On the decline of the white Christian man.

I was reading an article today about Victoria Jackson suggesting a White History Month.  Something about how the white Christian male is in decline, and that's some kind of bad thing or something.  I don't rightly know; most of my racial relations were taught to me by comedians and actual relating to races, so maybe I'm part of that left-wing hippy-dippy 'one world one people' bullshit.  Or maybe I just believe that if you shit in a toilet or other man-made artifice, we're all pretty much on the same page.

What struck me wasn't so much the article itself or the opinion of the former SNL star turned Tea Partier but my reaction to it.  I didn't feel any twinges of outrage or indignance.  Truth be told, I felt pretty indifferent.  I don't really get up in arms about a lot of things - I recognize that racism is alive and well in today's world, and that it's still a serious problem.  I also know it's way better to be a minority these days than it was in the 70's, so I'm not too worried about the way things are going.  So to the notion that Big Whitey is finally falling down to our level, I suppose my reaction is a shrug and another sip of my coffee.

So they're being vilified in today's media, being made fun of in cartoons and on the interwebs.  I can understand getting mad at that; no one likes to be joked about.  But that comes with the territory of being different, and guess what?  You are different from everyone who isn't you.  You're finally catching your turn after centuries of everyone else catching this shit.  I don't even really need to get into this point particularly deeply; I just have to ask you - what's the most racist joke you know?  See?  Everyone's got one because everyone's caught AND slung shit at one point or another.  You think it was a bowl of olives on the toilet to get called a chink?  That's not even the right slur for my race.

I suppose what I'm getting at is relax, white Christian male.  It's not so bad here in the pool.  You'll still get to vote, same as the rest of us.  You just don't get dibs on the good parking spots anymore.