Posted on 01/09/2005 7:31:05 AM PST by American Infidel
LOL! You could always tell who was who on the runways at Minot or Grand Forks AFB. The guys with pale skin would be wearing a watchcap with their parka hood down. Folks with a better tan tended to tighten the hood up into a snorkel. I think the reference to cold weather operational capability may be generally valid.
While trying to keep abreast of current events and politics, I grow weary of having to endure the consistent din of folks blaming one another of being racist. I am aware that a limited degree of “racism” is present in our society, but this cartoon is not an example of that racism. I’m sure a great many of us, regardless of our ethnicity, can find the humor in this piece. Face it; it’s funny.
To compare the scenario of a couple of black guys poking fun at a white guy for jogging in the snow to the scenario of couple of white guys jabbing a black guy for swilling a forty ounce on a work day is a deliberately tilted contrast. Don’t drink that Kool-aid. Instead, let’s imagine a cartoon in which a bunch of black guys are playing basketball in the snow, and a white guy mutters, “Black people…”, that’s funny. Get it? Jogging, funny; basketball, funny; drinking in public, not funny.
Some of the stereotypes about each of us are based in truth, and most are not harmful. White guys dress up like Lance Armstrong and ride $1,200.00 bicycles on their lunch breaks. There really are more fried chicken joints in black neighborhoods. Chinese guys drink tea. College kids wear baseball caps. Only women leave a half doughnut in the box, and Indians smell vaguely of curry. If this sort of stereotyping really appalls you, then you are far too uptight.
All too frequently, amid a torrent of serious news issues, there is a childish cry of racism such as this. I am reminded of a bunch of ill-behaved children: “He called me a poopy-head!” “yeah, but he called me a bum-bum!”.
I suggest that we get over it.
Where there exists a systemic, organized, or legally sanctioned plan or public policy to keep any group of people “down”, then there is a problem. When black people were enslaved, denied the right to vote, to own property, etc… there was a problem. Blacks in America today have their constitutional rights. Should they be denied these rights again, I will march beside them in protest, as I believe most of white America would. I don’t believe that day will come.
Much of the social and economic disparity between black and white America stems from the pandering of the Democrats. Democratic doctrine, once virtuous, has run its course, its objectives achieved. Since that period (around the early seventies?), the party has become downright socialist, slowly adopting a new philosophy, no longer of constitutional equality, but of socio-economic equality. Their new message; “you are at a great deficit, and can not thrive without our help”. This is simply nonsense. It is an undermining and negative message that assumes black folks are not capable. I assure you, they don’t need a hand out, or a hand up. If each of our taxes were lowered, and the handouts curtailed accordingly, we would shortly see a powerful class of black
Americans engaging in countless enterprises to scoop up their share of the ensuing private sector spending. This is the only sure way to reach the state of economic equality that blacks in America deserve. Low taxation made the U.S. a very successful country (very quickly) for the whites, and it would do so for blacks as well.
To my mind this is a truly serious race discussion, and this is the type of dialogue that our country needs. We will not benefit from the whining and finger-pointing of overly sensitive hot-heads.
PRobably if that was my grandfather (1901 - 1966, wish I knew him but Mom told me a lot about him, he passed away when I was fivem onths old) running by or was there at that jogger scene with the two kids, he would say, "get a haircut, study well and get a job."
Sorry, bub. The last few times I had opportunities yanked from me, it was because I am white. You are sadly misinformed about the silver platter thing, as I suspect you have been indoctrinated with many other myths designed to keep you angry and under the liberals' thumbs. Wake up, free yourself from thoughts of hate and retribution, and stop spouting decades-old lies fed to you by the very people who want to keep you down. (I am assuming by your post that you are not white and that you are frustrated about it. I am also assuming by your post that you will be meeting the kitties soon.)
Spell check is your friend, troll. You joined last week to resurrect this? "Holla back" when you get some since.
And by the way, math came from the Pheonecians - more Semitic, actually and the forebears of the Joooooooz!
Aaron McGruder -- I'd buy him a parachute if I knew it wouldn't open. What I find stupid are rappers wearing wool winter caps in the summer.
First of all, it's spelled "incompetent". Second, there's a little thing called affirmative action that a number of folks have started taking for granted. Scholarships, government contracts, and many other opportunities are by law slanted to favor traditionally disadvantaged minorities. Is this justice? I guess it depends on whether or not one benefits from it. I will leave it there, since I really don't want to take this down a very unpleasant road. I simply dispute the claim that white automatically equals privileged these days. And please buy a dictionary or use your spell check. The spelling errors are quite painful to me.
Bye, Luke Cage."He's dead, Jim!"
Ah poor baby.
Oh, yeah. I see now.Bye, Caseymj.
"He's dead, Jim!"
Man. That's about 4-5 ZOTTED we've spotted already today.
It's gonna be a big ZOT day!
Double standard. It's here and will not change.
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