Yea! THE INTERNET STAYS ON! And I've finally got company in the G.O.P.:
“I’m sorry to be the skunk at the garden party, but I think if Dr. King were alive today, he would step on some of these sacred issues.”
Republicans love to scream MLK was one of ours. Not cool to think like him nowadays - TMR is definitely "the skunk at the garden party" - but still the appropriate place to be. So what's the beef? Try this one on for size - a point I've made many times, before, to crickets:
“Everybody has come in front of [blacks] on the bus — gays, immigrants, women, environmentalists. You never hear any talk about the conditions confronting poor blacks and poor people in general.”
He got a standing O for show. I get push-back.
Let's see - he said gays. More important than poor blacks. That's been made clear. The coverage is overwhelming. Blacks have been struggling to keep food on the table for as long as I've been alive, but that obviously doesn't compare to gay marriage. Nobody's ever called anybody a loser for not resolving conditions in the ghettos. We should've thrown glitter in church for attention.
Immigrants. Hear about them all-the-time now. Will they be able to stay? Won't they? Not as important as how Americans can keep a roof over our heads. That's not very important at all. Never has been. Never hear about it. It's not a priority. Weird.
Women? Women. Ann Althouse makes $177,000 a year, for God knows what, and still bitches like she's raped daily. The average black household makes around $20,000. You do the math on "oppression".
And environmentalists? Why bother with blacks when they're determined to "save the planet" - which has only been around for, oh, what? 4 and a half billion years without their assistance? I can feel the love. But it makes total sense.
I've got two things that don't make sense, though:
A) Why it takes an idiot conservative like me to notice this is how it's been working, and B) why it took another one to mention it,...
Damn...Bob Woodson for President?
ReplyDeletePW
*glad to hear your internet is staying on -- I'll know first of the month if mine is (until then I'm planning on being as solipsistic as possible!)
And why? Because poor people and the working class (of which blacks do unfortunately make up a high percentage) are most definitely not on the list of people the New Republican/Conservative American Party for a New Age is concerned about (I mean, just read Charles Murray and Ayn Rand -- these people are the enemy; they are failed humans and deserve what they get -- untermenschen! Calling whatsherface Louise Hay?)
ReplyDeleteAnd as long as a core constituency of the GOP thinks that way (and they are better donors of time and money -- because they have some to spare) then gays and women will be their favored groups (works that way with the Dems too) -- gays and upper middle class women, who hey, have money and time to volunteer and shit themselves. Plus they're snappy dressers and blend well at posh parties and lawn luncheons, unlike poor people.
And then of course there's the race thing -- which may be attached to the appearance thing, or: how the GOP just can't get into booty (should be made to listen to Sir Mixalot, probably would cause an aneurysm).
PW
"...and still bitches like she's raped daily"
ReplyDeleteThe daily bitching you hear is coming from inside your own head.