21 and life retarded
A University of King's College Alumni, and former aquaintance of mine, writes on a fascinating well written 'literati' blogspot blog. There he experiments with tone, emotional phrasing and expounds on his shattered and tortured life by dropping small literary bombs leaving psychological shrapnel the readers soulder, left breast and occasionally in the eye. In person, he justifies his utterance of racial slurs and deep feelings of hatred by hiding behind some slipshod theory of freedom of speech and the rejection of the totalitarianism he sees in political correctness (not a dirty word). I was not without sympathy and was empathetic to his plight for quite some time, giving him distance and keeping my comments (as a person of colour) to myself. That is until I read this post on his blog. Am i to understand that because these views are couched in prose gifted by years of reading and guided by the academy, written by an individual I know to be intelligent, well educated, and obviously quite talented! that they are somehow not horribly venemous, dreafully terrifying (to "queers, Jews and niggers" and yes even visible minorities? In my estimation these are the attitudes of rapists and murderers, of the rapists and child murderers at Auchwitz and those Southern evil bastards who chased 'coons' for sport.I re-print this with a great deal of hesitation and a heavy heart: "Am I racist? Yes. Do I wish I wasn't? Yes. Violence materializes in many forms: pistol whippings are one blatantly obvious one. But can't a "lynching" happen with something so subtle as a sideways glance? Yes. The violence is so widespread. I hate queers, niggers, jews, and Roman Catholics. I HATE them. And so do you. You can't help it.Those of you who don't believe that you are as guilty of hatred as I am are the fullest of hate. You mask your hate. You cover up your true identity. Embrace it instead." Embrace it? I loathe my repression of the beast but I'll die before I 'embrace' him.
btw, my dear peer signs his name using the psuedonym of Paul Blood (an obscure American poet from the 19th c).
Please comment, am I crazy or is this unacceptable.
btw, my dear peer signs his name using the psuedonym of Paul Blood (an obscure American poet from the 19th c).
Please comment, am I crazy or is this unacceptable.

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