![]() Rather, everything is to be deconstructed, and all of life is about race and racism. ![]() They cannot grasp the concept of lawful citizens disgusted with street violence, social anarchy, and disrespect for the noble and sacred. Everything in the world to them is about race. The point is that those on the left are the actual racists. 310 (1990) to guess his color? Here is the color that comes to my mind. Black? And, c’mon, do you need to see a photo of Shawn Eichman of United States v. In the famous Supreme Court cases over flag burning, the incendiary miscreants were named Johnson and - oh, how perfect! - Eichman. I think of Mike Stivic, Archie’s son-in-law. That’s a Black thing, too? When it comes to desecrating the flag I love, I think of privileged White kids at expensive colleges who never will get a productive job, who will take eight years to finish their college undergraduate degree in feminist theory or disruption or gender studies. But what is in those lyrics that imply that Blacks, in particular, hold up liquor stores? Why assume so? And why not assume that a hard-working Black entrepreneur is the owner of the liquor store assaulted by the gun wielder? What does it say about the offended woke listener, not about the composers and singer, that such a lyric spells B-L-A-C-K? Fortunately, I tended to patronize stores that were in the equivalent of “small towns” - i.e., Orthodox Jewish communities - where there is virtually no crime by the locals because, well, because. Also people of all other colors out there. It is my impression that White people also patronize liquor stores. Still, over the years, I have been at liquor stores. ![]() Such imbibing had to stop “cold turkey” after my lung transplant. Boggs, who was chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit for six years. I never was much of a “drinker” except for wine every Friday night at Shabbat dinner and Saturday at Shabbat lunch - and the first Shabbat of May, the Shabbat of the Kentucky Derby, when I would mix, serve to my Shabbat lunch guests, and drink mint juleps in honor of my amazing year in Louisville when I was honored to clerk for the Hon. “Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store.” Where in the above lyric is there any hint at race? And, for that matter, why not assume that it is an innocent Black elderly woman being victimized by a racist, blue-skinned Albanian? ![]() It is called the “knockout game.” Is it unique to Black people? Why assume so? What does it say about a person who sees the term, hears the song and condemnation of this despicable behavior, and immediately assumes that the resentment of the law-abiding lyricist is targeted at Black people, not at the animals of all colors, races, ethnicities, and religions who would do that? Where is the hint in the lyric that - wink, wink - the lyricist means Black people?ĭo non-Black people never carjack? Is carjacking the exclusive domain of Black people? Are White or Asian carjackers guilty of cultural appropriation? I did not know that. According to NPR and the Columbia Journalism Review, this is a real thing. ![]()
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