Smelly Brown People
I have thought long and hard about writing this post. I really don't have much to back it up (I suppose I could if I looked hard enough but I didn't want to do that) so I'll just flap my lips so to speak and say what I want. Hey, Fox News does it, so why can't I!
Recent events and issues have caused me to wonder how much of our troubles, controversies and what-not are the result of BIGOTRY. Now I don't mean the virulent, cross burnin' bigotry that we see from the KKK or Neo-Nazis and crap groups like that, I mean the soft bigotry that allows us to denounce cross burnings, police beatings caught on film, discriminatory business practices, civic group membership policies, and so on, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME causes us to get 'apprehensive' when we accidentally wind up in the 'wrong' part of town, view others wish suspicion , laugh at jokes like this one:
Q.) What do bricks and fat white women have in common?
A.) They both get laid by Mexicans!! (Rim shot! Cue laugh track)
and so on.
This country (U.S.A.) has a long and ugly history with respect to bigotry and while we've come a long way I think the hardest part is still ahead of us. Many, I believe, think the path is linear we improve, slide back a little now and then but basically, we keep going and... eventually we'll get 'there.' Whatever and whenever 'there' is. I don't believe that. I believe that the path to 'there' is a curvy line that is basically linear until you get close to 'there' at which point it starts to curve away from 'there.' The hard KKK type bigotry can be legislated away, outlawed but the soft bigotry well... that's where the difficulty is, it's where the line starts curve away from 'there.'
This soft bigotry is not just focused domestically, but also in our country's international relationships and affairs. For example: Israel has nuclear weapons. That's not a problem (to us) because Israel is a [fill in the blank; democracy, freedom loving... no, they look like us] but a country like Iran [they don't look like us, even tho most actually do]even developing the potential for nukes!?! Why, it's the end!! The end of the world!! The end of... whatever it is you're worried about coming to an end of.
The fact that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ALLOWS the Islamic Republic of Iran to develop nuclear power (including enriching uranium to fuel levels) is unimportant. What is important (what we're told is important anyway) is that we can't trust Iran, why they could... do bad stuff (whatever that is) if we allow this to go on. No, Iran is populated by smelly brown people that hate our freedoms and hate Israel, and the stereotypes go on and on and on.
Mexican Immigration is another issue that is full of smelly brown people. It's one reason why this issue is so contentious. The average Mexican immigrant doesn't look like us, they don't talk like us, they don't [fill in the blank] like us, they...
No one (in positions of power) seems to be able to objectively look at these issues and resolve them. The people involved and affected fall into two camps; us and them ("them" being the smelly brown people). There's no respect, us for them or them for us) and so the bullshit just keeps rolling along and rollin' along.
posted by Steve Mule at 4:27 AM
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