Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Stop wincing and crying aloud
That's a quote from The Comedian himself who got himself back into my good graces (temporarily, I'm sure) by incorporating the Whitney Houston/Bobby Brown domestic dispute into his stand up. How did he do this? By pointing out the similarities between that case and one of my favorite movies of ALL TIME - What's Love Got to Do With It? He did Bobby as Ike. That was funny, mah friends.
Oh, well. Guess you had to be there.
In other news... Miss Essie Mae Washington Williams. As Mr. X notes, any one with that name demands the honorific. Miss Essie Mae looks (unfortunately) EGGZACTLY like her "illegitimate father." I adore that particular turn of phrase. So apt, isn't it? Anyway, my point is... what is the big deal?
Is it that Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond (the staunchest of supporters of Jim Crow segregation) obviously believed in integration of the most intimate kind in his private life? No, that just made him a hypocrite of the same stripe found throughout the history of this country! Can anyone say Thomas Jefferson? Who, by the way, believed that people of color were innately inferior to whites. Again, didn't stop him from sneaking around with Miss Sally Hemings. But that's another blog entry.
Could it be that Thurmond was 22 and Miss Essie Mae's mother was a 16-year old maid in his father's house at the time of their liaision? No, that's nothing. To be expected as a matter of droit du seigneur, natch.
Come on, people. The really big deal is that most Americans are shocked. Shocked. Please. Miscegenation - itself a misnomer BECAUSE WE ARE ALL OF THE HUMAN RACE - is not new and neither is being in denial of it.
Wake up!
That's a quote from The Comedian himself who got himself back into my good graces (temporarily, I'm sure) by incorporating the Whitney Houston/Bobby Brown domestic dispute into his stand up. How did he do this? By pointing out the similarities between that case and one of my favorite movies of ALL TIME - What's Love Got to Do With It? He did Bobby as Ike. That was funny, mah friends.
Oh, well. Guess you had to be there.
In other news... Miss Essie Mae Washington Williams. As Mr. X notes, any one with that name demands the honorific. Miss Essie Mae looks (unfortunately) EGGZACTLY like her "illegitimate father." I adore that particular turn of phrase. So apt, isn't it? Anyway, my point is... what is the big deal?
Is it that Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond (the staunchest of supporters of Jim Crow segregation) obviously believed in integration of the most intimate kind in his private life? No, that just made him a hypocrite of the same stripe found throughout the history of this country! Can anyone say Thomas Jefferson? Who, by the way, believed that people of color were innately inferior to whites. Again, didn't stop him from sneaking around with Miss Sally Hemings. But that's another blog entry.
Could it be that Thurmond was 22 and Miss Essie Mae's mother was a 16-year old maid in his father's house at the time of their liaision? No, that's nothing. To be expected as a matter of droit du seigneur, natch.
Come on, people. The really big deal is that most Americans are shocked. Shocked. Please. Miscegenation - itself a misnomer BECAUSE WE ARE ALL OF THE HUMAN RACE - is not new and neither is being in denial of it.
Wake up!
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