Posted on 07/03/2015 10:26:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Oh. Well, my mistake then. Yesterday I thought he was saying something racist.
What did this guy think his critics were accusing him of, if this is his “clarification”?
A few fans have written wondering whether I intended to utter a racist remark by referring to Justice Thomas as a “clown in blackface.”
“Blackface” is a lesser known theatrical term for a white actor who blackens his face to play a black buffoon. In traditional theater lingo, and in my view and intent, that is not racist. It is instead part of a racist history in this country.
I feel Justice Thomas has abdicated and abandoned his African American heritage by claiming slavery did not strip dignity from human beings. He made a similar remark about the Japanese American internment, of which I am a survivor. A sitting Justice of the Supreme Court ought to know better.
The first time I read that, I thought he was suggesting that people had misunderstood his “clown in blackface” remark to be a more straightforward racial slur, equivalent to calling Thomas a “black clown.” Reading it again, he seems to be making an even dumber point, which is that the practice of “blackface” isn’t necessarily racist. I … guess that’s true — Fred Armisen’s “blackface” as Obama on SNL wasn’t grotesque and intended to demean the subject, the way blackface usually is — but it’s almost always racist and it’s certainly racist when used to denigrate the racial authenticity of someone who’s actually black. It’d be like calling Thomas a “Sambo” and then claiming there’s nothing inherently racist about that nickname, even though it’s widely culturally understood to carry that connotation. When the left calls Thomas an “Uncle Tom,” which they do much more often than you’d expect in 2015 America, they at least have the good sense to defend themselves with a simple double standard (“leftists can’t be racists”) rather than a tortured argument about the etymology of the term.
If Takei’s being honest here and not feigning stupidity as damage control, he genuinely doesn’t see the problem in comparing Thomas to a white actor playing a “black buffoon.” He’s practicing racial essentialism — if you’re black, your position on slavery and inherent dignity is as follows — and then presuming to excommunicate Thomas from “authentic blackness” because, as someone whose family experienced internment in the 1940s, he somehow has the right to do that now. That’s insulting in the abstract and even more so when applied to Thomas, who, as Sean Davis reminds us, actually grew up in the Jim Crow south and knows something about maintaining one’s dignity during oppression. I wonder if Takei knows that about him — or maybe he does know and just figures that he’s entitled to lecture Thomas anyway because, as a gay man and former internee, he thinks he’s got victim trump cards to play. Either way, we’ve reached an interesting new turn on the path of progress when someone who’s not black is once again entitled to tell a black man what to think and how to behave.
Yesterday I called Takei’s comments “high-five material for jerkoffs.” Here’s Exhibit A.
And you, George, are still a mentally ill individual. Deal with it.
And you, George, are still a mentally ill individual, in Japface. Deal with it.
Added key line for clarity.
This takai fool is a no talent loser whose fame now is being a fudge packer. That anyone cares what he says is a national embarrassment.
If not for Star Trek this no talent hack would have disappeared in the sixties, a bit part actor period. His whole being has been about envy and hatred.
LOL...you are right about that!
“what, exactly, makes this Asian freak an expert on black people?”
AYE....he was once married to a black Irishman?
Takei belongs to a subminority group that defines itself solely by the perverted manner in which it has sex, and then calls it “pride”.
Indeed, who cares what Space Faggie thinks?
If you ask the boy, he’ll tell you that “rainbow is the new black.” He has a home, or used to, up in Eastern, Arizona. He’s over there occasionally farting around and peddling homosexuality.
Takai is a disgrace to the race....the Human race
Thomas’ dictated race heritage: racism, hatred, bitterness, scapegoating, slavery under communism and globalism. What a prize!!!!! Who could possibly abandon such a glorious piece of hell.
Thank you for remembering me Ron, I’m kinda on a long hiatus. Hope you find someone, Mikey is really good!
I hate to think what Sulu must think of Robert Mugabe.
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