- Posted by Christopher Estep on April 9, 2008
Political correctness has done more to damage race relations than the KKK ever did. It has created a climate where people cannot deal with real feelings and real issues by fostering false offense. It has elevated mere words to the level of actual deeds and the result not only prevents any real, honest debate but more importantly leads to the violation of our 1st Amendment rights.
Imagine you have a house with a young tree in the front yard. You notice that the neighborhood kids are climbing on this tree, its branches straining to hold their weight. You rush out there to get the children out of the tree and a discussion ensues with their parents. You explain to them that you didn't buy that tree to let kids climb on it like monkeys.
Nice picture, huh? It's a real monkey, climbing a tree. When you think of a monkey, is that what you think of? That's exactly what I think of. Unfortunately, that's not what the liberal victim-class thinks. When you say "monkey climbing a tree" they think of this:
[Property owner Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski] said the parents were outside supervising the children, but she went over and told them to get out of the tree because she was concerned about the boys' safety and because the small magnolia tree was being damaged.
The father of one of the boys told her it was none of her business, she told the Chicago Tribune, and "I calmly said the tree is not there for them to be climbing in there like monkeys."
Forget for a moment that one of these fathers had the gall to tell her that the boys' safety (and hence her own liability) and her own tree in her own yard wasn't her business. Did she call them anything? No. Did she say anything derogatory about them? No. She said, "like monkeys", not that they were monkeys. And why did she make that comparison? Well, see the first picture. Monkeys climb trees, duh!
Any reasonable person (and certainly any conservative) would have respected her property rights and taken their kids home. They would have no problem with the comparison to monkeys, because they were in fact, in a tree ... just like monkeys. In fact, they probably have called their children monkeys themselves, because most parents do that when their kids are climbing all over everything. Why? Well, because (again) monkeys do climb trees. Ah, but I said reasonable person. These are liberal victims we're talking about:
The mother of one boy called police.
Cmdr. Michael Kilbourne said Tuesday a ticket was issued because the ordinance bans conduct that disturbs or alarms people. One of the boys told police he was scared by her comment and a mother said she was disturbed, he said.
That's right, she called the police. Even if the property own had meant it as a slur, who calls the cops when their kids get called a name?!
But it wasn't a slur, it was an apt comparison. Kids climbing trees are like monkeys. To a liberal black person everything, no matter how small or innocent, must be about race and it must be oppressing them somehow.
What is even more ridiculous is that the cops didn't just say, "oh shut up!" and leave. How can there be a law preventing conduct that disturbs or alarms? That's unconstitutional. I could put up the most offensive sign in my yard and as long as it doesn't violate any zoning laws, there's not a thing anyone can do about it (except my landlord, of course).
This kind of thing makes me want to go to that town carrying signs saying, "if your kids climb trees, they are acting like monkeys even if they are black" and dare them to cite me!
The upshot is that Barack Obamakova tossed the woman under the bus because she was also his delegate and she was forced to resign.
Way to go, Barry!