Special Guest Referee: "Blind" Principal Snyder. The new guy has to buy a ticket with the rest of the proles.
Over at why-oh-why-did-I-hit-that-link? FrontPageMag, Racial Myths and Realities:
Throughout the 1990’s, both conservatives and liberals worried about the large divide between blacks and whites over issues like the Crown Heights riots, The Los Angeles riots, the O.J. Simpson verdict, Louis Farrakhan’s “Million Man March”, affirmative action, hate crime legislation, choice of political parties and many other topics.
No, that's not the myth bit yet. There really are only two groups, "conservatives and liberals," and everyone lined up for their team on all the issues mentioned above. Except by-God individual and iconoclast Black conservatives, who had the correct (read: white) perspective on them.
Well, and some white trash who supported O.J. Who was the onliest person ever to escape conviction for a crime he'd obviously committed. Just him. No one else. Ever.
Mind you, if he does have carte blanche to kill dumb white bitches, I can think of a few more could use culling.
Go, Juice, Go!
I mentioned the foul mood earlier, yes?
The recent emergence of issues such as racial profiling and “reparations” [Hello Sneer Quotes, my old friend, I've come to write with you again] for slavery indicates that this divide is as wide as ever.
Because, again, we've all chosen sides based on racial identity.
A fight!
A fight!
A nigga and a white!
If the nigga don't win,
Then we all jump in!
So tired of this shit.
After a few more sweeping overgeneralizations, the article settles down to identify the myths, which are:
- Japanese-Americans were put in internment camps during World War II while Italian-Americans and German-Americans were not
- American slavery (white-on-black) is uniquely wicked in world history
- Lynching was another racist American institution that viscous whites inflicted upon innocent blacks
To construct a straw-man argument against the overwhelming factual evidence in the article, I've omitted it. And obviously, you couldn't hit the link up there and read it for yourself. Shameful, the rhetorical strategies employed by. . . hang on, you could click the link, now that I think about it. Never mind.
Oh, and you know that moral relativism thing the left engages in so much?
Finally, it helps to keep lynching in proper perspective. The highest estimates of lynchings from after the Civil War until 1960 are around 5,000. This is hardly a remarkable level of violence for a 100-year period. Other blacks kill more blacks every year in America. This also pales in comparison to over half a million people killed in less than a year in Rwanda’s 1994 tribal wars, the discovery of 15,000 Polish officers killed by the Soviet army in the Katyn Forest at the end of WWII, the 30 million Chinese killed off by Mao in his “Great Leap Forward” in the 1960’s, and the millions of Ukrainians purposely starved to death by Stalin in the 1930’s.
Don't do it. It's wrong.
Let's see, 5,000 is "hardly a remarkable level of violence for a 100-year period," O.J. got two (there's an example in the article of two white men [from a group of four] being hanged themselves for lynching a black man and his two daughters, but no other examples of criminals being convicted of crimes they'd obviously committed). . . well, we've quite a bit of work to do catching up. Usually, we at least go to jail for killing white folk. Hell, sometimes even if we haven't, but get a lousy public defender. Good thing there are wealthy Black celebrities nowadays, a sure sign of progress, who can afford quality attorneys and beat the system.
Perhaps someday, we'll reach that lofty status where the system doesn't even bother coming after us. Or at least waits a few decades before doing so, like with the Birmingham Church bombing.
Go, Juice, Go!
Well, yes, it's obvious flamebait, but those people aren't particularly bright. . .
And yes, viscous whites. That's how it's spelled throughout the article.
Nah, too easy.
Update: Oh yeah, The Sound of Silence, misquoted for no particular reason, by Paul Simon, retired Senator from Illinois. Loved them bow ties, they gave him that stylin' Nation of Domination look.
Laurence Simon/Ron Goldman joke deleted for reasons of space, good taste, and not wanting to accidentally read his blog and realize that, really, I could make space for it.
And I can't tell from the article if there are races/groups other than white and black or not. They're not mentioned in the intro, but Japanese internment is used as an example. Weird.
hahahaha. I was about to quote an instance of viscosity...but I thankfully clicked "more" first. I should have known you would have caught that.
I'm curious...was lynching ever actually a bona-fide legal punishment for a crime? Not that it would really matter to me...but, you know...I'm just sort of wondering. The article seems to treat it as though it was, you know, no big deal and all. Much like it's no big deal to kill 50 or so people per year (half of whom just happen to be of color) here in Texas.
And that's just the death row inmates.
And I just transcribed half of an article from Z magazine about the new "color blind" racism of the left that justifies comments like "Other blacks kill more blacks every year in America."
Because, you know, there's no longer any inequality between the races, and these kinds of statistics can just be taken at face value.
That's something I've been meaning to talk about for awhile now. If racism is no longer a problem, then what we are saying when we quote statistics like that are that people of color simply deserve to be in prison. Right?
I dunno if I'm making sense because I have a small child who is trying to hack the pentagon while I type...and he's crawling all over me. I'm going to trackback...and maybe comment later. Please ask for clarification if you need to.
I'm refusing to click on links for fear of my head going all 'splody.
"Jerri, what does V-I-C-T-O-R-Y spell?"
"Fandango?"
OK, now that I'm at work and can do something that resembles thinking a complete thought (although exhaustion would prevent me from actually successfully stating it clearly) - this:
"what we are saying when we quote statistics like that are that people of color simply deserve to be in prison. Right?"
Should read like this:
"what we are saying when we quote statistics like that are that more people of color simply deserve to be in prison. Right?"
OK, so it's just one word...perhaps I could have just left it. Perhaps there's still more editing that I can do.
Should I be concerned that I'm seeing spots, and I haven't stared directly into a light source recently?
Not to slight the almighty Blackman...I think Musso takes this battle with a whip of her mighty thumb. Blackman has the stare to creep her out but Musso's thumb action can shatter glass 7 hallways away. It's Musso in a close one!
Or would be, if referee "Blind" Principal Snyder, distracted by the ringside antics of Musso's sidekick Frank Lemmer, had noticed Coach Cherri Wolf run in, take out Musso with a chair shot, and lay the unconscious Blackman over her for the cover. There's the three-count, and Blackman wins!
I mean, geek.
i was shocked, even sickened to watch his smarmy face up there, claiming innocence with his hand on the bible, while all the facts would convince any sane person that he was guilty of the most heinous crimes...then trying to paint himself as some kind of hero...and then when so many of his people seemed willing to believe that he was, for no better reason than he was some kind of media-crafted role model...i gave up not only on our legal system, but most of the population, right about then.
Oh, did you think I was talking about OJ? Good heavens no, I WAS TALKING ABOUT COLONEL OLIVER NORTH........................................