Simple moment of tranquility, courtesy of Dr. Fraiser Crane and the famous "There's Something about Dr. Mary" episode (full episode available here) from Fraiser. An entire episode dedicated to white guilt. Enjoy!
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TNB - in New Zealand.
African Migrants engaged in an "LA-Gang-Style Brawl" in front of Children
- Flashed Gang Signs at Children
- Assaulted the Victim's girlfriend
- When an innocent bystander tried to break up the fight, he was punched in the face.
This is not in an Inner City in the US, but in Fucking NEW ZEALAND!
Link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/crime/news/article.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=10783517
Sorry but I just don't feel like watching a half hour Whitey hate fest.
Here's a laugh and a beautiful women whom I am enthralled.
http://www.soompi.com/news/jenny-hyuns-offending-tweets-calling-for-eradication-of-the-black-community-spark-controversy
I remember watching that episode long before SBPDL was even a glint in PK's eye... *sniffle* The white guilt made me want to gag.
I got thru a minute of it...not funny..wheres the white guilt?
did I miss something?
No thanks, I'm a white fella who has met alot white people who aren't worth their weight in shit. I also want to tell black people not to listen to those who say they are entitled anything, it's a lie. That's all for now
I always liked Frasier.
"I also want to tell black people not to listen to those who say they are entitled anything, it's a lie. "
Good luck with that one!
You must not spend much time around authentic blacks, or you would know you are wasting your breath. It will take more than simple words to break the generational welfare/entitlement mentality, victimology, dependency, and dysfunction in the black population. We have reached the tipping point, and the black population is unable to sustain itself without the government's transfer of wealth programs.
Whites are only delaying the inevitable by paying blacks not to loot and riot. Whites need to end this madness and finally stop feeling guilty for black failure. We need to divorce ourselves from this problem and start rebuilding our nation.
Blacks don't believe in the Founding principles of rugged individualism and personal responsibility. They find the white man's laws and rules to be oppressive and restrictive. Blacks want to be free to wild out and express their blackness.
Blacks hate whites with a passion, and use the liberal government and violent thuggery to make sure whites pay up or else. Blacks run a racial shakedown operation, that is how they make that loot, and they are fully aware of the dependency on whites for their existence. That is one reason why they hate us so much.
This will not end until whites start shouting "NO!", loud and clear. We must not leave it up to the blacks, they will always have their hands out for more. Blacks are tired of white people and all their fancy talk. They just want us to shut up and pay up. We finally need to back up our words with action. We need more voluntary segregation and freedom of association.
Blacks should not be forced to compete openly with whites, and whites should not be offered up as a sacrifice to keep blacks pacified.
Hmmmmmm, I watched the clip and if anything I'd say it's taking shots at the stupidity of white guilt, not endorsing it. The old guy in the chair - "Because she's black . . ." is saying 'you wouldn't have let a white person dominate your show the way you allowed this black to'. I call this one high and on the outside.
White guilt is going to kill us. Mr. Anon Moral Relativism, if you want to learn more about black's hatred for whites, just read about South Africa.
Africans are Africans, and the more racially segregated we become in the States, where blacks are not encouraged to assimilate into white culture, the more Africanized blacks will become.
http://www.alternativeright.com/main/the-magazine/is-black-genocide-right/
You have to see this wonderful story of vigilantism...best story in years
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/feb/19/one-dead-after-robbery-crash-vanderburgh-county/
White guilt like the rest of liberalism is nothing. Per usual it is an embarrasment only taken seriously by conservatives who shriek about it, therefor legitimizing it for liberals who then move to a whitopia.
Of course none of you believe what I just wrote so go ask a DWL or SWPL type to intellectually explain white guilt and if they have it and what they do about it.
In Iowa, blacks are suing the state under the pretense that people who aren't actually racist may be subconsciously racist and that's the same thing.
Methinks we're unofficially through the rabbit hole here, with BRA criminalizing the act of simply being white.
http://thegazette.com/2012/02/19/blacks-testing-new-theory-in-bias-case/
"We need more voluntary segregation and freedom of association."
Great point, and very true. I just purchased my home,and I know I could have bought a larger one, maybe even a two-family; in the "bad part" of town.But I do not care, I try to live a nig-free lifestyle for myself and my family. My suggestion; buy a home in an area far from "public" transportation.In my case...it makes all the difference in the world.
"We need more voluntary segregation and freedom of association."
Great point, and very true. I just purchased my home,and I know I could have bought a larger one, maybe even a two-family; in the "bad part" of town.But I do not care, I try to live a nig-free lifestyle for myself and my family. My suggestion; buy a home in an area far from "public" transportation.In my case...it makes all the difference in the world.
AS for me, there is no need to post video examples of hate whitey, poor little discriminated against by whitey black,asian,muslim,hispanic, ad infinitude person, that I have picked up an autogag reflex that does not allow me to view any such trash. Thank you.
"My suggestion; buy a home in an area far from "public" transportation.In my case...it makes all the difference in the world."
No sidewalks, check cashing joints, or bus stops is also a good sign.
In my city, the bus service and high speed rail is heading north from the hood to the suburbs, thanks to our pandering Mayor and the environmental libtards. The whites out there think they are safe from the undertow, but in as little as two years time, they will be swamped with inner-city "youths" trying to realize their full potential. The property values will slide as crime and degeneracy creeps in.
You are not safe anywhere near a city, in my opinion.
Even if you live in the sticks, your local government will find a way to transfer your money to the underclass. We have to use our big fat brains and find a better way to fight back. You and your family deserve that big house in the city if you want it. Why should the good guys have to pay ten times as much for their homes??
You may not have to see blacks on a daily basis, but you are being forced to fund your own displacement against your will. Think about it.
And I see Black Guy has crawled out from under his rock again. He is so much fun! I love his little victimology rants, "You just want all blacks to die...(insert whine here). What a loser.
I live around blacks, have my entire life. I have seen all of their behaviors live and in person, and Black Guy does not want you all to know the truth. He knows the truths about blacks too, but must keep the dirty laundry from being aired in front of whitey.
All we want is for legal voluntary separation, and for blacks to start contributing their share, or get out.
Like the rest of his brethren, Black Guy will never denounce the thugs in fear of being rejected by the "community" and called an Uncle Tom.
They must all travel together as one big sticky clump, you know.
"Bennett told deputies he was at Icon nightclub on the East Side about 1 a.m. and called Hogan to get a ride home. When Hogan arrived, Jenkins and Hall were also in the car. Jenkins told Bennett he wanted to “go out in the county and (mess) with white people” he was familiar with."
OK, Black Guy, do you see the problem now?? Why can't blacks just leave us alone? We don't want to have to deal this anymore.
And to Cap'N Crunch, they are coming for you eventually.
No thank you. I will refrain from watching, having already been told by you what the theme is. "It's because she's black, isn't it?"
Damned right. It's because she's black that I send my kids to private school. It's because she's black that I choose to live in a safe and clean white neighborhood. It's because she's black that I get wary and nervous when I see groups of noisy blacks congregating. It's because she's black ...I could go on and on.
I notice that Martin mentions his favorite movie is "Death Wish."
Not surprising considering how many UPN shows Kelsey Grammer produced and financed and seems to go all the way back to Grammer's being born in the Virgin Islands. Guess that love of darkness has a history.
The White Guilt is on display but the much more obvious joke is about the effete, white, well educated overly preening personality being regarded as a failure not just just by the social elites and the working class but to all black people in general. The canned laughter during the awkward high five is a dead giveaway.
I am not and have never been a fan of the show, not because I feel sympathy for the character in any way but because I find originality and talent important.
"Fraiser" has been around since the days of "Cheers" and wasn't ever funny enough to deserve its' own spin-off. Kelsey Grammer even drug the "Fraiser" personality, complete with "NIles", over to the Simpsons as the Sideshow Bob character. Aside from this character, every other attempt at being a success has ended in failure.
"Fraiser" should have just kept drinking and politely died in an alley in Boston.
Speaking of which shouldn't a former alcoholic avoid drinking sherry and wine?
This is a great primer from Deconstructing Leftism.
In a nutshell:
"Blacks represent a unified front, politically, culturally, and socially. The nice, friendly middle class black people you deal with are arms linked and lockstep with the ghetto trash the Chicago cops are complaining about. There are a few conservative blacks, but they are a tiny percentage of the black population and looked at as cranks."
http://deconstructingleftism.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/so-whats-the-deal-with-black-people/
'here blacks are not encouraged to assimilate into white culture, the more Africanized blacks will become.'
Blacks get lotsa freebees that discourage work and 'normalcy'
[marriage, respect of law].
You seem to be saying black DNA is stronger than America?
If we still had free association and private property rights in the country, we would have no problems whatsoever.
Having lost those, all for the sake of negroes, we have indeed lost the country. Nothing will ever bring it back. We can only wake as many as possible, and gird for the endgame.
An entire history, an entire civilization, has been thrown away for the negro. Think about that. Washington fought with his very heart and soul, so that we could give everything in a losing attempt to placate the negro.
This loser POS "black guy" hates us because we don't want to be near him, yet he yearns for our approval. He is relentless in his pursuit of our approval. Even being perfectly honest with him makes no difference. We can't even just be alone; we HAVE to include them in everything, and then watch as they ruin it all.
Both "party's" are to blame, as the most staunch "conservative" will waste no time calling you a racist for merely wanting to be left alone from this "proud" group of "people".
-Sweep the leg-
one thing that hasn't been mentioned regarding this TV clip --
why would an inexperienced and possibly unqualified person be chosen to replace Roz as producer of the most popular radio show in seattle?
because she's black.
and as far as these three white sit-com characters sitting around thinking of black people -- blacks are also thinking about us:
"Jenkins told Bennett he wanted to “go out in the county and (mess) with white people”." --
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/feb/19/one-dead-after-robbery-crash-vanderburgh-county/
Watch the episode. It's a quick 22 minutes that is highly informative. Martin, Fraiser's dad, nails the problem with one sentence.
"You won't call her out because she is Black."
This one episode tragically illustrates the power (and folly) of white guilt.
White Guilt ought to be renamed, fear of being thought "the wrong sort of White person by other Whites."
Most Whites have nothing to feel guilty about. I certainly don't. But we fear retaliation socially, economically, legally, and otherwise by other White people engaged in an eternal war against "the wrong sort of White person."
Somewhat OT, check out Heskith Pritchard's "Where Black Rules White: A Journey Across Hayti" for his impressions upon traveling there (he wrote it in 1900.
Pritchard, a British journalist, liked many of the Haitians he came across, their generosity when they had nothing, often acts of kindness that were costly, stood out. But he found Haitian society appalling, particularly Voodoo and its priests, and its leaders for whom he (IMHO accurately) blamed the problem on Haitian society and its people itself. In short he blamed Haiti's misery (then independent for over 100 years) solely on its African culture and people, and noted other Caribbean Blacks found it a terrible place. Which it was.
He did however have praise for a firing squad that strove, vainly, not shoot a 14 year old boy, and the kindness and generosity of those in the interior who had nothing really but would give up their only bed to a White visitor. His view seemed to be that some existential crisis needed to force Haitians themselves to change, no other way for improvement was possible, they had to do it themselves. And that isolation had led to degradation, because there were no real challenges from outsiders forcing internal change.
Free, from Google books. If you have a Kindle you can download epub format and use Calibre free converter to convert to mobi format.
PK .... OK, WTF is wrong with you?
TV?? MIND-ROT?? The GREATEST EVIL that has beset mankind? Are you SATAN HIMSELF??
Imagine... Tsk.. Encouraging others to even take a *glimpse* at the CRT/Plasma,LCD ... Mind-Control-Machine?
For shaaaaaaame.
;^)
Blacks helping blacks cheat the Lieutenants exam for fire fighters in Atlanta. This exact scam was pulled in my town a few years ago. Nothing came of it. Blacks are given license to cheat and steal in BRA.
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-fire...s-1356333.html
I simply cannot watch Seinfeld or any of the spinoff shows related thereto. I regard it as the sitcom equivalent of (c)rap "music". It is monotonously predictable, shallow single-layer-of-meaning "humor" with all the subtlety of a klaxon horn.
Anonymous (2/19 - 10:32 PM): I got thru a minute of it...not funny.
I guess that makes me a glutton for punishment. I made it all the way to 01:26.
Midwestern: Africans are Africans, and the more racially segregated we become in the States, where blacks are not encouraged to assimilate into white culture, the more Africanized blacks will become.
Detroit is proof positive of this.
Anonymous (2/20 - 6:55 AM): Of course none of you believe what I just wrote…
Congratulations on getting at least one thing right.
You need to check out the blog of a black doctor who works in Atlanta's downtown hospital. She writes many posts with the tagline "Black Like Me" in which she writes about incidents around town--when anyone tells her something she doesn't like she describes their whiteness and how racist they must be to speak to her like that.
In her latest post she is incensed that a geriatric white male calls her out for her apparent lack of parenting in a restaurant in which her kids ran wild. All of the comments are from people agreeing with her that the man must have indeed been racist and how embarrassed they themselves are to be a white person.
www.gradydoctor.com
thank you whiskey, that book is a great read! did you recommend another with negro in the title, like the American negro or the like? I lost it somehow and have been wanting to read it.
I find it very consistent that at that time brute force kept blacks from criminality, much like we've read recently of blacks needing a strict learning environment. they need laws imposed on them, violationtly, to keep them somewhat in line, still.
democracy has not helped them in this regard. simply put, prison is not much different from their ghetto, so its little punishment. if they can't visualize future tense, then incarceration is less effective than an immediate whupping of some sort, which would be more likely to keep them in line. In the book on Hayti it offered execution as a punishment for stealing a cow, resulting in being able to leave a flask of whiskey in the street without fear of theft. It makes sense.
Winston Smith: At the time of the Rodney King beating, a veteran LAPD cop told me that the standard procedure was to beat anybody who ran, because Blacks had such a short time horizon that the threat of an extra year or two for reckless driving or whatever was beyond them. Only the knowledge that an IMMEDIATE beating was guaranteed could penetrate their skulls.
Hope "homie" comes "messin" around here...
It's a spinoff from Cheers, not Seinfeld. I liked it better than Cheers, personally. I guess I liked all the snooty humor that you had to have half a brain to get. I didn't like this particular episode. I talked to my tv: "Tell 'er to shut up already!" The father, Martin, is the one who is supposed to dispense down-to-earth wisdom, which his sons lack.
anon 713pm
I looked at that doctors blog.
I'm sickened. She could 'know' the man was filled with hate and entitlement by looking in his eyes? and proud her husband thumped his chest and yelled at the 80 yr old man till he was shaking with fear?!?
that never would have happened if things were segregated. let them chimp out on each other and handle it their own way.
she really had this elaborate story in her head based om nothing more than a few words from an old man she didn't know
Checked out the site suggested www.gradydoctor.com. I left a comment doubt it will be approved although I used no slurs or foul language.
www.gradydoctor.com
God, why did I go to that piece of shit. If the big mouth black momma wasn't bad enough the incessant white females there kissing black ass while apologizing for all white "racism" was enough to stimulate the gag reflex.
Sorry on my phone. Grady doc responded to my post. I posted as Mikey King go there to read my post and her reply.
Someday her husband will try that with someone who's packing, and even if her first-aid skills are top-notch she may become a single mother.
I've wished that I could give such out-of-control children some nasty intestinal malady starting in an hour or two and lasting several days, enough to make both children and parents miserable. If that kept happening those parents would stop going out with their kids. Problem solved.
Winston Smith: Simply put, prison is not much different from their ghetto, so its little punishment.
This is something I have pointed out as well. It is proven by how Black male life expectancy actually increases while they are in prison. Penitentiaries are nothing short of reservations where the tribes (African in this case), are kept.
If they can't visualize future tense, then incarceration is less effective than an immediate whupping of some sort, which would be more likely to keep them in line.
It's sort of like having a pet. You cannot effectively punish them more than a few minutes after any misbehavior. They simply won't make the connection.
This certainly goes a long way towards explaining all of the resentment and sullenness displayed by Blacks; males especially.
They just cannot connect the dots between their routine criminality and why a vast majority of other races adamantly refuse to have anything to do with them. Not business, not social, not residential, not sexual. Period
Thanks, Zenster, for your elaboration.
Prisons are just the logical conclusion for BRA. Blacks are given food ,shelter, and health care, maybe a little unimportant menial job to do for some pocket change, and locked up at night to lessen their criminal potential.
Everything they do will be under constant observation to try and keep them from murdering each other.
I think with martial law to put peacekeepers in their neighborhoods to enforce curfew, they'll have created open air prisons in LA and Detroit.
"if they can't visualize future tense, then incarceration is less effective than an immediate whupping of some sort, which would be more likely to keep them in line."
"because Blacks had such a short time horizon that the threat of an extra year or two for reckless driving or whatever was beyond them. Only the knowledge that an IMMEDIATE beating was guaranteed could penetrate their skulls."
This is true but if the causes of the exceptional levels of black criminality are at least partly genetic then "forceful containment" policing rather than prison made the problem worse since emancipation because instead of locking up the worst element they were left to have kids.
You're very welcome, Winston Smith. However, the observation of Anonymous (2/21 - 2012 12:43 PM) merits consideration:
This is true but if the causes of the exceptional levels of black criminality are at least partly genetic then "forceful containment" policing rather than prison made the problem worse since emancipation because instead of locking up the worst element they were left to have kids.
It is for this reason that the "reservation system" will not work, unless its inmates were sexually segregated like modern prisons. This is why I advocate revoking all conjugal visits for violent and habitual criminals of any race. There's no compelling reason why taxpayers must facilitate the breeding of, what are sure to be, more criminals.
I heartily agree.
Personally, id just call Detroit a 'refugee camp' , fence it off, and move the undertow there and let the UN take care of them. Its what they do in African and other conflicts. Hell, let African UN peacekeepers keep them in line! They can call them Uncle Tom and see how well that goes!
Considering what we've spent on foreign wars in the last ten years it'd cost us nothing.
I wonder if gradydoctor is censoring her critics? I would have expected a lot more negative comments on that post by now.
Anonymous (2/20, 2012 8:31 PM): It's a spinoff from Cheers, not Seinfeld.
And your point is?
Same bloody difference, as in "conjoined sitcom trash". Who cares about the provenance of crap? I can only hope its patently obvious that I've never wasted my time watching such utter rubbish.
There's no need to get so upset over a simple correction of fact, Zenster. And since you have never watched Seinfeld or Cheers, maybe you shouldn't insist that they're utter rubbish.
Anonymous (2/22, 2012 4:25 PM): There's no need to get so upset over a simple correction of fact, Zenster. And since you have never watched Seinfeld or Cheers, maybe you shouldn't insist that they're utter rubbish.
Congratulations, nameless one.
You are alone in having earned the first and only one-word response from me, ever:
Why?
Winston Smith: At the time of the Rodney King beating, a veteran LAPD cop told me that the standard procedure was to beat anybody who ran, because Blacks had such a short time horizon that the threat of an extra year or two for reckless driving or whatever was beyond them. Only the knowledge that an IMMEDIATE beating was guaranteed could penetrate their skulls.
What a stupid policy. Let's hope they reversed it. I'd rather see Blacks "encouraged" (i.e., allowed to be themselves) to flee and spend a year or two longer in jail, and spared the beatings.
The problem with "encouraging" Blacks to flee is that high-speed chases create more danger to the public than the jail time removes.
I notice that the "Hooligans" post is now missing from the Grady Doctor blog. Perhaps the (not so) good doctor realized that admitting to assault, in concert with her husband, in a place of public accomodation was not a wise thing to do. (Now if she would only wise up and realize that committing assault in the first place is a bad idea, and keeping some semblance of calm and order when kids are out in public is a good idea. But maybe "das rayciss".)
oh yeah, the diversity doctor wouldn't answer or post my question about wether her fabulous old man threatening husband had kids by another woman or two.
I suspect he may.
Zenster (2/23 2012 1:32 AM):
Bluster.
Anonymous (2/23, 2012 9:28 AM): Bluster.
No, not "bluster", fact.
I turned off my television back in August of 2011 and never watched another minute of it. What little recent network programming I watch, I view on Hulu.com. Shows like "Cheers", "Seinfeld", "Roseanne" and their ilk are unmitigated, mindless trash that suck the life out of its viewers.
The public frenzy over "who shot J.R. Ewing" in the series "Dallas" was a national disgrace. I can still remember being forced to watch the next season's opening episode with a group of what were otherwise reasonably intelligent friends.
The cult following of "X Files" is another splendid example of the triumph of trash programming. With the close of each episode, what does a viewer carry away from it? Nothing. There is no educational process involved, only mindless vegetation and another hour of life wasted sitting in front of the idiot box.
The entertainment world's latest obsession with vampires and zombies is a direct reflection of death fixated modern culture that actively engages in self-mutilation (e.g., piercing and tattoos) and, as Caiden noted elsewhere:
The horrible thing is I think the only thing that will wake people up is DEALING with the reality. Right now most of us are safe, threatened, but people have food, and can watch tv, so to many it's fine.
They don't realize how they're white kids are taught they're evil because of their race, or how low standards (getting pregnant at 15 for example) is an acceptable life style because black's own low standards have made it so. [emphasis added]
… is a pseudo-culture that's actively encouraged to become increasingly "Black" because it is more easily sold to and sold out by the corporate and political elite that run this nation.
Call it "bluster" if you want to, but if you are watching those idiotic sitcoms or anything like it, you are polluting yourself as surely as if you were drinking nail polish remover.
I turned off my television back in August of 2011 and never watched another minute of it.
What took you so long?
I tested my new television's reception in the summer of 2010, but I didn't bother watching anything beyond the test. In December of 2010 I hooked up an antenna in order to watch one particular show on PBS (I had no DVR to save it to watch later).
That is all the TV I have watched since I got rid of my old TVs in 2007, and I hadn't used them for some time before that.
Zenster (2/23, 2012 1:38PM: "Bluster" refers not to your TV habits, but to your response to a couple reasonable suggestions: First, that you not get so overwrought over a simple correction of fact, and second, that you not be so critical of shows you have not seen.
Your response, "Congratulations, nameless one, blah blah blah" was without substance, so I call it bluster. And this most recent response is a non sequiteur. You're a smart guy, address the comment.
Mr. Rational: What took you so long?
My mistake, that should have read August of 2001.
Anonymous (2/23, 2012 6:10 PM): You're a smart guy, address the comment.
Has it occurred to you that I've been obliged to watch episodes of these moronic shows due to being at a friend's house for dinner where they eat with the television set on?
How could I possibly know what jive-ass crap they are without even seeing them?
Zenster (2/23 2012 8:16 PM): That's better, now you've addressed the comment. But has it occurred to you that I have no idea what your social arrangements might be? I'm surprised that you allow your friends to impose on you that way. Or that your sentence (2/22 9:19 AM) "I can only hope that it's patently obvious that I've never wasted my time watching such utter rubbish", would lead the careful reader to think that you've never wasted your time watching such utter rubbish?
You fly off the handle too readily, Zenster, over minor things. It detracts from your message. If you've been drinking, stop. If you haven't been, start.
Anonymous (2/23, 2012 9:16 PM): If you've been drinking, stop. If you haven't been, start.
Oooookay.
The rage that you perceive comes from watching an industry that is supposedly dedicated to the art of music but, instead, it is not a matter of what you know but who you know. Talent matters little.
MTV, with its emphasis upon photogenics (not to mention (c)rap "music"), has done more to destroy music than almost any other single entity.
That hacks me off as I compose in many different styles (classical, blues, R&B, jazz, folk, ballad, rock, far eastern), play several instruments (flute, guitar, sax, electric guitar, harmonica, piano, synth), perform publicly (I've been on TV and radio plus played the local county fair), have had people ask me when my CD is coming out and also ran my own open microphone series for a while.
My chances of making it in the music industry are less than ZERO. Instead, I am treated to the spectacle of idiotic flameouts like Houston, MC Hammer and an endless parade of self-destructive fools.
Same goes for my artwork, cooking, writing, inventing and just about every other thing I love to do.
I'm surprised that you allow your friends to impose on you that way.
What? I'm supposed to tell my hosts what to watch?
Be sure I no longer go to their home for dinner.
Zenster (2/24 2012 7:10 PM): I share every ounce of your rage, I really do. Everything good in this culture is driven out or corrupted. I am so sickened by what I see every day. I have taken up stargazing. I can still see the same stars that Bach and Washington and my own father saw, undefiled by the filth I am forced to live in. I long for the collapse of this vile society, so that we who are fully human can rebuild on the rubble.
And No, I've never seen Seinfeld or Cheers. Masterpiece Theater is the only reason I have a TV. But I always liked Barney Miller.
@ Winston Smith- I have had the displeasure of being locked up with my 'brown bruthas', and I'll never forget the ride to the facility: the only white and the only one who didn't already know the nights dinner.
(I'm another New Zealander, my natives ape your negroes).
Jail is often easier for violent, predatory types. All they have to worry about is cigarettes.
Anonymous: (2/24, 2012 9:08 PM): Masterpiece Theater is the only reason I have a TV.
It is one of the only reasons I might consider turning mine back on.
I continue to wonder how it is that there are no modern equivalents of Bach and Rembrandt; or if they were just unappreciatively shunted off into a corner for not being "with it".
Thank you for responding.
Zenster (2/25 2012 2:14 PM): I have read of a sculptor working today who does beautiful human figures and faces, to be cast in bronze. Other, lesser, artists accuse him of using living models as molds for his work. Pure jealousy. He puts them to shame and they can't bear it. He might be the one who did the three soldiers at the Vietnam veterans memorial.
Once mediocrity has gained power, it will make perpetual war with excellence. That is the culture we live in today.
Have you ever read "The Painted Word" by Tom Wolfe?
Anonymous (2/25, 2012 4:07 PM): Have you ever read "The Painted Word" by Tom Wolfe?
Not yet. I really enjoyed "Bonfire of the Vanities" but thought "A Man in Full" was just a rehash of the same plot. Wolfe is a decent wordsmith as modern writers go. I'll have to look for it.
As to books about painting and painters, if you haven't already, please read "Lust For Life" by Irving Stone. His sympathetic story line really makes van Gogh into a three dimensional character. Stone's book, "The Origin", about the life of Charles Darwin was also outstanding. I'm getting ready to sink my teeth into "The Agony and the Ecstasy" about Michelangelo.
Finally, if you're a fan of science fiction, check out Peter Hamilton. I am very much the Sci-fi snob (Clarke, Bradbury, Asimov, Heinlein etc.) and Hamilton ranks right up there with them.
His "Night's Dawn" mega-trilogy that begins with "The Reality Dysfunction" is a genuine intergalactic romp. "A Second Chance at Eden" is where he cuts his teeth and a great place to start.
PS: I really like your sentiments about astronomy and the stars. Mankind does not have within its power the ability to screw them up. Although air and light pollution has really decreased the average person's chance to appreciate the celestial sky.
Anonymous Kiwi-
I'm sorry to hear about your trip into the dark. It reminds me of a cross country bus ride I took in college. There was one other white that sat with me thank god, even though we both knew it was kinda rayciss but the smart thing to do. I heard more than one guy discussing just getting out of jail and quickly realized I was in way over my head.
I can just imagine what it must have been like riding to jail being the only YT and they all were old hands at it.
I actually bought a white guy a bus ticket home once. He was panhandling at a convenience store and obviously didn't have a clue wht he was doing. He asked me for a blanket cuz he'd never slept outside before, just gotten out of jail and waiting for an agency to get him a ticket back to the south.
I dunno if Id do it again but I've never seen a white guy so out of place before.
Mr. New Zealand great to see a post from your neck of the woods, and I hope you escaped The System relatively unscathed!
Don't go gettin in that kind of trouble again, son! ;-)
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