This is a highly opinionated, highly controversial post with satire, philosophy and predictions all built in. Read with discernment. If you don’t know what discernment is… don’t read this, please.
It turns out that being white, and being on Sesame Street no longer go together. When I watch television (with oh, so much regularity) the last thing on my mind is race or color unless the script/actor/marketer makes it a part of the show. For example, having Snoop Dogg do something automatically plays the race card because he’s been ‘pimping’ hard gangsta life for so long. But when you put Denzel Washington doing something, or Samuel L. Jackson doing something I don’t automatically switch to racial profiler mode. Nor do I freak out when I see Asians, Latinos or Jews doing something. Unfortunately on Sesame Street they’re so concerned for “minorities” to be represented that they’ve made non-minorities the minority*.
What this does is breed the problem. It is part of the postmodern America that we are becoming. Postmodernism says that I can’t understand you, and you can’t understand me, because we’re different. Different people can’t relate. However, it also says that I should strive to understand you, as long as I understand that I won’t fully understand you. So I get mixed messages, mixed cultures, and mixed chex, but I can’t understand any of them. Which is OK, because I’m pretty sure that you can’t understand me either.
At least we’ll all be ignorant, confused, and in the dark ages together. This time we won’t be under the religion of Rome, we’ll be under the religion of the universities, the government propoganda and the media. What’s ironic is that in a couple hundred years people could say, “The second dark ages were caused by ignorant people who were tribalistic. Ironically it was started by a group of people trying to end tribalism.” But then the students will all be bigotted towards the New Yorkers or the Los Angelinos or the Denverites. Or worse yet, Texas will have finished its conquest over North America and we’ll all be Texans changing our ‘All.’
And the children will watch Sesame Street and learn about Co-operation in a bar where more than one redneck has a weapon.
* I find the term minority to be offensive because it puts an emphasis on people that is unfair. Instead of being a person, the person is a sub-classified person. While that makes sense for a sensus or demographic marketing research for racial profiling in a capitalistic environment, it really, really ticks me off that we have to focus on this stuff over and over again.
