Showing posts with label SNCC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SNCC. Show all posts

SNCC Benefit Speech at My Parent's Home in Los Gatos, CA - In the Sixties, They Raised Funds to Pay for Freedom Riders in the South. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

I Remember That We Had a Black Man Talk. My Folks PACKED The House With People and Took Donations. 

In General, The Civil Rights Movement was Successful. President Lyndon Johnson Signed Laws That Allowed Black People to Vote and Live in White Neighborhoods. My Parents Helped!

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/johnson-signs-civil-rights-act

Years Later I Bought a Condo in a Black Neighborhood near Washington DC. There was a DEEP DISCOUNT if You Chose a Black Neighborhood. The Same Condo in Virginia cost $39,000 but in Beautiful Oxon Hill, Maryland the Price was $26,000. It Turns Out That the Peter, Paul and Mary Lyric is Accurate. "They Say that Property Values Will Go Right Down if The Family Next Door is Blue." --- I Selected the Discount. Because I Don't Care What Color My Neighbors Are. at Least I'm Not Going to PAY EXTRA For White Neighbors... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SywxNX6u_s

Of Course, Racism is Accurate... You CAN Predict Peoples Behavior by Looking at Skin Color. FOR EXAMPLE: Black Men are Better at Playing Basketball. It Would Be Absurd to Have Affirmative Action in the NBA... Help for Short People So They Could Compete with Tall People... Help for Slow Runners Who Can't Jump... So We Would Have a "Fair" Balance of Players... BUT... We Don't Do That... Because Affirmative Action is [REDACTED - FACEBOOK COMMUNITY STANDARDS] 

White Man are Better at Walking on the Moon... White Men Are Better at Being President of the United States... White Men are Better at Inventing Machines... After All, Apple and Microsoft and Google and Facebook and IBM and Oracle are All Built by White Men... 

In the Department of Defense, Affirmative Action is TOTALLY IGNORED in Jobs That are IMPORTANT... My First Ex-Wife Worked at The National Security Agency. The ONLY Thing They Considered Was Quality of the Applicant When They Were Hiring. They Were Totally Colorblind... AND They Were Gay Friendly because Gay People are FAMOUS for Being Excellent at Computer Science. But You Had to Be "Out of the Closet!" - People That Tried to Hide their Homosexuality were Rejected for being a Blackmail Risk. And Marijuana Smokers Were Tolerated as Long as You Told the Truth About Your Drug Use History. LIARS were Not Welcome... 

If You Investigate CRIME Patters By Location in the FBI Database... You Will Find that Murders Happen More Frequently in Black Neighborhoods... There are Many REASONS Why this is True but NO ONE Disputes That It IS TRUE... That Condo I Bought was about Three Miles from "Southeast DC" - at One time the Murder Capitol of America. It was in Competition with "East Palo Alto, CA" and "The South Side of Chicago." - Remember the Song Bad Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwPRm5UMe1A

Barack Obama worked as a Community Organizer on the South Side of Chicago... No Need For a Community Organizer on Lakeshore Drive... I Read Obama's Biography and It's Great! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88061.Dreams_from_My_Father

He had a White Mother and a Black Father Who Moved to Africa when Obama was a Child. Obama was Raised By Two White Grandparents and His Mom. In Hawaii he was Exposed to Japanese Culture and Native Hawaiian Culture. He Also Lived With His Mother's Second Husband In Indonesia... 

So... In the Age Old Question of "Nature vs Nurture" ---

Genetically, Obama was 50-50 Black and White. But CULTURALLY He Had No Contact With Black People. He Was Raise With Mostly White Values... 

I Had a Question While Reading That Book... WHO PAID OBAMA TO ORGANIZE THAT COMMUNITY? 

When you stop to THINK About It... Who Benefits? For Example: I Would Pay a Person to Install a New Roof on my House... and I Would Pay a Person to Calculate my Income Taxes... and I Would Pay a Person to Unclog the Kitchen Sink... 

But I Would Never Pay Someone to ORGANIZE A COMMUNITY! What Does That Job ACTUALLY DO? 

After a Lot of Internet Research I Found the Answer. The Catholic Church... They Paid His Salary and The Rent on the Office... It's a Part of The MISSION STATEMENT of the Church to Help the Poor... Just Like Buying Desks for School Children in Africa... or Buying Food and Medicine for Poor People in Central America... THAT'S WHAT THEY DO!


Obama - Biden - Hillary - in the war room on the Day Osama bin Laden was Killed.
Obama - Biden - Hillary - in the war room on the Day
Osama bin Laden was Killed

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-side-effect-of-joe-bidens-1994-crime.html

A Side Effect of Joe Biden's 1994 Crime Bill That Caused Mass Incarceration of Black Men is... Eugenics... Genocide... REALLY!

Millions of Incarcerated Black Men Did Not Father Children. Causing a Great Whitening of The Population because Black Genes Were Locked UP.  

Women Selected White Men to Father Their Children BY DEFAULT. The Men Available are Mostly White, Hispanic, Oriental etc etc etc... This is an Example of GENOCIDE... Years ago it was Called Eugenics... Whatever... White Genes were passed on to the Next Generation While Black Genes Were Prevented...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/great-book-americas-bogus-wars-since.html

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS [Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The Country, Not Even Once]

Ever since VJ Day (Victory in Japan), All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex. One time there was a Need to Defend the Country and The Military Failed Completely. Civilians took down the Airplane in Pennsylvania on 9/11/2001. 


Read a Book - My Favorites MEME - a part of the gvan42 FREE COLORING BOOK - Print this art and Color using Felt Pens - Gregory Vanderlaan
Read a Book - My Favorites


Often The USA chooses sides in Someone Else's Civil War, Gets Real Excited about Fighting Communism (or whatEVER) and then We Get Bored, Retreat, Lose and the Total Effect is ZERO. 

https://purple64ets.wordpress.com/2021/03/07/sncc-benefit-speech-at-my-parents-home-in-los-gatos-ca/

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Once I took an LSD trip at UC Santa Cruz and when I was walking thru the music department I noticed a small practice room that was half filled with balloons.

 I asked a student what it was and he said it was for dancing in. So I went in and danced. The balloons bounced around and filled the room... Just another goofy thing hippies made for silly amusement. That trip started early in the morning when a student named "Organic" Kim and I each ate two small brown squares of gelatin called 4 way windowpane. The reason It was called 4 way windowpane ws that if you cut the drug into 4 pieces then 4 people could take a trip. So we ate enough for eight people. We were walking down a trail and came to an intersection of another trail and we sat down. He was upset because he thought that I was mocking him by repeating what he said in a silly voice... I didn't understand what he was feeling and when accused, I said: "Mocking you?" and that accidentally confirmed exactly what he was feeling... so we agreed to turn and follow different paths... we were at a CROSSROADS of the paths and we were at a CROSSROADS of our trip. I never saw him again except I heard him while he was taking a shower in the apartment and he was screaming... I don't know why but it could be the water was too high a temperature or it could be that he was just having a bad trip... Much later I got on the student bus that went across campus and asked the driver to let me off at "The Maze" and the other passengers made fun of me because my tone of voice sounded so stoned... Like, wow, man... the MAZE... Can You drop me off at, likke, THE MAZE? FYI: The Maze was a wooden maze constructed out of plywood sheets and I'm really glad I never FOUND the maze because it would be Hell to be stoned on Acid and Lost in a maze...

Other classmates of mine from High School attended UCSC and I wanted to also but my grades were not good enough to get into the University of California. So I went to Chico State instead. During the Senior year at Los Gatos High School our math teacher had us all join the math club and all members were called "The President" and got a certificate... That way when students were applying to Ivy League Schools, they could put down on their application thet they were "The President of the Math Club"... It was an introduction to "Gaming the System"... a concept that we would all use later in life... I remember Gaming the System when I was writing my website and wanted the Google search engine to make my website popular... I uploaded every tag and keyword from every blog post into a blog post that had a menu of my most popular posts. That way, whenever a person typed anything that had those keywords into the Google search engine, my blog post would appear as a result. That trick got me about a thousand visitors a day... I was Gaming the System and doing what they call SEO, Search Engine Optimization.

Read more of my autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html 

Rainbow Infinity Sign in the Redwood Forest - by gvan42
Rainbow Infinity Sign in the Redwood Forest - by gvan42

My Experience With Smoking Marijuana was that I Stayed High for ONE MONTH after Smoking a Pound of Oregon Legal over an Eight month period. Then I Quit entirely because I Wanted to Go on a Driving Vacation in California and Nevada where Weed is Illegal... and I Remembered to NOT Possess Illegal Drugs in My Van While Touring... I Meet a Lot of COPS while Sleeping in the Van... and then I went to the Hospital for an Infected Blister on my Foot and they Tested My Blood for THC... and I Still Tested Positive a MONTH Later! AmaZING!
During that Month I Experienced Events That Did Not Happen... It's Called Cannabis Psychosis... and It's Interesting!

Marijuana Tourism - my trip to Washington State, The Space Needle, The Experience Music Pavilion and then Oregon. As legalization spread across the USA I wanted to experience LEGAL weed as soon as possible. When I retired from work I did a lot of driving around sleeping in the back of my VAN... I was like a turtle with my home on my back. First I drove to Utah with my friend Mike Jensen to attend the Rainbow Gathering... After we were done with that I took a drive to Washington State to experience the Legal Weed. On the first visit I was unable to find any... I asked some local kids and asked for directions but there were very few stores and they were often closed... On the Second Trip I picked up a hitchhiker who had some hash oil and he gave me some as a thank you gift for picking him up in the rain... Later I decided to go home and attend the Kinetic Sculpture Race at home but... and this is a big but... I smoked some hash oil... then I got onto Highway #5 and I accidentally put the van into gear #2 and turned on the radio... When I hit 70 miles per hour the transmission exploded and then the engine caught fire... OOPS! I pulled over to the side of the freeway and said the Serenity prayer... I walked down the freeway and over to a Lumber Mill. The security guard called me a tow truck and I was towed to a motel... I had the van towed to an auto repair place where they said it would cost $8,000 to repair my Ford Windstar. I paid $3,000 to buy it used so I decided it was Uneconomical to repair... Eventually I gave it to the Humane Society as a donation to help animals. I did not allow this disaster to interfere with my vacation. I rode the AMTRAK to Seattle, Bought and ate TWO Marijuana Cookies, drank some of that rocket fuel coffee and rode the Monorail to the Space Needle and the Jimi Hendrix Experience Music Pavilion. (also a Nirvana Museum) Both musicians lived near Seattle. They had a musical instrument for tourists to play... It was 20 Tubular Bells that random people could whack with pool balls hung from a wire. VERY popular with children. I loved it too. Then I rode the Monorail to downtown Seattle Business District and arrived at Quitting Time on a Sunny Friday afternoon. The first big weekend of Spring. I was impressed with the JOY of the office workers and the BEAUTY of the Secretaries. One effect of a heavy Cannabis Dose is that it makes women appear more beautiful... I really had to piss and was in the center of the city with no public bathrooms... so I peed my pants... I didn't care. I stayed at motels for a few weeks and walked, rode the train, rode the bus and taxi and eventually got home. Quite a tricky walkabout. I enjoyed the friendship of kids in Centrailia, Washington... Great People! Then I bought another Van for $3,000... I wanted to not only experience LEGAL WEED but I wanted to Vote with my Money and reward Washington State politicians who voted for Legal weed. The next year Oregon legalized Marijuana, Then Nevada and California... Soon... the entire USA.

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My Parents had a SNCC fundraiser at our house during the 1960s. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

 A Black Man gave a speech about The Civil Rights Movement and we sold admission tickets. Many people attended and the house was packed. In general, my parents were opposed to racism. Los Gatos had VERY few Black people but Many Mexican Americans and Orientals.

I remember watching the Television News. Black and White films of The MOON Landing and The  Police Riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968. "The Whole World is Watching" chanted the Anti-War Protesters... Television was a new invention and bringing news films into the living rooms of America helped end the Vietnam War. The Moon Landing was kind of dissapointing as the film was grainy and dark... What a whiner I am...

I also enjoyed Rowan and Martin's Laugh In and That Was The Week That Was (a satire of the news).

Read more of my Autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html
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