Double Standards and Political Correctness

My old friend No-Neck (yes- he has no neck) sent me three links last night, and the information is worth noting.

The first reports how Karen Edmonson, the Yonkers, New York president of the NAACP, is refusing to apologize for, "...angrily calling City Council Majority Leader Liam McLaughlin a "leprechaun" at the close of a public meeting Tuesday night." Now, this man stands 5'10", which hardly rates him as a leprechaun, and Miss Edmonson had this to say about calling him a leprechaun:

"It's a Halloween term. It's nothing,"

Now, we at the Whose Paranoid household know a bit about Halloween, particularly since Mr. and Mrs. Paranoid were wedded on Halloween (to piss of the evil nun- but that is another story) and we have never, ever, put out a leprechaun for any sort of Halloween display. Moreover, and in all honesty, we have never even put one out for a St. Patrick's Day celebration.

Methinks that Miss Edmonson is trying to use a double standard, but then again, this chapter of the NAACP, is not immune to small or large scandals, as Miss Edmonson has only been president for roughly six months, and her arguments seem to always revolve around money.

The second is about the Young Conservatives of Texas, whom are calling a Junteenth dinner celebration a double standard, as they see that the meals served at the Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches on June 18th as, well, hypocritical and had this to say:

"We are against double standards," said Lori Fryman, events director of the Stephen F. Austin chapter of YCT. "If a predominantly white group had advertised the menu of fried chicken, watermelon and red soda water for the same occasion, people would have called them racist."

Red-Pop, fried chicken and watermelon sounds like a tasty meal to me, maybe Lori and the other folks are angry that they missed their free meal, as Eva Pack said: "We ran out of food, and no one was offended."

The last link truly describes political correctness run amok.

An historical tablet, that was left for posterity has had a cloth covering placed upon it to hide these words:

"Mary, adopted by an Indian, was named Walahowey. She married a savage, and became one."

The covering reads:

"She married a Kanien'kehaka and adopted the culture, customs and language of her new community in Kahnawake."

This is just asinine. We are now supposed to feel so sorrowful that they wrote that Mary married a savage? And that, Native Americans "hunted, fished, and raised their families with a great understanding and respect for the land", is a truer statement than the lived in tents, hunted with primitive weapons, had no real steel until the white man brought it, and their understanding of medicine was extremely crude- if not laughable?

Point of history dear readers, the Indians had great skills and an inherent understanding of the untamed lands about them, because their level of knowledge was simply a very basic level that served them daily in the World they built. Not that it was not honed to a keen edge, but basic, and when the white man came, his knowledge, skills, and tools were on levels that were leaps and bounds beyond the Indians, as everyone knows- very different in nature yes, but still leaps and bounds beyond that, and which allowed them to overtake and overcome the resistance provided by the many disparate and warring tribes of the then, North American continent.

--WP