Stylin' and Profilin' Before

Stylin' and Profilin'

Before I begin my rant, I'd like to thank Eva for buying off the add space at the top of my blog. What a sweetie!

My friend, Cindy flew to Orlando a few weeks ago and she was picked out by our rocket scientist security screeners for a random search. Cindy has red hair and green eyes. I guess she could be an Irish terrorist, but I don't think the IRA has started hijacking airplanes yet. As she was being searched, two Muslim women in full regalia (and in full regalia, how can you tell if they are women?) were waved through.

A few weeks back Al (Next time I'm not gonna listen to pollsters. I'm just gonna let 'er rip!) Gore was checked not once, but twice. I realize he might still be a little upset over that 2000 election thing, but I don't think he would be upset enough to hijack an airplane. "OK. If we don't have another recount in Florida, I'm gonna crash this plane into the Supreme Court building."

This might be an urban legend, but I heard that Ray Charles got searched. Ray Charles? Yeah, the blind guy. Plays the piano. Sings. Had a few hits. "I'm flyin' this plane to Georgia. Point me in the right direction."

To quote Taggert (Slim Pickens) in Blazing Saddles "What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-goin' on here?" Have we lost our minds? Ray Charles and Al (Lettin' 'er rip) Gore are not gonna hijack planes. Abdullah and Yasser are. And I don't give a shit if we hurt their feelings or not.

Danny Glover cannot catch a cab in New York and cries racism. The cabbies don't want to pick up black people. Well, Danny. the reason they don't want to pick up black people is because there is a greater chance of them getting robbed (and killed) by a black person than by a white person. Even the Pakistani cab drivers understand that. I'm sorry, but that ain't racism, that's the cabbie using his brain.

So let's look a little closer at profiling. What profiling is is using statistics and extrapolating probabilities from those statistics. Here's an easy question: Since most of the airline hijackings during the the last thirty years have been done by men of Middle Eastern descent who is most likely to hijack a plane?

1. A petite, fair skinned redhead with green eyes.
2. Al (really lettin' 'er rip)Gore
3. Ray Charles. Georgia on my Mind.
4. Hillary Clinton.
5. A male of Middle Eastern descent.

Now if you answered Hillary Clinton, you misunderstood the question. I didn't mean the most dangerous person on the plane, I meant the person most likely to hijack the plane. If you were one of our professional screeners (and remember, little Tommy Daschle said "to professionalize, we must federalize" - did he get that rhyme from Jesse Jackson?) the last person you would pick would be the Middle Eastern guy since that would be profiling and, of course, we sure wouldn't want to offend him, especially since this might be his last day on earth. Let's not hurt his feelings and damage his self esteem. The trauma may affect his performance with the 72 virgins. "Dammit Fatima, if it hadn't been for that rude screener I wouldn't be having this problem."

And now onto racial profiling, or why can't Danny Glover get a cab in New York City? I hate to bring up a terrible truth, but blacks, by percentage of population have a much higher crime rate than whites, or Hispanics, or Asians or Samoans, or Martians (all right, I made that last one up). And here's the kicker. They ain't committin' crimes against white, racist, bigots like me. The highest black crime rate is black on black crime. So Jesse, Maxine, Al, Cynthia, and all you other poverty pimps, howsa 'bout we just pull the cops from the inner city and let y'all kill each other? Is that what you want?

Now liberals are always talking about 'root cause', so let's talk about 'root cause'. A good little liberal will say that the 'root cause' of crime is poverty. Whoa Nellie! Stop the presses! I actually agree with a liberal about sumpin'! The 'root cause' of crime in the black (and Hispanic and white) communities is poverty. So we agree.

Where the liberal (and good intentioned blacks like John Lewis. Bless his heart, he got hit by too many nightsticks during the civil rights era. I still remember him on the floor of the House "They're coming for the poor. They're coming for the children. They're coming for the old folks." Yep. There they are: The jack booted brown shirt Republican thugs. I remember it just like it was yesterday. Heil Newt!) folks and I disagree is how to solve poverty. The liberal (and socialist) solution is to give them money. Well, we've given them $5 trillion and it hasn't done a damn bit of good. Now, a good little liberal (or socialist) would tell you that we haven't given 'em enough money. Remember, the only reason that socialism has never worked is because the right people (Hillary Clinton) haven't been in charge and we haven't spent enough money on it.

Whenever we declare war on a concept it is a complete failure. Remember Prohibition? That was a war on alcohol. We really won that one didn't we. Hello Al Capone. And how's the war on drugs goin'? The war on poverty? We can win it. Just give us more money. I worry about the war on terrorism, but I've covered that before and will cover it again.

I was reading a book review in The New Republic (Gasp! GOC reads The New Republic?) a few years ago and it was a study on the disintegration of the black family. During the 50's and early 60's black families were making tangible gains. Somewhere around the mid 60's the black family began to disintegrate. There were more single mothers. The author just didn't have a clue as to what caused this. Hey Sherlock! Listen up! It was the Great Fucking Society! Guess what? I have babies. I get a place. Nothing fancy, but, it's mine. I get food stamps. I get a check. And, here's the neat part. I don't have to work. In all fairness, this is not just black. It is also white, Hispanic, and others. And. yes. I know there are more whites than blacks on welfare, but as a percentage of the population, the poverty rate is much higher among blacks. Likewise the illegitimacy rate. It is now approaching 80%. That is a crime! And the NAACP is more concerned with a freaking flag on the capitol grounds in South Carolina. Hey guys! We got people in trouble over here. Enough with the Confederate flag bullshit!

All right. We've agreed that the 'root cause' of crime is poverty. We've also determined (at least those of us with brains) that the war on poverty has been an abysmal failure. So what's the solution? OK. Here's GOC's solution to poverty.

1. Get an education. That means staying in school. It also means learning to read and write English. That does not mean "I be riting English gud". It means, "I know how to read and write English well." Ebonics is not English. Likewise, Spanish is not English. Bilingual education is the most patronizing piece of crap that you can lay on students. People speaking Spanish, at least here in Georgia, do landscaping and construction. In fact, in the local colleges there is a course called Landscape Spanish. That's so the bosses know how to tell the workers what to do. Total immersion works. Likewise making black students speak proper English works. Unfortunately it will require a (Warning! Warning! Buzzword Alert!) paradigm shift. Doing well in school is not 'acting white', it is acting smart. At least finish high school. With the education standards today, if you can't finish high school, ya gotta be real freakin' dumb. After high school, go to college. If you can't afford college or can't get a scholarship, go to tech school. If you can't afford that, join the military. I flunked out of college. I joined the Navy and learned electronics. When I got out of the Navy, I went back to college on the GI Bill.
2. Get a job. Yes, while you're going to school. My father was an alcoholic and lost jobs. My mother had to work. I mowed lawns, shoveled snow (which prepared me for shoveling shit), cleaned gutters, raked leaves and worked in the school cafeteria. My sister babysat. When she went to college (she's smarter than I am and she got a scholarship) she worked other jobs. I took over her babysitting jobs. If we had enough fast food places back in them thar ancient times, I would have flipped burgers. Flipping burgers is not below anyone. It is called entry level. It teaches you how to get to work on time, put up with bullshit from managers, and put up with bullshit from customers. These are all skills you will need in the real world.
3. If you're a girl, don't get pregnant. I don't care how much the asshole says he loves you, when he knocks you up, he's outta there and you're stuck with the bundle of joy. If you're a guy, don't knock her up. I know how hormones rage when you're teenagers. "Please don't make me walk up to the board. I've just been lookin' at Betty Sue and fantasizing and, well, ya know...". Any of the guys reading this know what I'm talking about. Jesus! They have sex education. They give out condoms. I know y'all are gonna do it. But, be careful. A child when you are 16 is a one way ticket to poverty.

If you have an education; if you can speak, read, and write proper English; if you have developed good work habits; if you have not had children you cannot afford; there is absolutely no reason other than an accident or catastrophic illness that you cannot succeed in this country. This works for Jamal, Shamika, Jose, Carmen, Bubba, and Ellie Mae. Jesus, Bill Clinton, who's about as white trash as you can get, became President fer crissakes!

The most valuable resource of any society is its people. One of the reasons Arab nations are pissant countries is that they are wasting 50% of their resources. Their women are broodmares and nothing else. If the Arabs, for example, the Saudis, didn't have oil they would be wandering the desert chasing camels and goats. If Germany had used the human resources of their Jewish citizens instead of killing them we would probably be speaking German today.

It pisses me off that we have liberals and black 'leaders' who are selling out a group of people for their own gain.

It pisses me off that we have failing schools in the inner city and the liberals' solution is throwing more money down a worthless rathole.

And it pisses me off that we are squandering valuable human resources.

And it pisses me off that the solution to poverty is so freaking obvious. Even I can see it!

What more can I say?

Posted by denny at July 11, 2002 02:39 PM