statueman's Blog

OK so it’s not just about race is it?  Cause if it is then let’s have a re-segregation movement.  It’s really all about money and who’s got it and how much they want to keep it… right?  Or is it all about power and who’s got it and how’re they going to keep it… right?  I mean what’s it all about Alfie?  I had a dog named Alfie… it always looked like it was going to tell me the answer but of course it died and I was stuck with dog food and memories.

I liked Bill Murray a lot when I was growing up you know?  He was and is the kind of comedien who makes you forget that we’re any different… I mean who didn’t cry when ‘Old Yeller’ died and don’t we all get’ Lost in Translation’ sometimes?

 I loved Richard Pryor’s movies and comedy albums growing up… on the 1976 album “Bicentennial N-word” Richard reminded us that “We are here… To Celebrate 200 Years… Of H-words kicking A!”  In an interview after filming “Stir Crazy” Richard was asked what he thought of the penal system and all he could say way “Thank God we have prisons!  Cause some of them M*(&%^ are crazy!”  And lastly when the tax man came and took away his possessions as he sat in a wheelchair suffering from a chronic ailment Richard told News Reporters close by “I’d invite y’all in for some cool-aide but they took it!”

Charlton Heston ran the NRA for god and let us know that religion doesn’t kill people… people kill people and then pry the gun out of their cold dead hands.  Remember when the soldiers went to haul off John the Baptist and old Heston tried to dunk them yelling “Repent!”?  Heston supported Civil Rights and didn’t care much for Affirmative Action…  Like Moses he proclaimed “Let my people Go!” but once in the desert Heston got a little miffed and yelled ““Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”  Yup some of us are pretty sure god looks a lot like Charlton Heston… unless of course you’re pro choice… then god looks like Alanis Morissette.  And then you might be a liberal leaning toward pro life cause Morgan Freeman made a good god too.  Thank the real God that Planned Parenthood wasn’t in the hood when ole Morgan was born huh?

Yes… let’s re-segregate for a century or so.  Perhaps we should allow for monitored all one ethnic group townships with property rights so folks can feel more comfortable who need to be around their own kind.  Maybe we should allow for race and folks who feel that their own race is all they want in their lives… then we could all have reservations and casinos.  Cause you know… it’s just not all about race.  Sometimes it’s about religion, preference, comfort zones and family.  Sometimes it’s about knowing someone is judging us because we’re being a jerk and not because we’re purple.  Sometimes it’s about something that makes us think and not about who wrote it or why.  Sometimes it’s all about listening to the old folks argue at the donut shop on a Sunday morning solving the worlds problems and lamenting that they have to go outside to smoke.  Yes... let's re-segregate so our senior citizens can enjoy a smoke with their coffee and donuts.