It’s Sunday…Suppose I was to say: “Everything I say is the total truth and the whole truth and the only truth. You must accept what I say without question or you are a racist or bigot and have no right to speak…ever.” Sound like anyone you know? Perhaps much of the entire MSM. Because I am old and grew up in the deep South I have said a lot of stupid things in my life. I didn’t think they were stupid at the time, it’s just how things were sixty or sixty-five years ago. A couple of hundred years ago slavery was a way of life for many people in what was called ‘The New World’. If you believe that slavery was invented by Europeans who migrated to the ‘New World’ then you don’t know much about history. Some of my ancestors were enslaving one another long before the white man ever sat foot in the western hemisphere. If you believe that slavery does not exist today then it is not just history of which you are ignorant. Now, before anyone gets upset about being called ignorant, remember, I’ve explained that ignorance is when you don’t know and stupid is when you don’t know and don’t care that you don’t know. (That is my own personal application of those words, feel free to use it whenever it fits.) Now that I think about it, I guess, by my own definition, I should say: “I said a lot of ignorant things in my youth.” At the time, I didn’t know any better. When I was in the Air Force I began to ‘wake up’. I was in ‘Crypto’ and we had several black guys who taught me that skin color has nothing to do with humanity. I also learned that ‘good’ people could come from north of the Mason-Dixon Line. (Heaven forbid.) If you are someone who didn’t have to wait until you were eighteen to learn about people then God bless you but if you still think that all Southerners are ignorant rednecks then please get someone to read and explain this to you. We are all products of where and when we were brought up. I am lucky enough to have learned, many years go, that Bill Cosby is a Great American. I don’t agree with everything that Mr. Cosby says but I’ll bet that he and I could spend many evenings enjoying conversations about all sorts of stuff and part friends, I’d sure like to give it a try. Anyway, back to how this rant started: I resent that some people get a forum to say stuff that is so outlandish that they should be punched in the mouth (i.e. Bill Maher, Martin Bashir, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright et. al.) and get a free ride. I regret that I can’t afford to go to New York and wait outside the studio for Bashir or Maher to come out and allow me to exercise my ‘First Amendment’ right to verbally abuse them until they swung on me. If burning a flag is an expression of free speech, surely, pushing a bar of soap into a filthy mouth should qualify. Nuff said! (Please share)
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:59:03 +0000
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