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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: Leonard Pitts Is an N-Word Leonard Pitts Is an N-Word Leonard Pitts is a columnist for the Miami Herald who recently won a Pulitizer Prize for being an n-word. Of course what his newspaper says he won it for was 'commentary', but anybody who believes that statement would be more than happy to purchase a bridge in Brooklyn. Now Mistah Pitts, in a recent effort to commentate (see http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/7054701/14720681.htm ), analyzes the trial of a white man -- a mobster type, in case the reader should think it relevant -- who was indicted for beating an n-word with a baseball bat because the n-word was trying to steal cars. What Mistah Pitts focuses on is the fact that the white guy used appropriate angry terminology (the n-word) as he pummeled the n-word, thereby apparently turning the crime into one of racial hate. This, however, strikes me as bizarre. Here we have an n-word trying to steal cars, and a white guy comes up and stops a criminal act. Granted, he has to use force -- n-words are not known to be overly appreciative of such white niceties as 'the law' -- but it seems to me that the white guy should be regarded as a HERO, not a criminal who might have hurt the po' l'il nigga boyz' feelins. (Did I say 'nigga'? Geez -- is that an n-word?) Sure, the white guy's a mobbie, but we aren't concerned with that behavior in the present context. No, instead, Mistah Pitts focuses on the argument, made by the white guy's lawyer, that the n-word is not really a racial epithet, but in fact is just a word that "is used all the time in rap music and among young people as a friendly greeting." The word has changed from being a racial epithet, the lawyer said. Now this, I think most would agree, is a rather thin argument; but the problem here is that the matter of race hate should come up at all. Is it a crime to hate? (No -- not yet, anyway.) Is it a crime to express that hate? Well, in a society which claims it has a First Amendment that protects free speech, it shouldn't be. But it is. And such laws make hate a thought crime, just like in George Orwell's 1984, as I was one of the first to point out several years ago when hate crime legislation was first adopted. We say 'It couldn't happen here' -- but it did. Thoughtcrime! Not an 'act crime'! And what is more, hate isn't even VOLUNTARY, whereas the law -- in theory at least -- is only supposed to punish voluntary acts. So what will the law punish next? Epilepsy? Stuttering? Premature ejaculation? But let's look at the matter from a human perspective. Here we have a white guy who sees an n-word doing something that n-words do all the time. They do it so often, in fact, that several years ago I proposed that car manufacturers put a recording in cars which goes off, like an alarm, when somebody tries to steal them -- a recording that warns off the potential thief in the language he can understand: N-word English. But getting back to the situation, like I said, we have a white guy seeing an n-word behaving like an n-word, and not only is the white guy offended by the lawbreaking, but -- not being retarded, like so many n-words are -- he can see a pattern in this behavior -- a pattern generally known as 'behaving like an n-word'. And -- being human -- he draws the obvious conclusion: "If I never saw another n-word, I would be DELIGHTED!" In fact, being human, he probably gets as mad as hell, and feels like he doesn't want to take it any more, because he is so goddamned tired of seeing n-words behaving like n-words, and would really like to give this particular one a lesson -- a lesson that the n-word in question really needs to learn -- namely, 'Thou shalt not steal'. Now as we all know, that particular lesson has been held by some to be illegal itself, particularly in a courtroom, but even so, most people would probably admit that it is a good lesson, and that everybody should learn it, preferably on their mother's knee, and if not that, then over their father's. So again, speaking in purely human terms, we have the white guy who becomes pissed at the n-word for good reason, and who gives him a lesson that everyone agrees is a good one, and in the process stops the n-word from doing what most people, including n-words in their more enlightened moments, would agree is bad. So in my book, the white guy is a hero. But Mistah Pitts not only avoids this very obvious conclusion, but focuses on the fact that the white guy just might be a (gasp!) RACIST!!!! Or, in other words, Mistah Pitts focuses on the fact that the man is guilty of a thoughtcrime, which is not a crime by any reasonable measure, but only in the world of 1984. A crime which comes about as a result of making a generalization that anyone who is not a retard would make. And a crime which, on top of all this, is merely an act of letting off steam, like yelling for one's favorite n-word basketball star, as I am sure Mistah Pitts has done. Is letting off steam a crime? Apparently it is now. But the thing that really grabs me about the whole situation is that the attitude of Mistah Pitts and the liberals and loser-lovers who created the hate crime laws, makes me want to take the lot of them, along with the entire population of n-words, and give them a lesson with a baseball bat just like the white guy did. Unless, of course, they all agreed to go back to Wonderful Africa and practice their n-wordy behavior on their wonderful n-wordy relatives, who don't have cars because societies where people act like n-words simply don't produce such things.
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