" My younger son Cannon, he is eight.And he now says that he would like to be Black.
I'm not kidding.
He said there's a lot of advantages.
Black is in.
Is this a turning of the tide?"
Larry King has been berated for uttering the above quote.
But it makes sense for an eight year old white kid from an affluent family to think this way.
His Black friends are probably pretty much the same as he.
Same tastes, economic status and experiences.
His favorite music is probably any of the latest songs by a Black artist.
His favorite athlete is probably Black.
His favorite actor is probably Will Smith.
Now the eight year old is seeing a Black POTUS.
It's the same as the results of those studies where young Black children are asked to pick a doll based on color and personality traits.
The good traits are usually associated with the white doll - the bad with the Black.
The images with which the child is inculcated determines their perspective.
To him (Cannon King),
Black is in.
Me thinks it might be time to write a manual entitled: "What Not to Say and How Not to Say it Now that We Have a Black President". Would probably be a best seller and then Larry King (and others) won't have to pull their feet out their mouths.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Larry King should be berated for this at all. And you're right, his kid probably does like popular music by black artists, athletes and Will Smith.
ReplyDeleteWell, who doesn't love Big Willie ;)
I digress... I think this story is great, maybe Mr. Cannon King will marry a fabulous black woman someday ;)
Larry King just found out that it is possible to not be so old that you can say whatever you want. The tide turned awhile ago... the waves have just started to roll in.
ReplyDeleteAfter two terms of Obama in office, every White kid in America age 16 and under will have spent the entire time they were aware of the world around them with a Black man as president. That will not just be normal, but "right" to them.
The world will never be the same.
It may have been wrong for King to repeat it,
ReplyDeletebut it was great that his son would say (and think) it.
I ususally don't share these stypes of stories but...
ReplyDeleteIn college, a state school in a nearly all white state, in the middle of no where, was a dude on basketball scholarship. I didn't know him well, but my girlfriends roomate would always be at home talking about how her "boyfriend" (mr. B-ball) had just borrowed her car. He would do this on a regular basis, to go to a club in the city, go all sorts of places. He always left her home. She was bein played. She was not the only one. She was a good lookin girl.
When I finally saw this guy OUCH!
I'm barely exaggerating when I say he had three noses, a wart on the side of his face the size of a quarter, and a lazy eye.
I promise this guy never got any play back home in Alabama. He got to college and was an instant celebriity.
It is very shallow, it is patronizing, but sure black is cool and has been for a little while now, not just since Barack.
@ brohammas - Yea... but Obama adds another dynamic.
ReplyDeleteEducated Blacks haven't been seen as cool (The Black CEOs, or former CEOs of Aetna, Sears, American Express and Time Warner were not seen as cool).
Being a Black entertainer, athlete, and celeb (Obama) is cool. Being an everyday Black man is not.
ReplyDeletePop culture is already, for all intents and purposes, Black or urban. All the kids on MTV already think they're Black (if you listen to the scripts on those reality shows, mannerisms, phrases they use, etc.), but I'm pretty sure if you asked them if they wanted to change ethnicity, in terms of skin color, most would not.
They stole the soul, but they don't really want the color.
Not to mention the anti-White brainwashing the poor kid is exposed to in school, doing nothing but telling him how evil his race has been, how guilty he should feel. I felt the same way growing up, until I began to be exposed to the facts of life and history.
ReplyDeleteYou want me to feel guilty for slavery? Ok, but first you have to give me a THANK YOU note for freeing your ungrateful ass!
Hmmm, how come Whites get all the guilt for slavery, but none of the thanks for ENDING IT???
Hypocrisy and double standards, all slanted against the White Man. Who is against that? Only us racists, I guess.