EyeHateGod - White Nigger
I know, I know...that's not "my word". Maybe "wegroe" is a better way of putting it. I coined Wegroe ™, so it's my word, bugger off. I don't go around dropping N bombs, anyone reads this and knows me knows that..I rarely say it. I've never said it out of malice but from an educational standpoint. I have HEARD it MANY times from a position of malice. It's not the word, it's the intent, the authority & ability to cause real damage that's behind the word. If three black guys approach me on the street and start calling me "cracker" (it's happened)..intent. If three white dudes approach a black man on the street and call him "nigger"..intent. One white guy approaching three black guys and dropping the N bomb is known as creative suicide. A black guy approaching three white guys calling them cracker is known as "hilarious". Unless he has a gun. See: Authority, or rather, ABILITY to make that word have meaning.
"If you create a sign like this, or make the capitol error of sporting a stache, mullet AND an American Flag dew-rag (Jesus, Old Glory boxing shorts would have been better), you are forbidden to criticize immigrants who can't speak/write english. You also do not qualify for the United Wegroe College Fund."
I worked at this restaurant when I was a teenager, and there was this cook who was a major dick, Tony. There was a server who was a little obnoxious, but not unlikeable. He was flaming like Johnny Torch, openly queer. Weeks and weeks of Tony slipping in "faggots" and "gaybo", etc etc. One day I hear a clamor, pots & pans clanging, shouting. I ran to the back to find Tony pinning the server to the wall with a fillet knife at his throat. "CALL ME A NIGGA AGAIN, MOTHERFUCKER!" About a minute of this, me and others trying to chill him out before he did something stupid. The server just stood there, his hands up, ghost white.
I guess Tony did not see the point that Johnny Torch was trying to make to him.
Can't deny growing up in Da Souf hasn't had an affect in my development as a person. Po' white southern trash. Not as po' as many, but for a long while as a kid I lived with grandparents, or in a trailer..sometimes even a few months with a great-uncle & my great aunt lived to be about 102 years old. I was often shifted around. It can have a bearing on who we are, our esteem, how others treat us. Anyone who'd think all white people are privileged just because they're "caucasians" should spend a few weeks in south Georgia or Alabama. A caucasian is from the Caucasus mountains anyway...dumb. It IS a factor in how society treats you. Drunk/abusive or absent dads. Drunk/abusive or absent moms. Kids going to school where lunch was often the only meal they'd get that day..so some would try to hustle two trays, or steal food from other kids. Wasn't always about bullying or power tripping, but real hunger & malnutrition. Survival.
The "Reconstruction" of the civil war never ended..the south is still reconstructing. It was blighted and punished severely for seceding & for the economic advantages slavery gave it. Paid the price. Many are paying the price still several generations later. Back then, it was much the same as today..a minority of wealthy folks were the ones with all the slaves. The others were mostly poor ass sharecroppers, craftsmen, proprietors, etc. Only one out of every four southern males owned slaves, and even in those cases, it would be one or two slaves. I'm not rationalizing, I'm saying the general perception is not quite in line with history. The vast majority could not afford the legions of slaves plantation owners had. Sure, maybe they'd aspire to "pulling themselves up by the bootstraps with the help of a Yoruba captive"...kind of like the folks today that aspire to have the millions of hedge fund managers. It's often been said that the constitution is racist because it equates an african's vote to only count as 1/5th of a white's vote. The legislators did that out of practicality, because including the slave population, the south outnumbered the northern states in voting power. It would've been the South voting their agendas in, and getting their slaves to do the same thing. "Ah, Kunte Kinte here loooooves this proposition, dontchya boy!" And that would have likely lead to more states becoming slave states.
For years, it was the negroes and the wegroes, many from the south, Ozarks & Appalachians, that went off to Vietnam. Wasn't until the draft came about that the upper classes started caring much about it. "Oh shit! I was going to backpack like Kerouac this summer, get into trouble, maybe listen to some of that devil jazz music and smoke some grass, college will always be there for me! WE DON'T NEED YOUR STUPID WAR, HELL NO WE WON'T GO!!" Hey, it got a lot of dudes to go to college..how's that for motivation! Now, college is so ridiculously expensive, they get people INTO the military by offering tuition assitance. "Hey, your dumb trashy ass will never get in with the elites...join the Army/Navy/AirForce (maybe)/Marines! If you survive, you can go to college! They're all wheelchair accessible. And they are very accomodating of people with PTSD."
The greatest irony is that the white supremacists and black supremacists have so, so much in common aside from the nature of their hatred...
Feh. Hymn To The Wegroe. A Wegroe isn't a racist or a white supremacist/seperatist. Perhaps I will create official Wegroe cards..email me if you'd like one. Don't even have to be european, you can be an honorary Wegroe. Then we can say "wegroe, please" to each other. Wegrow. Grow marijuana & get high when you can so that you don't end up all grouchy and neurotic.
