's not my fault.  Stop making excuses. Stop assuming my family owned slaves.  In fact, stop rubbing my face in slavery period.  I never owned slaves. You never were a slave.  We don't forget the past, but we can't live in it.  It keeps us from moving forward and if we don't move forward, we die.  Cuz life only moves forward.

Time to stop blaming everyone else for your own shortcomings and do something to improve you life. Only you can improve your life.  But first, you have to let go of the past.

Put down the smart phone!

I appreciate my cell phone.  It allows me to communicate with people without having to physically track them down.  It's a lifeline in an emergency.  It's something to occupy me when I'm bored waiting for the bus in the morning.  I like being able to Google something when I need to know it.  I don't have a problem with cell phones per se.

I have a problem with people never putting them down.  When I'm trying to have a conversation with my sister and she's checking Facebook every five minutes, I have a problem.  So... I'm not as important to you as some cat meme?  My feelings do get hurt when someone picks their phone over me and so should yours.

When you can't go more than hour without touching your phone, you have a problem.  Smart phone addiction is real.  Just look around you.  EVERYONE has it.  And there's NO etiquette when it comes to phone use because the addiction is just too strong to put them down.

I hate when I'm trying to check out and the person in front of me is super slow because they're on their phone instead of paying attention to checking out.  It's not just wasting everyone's time.  It's rude.  You're supposed to be polite to your cashier.  Not ignore them.  They're human beings. Show some respect.  And, hello, how do you know if there's an error if you aren't paying attention?  You could be getting screwed but glad Lakeesha got that VD cleared up.

And that's perhaps the rudest thing of all.  People have NO sense of what should be discussed in public and what shouldn't.  Why are you telling everyone Lakeesha has VD?  No one wants to know who in your life is sleeping with who or the details of your proctal exam.  They call them private things because they're meant to be private.  It's rude to prattle on about stupid stuff to an unwilling crowd.  Save it for when you're in private.

Driving and cell phone use is deadly.  It kills people and it's stupidly insane how people need to be constantly reminded of something so fricking common sense.  People don't just carry on their rude conservations.  They text them.  They post them on Facebook.  It can wait!  When you're in the car, focus on driving.   Don't even answer the phone until you're parked and it's safe to do so.  Put it in the back seat if you have to.  That cat meme?  Lakeesha's VD?  They aren't worth your life and they damn sure aren't worth mine.

People have actually been known to post to Facebook that the building they're in is on fire BEFORE leaving the burning building.  One of the easiest ways to stalk someone is by their posts on social media.  Smart phones are the number one thing stolen in the United States.  It's insanity.

I don't know why people engage more with smart phones than with other people.  Society is falling apart and technology, once our savior, is now destroying us.  I do know this though, it does the entire world good when we put our phones away and look around us.  When we talk to eachother, we understand eachother.  When we understand eachother, we get a long better.  The number one treatment for insomnia is to turn off electronic devices at least two hours before bed.  Especially smart phones.  That should tell you something.

And stop telling the world your private business.  We don't care.