The Jussie Smollett hoax is an illustration of how blacks believe what they see on television. A few years of watching hysteria about Trump and MAGA people led him to think he’d concocted a plausible scenario. The noose was particularly idiotic, but one must remember that a noose hoax receives prime media attention while the denouement transpires in relative silence.
Their poor reactions to media inputs are a phenomenon we can observe across the spectrum of life. It’s not just limited to punching old ladies in the back of the head and absurd racism fantasies. For example, one would expect to be safe at an event called the “Great Dickens Christmas Fair” where everyone dresses up in Victorian outfits but that would prove erroneous. From the San Francisco Chronicle:
For her first Great Dickens Christmas Fair in 2015, LaToya Tooles fashioned a gown out of dollar-store hula hoops and a tablecloth. A friend had invited her to the annual event, a festive re-creation of 19th century London inspired by the works of Charles Dickens that has been running in San Francisco for nearly 40 years.
If you’re wondering where in the hell someone named LaToya got the idea to engage in a pastime so utterly White, remember that’s not the impression she received from the television. The leading women of England have been black all the way back to Guinevere in the mythical days of King Arthur. The latest to “go black” is Anne Boleyn:
Blacks can’t show up to something nice that Whites are doing without also complaining about racism, making demands, and ruining it. So, of course a group called the “Londoners of the African Diaspora” was organized for the task. Here’s where it gets pretty funny though:
“Every member of LoAD has been called a slave,” says Anastasia Elizondo…She adds that fairgoers’ limited knowledge of Black history can lead to offensive generalizations and assumptions. “One of us has been called Aunt Jemima, another Sally Hemings.”
One hoax indicator would be that the references to black women who had nothing to do with Victorian England. Their names probably came up because the accusers knew they were black women from a long time ago and so was slavery. So, it all gets conflated together without them realizing that a White person who attends these festivals would know the proper context.
“This all relates to a bigger conversation around how people view history,” she said. “The issues we are facing in historical costuming spaces and the backlash to critical race theory — I genuinely think those things are very similar. There are people who just really need their history to be as whitewashed and as comfortable for them as possible.”
Blacks tend to have a rather fluid concept of time, which leads to more than unpunctuality. Many of them don’t seem to understand that history already happened. The past isn’t an immutable element, it’s whatever is being portrayed to them right now:
LoAD members spent weeks researching and crafting a meticulous 53-point plan that addressed developing a standardized method for reporting harassment and discrimination, ensuring increased representation of Black, Indigenous and people of color at the fair, conducting mandatory antidiscrimination training and hiring HR and diversity and inclusion professionals. It also asked that Red Barn discontinue a tradition of portraiture casting, a practice that casts only people with an aesthetic resemblance to a historic character.
They’re pissed that the production company heartily endorsed BLM last year but doesn’t want to give into their demands to turn the festival into something that White people won’t attend. It’s gratifying to watch a company endorse BLM because they think it’s good for business and then have blacks turn around and demand it destroy itself.
The other hilarious thing here is that LoAD is threatening a boycott without understanding that having no black women show up would actually get more people to attend a festival such as this one:
“But that’s our history, though, isn’t it, as Black people in America? People love to say, ‘Look at these amazing Black women. Look what they’ve done’ — until it no longer benefits them. Then they’re gonna push us to the front and let us take the bullets.”
This circles back to blacks believing the television. These women think they’re amazing and inspire awe, when in reality it’s more like “let’s go one exit further down the interstate.”
I’m proud to officially announce my candidacy for the office of Dogcatcher.
The British are so insufferably stupid.