Dear Mr. Stimpson,
I notice that you are following me on Twitter and I'm flattered, but I must remain true to myself, for it will set me free. I know that you are a Republican Candidate running for the election of Mayor of Mobile, Alabama. To be honest Mr. Stimpson, your strategies and tactics of attracting African American voters in the city of Mobile doesn't impress me. They may charm some of the African American Community but not all of them. This video of you doing the Harlem Shake, Mr. Stimpson is very insulting to not only to Mobile Alabama African American Community, but also to all African Americans around the United States. When your campaign organization produced the video of themselves along with you doing the Harlem Shake dance, you along with your campaign organization created an offensive stereotype about the way all African Americans behave on a daily basis, a stereotype about African Americans in a negative way. This video of the Harlem Shake, Mr. Stimpson, reminds me of the time of old movies, Broadway shows and plays, with white actors and actresses who would put on the "blackface" makeup to make them look like stereotypical black people, then they go on stage and act out their parts of Black characters in movies and on stage. The "blackface" is an insult to all African Americans of the past and present, the face black as charcoal, the big eyes and nose, and most of all the big lips. The characteristics of African Americans the actors and actresses displayed in the past are in insult as well, having slurred speech and incorrect vocabulary, not having any education nor common sense and being lazy in nature. Not all of us as African Americans are charcoal colored faces, not of all us have big noses and big lips, Mr. Stimpson. And just like all of us as African Americans don't have charcoal colored faces, big eyes, noses and big lips like the "blackface" that those actors and actresses put on to perform on stage shows and movies in the old days, Mr. Stimpson, not all of us as African Americans do not get on top of tables and act like ignorant, wild people and get loud and crazy. We as African Americans have class and dignity. Not all of us are ignorant, Mr. Stimpson, we as African Americans have education too.
All republicans talk a good game but when they get in the office, everything is changes. Promises are broken and everything that republicans say when they are campaigning is a different story, so I'm not falling for all this stuff you are displaying. As for your website that I've seen, I notice you say what the issues are but you are not coming up with any solutions.
Mr. Stimpson, please don't pretend like you know how and what we, the citizens of Mobile who are struggling and buried with the burden of issues, are going through, because you can never ever walk a mile in our shoes. I don't know anything about your background, but you, Mr. Stimpson, probably never suffered, you have never "been without". You probably never even step foot in a public school in your entire life. The truth is, Mr. Stimpson, some republicans have never cared about the poor people. Anytime when State Representatives, Mayors, Governors and anyone else in politics who are republican want and seek their ideas to become state and federal laws, it is usually for THEIR satisfaction, to help other republicans who are and I say this in capital letters, PREVELIDGED, putting more and more money into their pocket and we, the suffering and struggling, always end up paying for it, it never fails. Ideas that come from republican thought NEVER help the poor people, they NEVER help the pain and suffering and there are millions of scars around the United States and the city of Mobile, Alabama to prove it. Republicans don't like to do anything for the community if the money has to come out of their own pocket.
These are just simple opinions, Mr.Stimpson. I'm just exercising my first amendment. I have dignity, a mind and soul. All three are not for sale!
http://sandyformayor.com/
http://mayorsamjones.com/?page_id=8
http://www.examiner.com/article/election-race-2013-mayor-of-mobile-alabama
I am sick and tired of people trying to spin everything into an issue of race. I was present when this video was planned. It was in good fun; and never meant to insult or target any group of people.
ReplyDeleteIf anything; I find your commentary both insulting and polarizing. Do a little research before you blog about someone you know very little about. However, thanks to negative blogs like yours; we are gaining momentum for the upcoming election. The citizens of Mobile are tired of the politics of polarization.
www.sandyformayor.com
Make no mistake about it, everything has something to do with race for black people. This election does have an element of race to it. I for one don't really place much emphasis on the issue. I'm more concerned with having a mayor that is a person of integrity, if they can keep the promises that they make, and where they stand on real issues; same sex marriage, first amendment rights, and so on and so forth. Where does Mr. Stimpson stand on those issues, or does that even matter any more?
DeleteShaunta. Thank you for writing this letter. I recorded a my thoughts in a video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm6zn56o6vc
ReplyDeleteNot Everything is about RACE! It is about a trend that was short and fun and Mr. Stimpson it is what caught my eye about you! This city needs FUN and Ms. Simone maybe it is YOU who is too focused on race. We all bleed red and maybe you should think about that. One race does not own a dance or trend and that is backwards thinking, not PROGRESSIVE.
ReplyDeleteI'm not an African American but simply an American and you are race baiting, it's simply not acceptable. Find a subject that you are qualified, i.e., educated enough to "blog" about and then do it well; it will be a true service to the community. Otherwise, please don't waist our time.
ReplyDeleteThe following is an example of an excellent Blog article:
BUCHANAN TO OBAMA
By Patrick J. Buchanan
... Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America .. Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation.. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.... This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.. Jeremiah Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the '60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude??
Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona ? And Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids...? Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America ? Is it really white America 's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?
Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?
We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago. This needs to be passed around because, this is a message everyone needs to hear!!!
I'm for a better America…
I am
Not racist,
Not violent,
Just not silent anymore.
Shaunta, as resident of Mobile born of white skin, I want to support your right to be offended and to say it in public. You don't deserve such defensive reactions. I also want to thank you for clearing up a mystery over whether Sandy is a Democrat,Republican, or Independent. It is very hard to find this out from any of his campaign literature or signage. Is he ashamed of being a Republican I wonder? I wouldn't blame him for that...
ReplyDeleteSandy is a Republican, but he has nothing in common with the Tea Party or right-wing Christian fundamentalist wackos that have sullied the GOP to a fare the well.
ReplyDeleteI have had the pleasure of personally meeting him, which motivated me to become one of the volunteers in his campaign. You will not find a more caring and compassionate man than Sandy, and I hope he gets reelected many more times.
David E. Hanlin, Jr.