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Case Study: When You See Racism Where There Is None, I Really Don’t Care
What Else You Say Is Racist
I’m shocked, shocked that this embarrassing and ridiculous episode emanated
from a Black Lives Matter leader!
Deray McKesson, one of the most visible and vocal leaders of the Black
Lives Matter movement, announced on Twitter that he was personally offended
by the costuming in the new “War for Planet of the Apes” movie. Some of the
conquering apes were wearing vests like the one he always wears! Obviously
the film was making a racist statement about Deray McKesson! Why, this was
like the Donald Trump clone being assassinated in “Julius Ceasar”! The
activist tweeted,
He really did. Here is a movement that has sparked violence, divided college
campuses, prompted attacks on police, caused deaths and NFL grandstanding,
and one of the key individuals at the center of it is so conditioned to see
racism behind every shadow, cloud and wisp of breeze that he thinks a
science fiction movie is targeting him personally.
(Psst! Deray! The movie isn’t insulting you, because most people don’t know
who you are, and as your conduct here demonstrates, have no reason to ,
because you are a silly, divisive, racist and race-obsessed narcissist with
an outlandishly inflated view of your own importance.)
It didn’t take long for people to point out, gleefully, on social media that
the vests McKesson (and others in his movement, because bias makes you
stupid, and race hate makes you ridiculous and stupid) found offensive—and
so typical of the subversive bigotry of those hateful, bigoted white
people—were based on the original 1968 movie starring long-dead Charlton
Heston, Roddy McDowall and Maurice Evans.
(Those three aren’t Chuck, Roddy and Maurice, by the way, which you should
know if you know your movie classics.)
1968 was long before the Great Deray McKesson wore a similar vest, so his
race-baiting was just another example of how people who make their living
and amass their fame by claiming race prejudice at every opportunity
eventually discredit themselves by seeing race in everything—ice cream,
knock-knock jokes, trained seals and costume plots for old movie re-boots.
[My favorite of the mocking tweets: “…a movie from 1968 was mocking Deray
and BLM. How did they know?”
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the leadership of Black Lives Matters,
endorsed by the Democratic Party. More importantly, Deray shows us the
mindset of the victim and guilt machine that spawned Black Lives Matters, as
well as the underlying narcissism and paranoid view of reality that drives
it. Now and then the cynical and irresponsible people in the driver’s seat
mess up, and show how gullible anyone is who takes them seriously or regards
their movement as more than a catalyst for suspicion and hate.
Thank heaven for that.