PC for the sake of.............who knows?
I'm a little more than a little bit tired of the PC of nearly everything..Hyphenated American, what is that all about? I grew up in southeast Kansas. There were Italians, Hungarians, Armenians, Czechs, Poles, Germans, Irish, Scot and other ethnic groups including blacks. They all had neighbor hoods and even small towns with 75% of the population all of one background. They all were Americans first and their ethnic group 2nd. Each small town had ethnic celebrations with the dress, food and customs every year. It was a treat to go to the different celebrations in each small town and witness these celebrations. They would last a weekend or maybe a week (5 days within the town its self and 2 days with the tourists invading and participating).
The groups mixed at work and in school and all considered each other Americans, without any hyphens attached. Not to say that there were no instances of prejudices, for there were many. I don't recall any leading to riots of them burning down their own neighborhoods and businesses. Mainly a few fist fights, that seemed to settle most of the disputes. The only time I have any recollection of race problems in Pittsburg, KS was in the late 1960's when a bunch of black college students went into a couple of grocery stores and opened some jars of pickles and took a pickle out an ate it and put the lid back on, or opened a jar of mayonnaise and stuck a finger in an put the lid back on. So far as I know there were no arrests or beatings, a few pissed off store owners that had to eat the losses on some canned goods. The local black population didn't seem to want to join in with the big city blacks doing the protesting over something....I have yet to figure out what though.
This crap with Don Imus is blown way out of proportion. Almost anyone who has ever listened to his show, figured out years ago he's an idiot. Giving credence to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton or Calipso Louie or Harry Belafonte is not helping race relations.
Listening to Bill Cosby, Walter Williams, Colin Powell, Secretary Rice, Justice Clarence Thomas or J.C. Watts and their rantings of personal responsibility and trying to do your very best, even when no one is watching doesn't seem to play well in the Black Community with the self professed leadership. These black leaders are not black enough... Whatever that means. These leaders are personal heroes to me, they had to overcome the prejudices of some white people and even more black people to get where they got. They all point out the problems in the black communities with the high out of wedlock birth rate and lack of fathers accepting responsibility for their children, the acceptance of low performance in schools....doing well academically is looked down on as trying to be too white.....figure that one out. A thought that never occurred to George Washington Carver I bet.
"Victim" is largely a self-inflected wound these days. It is much easier to claim victim status than to improve your status through hard work, ethical behavior and strength of family. This sense of victim hood is not restricted to the black community, I fear it is pervading our entire society. I have tried to instill some modicum of pride and a work ethic in my children and am proud to say that it seems to have taken. None of them drag around the "Poor little me" crap that I see in almost all the newscasts on the air nowadays.
The groups mixed at work and in school and all considered each other Americans, without any hyphens attached. Not to say that there were no instances of prejudices, for there were many. I don't recall any leading to riots of them burning down their own neighborhoods and businesses. Mainly a few fist fights, that seemed to settle most of the disputes. The only time I have any recollection of race problems in Pittsburg, KS was in the late 1960's when a bunch of black college students went into a couple of grocery stores and opened some jars of pickles and took a pickle out an ate it and put the lid back on, or opened a jar of mayonnaise and stuck a finger in an put the lid back on. So far as I know there were no arrests or beatings, a few pissed off store owners that had to eat the losses on some canned goods. The local black population didn't seem to want to join in with the big city blacks doing the protesting over something....I have yet to figure out what though.
This crap with Don Imus is blown way out of proportion. Almost anyone who has ever listened to his show, figured out years ago he's an idiot. Giving credence to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton or Calipso Louie or Harry Belafonte is not helping race relations.
Listening to Bill Cosby, Walter Williams, Colin Powell, Secretary Rice, Justice Clarence Thomas or J.C. Watts and their rantings of personal responsibility and trying to do your very best, even when no one is watching doesn't seem to play well in the Black Community with the self professed leadership. These black leaders are not black enough... Whatever that means. These leaders are personal heroes to me, they had to overcome the prejudices of some white people and even more black people to get where they got. They all point out the problems in the black communities with the high out of wedlock birth rate and lack of fathers accepting responsibility for their children, the acceptance of low performance in schools....doing well academically is looked down on as trying to be too white.....figure that one out. A thought that never occurred to George Washington Carver I bet.
"Victim" is largely a self-inflected wound these days. It is much easier to claim victim status than to improve your status through hard work, ethical behavior and strength of family. This sense of victim hood is not restricted to the black community, I fear it is pervading our entire society. I have tried to instill some modicum of pride and a work ethic in my children and am proud to say that it seems to have taken. None of them drag around the "Poor little me" crap that I see in almost all the newscasts on the air nowadays.
It seems that you and I are on the same page in this regard (http://www.jeremypierson.com/blog/index.php?itemid=77), though we have different ways of getting out message across. I suppose the fact that I have to preface mine with an apology to my daughter and a warning to other minors says something about me, but I'm also a believer than people should be able to say what they need to say. My warning/apology to my daughter is in the extrememly rare event she should happen across it at school or at a friend's. Otherwise, my content is considered for adults and not children and I make no apologies for my words. I say all of this in regard to my own comments because I do believe people should be able to say things that some might find offensive.
That being said, I will do my best to keep from dropping any f-bombs (or any other bombs) in my comments here!
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I concur with your thoughts that people need to abandon their "poor me" attitudes and work hard to make their own lives better. In the process, they do a service to their own lives, their communities and so on. It only takes one person to say, I am not a victim and I am making things better.
But I have to say I giggled with the thought of some sort of rebellion based around the theft of a single pickle from a pickle jar. That is just dying to be put into a movie! You have to wonder what they thought they would accomplish with such a silly action.
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I think you might have misread what he was saying with regard to the pickles. I believe the black characters were eating the one pickle as a form of protest for something else. Though, as dad stated, what it was supposed to be protesting was beyond anybody's guess, including the majority of other black folk in the town.
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After reading your comment, I got to thinking back. They would open the jar of pickles, take a bite off a pickle and then put it back in the jar and put the lid on and back on the shelf. Caused the store owners to discard much of their inventories of lidded commodities.
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I'm with everyone else on this. PC is sickening. I couldn't give a DAMN about what you call someone. Hell, one of my favorite comedic bits is not very PC at all. The SNL bit where Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor are doing word associations. "Black" "white" and so forth. Not to mention George Carlin or Carlos Mencia (although he steals his bits from everyone else) who routinely talk about discrimination. As Carlin states "I hate hearing about bad words, bullshit, it's about context. You don't care when Eddie Murphy or Richard Pryor says [n-word] do you. Why? They're [n-word]." (Word omitted because I try to make it a point not to post potentially "offensive" material on other people websites, like my big bro above, but I'll personally use any word, and I've used that word around my black friends and co-workers when telling stories)
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Jesse and Al pimpin out there own race. The white man bring them down... yea right. In 1863, the were given the freedom to go back to Africa and they chose not to. Luis Ferrican wanted them to have there own state - fine give them Alaska. Here is there chance to try for ice hockey.
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PC is just sugar coated censorship.
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