All right goddammit. I tried to make a poll but it came out fucked up so I'll write about it instead. Fuck it, I gotta wait for the oven to preheat anyway.
First things first, let's talk about race. Seems like that shit's getting a lot of publicity here lately. To me there's a simple explanation: as long as there's a minority, this will always be an issue. It doesn't fucking matter. And it's always going to be a sensitive issue. A lot of people don't want to fucking talk about it, not because they're racist but because they're afraid they may say the wrong thing and be branded a racist. To me, being branded a racist is only a step above being a child molester, and that statement itself might be enough to make someone say that I'm a racist, because I'm saying it's better to be a bigot than a child molester. Fuck it.
Do you know what I see when I am standing in front of a white man and a black man? Goddammit, I see a white man and a black man! This bullshit people like to say about that is bullshit. But I know neither of them. Now, if I'm out with the missus and we get lost and find ourselves in a neighborhood where there's fifty black men standing around, you bet we're gonna find the nearest goddamn exit and get the hell out of there. Just the same as any black man is gonna feel the need to get the hell away from the white punks on the street corner. Racial profiling at its finest. We're all guilty of it -- hell, our President did it just the other night. You know what happens when you assume. If there was any evidence -- even the goddamn slightest fucking nugget-- that Crowley was a racist, the liberal media would have been smearing that shit all over the fucking news to exonerate the President's comments.
There's some people who need to get out more (since I'm writing all this shit I guess I'm one of 'em). There's some motherfuckers that still sit in their shacks and hate for no other reason but to hate. It'll always be that way. There's always gonna be some poor motherfucker that ain't ever done nothing but piss his life away and spew hatred for the world he's never seen. Fuck that old man. White or black, I think we've all known a couple like him. He'll rant about how he was held down, or rant about how his life was taken over by the one who didn't belong.
Some people are more emotionally entrencehed in this topic than I ever could be, or ever wish to be. I have never been a victim of someone's hate. Someone I care about has never been a victim of hate. One of the proudest moments of my life was not only helping a friend from Taiwan study for his citizenship test, but the invitation he gave me to San Antonio to see him become a legal citizen. There is no way I could assume to know what it must be like to know that someone for whom you care was the victim of a racist crime and I would dare not pretend such. That shit should not be tolerated or condoned. During the Presidential election, I argued that the minorities would be motivated to vote for Obama. My friends argued that the bigots would be motivated to vote for McCain. I argued that the bigots were too stupid to do anything but sit at home and bitch. I still stand by that statement. And those who have been legitimate victims of racism will never forget, and that is the reason the issue will never go away. Racism is stupid, but it will never go away. The only thing that might change is which race is in the majority.
I can only speak for myself when I say that from my experience, our nation has been served honorably by men and women of all color, of all ethnicity. Race rarely plays a part, and when it does, the issue is almost always brought by someone on the outside, someone who hasn't the slightest idea what it's like to put on a uniform and defend all. They feel slighted, and their quickest and most readily defense is the race card. And, in those few cases where racism is a factor, those cases are dealt with swiftly and harshly. Every organization has a small element of shit. Fuck the goddamn racists.
Now we have the goddamn debate brewing of what disorderly conduct means. What the fuck is this shit. What the fuck does this have to do with what the fuck I was just talking about? I don't fucking know, it was just something else that pissed me off. There are those among us who wish to have the right to walk down the street and tell the police to go fuck themselves. How about I go down the street and tell your wife to go fuck herself while she's pushing your child in the stroller? How about you tell me to go fuck myself and I kick your fucking ass? How's that for freedom of speech?
What kind of society would this be if the cops are publicly humiliated by idiots shouting obscenities to them and there was nothing they could do about it? How many idiots would wind up getting shot for no good reason, and how many good men would elect not to serve because there was no way they could tolerate such bullshit? We might as well be living in Escape From L.A. or some shit (good fucking movie by the way). How many of these fools have actually been harrassed by the police while they sat quietly in their car and read a fucking book with the stereo turned to a respectable level?
I'll take the chance with the cop the next time he pulls me over. I'll show him the respect he's earned -- it might be the same cop who responded to last night's 911 call that saved the life of a mother, or of an old man. If he writes me a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt, fuck it. I'll write my Congressman and ask him to pass a better law. Fuck it.
First things first, let's talk about race. Seems like that shit's getting a lot of publicity here lately. To me there's a simple explanation: as long as there's a minority, this will always be an issue. It doesn't fucking matter. And it's always going to be a sensitive issue. A lot of people don't want to fucking talk about it, not because they're racist but because they're afraid they may say the wrong thing and be branded a racist. To me, being branded a racist is only a step above being a child molester, and that statement itself might be enough to make someone say that I'm a racist, because I'm saying it's better to be a bigot than a child molester. Fuck it.
Do you know what I see when I am standing in front of a white man and a black man? Goddammit, I see a white man and a black man! This bullshit people like to say about that is bullshit. But I know neither of them. Now, if I'm out with the missus and we get lost and find ourselves in a neighborhood where there's fifty black men standing around, you bet we're gonna find the nearest goddamn exit and get the hell out of there. Just the same as any black man is gonna feel the need to get the hell away from the white punks on the street corner. Racial profiling at its finest. We're all guilty of it -- hell, our President did it just the other night. You know what happens when you assume. If there was any evidence -- even the goddamn slightest fucking nugget-- that Crowley was a racist, the liberal media would have been smearing that shit all over the fucking news to exonerate the President's comments.
There's some people who need to get out more (since I'm writing all this shit I guess I'm one of 'em). There's some motherfuckers that still sit in their shacks and hate for no other reason but to hate. It'll always be that way. There's always gonna be some poor motherfucker that ain't ever done nothing but piss his life away and spew hatred for the world he's never seen. Fuck that old man. White or black, I think we've all known a couple like him. He'll rant about how he was held down, or rant about how his life was taken over by the one who didn't belong.
Some people are more emotionally entrencehed in this topic than I ever could be, or ever wish to be. I have never been a victim of someone's hate. Someone I care about has never been a victim of hate. One of the proudest moments of my life was not only helping a friend from Taiwan study for his citizenship test, but the invitation he gave me to San Antonio to see him become a legal citizen. There is no way I could assume to know what it must be like to know that someone for whom you care was the victim of a racist crime and I would dare not pretend such. That shit should not be tolerated or condoned. During the Presidential election, I argued that the minorities would be motivated to vote for Obama. My friends argued that the bigots would be motivated to vote for McCain. I argued that the bigots were too stupid to do anything but sit at home and bitch. I still stand by that statement. And those who have been legitimate victims of racism will never forget, and that is the reason the issue will never go away. Racism is stupid, but it will never go away. The only thing that might change is which race is in the majority.
I can only speak for myself when I say that from my experience, our nation has been served honorably by men and women of all color, of all ethnicity. Race rarely plays a part, and when it does, the issue is almost always brought by someone on the outside, someone who hasn't the slightest idea what it's like to put on a uniform and defend all. They feel slighted, and their quickest and most readily defense is the race card. And, in those few cases where racism is a factor, those cases are dealt with swiftly and harshly. Every organization has a small element of shit. Fuck the goddamn racists.
Now we have the goddamn debate brewing of what disorderly conduct means. What the fuck is this shit. What the fuck does this have to do with what the fuck I was just talking about? I don't fucking know, it was just something else that pissed me off. There are those among us who wish to have the right to walk down the street and tell the police to go fuck themselves. How about I go down the street and tell your wife to go fuck herself while she's pushing your child in the stroller? How about you tell me to go fuck myself and I kick your fucking ass? How's that for freedom of speech?
What kind of society would this be if the cops are publicly humiliated by idiots shouting obscenities to them and there was nothing they could do about it? How many idiots would wind up getting shot for no good reason, and how many good men would elect not to serve because there was no way they could tolerate such bullshit? We might as well be living in Escape From L.A. or some shit (good fucking movie by the way). How many of these fools have actually been harrassed by the police while they sat quietly in their car and read a fucking book with the stereo turned to a respectable level?
I'll take the chance with the cop the next time he pulls me over. I'll show him the respect he's earned -- it might be the same cop who responded to last night's 911 call that saved the life of a mother, or of an old man. If he writes me a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt, fuck it. I'll write my Congressman and ask him to pass a better law. Fuck it.
