Trooper Thorn
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Check out this blog entry from Jewish white privilege and anti racism "intellectual" Tim Wise
What a total and absolute clown
So, I'm watching Keith Olberman, on MSNBC, and he's just announced the winner of the "Oddball of the Year" story from his show: a close-up look at a group of people (all of them white, and overwhelmingly male) whose idea of fun is getting together in a remote corner of Oklahoma (this, as opposed to the non-remote corners of Oklahoma), and shooting off automatic weapons. And by this, I mean f*c%ing maching guns, and assorted creations of warped, no doubt white men, which can fire off hundreds of rounds per second. They shoot these technological marvels (which make one call into question the so-called superiority of Western "civilization," assuming you're still inclined to believe in such a thing), in an attempt to blow up cars, trash cans, and random junk that the owner of the land and creator of the annual, "Auto-Shoot" has placed out there for target practice. How nice.
I guess it could go without saying--but I'll say it anyway--that if a bunch of black men got together anywhere (especially rural frickin' Oklahoma) and shot off tens of thousands of rounds of ammo, no one would find it amusing, or odd, or a legitimate expression of one's Second Amendment Rights. Rather, it would be seen as threatening, a dangerous, insurrectionary movement...but white guys with guns? Awww...no problem. We might make fun of them. We might pity their poor little boys who they drag to this crap starting at age 5 to make "real men" out of them. But rarely would the bulk of folks in the U.S. ever see this in the same light as they would if the participants were black, or Latino, or, heaven forbid, Arab-American!
And thus concludes example 11,345,567 of white privilege for 2006...the clock will reset in a few days. But the tune. Will sadly. Remain. The Same.
What a total and absolute clown