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January 9, 2015
Whites Who Make Whites Ashamed to Be White
Sit down with the most radical white-hating activist fro-packing African American in the world and watch Blazing Saddles. He'll laugh until he passes out, and the white people in the room will fall all over themselves in horror apologizing and pretending outrage.
White people with pursed lips, raised noses, and disapproving glares sit in judgment over all of US culture trying to show which of them is the least racist and most enlightened on the topic. They find offense and shriek like a cartoon housewife spotting a mouse at things blacks simply don't care about. Even people who on other topics shrug at the social justice warriors and giggle at the antics of other leftist groups like feminists freak out when it comes to this topic.Word Around the Net: THE BLACK BAN
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 9, 2015 11:16 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Well, there it is.
Anybody who's followed my commenting knows that I have been ranting since at least the '70s that the middle-class white hipster's reverence for the "authentic" black artistic statement that is rocknroll is nothing more than condescending racism. It's a shuck, and it's never been anything but a shuck since Tom Parker's marketing of Elvis as "The white boy who sings like a negro." It amounts to nothing but white guilt. Any "artist" who is ashamed of his own color should rightfully be shunned.
Somehow generations of white suburban kids have been suckered into believing that the only way to be cool is to emulate ghetto-trash blacks. Every single Boomer Anthem of the '60s is yet another example of this; now we see what it's cost.
Posted by: Rob De Witt ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://americandigest.org/sidelines/nav-commenters.gif)
at January 10, 2015 2:11 PM
I distinctly remember seeing Blazing Saddles in the theater when it was released. About one-third of the audience was black when I was there.
When Chill Wills' character told the foreman about the quicksand and not to send horses to discover where it was because, "Horse are too valuable. Send a couple of niggers," the black viewers were rolling in the aisles, laughing at white racism being faced so boldly on the big screen.
And thing is, we white folk were laughing almost as hard for the same reason.
Impossible even to imagine this today.
Posted by: plus.google.com/104841162830331053592 at January 11, 2015 7:53 AM
The part of Taggert was played by Slim Pickens and not Chill Wills. When I attended the movie the blacks were incensed and to the man/woman, they left the theater.
Posted by: Jack at January 11, 2015 8:36 AM
Doesn't alter the fact that the horses were valuable.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at January 12, 2015 10:23 AM