Martin Luther King day and revisiting the "White People Problem"

So a couple of days ago I took to task the idea from Margaret Wright that white people need to change. I posited that white people have and did change given the fact that white people exhibit very little racism these days as compared to 50-100 years ago. My point was that blacks had very little political power. Then I got this tweet:

@Solo4357 lol at the sentence that says blacks weren't responsible for civil rights
— Kurt Lynch (@KurtLynch12) January 17, 2014

Which was not my point in the slightest. So now I have to explain the difference between social and cultural influence and political power. Those of you with common sense understand these differences. But I gotta explain it to those who hear racial dog whistles constantly.

So let's take the Civil Rights act of 1964. In Congress there were 4 black members of the House and none in the Senate. They were Adam Clayton Powell Jr, Charlie Diggs, Robert N.C. Nix, Sr., and Augustus Hawkins. None in the Senate. There are 535 members of Congress, even then. 4 is not enough to pass the bill, for those of you who can do math.

Now, Martin Luther King did exert a tremendous amount of social pressure and influence. It is this changing of hearts and minds that he and others like him created the allowed for the passage of the civil rights act. But make no mistake, blacks as part of the population were a minority who were being suppressed by whites, especially in the south. King's accomplishments cannot be overstated.

The left likes to act as if whites, especially conservative whites, are pretty much the same as they were in 1950 and that's not only false, it is complete insulting to the radical sea change that MLK created. It is pissing on the man's legacy and I am sorry I have to explain this to people. White people have changed and the racism today is not even a tiny percentage of a fraction that was prevalent back in the day.

If George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin is the symbol of some sort of racial struggle today, if people want to compare that to the lynchings and segregation of yesteryear, they are not only misguided, they are dismissing all the accomplishments of a great man.

My daughter and son are of mixed race. I adopted them. When I'm out in public with my children, I don't get so much as a raised eyebrow or even a first glance. No one cares. Thirty years ago, people would have thought it was something special. Sixty years ago it would have gotten me ostracized and hundred years ago, it might have gotten me killed. Let's remember what he created and let not minimize all those who bought into the movement, white and black, that lets me adopt my children without any thought anymore to race.

Except by leftists who can't get past skin color no matter how hard they try.

All Movie Posters are the same now.

Here's something I'm ashamed to admit I haven't really noticed. Pretty good watch.



I would think I would've noticed something like this what with my near obsessive love of movies in general but the only laziness I noticed was with Star Wars. For instance, compare these two:

Pure Awesomeness

to this:

My Daddy got me photoshop!

But I really hadn't realized how widespread the laziness had gotten. Star Wars mystifies me even more since we already had awesome posters and cover art and we had to take extra time to make crap. 

So Academic White People have Figured out the Problem: White People. Maybe they'll kill themselves and stop writing papers.

Margaret Wright specifically.

How could anyone argue that Huck Finn is the Great American Novel? That racist propaganda? Repeatedly banned ever since it was written for all manner of “inappropriate” actions, attitudes, and name-calling? Yet it is precisely the novel’s tale of racism and its history of censorship that make it a Great American Novel contender. A land defined and challenged by racism, America struggles with how to understand and move beyond its history. Censor it? Deny it? Rewrite it? Ignore it? Twain confronts American history head-on and tells us this: White people are the problem. 

Hemingway was right when he said, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” Hemingway was wrong when he continued, “If you read it you must stop where the Nigger Jim is stolen from the boys. That is the real end. The rest is just cheating.” For if we stop where Hemingway instructs, we may read the actual wish of many whites – that someone else would take their “black problem” or their “Indian problem” or their “immigrant problem” away – but we miss Twain’s most important critique: White men like Tom Sawyer will forever manipulate the Huck Finns of the world.

I don't think that's what Twain was saying. Maybe that racism is the problem makes more sense. But Margaret trades in one form of racism for another. People are the problem for the color of their skin. Also, I'm not certain but it reads as if she thinks Huck is black.  Whatever, the point is that being white is not a problem. Acting like a self-important douchebag is.

If the Great American Novel both perceptively reflects its time and challenges Americans to do better, Huck Finn deserves the title. Rendering trenchant critiques on every manifestation of whiteness, Twain reminds us that solving racism requires whites to change.

Oh ok. Let me let you in on something Maggie, blacks had no real power to enact change in this country. Protest and march, sure. But little real political power. It was whites who did change their attitudes. Few are racist today and I would dare say in 2014, there are more anti-whites than anti-blacks. The civil-rights laws and anti-slavery laws were passed by whites. White fundamentally changed the country, whites came to the realization that we were wrong for so long and made real change to become far more color blind than ever before.

Except for leftists like you who only see skin color.

We are the most spoiled, whiny, civilization to ever grace the planet.

So I see this today:

10 yard penalty! "Broncos’ Eric Decker and pregnant wife Jessie James take provocative pictures for GQ Magazine" http://t.co/MT6byrVLdT
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) January 17, 2014

So I head over to the link and see a self-involved guy with his self-involved wife who happen to be in their 12th minute, make bazillions of dollars, have their own reality show, and pretty much want for nothing, doing a photo shoot for GQ. This photo shoot shows her belly and is somewhat risque, I guess. I wouldn't say NSFW. Whatever, more "look at me" bullshit. Now I don't begrudge them this, it's their life and do what you want if it doesn't hurt anyone. But then this quote:

Props to Decker and James for embracing their pregnancy. 

It would have been easy for James to stay in hiding and take the traditional “look at the weight she lost” pictures. Instead, she is willing to expose her body, and open herself up to scrutiny, by posing for pictures in GQ Magazine. 

When you consider how much negative attention some athletes garner, these photographs beat mug shots any day.

And I realize I am sick to death of false courage. The courage she shows in taking a few pictures in her underwear while pregnant and getting well-paid for it! Why, how do they escape the life-threatening reaction of apathy by everyone in the country?

This is considered brave by the media. Courageous. So amazing. The self-involvement in the media with the self-involved celebutants of the nation has gone viral. And by viral I mean it's making normal people sick. Let's look at the oh-so-courageous celebs speaking out about vital issues of importance these days:

Robert Redford is upset that they had no campaign to get his film nominated for an Oscar. Not enough to pony up his own money, mind you. Oscar is all political these days. It's a dire problem.

Beyonce (net worth: 847 kabazillion dollars) is very upset about gender inequality. This black woman in the United States somehow managed to overcome both of those apparent liabilities and become probably the most famous singer currently working. I'm not sure how she continues with the onslaught of racists and misogynists out there. The worst part about her outrage is how little effort she actually puts into understanding it. It's all because of men that women make less. That's her entire simple-minded thesis. Hey Beyonce? Go eff yourself.

Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson apparently is a raging homophobe who must be stopped at all costs for his thinking that girl parts are more attractive than boy parts. That's hate on an all new level you know. Yes I know he said some other stuff. So the hell what? How does a guy who basically looks and acts the part of a hick, then spouts some views that play into that affect anything anywhere? If you really got mad at that, if that's your BIG ISSUE of the day, you have zero problems. He thinks gays are god haters or something. Who cares?

There's a reason the term "1st world problems" has entered the lexicon. We can't handle anything anymore. We can't handle people saying things that make us uncomfortable. We can't handle nativity scenes at the school. We can't handle wealth. We can't handle big gulps. We can't handle traffic jams. We can't handle anything!

A hundred or so years ago, a vast majority of this country and the world were still growing and/or killing it's own food. We now stand in front of a microwave impatiently looking at our watches. There needs to be some sort of reset on expectations again. A realization that we don't have any fucking problems. Burma has problems. Iranians have problems. Haitians, Cubans, and a myriad of other places have real problems.

If your tv says something you don't like, then turn it the fuck off. If you are rich and famous, then stop complaining, stop whoring yourself out and actually do something positive with your fame. Showing how you have positive body image doesn't fucking count. Write a large check to those that actually do real good. Salvation Army perhaps. But please, SHUT THE FUCK UP.

My Non-Fight with @EBischoff and Why We keep Losing to Democrats

So Eric Bischoff made a good comment on Twitter today which got featured on Twitchy. I went to his twitter page and saw he was making good comments on the Native Americans.

A good friend who is a leader in the Native American community gave me this pin. Interesting how a culture that was.. pic.twitter.com/NqlFFVdmwg
— Eric Bischoff (@EBischoff) January 16, 2014

and still is devastated by the U.S. Government policy for FORCED dependence is fighting for the right.... pic.twitter.com/ggaBNuCVmS
— Eric Bischoff (@EBischoff) January 16, 2014

right to be self-reliant, while Regressive Democrats are fighting to keep more people dependent. pic.twitter.com/rHZZ47fiH7
— Eric Bischoff (@EBischoff) January 16, 2014

Absolutely correct. In an attempt to join the conversation (as I fancy myself as far more clever than I probably am,) I tweeted:

@EBischoff War didn't destroy the Native Americans, well-meaning bureaucrats putting them on reservations to take care of them did.
— Conservative Yoda (@Solo4357) January 16, 2014

My point being that most of the democrats really do believe they are doing good and as Rush likes to point out, always want to be judged by their intentions. I'm also a big believer in the axiom "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity." Democrats have arrogance and stupidity in spades. There certainly are malicious, power-hungry democrats (and I would at this point count Obama among them) but most lower ranking officials and low information voters are simply that: well-meaning but arrogant and stupid. Of course, this can't all be put into 140 characters.

Eric however took exception at even the hint of an excuse towards progressives and lashed out at me thusly:

@Solo4357 "Well meaning"? Are you F'n kidding me? Read. Learn. #ObamaManifestDestiny
— Eric Bischoff (@EBischoff) January 16, 2014

Now after looking over Eric's general tweets, I think he and I see eye to eye on most issues. But the reactive nature of twitter and the "Us against Them" mentality has so permeated politics that now we can't even agree with each other correctly. Democrats have speech police, democrats have litmus tests and DEMOCRATS are the intolerant haters of the other side. If we react like them, we will never get anywhere as the media is already stacked against us. We have to take higher roads. They will revel in our in-fighting. That in-fighting has now given us John McCain and Mitt Romney.. two vanilla candidates that really wouldn't call out a progressive or say anything mean to the other side. (McCain however will rip his own side. We can see how that's turning out.)

We all know we will have minor disagreements about details. We can't get too bogged down on that or President Hillary will be laughing all the way to the White House.

Remember the IRS targeting Tea Parties Scandal? Neither Does Holder, the FBI, Obama......

Of course you are.

Color me surprised, what with an election year and all. 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn't plan to file criminal charges over the Internal Revenue Service’s heightened scrutiny of conservative groups, according to law-enforcement officials, a move that likely will only intensify debate over the politically charged scandal. 

The officials said investigators didn't find the kind of political bias or “enemy hunting” that would amount to a violation of criminal law. Instead, what emerged during the probe was evidence of a mismanaged bureaucracy enforcing rules about tax-exemption applications it didn't understand, according to the law-enforcement officials… 

By its very nature, the investigation has been freighted with political suspicions. Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who has represented about a dozen groups that faced such questions by the IRS, said the FBI has yet to contact any of her clients about the issue. 

“As far as I can tell, nobody has actually done an investigation. This has been a big, bureaucratic, former-Soviet-Union-type investigation, which means that there was no investigation,” she said. “This is a deplorable abuse of the public trust, but I am not surprised.”

 What's the old saying about the fox guarding the hen house? Whatever. There is no way Eric Holder would do anything about this and this reporting isn't going to change that. So this investigation goes dark.

Obamcare's Newest Challenge: Getting S**t Unf**ked.

Brilliant. I actually do a lot of work in my real world job with Accenture and they are a pretty solid organization. So I think the ad, while parody, is accurate. Unfortunately the best thing that could happen to conservatives is that sh*t stays f**cked. Also while Accenture is good, they have no idea what they are in for. No one f**cks sh*t up like the government.