You know...
...it never occurred to me that anyone would be offended by the video below this post. But then again, it never occurred to me that my son would watch 5 minutes of All in the Family and then barge out of the room saying, "This is the most racist thing that I've ever seen!"
Anyone who's read the book Fahrenheit 451 knows that Bradbury tried to warn us that if we kept on arguing over things that other people said or wrote, we would end up banning ALL forms of writing. He was trying to warn us but it seems as though people took it as a how-to manual.
Young people of today cannot possibly understand what was happening in America when All in the Family was the most innovative, daring new television show in the world. It wasn't meant to be racist, it was made to make fun of racists. I was young enough to be part of the "young, hip audience" that loved that show. We all knew an Archie Bunker and we loved to laugh at the racist ways of those who had come before us. We knew, as did Meathead and Lionel, that the future held a world without racism and we, the young people, were going to lead the revolution of people who judged each other "not by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character".
We had no way of knowing that there would be another group of people who wanted to convince blacks that all whites were evil so that they could make names for themselves. We had no clue that the civil rights movement that was happening then would be turned into something ugly. That ugliness is all around us and it's making race relations worse than they've been since 1964. They don't want us to "just get along". If we do, they have no jobs.
Had we continued in the direction we were headed, by now racism would be so outmoded that most of us would ostracize any racist we met. And they wouldn't have considered words like "niggardly" racist, they would have been smart enough to know what it meant. Unfortunately, people were spending so much time and making so much money dealing the race card that no one cared enough to educate children so that they would know what big words meant.
Last night on South Park, the n-word was used so many times that I didn't bother counting them. The writers of South Park are a smart group, they find ways to send messages wrapped in humor and they get away with things that. Even Norman Lear himself couldn't have done it so blatantly. But, like All in the Family, South Park has a young audience that "get's it". It's a shame that the TV shows are getting a bit smarter but Americans aren't. Even so, South Park's young audience will feel as betrayed as I do when the future race baiters accuse them of being racist. I don't see manipulative people going away anytime soon.
That video down there was meant to be funny, nothing else. I'm certainly not a racist but I'm not about to try to prove it to anyone ignorant enough to find that thing offensive. Those people don't want to hear that I'm not racist, they want me to apologize and/or take that sucker down. LOLOLOLOL, yeah right. If the master manipulators Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton can't get to me, some nit wit with a keyboard won't be able to do it either.
I don't know what Michael Richards feels in his heart and I don't care. But that video was created to make fun of RICHARDS...it wasn't meant to be racist.
Having said that, I don't believe that the moron who wrote the hideous comment down there is black. But, it most certainly WAS written by someone who is quite ignorant.
You know, this is boring me. I'm sick of explaining myself to people who constantly search for reasons to call another person racist. And, I'm most likely preaching to the choir because most of my readers are smarter than that.
The idiots all want to call me racist for ONE REASON...to make themselves SEEM to look better than someone else. If calling me racist gives some yahoo a better self esteem, they can go for it. It's just a shame that there are so many of those people and that they get so much attention and pity from thinking people who should know better. I wish that more thinking people had the chutzpah to stand up and tell the stupid people, "Hey you obsequious nimrods, Jesse Jackson is manipulating your mind and making you a marionette for his own purposes"!
OK, I'm gonna write a normal post...BRB.
PS You can't call that video racist without calling Norman Lear and Tyler Perry racist as well. Anyone who says that they NEVER laughed at something that had a tinge of race mixed in it is a lying shit.
...it never occurred to me that anyone would be offended by the video below this post. But then again, it never occurred to me that my son would watch 5 minutes of All in the Family and then barge out of the room saying, "This is the most racist thing that I've ever seen!"
Anyone who's read the book Fahrenheit 451 knows that Bradbury tried to warn us that if we kept on arguing over things that other people said or wrote, we would end up banning ALL forms of writing. He was trying to warn us but it seems as though people took it as a how-to manual.
Young people of today cannot possibly understand what was happening in America when All in the Family was the most innovative, daring new television show in the world. It wasn't meant to be racist, it was made to make fun of racists. I was young enough to be part of the "young, hip audience" that loved that show. We all knew an Archie Bunker and we loved to laugh at the racist ways of those who had come before us. We knew, as did Meathead and Lionel, that the future held a world without racism and we, the young people, were going to lead the revolution of people who judged each other "not by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character".
We had no way of knowing that there would be another group of people who wanted to convince blacks that all whites were evil so that they could make names for themselves. We had no clue that the civil rights movement that was happening then would be turned into something ugly. That ugliness is all around us and it's making race relations worse than they've been since 1964. They don't want us to "just get along". If we do, they have no jobs.
Had we continued in the direction we were headed, by now racism would be so outmoded that most of us would ostracize any racist we met. And they wouldn't have considered words like "niggardly" racist, they would have been smart enough to know what it meant. Unfortunately, people were spending so much time and making so much money dealing the race card that no one cared enough to educate children so that they would know what big words meant.
Last night on South Park, the n-word was used so many times that I didn't bother counting them. The writers of South Park are a smart group, they find ways to send messages wrapped in humor and they get away with things that. Even Norman Lear himself couldn't have done it so blatantly. But, like All in the Family, South Park has a young audience that "get's it". It's a shame that the TV shows are getting a bit smarter but Americans aren't. Even so, South Park's young audience will feel as betrayed as I do when the future race baiters accuse them of being racist. I don't see manipulative people going away anytime soon.
That video down there was meant to be funny, nothing else. I'm certainly not a racist but I'm not about to try to prove it to anyone ignorant enough to find that thing offensive. Those people don't want to hear that I'm not racist, they want me to apologize and/or take that sucker down. LOLOLOLOL, yeah right. If the master manipulators Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton can't get to me, some nit wit with a keyboard won't be able to do it either.
I don't know what Michael Richards feels in his heart and I don't care. But that video was created to make fun of RICHARDS...it wasn't meant to be racist.
Having said that, I don't believe that the moron who wrote the hideous comment down there is black. But, it most certainly WAS written by someone who is quite ignorant.
You know, this is boring me. I'm sick of explaining myself to people who constantly search for reasons to call another person racist. And, I'm most likely preaching to the choir because most of my readers are smarter than that.
The idiots all want to call me racist for ONE REASON...to make themselves SEEM to look better than someone else. If calling me racist gives some yahoo a better self esteem, they can go for it. It's just a shame that there are so many of those people and that they get so much attention and pity from thinking people who should know better. I wish that more thinking people had the chutzpah to stand up and tell the stupid people, "Hey you obsequious nimrods, Jesse Jackson is manipulating your mind and making you a marionette for his own purposes"!
OK, I'm gonna write a normal post...BRB.
PS You can't call that video racist without calling Norman Lear and Tyler Perry racist as well. Anyone who says that they NEVER laughed at something that had a tinge of race mixed in it is a lying shit.
posted by Meg Kelso | 7:09 AM
3 Comments:
It's the n-word. that's what makes the video so offensive. you really should take it down. a lot of people will be offended and it's not worth it. just trying to help.
It's a WORD!
They say, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will NEVER hurt me."
It doesn't say, "except for nigger."
There's no way in hell I would take that fucker down now.
What if white people secretly replaced nigger with "Bro". We could walk around saying, "Hey bro!" and no one would be the wiser. You have no way of knowing what is in a person's heart simply based upon the use of one word. It takes more words than that to describe any one person. If you think that any person is one word, you're absolutely being prejudiced. Judging a person based on something so narrow is exactly what narrow-minded is...so you have shown yourself to be a biased person, one who prejudges others based upon one aspect of another human being. Can't you see how bigoted that is?
Any word is just letters in the alphabet put together that some daft twit decided was offensible. Hell could be a swear word to some, fat to others, my point is the power of the word is only given by the person WHO CHOOSES to take offense. Words are nothing.
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