"TAP DANCE YOUR WAY TO SOCIAL RIDICULE"
By Swamp Dogg

"I haven't heard from anyone. That's remarkable. I just can't believe it. No one at all called. I just look for a telegram to say:
"Hey man, look. I'm sorry. Keep a chin up." But I haven't received anything. I've been in this business for 50 years. I've helped a lot of people, started them off"
Redd Foxx (12/18/89)

"I'd tried my luck with Americans. So 1 decided to look into the European variety. European men have a different attitude to women. They're so sensitive. He comes with flowers he comes with one flower- it doesn't matter if he got it out of your front yard. He came with it."
Tina Turner (12/18/89)

They came for the communist
I did not speak up
Because I was not a communist
They came for the Jews
1 did not speak up
Because I was not Jewish
They came for the trade unionist
I did not speak up
Because I was not a trade unionist
They came for the catholics
I did not speak up
Because I was Protestant
They came for me
By this time there was no one left to
speak for me.
Pastor Martin Niemoller

Niggers and flies... the more I live around and learn about niggers, the better I like flies.
Swamp Dogg

This piece is geared directly towards Blacks... so if you're not Black, save your rhetoric for something you understand, and just appreciate why this article is as necessary to Blacks as sheets are to the Klan. Ninety percent of all Blacks will understand my anger, disgust and point of view, while the remaining ten percent will lie about it... which group are you?

We have cheated, lied, skated, cheesed and grinned and bullshitted our way through another decade without making a commit-ment to anyone, especially ourselves.

We feel comfortable now, with James Brown in prison -it's been taken off of the front pages, and the reminders are few and far between. What do we care that he is incarcer-ated? He's just a big mouth, slick haired, cocaine using farmer who rallied for and attempted to champion causes for Blacks so that all could have better jobs, homes and health care. "All he was trying to do was sell records"... that's what a lot of niggers said...think about it... if he wasn't selling records, how could he assemble these ears? You could walk out on your porch right now and start talking, and not only would you fail to draw a crowd, your family wouldn't leave the living room to listen to you... and that's because you are a nobody.

James hired hundreds of people, and as a result was responsible for the welfare of thousands. What the fuck am I talking about? Enterprises! Hotels, radio stations, fast food restaurants, laundromats, record companies, publishing companies, televi-sion production companies... and all of these were fully staffed. In addition, he employed drivers for his eighteen wheel-ers, pilots/maintenance people for his jets, musicians, arrangers, performers, and the Brown just kept on spreading.

I am not saying that anyone is above the law, but the punishment should fit the crime, and James should be in the Betty Ford clinic -not prison. James is in prison because Blacks with power like Jessie Jackson, Willie Brown, Benjamin Hooks, Vernon Jordan, Michael Jackson, Prince, Quincy Jones, etc... developed acute mute-ness. James hasn't done any worse than other geros like Elvis, who died of a drug overdose, fired his pistol in public and had a penchant for thirteen year old girl chil-dren... or Teddy Kennedy, who drove off Chapaquiddick Island, left the automobile, neglected to report the incident for hours because he was frightened, thus allowing his female companion, Mary Jo Kapechne to drown.... or Jerry Lee Lewis who has yet to be asked to substantiate the mysteries surrounding the deaths of two wives and why he is called "the killer"... or Richard Nixon, and a boat load of others.

Niggers invented inertia, nevertheless, most of you are going to show this article to every Black friend who comes around, and say: "read this nigger Swamp Dogg, he's crazy but he makes big sense... if he keeps talking like this, them white folks are going to kill him... but he's saying the truth... somebody ought to do something." Where does this somebody reside? Could it be that the somebody is you? Or are you no-moth-erfuckin' body?

I am not going to do a who's who of the Black down and outs in America, but I am going to mention Redd Foxx, who is also a victim of ignorance at the mercy of the ungrateful, being judged by the uninvolved. If it had not been for Foxx, Blacks in comedy would be history. He paved the way for niggers on television that would still be unheard of if he had not given them a chance.

This man was given two minutes to open his door by gun waving IRS agents who confiscated all he owned, including a picture of Demand Wilson from his wall and was given 30 days to pay $980,000. In the meantime, he has been paying $20,000 a week for the last four months as set by the IRS, who are also ignoring the $3 million dollars he turned over to them for payment when he liquidated his Los Angeles hold-ings.

If we don't speak up soon, we will eventually find ourselves in the position of being carted away for some flimsy reason, as illustrated in the Pastor Martin Niemoller classic poem.

They say that silence is golden, but in the 1990s, silence is going to be the source from which your black ass kicking will eminate. Speak up for the next guy because the next guy is you.

and in reference of Tina Turner, of whom I happen to be a fan, Ike may not have brought her flowers from her own garden but he and the American males are respon-sible for her success. Tina, I don't care who you choose for your mate, but it's very inconsiderate of you to put down the entire American male population because you have an obsessive reverence for roses.

-Swamp Dogg

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