We Need To Tune Out the Obsessive Racial Madness
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Hey, did you listen to Reagan talking to Nixon about how the African leaders at the UN were monkeys? Monkeys, not even apes like a former Reagan co-star.
Kind of undermines the official rhetoric doesn’t it? I have to remember the incredibly hard-fought and lengthy process of letting the public see what was essentially public property: the Nixon tapes. Nearly 50 years later, some of it is just now coming to light.
Incidentally, I have a reel to reel copy of a paid actor reading the transcript of what was released early on. Remember that? It was done that way to please the Republicans who insisted that a “Liberal ” narrator from the biased Liberal Press would let that dreaded Liberal bias into the words. I wonder why they didn’t just listen to the original, but it’s old news now and nobody cares. Nobody even talks about the fact that racist presidential tirades seem to be Nixon or Reagan or Trump and involve prominent Republican moral leaders like Billy Graham.
Nobody, even in this time when everything has to meet some test of rhetorical purity, mentions Nixon and Graham nodding together like bobblehead dolls about the Jews ruining America or Jesse Jackson talking about New York as “Hymie Town.” Even today when everyone is suspect and poor old enemy of racism Mark Twain gets banned for accurately portraying the American idiom of the 1840s.
I just tune out the obsessive racial madness these days because it’s no more useful or objective than the Reefer Madness business of the 1930’s.
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Day in and day out we hear about race, with “The Rev” now a permanent guest on Morning Joe, and panels that consist of as many people of color as those that are not. It’s puzzling given that blacks make up 13% of the population with 87% making up the rest of us. There are actual democratic candidates talking about busing and reparations. With apologies to folks in that 13% minority, there are issues that cross color lines, and it’s those we need to be talking about, although I expect you’re just as tired of hearing this craziness as the rest of America.