Posted by
Doctor Demex on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:24:39 PM
As if there aren't enough serious issues for Congress to consider, now comes the latest effort to pander to the basest (yet baseless) fears of Americans of African descent: to enact a federal ban on nooses. Not a ban on lynchings, mind you, which are properly against state law and have not been a problem for a century, but a ban on tying a particular type of knot.
This is a perfect issue for cynical white leftists, who, one would think, had already demonized the Boy Scouts enough for referencing "traditional" moral principles. Now perhaps they can continue to erode any useful purpose the Scouts have by outlawing one knot at a time, starting with the noose.
The next step will be to try to outlaw as racist the knot used to tie shoes. After all, it's pretty much strictly urban Blacks who wear $200 basketball shoes without tying them. Is that to make them easier to steal so an impatient thief doesn't shoot first? Or is it just that tying one's shoes is "acting white" in hip-hop circles?
When people claiming to be "leaders" of a particular "community" endorse such silliness, it does no one any good, least of all the community victimized by such leaders.