While channel surfing I came across the biography of Larry the Cable Guy on the Biography channel. I happen to be a fan of Larry the Cable Guy and the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. But here’s my point.
Larry is a gifted, hysterically funny comic who appeals to tens of millions of people of every description. But, not altogether surprisingly, Biography reported that Larry had come under sharp attack, for what his critics call racist jokes and unkind comments about homosexuals.
Larry does jokes, not criticism of the act of homosexuality. But it is my opinion – criticizing the chosen act of homosexuality is only wrong to those who object, because they fear that with enough criticism, people will awaken to the truth that it is a chosen act of base commonality, and that it is as unnatural as a cat with three tails.
The joke that Larry does about guys wearing their pants hanging halfway off their behinds, as wearing them half-mast for a rapper who died, is about as racist as it is to criticize Obama’s policies. But that notwithstanding he has been called racist and insensitive.
Here’s my question: if that joke is evidence of Larry’s racism, what is it when Eddie Murphy or the other black comics openly mock and mimic whites? How are whites supposed to feel as they sit in a predominantly black audience, with a black comic making jokes about them, some of which go way overboard? What would be the response of a black person, sitting in an audience of whites, with a white comic making a joke about them – the way blacks walk, talk, about hip-hop or heaven forbid about wearing their pants hanging off their behinds? The answer is they attack them as racist as they did Larry.
Larry isn’t a political figure, he’s a comic and a comics job is to make people laugh. He isn’t vulgar, he isn’t crude and unpolished- he’s funny in a way that every person outside of a new black panther party meeting and the Rachel Maddow show can enjoy.
My point is this; blacks have been sold a bill of goods about themselves and about the world. For all of the bravado about black pride, dashikis, natural hair, the motherland, afro-centrism, and pan-africanism – the bottom line is many blacks are ashamed of themselves and have deep feelings of inculcated inferiority complex.
They cleave to the past and myths about the reality of what was, because it gives them something of value, that they can leverage as currency and power over others.
And standing by ready to capitalize on same is a complicit media, and political figures including Obama himself. They prey on that inculcated emotional baggage, using it as a caldron to foment racial animus for their personal gain.
It is tragic, but it continues. And it continues because people allow it too. Some do so out of ignorance of the pass, others do it out of ignorance, and others as I’ve pointed out for personal gain at the expense of social harmony.
Until blacks are willing to acknowledge they are free and that white people are not getting up in the morning conspiring to do them harm – many will continue to clothe themselves in vestiges of bitterness and inferiority, while blaming others as validation for their social anxieties.
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There still is racism. There has always been racism. There will always be racism. It’s the last resort of people with no redeeming talents in their attempts to try and appear superior or even equal to someone else. There’s a perfect example sitting in the White House right now, totally unqualified for the job, way in over his head and married to the biggest shrew since Bill Shakespeare wrote about one. He denies that he has caused any harm and blames Dubya for all his mistakes and problems. He and her and his have spent millions of our dollars on vacations and site seeing junkets. He’s given Jimmy Carter a pass as the worst President in memory and shown that George Bush wasn’t near the fool the press tried to make him. I wonder if he’d like a list of all the things that he has blamed on Bush that are in fact his doing. I have it saved if he’d like a copy.
He says he has a Harvard law degree. I don’t believe him. He says he was born in Hawaii. After the last few week’s investigations and what has come out, I don’t believe him. He says he’s a Christian, I don’t believe him. If he said it was 10:20 PM CST on July 8, 2012, I’d check my watch before I’d believe him. I’d be suspicious of anything he says because of all of his lies, misdirection, double speak and treasonous acts which are the only things he’s proven that he is the true master of in the last 3 + years.
I don’t think there’s been anyone in a high government office that was as big a racist as him since George Wallace or Lester Maddox. One was shot and spent the rest of his life in a wheel chair. The other rode a train out of Georgia and into oblivion. Too bad we were out of tar and feathers. I don’t want to leave out Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson Lee as racists, but they come in a distant second with the competition they have. I’ll show the respect for being Reverends when Jackson and Sharpton prove they have earned it as much as Colonel Sanders earned his rank. They are all snakes and if they were white instead of Black they would be Grand Dragons in the KKK because they have no ability other than spreading hate.
This administration will go down in history for two things: racist liars, criminals and thieves and for blowing the best chance thus far to promote racial harmony for future generations. Because of him, it’s going to be hard for white people to trust a black person for years to come. Not fair, but a fact. When our black citizens see what he has done to them as well, they will rue the day that 94% of them voted for him. And if that’s not racist, tell me what is. If he’s done anything, he has heightened racial tension in this country, weakened our dollar, put us in debt that will be near impossible to pay back, brought the nation back to near depression days and made us a laughing stock for the rest of the world. We have lost the trust of allies and the envy of the rest of the modern world for our exceptionalism.
It will be many decades for us to regain what we had earned and lost B O (before Obama).
sumitch: race is used to keep us divided…and those who use race as currency to further their diabolical goals are the racists…the rest are just ignorant…
Well said.
Hahahahaha. I AM one!
sheilarr: we like you already…
With all the PC that`s infiltrated every aspect of life, it`s as though there`s no room left for humor. There`s so much hypersensitivity, defensivenesss, suspicion now, I wonder just how much progress we`ve actually made with it all. It`s a bondage wherein every word has to be weighed against the possible backlash. But, then, PC has always been more concerned with what`s said in public than what`s felt in private.
onelongpup: unless you don’t care what they think…I will not be bullied into playing by their rules…we know what is meant to be insult…and so do they…I fully agree w/ you last sentence…
Onelongpup:
Your last sentence is dead on correct. If I may, I’d like to put that in my status on FB and alos Tweet it. Let me know. Peace
Onelongpup…feel free just be sure to give proper attribution i.e. my name, article title, and a link back to my blog http://Mychal-Massie.com…thks much…
Liberalism has given rise to a whole new state of bondage. It is a travesty. But, people like me, in most venues get trashed for saying so. Glad that isn’t the case here. I like Larry the cable guy alot. We are in a politically correct speech/censorship nightmare. So glad you are out there speaking out Mychal.
Jan…you cannot allow people to silence your voice…mine is only as strong as your voice makes it…we are all in this together…
Mychal, I am NOT quiet believe me. In fact, just the opposite.
That is why you are such an asset…
Me? Thanks.
Talk about picking on people…
I am married to a blond!
arizona guy…hahaha I’m dating one…