White Gods? (American Revelation XI, Part Two.)

 Every one of the thousands at the airport, about to leave for Jeddah, was dressed this way. You could be a king or a peasant and no one would know. Some powerful personages, who were discreetly pointed out to me, had on the same thing I had on. Once thus dressed, we all had begun calling out "Labbayka! (Allahumma) Labbayka!" (Here I come, O Lord!) Packed in the plane were white, black, brown, red, and yellow people, blue eyes and blond hair, and my kinky red hair -- all together, brothers! All honoring the same God, all in turn giving equal honor to each other.

That is when I first began to reappraise the "white man." It was when I first began to perceive that "white man," as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. 

In America, "white man" meant specific attitudes and actions toward the black man, and toward all other non-white men. But in the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That morning was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about "white" men. 

~Malcolm X, letter written following the Hajj.

I saw this yesterday.

Just some nut threatening to kill LGBT people and demanding that other people follow the "White God of Christianity."

Here's a pro-tip from somebody with a church background from way back; The Word don't say that God has a color. The Word don't say that Jesus was 'White' either. 

And pretty much everything we know about the place and time in which Jesus allegedly walked the Earth suggests that for Him to be who and what the Scriptures said he was, in the context of the time...the only "White" people around were some of the Romans (Biologically, that is. Whiteness, in a modern sense, wasn't a concept yet.) Jesus was a brown, Middle-Eastern Jew.

And if you take a dive into the Gnostic beliefs and some of that more fringe 'stuff' that I read years ago...Well, there's a non-zero chance that his female companion, Mary Magdalene, was a Black Ethiopian Jew. 

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, asshole.

I'm frankly tired of this belief that White people are somehow superior and the source of all that is good in the world, it's horseshit, it's demonstrably not true, and I say that as a white dude.

If you have to sacralize your skin color, which is one thing you personally had nothing to do with about yourself in order to feel good...my suggestion is that maybe you should go out and actually accomplish something instead of sitting there jerking off and making stupid videos of yourself harassing the employees in various places.

Or, ya know, get a job.

Likewise, as far as I'm concerned if you have time to spend worrying about aliens and/or conspiracy theories...you have way in the hell too much time on your hands and need to do something with your life.

And if you think these morons freak out about Black people or the transgendered, wait until we know for sure that there's such a thing as aliens or cyborgs or something. You watch, it'll take a matter of minutes for some nut to start worrying about Alien DNA or whatever.

Yet, strangely enough, same fucking people who freak out about Aliens, black people, transgender people and anything whatever of a sexual nature are absolutely fine with the idea that Donald Trump might've had sex with...whatever that thing is. 

Whether it's Plastic Woman, some alien of the Terminator Honeytrap 9000 I don't know but when you got so much plastic in you that bullets could bounce off your face...there's something wrong with this picture.

And more to the point all these far-right weirdos that have to freak out about anything and everything outside of their own narrow clade are...perfectly fine with this artificial, contrived, noting is real, shopping mall at Christmastime meme-Trump aesthetic in all of its obnoxious fakery.

Same people are perfectly fine with Putin's newly re-Sovietized Russia trying to wipe out Ukrainians and destroy even the idea of their nation because Power, or something. Likewise Okay with the whole Russian/Soviet idea of just moving people groups around and trying to socially engineer things a certain way for no better reason that imperial aspirations and showing off the power of the State.

And then these fucking people, who spent most of my early life hating Communism with the raging fire of ten thousand splendid suns are both #1 Mad that the Communists are losing (while denying the armies literally flying the Hammer And Sickle are Communist) and #2 Trying to accuse everybody they don't like of being "Communist."

Like...Wut? Make it make sense, I can't.

I'm not sure what that is, but I know there's nothing 'conservative' about it.

In fact...all this unnatural contrived Me-and-my-group-first goat-fucker bullshit is what these people think life is supposed to be, or something.

Until they end up on the wrong side of it, anyway, and yet even then as long as the people doing it to them spout some kind of vaguely right-wing talking points there'll be at least some of these idiots who think that whatever it is is necessary "for the greater good."

Because the cruelty, hate obnoxious showmanship, racism and stupidity are the goddamn point. And they believe in this garbage so much that they really don't care if it also kills them.

See Also: Pence, Michael.

These people believe in God so much that they want to BE Him.

But the thing is, this is America and you ain't gotta be like that.

And nobody's God gets a vote, no matter what color they might claim it to be.

You want to know why these fucking people hate America so much? 

Start right there.

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There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix — a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Generation Of Swine.