Words mean things...

...until they don't. 

An example: take the word silly.  What does that mean?  Stupid?  Goofy?  Childish?  Sure.  That's what it means...now. 

Originally, the word meant blessed.  The word evolved to mean joyful, then happy, and has...yeah.  Devolved is a good way to put it. 

Take the word racism.  Or, better yet, racist.  Used to, it meant someone who actively said or did awful things to people of other races--Native American, Chinese, African, you name it--because they thought those of other races weren't really human.  Barely a step up from an animal. 

Now? 

Well.

The word is applied to anyone born of visibly Caucasian background.  No, you don't have to do or say anything--in fact, silence is now deemed being racist.  Not noticing the color of people's skin is racist.  Treating everyone exactly the same is racist.

It's ironic, really.  Many of the proponents of this view are, at best, agnostic, and more often rabidly, evangelically atheist.  Yet the language they couch "racism" in is very familiar to Christians. 

It's Original Sin, just repackaged by leftists to make it useful for them to hit the rest of us with.  But, unlike with Christianity, there's no salvation, at all, ever. 

I am beginning to respond to the screams of "racism" with a shrug, and a "so what?" 

Words mean things...until the word's definition devolves to mean nothing. 

Again, it's culture. NOT race.

So.  Recently, there was a black thug that got himself ventilated by a cop because he either (at the very least) started to drive away from a traffic stop that discovered his license was suspended, or (likely, but can't tell from the video) he grabbed the cop as he started to drive away, trying to drag the cop under the car. 

I say likely, because it's become a popular move with certain, inner city cultures. 

There is a certain crop of social justice warriors bullies out there that are aghast that black people almost invariably* have negative interactions with the police.   Well, maybe a large segment of the black population does have negative interactions with the police; however, how much of that is the fault of their own behavior?  They act out, getting up in the cop's face, and trying to intimidate them into going away.  They curse at them, act belligerent. 

How the fuck do they think police will react to a valid threat to their lives and safety?  Because that is what they are presenting themselves as. 

I've seen plenty of white people do the exact same things.  And I've seen whites have the exact same reaction from the police.

The neighbors from a couple years ago living in the house across and down from us with no electricity, heat, or water...their trouble with their kids getting yanked started when the cops saw the kids (three years, and eighteen months) playing in the unfenced yard, didn't see their mother watching them from the open door while she changed a diaper, and stopped to investigate.  She got belligerent and a bit nasty with them, her husband got verbally abusive, and their kids got yanked, and he got arrested.  No, he didn't get physical, just mouthy.  And no, he wasn't flung to the ground and beat--but he had been in the past, when he did get physical. 

He learned.  He learned from the consequences of his own actions, and he learned from watching what happened to others. 

You'd think that a certain segment of the population would be capable of learning the same. 

I am, by no means, trusting of the police.  The county cops around this area, yes, but not the city.  I've had too many belligerent officers (probably high school bullies) try to tell me and my family that we don't have the rights that I know we do.  I likely will not call the police for help with problems, and not unless it's absolutely necessary.

But.

We do not act, nor do we react, with the same stupid, saving-face behaviors that the tribal-minded inner city thugs tend to, so I am absolutely unafraid that we will be physically harmed. 



*Buried amonst the other stories are ones like this, or this, that don't fit the narrative of racist cops murdering innocent black choir boys. 

Well, now.

If this doesn't go over like a shit-filled lead balloon, I don't know what will.  People who care about their families enough to bust their asses to move to the suburbs do so because they want to get away from inner-city dwellers.  It isn't a race thing--I had a black student last semester that desperately wanted to move their mama and younger brother out of Chicago, who had more of what it takes to get  and stay out than some of my lower/middle class white kids.  It isn't race, nor is it racism that makes people leave the cities. 

I grew up around poverty.  And it's a whole different mindset than middle to upper class.  One of the biggest differences is courtesy, and the ability to defer gratification. 

When I say courtesy, I don't mean fancy manners, nor yet the whole treating others well.  I'm talking about knowing what not to overshare.  No, people don't want to hear about your poop problems in public.  No, we don't want to hear about your ingrown pubic hair problems.  Nor yet your toenails, kidney stones, or any of your other various nasty health complaints.  Yuck. 

My mother does not have any sense of when this is and isn't appropriate, nor for who she can/should discuss this with. 

I think I've already discussed the inability to delay gratification and plan for the future being a strong predictor of a person's socioeconomic standing; however, this isn't limited to financial choices.  It's the choice to gang up and bully someone because they're the wrong color in the wrong neighborhood.  It's the choice to vandalize someone else's property.  It's the choice to get pregnant because there wasn't birth control available when somebody wanted some (and yes, that is a choice: even as a teen, I was entirely capable of choosing to do something else when life-altering consequences were possible).  It's choosing to disrupt class because somebody passed someone into a grade they weren't ready for, and can't keep up with, several times in the name of "social promotion" and "self-esteem," because they can't stand that other students want to learn. 

"Rich" families in "rich" neighborhoods (that aren't "rich" enough to pay the shake-down money that this will likely attempt to gather) left the inner cities to get their kids away from behavior like this.  I do not think they'll be happy when King Putt insists on bringing the inner city to their neighborhoods, and infecting their culture with the same rot.

And they sure as hell don't want it in their schools that they paid through the noses with property tax to get their kids into.  Schools are bad enough without disruptive influences that cannot be punished because "racism."

A "White People Thing?" Really?

And here I thought showering more than every few days was a hygeine thing.  Or perhaps a consideration thing, considering that most people don't want to smell you coming before you enter a room.  Nor have somebody who's just worked out sit all whiffy next to them at a board meeting, or working next to them at work.

She says "ethnics" just don't shower as much...I really think that more speaks on their culture of lack of consideration for others than it does anything else.

DTFO!!!

I have had one of the most uncomfortable mornings teaching that I have ever had in eleven years of standing in front of a classroom.  For the first time in my career, one of my students said something blatantly racist.  We were discussing how long drugs can be detected in someone's system through their hair, and this fifty year old woman pipes up with "That's why so many black men shave their heads bald."

Umm...what?  No.  No, it isn't. 

This woman has not struck me as the brightest bulb in the box.  She's needed more help to get less done than everyone else in her class, and now?  Now, she says something blatantly racist like that in a class where everyone is twenty years younger than her, at least, and then tries to defend said statement with "I'm not racist!  My fiance is black!"

Wow.  And she didn't even realize that the whole class was about to dog-pile her for that statement, and glared at me when I shut discussion down to move to another topic. 

There were two black kids in that class.  And the young man is one of the two cleanest-cut of his particular age group in the class.  There are four Muslims in that class, and they are all very dark, and were just as shocked and disgusted as everyone else.  The one sitting next to her got up and moved a seat down away from her.

And she didn't realize how angry the entire class was.  Nor that the whole class was about to dog-pile onto her.  Nor yet that almost all of the black men on campus wear long, beautifully maintained cornrow braids, nor that most of the bald guys in the area shaving their heads are white.

That takes a special kind of stupid, one that I don't have patience with, and doesn't belong in a college setting.

I don't care what you think, only that you think...and that includes determining when and where is appropriate to open your mouth and spew stuff that sounds like it came from the Jim Crow south.

This dumb bitch really needs to drop out...or at least drop my class.  

Ladies and gentlemen...Margaret Sanger

The founder of Planned Parenthood, the majority of whose abortions are perpetrated on the poor and minorities:

Shamelessly stolen from KurtP.

Damn skippy.

Trayvon's dad is right about one thing.

If the kid had been white, he wouldn't have been skulking about other neighborhoods after dark, wouldn't have been indoctrinated into the thug culture as a racial identity, would have rabbited and kept going instead of jumping a suspected stalker from behind to beat his ass into the pavement. 

And Zimmerman would never have been crucified by a media with an agenda, nor tried as a murderer for shooting a kid that was several inches taller, and quite a bit heavier and more fit.

To Chris Matthews:

Go suck on a donkey dick, fuckface.  You do not speak for me, and I am not sorry that Trayvon Martin got shot for beating up a smaller, weaker man, nor that the man who shot Martin rightfully walked (sort of) free. 

If the other MSNBC employee that you were speaking to "could have been Trayvon Martin," he needs to be tested for illegal substances, fired, and arrested before he beats the fuck out of someone trying to protect their home neighborhood from being burglarized.

Although, it it's you he decides to beat the shit out of...then he deserves an award.

Good.

Zimmerman's gonna sue NBC for selectively editing the audio of his 911 call to make him look racist.*

*My definition of racism is injecting race issues where they're not applicable.  In other words, the forces behind the whole trial bullshit were racist...and Zimmerman wasn't.

Due process

No person shall ... be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, or be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...--Amendment V, United States Constitution

"I think that we clearly must move on to the next step in terms of the federal government and in terms of the civil courts." Al Sharpton, race-baiter extraordinaire

Is it me, or does it sound like he wants the federal government to try Zimmerman for murdering Trayvon Martin, despite having been found not guilty?  I understand that Martin's parents have the option of a wrongful death suit, but seriously?  Putting him up on charges again for Martin's death is flat-out unconstitutional. 

The man has already had his life taken in payment for his stupidity.  His social security number has been published--meaning his identity has probably already been stolen.  And he's unlikely to be issued a new one by a federal government that decided he was guilty of murder as soon as he'd pulled the trigger because he's "white" and Martin was black, never mind that Zimmerman's not white.

Zimmerman, with all of those out there after his head, is not going to survive the year.  If someone doesn't murder him, he's going to wind up killing himself because he's never going to be able to leave this part of his past behind him.

Neither the progressives, the media, nor that certain segment of the population will permit it.

Wanna know one reason I don't teach below the college level?

These kids don't make it to college.  And their compatriots that do can be bad enough.

It isn't race.  It's culture.  And their culture is race and racism.

If Zimmerman gets justice...

I'm so glad I'm in a small town, and a good ways away from racist minorities.  Because I do not want to have to defend my home from rioters.

FFOT: a list

My week was going pretty good...and then I saw the news on Thursday.  Several parts purely pissed me off. 

First up: Democratic Representative Bobby Rush can fuck right off with a giant rainbow horse dick for suggesting we need to stop calling illegal aliens "illegal" because that word is "extremely offensive."  Sure, you terroristic Black Panther twunt.  I'll stop calling them "illegal."  I'll start calling them wetbacks.  And rifle targets.  And you? 

Next: the Orwellian Affordable Care Act.  It isn't.  Need I say more? 

(By the way, you cock-biting cum-burping guttersluts--I am a part time English professor at a small university, and my family can't afford your so-called "cheapest" plan.)

Last, but not least...King Putt himself can fuck the fucking fuckety fuck off for deciding to fucking weigh in on the fucking side of the fucking Syrian rebels.  I don't give half a flying fuck at a rolling fucking donut that the Syrian government used chemical weapons.  Fucking good on them for that. 

Because the rebels that King Putt has decided to aid?  Have just pledged their allegiance to al-Qaeda. 

That makes the camel-humping knob gobbling mouth-breathing sand louse a fucking traitor.  That makes him even worse than I'd previously thought him. 

And, in honor of the religion to which he apparently ascribes...

What has Martin Bashir been smoking?

I don't know about y'all, but when I bitch about the IRS, I'm bitching about the Internal Revenue Service sucking money out of my paycheck and/or targeting conservatives, not referring to King Putt as a nigger by using a code word. 

And if there's an ongoing war in D.C., it's King Putt's administration against we, the people.

I honestly don't give half a shit what color Obama's skin is.  I don't like the color of his politics.

I have an idea!

How about people stop taking offense at stupid, petty shit?  Like this: yes, it's insulting to have a stranger call the police, concerned that your daughters are just random little girls you've kidnapped.  Yes, it's horrifically racist to think that a white man would never marry a black woman* and father cute little biracial baby girls, so that white guy had to have kidnapped those little black girls.

Wal-Mart claims that a customer made the call.  He and his wife state that they will never shop at Wal-Mart again, saying that it's horrible, and racist, and how dare they???

Except...it wasn't a Wal-Mart employee that made that call to the cops.  It wasn't Wal-Mart's fault.  If anyone is at fault, it's the random twit that made the call because the man and his children looked like they "didn't fit."  Because he's pasty white, and the little girls are mocha latte.  

However.  He needs to think of it differently: what if someone had kidnapped his daughters?  Wouldn't he want someone calling the police and reporting it? 

Grow up, put on your big girl panties, and stop getting offended at petty crap, people.  Laugh it off, or get mad, see if you can find out who made the call, and sue their ass for being stupid and racist.  Don't blame it on people and institutions who had nothing to do with the whole situation besides being the location where the twit happened to have made the call.

*First of all, these people have been married for ten years.  Despite racist twits giving them shit--from both races--about a biracial marriage.  Second, they waited for six before having their first child.  These children are likely to not be a tax burden--ever--unless their mother pulls the whole "You're not making me happy--get out" shit.  And if she's smart, she won't.  

Second...God have mercy, that was racist.  Prosecute the dumb twit that made the call.

Disgusting.

I keep thinking that racism is endemic only in that minorities hate themselves and others.  I keep thinking that schools and churches and things like that aren't racist--that charges of racism are attempts to deflect attention and responsibility for personal failings.

Apparently, I was wrong.  And this is disgusting.

Now, that's racist.

So what if the guy's got a white fiance, and may vote Republican?  How is it not racist to call this guy names because he doesn't march in lock-step with other black people?

My definition of racism is bringing up race where it's not relevant.  And most of the time, that's done by black people, and Hispanics.  Nobody else cares.

If you want to spout a conspiracy theory...

...at least pick one that has a snowball's chance in hell of being possible.  Putting poison or disease in the food and water most likely to be eaten and drunk by blacks isn't likely.  Putting Planned Parenthood's abortion clinics in primarily black neighborhoods to abort black babies, on the other hand...

Farrakhan is right in substance: certain segments of the white population are working scientifically to kill blacks.  They just aren't doing it the way he thinks they are.

It's not the color, it's the culture, stupid.

An MSNBC host has showed her racist ass, recently.  She took a shooting that happened in Florida, and put a racist spin on it, lamenting that with white racism causing problems for young black men, "this is no country for young black men."

Bullshit, you racist bitch. 

What happened was a middle aged white guy getting gas asked an SUV full of thug wannabes to turn down their stereo.  They refused, things escalated, and he (quite reasonably, given the circumstances) thought he saw a shotgun being raised in the back seat.  So, he pulled his gun, and defended himself.

It isn't that these kids were black that caused the problem, it was the situation, and the culture that encouraged the teenagers to get belligerent; skin color doesn't act, culture does.

And a lot of Americans are getting bloody sick of tip-toeing around the thug culture because they're afraid of being labeled a racist.  We're getting called racist so often that we're beginning to not care anymore.

And the thugs are going to learn a harsh lesson: that the only places they'll be safe are the inner cities where leftist mayors disarm their populations, and Illinois.