The Rantings of SpikeRants

Okay. Just a few minutes ago, I was sitting peacefully with my wife on the couch, her resting in my arms, watching Fox 4 News at 5:30. I was peaceful, content, and happy (all thanks to the upping of my Zoloft, HORRAY!)

Then, on the Viewers Voice, Steve was showing the good and the bad of the callers. A black man came on and called Steve a "Cracker."

I CRY RACISM.

Michael Richards was recently castigated for his use of the term "BLEEP" on stage, when addressing some hecklers in the crowd. I hear that a little under-reported fact is that he was called a cracker first. (BTW, any censors reading this and deeming it necessary to remove "BLEEP" from this post better also remove "cracker" and "honky" from this post, as both are racist.) I don't know how accurate what I heard is, or where I heard it from, but it's telling, I think.

Why is it okay for black people to call white people "honky" or "cracker," but race riots erupt when we dare utter the word "BLEEP?" I don't think it is okay. And I think that we should start calling people out on this.

Paul Mooney said he would never utter the N word again in any of his acts after Michael Richards. Good for him. Dave Chappelle flings the word around almost every other word. Rappers use the word in their songs. But heaven help us if a white person says it. It's okay for them to use it, and to call white people racist names, but not okay for us to do the same.

Why in the world is that?

NOBODY should use ANY of the racist and denigrating words mentioned above. Steve should have been less jovial about it. I am incensed that somebody would call him that. And I hope others of ALL races are incensed as well.

Post Script-- I just read my published blog, and it censored out, you guessed it, the N word. But, for some reason, "cracker" and "honky" are still there. What's the word, Fox4? Okay to be racist against whites? Add the other two words to the language filter (or at least "honky," since somebody may want to talk about an eating cracker.)