Gone Crazy

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/9/29/151249/607

Gone Crazy

by BooMan
Wed Sep 29th, 2010 at 03:12:49 PM EST


Yeah, I noticed that a lot of us have gone crazy, too.

As with other forms of dementia, the signs weren't obvious at first. After the 2008 election, when former House majority leader Tom DeLay suggested that instead of a formal inauguration, Barack Obama should "have a nice little chicken dinner, and we'll save the $125 million," black folks didn't miss the implication. References to chicken, particularly of the fried variety, have long served as a kind of code when white folks referred to black people and their gustatory preferences—and weren't many of us already accustomed to older white politicians making such gaffes? But who among us sensed that it was a harbinger that an entire nation was plunging into madness?

Mainly, people are just unusually unhappy. But whatever the causes may be, we haven't seen this kind of crazy in my lifetime. I don't think we've seen it in centuries.

Are things ever going to be normal again? Are we ever going to be able to have a semi-honest political debate again? Or, is this it? We've lost our shit, and there is no going back.

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White America Has Lost Its Mind

Article at link~
http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-09-29/news/white-america-has-lost-its-mind/

[Whisp]

1. the hard truth. k&R

''What was going on? Had decades of sucking down so much high-fructose corn syrup not only made Americans incredibly obese, but also messed with white brain chemistry to the point that some sort of tipping point had occurred?

Not a bad theory, but no, there's a simpler explanation, with two parts: For the first time in their lives, baby boomers are hard up against it economically, and white boy is becoming outnumbered and it's got his bowels chilled with fear.

"In an age of diminished resources, the United States may be heading for an intensifying confrontation between the gray and the brown," writes Ronald Brownstein in his July National Journal article, "The Gray and the Brown: The Generational Mismatch." That's a polite and understated way of saying that older white folks are losing their shit as they're being replaced by young brown and black kids while the economy is in the crapper.'''