Break a Leg

But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ...

 

Thomas Jefferson

 

 

Jefferson was speaking of religious freedom in the quote above, but the sentiment is applicable to many, if not most topics in life.  What my neighbor thinks or does, if it causes me no harm or society harm, then it's his business, her business, or any of the other fifty-plus genders of Facebook's business.

 

What cattleman Bundy and NBA owner Sterling think picks no pocket or breaks any bone.  Sterling was about to receive a lifetime achievement award from the NAACP.  Obviously, his racist attitude wasn't having much influence on what he did with his money.  But, the news media will run stories on these two men through at least the midterm elections, hoping the two's rascism can be pinned on the Republican party.

 

The only newsworthy story in the Sterling affair is one about human psychology.  What made Sterling's girlfriend record their conversations and release them?  What made her want to kill the goose laying the gold eggs?  One idea I have is that she doesn't care if the whole world knows she's a gold digger, but she'll be damned if she'll let one person think she's a nigger gold digger.  This idea works just as well when I apply it to Barack Obama.

 

Barack Obama and a high percentage of African Americans must believe that America invented racism and bigotry, and more specifcally, whites invented racism.  In fact, the only thing America's whites invented was the strong desire and political structures to eliminate it.

 

To listen to Obama, one must assume he doesn't realize that his much-beloved Muslims are probably the most bigoted people on the planet.  Arabs were chief enablers of the African slave trade.  Muslims openly refer to Jews as monkeys.

 

On his trip to Asia, Obama could (may) have talked to the previous leader of Malaysia who believes the Malay people should receive affirmative action to help them economically keep up with those "Chinese" people.

 

The worst instance of bigotry that happened in America recently didn't come from Bundy or Sterling.  It came out of the Obama administration.  John Kerry stated that Israel was on track to become an apartheid nation if it didn't reach an accord with the Palestinians.  Kerry's remark was slanderous, demeaning, bigoted, and a bald-faced lie.

 

The only coverage the Main Stream Media is likely to do on Kerry's bigotry is to simply show Jen Psaki of the State Department answer one question in defense of Kerry, and then return to the Bundy and Sterling stories.  For myself, before moving on to Obama's Singles and Doubles foreign diplomacy, I'll wonder if Jen Psaki's middle name is Sherry.  God knows you need to be wasted on gin, sake or sherry to take Washington DC.