Would it be racist to compare these boys to monkeys?
Linda Ramirez Sliwinski, I feel your pain. You saw kids acting like monkeys and said that they should not be doing that. Those kids were black and you weren’t. For that, you were held up to public ridicule and persecution. (For background on this see the Chicago Tribune story here .) In these so called free United States of America, we micro-analyze every uttered word of every public servant; from the lowest ranking police officer to the president. Additionally, we have an ever-changing list of others who must be kept in their place lest they gain too much influence and challenge the status quo.
Examples of groups who’ve done time on the list are, in no specific order:
• Latin American immigrants
• Gays
• Non Jews
• Jews
• Non-Christians
• Blacks
• Non-Blacks
• Free thinkers
• Non-conformists of any kind
Do we round these people up and throw them in jail? No, well sometimes, but mostly, we just take turns beating up one another. We pass amendments to our state constitutions to oppress the gays. We use the media to circumvent the due process of law and destroy the lives of people we perceive to have offended us, whether or not they are truly guilty of having committed a crime. We use the almighty bible to beat the crap out of anyone who dares offend us by baring too much skin, or any other uncomfortable truth.
That said, let’s go back to Ms. Ramirez Sliwinski and the monkey kids. Who is the real racist in this picture? My contention is that the person who is looking for racism so hard that they see it around every corner is a racist. They simply cannot accept that society has moved on and left them behind. They are easy to spot.
If they are black, they are the ones who say that white people who use the words reserved for black peoples’ use are racist. Those words include: nigga, brother, whoop, word, shizzle, nizzle, cream, and above all, monkey. If they are white, they are the ones who annoyingly point out every instance of black folks’ using the above words and bemoan the fact that whites can’t use them.
So the Obama campaign asked her to resign as a delegate. What does such a knee-jerk reaction say about Barack Obama’ potential as a future leader of our country? Will he ask me to surrender my position with the police department if I call a black 17 year old a “boy”? Yes, I checked, and many blacks do consider this to be racist behavior. Did you get the memo?
The real racist was the ass who called the police and complained that their neighbor called their kids monkeys. In fact she only compared the kids to monkeys “…climbing in there like monkeys”. Then the cop who was retarded (political incorrectness and cultural insensitivity on the use of the word retarded duly noted and discarded by blogger) enough to include the fact that she called the kids monkeys in the citation, as if he/she had never had a class on constitutional law in the police academy.
In closing: Parents, control your brats and the neighbors won’t have to compare them to monkeys, no matter what race they, you, or the neighbor happens to be.
