Columnist leads follower down interesting path
Do you ever get the feeling that you’re being followed?
Now, I’m not talking about paranoia, I’m talking about how every time you turn around, there’s that person that you think might be following you. It appears that I have someone behind me.
I think it’s funny. Let’s see now. I faulted Mr. Owens for spewing racism and the guy on my trail followed by criticizing the Pope for being level headed. If this is a game on one-upsmanship I suppose that I’ll have to criticize God next. Well, for the time being, I think I’ll pass. So far I’m cool with God, and I trust he’s cool with me.
I suppose that we’re vying for the hearts and minds of you people who read these things for a lack of something better to do. Anyone who takes the time to write opinions or commentaries is trying to do that, or see if you get my jokes. What other reason could there be? Come on, you know that some of my jokes are maybe sardonic, but pretty funny.
I’d like to think that everyone has an agenda. If you don’t have one, I would equate that to a ship without a rudder. Those people can only go where the current takes them. I can’t imagine living life like that now, but when I was younger, I knew how it felt. Surrendering the helm to chance or circumstance. “Been there, done that.”
The guy tracking me said he disregards some pieces as merely a difference of opinion. I do that too. Everyone does that. Ah, but when someone tries to hand me a line of racist malarkey, blaming white people for everything…I’ll call them out on it.
Some might not care for a particular race, lifestyle, fashion, music, slang or even food, but that doesn’t make them a racist. That means they have a particular preference. Freedom of choice is a big deal to me and should be to you. If not, why isn’t it?
However, when some people blame a particular race for every misadventure or wrong that might befall them, self-imposed or not, that is racism. I contend Mr. Owens’ writings fit that bill. I wonder if he realizes he’s complaining about himself.
I understand this guy’s a real big supporter of some “Miss Black Fayette County” beauty pageant. Even the name of the pageant reeks of exclusivity. It sounds like it’s only for blacks, but then who knows what eubonics might mean?
You can bet if there was some “Miss White Fayette County” white beauty pageant, the Rev. Al Sharpton would fly to the Connellsville/Joe Hardy Airport with an airplane to lead the protests and marches. Flanking him would be the Owens twins and Ms. Vozel. They’d be chanting slogans for “unequal rights.”
Now what’s wrong with this picture. It seems like “black privilege” to me. What does it seem like to you? Hypocrisy? More than likely that’s what it is, but it sure has a sinister ring to it. Like: “do as a say, not as I do.” They try to impose some, “tyranny of cowardice” and if you’d “man up” and call things what they are, we wouldn’t be bulldozed by racist rhetoric about something labeled “white privilege” this blame season.
The same argument can be made about people who try to cram their brand of religion down our throats. But that isn’t racism, that’s religious bigotry. it’s the theology of, “my way or the highway.” Of course, they might be right (and if they are, I might not be cool with God), but they might be wrong. Isn’t it a question of faith.
Personally, I don’t care what you believe. Just don’t force-feed it to me. We already have plenty of fanatics doing the most unspeakable things in Syria, Iraq, and Africa for a brand of religion. To a lesser degree, but equally disturbing, because it’s so close to home, Ms. Matthews shared with us her account of an incident that took place during the Halloween parade in Uniontown.
I didn’t realize there was a “War on Halloween,” too. It seems that some angry group of radical fundamental zealots were at the corner of Main and Beeson streets verbally attacking the kids marching in the parade, with accusations that they didn’t love the Lord and accusing the onlookers of pedophilia. For goodness sake, this is crazy!
Attacking kids in a parade? Are these people serious? To date, they haven’t started beheading people. I doubt that any of them feel any remorse for acting like such idiot, but I have my suspicions about whom these ignorant provocateurs might be. Who else, but some fanatical religious “rightwing nuts” would elect to attack children here in Fayette County? If this is their brand of religion, not only will I tell them to keep it to themselves, I have a suggestion where they can…(Memo to self: “be nice.”)
I guess the psuedo-Christian rightwing of ISIS/ISIL has raised its ugly head in Fayette County. Now we have some homegrown terrorists (they were terrorizing children) locally. These religious fanatics have gone beyond a reasonable discourse into the realm of the ridiculous. It’s one thing to witness for Christ, it’s another to terrorize kids.
It’s pretty pathetic that some Americans have adopted the tactics of terrorists to promote their interpretation of salvation. Unfortunately, there are plenty of weak-minded people that adopt these ridiculous beliefs This is a tyrannical theocracy trying to get a foothold locally and from what I read in the paper, Fayette County is ripe for it.
These are the same type of people who keep trying to convince us to fast and ask for forgiveness for transgressions we might have nothing to do with as they beg for our tax-deductible contributions All they while they gorge themselves on a diet of self-righteousness, carrying a cross while wrapped in a flag.
Patriotic? Are you nuts?
A blind person could smell what these “leftwing-nuts and rightwing-nuts are doing, provided you point them in their direction. Those of you who aren’t visually impaired would realize it too, if you’d only see what you’re looking at.
John Lucas is a resident of Vanderbilt.