Pink Fuzzy Slippers

I’ve made this observation several times and will continue to do so when the situation calls for it. If you want to find a racist don’t look for the guy with the Confederate flag displayed on his car, find the guy driving the Eurotrash with a “Save the Whales” sticker. For deep down, right to his very soul bigotry, you just can’t beat a liberal. There’s no halfway with a liberal and bigotry because there are no second thoughts or doubts. What they believe is unfiltered by morality, ethics, or religion, since none of those factors are present. A liberal doesn’t need to intellectualize, just feel, so holding two opposing viewpoints is easy. I recall an exchange on Facebook, last one I ever had. One liberal says,” I hate judgmental people.” Another responds, “Me too!” I couldn’t resist,”In order to hate judgmental people, don’t you, first, have to be JUDGMENTAL?” It seems that observation constituted hate speech.

At any rate, what set me off this time is a car commercial. It involves a young black guy, who may be a basketball player, a Lexus or Infinity SUV. He climbs into his expensive ride and cruises down the road. Cue the thoughts: As he is driving our hero is considering that people don’t know in reality he is a bad dude. people ought not to mess with him, he’s capable of fucking them up.

Author Richard Wright, Native Son gave substance to the concept and the fighter Jack Johnson lived it. The concept is called “Bad Nigger.”He will not be constrained by rules of white society and rejects the hopes and fears of black society. There is plenty of tear down rage, but no ability to build a replacement. In the midst of this perversion of a Walter Mitty fantasy, the telephone rings. It be the baby’s mama, “bring milk home with you.” Our hero is next spotted picking up milk, no attitude.

Contrast Matthew McConaughey as he revels in the luxury of the Lincoln he is driving. He is thinking good thoughts of his hard work rewarded with such a car. As McConaughey drives off into the sunset with Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack singing the refrain from “Come Fly with Me”playing on the stereo our black demi-hero is trying to get the “Bad Nigger” tude back while carrying a gallon of milk. In the world of Madison Avenue, only “bad niggers” are entitled to nice cars.

Jack Johnson’s response to the times he found himself in was to go over the top and continue to challenge society’s notion of what and how a black man should act. I think Richard Wright attempted to identify and describe the phenomena and put the face of, Bigger Thomas on the “bad nigger.” Liberals failed to see Bigger Thomas as a tragic figure and an object lesson. Instead, he is regarded by liberals as the new and improved version of a black man. A person filled with self-loathing, uneducated, unemployed and likely unemployable, with no sense of responsibility for self, family or community. Maybe it is me, but I never got a sense that Richard Wright liked his creation.

Now the obvious thing to do is to cast me into the depths of racist hell for using the term NIGGER. I could have used N(&&^R, or N-word, or slang term for black person with two g’s. No thank you. If any foul-mouthed rapper of correct pigmentation can spout nigger ten times a minute, then I can use it in this context. The faux outrage because a person of the wrong color uses a word that rolls so effortlessly off of the lips of the initiated is stupid. Can’t handle it, try this, how do you feel about Fuck You, better or worse?