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Lem's Comment Home: An Ironically-Named Slave Pen

Dick Gregory on C-SPAN, really being heard (I own a few of his albums) crazy conspiracy theories (or not) and all. The coda, for his apology to Bill Clinton, left me in stitches:

"I tell Bill Clinton ain't nothing wrong with you being black, as long as you're playing - but when you try to use it as your address,…"

As the Jamaicans say, Wicked, Man!

Melding together that wickedness, with conspiracy theorists, someone in shit-stained galoshes - meaning an intimate to our neck of the woods - anonymously voiced (what seems to be) the prevailing opinion of those outside Lem's Comment Home: 

That Lem's Comment Home has corrupted the Lemster.

"I never did understand what Lem sees in those people. They use him to host a forum in which they get to bully, harrass and spew racist shit. It's become the perfect little outreach blog of Trooper York. He and his troupe of chimps have taken over the zoo. The faux morality over there is a farce. Lem allows commenters such as Sixty Grit, President Mom Jeans, ShoutingThomas and lessor bullies such as Haz and passive aggressive ninnies like Chickenlittle to run the blog and run over him. Crack, they were only your friends until the moment you insisted on mentioning the unmentionable, racism and the part they play in it and the benefits they reap because of it. They wanted you as their token, you obviously dissapointed them and now they think you deserve a good lashing because you had the balls to leave the plantation with your head high and defiant. It's no wonder some of their best commenters, such as Freeman Hunt no longer comment there. It's a sewer."

It is a sewer and I don't know anyone, who's washed it off, that doesn't still find it painful - partially because Lem's name hangs over it. We feel for the guy, we know he's being used by evil - that was the word one friend used, yesterday, for Trooper York's comments - and it bothers us.

Freeman Hunt's a big girl who can see what's-what - can you imagine what encountering Lem's Comment Home is like for the unsuspecting?

That deceptive new header quote from MLK - twisted, just as whites did Bible verses in slavery times, so now it tells blacks to accept the abuse meted out by whites, there, with good humor - is likely to hide the stench, for a new visitor, for a while.

But posts by Michael Haz and other "overseer" types, showing a pointed concern for whites in South Africa - when, except for bad mouthing and lecturing us, Lem's Comment Home shows little passion for blacks, here or there, after centuries of abuse and torture - become telling.

And, eventually, the gag reflex is captured by the countless comments implying that killing blacks (for random acts of violence dubbed The Knockout Game) are O.K..

And I really should've begun with Barack Obama, the Grand Poobah of the "Other" Lem's gang can lob bombs at, all day long, because he's the president and - they're just a little too quick to want to remind us - you can't call somebody racist simply for criticizing the president.

Alone, this is true, of course but - add it to A) twisting MLK's words into a sinister configuration, B) multiple posts and comments showing concern for South Africa's white oppressors, and C) an open-and-repeatedly-stated desire to kill blacks you voice little concern about (except as D) vehicles for accepting your armed-conservative "advice") and - I think, you might be on your way to a convincing case!

It's unfortunate Freeman Hunt and others don't speak up more often, because this is the truly vexing work of the nation, however hopeless our other white fellow citizens may appear.

This isn't a job to be left to others - not if we're building a country.

The U.S. is only about 238 years old - young -  so, I think, still building a country is what we're doing.

Here's hoping Lem sees his way back to it soon,…