My Great Grandmother, daughter of an African American slave, was what I considered a social genius. Even though she had a 7th grade education, she would come up with some gems, when it came to social interactions with others. She spoke in a deep "Old Style African American Southern" dialect . Which made memories of some of our conversations so precious. One of the things I use today, she taught me was how weed out a person's true feelings about a subject, idea, or person.
She told me one time, in a soft tone just above a whisper, "Boy, if you got a pack of dogs, in the woods, and you throw a stone against the barn door, the one that jumps and yelps, is the one that is ' doing what it ain't oughta [ought to]".
Yesterday I threw a stone against a barn door and a Bitch, (female dog) yelped. It was none other than S.E. Cupp, co-host of MSNBC's The Cycle.
Reading my tweets while watching The Cycle, and getting nauseated by what Ms. Cupp was saying about President Obama, I read a tweet from a person who usually supports me and my disdain, for her subjective nonsense. I noticed that the person I'm talking about was attacked by someone who used the twitter account name @thecyclemsnbc, because of something she said about Cupp. I in turn tweeted my opinion of Ms. Cupp, That she hated Obama, and the reason she hates him is because he is the First Black President. In 140 characters or less.
THEN TO MY AMAZEMENT, I SAW THAT @SECUPP HAD RETWEETED MY COMMENT. TWICE!
I looked on her account to see how many followers she had, and it was more than 16 thousand. I thought to myself, "Oh Shit!" and BOOM! they started coming. The Queen of Right Wing Nut Jobs, had called upon her brood to verbally assault me, and Boy did they. I got about 100 tweets calling every name in the book. The funny thing is that they were not defending S.E., they were mostly attacking both me and Obama in some very choice racist words and terms. One said he would burn a cross in my yard if gas prices wasn't so high. I loved that one. I had to laugh I now admit. But it is not funny!
My point is this, I use twitter, this blog, and other sites in which I can leave a comment as the Stone to throw. The social and internet media, is my barn door. The Stone is made from, agree with me or not, the truth as I see it.
But let's look at it another way. I'm 5'11 and Big Boned, (ok I'm fat) and Black. I would look pretty foolish if someone were to rush in a room, crowed with people which I am also located and yell, "YOU WHITE REDHEADED SKINNY FRECKLED FACE IDIOT", and I jumped and say, "WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ME LIKE THAT?" A reasonable person is only going to respond to WHAT IS
TRUE ABOUT THEM.
Face it I'm a nobody. What I say shouldn't matter to a mediocre celebrity. But in the 50 years since my Granny Ronsie, gave me that advise, I can say this with certainty, only the truth makes makes someone jump and yelp like that.
So I will say it again. S.E. Cupp hates that the President of America is Black. She talks less about is policy and mostly about his ATTITUDE. As a former EEOP counselor, that is one of the signs of discrimination in the work place.
