Some are saying Jesse Helms is burning in hell.   But that might not be fair…Let me present his positive side

I’ve been portrayed as a caveman by some. That’s not true. I’m a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they slants, beaners, or niggers.– Jesse Helms, North Carolina Progressive, February 6, 1985, quoted from the Democratic Alliance,

 

Jesse Helms was a tireless supporter of the white man.  He didn’t think white privilege was enough.  Getting most of the jobs wasn’t enough for the white man.  He believed white men should get all of the jobs available.

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories?–Jesse Helms

Fascinating reading…And before you e-mail me to ask, nope I’m not into the dominatrix thing. 

How to cure white racists

I had a white gentleman tell me a story once that I found fascinating. He told me, admittedly, that he used to be racist but had a transformative experience. He went on to say that he had procured the services of a professional dominatrix. She blindfolded him and went about her business of degrading him, humiliating him, whathaveyou. Unbeknownst to this man, the white pro domme had in fact switched with a Black domme who was responsible for giving him what he felt was the most intense experience of his life. This black domme apparently had urinated on him. Well, once the blindfold was removed, voila’, his racism was gone. Healed by the magical piss of the Black woman.

If  it’s that easy I might be able to squeeze out a few drops for the cause. 

…In a totally unrelated muse, I wonder where Teddy Pig is nowadays?

I suggested to him that racism isn’t just washed away with a little Shug Avery pee (he didn’t get it) and that in order for him to truly rid himself of racist behaviors that he would really need to challenge his beliefs. At that point, he called me a racist nigger bitch.

Oh crap, it didn’t seem to work.  Maybe number two would be more efficacious? 

Healing Piss

Seriously.  They needed a study to figure out blacks had different opinions on things.  And they published the results in a major newspaper!  It’s a real newsflash–we Negroes aren’t all alike.

A study out Friday provides a nuanced portrait of black Americans’ social views, consumer tastes and notions of identity, undermining the idea that most black Americans share a similar world view and life experience.

I’m amazed and somewhat insulted.  Where is the study to show that all Asians or Jews aren’t alike?   What about white people?  A study to determine if all white people think alike would be deemed ludicrous.  Why can’t they make the leap that black people aren’t that different from them?  Is thinking that we’re people too is somehow a outlandish perception to them?  It’s the usual bonanza of white racists on the comments.  So many racists comment when anything about blacks come up.  So where is the study that all whites aren’t racists?

Study shows blacks don’t share similar views of world

John McCain really did call his wife Cindy a cunt publicly.  Here’s a little quiz.

What should you do if your hubby or significant other calls you a cunt in public? 

A.  Ignore him

B.  Keep smiling

C.  Cry

D. 

D is the correct answer!  This quiz is needed by the American people.  Apparently John McCain has quite a temper.  Yet somehow, his balls are still intact!

What would happen if the media made a big a deal out of John McCain calling his wife a cunt as they made of Reverend Wright?

(This doesn’t mean I’m actually going to blog about politics every Tuesday—It just means I’m thinking about it). 

The word "racist" should be banned. It is like a sweater wrung completely out of shape; it has lost its usefulness. It makes honest debate impossible, whether about small realities such as little boys who won’t say hello to black babysitters or large realities such as who is more likely to get the death penalty. In place of "racist," descriptive, albeit unwieldy, expressions might be used, such as "incidents that negatively affect black people, which, although possibly complicated by class and other factors, would not have occurred if the affected people were not black." Perhaps qualifiers would be added: "These incidents do not implicate all non-black people."

Not because racism  isn’t viable or the right word in many instances, but because of the inaccurate and emotional way nonwhites react to it. 

The myth of blackness is this: "Once upon a time, black towns were destroyed, black Americans were massacred and barred from voting, etc. All this happened because of racists. Today, these things no longer happen, and therefore racists no longer exist."

Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sums up my experiences with conversations about racism in a nutshell.  Nonblacks deminish or deny racism because they prefer to believe it doesn’t exist since it doesn’t exist for them. 

Diminishers have a subtle intellectual superiority and depend on the word "ignorant." They believe that black people still encounter unpleasantness related to blackness but in benign forms and from unhappy people or crazy people or people with good intentions that are bungled in execution. Diminishers think that people can be "ignorant" but not "racist" because these people have black friends, supported the civil rights movements or had abolitionist forebears.

Deniers believe that black people stopped encountering unpleasantness related to their blackness when Martin Luther King Jr. died. They are "colorblind" and use expressions like "white, black or purple, we’re all the same" — as though race were a biological rather than a social identity. Incidents that black people attribute to blackness are really about other factors, such as having too many children or driving too fast, but if deniers are compelled to accept that an incident was indeed about blackness, they launch into stories of Irish or Native American oppression, as though to deny the legitimacy of one story by generalizing about others. Deniers use "racist" as one would use "dinosaur," to refer to a phenomenon that no longer exists.

My question is should we ban a perfectly good word or spread the word that these diminishers and deniers are ignorant, wrong and yes, racist?  Yeah, I know that wouldn’t work, but it’s a nice thought. 

The color of an awkward conversation - Washington Post