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Mar 31, 2004 “18 December 1865. The thirteenth amendment was ratified by the required 27 states abolishing Slavery. Congressmen Kerry submitted a bill to the House to provide a minimal wage, housing, transportation, food vouchers and a clothing allowances to all freed slaves and their dependence. Wait just a cotton picking minute, isn’t that what the Southern Plantation Owners were doing before the war?” I gotta try to figure this one out rationally. My knee-jerk reaction is “WHAT?” “Isn’t that what the southern plantation owners were doing before the war?” Doing what? Subjugating a group of people for economic gain? Wait just an Enron-Tyco-Global Crossings minute, isn’t that what conservative American corporation officers are doing now? No, I’m not screaming racism here. Not gonna play any race card. Just trying to understand what would make a person say that slaves, freed or beholden, were subsidized prior to the Civil War? I think this was said in jest, a la Mel Brooks— you know, “Blazin’ Saddles” or “History of the World, Part I.” I’m still trying to find the punch line, and resist the urge to punch something. Maybe I don’t get it ‘cause it’s conservative humor. You know, like the joke President Bush cracked about how Democrats want this, and the opposite—and that’s just the senator from Massachusetts, ha ha ha. Still trying to see the funny here… Conservatives castigating Kerry in one breath, while excoriating Democrats for attacking President Bush’s character and not his administration’s policies. Hypocrisy? Nay, methinks not. The definition of hypocrisy is, “insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have,” according to cogsci.Princeton.edu. The conservatives appear sincere in their self- righteous attacks on all who think differently from them in a country lauded worldwide for it’s freedom of press, petition, speech, assembly and religion. And that’s just the first Amendment. So, gentlemen of the right, express yourself! The doctrine of staying above the fray to maintain a moral superiority has been cast aside by your ilk, and it seems as if you have descended into the depths to engage in this dogfight. You’ll find these Yellow Dog Democrats ready for anything y’all throw our way. Even the cheap Southern below-the-Beltway jabs in your diatribes. ------------ About the author: Chuck Tyler is a freelance writer and journalist based in South Bend, Indiana. His credits include coverage for the South Bend Tribune (www.SouthBendTribune.com) of a triple homicide trial and a town hall meeting of concerned citizens and local officials for the Herald-Palladium (www.HeraldPalladium.com) following 9/11. Email him at: tyler_1420@yahoo.com ------------ |
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