Batmama's Northpoint Notes #18
May 17th, 2026
My commentary from earlier in the week grabbed praise and conversation, the aim, here in my dorm. That was cool and brought starvation for feedback satiation. I can only be as good as others let or make me be I realize more all the time.
My buddy Tank (SO prison you can smell the sweat, blood, and other man-fluids, huh) perused another essay after a wing-pacing convo (I do that incessantly) it was relevant to. He dug the translated-to-plain-folks from Academia thing I did from Finals and urged I repeat it with another. His pick is my favorite of the Essays set. I sent the native version to someone behind the scenes at a college besides mine, actually. Turns out she passed it to others which became maybe my most gratifying moment from prison-college yet. I put a lot of things in it I wanted to verbalize, a couple I've already ranted about here, but other trappings tossed on like ripe cherry tomatoes and warm vinaigrette over Top ramen noodles fried in a used microwave popcorn bag. Dig it.
Race is legit from evidence obtained professionally, not to mention statistically. The ebbs and flows ascribe no superiority to a particular family. Any notion that melanin distribution is our lone difference is disturbing on its face. Complaining and whining in the 21st century nonstop by this facet of everything gets cultivated by those obsessed with it regardless of stripe and their choke-hold on progress.
Exiting a Massage Therapist from Lexington Healing Arts Academy in 2004, I had two jobs during nine years in this field with large Black clienteles. Talking to peers of the two main races we discussed differences in Caucasians and clients of color: tissue and bone density related to pressure resistance, depth noticeably of muscle striations, and pain tolerance of patients to the Chiropractors and other doctors we served, trace-less of Ethnocentrism or any other subjective outlook: this is science which is objective. Human bodies were for our discipline and celebration. This need not be ignored but researched and explored. Somebody nervous about their personal unspectacular nature or terrified their lack of any Black connectivity might show so they overcompensate might verbalize a fear of this being misused to assume some lower intellectual function of Blacks a'la Eugenics due to higher physical prowess. Examining other sources blows such baloney plumb to bits.
In his 2018 book Hate Crime Hoax, Historically Black, Northpoint-servicing Kentucky State University's Political Science Professor Wilfred Reilly demonstrates higher illiteracy rates for Whites than their Black cousins. Too, he points to Census details including Whites being third in the US for personal wealth and success, ergo "White Privilege" is crap, so quit apologizing for breathing all you attention-starved Honkey traitors without a single chum-of-color. This well-paid African-American from an established Black college charts the rampant success of Nigerian and Egyptian immigrants taking advantage of programs designed for US African derived natives, challenging the notion that black skin hinders upward class mobility. See? The image is a mosaic, not a monochromatic painting.
You could say I'm from the set described in my opener because I've published several essays and articles on the matter for my personal website (you're soaking in it, Doll). Two wellsprings provide this situation. First is an Historically Black College, Simmons, I'm gaining a Sociology degree from. From the Associate's I achieved Valedictorian status without a mention at the service. Two Black dudes, one spoke, the other praised for minutes, received acknowledgement. I had my BFF drive two hours to witness my snubbing to our mutual disgust. I'm a minority, Ill mention, being queer. Not a "card" player, barely ever suffering discrimination after being out for 40 years. Empowerment is my value, and I detest the vogue of modern self-victimization.
Second, I'm an inmate. I live in a diversity bio-spherical social experiment Afrocentrics and White Armchair Activists likely would hate what with it being REAL and they couldn't control other peoples conversations. I sleep beside, have regular coffee and counsel with a Black Muslim legal aide whose own professional correspondence he trusts me to write. Mutual respect is intrinsic to our relationship. I don't have a token Black friend but loving support and friendships from our community of color I talk to like this here in this place without getting my ass kicked - real talk. I'm also unashamedly immersed in my White family here.
Astride me too sleeps an Appalachian who sold meth to feed the kids. We have Caucasian connection minus shame like Blacks and Mexicans. No reason for remorse. It works unlike the disturbingly dysfunctional anti-progressive values of Politically Correct America and multiple inorganic TV and movie relations you can smell the bogus rising from. We've got friends of all types including sex offenders. Content of daily character, interests, longevity, and sometimes politics draft relationships.
Myself I have a loving supportive partner who 2 years ago was a gang affiliated Nazi. Now he walks this yard beside me demonstrating his devotion to the amazement of those who knew him "when". Growth doesn't happen in echo chambers and vacuums, but in societies where freedom of thought and expression are encouraged. From there genuine satisfaction, even bliss, gets achieved.
What I've gleaned from the melded experiences of Simmons and Northpoint is the truth about segregation. I believe Brown vs. BOE was a screw-up. Zora Neale Hurston and other 1940s to '50s Black Conservatives were straight in their isolationist credos. Community money staying unto itself, Black education in it's own context, and I truly believe the lost and mourned African identity would not have evaporated into the majority which is exactly what those folks predicted and masses have kvetched about.
In my house, inmates in the dorms are best contented with their families in clusters. The vastest bodies agree without indictment of either. Blacks enjoy living with their own comfortably. Whites do too through norms. This shouldn't be apologetic. When Internal Affairs enacted "Racial Balancing" the flow got disrupted. We both and all hate this meddlesome practice. On our bullpens, it's typical we'll see mixed groups enjoying each other in sports, conversation, games, and exercise. Inmates at Northpoint live uninhibited diversity without pretense except some race traitors of all types. Most everybody distrusts and disrespects them. They're posers and dis-ingenuity reeks to high Heaven here.
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In my house, the inmates in the dorms are best contented with their families in clusters. The vastest bodies agree without indictment of either. Blacks enjoy living with their own comfortably. Whites do too through norms. This shouldn't be apologetic. When Internal Affairs committed "Racial Balancing" our flow got disrupted. We both and all hate this meddlesome practice. On our bullpens, it's typical we see mixed groups enjoying each other in sports, conversation, games, and exercise. Inmates at Northpoint live uninhibited diversity lacking pretense.
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The Clark doll experiment was a gaffe, also. The toys used to provide evidence of low self-image in Black children I'm certain showed Whites and Blacks with disproportionate desirability. I guarantee the Black dolls didn't sport colorful headdresses and dashikis. Kids don't understand the benefit of passing time. They need adults who do like the Clarks, being successful Black sociologists who evidenced this. Children's emotions should never dictate broad-scale policy with so much at stake for humanity.
Conclaves like Little Italy and Chinatown (populated by former slaves) could have been analogies for Blacks instead of ghettos built by greedy politicos seeking to exploit them in a system of poverty providing a pittance to support unlimited numbers of fatherless children. We have mounds of human paychecks from all races thanks to this voter seduction method. Too many studies show the potency of the at-home Black dad and the success of that nuclear family. Again, this was also done to impoverished Whites whose illegitimacy rates have escalated, and incubated class struggle. Poverty is our colorblind issue. Education is the solution, period.
Sociology - "the study and classification of human societies" - edovo app dictionary. I entered my program to become a Sociologist. I'm 3 years in weathering fatigue. With a semester ahead of 2 classes discussing Black America as I have in over half my overall courses now. I'd love to examine deeper the overly tolerant behaviors of Holland, executions of Muslims in China, some Europeans viewing leftovers as inedible garbage with us ugly Americans unfit for eating it, but we stay stuck in this fake victim loop that blocks education. KY State, the other HBCU whose curriculum I've checked out offers a robust and hearty education for the world beyond that gate.
Someday, I want to teach inmates with a Journalism Master's. I find it unhealthy and disturbing for anybody in education to tell a convict that colonialism might make them inculpable for their situation, prisons are obsolete mechanisms that support systemic racism (particularly while its simultaneously providing them with a gratis education and the generous free time to explore it), divide many from the first genuine White friends they ever had, and one essay suggests stealing from White businesses is acceptable as Slavery Reparations. This, to me, is colossally irresponsible given our demographics. Large migrations from Simmons to Kentucky State communicates convicts might be wiser than such, looking for new venues in their lives instead of excuses.
Classes about great successes Africans brought to the Western world in myriad fields after they got shamefully traded for tobacco, meds, and spices showing America's gain and the Dark Continental loss might empower these disenfranchised Human Paychecks instead of inciting disinterest. I threw this up to an inmate of color going through but not enjoying Simmons who'd never considered the joys he experienced from ancestral bonds of slavery. The truth is none of us would including me. I'd lose a healthy percentage of my friends plus the music, food, and cultural elements that illuminate my world. I told him I love cultural appropriation. America is our bond, and we share the bounty. He looked into my eyes, smiled, and said "Batman when you gonna teach at Simmons College?" I'll be available by 2031.
Last item: I'm halfway through Chuck season one and the biggest takeaway? What a major failure the Wonder Woman movies were. Seriously. Watch an episode with Yvonne Strohovski doing impressively choreographed violence with real-time kinetics and not slow-mo, her POV emo. Its infinitely more enjoyable, and this is a lifelong Di fan talking. Gal ain't the issue. Jizzing all over Jenkins because it's a lady director helming the icon of FEMALE ACTION, they starved the basics.
Every guy I table agrees - what's more memorable, not to mention re-watchable: the two Wondie joints or "Kill Bill" Vols. I - II? No contest, and each female-driven fight is etched into our brains. Diana vs. Dr. Cheetah should've been THE cat-fight to end 'em all. Forgettable. Shot in the dark, and so boring most wanted it over so the movie could wrap. Stop congratulating those movies. They failed.
Dear Mr. Gunn, please make the next version COOL and fuck nonstop serious and officious. The only people who need that to be the soul of the movie don't love comics. Give us lovers our love letter.
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Love,
WonderMama