#CrimingWhileWhite # "Dear White People I'm Tired "

Remember how law enforcement officials cut and ran when confronted by an armed posse when Bundy refused to pay his taxes?

Remember all the tanks & tear gas & choke holds used at the Bundy Ranch standoff? Me neither. pic.twitter.com/Dxcjw9RJWR
— TheKitchenWitch (@kitchenwitch62) December 4, 2014

Compare and contrast law enforcement officials reaction to American's protesting killing unarmed black people.

223 arrested as protesters and police clash in New York City: http://t.co/H9iN41JsTp pic.twitter.com/oG1NNI6Hug
— ABC News (@ABC) December 5, 2014

Dear White People:  I'm tired

I direct this specifically at white privilege. It wraps you in arrogance and blinds you to how utterly un-inclusive the world you’ve made around you really is. People of color literally fear for their lives around a white person and a gun and we have good reason, especially when we’re unarmed. White people I am tired that you sometimes fail to live in reality. That you continuously prop yourself up and hold the moral high ground as long as you’re better off materially than another group of people. All social markers of superiority and success are in your favor and equality threatens that superiority.

Maybe if there weren't so many guns on the streets Cops wouldn't be afraid they weren't going to get to go home to their family at night.

I'm just saying....

Cliven Bundy

By now, we've all seen the video, perhaps, over and over again, approaching ad nauseum.

I had been collecting links and information about this subliminal man.

Then, I decided there were more important issues than this racists's opinions, and in a few days, they revealed themselves to be what Cliven Bundy is: a shill for the far right, militant anarchists extremists. After all, Bundy acknowledged his belief when he said that he didn't believe in the federal government.

As soon as I heard it, I thought it was a stupid thing to say.

I figure the IRS will help Mr. Bundy acknowledge the Federal Government. See, if he doesn't believe in the Federal Government, it's likely that he has some back taxes due, in addition to his back grazing fees, for a couple of decades. Just sayin'.

The fines are a result of Bundy grazing his 900 cattle on 600,000 acres of bureau-managed public lands since 1993 without a permit. He’s ignored his fees, fines, permits and multiple court orders.

Plenty of other ranchers pay their grazing fees; in fact, the Bureau of Land Management issues 18,000 permits for grazing on 160 million acres of public lands. The U.S. Forest Service allows grazing on an additional 81 million acres of public lands.

Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze was right when he said, “Mr. Bundy owes the American taxpayers in excess of $1 million.” Public lands belong to the American public. Regardless of his convoluted read of the Nevada Constitution, Bundy owes all of us that tidy sum. And he should us owe much, much more.