@OmSigDAVID,
David - I think I must miss an awful lot of what goes on around here-I've never really seen anything I'd call obscene - yes immature- yes not funny although the people obviously think they're being very funny...cruel...nasty....petty....mean-spirited...rude...yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes...all of that...
But what I remember about Gargamel is that he liked Graham Greene and he has what I consider to be a somewhat eclectic and at times interesting taste in music.
You know- what I decide to consider and remember about CJ is that he obviously loves his family - was proud of his new home (he posted a picture one time).
I know all that other stuff goes on...so what if people are fucked up in some ways and lovely in others - we're all somewhat of a mixed bag - even you and me...
we couldn't be more different - but I think you're intelligent and funny and I give you the right to be whatever else you want to be - as long as it's not hurtful and spiteful to other people.
I don't really care what CJ says about Gargamel - that's not really any of my business anyway - but I do care that he used the term nigger in the context in which he used it - 'an eight year old nigger'. I don't care if he was talking hypothetically about a nonexistent eight year old. The point is - it slid so easily off his keyboard that it seems to me that he'd have no trouble saying something like that to a child in real life - or he'd be thinking it as he viewed an eight year old black child with a spray paint can in his or her hand - and it's detrimental to our society. Period ...I didn't like it...that's all.
I can't meet you on Christmas - change of plans - I'm planning to be in Scotland instead of NY. I'll be in NY around my birthday in the spring though - so maybe we can meet up then.
I thank you for the invite though...
