Don't buy anything for X-mas

I got a look at an insane video featuring a couple of undercover cops keeping everybody at the mall in check with some pretty intense gut shots and a lot of wrestling. Dallas Penn posted the video with comments more insightful than what I can come up with but I agree wholeheartedly with his point.

X-mas is bullshit and there is no need for you to support businesses, the SLAVE diamond industry or buy any kind of garbage you don't need during this time of year simply because TELEVISION TELLS YOU SO.



This horrible time of year always gets me thinking about our stupid Plaza Lights Tradition which is really nothing more than a nice civic get together promoting the notion that you need to spend a decent portion of your income during the holiday season . . . It (the Plaza and most of the local holiday cheer) is just greed at the behest of a company which helped to create the legacy of segregation that still haunts this city.

J.C. Nichols was instrumental in providing an example for creation of planned neighborhoods all over the nation, thus the racial covenants he helped create were copied by many cities in the United States. In the Kansas City Metropolitan area, Nicholes helped structure these covenants to exclude the sale of the property to African Americans, Jews, and other ethnic "undesirables." Subsequently, these covenants "ran with the land." Some covenants restricted ownership by African Americans, Jews, etc. Others, especially those in Johnson County, Kansas, were even more restrictive. These used the so called "one-drop" rule or anyone who had 1/4 blood of "Semitic races." The language also targeted Armenians, Turks, and a host of Middle Eastern ethnic groups.

So, I just don't get it . . . I understand that all of the holiday cheer is intended to help sell things and benefit those who got rich by exploiting people in this town but what I don't understand is why people buy into it with few if any questions.