January 13, 2019 Leonard Pitts, Jt. The Miami Herald lpitts@miamiherald.com RE: “The right-wing has gotten panicky and petty. It’s pathetic, isn’t it?” Some comments on your surprising column in today’s Miami Herald.

January 13, 2019

Leonard Pitts, Jt.

The Miami Herald

lpitts@miamiherald.com

RE: “The right-wing has gotten panicky and petty. It’s pathetic, isn’t it?” Some comments on your surprising column in today’s Miami Herald.

Mr. Pitts, 

Why “surprising”?

Because it is the first time in this century, and as far as I can tell, the last century also, that your one size fits all answer of – Surprise! – White racism – as if there could be any other kind – for low inner-city reading scores, the heartbreak of psoriasis, and the extremely low percentage of non-drug dealing 1%ers in Opa-Locka, Watts, and East New York. Is not central to your thesis.  Couple that with the absence of Black quantum physicists and that is all the prof that I need that the inherent racism of Wilson, Garner, Barkley, Sparkman, Russell, Ervin, and Gore still lives.

And yes, I know that you won a Pulitzer Prize but so did Walter Duranty and Janet Cooke. Besides, it was “time”, wasn’t it?

Anyway, speaking of “panicky, pathetic pettiness”, can we not stipulate that whatever Alexandria Cortez Ocasio – I like calling her Chiquita – is – and I find it unintentionally ironic that no one other than me has yet to comment that she is named after one of History’s great practitioners of genocide, by virtue of empirically self-evident stuff and all White privilege DWEM stuff that that implies is that she is not now, nor could she ever be a ‘motherfucker”? Also, after justifiably criticizing Senator Joseph Lieberman of being an old White Jew Democratic politician there is no photographic evidence of her walking around carrying his severed head. That alone will disqualify her from being labeled a “miserable cunt”. 

That she is a moron of Homeric, Herculean stature, there can be no doubt. Soon, she shall exceed Brobdanaglian proportions. She is Joyce-like in that she will stretch the envelope of language to catch up with her public displays of shitheadedness. 

I want her out front every night in time for the 6:00 news. I want her hectoring the nation on why the Electoral College should be tuition-free, on why Roe v Wade must be protected because that’s how most Mexicans get onto this country. May her tribe increase!

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS – I wonder if you, as the chief dispenser of Black indulgences to properly contrite White people, could grant me a fungible, tradeable, carry forward tax loss? My father’s father had 2 uncles who came from Ballyglass, Galway, Ireland to the United States in 1863 to fight slavery. They both joined the New York 69^th Infantry, The Irish Brigade, “The Fighting 69^th.

They found themselves at the eastern edge of the Wheat Field at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863. It is easily recognizable because there is a statue there of an Irish wolf hound in repose at the base of a Celtic Cross. The inscription is, at once, irenic and fierce. “Gentle when stroked; fierce when provoked”.

One of them is still there, “wrapped in his faded coat of Blue”.

Even using the less than sharp angles of Affirmative Action that is worth something, isn’t it?

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