Sometimes, I hate this world!
by Eric Blair (3/08/98)
I don't have cable or a satellite receiver, and out here in the woods,
the television signals are terrible. It looked like Ralph Nadir,
to me. He was on the NBC early (3:00 A.M.) news this Monday,
March 8th of 1998, saying that the networks don't get it. All they care
about is money. (That sounds like Nadir.) He was bemoaning the reduction
of prime time minority based television programming. (That sounds
like Nadir, too.)
Some of you out there, somewhere, must understand
what pure liberal BS this line represents. Sooner or later, some
of you will have to get it.
Blacks represent 17% of the population in this country.
Based on their decades of demonstrations and litigation demanding affirmative
action quotas, they should be demanding 17% representation on television.
They don't for a very simple reason.
Blacks in the media have a much higher representational
percentile than that, already. Mr. Nadir, if that's who it was, is
right about the decline, by the way. The reason for it? Simple. Some
folks have had their fill of ebonic, lesbian and redneck prime time boobs.
So, what the hell is going on here?
Well, Ralph Nadir makes his living serving liberal
causes, for one thing. His ego is pumped by national recognition,
for another. The sword must remain unsheathed even though the field
is empty. As the sadistic Kansas Redleg said in The Outlaw Josey
Wales, "Doin' good don't have no end."
Conservatives study the facts, then come to an opinion.
Liberals like Mr. Nadir select the opinion, then choose, redefine or simply
ignore the facts to support it.
Beyond Mr. Nadir's liberal litany and the decline
in prime time black programming, what are the facts? What is the
inclusion level of blacks in America?
How is it that all the millionaire basketball players
are white? Why is it that you never see black pro football players?
Shouldn't we have a racial quota in the popular music field so that at
least one or two blacks could sing or play instruments there? Why
aren't there any black movie stars? Why aren't there any black comedians?
What's wrong with having a black national afternoon television show hostess?
Couldn't we have a black as a senior member of the legendary CBS
60 minutes staff? Why couldn't we have a black poet laureate in America?
Or a black Secretary of Commerce? Why not black mayors of San
Francisco and Washington, D.C.? Or New York? Yeah, why
not a black mayor in New York? What about the military? Why
not a black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Or, at least some
black drill instructors! Why not some black drill instructors?
And why shouldn't a law be passed that forces American
universities to pay black professors the same as they do white professors?
Oh, yeah. That would be a bad law, because black professors would
have to take a pay cut since they actually make more money than white professors
these days.
Is any of this getting through?
Well, you say, that doesn't excuse white rejection
of black programming.
Guess what? It doesn't have to.
I'm Irish. I like Irish programming.
I have a Jewish friend who likes Jewish shows. The Chinese like Chinese
shows, the Italians like Italian shows, the British like British shows,
the French like French shows and there are blacks who can't stand what
the networks think perfectly reflects their cultural foundations.
It doesn't seem to bother Mr. Nadir when Calypso
Louie F., America's answer to (fill this space with the name of your favorite
moslem dictator), demands that a selection of southern American states
should be turned over to him for a separate black nation. Yet when
whites simply turn the television knob to another channel when the third
prime time black sitcom in a row comes on?
Shocking racism!
Australians like programs that talk about Australian
life. New Yorkers get a kick out of New York shows. Farmers
like sitcoms about farm life.
So god-damned what?
(Perhaps we could shut up Mr. Nadir if we did a
sitcom about a deteriorating socialist who single-handedly rides from town
to town, crushing the right-wing redneck white male heterosexual fascist
racists, then installing by fiat blacks in all the top business and political
positions.)
Have you ever listened to conservative black radio
talk host, Ken Hamblin? Have you heard him time and again ask the
following question? "Name for me one major American city with black
liberal leadership that has prospered both culturally and economically."
Are you aware that the brilliant man who got rid
of racial quotas in California is black?
Have you ever thrilled to the articulate exposition
generated by the incisive mind of Howard University's Walter Williams?
Should we pass a law that white Americans should
be forced to watch and enjoy programming that features loudmouthed, arrogant,
educationally challenged, sloppily dressed, self-righteous blacks who butcher
the english language?
Not at all.
What we need is a law that forces black Americans
to watch and enjoy programming that features loudmouthed, arrogant, educationally
challenged, sloppily dressed, self-righteous whites who butcher the english
language!
If you agree with me on this, take action.
Send me a contribution for a new fund I'm starting. Its purpose is
to purchase a Corvair for Ralph Nadir. (Unfortunately, he was spreading
as much BS when he wrote Unsafe At Any Speed as he is now.
So, the Corvair will work just fine, and Mr. Nadir will be able to safely
drive from town to town, creating divisiveness in the name of inclusion.)
Where the hell are Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr.
and Louis Armstrong when we need them? Why don't Smokin' Joe, George
Foreman and Muhammed Ali go find Jesse Jackson and beat the hell out of
him?
Why doesn't Tiger Woods demonstrate that he's gotten
over his racial insecurity complex by ordering fried chicken and collard
greens for himself and Fuzzy Zoeller at the next Master's dinner?
Sometimes, I hate this world.
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