Every time this writer thinks it might be a good time to make this blog a little more upbeat the real world comes along and slaps your faithful correspondent in the mug with a wet mackerel.
When Bob Wills, the great Western swing band leader and song writer was a young boy in Oklahoma his mother went out into the backyard and found young Master Wills on his knees repeatedly tossing a pair of pebbles from his hand and shouting. She asked him what in the world he was doing, and he answered that he was not quite sure but, "that's what the niggers in town do." In other words, he was copying the playing of street craps that he had seen Negroes play in town. His mother was quite upset and told him never to do such a thing again. She was not so much upset that her dear boy was playing at gambling as she was that he was pretending to be a black boy.
For let's say one hundred and twenty years American black culture has leeched into the greater American culture; blues, jazz, clothing, rap and hip-hip as well as certain types of rock music. And most of those influences have been of the lowest sort from, during their initial phases, were considered low culture by blacks themselves. The result of this influence is a bunch of white kids (so pale as to defy description) From Maine to San Diego to Anchorage playing "gangsta" wearing "hoodies" and flashing bogus gang signs on their photographs on their Facebook pages. It's all silly and despairing. It's a sign that, if not urged to rise, a generation will descend. It's easier to sink than swim, and, culturally, can be a lot more fun. It all has to do with the great urge downward.
The recent riots in London and Birmingham and other parts of Great Britain make one think of the irreducible element of rascality that lodges in the human breast. This is not to say that being black means that one is a rascal. Rather it means that some cultures trying to raise themselves as a whole while others don't. Maintaining a civil society is hard work. Being a a thug is easy. The sin nature is strong in man. And if a civil society (as well as church or synagogue or temple) does not fight against the sin nature of man in the name of political correctness, their is no hope for that society.
A British historian has caused a bit of a brouhaha by his statements regarding the riots. The chin scratching class has gone kooky, while the common sense faction has agreed with his statements.
David Starkey claims 'the whites have become black' | UK news | The Guardian
David Starkey says Enoch Powell was right with infamous 'rivers of blood' speech | Mail Online
Just because an opinion is unpopular does not mean that it is wrong.
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