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July 21, 2004
Thank you, Sir! May I have another? Found myself being denounced and banned by an Angry Black Man. Prometheus 6, according to his web domain name, apparently represents the "niggerati."
I wandered into his site from Juliette Ochieng's outstanding Baldilocks blog, relating to a post she had about "Crutches."
Prometheus responded positively to that comment post from me by elevating it to a whole new posting to answer, "Al Barger of Culpepper Log."
Being a post specifically about me, it seemed reasonable to try to respond in what seemed like a friendly and understanding manner. Thus I specifically acknowledged that black people were being lynched and left swinging in the trees in the Jim Crow era, and that this might understandably be some point of anxiety or lingering resentment among black people.
This resulted immediately in Prometheus denouncing me as a "racist pig" and running a whole new post, "Al Barger Is Banned." Being that I am banned, I have not presumed to try posting any kind of answer on his site.
Apparently, Prometheus carefully misconstrued the single phrase "swinging from the trees" to be a monkey insult rather than a reference to strange fruit. I say "carefully misconstrued" in that I find it difficult to see how you could accidentally misconstrue it in this way - taking it his way just doesn't even make sense in context.
Note that in the third comment to his article, Prometheus claims that I used a very harsh word to insult a fellow Blogcritic. This is purely factually untrue, a wholecloth fabrication. [This Prometheus guy is supposed to be a Blogcritic as well, though I don't recall seeing anything from him.] PS: In fairness, he did eventually run this minimal correction.
He wrote another post specifically to berate me, "First Thing in the Damned Morning," which is when he received a private (and exceedingly polite) email from me.
I responded to him back on the Baldilocks site, at "Back and Forth."
I can't get too mad about this kind of foolishness. I know that I'm pretty much volunteering for it by attempting dialogue with an angry black person. Most sensible white folks (and most sensible black folks, for that matter) simply ignore such people. I want to understand - enough to walk into this kind of nonsense from time to time.
What to make of this Prometheus? I fear violating Stuart Smalley's wise admonition against taking other people's inventories, but this is surely some kind of shame based behavior. My best guess is that he's basically projecting some deep self-hatred of himself and his race onto whitey, in this case me. I know the hate didn't come from MY side of the aisle.
[In best Paul Harvey voice:] And now you know... the rest of the story.
New album releases, week of 7-20-2004 The lone likely pick among actual new music is The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives album, their follow up to the righteous "Hate To Say I Told You So."
There's a two disc best of Van Halen, Best of Both Worlds. As you might guess from the title, it contains both David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar era recordings. The switch to Hagar represented one of the most obvious lobotomies in the history of pop music. Plus, it's more than half from the Hagar ie retard era.
Much more promising, but much more expensive, the Faces have a box set out, Five Guys Walk Into a Bar. It's mostly unreleased and alternative takes and live cuts and such. Plus, it's a Rhino deal, so you know it's done right. Rod Stewart was actually a legitimate rock star back before "Do Ya Think I"m Sexy?" Honest.
CLICK HERE for the complete list of this week's major releases.
Girlie men whine about the Governator So some California Democrats are whining like a bunch of girlie men over Governor Schwarzenegger's speech invoking the ghost of an old Saturday Night Live sketch. From the AP:
"If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men," Schwarzenegger said to the cheering crowd at a mall food court in Ontario.
The governor lifted the term from a long-running "Saturday Night Live" skit in which two pompous, Schwarzenegger-worshipping weightlifters repeatedly use it to mock those who don't meet their standards of physical perfection.
Democrats said Schwarzenegger's remarks were insulting to women and gays and distracted from budget negotiations. State Sen. Sheila Kuehl said the governor had resorted to "blatant homophobia."
"It uses an image that is associated with gay men in an insulting way, and it was supposed to be an insult. That's very troubling that he would use such a homophobic way of trying to put down legislative leadership," said Kuehl, one of five members of the Legislature's five-member Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus.
Oh, yeah. The left went through the recall campaign calling Schwarzeneger every variation of Nazi and rapist and every ugly thing, but they can't stand the mild humor of this old Dana Carvey sketch. I feel bad for the poor little girlie men.
However, perhaps those what can't take even a mild joke need to be insulted. If you choose to be insulted and hurt by this, then maybe you deserve to be insulted and hurt. Jebus H Criminy, but these wussies wouldn't last five minutes on the playground at South Park. Being gay is one thing, but being a big cry baby just invites ridicule.
Ah, but here's the clincher of girlie man behavior, from Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, hiding behind his daughter's skirt:
Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Democrat, said that while he wasn't upset by the remark, his 13-year-old daughter was.
"She's a young girl who knows the governor and really likes him a lot and didn't find the term to be a positive term, and finds it to be derogatory," Nunez said. "It was no question a very, very insensitive comment to make. I personally am not intimidated or threatened by it, but I think it really is beneath Gov. Schwarzenegger."
Daddy's big and brave, see, and he won't let that mean old governor threaten or intimidate him, no siree!
See, it's The Children that are being hurt by the Governator. Isn't that just like an evil rapist Nazi Republican?
