Saturday, June 11, 2016

A Political Eulogy?

"Did you watch it?"
"I didn't think I could handle it."
"It had already started when I turned the TV on and at first I thought something had happened to my TV, that a program from a foreign country had been hooked up by mistake . . . the way some of the people were dressed . . ."
"Dressed how?"
". . . dressed as if centuries ago, by some freak accident some of them were sprung into an orbit circling the Earth and by a mistake they fell out of that orbit and landed into the United States in this 21st century and were trying to make themselves fit in with their dress code of 13 or 14 centuries ago."
"I expected it to be an awkward gathering, different religious and political perspectives."

"To show you that some of them weren't there just to show their respect they used part of their lopsided eulogy to try to discredit the leading presidential candidate or to promote Islam.  But nothing was said about defending our borders or Muslim terrorists openly threatening Americans and our country.  I kept thinking  of that question you asked in your book . . . 'can one survive among hypocrites without being a hypocrite?'  But what turned me completely off was this woman who walked in, stopped, looked about hesitantly as if she didn't know what to do or where to go.  It was her hat.  It had a huge brim that sported a couple of flops that reminded me of the kind that a European woman would have worn in a country that European men had taken over and many of the natives wore very little to cover themselves and they called white women Missi.  Anyway, these native women thought if they could have a hat like Missi they'd be just like Missi, and a native woman told a Missi that she'd work for her for nothing if she'd give her a hat like Missi wore.  Missi agreed and after a month of work Missi gave her the hat and the woman wore it day and night up and down the walking paths throughout the village, even slept in it . . . but that style of hat is so completely identified with white women it makes you feel a little crooked to see a black-skinned woman in one . . ."
"I'm glad I didn't see such a monstrosity."

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