THE BRIDGE:
The Black Top Ten


By Darryl James

No, this isn't about sports, although I do talk about a former football player. It is about my very own top ten things of any variety. It seems almost everyone and his or her mother has a top ten list, so I decided to create my own. I'll do these on a variety of subjects.

After my column on House Niggers, I got a plethora of requests to name more names and even got some names named for me. Now, just in case that column didn't make some of you living in the big house mad enough, here's my very own top ten list of House Niggers:

Top Ten House Niggers

1. Alan Keyes. This monkey will buckdance and shine for any white man, anywhere, at any time. It is his delight to stand against the best and brightest Black men, just to make Massah happy. He heard his boss call him to run against that uppity Negro Barack Obama, and ol' shine Alan answered the call. "Shakin' it ovah heah, boss!"

2. 97% of today's Black comedians, as well as Mr. "God Bless" himself, Russell Simmons, selling his Death Comedy Scam (it's not funny when its hurting us and killing our image). He's pure comedy in a not-so-funny kinda way.

3. 89% of today's rappers. Especially the motherless children who love to use the word "Nigger," as though they are doing something revolutionary. Richard Pryor tried to desensitize the word in his comedy thirty years ago, it didn't work and he said so. Nigger is not a revolution, and you look like a fool in your video with all that rented gold. (Don't get their program confused with my naming of House Niggers. They refer to all of us, while I am referring to those who hurt us. The word is ugly and I use it as such.)

4. Clarence Thomas. This jolly old contradictory soul (see his evil twin at #5) has been on the supreme court bustin' up chiffarobes and civil rights so well that he could end up being the Chief Boot Licker, as well as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Lawdy!

5. Ward Connerly. He and his pahtnah in de house Clarence benefited from Affirmative Action, and now that they got theirs, they will do everything in their power to make sure no more of us uppity Negroes get in.

6. Larry Elder/Armstrong Williams-they are the same person. We need a golden calculator to count the number of boots licked by the wagging tongues of these hateful House Niggers.

7. Dr. Condoleeza Rice. Lawd this heah gal got Massah so happy dat lil' retarded Georgie rubs her head fo' good luck and pushes her out on the world stage to tell his lies for him. "Don't y'all call my massah no liar!" Good Darkie! My heart is heavy for the wasted knowledge from one of our most intelligent sisters.

8. O J Simpson. Damn, don't you kinda wish they HAD convicted him?

9. Boot licking lackeys of the Black persuasion who espouse "American" values while claiming to be Christian. If you were a real Christian, you would know that a nation of the American ilk has no consistent values. This is not a monolithic nation and how Christian is it to think that other nations want less than Americans, or are less moral people? How Christian is it to look down on other Blacks based on some moral compass that always seems to point to the butts you like to kiss? What would Jesus do? He wouldn't be hating on other nations or his own people!

10. You. (YOU know who YOU are), especially if you think that I care about you being angry that I wrote this. Your mean, evil, nasty emails get deleted as soon as I smell the stink of bad thinking that oozed out of your puny little brain. I don't have time to read them because so many of my brothers and sisters are still awake and we have things to discuss. And why do you have so much time to email me anyway? Don't you have boots to lick, people to possess and souls to steal?

This may surprise some, but in my estimation, Bill Cosby is not a House Nigger. He was frustrated and spoke out of turn. I disagree with much of what he said and all of the ways in which he said it, but I believe that he is still in love with Black people.

Also, just because Kobe likes white women and was stupid enough to get caught up with an off duty hooker doesn't mean that he's a House Nigger. He's an embarrassment, but there is a difference between being a complete idiot and a sellout. The young village idiot endangered himself, not all Black people, plus, he still runs and jumps for you, so stop it. Now that he has been nearly "OJ-ed" at such a young age, let's give him the chance to straighten it out.

Of course, there are many others in the house, but these are the ones who come to the mind primarily, because they self-hate the most. I'm certain you can add to the list on your own.

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Darryl James launched the only Black owned rap music publication, Rap Sheet in 1992. He is the author of "Bridging The Black Gender Gap," which is also the basis of a national seminar series. James was awarded the 2004 Non-fiction Award for his book on the Los Angeles Riots at the Seventh Annual Black History Month Book Fair and Conference in Chicago. He can be reached at djames@TheBlackGenderGap.com.