Save Your Confederate Money Boys!

 

 

A court reduced the bond for a Texas teen accused of fatally stabbing another teenager at a track meet and said he would allow house arrest for the suspect. Karmelo Anthony, 17, is charged in the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf following a verbal dispute at a track meet in Frisco, Texas.

 

And the wall gets higher. We would like to believe that due to the Civil Rights Act everything changed and elevated black folk to Negro 2.0. We should all be color blind, everyone loved one another, and every child could grow up to be another Dr. Ben Carson or Barack Obama. And if you believe that, have I got a bridge for you, and it’s on sale. EBT accepted.

Yet again we have an incident that spills over from 1922 with all the pomp and ceremony of a lynching complete with burning cross. But I expected that. Oh, those people were all politically correct for the most part. It wasn’t them that were acting according to tribe, may I say tribe. As the comments piled up on Facebook and elsewhere I kinda expected to see at least an inkling of civility, but alas, it was not to be. After reading many comments something stood out. If the comment came from a black face, it supported the killer’s action. Self defense! For those of you who live under a big yellow rock the incident was a black boy killing a white boy at a track tournament. He had a $1,000,000 bail.

I checked the profile of several of the commentators, and it was black on black. Now, in point of fact, there are almost no actual black people in America. Black folk are like from Africa and are shades of dark purple to Goodyear Tire black while the McDonald’s brand comes from distant African heritage, and is various shades of color from black, mocha, chocolate, yellow, light, bright, and damn near white. (Apologies to Red Foxx.) But that having been said, almost to the man or baby mama, if the commenter wasn’t Irish they were all in the self defense camp.

Scales fell from my eyes, and I could see the fried chicken clearly! What this told me was that every advance we had made since Rosa Parks took her seat on that bus didn’t mean squat! The only desegregation done was done with the threat of federal guns and action and as soon as the Yankees went back to New Yawk City it was business as usual.

I wish it weren’t so, but it is. Racism is alive and well in the good old USA! We all view life through a racial filter. Change my mind. Black and white people talk different, think different, and smell different. Are they though? Archeology tells us that Lucy was darker than say, Donald Trump and, she was our ancestor. So, what went wrong? The sun! If you take the human animal into cooler climates, they get lighter. And there are differences between Ethiopia and Germany. Different critters, different weather, different circumstances. Different understanding. People adapt. But they’re still people.

But people tend to dance with the ones who brung them. Back in the day if you went to check out the other side of the hill there was a fair chance that you could end up in a stewpot. Ergo, don’t trust people on the other side of the hill. Look at Sci-Fi. Aliens land in a flying saucer. Yeah yeah yeah! I’m old school. Just bear with me. Who meets them? The Army! Why? Because they’re from the other side of the hill. Interesting note: The space guys are never black.

Am I a racist? Why yes, I am. And so are you. The “Other side of the hill syndrome” is ingrained into our DNA. And every little thing your grandmother ever told you is stuck in your head. My granny warned me to never date a colored girl. She said they all had the “Clap.” They got it from their mamas. I was five years old and out of six failed marriages I haven’t married a black girl yet! We all have it!

And we will never get past it. The human brain identifies differences. An array of many things from chickens to computer dials, and your eye will zero in on the different one. It’s in the makeup. Wanna know a sound that will scare everyone from a Zulu to a jogger in Central Park? A rustle in a bush. Why? Because in 10,000 years BC the rustle was a tiger and even in the modern mind the tiger is still there. Is it a rat, or a rapist?

It’s human nature. How do we rise above it? On a base level we can’t. Its survival. But intellectually we can reasonably understand the student crossing the street is no danger to us. No matter how he wears his hair. But this feature in the human gnome will anger some at the reduction of a bail while others will leap to his defense no matter what the facts seem to say. Did the black kid try to steal a pair of earbuds. . . or was it a dope deal gone wrong? Boy! That hurt, didn’t it. Not as bad as sitting on a bicycle without a seat but right on up there!

Judge not lest ye be judged. Take everything with a pinch of salt. And save your Confederate money boys, the south will rise again.