Earlier today, I wrote, as regards a scholarship for white collegians: [1]
We need not look any further than the reaction to this scholarship fund, to understand that the equality was never the primary goal of such scholarships centered around minorities.
it is still in that same frame of mind that I stumble across a write-up on the wires of the Associated Press this afternoon. The story relates the plight of one Kenny Kramer.. yes, the role model for the Seinfeld character who shared his name. Apparently, life has gotten rather interesting for Mr. Kramer following the supposedly racist outburst of one Michael Richards.
“I know the guy,” Kramer said of Richards. “He’s not this outgoing ball of fun that people would expect Kramer to be. They think he’s be exciting, lovable, laughable. But he’s quiet, introspective, even paranoid. He’s a very wound-up guy. But I don’t think he’s a racist.”
OK, be that as it may; we still end up with the leftist press hammering on Richards as regards his supposed racism. Same deal Mel Gibson got.
So explain to me why this [2] is funny. Or, this: (caution, the language gets rough below the fold)
Now we’ve got a lot of things, a lot of racism in the world right now
Whose more racist? Black people or white people?
Black people….You know why? Cause we hate black people too
Everything white people dont like about black people
Black people really dont like about black people
There some shit goin on with black people right now
There’s like a civil war goin on with black people
And there two sides….
There’s black people, and there’s niggas
And niggas have got to go
Everytime black people wanna have a good time
Ignorant ass nigga fuck it up
Can’t do shit, cant do shit, without some ignorant ass nigga fuckin it up
Cant do nothin
Cant keep a disco open more than 3 weeks
Grand opening, grand closing
Cant go to a movie the first week it comes out
Why cause niggas are shooting at the screen
What kind of ignorant shit is that
Hay this is a good movie, this is so good i gotta bust a cap in here
Hay I love black people, but i hate niggas boy, boy i hate niggas
Boy I wish they’d let me join the Klu Klux Klan
Shit I’d do a drive-by from here to Brooklyn
I’m tired of niggas man
You cant have shit when you around niggas
Apologies for the language, but I suppose there’s a moron or two who would try to sue me for editing up someone else’s work. To the end of explanation and to the end of removing myself from a copyright fight, perhaps we should note that the person speaking here, is Chris Rock. And yes, he’s black. But can you imagine what would happen had Richards coughed up that act?
Oh, wait… we don’t need to imagine it. He did.
OK, I guess if I’m Chris Rock, I’m suing Michael Richards for stealing my act. Hmmm? Rock, in his own way, has made several of the same points that Bill Cosby has made, as he did in this pic with Jackson. Personally I wonder how it is that Cosby can sit on the same stage with the man.
Oh, they may get angry at times be because he makes the point in a deadly serious fashion, whereas Rock made his points in the bit above, as a bit of humor. When Richards does the same act, he’s considered racist.
Why?
Why is it with this same message arriving in so many fashions from so many voices, that we are still forcing ourselves to believe the myth that only whites can be racist? Let’s face it, that’s precisely the issue we’re dealing with here. In both the cases I’ve mentioned in this post, and the case at Boston college that I linked to earlier, that myth is that the center of the entire controversy. It’s that myth that’s keeping us from solving the problem. Of course, as I have remarked in these spaces before, there are those profiting from the racism such as Jesse Jackson, who would really rather not see the problem solved. Here again, we have a situation where we have gotten so politically correct, that we lose all sense of reality about what constitutes racism.
It is, after all, easier to wrestle that one to the ground that it is to do the same with personal responsibility.