The Old American Reverse Play

Watch out America. Or, it is going to happen to you again. I first learned about the reverse play back in my old days of the Vallejo Pop Warner football. What makes the reverse play work well is when the offense convinces the defense, the ball is going one way. The longer the offense holds the ball, the more it convinces the defense that the ball is heading in a particular direction. Then suddenly, the offense pitches the ball to a player going the opposite direction. If run correctly, the defense has all of its momentum going the wrong way. I also learned that a disciplined defense should pursue, by staying in their lanes. This means that the backside defensive end pursues under control, watching for something coming back at him. People, here's what all of this shit is really about. There are billions, if not close to a trillion dollars in oil deals with Russia, waiting to be had. If I were a money greedy person in power, I would get the country protesting and fighting over emotional and sensitive aspects of American life. Then, as they are putting all of their energies into protesting those aspects of American life, I would run a reverse play and sneak my oil deal through the cracks. By the time America finds out about my deal, the money is hidden in my offshore bank account. Then I would say, America, you can have my powerful position, because I and my family are now financially set for generations to come. And for those of you who put me in this position, I'm sorry. Well, no I'm not. My reverse play is, the art of the deal. As people of color and especially a Black people living in America, you either learn to recognize the old reverse play or you will spend each and every day of your life wondering what the hell just happened to you. Watching for the reverse is a way of life for most people of color. As we watch Trump we see exactly what he is doing. However, having no power in this country, means there is nothing we can do about it. It's like what we had to do with former President Obama. We knew he wasn't going to do much for Black people and people of color. We just didn't want him to get into the White House and prove the racist right, in regards to our intelligence. And just for the record, he and the entire first family did a great job of showing intelligence, dignity and grace, under extreme racism and pressure. Watching White America deal with the reverse play is very interesting. White America isn't used to being lied to in this manner. Here's what I mean by "in this manner". It is one thing to lie to a person or even a group of people. Most of us, when people lie, we do it for the purpose of getting something we want. Or, we lie to keep from getting something we do not want. The truth is hidden, unless the person lying is a bad liar. When people find out they have been lied to, they have options in regards to how they will handle the lie they're been told. Let's call this the "every day lie". Everyone has dealt or will deal with the "every day lie". Black America and other people of color have dealt with the "other lie", since the beginning of America. The "other lie" has been defined as: We're going to lie to you. You're going to know we're lying to you. We're going to know you know we're lying to you, but we don't care that you know we're lying to you. Here's what happens when people of color get educated. For me it's one of the harsh realities of becoming educated. You're going to realize that there's nothing you can do about us lying to you. You're going to realize that we're going to lie to you forever. No one will believe you when you complain about us lying to you. In fact we're lying to them too, but they don't notice the lie, because we got them to believe they have it better than you because, at least they're not a person of color. We lie because we can't have you knowing about your real history or abilities. By the way we hate that movie 'Hidden Figures'. Now, you're going to get back into physics and science. Shit! Again, as people of color we've been lied to so much that most of us see it coming a hundred miles away. Again, I'm not writing after the fact. Go read the pieces I wrote before the election. Now, the rest of America is being subjected to the "the other lie". Like I said earlier, people of color have been dealing with "the other lie" since beginning of broken treaties and the promise of forty acres and a mule. Sean Spicer, the press secretary for the White House, looked into the cameras and said the inauguration audience for Trump was the most attended inauguration ever! He was lying and even though there's proof he's lying, he didn't care that he was lying. Kellyanne Conway, who is an advisor to Trump said that Spicer was using "alternative facts". It doesn't take a lot of formal education to know, alternative facts are lies! Trump stood in front of a sacred wall at the CIA Headquarters and told several lies. The most important one was that he loves and respects the CIA. He said this knowing that he has been recorded in other interviews speaking badly about the intelligence community, especially the CIA. In fact, Former CIA Director James Woolsey resigned from Donald Trump’s transition team. I'm guessing it had something to do with Trump's continual disrespectful comments aimed at the CIA. The point I'm making is, there's a reason for these type of lies and it isn't what you think. So, while we're busy pointing out these meaningless lies, the old reverse is coming. He got Hillary Clinton and her followers to concentrate on his lies. Meanwhile he ran the old reverse and caught her and her followers totally off guard. Now he's using the same formula he used while campaigning. And why shouldn't he, it worked! Back then he used lies, hatred and division to get people focusing on emotional issues. This time we're playing a lot of attention to the size of protest crowds. Okay we won the protest size war, while he signed a Planned Parenthood bill. Or, should I say the anti-Planned Parenthood bill? We have proof that former President Obama had more people at his inauguration, while Trump bans seven countries based on their religious beliefs from being able to come to America. Never mind that NONE of the people who have committed terrorist acts in America, including the 911 bombings, are from any of the banned countries! That's like the firemen showing up and spraying water on the house next door, rather than the house that's on fire. So what should we do? I don't care what your political affiliation is. In fact, I'm more disturbed you have a political affiliation. 1. The only way America is going to dig itself out of this hole is her people care more about each other, society and mankind than they do about their political affiliation. There are legislators, senators and congress people who are sitting on the fence watching our country burn. Go to your state capitol and march up and down their steps and hallways. Let them know that you see them and you hear them endorsing bad policies and bad people. Let them know that the people are going to remember and they will have to pay for their lack of action come election time. 2. Stop being victims of the slide-of-hand or reverse play. Know that if something is so out front, that it seems stupid, it probably is and something else is going on. Look for that something else and bring it to the forefront. 3. If you are a sign painter, paint signs. If you are a speaker, speak. If you are a writer, write. If you have a pocket full of money, find a cause and donate to it. Just do something other than go to a protest and listen to celebrities' senseless dribble. 4. After local protest marches, break them down to smaller meeting with real people, coming up with real solutions. 5. Go watch DVDs of the turbulent 50's & 60's protests, marches and demonstrations. Those people were bold. At the grass roots they were organized. The racists bus companies changed their policies when the money stop coming in. 6. Is your movement dedicated enough to find the most effective, but non-violent way, to make an impact? If so, do it. 7. Don't complain if you're not willing to sacrifice something. What would happen to the desire to drill for oil if people took buses or shared rides for one week per month? The need for oil and the price of gas would go down. However, the oil companies know Americans won't do such a thing. Unlike the turbulent 50's & 60's, Americans today aren't willing to be inconvenienced, no matter how important the cause. 8. White people learn facts and don't think your emotions are always a foundation of strength. People of color need you to truly care. But in some areas you must be willing to follow, rather than lead. 9. People of color learn facts and don't always think your emotions are the only foundation of strength. There are White people who truly want to help level the playing field. All White people aren't the enemy.