I'm not saying that your racist, but...

One of the things that has really bothered me lately is the liberal use of the term "race card". I'm not sure whether to blame OJ or AC, but ever since the most famous Ford Bronco ride of all time, and the subsequent "trial of the century", people have thrown this term around like mystery meat in a middle school food-fight. It seems that it's become a shut-down/go-to defense for...well, racists to be racists. When you study the history of the term more closely, however, it isn't that surprising to see what its become, considering that it was invented to defend a....well, racist:

The "race card-card" as I have coined it, is at best an expression of denial of the existence of racism, and at its worst: a thinly-veiled admission of one's own racism (and by the way, that lame sh*t only works on people with no skills in the field of debate). So I encourage you to not use this term when in serious arguments, it really only gives away your crazy-Limbaugh-Beck world view, and the fact that your probably an anti-intellectual who says things like "book-smarts" and think way too much about Michael Vick...
However, in an effort to never be accused of being a person who points out problems without offering solutions, I have come up with something productive to offer my fellow evolved monkeys: A list of things/phrases/actions to avoid unless you want your black and or progressive/liberal friends to write you off as a probable bat-sh*t/Hannity/Gingrich (closeted) racist: Of course I am hyperbolizing a-bit, but you might (key word)  be a 21st century post-racial biggot if you:

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1. Use the term "race card" when people bring up possible racist activity in our society
(see above)



2. Still bring up the OJ Simpson trial more than once a year
First of all, I have to admit that this has finally died down for the most part in recent years, however every now and then (and this is mostly from racist-comedians, a group of people that I will go in on in future musings) I still hear people randomly bring up this now 15-year old case. Do not do this, unless you want to bring out the inner-Sharpton in this author...

3. If you think that College Basketball is somehow better than Professional Basketball...
This is a touchy one, so let me be specific...I am not necessarily saying that you can't believe that college basketball is more "fun to watch" or that it is refreshing to see "real offensive schemes being executed" from time to time, however if you say any of the following, I am talking about you:

- "I don't even watch the NBA anymore" Your use of "anymore" gives you away here...
- "I can't believe how much money they make to play a game" Yet you have no problem with how much Ben Affleck makes being a terrible actor
- "I shoot better than that guy" No you don't...period


4. If you listen/watch to any of the following shows:
Sean Hannity
Rush Limbaugh
Marc Levin
Glenn Beck
Bill O'Reilly
Michael Savage (although he is really entertaining)
Michelle Malkin
Ann Coulter
The Real Housewives of Atlanta *(specifically for self-hating black people)

5. If you say or have ever said: "I like all-music, except rap music"
Just because you pulled up next to some gangster wannabees, playing the latest ignorant post- hip-hop, corporate-driven "bitch and ho" song, doesn't mean that you know anything about or have "listened" to hip-hop (it hasn't been called rap for some time now...) music. Judging the genre as a whole based on this is like someone else writing off rock-n-roll because they heard a five second snippet from David Bowie's Tin Machine....

6. *Just for self-hating black folks: If you like Tyler Perry and/or his movies:
You can't like this guy, and not hate yourself:

7. You refer to the President as "Obama" or have ever used the term "Obamacare"
A. He is the President of the United States (you true American Patriot, you)
and
B. I know that dissing the term "Universal Health Care" sounds really bad so you had to create another term, but much like compassionate comnservatism, "Obamacare" doesn't exist just because you keep repeating it...




8. If you think that this woman is either: attractive or intelligent:

While most of this is satyrical humor, this one is not...If you like or more importantly "respect" this idiot, you have serious, serious issues...period, if offer you these quotes to accentuate my point:

A. "'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'" --a Tweet sent by Sarah Palin in response to being ridicule for inventing the word "refudiate," proudly mistaking her illiteracy for literary genius, July 18, 2010


B. "I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out." --Sarah Palin, referring to a department that does not exist while attempting to explain why as president she wouldn't be subjected to the same ethics investigations that compelled her to resign as governor of Alaska, ABC News interview, July 7, 2009


C.  "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008


case closed...


Peace


The Yankee Dread, November 4, 2010