Resurrecting the "Happy Darky"

Jewish World Review ^ | Sept. 5, 2002 | Jack Kelly

[Coeur de Lion]

They've got rhythm. They've got watermelon. They've got quaint folk customs. So what need have they for jobs, for education, for civil rights? So went the "Happy Darky" myth, prevalent among well-off whites in the segregated South of half a century or so ago.

The "Happy Darky" myth is being resurrected in more pernicious form by environmentalists.

The introduction of electricity is "destroying" the cultures of the world's poor, said Gar Smith, who edits "The Edge," the online magazine of the San Francisco-based Earth Island Institute.

With the introduction of electricity, African villagers spend too much time watching television and listening to the radio, Smith said.

George Monbiot, a columnist for the trendy leftist British newspaper the Guardian, said poor people are happier people:

"In southern Ethiopia, the poorest half of the poorest nation on earth, the streets and fields crackle with laughter," Monbiot wrote. "In homes constructed from packing cases and palm leaves, people engage more freely, smile more often, express more affection than we do."

At a taping of a PBS special on the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, a female panelist decried "the pernicious introduction of the flush toilet."

The World Health Organization estimates that famine in southern Africa will take the lives 300,000 people in the next six months. But delegates and journalists in Johannesburg applauded the dictators of Zambia and Zimbabwe for refusing to let their starving people eat genetically modified American corn.

About 17,000 tons of corn donated by the U.S. Agency for International Development is sitting in storage in Zambia. Greenpeace and Friends of Earth have been lobbying the governments in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique not to accept the corn.

Americans eat this corn every day. But environmentalists describe it as "toxic." The starving people it was sent to feed have a different opinion: "About all Josephine Namangolwa has in her hungry, weary body is anger, and in an instant it all comes surging out," wrote New York Times correspondent Henri Cauvin Aug. 31. "It has been days since she had a nourishing meal to feed her eight children."

"'We are dying here,' she shouts as aid workers arrive in her village of Chipapa to check on their warehouse and the nearly 500 tons of cornmeal inside...She and the rest of the 2.4 million facing starvation in Zambia will be eating any of this food, or any of the thousands of tons of additional food being shipped from the U.S.," Cauvin wrote.

"Please give us the food," pled an elderly blind man in the village of Shimbala, quoted in a Los Angeles Times dispatch Aug. 28. "We don't care if it's poisonous because we are dying anyway."

There were no empty bellies at the Earth Summit. Dennis Morgan, head chef of the five star Michelango Hotel in the posh Johannesburg suburb of Sandton told the London Sun he had ordered 5,000 oysters, a half ton of lobster and other shellfish, two tons of steak and chicken breasts, and buckets of caviar and foie gras, and gallons of champagne and cognac for the environmentalists to eat and drink.

Southern Africa is drought stricken. But each of the environmentalists was using, on average, 53 gallons of water a day. The 45,000 delegates also generated hundreds of tons of trash. Environmentalists think other people must sacrifice to protect the environment. But not, of course, the environmentalists themselves.

The "Happy Darkies" who environmentalists think can do without electricity, flush toilets and food are not happy with the fate Greenpeace and other environmental organizations would consign them to.

Seven organizations representing small farmers in Africa, India and the Philippines presented to Greenpeace and to two other environmental organizations at the Johannesburg summit a "trophy" consisting of a piece of wood upon which two heaps of dried cow dung had been mounted. They called it the "Bulls...t Trophy."

Barun Mitra, who presented the trophy, called the environmentalists parasites who "prey on the blood of the poor."

"They are not interested in famine or poverty," he said. "This lot is concerned only about their own interests."

[supercat]

Many of the technologies used by primitive peoples are far more environmentally damaging, per capita, than more modern ones. To be sure, the environmental impact of two dozen aborigines using pit latrines is probably smaller than that of two million New Yorkers using flush toilets, but the environmental impact of two million people in a compact area using pit latrines would be disastrous.

[johnboy]

all of the intelligent, well-informed people in this country (there are several of us, i think), are pissed off. speak your mind, sir. others will not revile you any less, or any more, because you have the courage to speak your mind.

[budwiesest]

The Second Amendment... America's Original Homeland Security !!

This Rocks! Best bumper sticker ever! Says it all and pokes a finger in the eye of both of those on the Left or Right who've traded their freedom for security.

Way to go Blackie!

[farmfriend]

ping

[comwatch]

Thanks Johnboy...

Well the good news, Judge Ransom didn't buy the further delay of the new trial date (the fourth one in 3 1/2 years) when he denied defense counsel's request to be excused from the case. A packed courtroom was pleased as was the Bean family.

In a city where police chief Arturo Venegas was convicted by a federal mixed race jury for discriminating against "Middle Aged White Boys" he forced out, (Deputy Chief Fred Arthur and Captain Mike Shaw) fires one it's most decorated senior officers (Lt. Pat Dowden) and uses Internal Affairs for his personal witch hunts, the Police Officer's Bill of Rights doesn't mean much. The First Amendment means less. To be branded a vigilante by this convicted racist is my personal "Red Badge of Courage".

The chief desires to be the top cop at L.A.P.D. As much as I would like to see him gone from Sacramento, ethics dictate an honest communication to the brass in L.A.: "If you want to finish the work started by Chiefs Willie Williams and Bernard Parks, i.e. the complete decimation of the nation's once finest police department, hire our chief. He will save your city millions of dollars by stripping sworn personnel to the bone and reclassifying veteran heroes as "obstructionists".

Too bad you waited until George W. Bush became President. Bill Clinton, at taxpayer expense, bribed Chief Venegas and his Mayor pal, the late Joe Serna, to the tune of $60 million in Clinton COPS grants. We now have fewer officers on the street than we did in 1992 and I assure you, Arturo can do the same for you. The Bush Administration won't fund fewer cops however."

I also included a wave file from the chief... what he had to say when officers began to voice concerns about morale and officer's safety in the department. Hear: http://crimewatch.us/venarmy.wav

Liberals have been destroying American law enforcement and one need only look at the electoral map to see why. The Blue Gore country isn't for the men and women in blue, it's for the corrupt and politically correct big city police chiefs and mayors. The PEOPLE rest! (But we're not asleep)

Dave

[comwatch]

Hey Bud...

We gonna see you tonight?

BTW, you are out of step with the times. Don't you know that "Homeland Security" has been deemed politically incorrect by the millions of illegals... err, ahh... I'm mean "undocumented criminals.. err, ummm... crap! When will I ever learn (slap slap) The objection is to the word "Homeland"... guess living here no longer qualifies one to call America "home"...

To them... "GET THE F*** BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM if you are so f***ing offended!

[blackie]

IT was on an NRA special promo tee shirt...I agree, it'sa keeper !!

Death To all Tyrant's !!

The Second Amendment...
America's Original Homeland Security !!

Molon Labe !!

[jdontom]

Has it really been three and one-half years? This must be the tactic of the lawyers to keep post-poneing this trial so the sheeple will forget about this horable night in which this honorable cop was murdered. I live in Elk Grove and remenber the news about Officer Beans murder, but have sence forgot, thanking that the perp had already been sentenced to death. This is a travisty of Justice...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The Greenies are such wonderful people. They'd let millions of Africans starve before they'd let them "poison" themselves with genetically-modified food! With "friends" like these...

[Risa]

>> "It has been days since she had a nourishing meal to feed her eight children." <<

Have these people no concept of abstinence? I detest these women and men who are so irresponible and negligent that they would bring new children into a world with no food or water, and then expect someone else to do something about it. I have sympathy for the babies, not the parents.

risa

[Risa]

I detest the environmentalists even more. I wonder who funds these people and their summits?

risa

[happygrl]

Great post.

I hope this man votes Republican.

[Minutemen]

About 17,000 tons of corn donated by the U.S. Agency for International Development is sitting in storage in Zambia. Greenpeace and Friends of Earth have been lobbying the governments in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique not to accept the corn.
Smoke the dope but watch out for the corn!

[Iconoclast2]

So this is interesting. Your hyperlink appears to be to a porn site, though I did not enter. Why?

[MHGinTN]

"They are not interested in famine or poverty," he said. "This lot (totalitarian environmentalists) is concerned only about their own interests." I'd say Barun Mitra has a pretty good handle on what these latter day fascists are all about.