Back To Africa With Them

 Back to Africa with them! Boy! Been a while since I heard that. The untimely demise of Austin Metcalf has revived a primal instinct of white America, especially white Texas. OMG! I used a forbidden word. Just wait. It’s gonna get worse.

 

Little known historical fact: Lincoln considered back to Africa as a viable option to civil war and by the way, he did try to ban Jews from the country too.  But a return to the old country was seriously considered. It took the Mormons until 1978 to classify black people as human. They haven’t classified LBGTQ’s yet, but the day ain’t over yet.

 

When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act he assumed that all racism, systemic or otherwise would be confined to history but even he told his associates that he’d “Have them niggers voting Democrat for the next two-hundred years.” Well, he was right about that anyway.

 

The event in Texas reminded us that there are two Americas, and it is as plain as black and white. Look at any Facebook post with lots and lots of comments. Now look at the profile pictures under each comment, note the color, and you tell me there ain’t no two Americas!

 

Mohammed Ali said it best. Blue birds want to be with blue birds, red birds with red birds and, sadly, black birds have an exclusive group, too. The white opinions on social media are generally civil as Caucasians are severely limited as to descriptive adjectives, while darker citizens can call a spade a spade.

 

And the evolution of the weapon used in Texas is frankly amazing. Right after the incident the knife was found and identified as a knife. Plain and simple. This morphed into a track shoe with cleats and soon Austin had attacked with a Bowie knife which was deflected by Karmelo’s Bible.

 

And the usual “Activists” showed up in their best Martin Luther King suits going on and on about self defense. The Anthonys had to move to a safer house to protect their Lamborghini, and the news reports constantly reminded everyone that the family was a “middle class family.” Very important to the refined opinions of inquiring minds in Harlem.

 

If all of that were true, where did the knife wielding Karmelo Anthony appear from? Was he a product of whatever was discussed around the old dinner table or did the Zulu DNA just come out?

 

And you haven’t seen it yet. Just wait for judgement day! Right now it’s first degree murder. The MLK Equal Rights Legal Firm is trying for a dropping of charges with reparations from the Metcalf family. Normally there would be riots with appropriate looting of stores and more civil rights legislation, but this is Texas, and you know how we are!

 

But of course, you do. There is and has always been a cloud of suspicion surrounding race relations in America. Color it anyway you will, the United States came as the result of a war between the colonists in New England and their owners in Old England over there. And they were all Crackers. The only humans other than them here were Indians and were shot as fast as the muskets could be reloaded. The racism was rampant. The fight between the Dead Rabbits of New York and the Irish immigrants was an argument over who was white enough. White folks have always been like that. And that’s a good thing. Look at Africa. Look at all the continent below the Sahara Desert. And other than Elon Musk, you tell me one good thing that ever came out of there.

 

No real plans were made for the freed slaves after the Civil War other than, “You free! Now get off the plantation.” So they all went to Detroit and screwed that up. Add a hundred years or so, garnish with BBQ sauce and you get Karmelo Anthony. No different than if he just walked out of the cotton patch. Are all blacks like him? No!

 

Between the Civil War to now, American blacks have evolved. Nobody is pure black, white or anything. Maybe Indians. They’re still pissed off about Wounded Knee, but everybody else is a bastard. So, Car-Mellow acting like a Zulu is a social problem. Movies, music, social media and public schools gave you Karmelo. Acting out a role he can never fill and pissed off at people who couldn’t care less. And we can’t sent his kind back to Africa. They’d just eat him.

 

We have to go back and start again. The RaceDay Clock has now been set back to 1954. Rosa Parks never took that seat, Dr King never got shot, and Austin Metcalf never got to run track that day. And that, right there is the minority vote! Cremate his remains. Maybe he’ll smell like fried chicken.