King Louie: The Greatest Racist of Them All?

American Thinker ^ | 12/21/2014

[Altura Ct.]

One thing that's come into fashion lately has been people's tendency to mock Disney characters for being "racist." Nobody questions whether the crows in Dumbo might have been modeled after real musicians of the era, and nobody questions whether there really were (at some point in a bygone era) Indians like the ones in Peter Pan. Apparently nobody has ever ridden the Washington State ferry system and seen old pictures of actual Indians. It's almost enough to make you wonder what Millennials think when they go to an Americanized Chinese restaurant. Is it more racist to call Chinese what they aren't actually, or more racist to call them what they are? Or is it racist to pretend that Chinese people have certain kinds of food at all? Maybe someday we'll live in a world where all the different races act completely the same way, so that everyone can pretend be more diverse without any stereotypes. But I don't see how this could help us find good food.

Maybe if we were more sensible, we would realize that it is the stereotypes themselves that make racial diversity actually diverse. Without ethnic differences, there would never have been any need to promote racial harmony – because there would never have been any reason to be anything other than harmonious. We would have already been the same. What people do not like to mention is that it's the things that are similar that keep us apart. Our tendency to rape, steal, and murder made us divide in the first place; the fact that others have a sin tendency makes us wary of everyone different from the people we already trust – even if that difference is only the color of our skin.

[Lake Living]

This is w-a-y too complicated for a liberal to understand.

[Lake Living]

One more thing... and it’s not my idea, God separated out the nations at Babble and they will not live in harmony apart from Him. That doesn’t mean we don’t seek to lover our neighbor as ourselves - successfully, only with His empowerment, but it means ultimately there is no “peace on earth, good will toward men” apart from Him and a bended knee to His authority and His righteous standard and His ultimate sacrifice. “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.” What are you doing with God’s provision?

[smoothsailing]

The Gods of the Copybook Headings

AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

[SES1066]

I had to read the article (horrors!) to find out who the title was referring to, Disney’s “Jungle Book” and King Louie is the jazzy monkey leader. I have read the original Jungle Book by the Nobel Literature laureate, Rudyard Kipling. I did not recall any such character there so, since I have no children, I guess I have an excuse here.

The simple truth is that while we all have pre-judgements (prejudice), we do not have to be slaves to them nor allow others to make us slaves to OTHER’s prejudice! I was an US Army brat and that is/was a good place to grow up in through the early 60s. Rank meant everything and religion and/or skin color meant much less to my parents and thus to me.

To this day, I will use ‘Yes Sir’ and ‘Yes Ma’am’ to any unfamiliar adult in any meeting of business equals or better. Yet, my pre-judgements will urge me to avoid mob conditions and night encounters where social conditions are negative.

While it hurts me personally to see how some use our society to punish the children for the sins of the fathers, I do prefer this to societies where the hunt for food and living takes precedence over ‘possible’ offense against a sense of self-esteem!

[bert]

———the Washington State ferry system and seen old pictures of actual Indians. -——

I visited the Olympic Peninsula this year and visited a town on an Indian Reservation. It was a tribal town.

There was a very nice highschool with ball fields and all of that. There were lots of pep rally type stuff urging the teams on...... they called themselves the Red Devils

[98ZJ USMC]

This is w-a-y too complicated for a liberal to understand.

Maybe if we were more sensible, we would realize that it is the stereotypes themselves that make racial diversity actually diverse. Without ethnic differences, there would never have been any need to promote racial harmony – because there would never have been any reason to be anything other than harmonious

Run that one by a LIbEral and watch the blank facial expression followed, after a hour or two to sink in, by spittle flecked, puerile rage.

[Altura Ct.]

Maybe if we were more sensible, we would realize that it is the stereotypes themselves that make racial diversity actually diverse. Without ethnic differences, there would never have been any need to promote racial harmony – because there would never have been any reason to be anything other than harmonious

Never a truer statement has been uttered. Races are real, they have differences and it is largely because of those who insist we not only ignore these differences but even pretend they don't exist are most problems in race relations found.