Years ago (more than I care to remember if I could) I read an interview with Lyndon Johnson who, remembering his youth in Texas, said that you could always tell when it was an election year because all you heard from the politicians was "niggra, niggra, niggra". Needless to say, this was during a era when nobody could have possibly dreamed that a black man, much less a woman, would ever seriously be considered for the presidency.
So I was fairly unsurprised when the caretakers of all that is good and decent and white in America seized upon Barack Obama's pastor as the reason why Obama is unsuitable for the office of President (or to raise his children for that matter). These white, god-fearing citizens of Rock Ridge were anxiously awaiting a "black" moment slightly stronger than winking at a white woman to pounce on him like a duck on a junebug. Why? Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, and crosses are for burning.
And when that happened, it was like kicking over a rock and watching to see what scurried out from under:
On the other hand, I am sick to death of black people as a group. The truth. That is part of the conversation Obama is asking for, isn't it? I live in an eastern state almost exactly on the fabled Mason-Dixon line. Every day I see young black males wearing tee shirts down to their knees -- and jeans belted just above their knees. I'm an old guy. I want to smack them. All of them. They are egregious stereotypes. It's impossible not to think the unthinkable N-Word when they roll up beside you at a stoplight in their trashed old Hondas with 19-inch spinner wheels and rap recordings that shake the foundations of the buildings. It's like a broadcast dare: Go ahead! Call me a nigger! And then I'll cap your ass.
Here's the dirty secret all of us know and no one will admit to. There ARE niggers. Black people know it. White people know it. And only black people are allowed to notice and pronounce the truth of it.
Ah, the sweet freedom to call a spade a spade. Unshackled by the PC police, white Americans are once again free to speak the unvarnished truth about the niggers, the wetbacks, the zipperheads, the ragheads, and assorted other mudpeople befouling our culture (Thomas Sowell, Bill Cosby, and Condi Rice having been given "black people as a group" Get Out Of Jail Free cards) without being called a "racist" at worst or an "asshole" in more polite company. God, this must be so refreshing for them. It's like they've been holding back an enormous crap since May 17, 1954.
And I welcome their contribution to the campaign of 2008. Let the bile run down as waters, and the bigotry as a mighty stream. It will bring back the misty water-colored memories of the way we were...
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Jesus. He makes me feel like cruising by his house slowly with 2Pac blaring at full blast just to annoy the shit out of him.
So black guys dress funny and play their music loud?
And for that this clown has a burning hatred of black people?
Back under yer rock, bee-otch.
Here’s one thing that’s changed in our “national conversation on race.” Back in the day, the bigots that bellowed “niggra, niggra, niggra” in election years shook with terror at the thought of strapping black bucks coming for their wives and daughters. Now we have whiny old farts complaining about music, pants and hubcaps.
“Here’s the dirty secret all of us know and no one will admit to.”–instapunk
Ya think that instapunk will ever admit that he’s a dumbass…and that just about damned near everyone knows it?
These white, god-fearing citizens of Rock Ridge were anxiously awaiting a “black” moment slightly stronger than winking at a white woman to pounce on him like a duck on a junebug.
Good one!
I’m sure Instapunk would herald in the event of the Obama Presidency by standing on a rooftop and yelling to us “THE PRESIDENT IS A NI—-!”
“What’d he say?”
“He said, ‘The President is near’!”
“like a duck on a junebug”?
Tbogg, I grew up in Ft. Worth, Texas, and it was just lousy with junebugs, but I’ve never heard that phrase. I was thinking maybe you made it up — being a heckuva wordsmith and all, but I googled it and you didn’t.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bull.....s/310.html
I’ve never seen a duck and a junebug tussle, but it must be quite a sight.
I’ve lived in Pennsylvania most of my adult life, and you rarely see a junebug, and I miss em’.
Re: the subject of the post — instaputz is one of those wingnuts that just leaves you shaking your head. If he were going for snark, it would be quite funny.
i caught a few minutes of hannity on the radio yesterday evenin’ and he’s still harping on the jerimah wright theme ..
here’s my prediction .. we’ll have an obama-richardson ticket come august .. the advent of a black candidaate for president will electrify the black community turing out ther votes in quantities never before imagined .. and richardson’s roots as a latino will do the same in the latino community .. and mc cain and hillary will be also rans in the history books ..
further ..the actual election of a black man to the office of president of the united states will cause the right wing radio idiot’s heads to simply explode …ridding the airwaves of their toxic speils ..
what a wonderful world this could be .. what a wonderful world this could be ..
“The GOP: All Class, All The Time”
Insane, vicious motherfuckers.
And you know I hate to talk about people.
And two weeks ago we were seriously debating whether being black gave Obama an advantage.
This is what 30 years of “the Southern strategy” buys you: empowering the microcephalic racists who are the GOP base. People like Lou Dobbs, Tom Tancredo, and Michelle Malkin all feed this growing racism. Nixon must be so proud.
I can’t wait for Barak to step from the copter and walk across the yard.
I continue to be baffled that these guys have never noticed white and Asian kids doing exactly the same things. I mean, I kinda hate teenagers too, but I’ve been sorting on the basis of “noise” and “getting in my way” more than anything else. Though, I’m also aware this does not make me a courageous truth-teller but an old cranky broad with constant migraines.
“Seriously debating”? I think not.
“Shaking our heads in disbelief at the demented ravings of Geraldine Ferraro” comes closer.
As for Instapunk, if it’s a choice between a black youth blasting Public Eneby from his car or some white teenybopper broadcasting the “High School Musical” soundtrack, I’ll stick with PE, thank you very much. And I’m as pasty as they come.
At which the only response will be for him to reach for a copy of the Constitution and say, “‘Scuse me while I whip this out. . .”
Shorter Instapunk: It’s their fault we’re racists assholes!
The best post ever thanks I am sharing it around
It’s too good to pass up, but this clip boils down the right wing campaign against Obama in a nutshell.
Tip of the iceberg.
What did you expect? “Welcome, sonny”? “Make yourself at home”? “Marry my daughter?” You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . .
morons.instapunksInstaFart said:
uh, NO! He never said InstaFart and his band of Sheet-n-Hood wearing haters should upchuck their decades old bile onto these intertubes or empty their hate filled chamberpots out their closets and upon our heads. The fact that he believes this is a sure indicator that he’s on a steady diet of Hannity, O’Rally and Fux Morning. The regular Fux Dieters are so toxic that they should receive no burial on this good Earth of ours. No, they should be mailed to the Sun.
Except when they expose themselves to the public, of course.