Orphans found, poor sent to farms

(Erased Century) First movie EVER made was about babies from cabbage plants in 1896: CP Kids

(Erased Century) Every county in America had a place where people were disappeared | They called them "poor farms" or almshouses.

• Thomas Benjamin Kennington's Orphans

Wake up. It's time to wake up

• Censored; Sehnend; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Los Angeles EXPLAINED, before and now

Cali gals walk in skimpy bikinis as tanned hipster child rides skateboard without sunscreen

(Peter Santenello) Los Angeles: What it's really like now on mean sunny streets (July 2025) 🇺🇸

Currently, LA is a police state overrun by Feds

What can be said about the worst greatest city in the world? It's not like Angelenos walk around not knowing what the megalopolis is really like. We just act that way because we know there is no "Los Angeles" as such. It's just an idea with no center and unclear borders. Long Beach is not part of the OC. It's still in LA, but probably most people do not realize that. The tip of the peninsula that is San Pedro was once an important Indian village. But next to no one even realizes you can drive there because it's beyond the Port of Los Angeles. And the port should be the southernmost point in most cases.

Los Angeles the county is larger in population than 40 of the 50 or so states that make up the USA. (What is the USA, Russia's neighbor facing west, just east of Siberia? Are Puerto Rico, Guam, and more than 1,000 islands in the Pacific part of the pack or not? Indigenous Hawaii is not four or five islands but more than 1,000 atolls and spits and areas that are off-limits to everyone but the military). So what is LA or LA City? It used to be Tovaangar to the Native peoples. Now it's 88 cities and unincorporated areas, neighborhoods, zip codes and area codes, invisible boundaries and real estate redlinings. It's a mess, an expensive mess because everyone keeps coming in search of the dream. Which dream? Take your choice -- cultural diversity, porn manufacturing, magazine pieces, and various industries. Love it, hate it, everyone will visit, so we wrongly say it is the "capital of the world." This video provides a better glimpse than Beverly Hills, 90210, La La Land, or The O.C. ever are likely to suggest to anyone thinking of visiting. It's A Tale of Two Cities, the illusion and the reality, sometimes fire and other times just smog and haze.

Why the rich love pretending to be poor

Why rich people love pretending to be poor

(Horses) March 21, 2023. Don't be fooled. Ed Sheeran is a phony as are others, even Marie Antoinette.

Music: Beyond Words - Many Moons Ago La Vuelta a Lerida - Vendla It Goes On - Peace Reels Torn Apart - Infinity Ripple Synesthesia (scaled down version) - Peter Sandberg Photography: Lisa Fotios, Skylar Kang, Inga Seliverstova, ph.galtri, yaroslava bondareva Art: Midjourney AI engine.

Gangsta's Paradise: Coolio vs. Loretta Lynn

Coolio; Loretta Lynn, ET; ABC News; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, A. Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Loretta Lynn, poor white country music icon, dead at 90

(ABC News) Oct. 4, 2022. Poor Kentucky coal miner's daughter Loretta Lynn released an unheard of 50 studio albums in her life, most recently "Still Woman Enough" in March 2021. How did she die? asks friend Dolly Parton. She was from around the way in Butcher Holler, Kentucky. What's a country girl from poor Appalachia to do? When she started, was she any better off than a young Black man on the mean streets of Los Angeles, aka "Gangsta's Paradise"?

Let's take a "Fantastic Voyage" to see what life was like for cool Coolio, one of the first rappers to gain super success. He died unceremoniously at 59 on the floor of his friend's bathroom. Lynn ate it in bed at 90, a sweet old belle dying in her mansion on her mega estate. How far have we come in this country where Black men and country women are able to succeed but only as the exception to the rule?

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Remembering Loretta Lynn, trailblazing country music star dies at 90

White Trash: Class in America (video)

Dr. Nancy Isenberg, Ph.D., 10/29/15; Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

White Trash: The 400-Year

The 35th Annual Portier Lecture, "White Trash: The 400-Year History of Class in America," was delivered at Byrne Memorial Hall, Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama by Dr. Nancy Isenberg, the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Madison and Jefferson, 2010, with Andrew Burstein; Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, 2007; and Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America, 1998.

The Portier Lecture is the annual history lecture, named in honor of Bishop Michael Portier, the first bishop of Mobile, who founded Spring Hill College in 1830. his event was sponsored by the Spring Hill College Dept. History. This video was produced by J.L. Stevens II in association with the Dept. of Communication Arts.

How do Homeless Stay at Home? (lockdown)

Bumdog Torres (LAist.com, May 15, 2020); Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What's "LA LOVE"? Let's ask this homeless man in a wheelchair (Bumdog Torres/LAist).

No room but with a view: Los Angeles homelessness (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via laist.com)

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Social distancing (Bumdog Torres/LAist)

"I was pushing through the alley when I saw these two g[a]ls talking with masks on while standing at a safe distance from each other.

"I was struck by what a good photo it would make. In fact, I just stared at them, framing the shot in my mind.

If 5G causes COVID-19, expect many deaths.

"The[y] glanced at me and went back to their gossiping. I took out my camera and said I was a photographer and would like to take a photo of them. Although they didn't hide their pronounced lack of interest, they said, "Okay, just stay six feet back." — [Homeless, African American, photographer, artist] Bumdog Torres

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COVID-19 numbers 5/19/20

When the lockdown [the "Stay at Home" in the Newspeak of L.A. Mayor Garcetti] went into effect, I was homeless in the Fairfax District [of Los Angeles].

My homelessness wasn't a temporary thing. I've been homeless my entire adult life. It's a lifestyle choice. That's why I was nicknamed "Bumdog."

Some guys were asking me once, "You smoke dope?" I told them "No." "You drink?" "No." "Then why you be bumming everywhere?" "Because I'm a bum." They laughed and...the name stuck....

CURE? Homeless coronavirus prevention: lemon, Airborne, garlic, hot tea (Bumdog/LAist).

If you trip balls, you'll see things, weird things. Stay sober. (Bumdog Torres/LAist.com)

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L.A. Report (KPCC FM/laist.com/scpr.org)

[This is a] portable restroom in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles. One of the biggest challenges of the lockdown is the fact that most of the public bathrooms are now closed.

The Jack in the Boxes, McDonald's, Starbucks, and even gas stations no longer allow you to use their bathrooms. The city talked about putting up more Port-a-Potties and washing stations for the homeless but this one on Beverly Blvd. is the only one I've seen.

Sanitation is a basic human right. Free toilets!

The only open bathrooms that I know of are the ones in Pan Pacific Park and the La Brea Tar Pits. Although there are several bathrooms in each, technically that means there are only two public bathrooms spots within a five-mile radius, and that's not just for the homeless, that's for everyone.

More and more, I'm seeing people get out of their cars in alleys and piss behind a trash can or their car door. Come this summer, these streets are gonna get rank [with communicable disease, maybe even novel coronaviruses like WHO's SARS-2 and 3]. More

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Ajahn Lee: Drop the labels

Ajahn Lee via Ven. Sujato, Ellie Askew, Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Theravada Buddhist novices, NE Thailand

We're taught to no longer hold onto concepts — all the labels and names we have for things.

We have to let ourselves be "poor." It's when people are poor that they become ingenious and resourceful.

If we won't let ourselves be poor [due to fearing unsatisfactoriness (disappointment, suffering, woe)], we'll never gain discernment (wisdom, insight, liberating knowledge). In other words, we don't have to be afraid of being stupid or of missing out on things.

We don't have to be afraid that we've hit a dead end. We don't want any of the insights we've gained from listening to others or from reading books, because they're concepts and therefore inconstant (impermanent, in flux, undependable).

What is the path to the light (nimitta)?

We don't want any of the insights we've gained by reasoning and thinking, because they're concepts and therefore not-self (impersonal, empty, egoless).

Let all these insights disappear, leaving just the mind, firmly intent, leaning neither to the left -- toward self-torment or being displeased -- nor to the right, toward sensual indulgence or being pleased.

Keep the mind still, quiet, neutral, impassive — set tall. And there we are: right concentration.

• Three Basic Facts of Existence II: Suffering (Dukkha), Collected Essays (Buddhist Publication Society, BPS.lk)
• The Real Facts of Life: Reflections on the Three Marks

Love Thy Neighbor

Buddhist scholar Maurice O'C. Walshe (ATS); Crystal Quintero, S.Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

Giving from the Heart

Giving comes very naturally to some people — who enjoy giving and are unhappy if they cannot. And though it is obvious that one can give foolishly, it is in general a very good and meritorious thing to give.

This is probably recognized in all religions. In Christianity we are told, "It is more blessed to give than to receive," and in Islam there is a positive injunction to give part of one's wealth to help the poor.

Muslim lives in Mosul ruined by Israel/US

According to the Bible giving is better than receiving. Just as in the practice of Buddhist boundless loving-kindness meditation (metta-bhavana), the development of universal friendliness, there is given an actual method for this:

It fulfills the difficult Judeo-Christian injunction, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." So, too, Buddhism can give a precise technical meaning to this biblical statement.

Love for Rohingya in Buddhist Burma

If we receive something pleasant, this in Buddhism is considered to be the result of previous karma, in this case vipaka stemming from meritorious actions. It is nice while it lasts, but when it is finished, its source is exhausted.

However, to give is skillful action (wholesome action, kusala karma), which will be productive of pleasant results for the giver now and for a long time. In this way it can be clearly seen to be more "blessed" to give than to receive.

True, this "blessing" remains mundane and limited, being "merit-making for the world" (lokassa). But as all our actions are habit-forming, giving once inclines us to give again, so that the results tend to be cumulative.

Also, of course, this king of skillful action can lead on to other things, and it is for very good reason that giving (generosity, letting go, dana) is listed as the first among the Ten Perfections, coming even before virtue.

It is, after all, possible for even an immoral person to be generous and thereby make good karma for his/her future. More

 

 

Anti-poverty activists: "Poor Peoples March"

Associated Press (ap.org, June 15, 2018); Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

Rebooting USA's Poor People's Campaign 50 years later

Send the poor to kill for the U$ Empire.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - Thousands of anti-poverty activists have launched a campaign in recent weeks modeled after the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign of 1968. Like the push 50 years ago, advocates are struggling to draw attention to those trying to survive through deep poverty from Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta, from the American Southwest to California's Central Valley rural farm country.

 

Come over here, you goddamned coon. Stop resisting my authority before I get the dogs.

 

Sign-carrying participants in the southern leg of the Poor People's Campaign march through Atlanta. Thousands of anti-poverty activists have launched a campaign in May 2018 modeled after Rev. Dr. King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign of 1968. Like the push 50 years ago, advocates are drawing attention to those in deep poverty around the USA.

 

Won't you do it for justice, folks? (MLK, Jr.)

The latest effort is led by the Rev. William Barber of Goldsboro, North Carolina, and the Rev. Liz Theoharis of New York City, who are encouraging activists in 40 states to take part in acts of civil disobedience, teach-ins and demonstrations to force communities to address poverty. They say poverty continues to be ignored and only a "moral revival" can bring it to the nation's consciousness. More

Lottery jackpot: half a BILLION dollars!

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; Lottery Officials in Suckersville (USAmega.com/lottery-news.asp)

You want a $301mn lump sum or $502mn?

In the past Wisdom Quarterly has explained HOW TO WIN the lottery. Now's the time to use that information.

Here is the up-to-the-minute story of the half-billion dollar U.S. jackpot as of today, Wednesday, March 28, 2018:

• 11:40 am – $502 MILLION: Mega Millions grows to 10th-largest lottery jackpot of all time.
• Six years to the day after becoming the first lottery in history to feature a $500 million [which is half a billion] jackpot, the multi-state Mega Millions game is right back at the same level, offering a $502 million grand prize [$300 million lump sum] to be drawn Friday [March 30th, 2018] evening.
• 1:23 am – Mega Millions: There was no jackpot winner in the Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Mega Millions drawing.
• But 2 lucky players matched the first 5 numbers for a $1,000,000 prize, 1 from Illinois and 1 from NJ. 
• For the complete rundown of winners by prize category, a list of the California pari-mutuel prize amounts, the drawing video, and all other data about this drawing, see the Mega Millions Drawing Detail page.

This is what the story was yesterday when no one won the big jackpot on Tuesday, March 27, 2018:

• 11:10 pm – Mega Millions:  The Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Mega Millions drawing has taken place, and the results are 7-25-43-56-59, and the Mega Ball is 13.  The Megaplier number is 3. USA Mega

"White Trash" and other gangs (video)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; Bright Side, 2/27/18; Die Antwoord; Jim Gee; They Will Kill You

Here's what gangs from all over the world look like: Very few think about it, but almost every country has its own low class gangs -- Israel, Japan, the USA, even Russia and South Africa, where "Zef" is allegedly the fake name DIE ANTWOORD* made up for its denizens. Did it exist before the band started making videos? Surely, "white trash" is just a general pejorative for Honkies (lol) not a gang as Bright Side states. Nevertheless, beware the Gopniks.

Sexy Zef "gang life" in the way far white South

(*Die Antwoord) Sex, drugs, more sex, and ravey techno beats among "Zef" Southerners

Zef and White Trash join forces in Indianapolis

17 Gangs in the U.S. Military

(They Will Kill You, Nov. 14, 2017) Big illegal "organizations" in the U.S. with a few hundred members? These shocking clubs really exist in various U.S. military bases around the world. Then when the revert to civilian life, they join police gangs.

White Trash fun: "cock fighting talking"

Top 10 worst neighborhoods in L.A. (video)

World According to Briggs, Nov. 20, 2017; Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

I can live in LA, but it's not whi...

"Welcome to California...Now go home" the funny bumper sticker reads. How funny is it? It is the sentiment of most residents in this place. We love tourist dollars and oddball visitors.

The City of Lost Angels is not all it's cracked up to be. There is no "Hollywood," just a [insert Trumpism] where mythical Hollywood used to be.

There are rich parts of L.A. They're exclusive. That means you can't go there. Oh, sure you can -- if you want to be pulled over, ticketed, towed, or given trouble.

Then there are the gated communities, which are police states there to keep you out and the rich in. But "rich" is relative. NIMBYism is rampant. Briggs recommends the travel book Blue Highways.

Do U.S. blacks face "genocide"? (rap videos)

Robert Johnson, Paul Leighton (Journal of African American Men via PaulsJusticePage.com via Espressostalinist.com); Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

It's Strange Fruit as Billie Holiday explains to American audiences before being silenced.

 

Black Genocide?  Thoughts on the Plight of USA's Poor Black Men

Coloring Book: Chance the Rapper (real923la)

ABSTRACT: This article aims to offer an examination of the claim that poor African American men are subjected to conditions of life that are sufficiently destructive to amount to an instance of genocide. Genocide is defined as grossly disproportionate death rates, which are examined as one of many products of social deprivation. This is indirect genocide (which involves creating life conditions that destroy a group and promotes black on black violence) making the inference of direct intent difficult because of ideological racism.

 

INTRODUCTION

You're cute, Kanye, but diss me again and I'll have you taken out, 'kay? - We cool, Tadolf.

“Not since slavery,” notes former U.S. Secretary of Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan, “has so much calamity and ongoing catastrophe been visited on Black males” (Majors & Gordon, 1994:ix).

The calamities and catastrophes to which Dr. Sullivan alludes fall disproportionately on poor black males, especially the poor young black men who inhabit our nation’s ghettos. This has led many observers to characterize poor black men as an endangered species (see Gibbs, 1988).

Mortality data and other social indicators, discussed in this article, suggest that Dr. Sullivan’s observation is fundamentally correct, particularly when it is applied to the plight of poor black men.

The notion that these men comprise an endangered species is, however, a misleading and ultimately counterproductive one.’ A more accurate view, though we can offer only tentative proof and argument at this juncture, is that such men may be victims of genocide.

(We believe this claim holds for poor black women as well, but that takes us beyond the confines of this article).

 

Those who identify poor black men as an endangered species do so out of concern, to raise an alarm and move society to compassionate action.

 

The term "genocide" is thus used with the best of intentions. The very notion of an endangered species of people is dehumanizing. Referring to any group or subgroup of people as a “species,” let alone as one at risk, sets them apart, implicitly, as less than fully equal with others.

Such labels may inadvertently reinforce harmful stereotypes of poor black men. And this may make it harder for outsiders to fully appreciate the scope of the pressures affecting black lives, pressures that may well be reaching genocidal proportions.

  

White Adolf Hitler vs. Black Darth Vader

(Epic Rap Battles) Hitler goes up against Darth Vader in a hip hop rap battle (Reprise battle)

As a general matter, people are strongly inclined to deny genocide wherever and whenever it occurs, and to do so firmly, and even passionately, when the group at issue can be readily dehumanized (see Chalk and Jonassohn, 1990:7).

This is clearly the case with the black men in our inner cities.

It is a bitter irony that, for many in the larger white society, they comprise not only different species of men but a distinctly predatory group that is largely if not entirely responsible for their impoverished, violent, and shortened lives.

Class, Race, Gender & Crime (4th ed.)

Few care to invest time or money in the preservation of this endangered species. It is to be expected, then, that the subject of black genocide has not been assessed in objective or dispassionate terms. White scholars have essentially ignored the issue, viewing the claim as a type of lunacy.

 

An earlier black scholar named Patterson formally charged the United States with the genocide of blacks in the United Nations during the 1950s (see Patterson, 1970, 1971). Later black writers have tackled the issue (Weisbord, 1975; Welsing, 1974), but they have done so in a piecemeal fashion and have failed to ground their arguments in the intellectual tradition of genocide research.

 

There can be no doubt that many African Americans sincerely believe that the more marginal members of their community, if not indeed all black Americans, are actual or potential targets of genocide in America today....

Several instances of man-made famine have resulted in genocide. These famines are man-made in the sense that they were created or tolerated as a matter of policy.

The indirect violence of policies that allow the ravages of famine “combines advantages -- for the perpetrators -- of costing very little while at the same time putting physical distance between them and the victims” (Jonassohn, 1992:23; see also Smith, 1987:35).

If creating or tolerating a famine is genocidal, why it is not genocidal to create or tolerate multiple destructive life conditions for blacks? This includes

• high infant mortality
• limited access to health care
• crushing poverty
• inadequate schools
• crime-racked neighborhoods
• presence of toxic waste

-- all conditions that apply to the daily existence of poor black Americans (see, Reiman, 1995).

 

An obvious case of indirect genocide occurs when the perpetrator creates a condition (such as famine) that destroys a group.

Irish potato famine example

The Irish potato famine of the nineteenth century comes readily to mind. Policies set in England resulted in shortages of food in Ireland; hunger, aided by diseases that run rampant in malnourished groups, terminated lives on a large scale.

 

Throughout, destructive policies were left in place, even as the dead accumulated (see Woodham-Smith, 1980; Rubenstein, 1987 2S7).

With the creation of more amorphous conditions such as poverty, however, genocidal results may be achieved through self destructive adaptations to those conditions. The link between policy and outcome remains but is less obvious.

 

Black on Black Crime

WARNING: Explicit! Ace Hood "Bugatti" featuring Future, Rick Ross on the U.S. drug trade

(Epic Rap Battles) Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. goes up against Gandhi in a hip hop rap battle

In America, at least, poverty rarely kills directly. Few people drop dead in the streets from hunger or exposure to the elements.

• AUDIO: Meek Mill vs. Drake (Real 9.23 FM, L.A.)

But poverty does produce a range of physical and psychological stresses, and some reactions to these stresses are expressed in behaviors that destroy life.

We therefore suggest that destruction need not come only from outside the group. Members of the disadvantaged group may contribute to their own victimization through adaptations to bleak life conditions that include violence directed at self or others (e.g., suicide and homicide) as well as self-destructive lifestyles (notably addiction to drugs and alcohol).

Williams, in his classic Destruction of Black Civilization, writes:

They, the so-called criminals and their youthful followers, expect nothing beneficial from the white world, and they see no reason for hope in their own. Hence, like caged animals, they strike at what is nearest them -- their own people.

They are actually trying to kill a situation they hate, unaware that even in this, they are serving the white man well.

For the whites need not go all out for “genocide” schemes, for which they are often charged, when blacks are killing themselves off daily on such a large scale (1987:325).

Adaptations that produce high rates of such destructive behavior, such as intra-group violence, suicide, and addiction, may thus serve as vehicles of genocide.

 

Indirect genocide, then, can be expressed in part in the self-destructive adaptations of victim groups to the deprivations of life inflicted upon them by the larger society. More

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