COMMENT ON ANTONIO FINI'S COMMENT | 2005-03-29
First, I like that pseudonym. It reminds me of one of Bob Twain's quips on David Duke's program. He referred to illegal aliens as "Jose and Jos-B."
Second, Antonio's comment reminds me of a source I have of how people really think: a comment on a sitcom.
It was on the show "Good Times" about a black family in the ghetto. Their son was living with a white girl, and her Yuppie parents came over to see them. The parents of the white girl were all for it.
The show's star, the mother of the black boy, said her son and their daughter weren't married and were living together and she didn't like that.
They said that was OK by them.
She said her son couldn't support their daughter.
They said that was OK.
The black mother finally burst out and said, "You don't care if he's black. You don't care if they're married. You don't care if he can't support her. What DO you care about?"
The answer was, of course, that the girl's parents didn't care about anything but their Fashionable Opinion that interracial relations were good, that poor people were virtuous, and that they had broken free of all conventional, normal feelings.
Florida didn't want her boy around people like that and she didn't want to be patronized.
Nobody respects a white girl who is out with a black guy.
And everybody knows what kind of moral vacuum she came from.