They are everywhere. I suppose we have always known this. It's not like racism died in this country - no one with a brain ever thought that - it was simply pushed further into its sewery lair by society.
But when Trump oozed down his faux gold escalator, beginning what has been a nonstop litany of racial slurs, targeting, discrimination, and horrific Tweets - the sewer grate was pushed aside as racists everywhere vomited forth, yearning to spew their hatred, ignorance, and vile thoughts like human manure spreaders.
Daily we see these disgusting creatures further emboldened by Trump, caught yet again on someone's cell phone camera, calling 911 on people walking or standing while black, berating someone speaking Spanish in the grocery store, hurling their Tangerine Taint's new favorite "Go back where yo came from" at anyone with skin darker than their own.
It is sickening. It is painful to watch, and I cannot imagine being the one directly in the line of these cretins' verbal fire.
The latest example of emboldened racism comes to us from Raleigh, North Carolina, courtesy of this gem, Nancy Goodman. And of course she's a gem, a sparkly little diamond even. After all, she's WHITE. She must be better, purer, more worthy of consideration, right?
Well, at least in her world.
Sorry, Granny Goodman, I have four words for you - YOU ARE HOT GARBAGE.
Last night, at the Bonefish Grill, Chanda Stewart, Lakesha Shaw, and another pal were enjoying dinner and their friendship. Talking, laughing, having a good time. Seems innocent enough, right?
Wait, not so fast! Sheriff Nancy was on the case to shut them down for revelry while black. Nancy took it upon herself to tell them they were rude and too loud.
"We’ve had people come to our table and say, 'Hey, you girls look like you’re having fun. We want to join you,' but never to come to my table and tell me I’m rude," said LaKesha.
Ms Shaw, I totally get it. When I am out with friends or family, we routinely have people come by and comment exactly like that. Waiters and waitresses joke about wanting to join us. Total strangers buy us drinks. We are fun, funny, and yes, upon occasion, stray into a decibel we need to pull back from immediately.
As the encounter appeared to be escalating, Chanda pulled out her cell phone to begin recording.
In the video, she tells Nancy, "We're paying for our food just like everyone else, and she told us that we are the rudest people."
Nancy, pulled out her camera and said "I've got real good friends who are black, and I love them."
Um, Nancy, no one said anything about color. Until YOU DID.
Poor Nancy, realizing she had stepped in a pile of shit of her own making, then spat, "Why are you so stupid <insert racists' favorite N word>?"
Nancy then oozed out of the restaurant.
As for the ladies? Sadly, although they know by now they shouldn't be, they are still shocked by the encounter.
"[I'm] still trying to wrap my head around it all," Stewart said. "It’s disheartening, it is. But this is the society that we’re living in right now."
"I don’t care how you feel like we should have been acting," Shaw said. "If I was standing on the table with three heads in a purple jumpsuit, nothing justifies you to come to my table and call me a stupid (racial slur)."
THIS.
Every goddamned word.
Nancy could have spoken to a manager. Nancy could have politely asked them to be quieter. Nancy could have just kept her gob shut and left. But no, Nancy, emboldened by the Racist In Chief, went straight for the emotional jugular.
When the local news caught up with her at home, was she remorseful, had she reflected on her own behavior and feeling bad about what she had said? Did she wish she could face the women and take it back?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
"I’m not going to say I’m sorry to them because they kept pushing at it," she said. "I would say it again to them. They are the rudest individuals I have ever seen."
I WOULD SAY IT AGAIN. And THEY are the rudest individuals? Hypocrite, party of one, your table is ready.
"I have many black friends, and I have never encountered three people that ugly in a bar," she said. "I wish those women well, and maybe there’s a lesson learned for them, too, that you don’t disrespect an elderly person."
Whoa, Nancy. Back your scooter the fuck up.
Having black friends is the oldest racist defense in the book, and they are not your get out of jail free card when you act out. Your age does not grant you some magical immunity. Not having died yet is not some contest in which the prize is getting to hurl slurs at anyone in your path. And it sure as shit does not acquit you from the consequences of your own actions.
Nancy, again not apologizing to the women, took to her Facebook page to apologize to her friends and family because the news had tracked her down and she was going to be outed as the racist garbage bin she is. THAT is what she is sorry about. Not about hurting other human beings. She is just another racist who got caught being what she is. She is only ashamed she got caught.
Racism is vile. It just is. The notion that your skin color makes you better? I will never understand that if I live to be a thousand. My skin is pale because I am the product of two other pale people who f**ked. Nothing more glorious than that. And again, I am sickened seeing it in action. Watching others take glee in emotionally stabbing someone? So ugly, so wrong. But as these creatures keep outing themselves, I hope they continue to be caught on tape and have their disgusting faces shared everywhere. It won't change them or the dumpster fire (Trumpster fire?) of their souls, but it may begin pushing them back into the sewer from which they crawled as they realize not even Trump can save them from wearing a scarlet R in their communities. As they say, sunlight is a great disinfectant. Plus, it lets us know who around us needs avoided like a plague infested rat.
As for Mrs. Goodman? Here's a thought, Nancy - if you don't want to be all over social media, think twice and speak once, maybe sometimes don't speak at all. Your whiteness is not some cloaking device that protects you from being filmed. Your age obviously doesn't grant you wisdom enough to keep your piehole shut. And your choice of slur pretty much insures your ugly ass will be spread around like butter on a hot Paula Dean biscuit.
What happened was YOUR choice. You started it. You ramped it up (and do not hide behind your anxiety - countless people deal with anxiety and are not racist assholes). And you called them the N word. And doubling down on the word on TV? Well, you're just not too smart, are you? Enjoy your notoriety though. You've earned it.
Oh, and as they say in your neck of the woods, Bless your heart.
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