Tuesday, October 09, 2007

The Day After Columbus Day Musings

This is one of my most/least favorite times of the year. It's when I get to get angry (which I love) at bleeding heart "I need to hate myself because it's the in-thing-to-do" NPR listeners (whom I hate).

Seriously. If I have to hear one more time about how Columbus was actually a purveyor of mass genocide and "by the way never actually set eyes on the continental land mass known as America and so really didn't discover America"...yeah, no shit. That honor goes to Amerigo Vespuci...the guy who fucking AMERICA WAS NAMED AFTER...someone's head is going to get flown.
For real. I got it.
I KNOW!
Enough already with this stylized "cultural awareness" whose sole purpose is to make it seem like these shame-peddlers "really care about people and are really trying reeeeeaaaallly hard to make the world see that by making films about how socially conscious we are."
You know what? You're so goddamned concerned? How about you take a step outside your safe, university setting and go live in my neighborhood for a while. When the lyrics to the Sesame Street Classic "Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood" include "That half-naked Smack addict blowing that Pusher in the Alley" then come back to me and tell me how socially conscious you are.
For now, I don't need to be told again how the Spanish Catholic Church was blood thirsty and liked to burn things.
Again. Got it. It's "burned into my brain."
Thanks!
Now, off to Whole Foods with you, you little scamp.

Go Cleveland!

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