The Amazing Racism
Monday morning, a high-school student was beat up on a St. Louis-area schoolbus. He had been looking for a seat; not finding one, he gingerly removed a bookbag occupying space and sat there. Upon which the bag’s owner started hitting him. Another student joined in, and others on the bus cheered.
Let’s cast the scene. We have some options…
(a) The student is white; the kids beating him up are black.
(b) The student is black; the kids beating him up are white.
(c) Open casting! Doesn’t matter who plays which part, since race has nothing to do with it.
As it happens, the fact of the matter is (a) — although it just as easily could have been (b), since the truth of the moment is (c). It was a bog-standard schoolbus fight.
Which isn’t, unfortunately, how the cops first described it:
“In my estimation, it’s racially motivated,” said Capt. Don Sax of the Belleville Police Department. He said one reason he had formed this opinion was that many of the students, most of whom were black, yelled their support for the beating.
Before you jump to conclusions — there will be plenty of that in a moment — note that the chief retracted his statement Tuesday morning, and that the local superintendent had said Monday there were no racial problems at the school.
Note as well that the ironically named Belleville “has had a long history of racial turmoil, with a past that includes police harassment of black motorists, cross burnings and discrimination in city hiring,” according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
You’ll forgive us if that description sounds a lot like tyranny. Real, practical tyranny, not the fantasy kind that captures the imaginations of the spelling-challenged.
So, knowing what we know — or heck, pretending it’s Monday afternoon and we don’t know it yet — let’s go to the tape…
Drudge: “WHITE STUDENT BEATEN ON SCHOOL BUS; CROWD CHEERS…”
Malkin: “Speaking of the Obama administration and tolerance for racial thuggery…”
Limbaugh: “In Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, ‘Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on’.”
Payback for Skip Gates? Perhaps. Deflecting attention from hung-like-a-horse Obama mounting White America? Maybe. Yet another cynical attempt to foment racism as a tool to gain power and influence? Of course.
Regarding which, we’d like to offer some friendly advice to Ms. Malkin: Whatever emerges from that Pandora’s Box you’re prying open, it’s coming after you next.
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9:44 am • Wednesday • September 16, 2009
The horror of it all.
This abused kid will be the white people’s Rosa Parks. If the righteous REAL US Americanians have their way, blacks and other tinted peoples won’t worry about being at the back of the bus anymore because they won’t have buses or even go to school.
Truth is many of Drudge’s readers prefer to see it that way. “Oh those uppity blacks with their hope and Preznit. Thems folks needs to be knocked down a peg or one hundred.” Kinda ignoring the fact that many blacks weren’t exactly willing immigrants to US America.
One of the common themes in Asian cultures is a stratified class structure. For example, in Korean, there are actually 4 versions of Korean and they depend on the relationship between the speaker/speakee especially regarding class. My parents came from families that were “high” born nobles and thus “eelight” even though my relatives live very modestly for such high “birf.” Why I bring this up is in relation to Misch Malkin. I’m guessing her parents (Malkin’s parents were high up in Philippine society) molded her to be a eelight so she sees herself as one of the eelight even in US America because she hangs around with “eelights”–my parents tried, but failed with me for the most part. Despite her brown skin, she believes she is better than the rest of us tinted assholes because she’s an “eelight.” This is why I think she is who she is … plus the crazy. Never forget the crazy.