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Small Town Racism

Recently, Jason Aldean completely triggered the #Woke SJWs and the ever-eager-to-rant Black Community with the release of his video for his hit single, “Try That In A Small Town.” They went past their normal apoplexy into the realms of pure madness. They even somehow convinced the mendaciously named Country Music Television to pull it from their platform.

It’s racist, these vermin claim. It’s violent! It’s dangerous! But is it? Or is this our domestic enemies inadvertently showing their true colors – Hint: they’re not red, white, and blue – and acting the fool?

Jason Aldean’s Try That In A Small Town

Well, let’s start with the video, since imagery is more prone to spark feelings in people of all sorts.

Racist? I can’t see how it is. While there’s plenty of extreme Black violence, there’s also violence being perpetrated by the mostly White Antifa vermin too. Indeed, there seemed to slightly more footage of Antifa than the Blacks. And, in all cases, that depicted violence is straight from news footage, i.e., wholly and solely true depictions of the mass violence that cities were regularly subjected to just recently. Doesn’t seem possible to call that racist since both Black and White vermin were showed behaving in a feral manner.

The same holds true for it being violent. The only violence in the video was news coverage of exactly the sort of mass violence that Mr. Aldean is telling people won’t be tolerated in small towns. There was not one bit of violence, or even potentially threatening behavior, from small town Americans shown.

And just forget about the courthouse in the video being a “lynching site.” That lynching was 96 years ago and largely unknown of by the people complaining until a some muckrakers decided to grift on it to get exposure. It’s not like anyone complained about it any of the many previous time Maury County Courthouse was used in movies, television shows, and whatnot.

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Well, let’s look at the lyrics then. Maybe there’s some racism or dog whistles thereto in them.

Try That In A Small Town

Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk
Carjack an old lady at a red light
Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store
Ya think it’s cool, well, act a fool if ya like

Cuss out a cop, spit in his face
Stomp on the flag and light it up
Yeah, ya think you’re tough

Well, try that in a small town
See how far ya make it down the road
Around here, we take care of our own
You cross that line, it won’t take long
For you to find out, I recommend you don’t
Try that in a small town

Got a gun that my granddad gave me
They say one day they’re gonna round up
Well, that shit might fly in the city, good luck

Try that in a small town
See how far ya make it down the road
Around here, we take care of our own
You cross that line, it won’t take long
For you to find out, I recommend you don’t
Try that in a small town

Full of good ol’ boys, raised up right
If you’re looking for a fight
Try that in a small town
Try that in a small town

Try that in a small town
See how far ya make it down the road
Around here, we take care of our own
You cross that line, it won’t take long
For you to find out, I recommend you don’t
Try that in a small town

Try that in a small town
Ooh-ooh
Try that in a small town

OK. Maybe some of that could be considered racist… if one totally accepts that crime, specifically the “knockout game,” car jacking, and robbing liquor stores are all fundamentally Black things. Or it could be that being disrespectful towards law enforcement and defacing the flag is to be consider by the Woke and their Negroes to be core components of Black Culture.

So again, nothing. Or, at least, nothing sane people could or would call racism or real violent rhetoric.

But What The Real Problems Are

The truth – or, at least, the facts in evidence – is that our domestic enemies, the Liberals and Progressives, and the Black Community, are showcasing two interlocking – intersectional, if you will – of their problems and two of the problems that America needs to solve for.

Firstly, the Black Community is essentially a slave race – lazy, rebellious, masterless, and utterly unwanted, but still a slave race in their own minds. The Black Community is centered upon the concept of their slavery and a hatred of everything that their chosen masters say, do, and believe in. Primarily urban or not, they’re all Field Negroes in their hearts and minds and damn proud to be such. So, of course Aldean’s anthem is going to be seen as racist by them. They’re entire identity is based upon Whites, especially rural Whites, being their oppressors, always and forever.

Secondly, there’s the #Woke crowd, mostly White and mostly urbanites from the Coastal regions. They pander to- and enable the Black Community because they need to feel as if they’re different from- and “better” than both those generations before them and Americans, who rarely live in their coastal urban zones. They’re the Liberals and Progressives, and they loath and fear small town folk because small town folk don’t share their political ideology. So, the thought of those small town. American communities coming together in communal self-defense scares the life out of them. They believe, either consciously or tacitly, that this would be the first step towards – and possibly the last step before – these American communities standing up to- and coming for these urban Wokesters. And that’s they’re biggest fear.

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 23rd, 2023 at 9:29 am and is filed under Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Race-Clickbaiting

Race-Baiting is, even at its best, annoying. But I’ve discovered something even more so in my opinion – Race-Clickbaiting. The particular case in point is the headline for an article from Everyday Chirp that showed up in my Microsoft Start page in Edge:

Earrings Ignite Racial Tensions: Woman Told Coworker She Can’t Get Earrings Like Her Because She’s White

Seems all-too-typical and definitely the sort of headline to grab one’s attention because White women are subject to attacks, primarily from non-White females over matters of hairstyle, clothing and accessories related “cultural appropriation.” As a White man who’s somewhat protective of our women – perhaps more so than they deserve these days – it sucked me right in.

But it was just race-clickbaiting. The non-White woman (Amerindian) didn’t tell her White coworker that she couldn’t get earrings like that because she was White. She just tried to put the woman off because the Amerindian tribeswomen who made them don’t sell their work outside the tribe!

Yeah, a whole different thing.

Also, especially in these times, it’s a dangerous practice. I went a read the article; many wouldn’t have done so. But that headline would be in the back of their minds – one more log on the fire, one more nail in the non-Whites’ coffin.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 28th, 2023 at 2:26 pm and is filed under Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

White Supremacy Narrative

A bit ago five Black police officers beat a Black man, Tyre Nichols, to death during what may be a unwarranted traffic stop. The five officers involved were all hired under the new, lower standards program that allows for even felons of color (FoC) to join law enforcement.

But, of course, the screeds from the Blacks and #Woke enablers went immediately to “Systemic Racism” and “White Supremacy.” And that in spite of the fact – or because of it – that the body cam video shows what looks far more like gang-style violence than police brutality.

**But, They Found A White Scapegoat To Make It Work**

But hey! They found a White scapegoat – Officer Preston Hemphill, who was present at the initial contact with Nichols, but not present or involved in the later, eventually fatal beating of Nichols. So now these Blacks and the enablers are going after Officer Hemphill and the Memphis PD for “shielding him” 🙄

Then, this is all to be expected. When a Black dies in police custody, they always go with the White Supremacy Narrative. It’s the singularly best way for them to get attention, weaken law enforcement, and get a bigger payout from their lawsuits.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 at 12:00 pm and is filed under Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

The 2nd Age Of Race-Whining

So, the Woke theologians associated with Hollywood are, as is almost always the case, whining and ranting about how racist White people are when they voice their disapproval of Hollywood’s recent lust affair with gratuitous racial recasting. In this case, it’s in response to the nigh overwhelming negative response to their inserting Black and Black-ish (Puerto Rican Trigueño) actors into roles in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Their imagined antagonists, be they the showrunners or casting agents, are purportedly spoiling and destroying something good, the commenters felt. How? Apparently by casting people of colour.

Featuring Ismael Cruz Córdova as an elf, Sophia Nomvete as a dwarf, Cynthia Addai-Robinson and Nazanin Boniadi as human characters, and Lenny Henry as a harfoot (an ancestor to the hobbits we’ve seen before), among several others, the new streaming series is bringing some of the first actors of colour to Tolkien adaptations—after six live-action films that went without, save for a few extras. In advance footage and within the first few episodes, it was made clear that these are meaningful roles in the ensemble cast.

Beneath assertions of fandom pride and purity seethes a maelstrom of abject racism. The now-deleted YouTube comment barrage is one strand in a much larger web of backlash, diligently stoked by subgroups of fans that seem hell-bent on tanking the series.
— Sakeina Syed

But there is little to no racism inherent in disliking and castigating the improper insertion of race members who don’t match the original work in question. And, the Blacks and their Woke enablers have certainly never refrained from ranting about it, or even a too-White looking actor or actress is cast in their films.

So, on Córdova:

There are no dark-skinned Elves in Tolkien’s world. All Elves are pale complected and tend towards grey eyes and almost all have dark hair. Even the term Moriquendi (Elves of Darkness) only means that they never completed their migration to the Blessed Land and, hence, they never beheld the Light that was before the Sun and Moon. There’s no racial distinction and, hence, not even a shred of excuse for casting Córdova in the role.

But, on Boniadi:

Alright, they cast an Iraqi as native of the Southlands – what will become Mordor – is to my mind lacking in any issue. There’s little to no canon on what they people their looked like and their close enough to places in which the peoples were described as other than European-esque to make just about any casting not an issue.

And, on Nomvete:

Like Elves, their are no dark-skinned Dwarves in Tolkien’s world. They were always described as short, stocky, bearded Caucasians. This is hardly surprising since Tolkien roughly and loosely patterned them off of the Norse Dvergar, much as he patterned the Elves off of the Norse Ljósálfar

And, on Henry:

As much as I am and have been a fan of Lenny Henry, there are, once again, no Black hobbits – and yes, Harfoot are hobbits, just as Stoors and Fallohides were. Now, it is true that Tolkien described Harfoots as being darker skinned than the other “breeds,” it’s really doubtful that he meant any darker than some of the British or Continental ethnic groups with tanner complexions. But hey! Darker skinned is darker skinned, so there’s at least a shred of excuse for this casting choice.

And, Last but Worst, Addai-Robinson:

Yes, I skipped over the casting of Cynthia Addai-Robinson because it is the single most glaring, egregious, and stupid choice Hollywood made in The Rings of Power so far. Casting a Black as the ruler of Númenor is beyond the pale and throws out all of canon and Tolkien’s lore. It is the equivalent of casting a White as T’Challa – especially the T’Challa of the original comics.

All Númenóreans were tall, fair-skinned, dark-haired, and light-eyed. They were also strongly into maintaining racial purity, unless it involved Elves. Indeed, they didn’t mix much or well with the other Men in Middle-Earth for the most part, holding themselves above and apart from the Middle Men aka Men of Twilight. They even briefly deposed their first Mixed-Heritage King, Eldacar. A Black ruler? So very wrong and pure anti-White, woke bullshit.

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Let’s face facts; only the Blacks and their anti-White, Oikophobic, Left-wing, enables and panderers think that racial recasting and inserting non-Whites into properly White roles is a good thing. And, they’re the only ones crying “RACISM!” when normal people complain about this example of “Cultural Appropriation.” The vast majority of us think what Hollywood is doing is grossly wrong, and we’re right to do so.

And, Tolkien’s works are a special case. They are fully and completely grounded in a fusion of Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic, and Norse culture and religion (What Christians would call mythology), which is no surprise since Mr. Tolkien was linguist specializing in Old and Middle English, both derivations in large of Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic, and Norse, albeit with heavy and profligate Latin and Latin-derivative inclusions.

Simply, bluntly, and uncompromisingly put, inserting non-Whites into a White story is at least as wrong as inserting Whites into a non-White story. It’s Cultural Appropriation in fact, though not in nomenclature since the anti-White racists defined that as Whites finding any value in- and adopting any portions or trappings of non-White cultures.

But, the Race-Baiters’ Problems

First Problem:

The first problem the new, #Woke iteration of Hollywood faces is that their preferred People, the Blacks, are only 13-ish% of the US population and not an important factor in the financial market. So, Black-centric cinema is inherently of limited interest and economic value, and will employ only a tiny number of Black actors and actresses. That’s largely why Hollywood went full-on anti-White and effectively required that all productions especially privilege non-Whites over Whites. In the absence of the possibility of equality, they’ve chosen to go for equity instead.

Second & Greater Problem:

The second and greater problem the new, #Woke iteration of Hollywood faces is that their chosen people have no stories to tell, or near enough to none as to make no difference in the marketspace. Through – and let’s be honest about this – essentially no fault of their own, the Blacks are completely divorced from their ancestors’ cultural roots. That means that, especially in quasi-historical and/or fantasy genres, there are few, if any, intrinsically Black roles for them. And, using the current and most obvious example, The Woman King, fraught with issues due to African history being “messy” by Western and Westernized cultural and ethical standards.

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So no! The issue with The Rings Of Power isn’t racism. The issue is Hollywood’s race-baiting and ever more gratuitous racial recasting of White stories. This is nothing but cultural appropriation and subornation for the sake of being #Woke and for ensuring, whether it’s a valid thing or not, that Black theater sorts reach economic parity with Whites in the same field.

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 29th, 2022 at 5:00 am and is filed under Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Of Lizzo And The Flute

There’s been a more than reasonable amount of rather strident commentary about Lizzo aka Melissa Viviane Jefferson being allowed to play James Madison’s crystal flute. None of it makes much sense to me beyond people just using it to rather pointlessly signal their patriotism to either America or her domestic enemies.

Because please! Someone tell me how a Negress getting her mouth on a White slaveowner’s instrument in order to better her situation is anything novel, anything for the Dems and their Blacks to crow about, or for the average American to rant over? I’ll wait. 😉

Oh, and by the way – or by the by-blow as the case may be – Lizzo’s a Jefferson, which might just mean something given his preferences. So, since Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were close friends, there’s even less cause for commentary.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 4th, 2022 at 5:00 pm and is filed under Humor, Music, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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