I haven’t had a good rant in awhile. Last year I went off on people who thought it was their mission to tell me about myself and what I should blog about. In response, I wrote Totally Gratuitous, Self-centered, Blowing-Off-Steam-On-A-Friday Post. It’s time for another one.
I turn off commenting at night because that’s when trolls do their worst damage. I usually get the errant and bored adolescent boy or someone itching to tell me off. Sometimes I don’t mind being told off, but unless the person is very skilled with words and clever in hiding intent, those posts don’t make it.
I thought twice before deleting the comments below. The first is typical of what I get from very opinionated black women or teenage girls. My guess is that this commenter is in her late teens to early 20s:
Taminka Jenkins: I would like to say that i googled and came to this site. i am totally offended by MRS. Barber’s comments ( i assume u are married).Gurl did the massa pay you to put down your own race so effectively?Since i see this is a conservative site i will assume you are another hypocritical repub…with that being said the only thing i have to say in regards to your judgemental opinion of a fellow human being is … MURDER AND A LIE ARE BOTH EQUAL IN GOD’S EYE…….if you have ever told lie which im quite sure you have you are no better than Mr.Nichols or any other person who does a heinous crime………
From what I gather, Taminka is angry because I called Brian Nichols a murdering rapist thug. I made a judgment, calling a thing what it is. She insinuates that as a Christian, I’m not supposed to judge fellow human beings. That’s always a tip-off that the writer doesn’t read the Bible with regularity. On the other, she makes a judgment, admonishing me for judging murderer Brian Nichols. But her assessment of me is good, and my assessment of Nichols is bad.
I’ve gotten several e-mails like this from blacks. Nichols gets a complete pass, but I, someone merely writing about the murderer, gets the angry rebuke. In Taminka’s opinion, I’m doing my “massa’s” bidding. By expressing my opinion. E-mails similar to this comment don’t get a response unless I’m in a sarcastic mood.
Taminka arrived on my blog through a search on Brian Nichols. I’ve gotten a lot of visitors looking for information on Nichols, but as far as I know, she’s the first to comment. I call such Googlers drive-by commenters. They land on my site, read that one post and decide I’m a Republican Negress doing Massa’s bidding, all the while preachifying to me about judging people.
This next commenter is more clever. But for the name-calling, the comment might be passable:
Mac Diva: Aiding and abetting the racists and sexists of the blogosphere as usual, eh, La Shawn? (Why aren’t I surprised?) Where is your entry referring to the white man who killed seven people during church services in Wisconsin? And, why is there no mention of the two armed male law enforcement personnel who were apparently killed by Brian Nichols in your attack on the female guard for being a woman? If two armed men were no match for him, why would an unarmed person of either gender be? I’ll answer these questions. The omissions are present because the truth does not serve your role as Uncle Tom to the blogosphere’s far Right. Nichols appears to be a serial killer, but he is no worst than others of his ilk. Your pandering to racism and misogyny proves you have no ethics.
Black liberals love going off on me! If I mention any evil-doing by a black person, I must offer a similar example of a white evil-doer, or else I hate blacks, including myself.
If you’ve never heard of Mac Diva, I’ll give you the short version. “She” is apparently a black woman who goes around the blogosphere calling white bloggers racists if they say anything critical of blacks. And I mean anything. Her fellow liberals have banned her, but she pops up again with a new alias. The ones I know of so far are JadeGold, Guy Cabot, Truth Teller, and I believe at one point she was using Akefa, an anagram for “A fake.” Her writing style is distinct, so only someone classified as an imbecile wouldn’t know it was the same person. She also uses a proxy changer of some sort, so if you ban her current IP, she returns under a different one.
I hadn’t heard much from or about her lately. She’s either toned it down or trolling under a new alias. My first encounter with this person was through a typical “Uncle Tom” comment left on my old blog. To my dismay, she’s still around and still calling me an “Uncle Tom” who’s “pandering to racism and misogyny.” I am unethical, says someone commenting on blogs under fake names and popping up again even after she’s banned. And because I care about the public’s safety and don’t want anyone, man or woman, to be overpowered and killed by a murderous thug, I am a woman-hater.
I posted these two comments just to give you an idea of the kind of people on my back. Black liberals seem to think blacks are playing into “massa’s” hands when they criticize blacks, especially black thugs. We are no longer bound with physical chains, but mental bondage is alive and well. They think they’re entitled to say whatever they want to and about me, a fellow black, but I’m supposed to clam up and/or spend my days admonishing you racist whites.
I guess this really isn’t a rant. The little anger I had has since dissipated. The act of writing tends to do that. You know what? Regardless of what I’m called or who trolls my blog, I’m going to keep writing. 
Update: A conservative blogger who’s also been harrassed by Mac Diva suspects that she is also “Taminka Jenkins.”
