Every single black family of my acquaintance has had to have “The Talk” with their children. Especially the affluent ones who grew up in liberal racially-mixed communities. Their teenage sons, in particular, had to be sat down and told they can’t behave like their white teenage peers. Because if they behave like their white teenage peers when pulled over by the cops, they will be shot and killed. Because if they behave like their white teenage peers and smoke a little pot behind the schoolyard, they’ll go to jail for the next decade, while their white teenage kids will get a slap on the hand and sent home to Mommy and Daddy. Because if they behave like their white teenage peers and buy a fast flashy car, they’ll be pulled over every fifteen minutes by the cops on suspicion of auto theft and asked to prove that they own that car, or worse yet, arrested for auto theft and forced to hire a lawyer to prove their innocence. And don’t go into certain parts of town where white cracker kids hang out, and *especially* don’t go into their bars. And don’t expect to get served if you walk into a diner in small-town America and all you see are white faces. And so forth.
That’s life for black Americans. That’s the life that this commercial refers to. The Talk that this commercial refers to.
According to the bigots, white people are oppressed in America and black people are just making up all these things. Thing is, with all their racist rioting, all they’re doing is proven the point — that black people encounter bigotry on a daily basis, mostly from people who claim they’re not bigots.
But then, we’re talking bigots here, so I guess expecting intelligence from them would be like expecting flight from a cow.
Ain’t seen no cow flops fallin’ from the sky.
Just sayin’.
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
