Fred on Everything-S***ery R********ns ...........by Fred Reed!Oh, WOW !!! This so good, and so TRUE !
As you will recall, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Harvard professor who got arrested by Cambridge Police some time ago.
Fred Reed was a police reporter for one of the large Washington newspapers. He now writes a column which can be googled ~ "Fred on Everything."
Fred published a weekly online column in which he got to say the things his editors would never, ever have let him write in the paper. His stuff is iconoclastic and various articles have probably offended everyone...regardless of political orientation. So, with the warning that "This is definitely not politically correct," here comes Fred.....
The following is an essay regarding the failings of a system and a culture. Please note that he elegantly describes the mood of many Americans and he does so without prejudice.
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S***ery R********ns ...........by Fred Reed!On the Web I find that Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Afro-American Studies at Harvard, is demanding that w****s pay r********ns to b****s. It's because of s***ery, see. He is joined in this endeavor by a gaggle of other professional b****s. I guess he’ll send me a bill, huh?
I feel like saying, "Let me get this straight, Hank. I'm slow. Be patient.
You want free money because of s***ery, right? I don't blame you." I'd like free money too. Tell you what. I believe in justice. I'll give you a million dollars for every s***e I own, and another million for every year you were a s***e. Fair enough? But tell me, how many s***es do you suppose I have?
In round numbers, I mean...say to the nearest dozen. And how long were you a s***e?
Oh, In other words, I owe you r********ns for something that I didn't do and didn't happen to you. That makes sense. Like lug nuts on a birthday cake.
Personally, I think you owe me r********ns for things you didn't do and never happened to me.. I've never been coated in Dutch chocolate and thrown from the Eiffel Tower. I'll bet you've never done it to anyone. I want r********ns. Kind of silly, isn't it?
But if we're going to talk about r********ns, that's a street that runs in two directions. You want money from me for what some other w****s did to some other b****s in another century?
How about you guys paying w****s r********ns for current expenses caused by b****s? Not long ago b****s burned down half of Los Angeles, a city in my country. Cities are
expensive, Hank.
Build one sometime and you'll see what I mean. W****s had to pay taxes to repair Los Angeles for you. You can send me a check.
Now, yes, I know you burned LA because you didn't like the verdict in the trial of those police officers. Well, I didn't like the verdict in the Simpson trial. But I didn't burn my house and l**t Korean grocers, or burn down a city.
Over the years b****s have burned a lot of American cities: Newark, Detroit, Watts, on and on. Now add in the fantastic cost over the years of welfare in all its forms, the cost of all of those police calls people had to make, for cells and jails and security systems in department stores.
I can't live in the capital city of my own country because of crime committed by b****s. Toss in the cultural cost of lowering standards in everything for the benefit of b****s.
See what I mean?
Now, I'd view things differently if you said to me, "Fred, b****s can't get anywhere in a Modern country without education. We know that. We need better schools, smarter teachers, harder courses, books with smaller pictures and bigger words.
Can you help us?"
I'd say, "Hallelujah! Hoo-ahh! Not just yes, but hell yes. Let's sell an aircraft carrier and get these folks some real schools and get them into the economic main-stream.' I'd say it is partly because it would be the right thing to do, and partly because I'd like to add you guys to the tax base.
The current custodial state is expensive. I'd just love for b****s to study and learn to compete and stop burning places. But is it going to happen? You may not believe it, but I, and most w****s, don't like seeing b****s as miserable and screwed up as they are.
I spend a fair amount of time in the projects. Those places are ugly. It's no fun watching perfectly good kids turn into semi-literate dope dealers who barely speak English. It just plain isn't right. But, Hank, what am I supposed to do about it? I can't do your children's homework. At some point, people have to do things for themselves, or they don't get done. Maybe it's time.
I'll tell you what I see out in the world, Hank..... I think b****s are too accustomed to getting anything they want by just demanding it. True, it has worked for over half a century.
Get a few hundred people in the street, implicitly threaten to l**t and burn, holler about s***ery, and sadly the Great White Cash Spigot turns on.
Thing is, w****s don't much buy it any longer. Most recognize that what once was a civil-rights movement has become a shakedown game. Few people still feel responsible for the failings and inadequacies of b****s. Political correctness keeps the lid on -- but everyone knows the score.... Which scares me, Hank.
On one hand, b****s h**e w****s and incline toward l**ting and burning. (The w****s you h**e are the ones who marched in the civil-rights movement. Ever think about that?)
On the other hand, w****s quietly grow wearier and wearier of it. Not good, Hank.
On the third hand (allow me three hands, for rhetorical convenience), b****s keep demanding things. As I write, you demand r********ns for s***ery. B****s in Oklahoma (I think it was) want money for some ancient race r**t).
Other b****s reject the Declaration of Independence. B****s in New York hint broadly at burning and l**ting over a trial, yet more demand the elimination of the Confederate f**g, and the federal equal opportunity apparatus, which means b****s, want to sue Silicon Valley for not hiring nonexistent black engineers. That's a lot of demanding for one month, Hank.
What happens if w****s ever say, "No"?
Now, how about you? You've got a cushy job up there at Harvard, and you can hoot and holler about what swine and bandits w****s are. I guess it's lots of fun, and you get a salary for it to boot. But don't you think you might do b****s more good if you told them to complain less and study more?
For example, if you want b****s to work in Silicon Gulch, the best approach might be to find some really smart black guys, and get them to study digital design ~ not Black Studies (as you teach). That's how everybody else does it. It works. Then b****s wouldn't feel left out, and racial tensions would decline. Sound like a plan?
Just out of curiosity, how many hours a week do professors of Afro-American Studies spend in the projects, encouraging poor black kids to study real-life sho-nuf subjects?https://fredoneverything.org/