You Mean War Isn't Like The Movies!?!

Bigotry in the Bedroom

I saw a commercial today featuring an interracial couple engaging in pillow talk regarding their daughter considering a military career. I was suddenly a little girl racing to the kitchen to tell my mother that I had just seen something I had never seen before -- a black woman in a commercial. I confess that I am old enough to remember a much whiter world than the one in which we live today and how the common sight of people of color was not as prevalent as it finally is. It was not my doing anymore than it was my choice, but I am somehow embarrassed by it having been so accepted by so many for so long. I don't remember what was being advertised in that ad so many years ago and I may not remember today's couple was discussing anything as important as their child's future in years to come, but they were a black man in bed with a white woman and that smacks of bravery on the part of the people who casted that commercial. My daughter was in the room when it aired and unlike the little girl her mother was, she thought nothing of it. In the bigoted society in which we live, that fact alone makes me proud of the way I've raised my children, teaching them from birth that different is neither better nor worse -- only different. The commercial itself made me laugh to think of the racists who saw it and began screaming their racial epithets to fewer people than used to listen to them. Perhaps their screams were out of anger and hatred alone, but I like to think that it was also out of fear as they realized their way of thinking is finally on the way out.

"US MILITARY CONTRACTORS CIVILIANS ONLY!!!!!"

Our military are exposing their racist tactics in Iraq, forbidding citizens in their own country that we invaded for no reason other than to steal their oil, that they aren't good enough to use the same toilet as our soldiers. While our soldiers may or may not feel the same way, it is their superiors that have pulled this from their racist rectums and they should be chastised for it and forced to change that policy immediately. Now this smacks of the same crap, no pun intended, that was allowed over here until the Civil Rights Movement took hold and made enough noise for it to count, although I hear this toilet coveting prejudice is still practiced in the South as they are not taught to respect their fellow man as emphatically as they are to believe in fairy tales about creationism. Apparently, some of these little boys grow up to be Generals.

There is always a handy, innocent reason for racism when the racists need one. They sound much more contrived than they used to sound and the purveyor of bigotry looks even more oafish while reciting their rehearsed speech then he or she used to, but the bigot is as the bigot does and in this particular case, the bathroom is the best place for them and the shit they are trying to pass off as reality. I think it's safe to assume that if the guy who came up with the "they might not understand western plumbing" theory was able to figure out the complexity of flushing the average john, so can anyone he determines to be his inferior. Whoosh!