Serious question.
We know Zippy was the Ultimate Magic Negro when he was elected. He was a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who had the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who could actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment; people who actually helps us evolve; philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul (I just had to copy Morford's original column to get the blindingly gooey (his word, not mine) nature of his lunacy; I especially loved the part about spiritually advanced people he knows (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual)).
He was our savior. He would do what Abe Lincoln and the 1.5 million casualties of that unnecessary war couldn't do. He would cleanse us of our racial guilt. At least until Skippy Gates and Trayvon Martin came along.
You read about how people went for him and then read how somebody like Dr Goebbels reacted to his first meeting with Dolf and the chill that comes with it goes bone deep.
We were supposed to tolerate the knockout game and sympathize with poor George Floyd and Freddy Gray and the Gentle Giant and Tyre Nichols.
This weekend, things seem to have changed. LeBum, progenitor of what's called player empowerment (it's still just another minstrel show if you ask me), made some gesture in his mega box at the Stupid Bowl as if he was crowning himself and people were less than impressed. The girl who did the halftime show grabbed her crotch, told the crowd she was pregnant (again), and was panned.
The new black pastime of ganging up on some white kid (younger, retarded, etc.) in a school bus is being met with parents suing school boards.
What, O what, is happening? Are we finally over our racial guilt trip, those of us who actually bought a ticket?
If you remember maybe 20 years ago, when the climate crowd warned us we had reached Peak Oil and would have to go horse-drawn or whatever (don't worry; as usual, they're wrong), people scarcely paid attention.
This may be different. I think we maybe have reached Peak Woke, or maybe even Peak Left.
Remember last June, when we got so sick of Pride Month, we were soooo glad when it ended (about a week late, but better late than never)? I think we're finally sick of all the guilt trips. The Demos can't cow us anymore with our white guilt. 25 years ago, when it was hip for black kids to wear those Martin, Malcolm, Mandela, and ME It's a black thing you wouldn't understand shirts, it hit me a white guy would need more than 3 Ms; like maybe Abraham, Archimedes, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Alan Turing, Adam, and on through the Bs, Cs, Ds, Es, and so on, each letter making a cloak with very fine print. We're seeing that now.
Drag queens in school libraries are being denounced. People are tired of gender. The people who accused anyone who didn't get the shot of crimes against humanity are now asking for bygones to be bygones. You can go down the list. Just as some young blacks are realizing, after contemplating 50 years of empty promises if they'd just stay militant and hate whitey, they've been had, so, too, a lot of people of all backgrounds are wising up.
Sure, there are the people who will never learn, but, as the old wheeze goes, smart people learn from their mistakes; really, smart people learn from other people's mistakes.
I think it gets interesting from here on.
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When an african starts yammering, I walk away. What they yammer means nothing to me.
It will be interesting to see how San Francisco handles the reparations demands.
Definitely the end of a era and the beginning of the sort-through need to return from the swing to the outer edge and back toward center..
I too am interested to see how SF will handle the reparation demands and curious as to what the consequences of that might be for the city and the nation.
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