The Joker, the Paper Lord, the King's Court, and You

It seems like everyone, and I mean everyone, is asking for Bail-Out money these days. It is reported that the Pornography Industry is now asking for federal funds to help support their dying art form. Insert your own joke here. Personally, I am more irritated at the Roland Burris show.

And that is exactly what the senate seat appointment of Mr. Burris has become, a show. A show, none the less, that is more harmful to Americans than an entire library of stag films. And while it is not my place to determine if one vice is worse than another, I cannot help but feel we are moving backwards in the cultural wars of America. And all of the actors in the Burris Show may be fully clothed, but they are taking part in raping our society. They are engaging in exploitation to a much darker degree than some dirty old men with a video camera and a bad soundtrack.

Is this comparison a little drastic? Yes, it probably is. But in my outrage, I ask that you give me an ounce of hyperbole, free of charge and comment.

And I am outraged! Even though my kids keep interrupting my diatribe, my dander is up past the normal irritated level that I generally function at. And this entire Show really began as a joke. How did it become so maddening? We have Rod Blagojevich, a known criminal, playing the part of the Governor of Illinois, a state known for corrupt politics. The governor wants to better his bank account by taking bids on the open senate seat created by Barak Obama getting a promotion. The Governor gets caught and loses all of his half ounce of credibility that he had saved for a rainy day. Harry Reid, as well as many other senators in shining armor, come to the rescue. They make a statement that no senate seat appointments will be filled until a new governor of Illinois is able to make a credible appointment, or at least until someone can make a credible appointment. Even King Obama steps in from his usual distanced pose to help Sir Reid stand on principals and chivalry and all of that kind of stuff.

Now enters the court jester, Roland Burris. And he really is a court jester; clumsy, inarticulate, unelectable. The court jester was sent by the paper Lord, Blogojevich, to cause havoc among the high court of kings and princes. The court jester was to throw a wrench in the works and create a smokescreen for lord Blogojevich while he escaped certain doom, and rode off into the sunset while no one was looking. All the while...

Well, you get the point. Even with my bad analogy you can see that the Burris appointment should not have turned into such a fiasco. But it has. And how can such a simpleton as Burris pull this off?

By playing the race card. And that fellow Americans, is the disgraceful, angering issue at hand. By playing the race card, a simple joker beat a full house and several pairs of kings and queens. And now we all have to look forward at a royal flush.

Ok, enough already with the comparisons, but I am outraged at the use of the race card. I am angered that Harry Reid and Obama and many others are now backpedaling on the Burris appointment. It seems that honor and ethics take a back seat to the law, which no one cared to consider before announcing that no appointments would be considered bu Blago. No one except Blago and Burris legal team. They knew that they didn't have to rely on integrity, that technicality, the law, was on their side. So a simple court jester and a paper lord turned the king's court on it's ear.

But knowing that it would take more than words and the realization that a Republican could win a general election for the open seat, Blago, Burris, and a leagal team turned to Julian Bond and the NAACP. And everyone standing on morals and ethics then surrendered and began the backpedaling. The Supreme Court didn't strike fear in anyone's heart, but the NAACP certainly did. And I'm had hoped that Obama's election had placed an end to the exploitation of the NAACP; and placed an end to all of the racial wars that the ACLU and the NAACP help ignite and continue to flame.

These groups need struggles in class and race to survive. And any intellectual movement in history places the larger good of "the cause" above any other good; be it liberty, justice, ethics, morals, or intrinsic values of individuals. That's how these causes exist. They are built upon exploitation of who they are assuming to protect. Corruption of dignity and ethics are necessary to carry out the advancement of issues. Ask Marx. Ask Rousseau. Ask Connelly. I know that I wax philosophical, but it is a relevant truth.

And it is what angers me about the Burris appointment. I expected that Harry Reid would not know the law and would change stances several times on the issues. I knew that Blagojevich would do his best to exploit the weaknesses of the senate. I wasn't even surprised at Roland Burris being nominated. he can't win any office by election and isn't smart enough to call his own shots. Why else would a lawyer need legal team to answer simple questions of ethics? But I really was caught by surprise by the NAACP and the race card. And maybe my being caught off guard is what angered me the most.

Mr. Burris would be the only black senator, so his camp is claiming that he is being blocked because of his color. Bulloney! And shouldn't this complaint be taken to the states where the elections are held instead of where the results of said elections meet to conduct business? Or is it too difficult to launch well planned campaigns in several different states to elect black politicians when it is easier to wait for an opportunity like the Burris appointment and play one simple card? This has nothing to do with race, or at least it didn't. Now it does and we can hear the same old tired words and watch these "civil groups', and I use the term in the loosest manner, work up the tired and the exploited into a frenzy over nothing. And "the cause" is not forwarded, but the position of a few elitists are. That is how organizations on the left have always worked. And always will.

That is what is angering. For one it is so easy to see through. Another, you have people telling other people that they care about them, all the while they are stabbing them in their backs and saying that it is with someone Else's knife. And people still fall for the same old line and tactics. I guess it is easier to peddle hate and anger instead of real change and integrity. Justice is quicker when angered and patience is a virtue for fools.

And this is turning out to be quite the diatribe! I would apologize, but I truly am worked up over this. I actually thought that the election of Obama would end the civil rights battle. But as long as anyone can profit from the tactics of the NAACP and the ACLU, then these tactics will be used. With no regard for anyone's best interest or any concern for morality or integrity. I guess that was my hope for change after the election. I had hoped that Obamas election would ease tensions and that people would focus on being neighbors and fiends and fellow Americans, without the concern for skin color.

Racism is ignorance. And blacks can be as racist as whites. As can yellows and browns. I'm not a fool to think that it doesn't exist. I am just a fool that believed that people were tired of being herded together and amassed according to skin color and that the rights of a real individual were as important as the rights of a faceless, angry mob. I was fool enough to think that there would be some logic and common sense in our cultural battles. I was a fool to believe in any hope for real change in racial issues.

I have gone in about five directions in today's blog. This is an issue that is upsetting to me. I hope that we can all glean something from my rant and somehow overcome some of these issues in our small sections of the world.

And when things get this maddening and I get this worked up, i always come back to remembering that God loves us all, Jesus died for us all, and the Holy Spirit empowers us all. Thank God for grace or I may still be ranting and raving...Have a great Weekend!