THE HOWWWWW TO JON STEWART'S WHAAAAAAT?
Temecula, CA – Almost every night I
go to sleep hoping the next day to find something salvageable to use
as argument like Abram did to save Sodom and Gomorrah, only this time
to try and divert judgment coming to America in case I meet God
coming here to get his due. After all, being my advanced age, chances
are I could see God or at least put in a word to St. Peter before the
day of wrath arrives. It was that intention which motivated the
suggested use of a misplaced racial label to end all racial labels
used in this country in the original 'Sandy Brown' story.
Racial labels for black people in this
country started with 'colored' which could apply to anyone non-white,
but the NAACP or the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People has never marched for the rights of yellow
people, tan Latin people, bronze colored Italians or Greeks, or even
red, read indigenous, people. Being founded by whites with
blacks as fronts for the equal rights they sought, the organization
peaked in the 50s - 70s as equal opportunity and desegregation became
law if not the spirit of the land, through Affirmative Action. In
these years, the organization chose to support black leaders who were
counseling patience and the relatively slow operation of legal
measures, saying it was necessary to make the United States a nation
that was truly "indivisible, with freedom and justice for all".
While city officials, state agencies,
white liberals, and sober-minded Negroes stood idly by, there were
radical black voices alternative to the
Civil Rights Movement. The voice who has lasted the longest through no
early retirement or assassination was a firebrand named
Louis Farrakhan who once indicted "the white man" for his
crimes:
“I charge the white man with being the greatest liar on
earth! I charge the white man with being the greatest drunkard on
earth.... I charge the white man with being the greatest gambler on
earth. I charge the white man, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, with
being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the white man with
being the greatest peace-breaker on earth.... I charge the white man
with being the greatest robber on earth. I charge the white man with
being the greatest deceiver on earth. I charge the white man with
being the greatest trouble-maker on earth. So therefore, ladies and
gentlemen of the jury, I ask you, bring back a verdict of guilty as
charged!” - The Hate That Hate Produced, 1959 by Mike Wallace and Louis Lomax, broadcast in five parts during the week of July 13–17,
1959, and was repeated several days later.
I have asked some of my friends [in
bygone generations that lived not in California], where is 'Whiteland
and Blackland'? Take the jump now and get nose deep in the bush cause
there ain't no hoopla here.