Several days ago an anonomous person released an clip from a performance given by Kinky Friedman a little over 26 years ago. The clip has Kinky making a reference to white Houstonians drowning bowling balls at sea under the impression they were nigger eggs. Anybody who’s anybody here in Texas politics is screaming like stuck pigs.
Kinky said the N-Word!!!
Kinky said the N-Word!!!
Kinky said the N-Word!!!
Kinky said the N-Word!!!
Kinky said the N-Word!!!
It would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad. While I agree that Kinky has said things that are at least questionable, this just isn’t one of them. The only people being slammed in that comment were white people. It was white people who said black people were “hatched” not born. It was white people who threw fits that would make a napless two year old who just downed a bag of chocolates look on in sheer awe if black people or things related to black people got anywhere near their lily white arses. And this included drowning bowling balls because they looked like “nigger eggs”.
That’s what Kinky was talking about. Kinky, a white man, was addressing white racism and he was calling white racists dumbasses. But which one of the Bell supporters are talking about that? Hmm? How many have actually responded to Kinky’s statement regarding this? Besides to whine about how he hasn’t apologized for something that was taken completely out of context by them while “attacking” them”?
But, what’s more galling is that black leaders are participating in this stunt. We’re talking about lawyers, doctors and all manner of professionals who damned well know exactly what Kinky was talking about and should know from personal experience that the only time people of colour are of any real importance to the Democratic Party is when the Dems are down in the polls and ‘got nothin’. Sort of what they do with us women, ya know?
Let me put it this way. The going joke about Chris Bell’s campaign is “Chris who?” Now, thanks to this “shocking” discovery - guess which candidate is up in the polls? Well? At least try! Oh, alright. Chris “Who me?!? Of course not!!!” Bell. I bet you a Dr. Pepper that you didn’t see that one coming, eh?
Snarkiness aside, what our black leaders need to be doing, along with every other leader of colour is exposing this fraud for what it is. A shameless ploy to get their boy’s name in the paper in hopes that come election day we’ll think “Bell: Good, Perry: Bad, Granny: Badder, Kinky: Evil Bastard Spawn of Satan”.
Shame on the Democratic Party and shame on any person of colour who is helping them in this.
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Who said “I am going to see non-denominational prayer and the Ten Commandments put back in the schools”?
I meant to include this link in that last post:
Kinky Friedman vs. Church/State Separation
I did not state Kinky was perfect nor non-objectionable. I am aware that he’s made several remarks about prayer in schools and know that he supports what he calls “optional” prayer.
However, the post you are posting these links to is not about Kinky’s stance on C&S issues. It is about the outrage over Kinky’s “nigger egg” comment that has all the markings of a political stunt aimed solely at smearing Kinky as a racist along the lines of David Duke while getting a bit more name recognition for another.
Do you care to address that conclusion or will you go and hunt down something else Kinky said that, to your eyes, is a slam against me and mine?
I mentioned the c-s issues because I read your blog from time to time and I thought those links might interest you.
Here are my thoughts on Kinky’s racially divisive comments.
After months of treating Kinky Friedman as nothing more than a sideshow freak in the three-ring circus that the Texas governor’s race has become, the media have finally begun to explore the inherent flaws in Kinky’s campaign.
True to its nature, the first of many flaws which the media have fixated upon is the more sensational misjudgments (and less policy-oriented errors) represented by the strain of racial tension undercutting Kinky’s campaign efforts.
From Kinky’s last political campaign as a Republican candidate to his current political campaign, Kinky has established a pattern of using racially charged phrases about his on-again-off-again distaste for the “tar baby” of politics, his thoughts on “nigger eggs,” his views on punishment by mumbling “Negroes” in prison, his talk of “fried chicken in the ghetto,” and his plans for the black “thugs and crackheads” in Houston.
Some call this pattern of comments racist, but others call this simply a foolish way for Kinky to guarantee that he won’t win a single minority vote. In either case, it is not without good cause that Kinky has less than half of the minority support that Chris Bell enjoys and less than two-thirds of the minority support for Perry.
While Kinky’s comments about the mumbling Negro prisoners, fried-chicken-eating ghetto dwellers, and black crackheads have already received much media attention recently, his “nigger egg” and “tar baby” comments have not.
Expect these comments from the April 2001 edition of Texas Monthly to surface in the next wave of press questioning Kinky’s wisdom in courting the minority vote in Texas:
For those too young to be familiar with the nature of the term “tar baby,” historian and public schools curriculum advisor Randy Lightfoot explains:
Also, expect to hear more soon about Kinky’s recorded comments from his April 16th, 1980 concert at the Rockefeller Club in Houston, where Kinky joked with his mostly white audience:
Once the media tires of pointing that Kinky hasn’t done much to win the trust of black voters in Texas, it will ultimately see that Kinky is not a better friend of the Native American or the Tejano.
Maybe, just maybe, after all that discussion of Kinky’s propensity to offend minority voters the media will finally consider the fact that Kinky’s absurd proposed political policies present the greatest threat to Texas.