This fake ass patriotism that we see - flags EVERYWHERE - is making me sick. I'm not saying we should not mourn the lives of that were lost in the tragedy, but I am saying "give me a damn break". I see more black people with the flag than I have in all of my life! What everyone fails to realize is that they are not signifying solidarity by showcasing an American flag. Even blacks are behind the BUSH now, but when he was the bastard who stole the election in the first place. In Florida and all over the country our rights were violated time and time again. Election votes were found by the hundreds after Gore had already conceded. Since when did we start to support the BUSH before or after the unemployment rate swelled like a she-baboon's ass in heat?

As I understand it, the BUSH is asking us to support him while he bombs Afghanistan - my details are a little sketchy because of my boycott- well what are we going to do with the terrorists that are now "American Citizens" or here on visas? HELLO THEY DID NOT FLY INTO OUR AIRSPACE FROM AFGHANISTAN! THEY WERE ALREADY HERE IN THE U.S. has anyone clued his dumb ass in yet? What are you going to do about the "terrorists" within our borders? You know what he can do? NOT A DAMN THING but sit and wait for the next round of attacks or bomb Afghanistan for some bullshit. First of all, Washington needs a colon cleansing before we start bombing anyone. To say it in the words of Eddie Murphy "I SMELL S-H-I-I-T!" and it smells of a domestic variety. The American people would attack Washington ourselves if we had knowledge of all of the covert-bullshit-terrorist operations that we have funded for our benefit.

I think Washington is good at one thing, and one thing only: to piss on our collective legs and tell us it's raining. They are so quick to say “look what they are doing over there in this country” - who is leaving us the phuck alone- and everybody looks meanwhile they do their dirt under our noses while our are eyes are fixed overseas. You heard it from me, this shit is about to get UGLY, don't exhale either. Me, personally, I'm building a bomb shelter. Shit for the new millenium we stored up potted meat and Vienna sausage cuz the BUSH is about to blow it for real. He is trying to come out smelling like a rose but he is so full of shit he has driven BOTH of his daughters to drink! They probably can't stand his ass either. They know what he did to become president and their little minds can't fathom it - so they drink themselves into oblivion AND THEN get put in the paper - although inconspicuously so. I wonder how many times the BUSH has warned them about how their behavior is not fitting for daughters of the U.S. President and they shot back with

“Dad that is such bullshit, you are the one who stole the election with the help of Grandpa and Uncle Jeff!”

Ooh how I would love to be a fly on the wall when that shit went down! Don't front - ya'll know how white kids talk to their parents.

Now Muslims and basically anyone that even remotely resembles a sand-nigga (YEAH I SAID IT) is extra nice and terribly humble out of fear. They know what Americans are thinking, it's all over our faces when we look at them. But I don't see anyone beating up on blonde-haired or brunette white boys because of Eric Rudolph (Centennial Park Bombing) and Timothy McVeigh. The assholes who slaughter innocent men and women at work, retail stores, parks, office bombings, high schools mass murders, and in their homes are terrorists all the same. I am not too concerned with Webster's dictionary definition of what a terrorist, but in it's truest form - it means (or should) anyone or anything that elicits or incites terror. Or do you have to slaughter a certain number of people to be labeled a terrorist OR do you have to be from a foreign country? Give me a break, the truth is this: we don't know where the next terrorist attacks are coming from but please know they will most likely be here in the "good ole U S of A" . Why not call for national prayer and mourning when children are dying at the hands of their fathers, mothers, and classmates. Innocent people of color are being shot and killed by the thousands by those sworn to protect and serve? I hear people say they are afraid to send their kids to school now, shit I was scared to send my 2 children to school when kids started getting killed by their peers. Are we just now getting scared? If so then, yes as a country, we have had our heads in the sand and our asses up. All of this shit is scary, maddening, and sick. So who do we take all of our pent up frustration out on. I'm not defending the man at all, but he is not responsible for all of the tragedies that have been happening in this country for the last 10 years. I tell you what IS sick, believing your own lies and getting everybody else caught up in a blood frenzy.

I guess to be American you have to be either white or black nowadays. Since when did African-American become synonymous with American? They just added American onto to our "racial gender" within the last 10 years. I get more white people that smile and talk to me on the elevator than ever before in my life! I guess they feel "safe" with me, after all - I'm only an "angry black woman" but otherwise harmless. They all want to know how I feel about the tragedy. I say “it's a tragedy” and keep on stepping because they don't want to know how I really feel - and I have 2 kids to feed. Soon, I will be liberated of corporate America and can join the ranks of fellow beauticians - complete with my own soapbox - because if I don't get out of corporate America - I'm going to blow my damn self. I gives a damn about those of you that think because I keep my opinions to myself that I'm not real about mines or that I am conforming to corporate society. But actually I like the duality of my life - I'm a double agent- code name: BitterBitch. This shit is a game, I been playing it for a long time- and I'm good. I can sell these white folks (and upper-class blacks too) a dream. I let them ask me personal questions and I don't respond but rather let them answer for me. I just simply give them a canvas in which to paint whatever picture they choose. “Are you a college graduate” they ask - I exclaim “how did you know?” “Where did you go to school?” I respond “California near Stanford University” and before you know it, it's all through the department that the Executive Secretary is a graduate of Stanford University - “what a shame” they say and they contribute it all to my being a single parent. Hell my kids are the reason I haven't given some of these heffas (white and black together) an open-handed slap in the mouth.

I'm saying think for yourself, draw your own opinion, and remember the first person to say he wasn't the one that farted, is usually the rotten bastard anyway.

Released: September 2001

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