LBQT activists, the Oscars and their selective outrage...

We should all judge Megyn Kelly, but let's also remember...

THIS happened recently. THIS wasn't even too long ago. It was the 1980s.

#OscarsSoWhite...and pretty gay.

 

In the 1960s, the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences was rightly criticized for giving awards to bland movies like Around the World in 80 Days, in repudiation of what was actually going on in the streets of America. These were the movies that the founders of the industry wanted to see and harkened back to the Golden Era of Hollywood extravaganzas. We are now witnessing history repeating itself and a backlash to the backlash. Back then the Academy was made up of old white guys who didn't think much of what was happening on the streets. Now we have old rebels still rebelling except there is no longer anything to rebel against--and they are the old white guys who fancy themselves as the gatekeepers to art in film. They just think they're "stickin' it to the Man" or "sockin'" it to various folks. But you can trust people over 30; that's not really that old and they might have good ideas.


 The Oscars are becoming something closer to the AARP's "movies for adults" awards than the Teen Choice Awards. Yes, adults have a better understanding of the world; however kids' ideas are so often more fun. That is the great contradiction of the world that we live in and the nature of art itself. Art is subjective; however, the Academy has supported and we all surrendered to the idea that they know what the best art is in the world of film. (There are plenty of rival awards shows--especially the Golden Globes and SAG awards--that also offer a perspective into which movies are the best, and these other awards shows act as feeders into the Oscar race.) They are tainted by their own biases, and their own socio-political agendas, which are tied to being white, over-educated liberals living in Los Angeles or New York. You will never see the Ronald Reagan biopic be nominated for anything. You will never see a movie about a heroic Catholic priest, or a courageous logging company standing up to environmentalists. In 2004, The Passion of the Christ received zero nominations on the acting/directing/writing/picture side, and there were no black people involved. Whereas Christians were in awe of the Lord and Savior's final days, who died for our sins, Jews saw it as torture porn. Far from being anti-Christian, the Academy voters didn't see why Passion was an important movie.


 When you look at all the Oscar best picture nominees in our lifetimes, the same patterns emerge as to who and what gets nominated. These movies are "Oscar-bait," as are many of the performers. There's a courageous white liberal fighting the system. They're often pro-gay rights, pro-reproductive rights. Many of the heroes are atheists or Jewish. These movies are not so much bad or wrong as unoriginal--you can be right and still annoying. Then the Academy hires a hip host (Letterman, Stewart, Rock, the Franco-Hathaway abortion) to try to sell these gold-plated turds to the kids. Chris Rock is hosting again, and this will be the most awkward Oscars' ceremony ever.


 The last time Rock hosted, in 2005, he ran videoclips asking black people on the streets what they thought of the nominees, and recorded their confusion as to what these movies even were. He also did a bit where he pointed out that most people didn't know who Jude Law was. The joke was that Law came out of nowhere and became the IT Boy of Hollywood--and most of the attendees got his point: The film industry took an attractive, talented white man and decided he was the most important actor alive. This was followed by presenter Sean Penn giving a graven defense of Law. An important lesson was learned by Hollywood that night: Sean Penn doesn't get humor.


 We should always remember that the Academy has it's favorites, like doting older relatives or school teachers. You know some people get nominated because they remind voters of their grandkids--looking at you, Brie Larson. Some actresses are a throwback to the beauties of days back and they get nominated because they are likable. Jennifer Lawrence is a tomato! She's a sparkplug with gams that go all the way up there!... Nice tits! Meanwhile people who alienate the members will never recover. Mel Gibson created one of the most successful movies of 2004; his career nonetheless took a dive because he's batshit crazy and it stopped being amusing.


 Sylvester Stallone was nominated because he's been doing this for forty years. He has friends in the Academy. Michael T. Jordan and Ryan Coogler are still untested properties. (Oh, and the Fantastic Four reboot sucked--I know it's not your fault, Jordan. But it sucked.) Meanwhile a "Alone Yet Not Alone" got nominated last year. What's "Alone Yet Not Alone"? It's a song written by Bruce Broughton. Who's Bruce Broughton? He was the President of the Academy. He literally called up nominating members and told them to nominate his song. Which they did. (The nomination would ultimately be rescinded for being too damn obvious!)


 Let me clarify that there is nothing wrong with having homosexual thoughts, and there's certainly nothing illegal about two adults having sexual contact in a private setting. These are movies that black people and Americans in general do not want to see. (A lot of men don't want to watch Nicholas Sparks movies, and it's not because watching heterosexual white people kiss disgusts us.) Hollywood has failed America. Not by allowing gays to marry or serve in the armed force but in making movies about cowboys who sodomize each other. The battle for gay rights has led to a surplus of terrible Oscar-bait movies. This year the most obvious Oscar-bait movie is probably Freeheld, featuring two attractive lesbians who want to get married so the younger one can receive the other's pension...before she dies of cancer. As a cherry on the top is Steve Carrell as the flamboyant gay attorney fighting the system. Freeheld did not get any nominations, not because it was bad, but because so many other white liberal movies got nominated. It was truly a space issue.


The problem with conservatism is that they will always lose. The problem with progressivism/liberalism, is that the day that the battle is over will be the day in which they become obsolete. The fight is over; you turn your swords into ploughs. But some soldiers don't want to become farmers. Watching Sidney Poitier movies doesn't work anymore. You can't make an advocacy film after the issue has been settled--that just doesn't make sense.


 Michael Bay understands this quit well, and he abandons ideology. He fills his movies with shots of teen girls' asses (we will have to address that in another blog post) and the American flag. Bay knows what Americans want to see: Giant CGI robots talking about honor, integrity and sacrifice. These are values that America and Hollywood should be about. Americans generally don't want to see these weird indie movies full of foreigners where you have to see a dingdong. We don't want to see a movie where men are wearing dresses unless it's a comedy.


 When George Clooney extolled Hollywood for giving Hattie McDaniel an Oscar, he neglected to mention that she was given the award for playing a happy slave. She was given an award by white liberals for playing a slave--a literal slave. Morgan Freeman (chauffer), Jaime Foxx (R&B musician), Lupita Nyong'o (slave), Denzel Washington (slave, dirty cop), Halle Berry (wife of a convict), Mo'Nique ("Welfare queen"), Cuba Gooding Jr. (athlete), Forrest Whittaker (African dictator), Terrence Howard (pimp who aspires to be a rapper). What's the solution to this? I have none--I know it sounds like I'm about to offer a solution to this, but I'm not. I'm literally just pointing this out. I'll let you figure out what this means.


 It would be easy to call this racism. But it's actually stranger than racism. It's the mutant love child of racism and anti-racism. All the black winners were surely thankful for the pay bump that the award provided them, but something so liberating can come at the expense of honor. It's enjoying colored music but not letting black patrons in the club. McDaniel was invited at the table but had to sit at a segregated table. She was not invited to the after parties. White liberals, like white conservatives, like blacks in the abstract. They like that black people exist, but they don't really want them around too much. If they speak to enough black people, they will grow uncomfortable with their views on gay rights and transgenderism, and illegal immigration...and corporeal punishment...maybe Jews/Muslims. Clooney--for all his Hollywood coolness--gets so much of his own industry's history completely wrong. Real life is messy, and sometimes there are no bad guys, just people with wildly different opinions.


 When talking about who got stiffed this year, the same few names keep coming up: Will Smith, Spike Lee, Michael T. Jordan, cool British black guy whose name that I can never remember. Dozens of white women were shut out of the Oscars, especially older white women. That there is some agreement as to who got stiffed adds value to the argument that the system was rigged, but it also detracts from the idea that there was any coordination to shut out black actors. As so many activists are pointing out, there is a dearth of good roles for black actors.


 Far more insidious than shutting out black actors was the decision that of the four(!) slots for best songs. The song choice includes a classical orchestral piece and a Lady Gaga song. The Academy only needed to nominate one piece to retain credibility: "See You Again" by Wiz Kalifha. This is also a non-controversial choice since literally everyone (white/black, men/women) under the age of 40 likes it. (To be fair, both Eminem and 360 Mafia received Oscars for best song, so it's not entirely a matter of racism or anti-populism.)


 In the future, to be fairer, the Academy should expel more gay guys. It is the only way to insure fairness. (Note: As I was writing this, the Academy did alter its rules to prevent older but inactive Academy members from voting.)

 

I will stand with Ahmed Mohamed...as long as it's not really a bomb, I mean.

I am reminded of one of the earliest episodes of the American-version of The Office, where Michael Scott see a Sikh IT guy in the parking lot of Dunder Mifflin, heading for the building, and immediately freaks out because...terrorists!

It was in a pencil case, wasn't it? If it were attached to a propane tank or a pressure cooker, this would make a lot more sense to confuse it with a bomb. (Propane tanks routinely explode. I saw that in movies.) Expel the kid. If it were an airport, detain that whole family. In an airport, it is not the appropriate place to bring your mystery electronics.

This Ahmed fellow isn't even a particularly intimidating kid, so you can't Michael Brown him. The boy is about 90 pounds soaking wet. He has no history of anti-Americanism or any apparent disciplinary problems. Respectfully, the bespeckled guy is clearly a nerd of some kind. He did not ask for trouble; trouble came to him. Because he was an Arab, so many Texans thought "bomb," not "science project."

Plus since it was Texas, any idiot could buy or steal a firearm, and kill considerably more people than a bomb. Texas has more guns and more murder than just about any other state in the union. There is no connection. It's a total mystery why Texas has so many murders and so many legal gunowners. Have we checked the water?

Those who are attempting to ignore the racism and deprive Muslims of appearing discriminated against, point out the numerous cases where kids have gotten in trouble for pointing objects at people as if they were guns and gotten suspended/expelled. However, pointing a chicken finger at someone and saying "bang," does constitute a death threat. However, nearly all the other cases involved students with a history of disciplinary problems. However, very few were cuffed--these cases were handled administratively. Ahmed literally did not encourage people to believe this was a bomb. This was not a bomb-effigy. People saw an Arab kid with a clock and assumed he was up to no good. This is Trayvon Martin standing on a street, not threatening anyone. Rather than blaming a hoodie, they're blaming the clock.

Some of you are trying to blame CAIR for this. Americans can't possibly be this stupid, so many conservatives feel. Rightwing Americans are really geniuses, and this was a scheme of the Muslims to make Americans look foolish. Well, if this were a CAIR test, Americans failed. Americans now look exactly as racist as Muslim extremists say we are. CAIR, for all its faults, is not responsible for your stupidity, no.

When shit like this happens, the terrorists have won. They did not turn anyone into a Muslim, but they showed the world how ass-backwards non-Muslims can be. Like the Iraq war, civilized Christian men are just not too smart. We start with a biased view, then we work backwards to prove our bias. This is the ultimate stupidity because it does not aspire for betterment.

Now conservatives are enraged that Obama is inviting the boy to the White House--never mind that Obama is now trying to smooth things over, which would benefit all of us. Americans are not racist, and we don't hate Muslims. (Yeah, we kinda are--and we kinda do--but that's not good politics.) So, shut up, conservatives. We can't ignore racism and hope it goes away. Racism would still there; we would just be ignoring it.

Bristol Palin tweeted a snarky joke regarding this incident and Obama's attempt to cover-up the damage done by the state of Texas. Bristol Palin. As if a poorly designed science project were the worst mistake a teen could make. (To clarify, Bristol Palin has two illegitimate children with two different men and she's under 25--talkin' about that.) If anything Ahmed was trying to do the right thing, and Bristol has probably done a lot of wrong things. Plus Bristol is too damn old to be fighting with high schoolers. Her time has come and gone.

Black Like Rachel Dolezal?

She is a "wigga." It means "white nigga." Really, this is an unfunny Mrs. Doubtfire-type situation. This is a white person who has been engaged in a long scam to pass as a Negro--and, really, that's the opposite of how this is supposed to work!

Why would she do this, the media have asked breathlessly? I can only think she had an early love of black culture, and she wanted to help black people, so she figured the best way to help them was to live as one. (The NAACP has numerous whites in its membership.) The alternate explanation is that she is a dingbat. Whatever the reason, that she thought she could continue the lie in he Internet Age is what's incredibly bizarre. She started to lie, and got caught in the lie--like someone running a pyramid scheme, her only way out was exposure, death or prison. Exposure was the best way out for her.

Speaking of bizarre, one episode of Glee has the evil Sue tearing apart New Directions by pointing out how different they all are, insisting that they should be outraged. It ended with Mr. Shue pointing out that "we're all minorities." This makes no fuckin' sense. We can't all be minorities. There are numerous situations where everyone feels like "the other," but you're still NOT A MINORITY. Being a minority--whether the status is based on race, religion, sexuality or disability--is not a matter of temporary discomfort but of being permanently held apart by others. There's also the problem of whether being openly gay makes you a minority--just as there's an issue with whether spending a few thousand dollars on intrusive surgical procedures makes you a woman.

According to the US government, to be a part of a Native American tribe, you only need to be 1/16TH(!) of that tribe. Seriously--look it up yourself. You only need to be 1/16th Cherokee, for instance, to claim to be Cherokee. So your great great grandma knocked boots with an Injun? Congratulations! I can only imagine this was to keep the tribe's numbers large, but it's quit ridiculous when you think of it as a matter of race.

Race is arbitrary and often situational--and 50% dependant on everyone else's view of you as your self-image. Major productions now put out a casting call for someone who "looks Asian" (or, Asian) in order to skirt modern anti-discrimination laws. An Asian will be hired, now--maybe Emma Stone--but they must appear as tolerant and inclusive as possible. Because there's no discrimination in the entertainment industry. Outside of Hollyweird, there's wide disagreement on how to classify Obama. Generally consensus, in America, is that the President's black. The "one drop" rule makes no sense; if you're part black and LOOK black, you're black--and that's a better rule. If you can pass--pun alert!--it's a gray area. You wouldn't want to deny your ethnic heritage, but if you haven't lived your life being viewed as a black person, are you really a black person? The short answer is you're not black, no.

But how do I feel about affirmative action? My viewpoint has changed quit a bit over the decades. Racial set-asides have been illegal for awhile now, and I loathe people who imply that they're still a thing. We have been talking about a point system for awhile now, so let's raise the question: Should being a (real) minority entitle you to a leg up not given to a proud white guy?

My niece is 75% black. She certainly looks blacks. She will spend the remainder of her life as a black girl and a black woman. And I don't want my niece to lose an opportunity because some blue-eyed, blond kid who's 1/8th Navajo wants the opportunity too. ("Hey, we're both minorities!")

In summary, I no longer support affirmative action because white people--including white liberals--will cheat the system. Capitalism is the best economic system since it plays off humanity's desire to be superior to others. Conservatives have won because they're so terrible, lacking optimism in minorities or the human race in general. Good job.

Officer cameras could be defeated by a sticker.

Last year at the Metro/7th subway stop (for non-Angelenos, that's a hub that connects several rail lines, including the hellish passage into Compton), I saw two sheriff deputies--white or Latino, a male and a female--deputies conversing with a mentally ill black man, who was quit animate about some point. (It is safe to say that they were arguing about fare non-payment.) The fellow raised his hands high above his head, and that was the cue for the male cop to tackle him. The two went to the floor, and the female deputy joined in and arrested him. To my knowledge, no one died during that arrest. And though someone could've been killed, the deputy made the judgment call that he needed to end this confrontation. From my distance, it looked like police brutality.

The cops in the Eric Garner case were attempting to grab Garner by the wrists, but he waved them off. (Garner, who was 6-3 and over 350 pounds, had a history of resisting arrest.) It is a myth that Garner wasn't trying to resist arrest at the time of his death--though no loose cigarettes were found on him--he was clearly arguing with the cops on scene. He clearly didn't want to be arrested or touched. (I don't like being touched either, by the way. However, I can also recognize that the cops are allowed to touch me in a non-sexual manner in order to aid their investigation.) In Officer Pantaleo's brilliance, he thought to use a chokehold on the much larger adversary. It was a dick move, and it was against NYPD policy. In hindsight, the cops should've tried harder to negotiate a favorable outcome. There will be a million dollar settlement going to Garner's family. But none of that changes the fact that it wasn't a murder.

Let's get the terminology correct. "Homicide" means an unnatural death, not murder. Jeffrey Dahmer strangled over ten black men to death--he murdered black men, and he often used strangulation. Dahmer was not a cop trying to arrest anyone. He had the motive of needing to assert control and an incredibly bizarre fascination with death, leading to one of the most bizarre true-life American horror stories of the 20th century.

I am concerned with how sarcastic the "hands up" movement is. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, BLACK MEN, DO NOT COME AT POLICE WITH YOUR HANDS RAISED!!! (There.) When the cops want you to come over, they will ask you to come over. You can yell and curse at cops all you want from the comfort and anonymity of the crowd. When the cops are talking to you, check your attitude. NO SUDDEN MOVEMENTS. Any number of these shooting incidents have been caused by racism, yes, but also by black men oblivious to how they are perceived by others. YOU KNOW that you're a nice guy, but the cops don't know this.

There is an unfortunate anti-authoritarian attitude among so many American blacks that leads to self-destruction. American doctors so often just don't want to be subjected to the argument or accusation that they are attempting to enforce an Anglo-centric standard of beauty onto blacks. (I'm not making this up: Doctors refuse to tell black people to lose weight.) "Fat" is certainly a relative term, to be clear; there is a stigma among African American girls of being "boney." Mo'Nique has built an entire persona around criticizing "skinny bitches." Meanwhile, diabetes is striking down blacks and numerous blacks seem confused as to the cause. Libertarians tell us that blacks should be allowed to eat whatever they want--and the government shouldn't pay for poor blacks' healthcare. Thank God for Michelle Obama, in all seriousness. Can you imagine the accusations of racism if Laura Bush had told black women that they were too damn fat?

The use of video footage "proves" that it was a murder. We are overly reliant on video footage and not logic--if the cop wanted to kill Garner, he would've shot him. If you're planning to brutalize a suspect, you wouldn't do it while a camera is rolling. You would turn the camera off. (Advocates of officer-mounted cameras tend to ignore that the cops will be able to cover up the lens with a sticker. Or experience "battery failure" or "forget" to wear it--I can go on.) You wouldn't do it on a public street, in broad daylight. The image of this arrest is haunting, certainly. However, if he hadn't died, this never would've made the news. What makes the video haunting is that he did actually die after proclaiming that he was about to die.

Garner should've yelled: "I'm experiencing shortness of breathe." Rather he yelled: "I can't breath." Garner was not an educated man, and he used more common vernacular to describe his current health state. The cops, lacking much medical knowledge ("shortness of breath" being a red flag for a health crisis) and well-attuned in the art of BS, assumed he was faking it. They weren't really strangling him. They weren't really roughing him up--no healthy man should've been injured during the course of THAT arrest. Numerous rightwingers, bizarrely, are still using this as proof that he was faking it: If you cannot breath, how can you say that you cannot breath? Science!

This death brings to mind the late LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, who proclaimed in the early '90s that so many black men were being killed during chokeholds not that his people were using too much force but that "black people didn't respond to chokeholds like normal people." This statement has two potential meanings: Black men are so belligerent that they end up being accidentally killed or that black men are biologically unable to withstand a few seconds of strangulation. In either case, Gates was throwing out a nonsensical and fairly racist justification for his people's actions. You can be right and completely tone-deaf to the person whom you're explaining your logical conclusions to, and Gates's political idiocy led to the LA Riots. The use of chokeholds was abandoned for nightsticks...which led to the beating of a suspect named Rodney King, which led to the Riots. Thus both a controversial police tactic and the attempt to rectify a controversial police tactic led to the Riots.

According to the coroner: Contributing factors to Garner's death included bronchial asthma, heart disease, obesity, and hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Garner was not going to live a long life. He didn't follow doctor's orders--or he was never given doctor's orders. He also didn't listen to the cops, having been arrested multiple times--including for resisting arrest. His death was not entirely caused by his bad decisions, both legal and medical. He suffered an attack from overzealous law enforcement officers.

Still not murder.

On Mumia Abu-Jamal, SOG...and waiting for Goddard to not be stupid.

There's a saying in the criminal justice system: SOG (or SOP), which is an acronym for "some other guy." It's a catchall for anytime a defendant claims that he couldn't have committed the crime despite all evidence to the contrary. "I didn't shoot my wife--it was some other guy!"

Mumia's supporters have advanced this series of events: A black man matching Mumia's description but not Mumia entered the scene, after Officer Daniel Faulkner had stopped Mumia's brother in a traffic stop. He shot Faulkner, then he ran away, possibly leaving the gun behind. Somehow, Mumia got shot by Faulkner. Reading the Free Mumia movement's webpages, I am still confused as to how Mumia got accidentally shot.

There's a mental condition where a person believes that a loved one has been replaced by a replicate. It is called Capgras delusion. If possible, this is the case here, where everyone except the witnesses think someone else shot Faulkner, and the witnesses who did not confirm to Mumia's innocence were really witnessing a fake Mumia shooting Faulkner. The witnesses were thus wrong--or being coerced--into claiming the real Mumia murdered Faulkner. But no. It was the fake Mumia.

The police, seeing the downed cop and the wounded black man, decided the black man did the shooting. They proceeded to plant the same model gun (the model, a .38 caliber Charter Arms revolver, which Mumia also coincidentally owned) that the SOG had used, then they slid a shoulder holster on Mumia's body. To insure conviction, they told the witnesses what to say. He was tried by a racist kangaroo court. (It's biggest mistake, however, was probably allowing Mumia to defend himself. He was a political activist, not a lawyer. He delivered long-winded speeches and called character witnesses, but he could not dispute the evidence against him. He wanted to put the system on trial, but no sane judge would allow that; this was his trial.)

Why is Mumia such a cause celeb? Unlike most prisoners--whether white or black, regardless of era--Mumia is a well-spoken and literate man. A man of letters, and educated people can't possibly be "bad," academia teaches us. (Bad people speak incoherently and don't challenge conventional wisdom--wisdom like not inviting probable murderers to give speeches at your college.) The appearance of putting the Panthers or the Black Power movement on trial led to this backlash, even if it was necessary to establish a motive in the case. Philadelphia had notorious racial conflicts in this era, so it's easy to imagine that the judge and jury were trying to set up a heroic black man. Like Rodney King, Mumia came about at a time and place for Babyboomers to adopt him as a symbol of all that's wrong with policing and American racial relations, and the facts become irrelevant. Like all conspiracy theorists, his supporters first made up their minds about what happened, and worked backward to obtain evidence of their interpretation of events. Lack of evidence is evidence.

Mumia could never defend his innocence, so he has long positioned himself as a political prisoner. He is a martyr of American racism. Before he was about to be executed, he was prepared to die for America's sins. Give me a break! Of all the hundreds of thousands of blacks wrongfully convicted in our nation's 228 years, most of their crimes weren't as severe as murder--and most of them were factually innocent.

Hey, white folk, stop saying "playing the race card." THAT'S racist too!

I have been reflecting on my own interaction with a cop, several years ago, at a Ralphs Downtown. I was looking around, minding my own business, and a middle-aged white woman in business attire said "hello" to me. Normally people don't say hello to me, so I was immediately confused. She was not particularly attractive, and I had no desire to have intercourse with her. She was not mentally deficient, so I saw no reason to return the greeting. I looked down and noticed that she had a shield on her belt, and I deduced that she was a detective with the LAPD. Here was my moral quandary: Do I smile back?Ultimately I did not smile at her--I did not know her, and I had no desire to know her. Nor did I make any clever pig jokes, which would've been rude. (She was slightly overweight, and it would've worked on several levels.) I maintained my moral principals, and I walked away without comment. I was not under arrest.

The reason for this quandary was not that I hate cops or that I hate white people. My problem was that she had a problem with blacks. She surely did not say "hello" to all the blacks whom she'd encountered, so she immediately characterized me as one of the "good ones," and she should say "hello" to at least one this morning to improve community relations. So, she was racially profiling me by being civil towards me--that's right--and I find racial profiling offensive.

I am not one of the good ones. I am one of the complicated ones. Like 15 million other black men, I live my life in accordance to the way that I have been treated. In turn, I treat all white people as individuals. I do not subdivide whites (or people) in accordance to morality, but on their current behavior towards me, understanding that this behavior might change based on the situation that they are in. We are all driven by our same base needs: foods, pooping and sex (and sometimes we do two of the three things at once, with the adventurous trying all three). In my life, I have encountered white conservatives who have divorced their views from racism (conservatives frequently lack self-awareness, and they associate things as "right" or "wrong" without acknowledging moral relativism) and white liberals who preach tolerance while in reality are massive tools.

I do not listen to rap music. I do not follow sports. I do not call all women "bitches" and "hoes" because I have not met every woman in the world, thus I am not qualified to assess how big of a bitch or how big of a ho every woman might be. I do not use the word "nigger." "Nigger"/"nigga"/"niggah" is exclusively a word for non-blacks to use on blacks... So blacks know whom to punch. This is just an easier way to live life.

Well, the police were just doing their jobs, so many might say. According to Sgt. James Parker, the cop caught on tape calling Watts a liar, they weren't interested in recording this, which further complicates matters. They just wanted her ID. Of course, Watts didn't know this. If they did tell her, it would've sounded like a trick.

Someone, somewhere calls the cops about public sex, then the cops come--maybe days later--then start asking people who it was. The cops didn't see anything. They are just rounding up interracial couples looking for "lewd conduct." (It's like the LAPD does not have history books--they're going o start accusing interracial couples of "lewd conduct." The department might be legally correct but lacking in COMMON SENSE. The appropriate thing was to pretend that nothing happened. They couldn't find the suspects, and there was nothing the police could do about it.) From her perspective, she was just a black woman standing on a street corner, then some cops come by and ask her to identify herself and, oh, they wanted to quiz her about her sex life. From the little I know about women, they do not appreciate being quizzed about their sex lives.

No, Watts probably was not trying to take a principled stand against racial profiling. She was trying to walk away from a situation that risked her embarrassment. (Ninety percent sure that the decision to have car sex was the boyfriend's idea.) She thought "sex offender"--and her career would be over, so as an existential mater, she could not risk TMZ learning that she was busted for car sex. She is not Eddie Murphy. (I'm using Murphy because he was a big celebrity when he was busted giving a ride to a transsexual hooker, not because they're both black. His career survived. He is a man.)

Was this cop doing his job? Probably. He was, about to leave no stone unturned in his investigation of car sex in Los Angeles. You can smell weed coming from open car windows as people drive by you, but Colombo here was going to stop the car sex.

My problem is that the police were doing their jobs, I suppose. They were behaving in a legally correct manner but were not exercising COMMON SENSE. This sergeant was being a dick, accusing her of "playing the race card," which exacerbated her mental anguish. Ignoring racism is perpetuating racism; most white Americans would still like blacks to ignore racism, which is why they've invented "playing the race card." Everyone else seems  proud of the way this sergeant handled himself, without commentating on how he made the situation worse. He had a possibly mentally unstable woman, and he was either calling her a nigger or a liar. (I'm guessing he was calling her a liar.) He should've arrested her silently or not arrest her. He chose the most dickish path, and both handcuffed her and didn't complete his duties. Parker was doing the bareass minimum. In doing so, he kicked a hornets nest and wondered where these hornets came from. Finally her boyfriend--yeah, a white guy--broke the standoff and handed the cops her ID. He recognized that it was just easier. Personally, I would've liked to see them actually arrest her. She should've made the cops earn their pay.

The outrage should be the DOUBLE STANDARD. Paris Hilton--who had committed a bunch of crimes--was originally only required to serve TWO DAYS of a 45 DAY JAIL SENTENCE. Why? The jailers though she was "sad," and Hilton was so sad, the compassionate thing to do was to let her out of prison having served less than 5% of her jail time. This was such a glaring example of systematic misconduct that it caused a public outcry and Hilton had to be sent back to jail, which was also an extraordinary move. If Watts had been a cop herself or cop's daughter, she never would've been cuffed. No, she wouldn't have freaked out, because there would be no record of it. The cops knew her, and they wouldn't want to embarrass her by inquiring her about her sex life. The event would've been handled quietly. This is a different kind of police corruption than the "shoot you in the head and steal your drug money" variety.

But, above all, the thesis of this post, is that these cops were dicks.

Of Madonna and Niggers

It is interesting how "nigger" and it's variants have long been used in America to denote the lowest reaches of American society. I have so rarely stooped to such a crash level. People who are at the bottom are "scumbags," not "niggers." Weak or obnoxious men are not "faggots" (which was a lesson both Isaiah Washington and Ann Coulter needed to learn). Dimwitted people are not "retards"--very few developmentally disabled people try to appear on reality TV.

At a certain point, it really is rich black people mocking poor black people, rappers and pro-athletes demonstrating they're still "street"--even though Jennifer Lopez no longer parks her Jag in the street. It is totally asinine, and completely detrimental both to American society and black people to tolerate such idiocy. This goes into identity--and blacks claiming they can "reclaim" a word if only they use it as a term of endearment. That one person has the "right" to use a word but not another is a degree of nuance that liberals oddly enough do not understand. So this should be abandoned completely because it's just easier.

Throughout her long career, Madonna has lacked identity. She has positioned herself as the role of the constant teen, always redefining herself...while pushing 60--that's right. This is truly a desperate necessity, thus is the nature of the pop music industry--even though her relationship with younger men is a symptom of her emotional immaturity. Meanwhile calling Madonna "a racist" tends to ignore that she'd done more to help black people than many black people: She adopted two black kids, no strings attached. Racism has gotten more confusing in our so-called post-racial America.

This is the constant stream of wiggahs being created in our society: White people now think they're "down with it," which is about as offensive as rich blacks believing they have suffered the sting of racism as their forebears had. When Gwyneth Paltrow used the word "nigger" in a Twitter post a few years back, she really was quoting a song. If black people degrade themselves, whites will get on board. The versatility of the human languages allows for the constant creation of new slurs, making it additionally pointless.

That the kid Kanye allegedly beaten up was apparently using the term "nigger" as a derogatory term is an example of how little progress has been made in America. He then used the insult "nigger lover" on Kardasian suggests that this young man is both mentally unstable and stuck in the 1960s--and Kim Kardasian took the time off from destroying American culture to be a victim of some good ole fashioned American racism. For once in Kanye's life, he accomplished something awesome: Beating that kid up.