a racist post

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anybody old enough to remember emily litella?

one of gilda radner's best characters, she'd show up on saturday night live's "weekend update" from time to time, dimly and indignantly railing at great length about some issue or other, until her complete cluelessness [in this case, mishearing "violins on television" for "violence on television"] was pointed out to her by the anchor, at which point, she'd . . .

well, watch for yourself.




it was a great bit, made even more so by the sheer ridiculousness of its premise.  i mean, seriously--as if the half-baked views of a loon like that would ever air on a legitimate news program, right?

right?

fast-forward 34 years:  the other day i'm getting ready for work with the local LA news on in the background, a story they'd been teasing for an hour about a racist hallmark card finally comes up, and i sit down to watch:





bottom line for those of you who are click-shy: some idiot of color who'd apparently never heard of astronomy somehow got hold of a talking hallmark "happy graduation" card, pressed "play" and did an emily litella.  he/she then ran straight to the LA chapter of the NAACP screaming "racism;" said organization immediately saw an opportunity and ran straight for the cameras.

when hallmark, who had been successfully selling this astronomy-based card for the past three years, frantically tried to reassure the NAACP that the "black ho's" they thought they heard was actually "black holes"--and even sent them the script to prove it--you'd think that'd be the end of it and the NAACP would abashedly say "never mind," right?

yeah, right.

emboldened by past experience of success, the NAACP instead doubles down--now they insist they hear an "r" in there--the cartoon character is clearly saying "black whores."

and this is where we enter never-neverland, and mkf starts screaming and throwing shit at the tv.

because, once again, the instant some ignorant ethnic organization charges "racism," the news outlets rush out with their cameras and the corporate object of said charge automatically drops to its knees and begs forgiveness.

[i.e., even though there was no reason to do so, hallmark pulled its card--and the NAACP, thus further emboldened, admonished, "make sure this never happens again."]

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i have no doubt that every time the al sharptons, jesse jacksons and NAACPs of the world up the ante on dumbass shit like this, even they are astonished at the payoff they manage to extract from the guilty white world in return.

and--funniest thing--with every such victory, they become more strident and aggrieved.

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so tell me, who's worse--(1) the idiots at the NAACP who think shit like this actually advances the interests of people of color in america; (2) the idiots at KABC who treated this lunacy as a legitimate news story; or (3) the craven corporation that knuckled under, thus ensuring more of this shit in the future?

i honestly dunno, but one of these days some establishment organization who's finally had enough is gonna summon the cojones to stand up to one of these cretinous race-baiting grifters and very publicly tell 'em to fuck off--and find, to its surprise, that most of taxpaying america instantly rallies behind it.

then, and only then, will the tide turn.

me?  my lily-white faggot ass lives for that day.