Chuckie Watch 114: Chuckie gives us another clue

Another way to tell that Chuckie's a white guy: People Nothing More, Nothing Less 08/15/05.

Chuckie is telling us in his latest about what an open-minded white guy he is.  That title indicates that ole Chuckie's willing to thank of black folks as people!

So don't you go calling ole Chuckie a racist or nothing, no sir.

Chuckie gives us a little background about his own experience growing up in the South.  Chuckie says that he grew up thankin' like this:

I came up thinking that this was the way it was supposed to be. That these people were different from us, incapable of doing the things white people could do, a whole different culture which neither despised nor cared about its miserable condition.

Gol-lee, Chuckie grew up racially prejudiced?  Who would have ever guessed such a thing!  It just boggles the mind to hear something so surprising.

But, as we know, Chuckie learned to git beyond all that:

When I left home in 1958 with a guitar and a dream, my great adventure was to teach me many things, none more meaningful than finding out that being in a restaurant or a theater with a black person was not going to bring about the end of the world.

Golly, Chuckie eats in the same restaurant where black people eat!  Wow, that Chuckie is a real cosmopolitan kind of guy, ain't he?

But what really, really, really bugs Chuckie these days are all these here black people who don't realize what a fine, tolerant white guy he is now:

That’s why I resent it so deeply when I hear Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton trying to make it sound as if the whole Caucasian race is anti-black and that the government is responsible for everyone’s care from the cradle to the grave.

Let me state this emphatically. I am not your enemy.

Your enemy is the permissiveness that allows a girl to have her first pregnancy at 14 and go on to have several more unsupervised children who run the streets searching for some kind of love and many times finds it in the ranks of violent gangs.

Your enemy is the irresponsible rap super star who denigrates women, advocates the murder of police officers and promotes a life of sex and drugs to young impressionable children.

Your enemy is the crack dealer on the corner, the drive-by shooter lurking down the street, the failure to get the kids up and get them to school every day.

Your enemies are the racial activists who roast responsible and truth-speaking people like Bill Cosby who have the courage to point out the real problems.

Yep, Chuckie, fine Christian that he is, is worried about bad Negroes who run around encouragin' other black folks to be lazy and all these other black folks who, you know, listen to filthy music (white folks in the South called it "race music" when Chuckie was in the childhood that he's gotten beyond now).  Heck, I would have never thought that Jesse Jackson or Al Shapton either had ever claimed that "the whole Caucasian race" were enemies of blacks.  But I guess Chuckie wouldn't lie about something like that, would he?

And also all these here black folks runnin' around having sex all the time and murderin' cops and mistreatin' women (us white folks know how to treat our women right, you see) and gittin' into sex and drugs with young children and use crack and shoot people while they're drivin' by and all these here "racial activists."

But Chuckie ain't no racist now.  Don't you go be callin' him that.  Some of his best friends are black people.  It's not their being black he objects to.  It's just all this drugs and crack and sex and (refer to previous paragraphs).

I sure am glad that them bad ole days are gone when some people looked down on blacks because of the color of their skin.  Today, enlightened white guys like Chuckie have good reasons for why that don't like black folks.  (But Chuckie ain't no racist now, don't forgit that!)

Chuckie also don't like people to be called "African-Americans."  Cause Chuckie says:

We’re not just African Americans, European Americans and so forth. We’re Americans, plain and simple, people created by the same loving God. No more no less.

You know, for the longest time, I was bugged by the  term "European Americans."  I thought it was just a synonym for "white folks."  Besides, my wife's European, I'm American, and, well, she's European and I'm American.  The whole notion of "European-American" just seemed bizarre to me.

But since the Republicans decided that most Europeans are demons from Hail, I've changed my mind about the term.  I'm happy to be called a "European American" now.