Our New American Values (The Natural Progression ,...)

It occurred to me yesterday that "as a black man" (Yo! Ho! Ho!) I could easily start to side with Al Sharpton and Robert Mugabe - sincerely, but also as a self-preservation tactic - since everybody else is currently making about as much sense as they are. And if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, huh?

If "I don't care" is a valid argument for electing Mitt Romney as president - a member of a cult that, amongst other things, discriminated against blacks and praised the Nazis - then why not?

If Billy Graham can change his beliefs - simply for politics - then what's to stop me?

"Robert Mugabe For President" has just as nice a ring to it - plus I get some white guy's farm!

And, ultimately, isn't getting what you want what this is all about? Isn't that the message?

I'm going to have to think on this a little while longer because - as an obvious byproduct of this drive for Mormon ascendence - I know it's wrong, but what's wrong now? Is anything wrong anymore?

If the president can follow con men, then why can't I? If the president can believe stupid shit, then why can't I? If the president can flip-flop on his most deeply held political positions (I love that) then why can't I? There's no shame in anyone else's game - why should there be in mine?

All I have to say when challenged is "This is what I want and I don't care."

It's all about the C.R.E.A.M. now, baby!

Or so I've been told. I've seen it at work, that's for sure. And nobody's ever stopped it.

So, four more days, people - and I just might have to join "the good guys"…

 

Feel The Burn

"The men who pulled up in three white pickup trucks were looking for Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district. His wife, Dadirai, told them he was in Harare but would be back later in the day, and the men departed.

An hour later they were back. They grabbed Mrs Chipiro and chopped off one of her hands and both her feet. Then they threw her into her hut, locked the door and threw a petrol bomb through the window."

-- Jan Raath, reporting on the second recent attack of this kind by Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwean thugs, for the Times Online