{"id":221220,"date":"2022-12-05T19:09:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T00:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/?p=221220"},"modified":"2022-12-12T09:59:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T14:59:29","slug":"a-vampire-and-a-werewolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/blog\/a-vampire-and-a-werewolf\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vampire and a Werewolf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Herschel Walker for U.S. Senate? Talk about cringe worthy! Good god\u2014who came up with the idea? Despite our profound political differences, I honestly feel sorry for Walker, the way he\u2019s been put on display for months like the honorary \u201cdisgrace to the race.\u201d And the poor guy doesn\u2019t seem to have any self-awareness of the spectacle he\u2019s making of himself. We should acknowledge that people have different talents and shortcomings, but come on, someone running for the U.S. Senate should have a reasonable level of intelligence, and at least aspire to a certain amount of moral virtue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What we\u2019ve learned about Mr. Walker during the course of the campaign isn\u2019t very virtuous (am I the only one who\u2019s lost track of the abortions and abused women) but watching him struggle has been downright painful, even if you\u2019re rooting for him and his backers to fail. Every time he speaks it\u2019s like gawking at the wreckage of a terrible automobile accident. (Never mind vampires and werewolves, I\u2019m still trying to figure out the relevance of switching Chinese air with American air.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
All in all, Walker seems like a collection of every negative stereotype of Black men conjured up by the Republican Party in an effort to strike a chord with the prejudice of their inevitably racist voters. There are legions of Black men more fit for office than he is (including many who are currently incarcerated, and I\u2019m not being flippant), but most of them, of course, run as Democrats rather than Republican patsies. And if Republicans think African Americans will automatically be attracted to any Black candidate, hopefully this episode will teach them that an awful parody like Walker does more harm than good. If I were an African American, I would find it humiliating to have Walker shoved in my face like a bad minstrel show, a form of entertainment that was amusing to racist white people in the 19th<\/sup> century but, thankfully, long-since out of vogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Does \u201cYe\u201d Even Understand What Hitler Did and What He Represents?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Kanye West (now \u201cYe\u201d) has gone completely off the rails, crashing repeatedly in every direction with seemingly no end in sight. It\u2019s a tragedy that he\u2019s ruining an illustrious career, but can we really chalk it up to mental illness? Unlike Herschel Walker, we don\u2019t owe a hateful racist Holocaust denier like Ye any sympathy. This dude is spewing antisemitic hatred to millions of his followers worldwide and it\u2019s just possible that some of them take him seriously. He\u2019s also claimed that slavery for African Americans was a \u201cchoice\u201d (well, maybe for the greedy lords of the Cotton Kingdom). The fact that Elon Musk banned Ye from Twitter so soon after he reinstated Donald Trump surely testifies to the gravity of the situation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Does Ye realize that Hitler was responsible for the deaths of millions of people who weren\u2019t Jewish?\u00a0 Does he realize that Hitler didn\u2019t even consider Black people to be human?\u00a0 Is his fanatical love for Hitler evidence of some sort of bizarre self-hate that\u2019s come to the fore?\u00a0 Indeed, Ye evokes Hitler\u2019s name like an expression of his own nihilistic desire to blow himself up and take the rest of the world with him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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