And skin-lightening is not just for blacks, but is a multi-cultural phenomenon, as this report in the NY Times suggests:

Dermatologists nationwide are seeing women of Hispanic and African descent, among others, with severe side effects…from the misuse of skin-lightening creams…But many others seek to lighten their entire face or large swatches of their body, a practice common in developing countries as disparate as Senegal, India and the Philippines, where it is promoted as a way to elevate one’s social standing.

And we have Harry Reid to thank for exposing this racist bias amongst Democrats, but we have Democrats and socialist around the world for exposing the pervasiveness of it all.  They NYT story goes on to say,

Moreover, it is not as if dark-skinned women are imagining a bias, said Dr. Glenn, who is president of the American Sociological Association. “Sociological studies have shown among African-Americans and also Latinos, there’s a clear connection between skin color and socioeconomic status. It’s not some fantasy. There is prejudice against dark-skinned people, especially women in the so-called marriage market.

Who knew that all I needed to do to improve my socio-economic status was to stay out of the sun!  If I had lived a life of leisure, perhaps I could have done this.  It would have limited my interaction with the rest of the world, forcing me to walk around like “bubble boy,” or cocooned like those people with the rare condition where even the smallest amount of sun is carcinogenic.  For all intents and purposes, getting sun is carcinogenic for blacks.making the sun somewhat of a racist!  The sun…conspiring to keep brothers down! 

Who knows what I could have achieved had I not grown up in the hot Texas sun.  I swear I was a very light child growing up, so much so that I actually wanted to be darker.  I could have “passed,” had it not been for my nappy hair.

I recall when my brother and I worked one summer for the son of the family who owned the ranch where we lived, and we were hired to cut trees in various clearings.  That summer was Africa hot, and we worked in the peak of the heat every day, shirtless.  I got so dark, that I didn’t recognize myself.  I peeled for the first time in my life, and panicked not knowing what was happening to me!  One of my white friends had to tell me what was happening, as I thought I had a dreaded disease.

On the blackness scale, I was “Alan Keyes black,” which is about a 9 out of 10 [Miles Davis is a 10 for those who may be wondering]. 

All the girls in Jr. High noticed that I was darker, but one actually told me that my color was…beautiful.  And I must admit, after I finished peeling, I did look healthy and frankly…AWESOME!  As the saying goes, “Once you go black…!”

Here’s the wrap:

I never looked back after that. I would never get that dark again, preferring to bounce between 6 and 7 versus the 9 I achieved that hot summer.  But little did I know the effect it would have during my potential big income producing years.

Now that I am bald, had I kept my lighter visage, I might actually be able to pass at this stage in my life. However I have learn—the hard way—that past a certain age, the skin takes on a life of its own. After all, the skin is the biggest organ…and apparently the baddest!  My skin has decided that between 6 and 7 is where I shall stay.

If I want to take my life in my own hands, I could pull a Michael Jackson and begin lightening my skin, in Mike’s case going from a 6 to a 1.  Not much future in that, and it has been linked to pedophilia!  Woody Allen is a 1 as well!

There is Sammy Sosa, who has gone from an 8 to a 3 on the blackness scale.  However Sosa has made a lot more money than I, so he is free to do as he wishes. I on the other hand am a slave to my skin.

As a black Conservative, one would think that with all the vitriol I take from the Left that I would by now have experimented with these new creams, and I would be as white as Bebe Neuwirth.  Yet, here I and other black Conservatives remain, proud of our culture, living in our own skin, and daring the sun not to shine on us.

I guess I will just ride out the rest of my life happy in the skin I’m in.

That’s my rant!

© 2009 Kevin Jackson – The Black Sphere – All Rights Reserved

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For the Liberals who voted for Obama thinking he could influence the world, you just got publicly punked by the IOC.  They showed what the sane among us already knew, and that is Obama is not the god the Liberals all believe him to be. If you still believe he is a god, then I contend he is as ineffectual as a god, as he is a president.

In a move you would think was choreographed by the vast right-wing conspiracy—if it existed—Obama and Team Chicago couldn’t even get past the first round in consideration for the Olympics!  There were cities that didn’t spend a dime pursuing the Olympics and finished right where Chicago did. 

When I saw how Chicago reacted to this loss, the abject disappointment, as it was announced that they were the #1 loser, I thought to myself, “This is one big event too late.”  This is what they were supposed to feel like when Obama lost the nomination as the Liberals’ candidate for POTUS.  Didn’t happen.  So when Team Obama lost this for Chicago, I felt like white people did when OJ recently convicted—“We finally got him!”

You would think that with all the “Os” in attendance, Chicago would have been a foregone conclusion to host the 2016 Olympics—just in time for Obama’s 3^rd term in office. If I was a god, that’s how I would have scripted it.  But it was not to be…because Obama is no god!

How do you spin getting such a beatdown?  Burris is blaming Bush!  After all, Obama “inherited this mess!” This might have worked if Obama hadn’t made ten apology tours!  Notwithstanding, we were told that the mere election of Obama was enough for the world to love us. 

Obama talking heads are saying that Obama was in Copenhagen as a stopover for his trip to Afghanistan!  It all sounds pretty ridiculous.  There isn’t enough spin to spin your way out of this public flogging of Team Obama.

Chicago sent its most famous mulatto son, Barack, its most famous black daughter, Oprah, and its most famous black militant, Michelle to represent them in this bid.  In the eyes of Liberal America and supposedly the world, it just doesn’t get any bigger than that.  The Unholy Trinity!  They represented the best of the best Liberals of Chicago.  Chicago could have saved themselves a lot of embarrassment and money just sending three gang bangers on vacation to Copenhagen to represent Chicago.  It would have been just as representative and had the same outcome.

Ironically, the Liberals who want “everybody to get a trophy” learned a hard lesson: There is a loser and Obama is it. I got a chance to interview the Mayor of Rio, and he simply said to me, “I won!” Touché!

There was one Liberal who had a great day as Obama’s failures were illuminated, and that is Hillary Clinton. She was actually giddy the day Chicago died, because she got a “two-fer.”  Hillary got to actually play president that day, discussing Afghanistan and Pakistan, while Obama played marbles in Copenhagen.  Hillary felt rather presidential, while Obama looked much like the neophyte that he is.  Clinton chuckled as she watched Obama navigate the mine field.  It’s safe to say that he blew off a leg this week!  Clinton’s happiness over recent developments in the Obama camp is exceeded only by the ineffective Michael Steele’s. Obama is making things easy for both of them. 

Here’s the wrap:

The idea that a sitting president would find it necessary to make the Olympics an issue, dare I say a “crisis,” just shows you the level of desperation Obama has for avoiding the real issues plaguing America.  But with the distraction of this major issue of getting the Olympics for Chicago out of the way, what is a “play-president” to do?  He will likely appoint a Distraction Czar!

Perhaps the Distraction Czar will have Obama weigh in on the Letterman crisis, maybe set up another BeefFest?  The Letterman Controversy certainly supersedes things like the rising unemployment rate, now almost 10%–a ratio the stimulus package was supposed to prevent.  To quote Obama, “That’s what a stimulus does!”  There is also that backburner Iranian nuclear issue.  Obama sees Iran as “little!”  “Little” like Bruce Lee, unfortunately.  And finally, there is the butt-kicking the US is getting in Afghanistan—the war the Liberals said was worth fighting. It appears to be worth fighting, just not be worth winning?

As Obama said of ACORN, “[sic] These are not things I follow closely.”

The good thing is the real God can manage all these things.  It appears God has a sense of humor, as He delivers Chuck Norris roundhouses to Obama well-earred noggin.  Maybe this was God’s plan for America—to get them to remember who is really in charge.

That’s my rant!

© 2009 Kevin Jackson – The Black Sphere All Rights Reserved

If you’re tired of not having your voice heard, then read my book, The BIG Black Lie and get others to do so. This blog will explain why we need more voices! I hope you enjoy it.

For some time now my team and many people who follow my blog have felt that I should be the “right guy on the screen” on Fox News, when they do “point/counterpoint” discussions. Admittedly, I have felt that I could add a bit more zest than some guests from time to time. I haven’t made it to this point, so I will just weigh in from here.

Recently Hannity used video shot by my friend Darrin Morley, of me questioning of Russ Carnahan—“If it’s [healthcare proposal] so good, then why doesn’t Congress want to be on it?” It would seem only fair for his producers to track down the guy who started the controversy—if truth is controversial—and provided the subject matter for his show.  But that call didn’t come.

My rightfully angry publicist contacted the Hannity producers for quid pro quo, and she submitted my latest blog regarding the reverse racism that I believe occurred in “Gates Gate.” The response from Hannity’s team was essentially that I was fishing for racial controversy. Really?!

For the record, I like Hannity, and I love what he does for our troops, and I enjoy his show. However, at the risk of never appearing on Fox, I offer my comments and critique of Hannity and his team:

As I say in my book The BIG Black Lie race is THE biggest issue Republicans confront in dealing with liberals. Race is also the single biggest reason we lose elections, as the “race card” is usually hidden inside of other issues. I would be happy to debate Hannity—or anybody else—on this subject. The Democrats use race in the most inane ways, and our most powerful pundits allow them to get away with it. And when it comes to dealing properly with the race issue, one of America’s most trusted conservative messengers, Sean Hannity is off his game. Hannity missed an opportunity with Whoopi Goldberg, when she offered the following on his TV show:

GOLDBERG: We understood that. But we couldn’t vote until 1968 in the entire country. That’s the piss off. That’s the piss off. That’s our lifetime. Now, as a kid, I don’t know, I don’t know how aware of that you were.

HANNITY: Of course I’m aware.

Hannity missed an opportunity to explain the racist history of Democrats and the Republican’s glorious past with respect to race relations.  “Of course, I’m aware.” Aware of what Sean?!

Black men got the right to vote with the passage of the 15th amendment in 1870. Whoopi got the right to vote in 1920 along with all other women in America, except the women of Wyoming, who could vote as early as 1869.  And it was Republicans who got blacks these rights, not Democrats! For years Republican’s fought for the rights of blacks to vote and sponsored or co-sponsored every piece of legislation to protect these rights. The reason black people didn’t vote everywhere in 1968, as Whoopi proclaimed was out of fear from racist Democrats and Democrat organizations like the KKK.

That is what Hannity should have “been aware of”!

Instead American conservatives watching were left to feel—yet again—apologetic for the wickedness of Democrats, instead of empowered by learning that we have nothing to be ashamed of!

The next opportunity for Hannity to educate came when a young black caller to his radio show, Mike informed America that blacks “hear different than whites.” He said that hearkening back to the good ol’ days connoted a meaning for blacks on being taken back to slavery.

Hannity could have educated this young black man (and most of America) that the abolitionist movement was spearheaded by Republicans. Further Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and so many others black abolitionists—all Republicans, as were 95% of blacks at the time. Hannity should have been explained to him that as a Democrat, Mike was voting for his own tormentors—past and present.

Instead, Hannity’s response was [pp], “…slavery was an atrocity, ” implying that it was Republicans who were responsible for slavery. Thus by omission it is Republicans who were responsible for this young black man’s trauma at “hearing different.” No Mike, it was the Democrats who had blacks in bondage, and who continue to keep blacks in bondage.

Hannity, like most non-black Republicans, appears to be afraid to address the issue of racism and slavery, as if there is something for us to lose. It’s quite the opposite—we can do nothing but GAIN! Most liberal blacks are not listening to Hannity anyway, they are listening to the lamestream presstitutes! So when Hannity gets somebody on the show, especially young black liberals with warped views, he must educate.

Conservative blacks who do listen to Hannity would like all Americans to know what we already know…WE are not the sellouts, Uncle Tom’s, house Negroes, tokens, wannabes, or as I was called recently, a “Clarence Thomas”—I took it as a compliment. It is incredulous that black Democrats don’t recognize that it is they who are the sellouts, Uncle Tom’s, and anything but “Clarence Thomases”—they don’t deserve such high praise. Consider the Paradox of Blackness, where blacks consider it disparaging to call another black person a “Clarence Thomas.” As most blacks would say, “He ain’t black.”

It’s a shame that Clarence Thomas wasted his life becoming an attorney, rising to the highest level of achievement in his professional career—a Supreme Court judge. Thomas could have done so much! Think of all those black communities that needed drug dealers, pimps, and other street thugs! Here’s a book likely found in most elitist Democrat libraries: The Clarence Thomas Story: A Life Wasted.

Non-black Republicans abhor being labeled racists, ad nauseum, because Democrat racist outnumber Republican racist 100 to 1. Many Republicans are learning from my book The BIG Black Lie who the real racists are. It’s time Hannity learn who they are as well. When did Republicans become afraid of telling the truth, especially when it’s on our side?!

Here’s the wrap:

To Hannity’s producer(s), I say to you that I don’t CREATE racist stories. I merely show the rest of America what you guys and others miss routinely.

To jog your memories, here are a few other examples of how race is used by the liberals: Hillary Clinton’s glorification of Margaret Sanger, Barbara Boxer’s treatment of Harry Alford, and of course my contrived racism surrounding Gates’ attempt to use race to taint a police officer doing his job. How many more examples do we need to know that this is an issue that won’t go away, as long as America believes Republicans and other conservatives are the bad guys? The ONLY way this issue goes away is when racism is put where it belongs…on the Left!

I say to all conservative heavyweight pundits, if you have the opportunity to get an unapologetic conservative Republican and proud American—who happens to be black—on your show, I suggest you TAKE it. I think America is ready for the real straight talk. And whether or not I get on Hannity’s show, or anybody else’s show on Fox, I promise to keep setting the record straight.

That’s my rant!

© 2009 Kevin Jackson – The Black Sphere All Rights Reserved

AP reported

I get a chuckle from the lamestream media when they spin the idea of losing 345,000. Well it is a lot less than the 504,000 the previous month! Put on a happy face, dangit! We are learning to measure quite differently in The Era of Brown Underwear.

One can only imagine what the headlines would be if we were in a Bush administration. What’s that, Chicken Little?

Do you really need more evidence about the snakelike nature of Obama, when he gives us the term “saved,” as part of job “creation?” Talk about a slickster selling elixir! He pisses on us, then tells us it’s raining.

I was under the mistaken idea that adding jobs was good news, not losing jobs. However, in the lexicon of Obama, “save” is the new “add!” And in the lamestream media, a loss is really a win!

504,000 jobs losses in April, 345,000 jobs losses in May, unemployment at 9.4% (they said it would top off at 8%), over 6,000,000 Americans out of work—2.9M of those jobs this year!—and here is what Obama said in Reuters:

“…it[stimulus] created or saved 150,000 in the first 100 days. Republicans questioned the figure and noted that Biden said on May 13 over 150,000 jobs had been saved or created in the act’s first 77 days.”

Don’t let the truth be a deterrent to Obama’s agenda. Obama believes that if he keeps saying it, eventually people will believe it. Unemployment has risen from 6% under Bush to over 9.4% under Obama, but he has “saved” jobs! Incredulous— “Change we can be brainwashed to believe in.”

I’ve stopped asking when Americans who voted for Obama will either wake up from their comas or get back on the meds. It has simply become a rhetorical question and quite redundant. However it is high time that those of us who were never entranced by Obama’s “words” start really calling him out more vigorously on his blatant lying.

But there is good news coming, as report by the Wall Street Journal put it, and I must say I had blogged about this earlier as well:

“[Obama] announced he was ramping up some of the stimulus spending so he could “save or create” an additional 600,000 jobs this summer. These numbers come in the context of an earlier Obama promise that his recovery plan will “save or create three to four million jobs over the next two years.”

At this rate, between creating and saving jobs, we will have all of America working, as well as our illegals, and finally reached what Marx described as Utopia—also known as communism. Because folks at this rate of job “saving,” there will be no private sector jobs left to save.

Here the wrap:

Isn’t every job ‘not lost’ technically saved? That being the case, I suggest we begin working backwards on ObamaMath.

To do this we chronicle all the jobs that are presently “saved,” which are all the jobs in America. Then as the job numbers are reported, we count those that Obama has “unsaved.”

For example in March, Obama would have saved 40,000,000 jobs, of which 504,000 of them became “unsaved” in April. Then another 345,000 became unsaved in May, and so on.

By my count, Obama has “unsaved” 2.9M jobs, since he took over. This way, all of us who have jobs left will know who to thank. The better question may be how Americans will not want to thank The Big Zero. Best guess is 9.4% of Americans and counting.

That’s my rant!

© 2009 Kevin Jackson – The Black Sphere All Rights Reserved