January 25, 2019 “Disparate” and “Pink” are 2 of my favorite words.

January 25, 2019

“Disparate” and “Pink” are 2 of my favorite words.

“Pink”, being one of my favorite colors, and yes, real men do wear pink, means I have many cute and cuddle pink things. I have, inter alia, a V-neck pink cashmere sweater, vintage N. Peal at the Burlington Arcade, over which adult women have savagely fought.

This week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Archbishop Malloy High School and Fordham University, and truly his father’s son, ordered that all public buildings, including the World Trade Center, which I did not know was state property, to be swathed 

and swaddled in nocturnal pink. This was to show solidarity – and please forgive me oh great Polish Pope, now a Saint to many – with the recently passed universal New York state abortion law. That’s the one that allows abortion from before conception to either the briss or the baptism, whichever comes last. Plus, it need not be done by a physician, a nurse, an EMT, or a candy striper. It can be performed by a drum beating Indian stumble bum who did not go to Vietnam, a Black Israelite who doesn’t like finnochios, any community activist in training, or mad cap Congresschick Chiquita Cortez, named for a genocidal Abo killer, who couldn’t find her shapely ass using both her hands. At least Cuomo fils kept the Draconian laws regarding street corner pedicurists and floral arrangers in place. “Untimely ripping babies from their mothers’ wombs”, to cite Shakespeare, will soon be a TV reality show.

A society that sees no difference between shaping the pink to and ending the life of a bit of “straw into which God has breathed” is on the fast track, all high ball green lights, to Avernus. Solzhenitsyn said, after the Great Patriotic War but before he went into the Gulag for 10 years, that “all this happened when man turned away from God”.

Can this be made worse? Indeed, it can and it has.

Rich White people, 1%ers all, countenance the death of 2,000,000 sub-Saharan Black and Brown, and specifically non-White babies each and every year from malaria because they outlawed DDT. [Full disclosure: I saw an infant die of malaria in Mexico in 1963. Its stomach was so distended that it was buried without being able to distinguish its gender. And that was when DDT was legal.] It doesn’t happen in Malibu or Cambridge or where people who shop at Zabar’s live. Maybe Bernie the Bolshie and Senator SummerFallWinterWarren and Congresswoman Chiqjuita Cabeza de Caca are right. If we make the rich poor all those Brown Babies will grow up to be SJWs all. 

Speaking of genocide, as if air-borne diseases weren’t bad enough, since Roe v Wade freed us to commit state sanctioned murder, between 35% and 40% of all abortions in this country have been performed on Black women. Talk about Affirmative Action on steroids! Talk about the Rooney Rule ad absurdum, 1/16^th of the population has participated in 3/8ths to 2/5ths of all the abortions since 1973. And no photo ID was required. 

“Free at last?”

From “pink” to “disparate” and, yes, there is a connection.

When Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote an assenting opinion in Roe v Wade, he went outside the edges of the envelope marked judicial reasoning. He said that Blacks should favor unlimited abortion because, if they escaped the butcher’s scythe, they would have to face the rigors of Black life in America. Which means, ad absurdum, if Planned Parenthood had been around before Fort Sumter was bombed there would have been no need for the 13^th Amendment or my father’s father’s uncle, a member of the Irish Brigade, to have died at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863. And here’s the typical tragic Irish side, did I just repeat myself, he came here from Ballyglass to free the slaves.

“Shoulda, woulda, coulda”, as Mr. Moose, Esq. used to say, “It’s always the same on instant replay.”

Catholic schools

I did not send a check to Marist High School in Bayonne, New Jersey last Christmas. That breaks a streak begun in 1975. The reason was easy. They wished me “Happy Holidays” in their year end message. “Happy Holidays” and from a Catholic school! Not quite blasphemy but surely approaching the pale. 

I suggest, as a reasonable alternative, the following mendicants, for your consideration:

Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters – The Pink Nuns

2212 Green Street

Philadelphia, PA 19130

Whatever they do, they do as Catholics.

Which brings us to the sad, sorry spectacle of Notre Dame University covering the murals of Christopher Columbus. 

When red was introduced as a primary color in the early Renaissance, mitred heads were turned. 

Goya and Picasso shocked with pictures of men dying, not because of their deaths, but because, the action was frozen. Forever. When you opened your eyes, they were killed again. And again.

Catholics were deemed “deplorable” because they objected to “Piss Christ”.

We pooh-poohed the destruction of 2500 year old Buddhas by Taliban WOGs because Western Whites had to cut them some slack. Which is why Mohammed cartoons were verboten. 

DuChamp was criticized because his nudes weren’t nude enough.

And, if we cover Columbus murals becaust they upset American Abos, what should we do about Kateri Tekawitha? Even though she was a bona fide Native American and not an Iron Eyes Cody wanabee, she pissed off the Mohawks, the Iroquois, and even the doomed Mohican before the Catholic Church canonized her. Is there a ritual, hidden deep in the bowels of the Vatican, for uncanonizing a true “Redskin”?

The point is simple. The nexus of art and culture and popular passions is impossibly difficult at best. But when elders “forgo their private conscience for their public duties…they lead us by a short route to chaos.” 

Fling Kelly - bring back defenestration - as violently as possible from the Golden Dome? Si! Cover the Columbus muras?, No! 2 of the most famous South Bend coaches, Rockne & Parseghian, were not Roman Catholics. Maybe there is a Bush Baptist or a Satmar out there who can handle business. Find him. Or maybe her. The rule of de gustibus or ars gratia artis outranks attacking a 2-deep zone.

Before Cuomo fils used a tsunami of pink light to celebrate infanticide Cuomo pere gave a speech in South Bend in 1990 that caused the Trivium to tremble. It should have caused members of at least 3 departments to disembowel themselves in protest. The joint is committed to multi-culturalism and diversity, ain’t it?

Mario the Elder, the Hamlet of the Hudson, solemnly told the graduates that while he personally opposed abortion he had no choice but to uphold it because it was the law of the land. I didn’t ask him if the station master loading the high-ball express to Auschwitz was so bound. I did ask him if would have put Dred Scott’s felonious Black ass on the midnight train to Georgia if he had been caught in Sag Harbor. He never answered. Neither did his son. And Poppy Cuomo still has his degree. And they will cover up Columbus murals because Senator SummerFallWinterWarren has some upset lanschmen? 

“The center cannot hold”

Bedlam awaits

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET