I play basketball during my lunch hour to provide an outlet for my frustrations that develop over the first part of the day. It's tremendously therapeutic to run full court, box out for a rebound and hit an occasional winning shot. All of a sudden, the guy who was complaining about his auto insurance rates going up because he was responsible for causing $3,598 in damage, doesn't seem so bad.
The same philosophy applies to writing this blog. If the insanity of the Walker recall efforts gets too much, I can type away until I feel like I've said my two cents, proven the fallacy of their argument and (in my mind) saved the state from unconscionable indebtedness. Every so often, however, it gets to be too much.
So, I want to provide my early 2012 examples of such stupidity that it defies all attempts to forget them. Perhaps listing these glittering jewels of colossal ignorance will help others realize just how bad it has gotten. When the majority of people start talking like this, you know we're going to hell in a hand basket.
My first example is the proclamation by Pulp Fiction's Samuel Jackson in an Ebony interview that he voted for Obama because of his skin color. According to Jackson, "Obama's message didn't mean sh*t to me. I just hoped he would do some of what he said he was gonna do. I voted for Barack because he was black. Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people -- because they look like them."
Sorry, Sam but you are an ignorant buffoon. According to election results in 2008, 54 percent of young whites voted for Obama, proving that at least a majority of whites aren't colorblind. On the other hand 96 percent of blacks voted for Obama because of his race.
But Jackson wasn't finished. He added, "When it comes down to it, they wouldn't have elected a n*gga. Because, what's a n*gga? A n*gga is scary. Obama ain't scary at all. N*ggas don't have beers at the White House. N*ggas don't let some white dude, while you in the middle of a speech, call you a liar." He went on to say that Obama's first term was timid and that he hopes he gets a second term because then he could behave like a "scary n*gga, cuz he ain't gotta worry about being re-elected."
I don't know what's worse -- his grammar or his use of the N-word. It's obvious that he can read a movie script, but if this is the way he speaks normally, he has a lot of fans fooled. And why can blacks get away with saying the N-word but no one else? Hopefully these comments are the beginning of the end of Jackson's career. What a bigot and racist.
Example number two: Maya Angelou, the 83-year old, black poet who read at President Obama's inauguration, is thought of by some as the "sage of black America". She had this to say recently (concerning Obama's re-election):
"I think we are going to see a number of people who say: ' I have no racial prejudice in my heart, not in my conversation'," Angelou says. "But in the next few months, as we wind up to the double campaign, I tell you we are going to see some nastiness, some vulgarity, I think. They'll pull the sheets off."
Reflecting on Obama's presidency, Angelou says "He is America's president. But he also describes himself as America's first black president. His physical self, just being there, his photograph in the newspapers as president of the United States; that has done so much good for the spirit of the African American. We see more and more children wanting to be like President Obama, wanting to go to school."
Why is it that black activists are the first to play the race card? If we criticize Obama, somehow we're all card-toting members of the Klu Klux Klan? The fact that the president has done more to destroy 2.2 million jobs than create new ones is somehow related to him being black? The explosion in our national debt to more than $15 trillion is a figment of our imagination, and solely a by-product of our racial biases?
You can't criticize Obama's presidency based on his color, but it's permissible to use it as an attribute when claiming he's the first black American president. (Sorry, but I believe President Clinton took that distinction when he moved his office to Harlem, N.Y. and proclaimed his race-altering transformation.) So if we are to believe this intellectual sycophant, Barack Obama's an inspiration to black kids who suddenly want to go to college. Somehow I don't see this same adoration in some of Chicago's African American kids who don't know who their fathers are but who know how Derrick Rose cheated in college to become a star in the NBA.
"I saw pictures of (House Republican leaders) Boehner and Cantor on our screens at the convention. Don't ever let me see again, in life, those Republicans in our hall, on our screens, talking about anything. These are demons." She told the crowd, "they are bringing down this country, destroying this country, because they'd rather do whatever they can do to destroy this president rather than what's good for this country." Apparently congressmen from the GOP are bad for the country. Maybe -- just maybe -- there's a good reason we don't want anything to do with these people.
Ms. Waters also said that banks will be "shaking in their boots" if Democrats retake the House and she assumes control of the House Finance Committee (the great bloviator Barney Frank is retiring). Somehow I don't think we have to worry about Maxine getting the chair on this committee, however. She continues to face an ethics investigation into her potential role in securing federal money for a bank with ties to her husband.
I kid you not.
As much as I like to label these comments as colossally ignorant, it worries me that more than half the people in this country actually think the same way. Whether its accusations about Republicans wanting to outlaw contraceptives, or Warren Buffet paying less in taxes than his secretary, or GM's announcement that the Volt is the "car of the future" -- there are too many people focused on Whitney Houston's funeral, and not on things that are really changing our world.
Oh well. At least we can all agree that this year's Grammy winner, Adele, is one heck of a singer.
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