I remember reading one of Richard Wright's books when I was in college and he described his grandmother hating on the Jews. She called them 'Christ killers' and I was really disgusted. One thing that has bothered me since I was small was people from disadvantaged groups hating on people from other disadvantaged groups. I said to my mothe…
I remember reading one of Richard Wright's books when I was in college and he described his grandmother hating on the Jews. She called them 'Christ killers' and I was really disgusted. One thing that has bothered me since I was small was people from disadvantaged groups hating on people from other disadvantaged groups. I said to my mother, "Geez, everyone's gotta have someone else to shit on." You'd think a half-black old lady in 1940s America would have a little sympathy for Christianity's buttmonkeys for two thousand years, right? No.
I thought it was appalling that women who described themselves as feminist were racist; that black men who pissed and moaned about racism nevertheless thought all women were 'bitches'. It bothered me in the early '80s to learn how young black men were the number one killer of young black men; twenty years after civil rights was in full swing and this is what King and others died for? So ignorant assholes can pop each other off in the streets and blame racism? I still have sympathy for He Who Must No Longer Be Named and his (in)famous Pound Cake Speech. I agreed with every word at the time as it was what I was thinking - perhaps less colourfully than Cosby put it - at the time. I mean, black guys weren't yet killing each other over sneakers and pound cake. Probably more like crack.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Humans suck, universally.
I remember reading one of Richard Wright's books when I was in college and he described his grandmother hating on the Jews. She called them 'Christ killers' and I was really disgusted. One thing that has bothered me since I was small was people from disadvantaged groups hating on people from other disadvantaged groups. I said to my mother, "Geez, everyone's gotta have someone else to shit on." You'd think a half-black old lady in 1940s America would have a little sympathy for Christianity's buttmonkeys for two thousand years, right? No.
I thought it was appalling that women who described themselves as feminist were racist; that black men who pissed and moaned about racism nevertheless thought all women were 'bitches'. It bothered me in the early '80s to learn how young black men were the number one killer of young black men; twenty years after civil rights was in full swing and this is what King and others died for? So ignorant assholes can pop each other off in the streets and blame racism? I still have sympathy for He Who Must No Longer Be Named and his (in)famous Pound Cake Speech. I agreed with every word at the time as it was what I was thinking - perhaps less colourfully than Cosby put it - at the time. I mean, black guys weren't yet killing each other over sneakers and pound cake. Probably more like crack.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Humans suck, universally.