Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Prior to the Democrats becoming the anti-American political party of Identity Politics, whites, blacks, and Puerto Ricans could laugh at themselves and at one another. Dean Martin turned a roast, in which good humored fun is poked at a prominent person, into mass entertainment. That blacks were equal opportunity targets was testimony to the success of black entertainers and athletes. In the humorless world of today, these roasts would be considered “hurtful,” “offensive,” and “hate crimes.”
Americans had to be trained to this new mentality. It was done in order to break us apart as a people, and it has succeeded. Recently, in response to overwrought reactions to youthful blackface experiences of current Virginia Democratic politicians, I posted a Dean Martin roast of Sammy Davis Jr. and asked if Davis was a self-hating black for permitting himself to be ridiculed on stage before a large audience. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/02/07/was-sammy-davis-jr-a-self-hating-black/
The younger generation has been programmed to see Sammy Davis’ roast as a ‘step-and-fetch-it” black being ridiculed for white entertainment. That many of those roasting Sammy Davis were themselves black and Sammy Davis was a very successful multi-millionaire entertainer does not affect the modern perception of the event. I wonder if they see Ronald Reagan as a self-hating white: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve1z48hljYY
Muhammad Ali, a justifiably proud American, was pleased to be an honored roastee and gave as good as he received. Everyone knew it was all in fun. No one in his right mind would really insult the heavyweight champion of the world while standing next to him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC4MJhqJf4E&t=2s
The race and gender hatreds instilled by identity Politics have not only produced a humorless country but also a disunited country. Unity has been destroyed by the Democratic Party’s Identity Politics, and the absence of unity precludes any restoration of American greatness by President Trump.
Identity Politics gives us not only fake news but also fake history. Histories have been made up in order to instill a victim consciousness in women and blacks, the better to teach gender and racial hatreds. The hopes of the civil rights movement for an integrated and unified country are being defeated. Once unity is shattered, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t put unity back together again. American society is headed for a split as serious as the Shiite and Sunni.
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Goddamn Libs and demon crats. I hate what they have done due to there marching orders from the subhuman globalists. If we don’t end this shit now,we are doomed to Communist rule.
I now tell anyone that will listen for more than 5 minutes. I could fill hours on what I know these people have done. But all I can say is……”If you only knew what these people have done”
Graveyard at a chemical plant during the mid 2000’s.
A conversation between a typical tobacco chewing southerner and a black guy while doing a maneuver (over the radio for everyone in the building to hear)
– Hey…pay attention… Or do I have to bring the hemp rope?
– Bring it…. your d**k will still be small.
Good friends having fun while at the job. Just fun.
No way this can happen today.
I have seen this happen many times… someone with a prominent characteristic (a big nose, limping on a leg, partially deaf, short, extremely thin, or fat, black in a mainly white area, white in a mainly black area, etc).
Someone makes a joke. The rest observe. If the reaction is of offense, then everyone leave that person alone. If not, he/she is welcome to the group.
I see it as a a test. People that has some sort of special characteristic tend to be resentful (Have you ever had a short boss?). They tend blame the world for his own problems. But people don’t care about a limping person. People just don’t want to stay by a resentful limping person.
If he/she takes the joke easily, it means there is no resentment about his/her condition. And he is welcome.
Today, with politicians appealing to resentment, telling people that their problems is someone else’s fault, jokes cannot be tolerated.
“Americans had to be trained to this new mentality. It was done in order to break us apart as a people, and it has succeeded”
And who do you think was doing the training?
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum- it has all been planned.
thedeliberatedumbingdownofAmerica.com
Charlotte Iserbyt- Nat’l Dept. of Educ. under Reagan-
Paul Craig Roberts ought to know exactly what has happened to our ed. system-look at the article Stucky posted !
Liberals are stupid as shit and it is hilarious. It’s time and we’re ready. When they start their Revolution, gonna have a real good time, gonna be a real good game, gonna put their lights out.
All in the family was a tv show that would get people all butthurt nowadays. Those tv roasts were funny!
Time for an open book test, one question only; all who take it will get an A, regardless of your “answer” (sorry, we don’t offer extra credit for snowflakes):
Question: From your personal experience or understanding of history, what is the single most influential event that started America on the road to oblivion?
My Answer: When Madalyn Murray O’Hair eventually won her lawsuit against God, initially filed in Baltimore in 1960 and finally ruled upon by the Supremes. Trivia: the same Baltimore where Queen Nancy got her start in politics.
O’hair’s murder years later in Texas: Divine Payback?
Right, the Left dumped God. And then they passed the Civil Riots Act of 1965 which Named every Minority Group (except white males) to be given preference in all things good (except white males). That clearly violates the 14th Equal Under the Law, torpedoed the Constitution, screws Social Justice, and government under the Law. Hello Leftist Fascism, racism, sexism, etc.