Straight No Chaser: The Redneck Rally
It's "Open Season" on Black and Brown people.
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POSTED: Aug 27, 2010
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It was a deliberate, defiant slap-in-the-face of all
who bleed Honolulu Blue. It was an calculating insulting gesture which could
not be misinterpreted, misconstrued nor misconceived . . . screw you and the
horse you rode in on . . . pard-ner.
An act which demanded testicles if nothing else. Perhaps not
brains, but guts - yeah.
This weekend Glenn Beck is hosting a Redneck Round-up at a site,
the Lincoln Monument considered sacred ground for those groups of
folks for whom this nation formally regarded and treated as property, as 2nd,
3rd, 4th and no-class citizens - up until . . . right now - everybody,
and I do mean everybody but conservative White males . . . this nations only
real patriots.
If patriotism is "the last refuge of a scoundrel" - it
is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism,
but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions
altogether."
Beck lacks the moral fiber, the guts and gumption needed to state
his true racist, sexist and elitist mind - his real intentions, his actual,
ultimate yearnings for our American society to return to some
"moderate" form of the formal "apartheid" which once rule
the land, nevertheless he is arrogant enough, to the pompous point of holding
his boiling hot tea party on the anniversary of MLK's monumental
"I have a dream" speech.
This asses classless act, in itself is akin to TO dropping
his pants and urinating on the Dallas Cowboy's blue star . . . Beck's well
aware of the insult that his rally is, aware of the insult it's being perceived
and taken as.
As are his fanatical followers, and yet, they've plowed straight
ahead, full-throttle with their plans to intentionally insult a defining
milestone moment in a social movement they despise to this day -one which
signaled the end to White America's exclusive but fake, artificial monopoly to
the fabled, but ever elusive American Dream.
Integration, an end to strategic social segregation, the US civil
rights struggle . . . as far as Beck's concerned, along with the rest of his
angry White people - these "set-backs" were the beginning of the end,
so, from the mid 1960's on - Archie Bunker and Ricky Bobby have been brewing
and stewing, plotting and planning another revolution. . . . and noting the off-the-chart
gun n' ammo sales we've seen nation-wide since Obama started sleeping in the
Black House . . . they're on the verge of "seizing the time."
Beck and the boys are praying to their little Nordic Viking baby
Jesus for violence, they're hoping to simply create an climate, bring together
all the volatile and combustible elements . . . knowing they're enhancing,
maximizing the chances of . . . people going-off.
Presenting an
opportunity for a few racist White people to set-off . . . millions of racist
White people, launch dressed-up lynch mobs upon people-of-color.
Please forgive me, but my spider-senses are screaming in my inner-ear, telling me to either "fortify" my home, deepen the shark infested moat, let the hounds run wild, or pack-up my family's passports and take the 8:15 to the Netherlands . . . West Indies isle that is, and seek refuge from the impending race war which will be ravishing the nation.
What ?!
With 50 million enraged "real Americans" - initiating "Open
Season" on . . . Everybody who aint White n' Right -
breakdown the options and choices - this is the end the "right" has
wanted since 1865.
Few of us can recall the East St Louis Riots of 1917.
White rioters killed hundreds of black residents . . . including women
and children. Or the Atlanta Riot of 1906, the Omaha and Chicago
Riots of 1919, like-wise, women, children, the elderly or handicapped were
now spared . . . .
The 1921 Tulsa Race Riots grew out of black resistance to
the attempted lynching of 19-year old Black shoe-shiner, White mobs set fire to
the black Greenwood district, destroying 1,256 homes and as many as 200
businesses.
Fires leveled 35 blocks of residential and commercial neighborhood.
Black people were rounded up by the Oklahoma National Guard and put into
several internment centers, including a baseball stadium - dig this White
rioters in airplanes shot at black refugees and dropped improvised kerosene
bombs and dynamite on them.
I could go on and on and on.
Some, not all, but enough that it matters - of the people
gathering with Grand Warlock Beck . . . I submit, are capable of
such diabolical atrocities.
To be both honest and truthful; as a Black man, a man of color - I whole-heartily believe there's millions of White Americans who long for these "good ol' days," and I'm not alone in my guesstimation, I'm sure a few other . . . million Blacks concur with me.
Is not the question; How can
millions of Black people, not to mention millions of Latinos and Asians still
feel the same blind dislike, the blanket distaste and disdain harbored by this,
the ridiculously self-titled "colorblind" majority towards . .
. everybody else.
Beck, Rush, Hannity, Savage all these "hate media" bastards turn the flames up to "extreme" everyday on the frying pan the American Melting Pot has regressed down to. They want this "racial reckoning" to come about just as their Confederate ancestors did.
There's
a definite desire to set this nation a-fire; lock-up and lock-down the
undesirables, let the blood of Black children flow in the streets . . . . but
unlike Terrell Owens - these wimpish weasels don't have the manhood nor
the humanness to stand-up, speak-up, inform most of the country, most of the
world that indeed - they're not deemed human.
Ain't that a bitch?
Instead they hide behind claiming some fear of Obama - based
upon . . . . political, social and economic ideologies, while in stark
reality they see virtually all Black and Brown folks as Niggers and Spics whom
they like to place back in our historical "seldom seen and hardly ever
heard" places.
Ain't that a bitch?
Tragically, horrifically it's going to come down to death and
destruction, on a massive, epic level . . . and that's what Beck and, yes,
millions of half-mad, completely paranoid White folks want.
Desi Cortez is a freelance wordsmith, living at the foot of the Rockies. He can be reached via e-mail at desicortez@blackathlete.com.
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