Psychic Guy Sketchpad: Miserere Mei

Race Still Matters

The "news" media would have you believe that Obama is bringing the races together in a spirit of brotherhood and progress. No, Race Doesn't Matter in America any more — until They gang up on you in the schoolyard, that is. Then it matters a helluva lot.

This sort of distilled Fantasyland bullshit has always irked me. Sure, it makes for great TV, but it has nothing to do with reality. In the Real World of the American street, race still matters. In the Real World of the American street, that brotherhood crap is nonexistent.

If you are ever curious about the real state of race relations in the Real World of America, 2008, just log on to the friendly pages of fighttips.com. No Free To Be You And Me bullshit there; instead, behind the cloak of Internet anonymity, you'll find that despite almost fifty years of "social progress", the many colors of the Rainbow Of Diversity still hate each others em-effing guts — perhaps now more than ever.

It's not that I'm in favor of hatred; it's just that I'm tired of being forced to pretend that it doesn't exist, or that it's all one-sided. Watching blacks and whites (etc.) beat the crap out of each other in a forthright and honest manner is a refreshing antidote to all the wishful-thinking guidance-counselor nonsense we get stuffed with day in and day out. Schloss mit Bockmist! I'll take good, out-in-the-open tribal street rage over puerile let's-pretend pablum any day. Most of the fights at fighttips are highly entertaining, and the action makes for a great Internets time-killer. No need to feel guilty — no matter what race you belong to, there's always someone to root for at fighttips!

Celebrity criminal and police 'roid-rage target Rodney King once famously asked "Can't we all just get along?" Well, America has answered, Rotney, and the answer is "Hell, No!", followed by a knee to the face. So vote for Obama if you wish, kids, but, please, stop kidding yourself that with his ascension peace and love will reign. This is not the dawning of the Age of Aquarius; the distrust and dislike between people of different tribes is probably coded into the DNA of the species and is not going to disappear just because a slick-talking politician gets 50%+1 of the morons to vote for him.

The faster all races accept and embrace the fact that Race Still Matters, the faster we can develop some sort of social mechanism capable of dealing with that fact.

Note: This rant isn't intended as a slam of Sen. Obama. He's no worse than the rest of the lying bastards running for office this year. I would never vote for him, of course, but neither would I cast my (meaningless) vote for Sen. Juan McAmnesty or Sen. Killary Kapone. I'm a monarchist. Voting is a damned stupid way to run a country.