Well, I debated on bringing this up, but for some reason, I will find my thoughts drifting towards a certain person, whether celebrity or someone known to me personally, then I will later discover that the person died that day, or in the very recent past. Just something I've always noticed. Whether supernatural, or just the product of the fertile and quick mind of a guy who's seen everything, read everything, done pretty much everything, and been pretty much everywhere, no way to say. But here goes:
Yesterday morning, I was in Walmart, doing some very ordinary grocery shopping, and behind me I heard the dulcet tones of someone singing soul, rhythm and blues, or whatever it was. I turned around and it was a young black guy with a huge backpack (evidently homeless, people don't carry huge backpacks into Walmart). I thought "oh, how sweet, he's celebrating his gift of blackness". All well and good, and he did have a very nice voice. I then reflected on whether my tax money was going to fund some kind of government assistance he might be receiving --- for all I know, he might be heir to a fortune and lives out of his backpack as a lifestyle choice, that's no crime, that's no sin. But I thought, okay, you celebrate your blackness, I'll celebrate my whiteness, sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander, or as GGL said in Will, "you want race? --- I'll give you race!". I then proceeded to sing, in a soft, barely audible voice, the patriotic German lied that GGL sang as he walked through the prison block. Just blowing off some steam as a member of the only group in America that it's still considered OK to hate.
Don't take my comments as anything hateful towards the noble African race (whatever deficiencies they may have, they can't help, they didn't ask to be born with lower IQs), nor as any sympathy whatsoever for the NSDAP. I played this for my son the other day, and he was horrified, as he recognized it from one of his military-fantasy video games. He is a big WWII buff, so much so, in fact, that we paused our study of medieval Christendom (the TAN Civilization series) this quarter to study more contemporary history topics such as WWII.