Millions around the world sat comfortably in their homes or clubs or bars and watched it happen. Thousands at the stadium stood cheering, smiling, and shaking their fists with the joy of triumph as healthy young athletes marched in full of life and joy and hope.
There had been whispers -- even warnings -- that it would happen.
Mothers and fathers so proud of their sons and daughters, and boyfriends and girlfriends of their sweethearts, marching by joyfully in the dazzling uniforms of their country. Then the unthinkable occurred. One's mind was deluged with it. It reminded one of World War II when Jews were being murdered by those evil dogs Hitler and his Nazis; yet, there were so-called civilized, religious people who would not allow ships filled with Jews -- trying to escape that Holocaust-Hell -- to dock at their ports.
At the Olympics in London, once again "civilized," religious people would not allow one minute of silence to show respect and honor for the Jewish athletes who were cold-bloodily murdered before the entire world by evil Muslim terrorists at the Olympics in Munich in 1972.
Hopefully, the joy of the hypocrites, cowardly, crummy, creeps of the IOC, for Peace and Love and Brotherhood and Sisterhood watching the Olympics in London has been forever tainted. Let History Record It.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Betwixt Between
"Tafadhali, repeat ony in whispers."
"Why are blacks Christians or Muslims? --the people who enslaved them and tried to dehumanize them?" the white man asked the black man sitting next to him at the bar. They were both drinking beer.
"I don't know any blacks who are Christians or Muslims," the black man said.
"They're all over the place, screwing up their faces and singing gospels or kneeling on prayer rugs."
"I consider Christianity to be a religion of Europeans -- whites -- it's totally white-oriented."
"And Islam?"
"It's an Arab religion. Muslims take Arab identities. Arabs don't identify as blacks. But let me ask you a couple of questions. Did blacks ever enslave blacks or sell blacks to Muslims and Christians?"
"Today, in parts of Afrika, they're still selling each other to Arab Muslims."
"Why?"
"Why? For money."
"No. They do it because their culture makes them stronger than those they capture and sell."
"I can't argue with that. Next question."
"What's your religion -- Christianity or Islam?"
"I wouldn't be a Christian or Muslim on my death bed -- they've been slaughtering each other for centuries."
"And what would you replace Christianity or Islam with in those billions of Christians and Muslims to help them hold their savagery somewhat in check?"
"Well, uh . . . m-m-m . . . uh . . . I see what you mean."
"Why are blacks Christians or Muslims? --the people who enslaved them and tried to dehumanize them?" the white man asked the black man sitting next to him at the bar. They were both drinking beer.
"I don't know any blacks who are Christians or Muslims," the black man said.
"They're all over the place, screwing up their faces and singing gospels or kneeling on prayer rugs."
"I consider Christianity to be a religion of Europeans -- whites -- it's totally white-oriented."
"And Islam?"
"It's an Arab religion. Muslims take Arab identities. Arabs don't identify as blacks. But let me ask you a couple of questions. Did blacks ever enslave blacks or sell blacks to Muslims and Christians?"
"Today, in parts of Afrika, they're still selling each other to Arab Muslims."
"Why?"
"Why? For money."
"No. They do it because their culture makes them stronger than those they capture and sell."
"I can't argue with that. Next question."
"What's your religion -- Christianity or Islam?"
"I wouldn't be a Christian or Muslim on my death bed -- they've been slaughtering each other for centuries."
"And what would you replace Christianity or Islam with in those billions of Christians and Muslims to help them hold their savagery somewhat in check?"
"Well, uh . . . m-m-m . . . uh . . . I see what you mean."
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Culture Snack
"Tafadhali, repeat only in whispers."
One speaks of his/her "culture," points to what it has achieved in education. Are its people on the list of the most highly educated or -- in the 21st century -- trailing the most highly educated? Are its people noted for winning Nobel Prizes in medicine, in science, in technology or any field that requires the use of the brain or does the culture emphasize running and jumping?
And if a person heard a basketball being bounced on a sidewalk at midnight or on a city bus or in a restaurant or in a public bathroom would that person automatically assume that someone from a particular "culture" was bouncing that basketball?
Has any literature or music created by the writers and musicians of that "culture" equaled the great literature and great music of men and women of other cultures? Are the people of that "culture" depending on food, clothing, shelter, and jobs from people of other cultures because their "culture" has not produced any grocery stores and restaurants, building materials or businesses?
Are the people of that "culture" so intellectually meek that they can't tolerate self-criticism, and -- because of this -- are destined to not improve but to disappear?
Cultures do not come from some voice in the clouds; they're created by men and women. If the "culture" of a particular group isn't producing the needs of its people, then those people's "leaders" are at fault.
One speaks of his/her "culture," points to what it has achieved in education. Are its people on the list of the most highly educated or -- in the 21st century -- trailing the most highly educated? Are its people noted for winning Nobel Prizes in medicine, in science, in technology or any field that requires the use of the brain or does the culture emphasize running and jumping?
And if a person heard a basketball being bounced on a sidewalk at midnight or on a city bus or in a restaurant or in a public bathroom would that person automatically assume that someone from a particular "culture" was bouncing that basketball?
Has any literature or music created by the writers and musicians of that "culture" equaled the great literature and great music of men and women of other cultures? Are the people of that "culture" depending on food, clothing, shelter, and jobs from people of other cultures because their "culture" has not produced any grocery stores and restaurants, building materials or businesses?
Are the people of that "culture" so intellectually meek that they can't tolerate self-criticism, and -- because of this -- are destined to not improve but to disappear?
Cultures do not come from some voice in the clouds; they're created by men and women. If the "culture" of a particular group isn't producing the needs of its people, then those people's "leaders" are at fault.
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