Posted on 12/18/2017 7:59:43 AM PST by Twotone
There have been many parodies of Dickens' tale over the last century and a half - and, in fact, I did one myself, fifteen years ago for my column in The Chicago Sun-Times and other papers. The inspiration was, of all things, Trent Lott.
Senator Lott had had a good election in November 2002. The Republicans had re-captured the Senate, and Lott was thus about to resume his old job of Senate Majority Leader. Then he went to Strom Thurmond's hundredth birthday party on December 5th. Strom was about to retire as the oldest senator in the history of the joint, and Washington's finest had gathered to give him a grand send-off. Alas, Senator Lott got a bit carried away, and effused:
When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either.
Thurmond ran for president in 1948, on the "Dixiecrat" ticket - a faction of Southern Democrats that split from the national party over federal threats to end racial segregation. By "we", Lott meant the constituents of his home state of Mississippi. As to his suggestion that, if Strom had won, "we wouldn't have had all these problems", well, it's the guy's hundredth birthday and everyone's just buttering up the old boy. But, to those in the media and the nascent blogosphere waiting to pounce, it sort of sounded as if Lott was dragging all the Democrats' segregationist baggage over to the GOP side of the aisle and putting it up on Strom's pedestal. Lott was soon in full damage-control mode and embarked on a 24/7 panderthon including improbable appearances on Black Entertainment Television.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
A reprise of an old column, & it being Mark Steyn, it's very funny.
My professor at Cal State invented Kwanzaa. I’m way more diverse than anyone else.
A Kwanzaa Carol? Garrett Morris said it best:
Kwanzaa...? Isn’t that the currency of Angola???
Epic fail.
I read that it wasn’t so much to “bring the aa community together”, as it was to try and stop them from burning everything down. “Bringing them together” is a little tame.
I’m dreaming of a white Kwanzaa. Knew I shouldn’t have swallowed that acid tab.
And what did you ax St. Mau Mau for ?
A shitload of Thorazine. STAT.
Interesting that liberals think that humor about a black thug murdering white people is fine. Bet they would be outraged by this”politically incorrect” Night before Christmas(The Ebonics version) takeoff: Go figure.
http://www.jimpoz.com/jokes/xmasEbonicsII.html
Your professor is a fake and a convicted felon that likes to clamp women's big toes in vises, burn them with a torch...and a few other things.
He is also a blatant, unrepentant racist who once advocated for death to white people (and probably still does).
I'd ask for my money back.
>Your professor is a fake and a convicted felon that likes to clamp women’s big toes in vises, burn them with a torch...and a few other things.
Yeah, I know. Unfortunately, Cal State in the 90’s made you take a fruity ‘multiculturalism class’ so I had no choice.
Given that the BLM/NFL Slum Dog Millionaires have decided to be “down with the people,” you knew this phony pile of crap dreamed up by a vicious Black criminal who pressed a hot iron on the face of one of his Black females, would come up this year.
Bump....
On the second day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the third day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Three Dixie Chicks.
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the fourth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Four Lenin busts.
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the fifth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Five fel-on-ies.
Four Lenin busts,
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the sixth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Six Castro jumpsuits.
Five fel-on-ies,
Four Lenin busts,
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the seventh day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Seven Mao pajamas,
Six Castro jumpsuits,
Five fel-on-ies,
Four Lenin busts
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
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