Let It Go: Afghanistan Must Stand On It’s Own

By Andrea N. Jones

Im an old tyme Black American who is beginning to feel a certain way about immigrants and foreigners. Like, maybe they’re just using us. Many Afghans have been upset about our withdrawal from their country. We only spent 2 TRILLION DOLLARS+ taking care of them the past 20 YEARS. Yet, they are so DEPENDENT that they have the nerve to guilt us for leaving all over the AIRWAVES. 

I say “Oh well, I show hate it.” Afghans are very basic being they come from a land of dirt rocks and opium poppies. They believe the calendar year to be 1391. The way they treat women is worse than a dog fares there. They’re ass backwards in thinking to the point that a Taliban could arise with such crushing force to democracy there. I know how democracy is also fragile here, which  has been apparent with the rise of Donald J. Trump.

However, the irony is that they and other foreigners can give TWO FUCKS about Americans. In fact, they look to take ADVANTAGE OF US at every turn. If Afghanistan descends into hell, Afghans have NO ONE to blame but themselves. 

Expect The Taliban to be a threatening fixture against the U.S. government for the next 100 years. They here, as it were..

Do you know what AMERICANS could have done with that money? Do you know what Black folk could have done with 2 TRILLION DOLLARS+???? Come on now. However, the United States government would rather give $2 trillion+ to Afghans than they would to niggas. 

RACISM IS REAL. BLACKS ARE ALONE. ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery) stand alone.

In high school, my closest friend was Afghan. I’ll call her F.N. I met her the first day of freshman year at James Logan High in Union City, California. She literally came up to me while our school I.D.’s were being made and said to me this, “Hello, my name is F. I heard your stepfather is an alcoholic. My father is also an alcoholic. Let’s talk.” From that point onto junior year, we were nearly INSEPARABLE. 

I very quickly discovered that F. loved all things BLACK. She devoured books on The Harlem Renaissance, watched Spike Lee movies with me and listened to my music from artists like Minnie Riperton and Stevie Wonder. All this CULTURE she received directly from me. I felt like a DOPE PUSHER because of the way she always needed more. Anyway, with years and distance, we grew apart.

Fast forward 20 years. We’re both journalist. However, this bitch beat me to a publishing house and released a book entitled Opium Nation, a memoir. Within it, she mentioned me NOT ONE time. Instead, she created a fictitious composite and made the girl AFGHAN. FAKE BITCH. 

In fact, at the book signing I attended of F.N., her twitchy-eyed sister couldn’t WAIT to run up on me talking about, “How does it feel that your BEST FRIEND published a book?” I just stared at the hoe. Wtf! Bitch, yo hoe ass sister is NOT MY BEST FRIEND. She’s a liar, cheater (constantly cheated in her A.P. classes), shoplifter and likes sucking white dick. How can a sheisty OPPORTUNIST be my best friend?

I spoke to F. recently, at which time the hoe told me, “Nicci, no one owes you ANYTHING.” Lol. I thought to myself “Okay, Fucktard. I don’t owe you shit either.” So, in kind, America owes Afghanistan nothing. 

Afghans owe themselves the ability to think on their own feet; to stand on their own. Self-determination is everything when it comes to organizing a civilization. If one can’t get with the Age of Aquarius we’re currently influenced by, according to the ancients, when man has gone from needing a middleman to think to man being able to think for himself, there’s little I can do to help them.

I distinctly remember an occasion that has always stuck with me. Fariba came to visit me at my home in San Francisco’s Polk District. She went to great lengths to let me know that she was “white.” I couldn’t believe this shit. 

The only reason the government considered Afghans white in wide ranging comfortable was in order to boost white folks' census bureau numbers. Whites are very desperate to appear as a majority body politic.

I hear Iranians (Persians) are also on the fast track to being white in America. Foreigners come here and surpass blacks not because they work much harder but, in my opinion, because of their proximity to all mighty whiteness.

I’m airing Fariba Nawa out because I have decided that I owe this hoe nothing as she is a BACKSTABBER. So, I thought it was only RIGHT I return the favor. I REFUSE to carry the water of people who mistreat me any longer. 

People say don’t poke a panther and they’re right. 👀👀

Chris Rock, Call Me: Why I Need To Date A Baller

Last night I dreamt I was dating Chris Rock and it was nothing short of magical. I woke up to the revelation that for the most part I've spent 25 years dating the wrong kind of brothers. Not only have these black men been spiritually broke but they've all been financially strapped, making under 100K a year while living beyond their means.

Being both a writer and uberly politically conscious has not made making money my strong suit. I've been considered "financially immature" and have even been asked to disclose my credit score on a first date by a man who presented himself as well-to-do for being an entrepreneur who inherited a million dollar home in San Francisco. Most writers struggle and for those of us with a sociopolitically conscious it's even harder to make ends met. However, I make due with what I earn. 

To top it off I've spent the last 16 months caregiving for my mother who is terminally ill with cancer. So, needless to say, I've been deemed not fit for the dating pool as there is no romance without finance. In today's economy a sister is expected to earn if she's ever expected to be considered marriage material for most brothers.

Your average black man (perhaps due to his inferior earning power compared to white men and even sisters) seems to believe that if a woman is not financially secure enough to take care of his wants she's not worth dating, forget about marrying. A part of me gets it. If they're out there grinding harder than a monkey pumping at an accordion on a fool's shoulder, they expect you to do the same. Hell, I'm the woman (new mommy), I'm suppose to pump even harder than them as they are well aware of all the sisters out there making it happen. Thus, I'm viewed as being a burden and easily replaceable.

I've spent many a day as of late feeling completely inadequate. I've shed many tears of loneliness and sadness. I'm slowly losing my mother because "Killer Kaiser," her HMO, neglected to diagnose her cancer at an early stage even though she practically lived their with appointments. 

She's all I've got as my father wants nothing to do with me most of the time because of my views. My stepfather has been a rock to me which has been a blessing. However, let's face it-- this is a cold world without a loving mother of your own in it. 

All these years she's been here for me, almost providing a bridge of love and care I would have loved to have gotten in a good long term relationship but never found. What now? What do I do now??

I've just been lost.

And then I have this dream. It's turned everything I've been feeling about my situation on it's head. Instead of waking up more drained than I was the prior night, I felt rejuvenated.

Now, I ain't saying I'm a gold digga. But I've definitely been messing with the wrong negus. 

I've been dating men who buy into the notion that the system is somehow right. That a college degree equals excellence. That it's cool for people to discriminate based on earnings and credit scores.

Sadly, most people are conditioned to think this way because it's been force fed to them by the dominant ruling class from birth. Even Suze Orman can see through the game. That it's rigged against the majority of people, particularly so against so called minorities.

A truly woke person wouldn't expect the person they're in a relationship with to sell out in order to love. But capitalism edicts this. As the black thinker/lecturer/author Shahrazad Ali states, there are plenty of financially successful black women out there but it doesn't inform whether or not they can make a good wife and a happy home.

Enter Chris Rock. He's a white hot talent who is solidly in the black financially. A black man like him, a shot caller, isn't looking for a woman to match him dollar for dollar because like Jamie Foxx says, he's got his own.

My dream revealed to me what I knew all along-- capitalism is for shit. Which is to say our economy is no good for the artist who doesn't burn a searing hot brand to their flesh as was done to mark our ancestors in chattel slavery. 

After all, a good conscious daughter helped turn this black man...

into this black man...

doing amazing things for the black community. And she isn't a millionaire. Kaep is still a baller even though so called owners don't want to touch his fire now that he has refused to pledge allegiance to the flag or whatever. What Colin Kaepernick knows is that mo' money isn't everything. He's discovered that all love, such as that All-American love, isn't good love. But black love shared within the community is everything. For some of us it's all that matters. 

So, I'll keep hope alive that a true baller, shot caller, will cross my path to make a beautiful life with me and not my pocketbook.

The Miseducation of Latinos: The Myth of Black Brown Unity

I moved into my new crib earlier this month. I was immediately met with anti-black racism. Workers called out “nigger” to me as I was minding my own business when I heard these waves of disrespect. I confronted 3 Latino workers in my hallway. I said, “Excuse me? That's not something nice people say.” They wore their cowardice on their sleeves and walked away as one actually had the very nerve to tell me to, “go away.”

I've grown up around Latinos (Mexicans in particular) so, I know when I am actually liked and when I'm being placated. The level of disrespect I've experienced since Trump has been back in power by Latinos has been nothing short of group think.

They hate us for our freedom. We have a sense of self-autonomy that Latinos are just now beginning to achieve in pockets. They want to be black– why not? We do as we please. They, on the other hand, have to follow the rules, per their parents and the pope. They have the suck-ass jobs now. They worship a lesser god, Lucifer, truth be told. Their god is no match for mine, the great I Am. The Almighty God. 

I have been harassed and insulted one too many times by coconuts. I eat coconuts. I don't make friends with them.. The time to close ranks is now. 

I agree with the President and MAGA on this topic. They have gotten besides themselves. It's time they go home. They don't want the American Dream, they want the whole nine. The whole kit and caboodle, all for themselves, La Raza, and they haven't even build it. Like MAGA, they wish to turn the fabric of America to one that disenfranchises the rights of Black people. 

It's not going down. I'm not as straight edge as Trump but I think the ones that stay should be those who know how to cooperate. Those aggressive types with the Aztec pride haircuts and bigger attitudes need to go. They don't want to share and I don't trust that they'll care about Black America. They want to vomit their Catholic machismo over us all. That's a pass for me, Dawg.

Trump has long accused Latin men of being rapist. This is not the truth. They are sexually repressed because of the religion. Their women think sex is only for making babies. So, they seek outside pussy. The Vatican controls the culture and as such keeps it in the Dark Ages.

We saw this with the way Latinos voted this past election cycle. The men's machismo kept them from supporting the candidate that had their best interest at heart. That coupled with voter suppression led to Trump's 2nd term. 

Some believed they could make the best of a Trump administration. If you can't beat them, join them, many began to believe. The idea of America becoming a Christian country doesn't sound half bad. However, this is dangerous. A theocracy in this country would lead to a new era of Witch Hunts. Millions could die, burned at the stake, tried by fire. 

As a flag-loving American, I fear a future where America becomes a theocracy. It would mean that no other religion would be tolerated. Thus, all practicing other religions would be considered a enemies of the state. This could be punishable by death. 

One Latino politician out of Texas called his constituency “simple people.” Many were outraged by this but I understood what he was getting at. They would not understand the nuance and would blindly support theocracy. This must not happen.

This must be curtailed if we are to remain a secular nation. Let's see if they've learned anything this coming election cycle.

I can't forget to mention that Latinos were fire bombing black families’ home in L.A. just recently.To further illustrate how brown people are not to be trusted since they rode our coattails to benefit from the Civil Rights Movement, 

I've had strange activity on my cell since I've moved into my new crib. I'm talking emails missing, slow phone charging and hearing audible commentary in the background on my end. Turns out a group of Mexicans have had access to my phone's screen, my Google and Yahoo accounts. 

I believe they targeted me because im unapologetically Black, can afford to live alone (not living on top of others) they're jelly that I'm an attractive, independent woman that doesn't need a man to validate me. I'm a real grown up. They, on the other hand, have to live by family rules, bless their hearts. They can't imagine a woman being self-possessedl. So they decided to violate my rights as we live in lawless times. 

Simply put, I don't trust Latinos. I'm about my people even though I had a half Mexican grandparent. That makes no difference to folks that are seeking dominion over Black people– to skip the line to get a piece of the devil’s pie. 

Latina treat me the worse. Funny thing is I happened to view dating profiles recently of women looking for men and about 80 percent of the Latinas put their race as white. I was blown away. Not to be trusted. Backstabbers. And like Forest Gump says, that's all I have to say about that. 

Why Tupac Claimed Oakland

They say I talk a lot of shit. They say I deserve the mollywhoops I get. I say, no, I’m just really from The Town– Oakland, California. It’s an Oakland thing and you might not understand. I'll explain. Oakland is Home of The Mack, Home of The Player, Home of The Game. Watch Goldie in “The Mack” if you’re truly so young or too clueless to get it (no offense).

Black people have had to make lemonade for 500+ years since coming in contact with European colonizers. When the strongest among us are knocked down 9 times, we get up 10. Tupac would prove to be one of the strongest among us. He was raised in Baltimore, Maryland and later moved to Marin City, California with his sister and mother, Afeni Shakur, at 13. Still, he bypassed San Francisco, The City across the bay, to claim Oakland. It wasn't long before Tupac hooked up with Sock G (Mr. Humpty Dance) and Digital Underground on the Oakland-Berkeley border. There's good reason for this and it's rooted in Oakland history.

Today, Blacks are gaslit when we discuss our plight in a country we built, in a world we have been great stewards of for a couple million years before other races existed. Gatekeepers limit our educational and career choices. We are treated like basura (trash) half the time by anyone and everyone (sometimes even our own).

Here in Oakland, the Black community takes pride in being, as we say, “off the plantation.” We believe our black bodies are our own. By and large, we don’t look for trouble but when it comes we are not afraid of a fight. We'll give you the business in a minute. The revolution is in our words.

Back in the 1940’s and 1950’s, Oakland was a hub of urban activity and entertainment. We had a vibrant street culture that grew out of segregation. We became known as the home of pimping from the great amount of sex trafficking taking place here as it was the end of the line for the Transcontinental Railway from the east coast and, you know, white boys get horny.

The railways employed Black men to cater to the needs of its passengers as Pullman Porters. Many of the passengers were white businessmen. Along the way, Porters would ear-hustle information that they would share amongst each other and people in the Black community here at large. We were more sophisticated and progressive than other Black communities throughout the country which is why the Black Panther Party thrived here.

It's the knowledge that was freely shared that had awakened a young Huey P. Newton, a transplant from Alabama who founded the juggernaut Black Panther Party and later would radicalize and season Tupac Shakur, the son of the influential and powerful Black Panther member Afeni Shakur. 

I’ve run into numerous women in the streets of Oakland who have sang the praises of Afeni and her care for them at the time of the struggle times of the 1960's and 70's, from the Panthers’ founding to its dissolution around the height of the crack epidemic. They credit Afeni with keeping them focused on liberation and not getting caught up with older male members whose natural desire was to gravitate towards available sex from the younger female members. 

One member named Cynthia told me that Afeni, frankly, kept everyone “in line.” She also provided safe shelter to younger female members who may have runaway from home to join the movement. 

In the 90's I attended a symposium held for Afeni Shakur. I was juiced to talk to her afterward as this was about 2 years after her son Tupac's death. Just as i was about to approach her the whote girl I brought along had an absolute meltdown. Me, honestly, trying to be a good girlfriend left before ever getting to speak to her. I can only blame myself for being so foolish. That girl and I don't even speak anymore. I had so many questions and although I didn't plan to take up too much of her time. It was an act of sabotage although I didn't realize that at the time. 

Tupac was a rap god of women, weed and weather like no other. He mixed together sex appeal for the ladies, strength for the men and anti-oppression for the whole community. I believe he claimed Oakland because brothers in The Townv are different. They are on a 24/7 hustle to get to the bag. There is money to be made in the bay. This is still Gold Countr. 

A key tenet of The Pimp Game in The Town is "pimps up, hoes down." Tupac made hoes of his enemies, eviserating them in 16-bars. He was quite curlish. "That's why I fucked yo' bitch, you fat motherfucker" he rhymes in Hit 'Em Up. Ouch!

Tupac was a Black man who wore the weight of our community on his shoulders when most Black celebrities are paid very well to turn a blind eye to the plight of our people. Oakland is a Chocolate City where Blacks take pride in our joy and beauty. 

Many subscribe to conspiracy theories that the government was truly behind Tupac's murder and not the two suspects that were at one time under investigation. This is due to the fact that he was viewed as a threat to the American society's systematic racism towards Blacks since the colonists made oppression the status quo.

However, with Oakland being the home of modern, high-tech surveillance with programs like COINTELPRO a counterintelligence program that's purpose was to use the resources of the FBI to prevent the rise of a so-called Black Messiah. 

Then they flooded the community with drugs, guns and gangster rap. Tupac committed what Black Panther Chairman Dr Huey P. Newton called Revolutionary Suicide by bucking racism to be the voice of Foundational Black Americans (FBA). Unapologetically, at that. 

Millions around the world were shook when the 25 year old was murdered by an assassin who escaped justice for nearly 30 years now. Even though things often change, since Tupac's death, The Bay Area has never been the same. 

Tupac was hot-headed but he didn't deserve to die. Sadly, Black lives don't matter to colonizers and they never will. White supremacy like the Charlie Kirks and Nick Fuenteses don't believe in empathy or compassion and believe we should normalize suffering. How can you follow Christ and believe in its core tenets.

 They're running an old con game they inherited from their ancestors. They are Romans masquerading as Christians. Don't believe their hype. The white man is the biggest liar of all time. Just look at your president. Need I say more?

This is why we must stand firm on protecting our hard-fought for Civil Rights that every other subgroup has benefitted from more than us. Tupac embodied the bold spirit of Oakland's Black community. Even though we are not hegemonous we have united in the past and we must continue to do it. 

These white Christian Nationalist are busy. We need to match their energy. Malcolm X said that America was unique in that here we had the opportunity to have a bloodless revolution Ibelieve Tupac would agree.. Tupac is heavy in my playlist as a reminder that I'm a powerful being, grown, an individual and proud of my lineage. 

Stay vigilant and safe. Theocrats are determined to usher in The End of Days because much to their shearing they up and realized that they are outnumbered by POC (whites comprise only 7 percent of the population so they'd rather take everyone out with them in a  Reverend Jim Jones move). Don't drink the Kool-Aid. Tupac wouldn't. 

Facebook Watches Us: Trump's War on Wokeness Comes Home

I don't know how they did it but Meta has piped into my crib. You see, my building is secure with cameras throughout. I found a comfort in this initially but my feelings lately have changed. I feel surveilled.

The good people at Meta have taped into our video server and seek amusement by just watching us. I have been made aware that the whites enjoy watching us in our most private moments. Zuck. you hired some real sick fucks.

They have tapped into our feed no doubt for DOGE and the Trump administration in search of the woke. Trump has declared a war on theso-called Woke. This is how they plan to annihilate us, playing with our lives to the point of attempting to drive us to the point of madness. Blackmail, too. Putting an eviction on our credit which would lead to permanent homelessness. 

They are engaging in psychological warfare with the tenants of my building. Their plan was sophmoric. I figured it out within weeks. The plan was to make me feel like my personal issues were somehow very public. To weaken my confidence by making me feel that I "stink."

Dumb, poor, white trash. Absolute basura, that crawled out here from the Midwest trying to take a piece of prime affordable housing. What they fail to realize is that this is Huey's town. It is the only Chocolate City on the West Coast and due to our history, will ALWAYS be a Chocolate City. 

I insist that Oakland Police Department and Menlo Park Police Department launch an investigation into Meta abusing it's immense power in the Bay Area to try to evict Black tenants to swap in white ones. White people are so stupid. How on earth they have all that they have is beyond me. On second thought, I know how-- from theft, rape, murder and racketeering. Trump said he wanted war. Like Pac said, I got myself together and I'm preparing for war. I'm indigenous mixed with Negro. This is my country by at least 20 generations. Viva la peuple!