Not Again
Bush done did it again. What is this fool’s problem? He obviously is wrongheaded on purpose, as if his advisors like Karl “Killa, but not from Manila” Rove are trying to make him look like an even bigger idiot so that they will not have to endure another term with his dumb ass. On the day after he laid a wreath on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s grave, he installs ‘Judge’ Charles Pickering, legendary segregationist and anti- abortionist, to the Fifth Circuit of Appeals, which handles Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, the states which were affected most by the words of King and the brave and burgeoning community that were starting to know their strength and power in the wake of the death of Emmett Till and Rosa Parks’ blatant refusal to move to the back of the bus. Why bother going to visit the great Dr. King, if you are gonna turn around and try to unravel the civil rights movement all these years after his revolutionary ministry brought people of color a voice in America? How dare you Curious George? You are one monkey head used Lipton tea bag. This to me is sickening lunacy, hypocrisy at its finest, and bad muthafuckin’ timing, yo. The only thing he could have done worse was barf, like when his daddy went to Japan.
This support of the ‘Judge’ Pickering is meant to be a slap in the face of the Democrats who have long been accused of being anti-South. The problem is that the minorities living in the Fifth Circuit suffer so Bush can say “You are not the boss of me.” As if we had a shortage of young African-American males in the prison system.
Pickerin’ was picketin’ for segregation - and now he a JUDGE!!!!! I am not trying to say that the South is a bad place, no no no - not at all. Thank God not everyone there thinks like this or has the personal history of racism and sexism that this ‘judge’ has. What I have to say is that the stereotype of the redneck Southerner is getting on my fucking nerves. I spend a lot of time in these states, and I enjoy good times in New Orleans, Nashville, Houston - as I have found many like minded individuals. Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
Compassion, civil rights and equality are not arguing points between Republicans and Democrats. Neither is good sense. Southern democrats exist, yes they do, in fantastic numbers, and they have more at stake in this election year, and frankly, far much more to lose. Some Southern states having higher populations of minorities with a greater disparity in terms of class and caste and cost of living than the billionaires Bush refuses to leave behind.
In many of the small Southern towns, I make my way through decaying, dilapidated buildings and new, pristine palaces which exist on the same block. Malnutrition and Moet, WIC and Waterford can manage to mingle and we somehow in the last four years are starting to find it acceptable that we are living in a Third World country. It is happening in the North, the West, the East, all of everywhere, but I guess I see it more in the South, since I spent more time there last year than anywhere else. Unimaginable wealth and disgusting displays of conspicuous consumption throw the hideous poverty into grim relief, and those who live in it, on either side of that particular hypothetical type of Mason-Dixon line, feel it, are about to throw down. The beef between the North and the South is as dead as the East Coast West Coast rapper battles, and it is taking people an awfully long time to realize this, partially because of Dumya’s fool actions and the kind of blind faith that we once had in our government, that some are clinging to, because they are so afraid that the world is going to hell in a carry on and all they have left is the vague hope that Bush isn’t as dumb as he actually is. Either that or they are too stupid and proud to admit they were wrong.
Republicans are denouncing Bush, not their conservatism, because of his Duh-plomacy, his Duh- mocracy, his Duh-molition of our nation. Worst of all he managed to Duh-file the grave of the greatest man this country has ever known.
Take Monday off, it is an order, not a request, not a suggestion. Do it out of respect and remembrance that once among us, there was a man called Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who changed the world with the power of his voice and his insistence that no one keep their silence. He is no longer here to speak, but he still speaks through many who treasure the freedom we are supposed to have, the idea that we are all human, all each and every one of us important, that the color of one’s skin should have nothing to do with the capacity to do anything, and that we are all the same, if not on the outside, deep within, in the quiet silence of our psyche, in the dark night of the soul. He, who once had a dream, must be honored and called out to for guidance, and you know I do not observe holidays, but for this one, I go all out. We must keep his dream alive, for if we do not, it will become a nightmare. It has already started to.
I wonder if the ‘Judge’ will try to keep people of color from using his bathroom.