Hop On The Bus Disgust, But Not In The Back Blacks

I am disgusted by this entire n(appy) word fiasco.

I am disgusted at Imus for being a white milk toast jackass and at his weak attempts at penance by casting himself as a do-gooder liberal with “black friends” and not some “raving right wing racist” (his words).

I am disgusted at the likes of Sharpton and Jackson and their selective moral outrage and making this a condemnation of a racist white America that only exists in their fundraising pamphlets.

I am disgusted by, as reader Anita pointed out, the celebrity gossip culture that we live in.

I am disgusted by all the comedians weighing in that everything would have been fine if only the joke was funny.

I am disgusted with the liberal Paul Begala, who has always been quick with the accusation of racism against a Republican, yet now with Oliphant is showing “solidarity forever” with good friend and fellow lib Imus.

I am disgusted with conservatives such as Michelle Malkin who are using this as an excuse to condemn the entire hip hop "gangsta" community. Free speech is free speech is free speech.

I am disgusted by the insinuation that only the white man can be racist.

I am disgusted by this entire nappy headed ho fiasco.

But I will add one more thing….

What about the Lady Vols?

For my money they suffered the worse of the insult - if there was any at all - of the joke. As the line from the Spike Lee joint goes...

“Wannabees…

....wanna be white”

Or something like that, its been a long time since I saw that movie.

In essence they were called Uncle Toms and house slaves, which once again for my money, as a white man can only imagine, would be the more vile indignation (it is the favorite insult of Harry Belafonte) being called a race traitor and a phony. But that is just me.

My opinion aside, at the very least it was as insulting as being called a ho, and yet nary a word has been said about the slight suffered by the Tennessee players.

I have my theory - only a theory, and do not claim to know the actual reasoning behind this non coverage, but I think that the absence of outrage over one insult in overwhelming favor of the other is perhaps more telling of the current politicized racial situation in this country than the cable news uproar would lead us to believe.

Now I see the importance of history
Why people be in the mess that they be
Many journeys to freedom made in vain
By brothers on the corner playin ghetto games
I ask you lord why you enlightened me
Without the enlightment of all my folks
He said cuz I set myself on a quest for truth
And he was there to quench my thirst
But I am still thirsty...

-- Arrested Development, Tennessee

Then again I think this whole thing is bullshit. Just because a white person hurts a black person's feelings does not necessarily mean it is racism. It just doesn't. We do not live in a black and white world and the sooner we understand that the better off everyone will be.

Side by side on my piano keyboard
Oh Lord, why don't we.....

But why do the white keys get to be up front.....

EE-Aw!!!