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I sent a message to my friend Floridarob to write a report. He is there now and has been there, I don't know at least 25+ times including 4 times this year. He has more experience with hustlers there then I do in Brazil! I will be seeing him next Monday in Mexico which might be the soonest we get a report.

The author had what looks to be a fantastic piece in the NYTimes digital a couple weeks ago. I say "Looks to be" because every time I start reading it I decide I need to choose a time to give it 100% attention, so I stop. Stupid world we live in, I can't even carve out time to read this fucking essay.

This sums it up very well "Such imbeciles do not want ideas—that is, new ideas, ideas that are unfamiliar, ideas that challenge their attention. What they want is simply a gaudy series of platitudes, of sonorous nonsense driven home with gestures. As I say, they can’t understand many words of more than two syllables, but that is not saying that they do not esteem such words. On the contrary, they like them and demand them. The roll of incomprehensible polysyllables enchants them. They like phrases which thunder like salvos of artillery. Let that thunder sound, and they take all the rest on trust. If a sentence begins furiously and then peters out into fatuity, they are still satisfied. If a phrase has a punch in it, they do not ask that it also have a meaning. If a word slips off the tongue like a ship going down the ways, they are content and applaud it and wait for the next" The thing is-it was written by H.L Menken in March of 1921 upon the inauguration of Warren Harding I am re-reading Gore Vidal's Hollywood. Which is about this period of time in the US and it is pretty amazing how history is repeating itself. The repub's foist off a candidate that no one seriously considered-with the full intent by party bosses that he will simply be a front-man while they control things in the back ground. Harding obliges them in a way which Modern day bosses only dream of-he dies! Calvin Coolidge is then ushered in (VP assumes duties) and then Herbert Hoover. And in August 1929,eight months after Hoover takes office, after nearly a decade of Republican shenanigans (lots of free market BS etc) The Markets crashed and the world was plunged into The Great Depression. I sincerely hope that Orange and his cronies fuck it up so badly in the first few years that we do not have to stretch this out for 9 years and 8 months only to be faced with another global Depression. And then Mencken wrote "“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary…As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

If you like GV Read United States, his collection of Essays. Once finished keep it within easy reach, because you'll return to it often. https://www.amazon.com/United-States-1952-1992-Gore-Vidal/dp/0679414894

Actually before I opt out...I might as well discuss this topic. Might as well Kill 2 issue in 1 thread. Its actually pretty imaginable. I think it's more unimaginable than even I can imagine. Because ignorance is bliss. Awhile ago, a client referred me to check out a working lady's website and get in touch with her to help with my marketing (though it's a work in progress, my marketing has got me by for the last 6-7 years. Maybe not the best, but considering that I'm usually the only 1 or 2 consistent advertising black escort in most markets...it's got to say something). Anyhow, after having reviewed her website...I figured I'd contact her because she's local. However, one could only book thru email. Just as I was about to message, I seen in her ad that she DOES NOT SEE: Black, Middle Eastern, or Indian men. Granted she may have only been referring to clients and it's fairly common to see that in female escort ads...nevertheless, I declined to reach out to her. Hell, I could have been Shemar Moore or Idris Elba or Ben Carson for all she knows. I'm curious as to what kind of message does that send to White clients? Unless she gets too many offers of watching her do a Black guy...which seems to be a popular fetish of choice in the south. That's just one example of exclusion. Imagine how much more are lurking out there. And one can't compare it to anyone else. Especially in the gay world. Go to any gay bar that has big screen TVs of sexy photos of dudes or even porn playing. They'll show 20 pictures of a white guy for every 1 picture of a person of color. I think even Asians have an easier entry point than Black guys in the gay community: The San Diego to San Francisco markets are inundated with Asians looking for White arm candy. Ive been to California 5-6 times and have yet to be hired by an Asian...who makes up a large portion of California's population. I've seen White, Latin and Asian models on Andrew Christian's underwear line, but not sure I've seen any Black guys. That's why I harbored some resentment with Ray D, whom I respected him as an porn actor/entertainer, and whom is into Black men. He couldnt feel the empathy of the differences therein exist. Most guys just have no idea the things we notice and have to contend with. Why are we excluded? They'll just say, "get over it", or my all time favorite invented circa Treyvon Martin: "stop playing the victim". as if that's supposed to make it all better and go away. Earlier this year I had a white guy friend of mine say how snubbed he felt being the only white guy among the patrons at an Atlanta bathhouse. Whether it was just in his head or not, I just laughed, HA...now YOU see how I felt living in Denver all those years.

Guys, this is all gotten to be too much. Its becoming a scandal of exorbitant proportions. The stuff being said is appalling. Mental illness requires a diagnosis from a licensed practitioner, and I don't know who's qualified to make such claims. My recommendation is for us to all come together and pray, let go of resentment, think about the liberties we have, and how far we've come. There's a far darker world out there than the issues of the forum(s). For anyone feeling resentment, I'll advise what I do when I feel things are getting too much: turn it off. There's a power button. It all goes away. I can search 100 miles in every direction and never see anyone from the forum. Personally, and this is just for me and my sanity: I eventually want to relinquish participating and lurking in such message boards in the next 9 months. For personal reasons. The things I'm going thu with the business tends to make the forums an attractive option to discuss topics. Almost always, I end up regretting it. I'm finding it better to just directly speak to the client regarding any issues I have. I know I'm getting off topic here. So in the words of Mark Cuban, "I'm Out."

"Actually, not entirely unimaginable. More than once, when I was with black and brown friends in Harlem or Inwood or Washington Heights, and we were out on the street making noise late at night, a cop came up to us and told us to take our party inside the house. It was obvious that the presence of my little white ass as participant -- and credible witness in court -- was the thing that stopped the cop and his partner from doing a stop-and-frisk, or more." Adam Smith But don't you see, Adam, that having the white ass necessary to save minority friends just can't continue. Minorities need to be given their rights and not have to rely on white asses to come to their rescue. I know you have done lots of good working with poor youth both black and brown to keep them in school and off of drugs, but the white man is not the savior. Step aside, and you will find these folks standing up for themselves. At least that's the way it should be.

Every escort of every race I've ever known has had to find some way to deal with those troubles. Asian guys face their own subtle, unique versions of racism when escorting in America. What you and Jamahl, as black men in America, have to deal with is just unimaginable to me. Actually, not entirely unimaginable. More than once, when I was with black and brown friends in Harlem or Inwood or Washington Heights, and we were out on the street making noise late at night, a cop came up to us and told us to take our party inside the house. It was obvious that the presence of my little white ass as participant -- and credible witness in court -- was the thing that stopped the cop and his partner from doing a stop-and-frisk, or more.