Kinky Friedman has written a piece, in defense of his friend Don Imus, for the New York Post. In the piece he discusses how Imus was absolutely wrong for what he said but that the PC outcry and the firing of Imus were equally as wrong. These are a few of the paragraphs near the end:
Take heart, Imus. You’re merely joining a long and legendary laundry list of individuals who were summarily sacrificed in the name of society’s sanctimonious soul: Socrates, Jesus, Galileo, Joan of Arc, Mozart and Mark Twain, who was decried as a racist until the day he died for using the N-word rather prolifically in “Huckleberry Finn.”
Speaking of which, there will always be plenty of Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons around. There will be plenty of cowardly executives, plenty of fair-weather friends, and plenty of Jehovah’s Bystanders, people who believe in God but just don’t want to get involved. In this crowd, it could be argued that we need a Don Imus just to wake us up once in a while. New York Post
Notice what he says at the end of the first paragraph above, that Twain was decried as a racist until the day he died for using the N-word in one of his books. The next paragraph begins with “speaking of which” there will always be Sharptons and Jacksons around. Exactly which “speaking of which” was he referring to? Is he referring to (or speaking of) the word racist or the N-word in the preceding paragraph? Did he say that Twain was decried as a racist and speaking of which… or did he say for using the N-word and speaking of which…?
It is not clear if he was equating Sharpton and Jackson to the word racist or the N-word. Far be it from me to correct the man, I just wish he would have made it a little clearer. I guess depending upon who you ask, they might be both. I know they are racists, I would not call them the other, but everyone is entitled to an opinion, except white people who say something remotely wrong in the PC world. Then we need a genuine lynch mob led by pretend civil rights leaders in their $500 suits.
I guess Kinky Friedman will be the next person taken to the hanging tree.
