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Jewish World Review May 9, 2014 / 9 Iyar, 5774 Youth charge racism on top of old fogeysBy Dave Weinbaum
JewishWorldReview.com |
It's come to my attention that I've finally reached the stage in my life when
some, especially millennials, refer to me as an old fogey, smartass, conservative,
out of touch, bald, gray-beard, old fart, schmuck (the last from my son, who I
affectionately call, Putz). Worst of all, they accuse me and my ilk of being racist.
It's a form of profiling that I was guilty of just a few years ago. Now I'm blown up
by my own petard.
To make a mountain out of an anthill, piling on like Libs at a MSNBC leg-tingling
rally for Obama's 50,000th speech about Obamacare, comes this nasty charge:
Old peeps, by our age alone, have racial biases that we're unable to shake-until
they ooze out like an exorcized demon, upon our demise.
The hurdle for this label isn't high. We either must be breathing and/or on the right
side of the grass. We don't have to criticize a soul much less an incompetent black
president (There I go again!). All we need do is register with one of the two above
qualifications and we're damned to quick death. Young people demand we make
room for their fair and balanced outlooks. You see, theybelieve they have no
preconceived notions of prejudice. Humbug!
None other than Charles Krauthammer has commented on the Old Age
Fogey Syndrome (OAFS).
His son had the audacity to challenge the Pulitzer Prize
winner on his attitude toward race. Clive Bundy said some insensitive stuff about
blacks and slavery. Then came LA Clippers owner, Donald Sterling on the cusp
of winning a lifetime achievement award from the NAACP, taped by his multiracial
self-described archivist girlfriend, with words that got him banned for life from the
NBA. Today, he answers that he can't be a racist - he's a Jew! Gee Don thanks
for throwing all the rest of us Yidden under the Volkswagen!
We all know that if you're black you can't be a racist. Isn't that right, Jesse,
Al, Eric, NAACP and Barack? You and some special white friends have trumped
that charge and encouraged the Check your privilege anti-white screed you use to
control free speech, especially on college campuses.
Street corners make poor fathers
Little is said about black-on-black crime in this country. In fact, until yesterday, we
heard not a peep about black Muslim on black Christian crime. Now, out of nowhere,
the head of al-Qaeda affiliated Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau declared he had
kidnapped about 300 black girls in Nigeria and was selling them as sex slaves and
wives to fellow Muslims. Their crime? They were being educated against the rulings
of Sharia Law.
Suddenly Obama is sending US personnel to Africa and the CBC is screaming for
drones to strike those bastards! Yet, in 2011 when the Republican Congress, FBI
and CIA were pushing for a terrorist label for Boko Haram, President Barack
Obama's Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton killed it.
Hillary is about my age. So is she racist for backing black Muslims and not
black Christians? Who did anything when the New Black Panthers were blocking
voting polls while armed with clubs? Who did anything when the same group paraded
in the streets of Philadelphia and urged blacks to murder white men, their women
and their babies?
I digress because I'm old and frustrated by all this. So, I wrote some lyrics to an
old song. Hey, some take out their frustrations on gays-Alec Baldwin!
To the tune of On Top of Old Smokey:
On top of old fogeys, all wrinkled and gray
We pitter-patter each passing day
We shop at our Walmart or work there as greeters
Then eat early dinner with fellow old geezers.
We talk thru false teeth about pols who are liars
Our kids call us racist and dream funeral pyres
Asleep at eight awake by three
I go to breakfast after a two-hour pee.
In go our teeth all whitened and polished
We watch Fox News to see what Obama's demolished.
Oh dread we were heard by some eavesdropping kid
He'll make it go viral on a YouTube Vid.
On top of old Fogeys all wrinkled and gray
We pitter-patter with each passing day
We shop at our Walmart or work there as greeters
Then eat early dinner with fellow old geezers.
Gotta get to bed early. Us old folks will be scamming our local Embassy Suites
out of free breakfasts in the morning.
Never give up, never let up and you'll never let your country down.
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DaveWeinbaum.com. He is a businessman, writer and part-time stand-up comic and resides in a Midwest red state.
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