And thus, there is the stupid, “I don’t understand”: Understand. They hate you. They hate everything about you. They want you dead. You are in the way of their Marxist Utopia. That is ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND about them.
I can almost envision it, Americans lead to the box cars, put up against the wall and shot, loudly proclaiming, “I don’t understand!”
FFS.
steve walshJuly 18, 2020, 10:53 AM
Charles and other people of good faith, from all races, colors, and walks of life, want allies in the pursuit of equality and fairness. The people he is scolding do not want those things. They want power, nothing else.
Sid VJuly 18, 2020, 12:07 PM
Charles is a Democrat, but he definitely talks some serious common sense to the black community every once in a while. I’ve always liked him, and I especially liked his big black ass back when I was a 76ers fan. Guy could box people out like nobody’s business.
For several years now he has been one of the few people in the entire sports world — players, coaches, media types, ownership and management— whose opinions are worth a warm bucket of spit AND he has a platform and isn’t afraid to use it. That’s a hero in my book.
Re: “And thus, there is the stupid, “I don’t understand””
In common usage, people use that phrase to mean many things, only one of which is an actual failure to comprehend the situation in front of them.
More likely he means “this makes no sense” or “I need you to explain in more detail”, or something alomg those lines.
I do this myself and have realized over the last couple of years that other phrases would really be more accurate. Still, I suspect the larger message gets through more than not.
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can’t be bought.
The fireborn are at home in fire.
The stars make no noise.
You can’t hinder the wind from blowing.
Time is a great teacher.
Who can live without hope?
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief
the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for
keeps, the people march:
“Where to? what next?”
— Carl Sandburg
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
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from Preludes
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
Ferreya
Song of Myself
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
from Canto CXV BY EZRA POUND
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
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And thus, there is the stupid, “I don’t understand”: Understand. They hate you. They hate everything about you. They want you dead. You are in the way of their Marxist Utopia. That is ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND about them.
I can almost envision it, Americans lead to the box cars, put up against the wall and shot, loudly proclaiming, “I don’t understand!”
FFS.
Charles and other people of good faith, from all races, colors, and walks of life, want allies in the pursuit of equality and fairness. The people he is scolding do not want those things. They want power, nothing else.
Charles is a Democrat, but he definitely talks some serious common sense to the black community every once in a while. I’ve always liked him, and I especially liked his big black ass back when I was a 76ers fan. Guy could box people out like nobody’s business.
What is a semite?
Good on ya Chuck. Well stated and compelling.
For several years now he has been one of the few people in the entire sports world — players, coaches, media types, ownership and management— whose opinions are worth a warm bucket of spit AND he has a platform and isn’t afraid to use it. That’s a hero in my book.
Re: “And thus, there is the stupid, “I don’t understand””
In common usage, people use that phrase to mean many things, only one of which is an actual failure to comprehend the situation in front of them.
More likely he means “this makes no sense” or “I need you to explain in more detail”, or something alomg those lines.
I do this myself and have realized over the last couple of years that other phrases would really be more accurate. Still, I suspect the larger message gets through more than not.