The Great Black Hope will be full of surprises. I like my boy Jimi Izrael's take on a top 20 list, but I'm going to go skeptical for the moment. There are a number of problems that have been zealously placed at the foot of Conservatism and evil white men which continue to make many black partisans look at once credible and foolish. Foolish to me, credible to their compatriots in Sherwood Forest. Now that there's a new Sheriff in town, many of the woodland squatters believe that the world will invert and that their quality of life will slide uphill instead of down. I think they're in for a number of rude awakenings about well, reality. And I want to take this moment to mark some of their superstitions.
Over in the Black Republicans thread, the one I have lost all interest in commenting on, I have drawn some of those flies who are buzzing loudly about this and that myth upon which many Americans have been sustaining their political outrage. Uptownsteve is one such insect who intends to bite us all to pieces - us being the lame ducks of the W era. Now that his candidate is about to snatch the dentures of office, perhaps he thinks his bites will draw more blood. We'll see about that. In fact, let's lay down some markers shall we?
Separately and distinctly I will begin a series - Obama Gonna What? Which are somewhat tangential to the markers of the Crow Cafe. So now that certain folks are convinced that the notorious War on Drugs was racist and that today BATF agents sit on their cans while white slackers meth themselves to a tooth-killing soul oblivion. In other words, blacks got sent to their own private GTMO while whites could chill stupefied and unmolested. Injustice! they shout.
I'm of the Old School Conservative opinion that drug dealers should all go to jail, every last one of them, all tried as adults. Drug users should be fired from their jobs and sent to live in halfway houses in South Dakota. If they starve or freeze to death in winter, tough titty. I'm sure that with all the new government spending we should be able to find enough low rent buses and newly hired bus drivers to take these slackers out of our fair cities. Why South Dakota? Because South Dakota is the state that allows for usurious credit companies to operate with obscene margins. If the slackers can't get a job, they can live on South Dakota's credit.
As for the Prison Industrial Complex itself, it is part and parcel of a nation which is obsessively moral when it comes to the misappropriation of funds. Even if you rob a Quickie Mart of a mere 100 bucks, the long arm of the law will toss you into the clink. That's a good thing. Last time I recall, we had free education for the masses into which the lesson "Don't Steal" was equitably distributed no matter one's race, creed, color, native language, religion, class, mental challenge, political affiliation, ethnic background, physical ability, sexual orientation, or iPod playlist. It is impossible to be clearer that, although perhaps Obama might have us consider the politics of difference of the Tattooed, and the Pierced aka the alternative skinned. Nevertheless I'm certain that a YouTube showing somebody's belly ring getting literally ripped off might have some positive impact in imparting the proper concept. Not to mention that it would be great fun to watch.
So we have prisons, and we have some fraction of Americans who just cannot manage to stay away from them. Awww. What's Obama Gonna Do? Will he dismantle the PIC? Or will he make substantial reforms and change we can actually measure? Or will he, like Bill Clinton, the original and first black president, make a lot of nice intelligent speeches and blame the other guys for the horrid conditions, and then do nothing? Hmm. You tell me, he's your messiah.
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