How can some dude sing a song about discrimination and lynching and not be a racist.
How can some guy abuse an unconscious woman and not be a rapist?
How can someone tell crude LGBT jokes and not be a homophobe?
How can someone try to build a political career out of hate and not be a bigot?
How can someone beat up his wife and have it caught on tape and not be an abuser.
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The parents of the OU student from Dallas tell us their son is a good boy with a kind heart and nary a racist wbone in his preppy body. Other university students! upstanding citizens, and politicians make similar claims of innocence, no matter what their actions tell us.
For example, Rs tell us Voter ID is to preserve the dignity of the voting process, not to discourage voting by persons of color, which would of course be racist These are the sorts of lies we all tell ourselves and each other. If you truly believe them, then I have a nice bridge in Brooklyn that is available at a great price.
All these Boo-boo-zee twits and their ilk see the world through rose (or dollar bill green) colored glasses. They hold to myths conjured up long ago to make their own behavior less terrible than it is. These goofs all know that racist are Southern crackers addicted to moon pies and RC cola; rapist are crack-smoking black guys wearing masks. Wife beaters are shit-kickers who get all liquored up on Friday nite and drink up their weekly check.
Boys from Yale, OU, and all the rest are simply misunderstood youths learning their way in this complex world.
News FLASH: Hot Off the Presses
YOU get judged in this world by WHAT YOU DO, NOT WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE! Grow up and get used to it.
Any person in prison can tell you the dozen things he or she THINKS THEY ARE-- a good father, a loyal brother, a fine blues guitarist, or just a mellow dude in the wrong place at the wrong time. He or she may also be an a hardcore banger, an arsonist, or a murderer. They are doing the time because they probably did the crime. They are not necessarily bad people, but they took a serious misstep or so along the way, so now they languish in a cell as a consequence. And, they will carry the tag "convict" with them thru the rest of their lives.
But, missteps with few consequences are only for white boys. They just need a few years to mature. They certainly don't deserve to carry any negative tag into their later life because of their youthful indiscretions.
Pardon me, but that is BULLS**T! They are racists, rapists, abusers and bigots. It is just so déclassé to admit the kid from Choate or Dallas Jesuit fits the bill. And, prisons and punishment, of course, are for all those "other" types.
Some Americans are using misbegotten cliches and stereotypes from half a century ago to organize our social world views. What they and their ilk due is make mistakes; it's those "others" who commit crimes or act out in horribly anti-social ways.
These deluded meat sacks are sadly out of step with the real world in which we all live.
Wake up and Welcome to America!