Captain Creeper
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When my son was very young, and him and I were vegetating on the couch, he turned the television channel to BET (Black Entertainment Television). I nonjudgmentally asked him why he turned it to that particular channel. He responded that he liked it because of all the bright, colorful clothes and because everybody is "jumping and bopping around". In other words, they were cartoonish. This was completely organic. He had not quite started 1st grade yet, and I raised him with no judgment on other people. I figured he was smart enough to see others as they truly were.
Along the "jumping and bopping around" aspect of blacks vein, probably my favorite bopper is Lil John. This guy is a "rapper". His claim to fame is saying "Yeah" and "YEEEE-YAAHHHHH!" repeatedly during rap ..... songs(?). He has long dreads, jumps and bops around in videos and while performing. He possesses the culturally mandatory pot smoker personality. And he jumps around, dreads swinging wildly, and says "YEEEE-YAHHHHHH!!!" a lot. In other words, he is very cartoonish.
In fact, being cartoonish appears to be a solid aspect of American black culture. As I have said before, you could take a bookish, uptight black academic who acts like he has a pole up his butt, turn on some rap beats, and he will start dancing like Lil John. The blacks around him will cheer him on, as they start Lil John dancing too. It is an involuntary response, like wiggling a string in front of a cat. They just cannot help it. The fact is, this is sort of wide spread in the black community. You got to GET DOWN in order to BE DOWN with them. From an anthropological perspective, this is how the tribe distinguishes itself. In the parlance of the modern black, they have to "represent".
Before I go on to my thesis, I have to point something out. A lot of you may think I am simply being racist and yada yada words. A couple of quick points:
1. When speaking about anthropological matters, we speak in generalities. Thus, comments like "Duh, not every black person dances" are misplaced, asinine, and reveal quite a bit about where YOU rank in IQ.
2. I have lived my entire life in the deep, deep, DEEP south. I am from the south; I love the south. As far as deep south demographics, you will find that blacks are 50% of the population down here. Thus, my exposure is substantial and daily. You folks up north and out west, not so much. I have observed their behavior and culture for literally decades (5.5 decades, to be precise). In fact, I know more about blacks and their culture than blacks know because in my position I can observe them in a non-biased way, in the same manner that a scientist observes insects. Now, onward.
We know what Jim Crow is. But, in addition to being a black dogwhistle call to arms, Jim Crow was a cartoonish black character over 100 years ago. He portrayed blacks in a certain cartoonish way.
There is that adjective again: cartoonish. Hmmmm.... Why does THAT keep coming up?
Why was Jim Crow a cartoony black person? Was it because white culture at the time was racist and used the Jim Crow character as some sort of means of conditioning society to believe blacks were inferior to whites? Or, was Jim Crow merely a reflection of how blacks actually were? To be sure, we must remember that Jim Crow existed primarily for entertainment purposes. He appeared only in stage performances; he was not real. These performances were not drama. They were comedies. Thus, there was no reason to develop Jim Crow's character. He existed only to make people laugh. Moreover, it is inherently unjust, and produces a false reality, to make conclusions about the past based upon contemporary mores and ethics.
Forward to today, the cartoony black STILL exists in black culture. Here are some examples:
1. Lil John
2. Richard Pryor's "scared black man" bit
3. black people wearing their pants hanging off their butts
4. They break into song and dance at a moment's notice
5. To show their African heritage, they dress up like brightly colored puppets
6. Endzone performances
7. the rap culture generally
8. the hair
9. the unearned sense of entitlement
10. their tribalism
11. they are very performative
12. the NBA - the Passion Play for blacks
13. their cars (rims, jacked up sedan, gross colors, etc...)
14. manner of dress - chartreuse should never be used as a base color unless you are bass fishing
15. crazy bling bling - gots ta represent!
16. The language - there has got to be a limit placed on the number of times someone can say "MuddaFuka" while sitting in Arbys
17. Gold teeth, grillz
18. The pot smoking is out of control
19. Women wear shower caps while out and about
20. their butchery of the English language and general disdain for western academics and education
Cartoonishness is an integral part of black America. This is clearly established. So, why are they essentially Jim-Crowing themselves???? The leftist blacks bring up Jim Crow all the time. But the fact is, there is no greater example of Jim Crow today than black culture itself. Are they saying that whites made them cartoony with Jim Crow? I hope not, because that would be pretty f-ing stupid. It is my view that Jim Crow was an accurate reflection of a certain slice of black culture back at that time in history. Yes, black culture has, to some degree, a cartoony quality. And this quality has been reinforced a billion times over by blacks themselves.
I make no judgment here. It is what it is. Rather, I am making an interesting anthropological observation. Consider this, change the adjective from cartoony to "jiggy". Or, change it to "righteous". Go to a meeting of black jurists, turn on some Lil John, and watch as they immediately rise, pump their hands into the air, dance, and rub uglies against one another. After the noise ends, one says to the other, "Yo, dat righteous". I would say it was cartoony. It is the same thing. More importantly, it is Jim Crow 2.0.
Along the "jumping and bopping around" aspect of blacks vein, probably my favorite bopper is Lil John. This guy is a "rapper". His claim to fame is saying "Yeah" and "YEEEE-YAAHHHHH!" repeatedly during rap ..... songs(?). He has long dreads, jumps and bops around in videos and while performing. He possesses the culturally mandatory pot smoker personality. And he jumps around, dreads swinging wildly, and says "YEEEE-YAHHHHHH!!!" a lot. In other words, he is very cartoonish.
In fact, being cartoonish appears to be a solid aspect of American black culture. As I have said before, you could take a bookish, uptight black academic who acts like he has a pole up his butt, turn on some rap beats, and he will start dancing like Lil John. The blacks around him will cheer him on, as they start Lil John dancing too. It is an involuntary response, like wiggling a string in front of a cat. They just cannot help it. The fact is, this is sort of wide spread in the black community. You got to GET DOWN in order to BE DOWN with them. From an anthropological perspective, this is how the tribe distinguishes itself. In the parlance of the modern black, they have to "represent".
Before I go on to my thesis, I have to point something out. A lot of you may think I am simply being racist and yada yada words. A couple of quick points:
1. When speaking about anthropological matters, we speak in generalities. Thus, comments like "Duh, not every black person dances" are misplaced, asinine, and reveal quite a bit about where YOU rank in IQ.
2. I have lived my entire life in the deep, deep, DEEP south. I am from the south; I love the south. As far as deep south demographics, you will find that blacks are 50% of the population down here. Thus, my exposure is substantial and daily. You folks up north and out west, not so much. I have observed their behavior and culture for literally decades (5.5 decades, to be precise). In fact, I know more about blacks and their culture than blacks know because in my position I can observe them in a non-biased way, in the same manner that a scientist observes insects. Now, onward.
We know what Jim Crow is. But, in addition to being a black dogwhistle call to arms, Jim Crow was a cartoonish black character over 100 years ago. He portrayed blacks in a certain cartoonish way.
There is that adjective again: cartoonish. Hmmmm.... Why does THAT keep coming up?
Why was Jim Crow a cartoony black person? Was it because white culture at the time was racist and used the Jim Crow character as some sort of means of conditioning society to believe blacks were inferior to whites? Or, was Jim Crow merely a reflection of how blacks actually were? To be sure, we must remember that Jim Crow existed primarily for entertainment purposes. He appeared only in stage performances; he was not real. These performances were not drama. They were comedies. Thus, there was no reason to develop Jim Crow's character. He existed only to make people laugh. Moreover, it is inherently unjust, and produces a false reality, to make conclusions about the past based upon contemporary mores and ethics.
Forward to today, the cartoony black STILL exists in black culture. Here are some examples:
1. Lil John
2. Richard Pryor's "scared black man" bit
3. black people wearing their pants hanging off their butts
4. They break into song and dance at a moment's notice
5. To show their African heritage, they dress up like brightly colored puppets
6. Endzone performances
7. the rap culture generally
8. the hair
9. the unearned sense of entitlement
10. their tribalism
11. they are very performative
12. the NBA - the Passion Play for blacks
13. their cars (rims, jacked up sedan, gross colors, etc...)
14. manner of dress - chartreuse should never be used as a base color unless you are bass fishing
15. crazy bling bling - gots ta represent!
16. The language - there has got to be a limit placed on the number of times someone can say "MuddaFuka" while sitting in Arbys
17. Gold teeth, grillz
18. The pot smoking is out of control
19. Women wear shower caps while out and about
20. their butchery of the English language and general disdain for western academics and education
Cartoonishness is an integral part of black America. This is clearly established. So, why are they essentially Jim-Crowing themselves???? The leftist blacks bring up Jim Crow all the time. But the fact is, there is no greater example of Jim Crow today than black culture itself. Are they saying that whites made them cartoony with Jim Crow? I hope not, because that would be pretty f-ing stupid. It is my view that Jim Crow was an accurate reflection of a certain slice of black culture back at that time in history. Yes, black culture has, to some degree, a cartoony quality. And this quality has been reinforced a billion times over by blacks themselves.
I make no judgment here. It is what it is. Rather, I am making an interesting anthropological observation. Consider this, change the adjective from cartoony to "jiggy". Or, change it to "righteous". Go to a meeting of black jurists, turn on some Lil John, and watch as they immediately rise, pump their hands into the air, dance, and rub uglies against one another. After the noise ends, one says to the other, "Yo, dat righteous". I would say it was cartoony. It is the same thing. More importantly, it is Jim Crow 2.0.
