Frank Beckmann, the long-time radio voice of the University of Michigan and severely Caucasian right-wing radio host/newspaper columnist, took time out from his normal activities ( holding hands with football coaches and singing Josh Groban songs ) to explain to his Detroit News audience that
<blockquote>How does that thought process happen in a racists mind? </blockquote>
How cute, you assume there <em>is</em> a thought process happening in a racist&#039;s mind.
Racists are frequently outraged by people who don&#039;t look like them doing things they&#039;d consider perfectly acceptable and even laudable when done by people who do - for example, dating white women.
WHY won&#039;t these Negroes be proud of their charming customs and quaint cuisine?! Ever since That One got in the White House, they&#039;ve just been so UPPITY!
Yes, Garcia didn&#039;t mean those words to be hurtful in any way, shape or form. It&#039;s not like he&#039;s notorious for hating Woods or <em>anything</em>.
&quot;Political correctness run amok&quot; == &quot;I demand the right to be mindlessly offensive without being called on it&quot;.
There was <a href="http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/05\/22\/tone-policing-only-goes-one-way\/#comment-905109046" target="_blank">interesting idea</a> <em>(dammit I took that link from the actual comment, Disqus apparently only wants you to see the root of the comment thread and not the replies to it; sorry &#039;bout that)</em> on Pandagon a couple of days back, suggesting just lopping off the &quot;political&quot; from political correctness and pointing out that those who oppose it are in fact &quot;defending wrongs&quot;.
Okay, got it. Now if he could just explain why playing the banjo and tap dancing are also beneficial adaptations to the privations of slavery, our sportsball-sycophant world view would be complete.
I think it is awesome when they take all the hard thinking out of the picture, and just go ahead and tell us directly how it is all Obama&#039;s fault.
Which Southern food was then presumably brought North primarily by escaped slaves and later refugees from Jim Crow...
To be fair, Frank Beckmann&rsquo;s constant consumption of salted rat dicks is just another tired angry old white man clich&eacute;.
<blockquote>How does that thought process happen in a racists mind? </blockquote>
How cute, you assume there <em>is</em> a thought process happening in a racist&#039;s mind.
Racists are frequently outraged by people who don&#039;t look like them doing things they&#039;d consider perfectly acceptable and even laudable when done by people who do - for example, dating white women.
WHY won&#039;t these Negroes be proud of their charming customs and quaint cuisine?! Ever since That One got in the White House, they&#039;ve just been so UPPITY!
POPEYES OR DEATH!
Hail! to the racists valiant Hail! to the conqu&#039;ring bigots
GO WHITE! err, I mean, BLUE!
But we can continue assuming that all right wing nutburger racists are mentally challenged though, right?
We&#039;re not all that way.
Yes, Garcia didn&#039;t mean those words to be hurtful in any way, shape or form. It&#039;s not like he&#039;s notorious for hating Woods or <em>anything</em>.
Wait, what&#039;s that you say?
You put me in mind of a song: &quot;When I was a young girl, I had me a cowboy&quot;. That;s a good earworm -- thanks.
&quot;Political correctness run amok&quot; == &quot;I demand the right to be mindlessly offensive without being called on it&quot;.
There was <a href="http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/05\/22\/tone-policing-only-goes-one-way\/#comment-905109046" target="_blank">interesting idea</a> <em>(dammit I took that link from the actual comment, Disqus apparently only wants you to see the root of the comment thread and not the replies to it; sorry &#039;bout that)</em> on Pandagon a couple of days back, suggesting just lopping off the &quot;political&quot; from political correctness and pointing out that those who oppose it are in fact &quot;defending wrongs&quot;.
Darn. I had a delightful picture of you toying with the fresh-faced, impressionable youth, then discarding him like a worn-out petticoat.
I can live with that, if and only if it&#039;s also true that Sherman will raze again.
Okay, got it. Now if he could just explain why playing the banjo and tap dancing are also beneficial adaptations to the privations of slavery, our sportsball-sycophant world view would be complete.
I think it is awesome when they take all the hard thinking out of the picture, and just go ahead and tell us directly how it is all Obama&#039;s fault.