Why Are We Doing This?
January 5, 2009
It’s Steele. I cannot imagine why it would be anyone else.
And the next time I hear someone talk about “race,” I’m going to punch him or her. Because I’ve been hearing about it for a year and a half, and . . . you know what? It’s boring. Just booorrrrriiinnnggg.
For the record, it’s just as boring in the context of Burris and the Senate as it is in the context of Steele and the Republican National Committee. And just as boring in the context of Obama in the White House. These are all men, and they’ve got nothing in common but race, from where I sit. Yeah: landmark first African-American president; go team. Gotcha. But once Big O is sworn in, he’s got no color. He’ll just be the President. And the Senate and the RNC?—neither one of these situations have anything to do with race.
The whole idea of a “Magic Negro”? Boring; the premise is that there is something insulting about attributing wisdom to black guys. Is it equally boring to describe whites as wise or clever? (Maybe someone who actually watches movies can correct me, of course: perhaps there was something patronizing in the original concept. But does it apply to Big O? No. Some people voted for him on account of his race, but mostly the pendulum was swinging toward the Dems, and Hillary Clinton managed to squander a lot of political capital in a lackluster campaign. Right place, right time. Right race, if you insist. But it’s over now—there is only one race in the White House. The Presidential race.)
The mainstream media and popular culture have put issues under a microscope that should be looked at through binoculars. The truly cannot see the forest for the trees—or, rather, the texture/coloration of the bark thereon.
I’m not disgusted. I’m not amused. I’m just . . . well. Aware of the tedium.
Shut up about race, and make Steele the RNC Chair, or stop calling yourselves the Party of Lincoln.
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January 6th, 2009 at 5:23 am
http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Michael_Steele_Gun_Control.htm
Q: Should people have access to buy assault weapons?
A: Society should draw lines. What do you need an assault weapon for, if you’re going hunting? That’s overkill. But I don’t think that means you go to a total ban for those who want to use gun for skeet shooting or hunting or things like that
F.A.I.L.
January 6th, 2009 at 7:52 am
“Magic Negro”? Boring; the premise is that there is something insulting about attributing wisdom to black guys.
My understanding is that the “Magic Negro” transmits that wisdom and knowledge to a clueless white guy™ and then drift back into the shadows from whence he came. I’ve heard that Will Smiths Bagger Vance character in The Legend of Bagger Vance fits this to a tee:
A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy.
The mystical caddy being Will Smith, and the hapless golfer being Matt Damon, clueless white guy™.
January 6th, 2009 at 7:53 am
I’m afraid I’m going to have to be blunt: The Second Amendment is not about hunting, and gun control is not so much a public-safety issue as a means of subjecting the individual and small groups to society as a whole, and government in particular. Gun control = people control.