Royalty has always been more about the illusion that those born into the Regal Family are inherently better, more refined folk than those in the “kingdom proper” than it has ever been about the basic truth of the matter. What has never materialized in the psyche of modern man is the fact that this notion is and always has been utter frapdoodle, for lack of a better term. Perhaps the individual mind has always known this to be true at some sub-conscious level, but the collective consciousness of society as a whole has been so completely confounded by the ever-increasing bombardment of images and so-called information that right about the apex of realization, we were turned about and steered back towards believing once again in our own inferiority. Don’t be fooled, this has been a concerted effort.
It was a crucial tool in the persecution of the Duke LaCrosse players. One woman of “common” fare was, for one brief, shining moment, a Queen. She was a cause to be championed and there was no deficit in the pool of the willing and eager to seize the ring. The scrum amongst celebrity protectors of the oppressed has been brutal, and the wanton deceit of their intentions embarrassing, to say the least.
The underlying meaning of the case, if not previously so, should now be adundantly clear. But the timing could not be better for the exoneration of these young men, for it coincides with the furor over the Don Imus-Rutgers Women’s Basketball Team flap. The conflict of interest and selective outrage could not be better bared for our examination if we had all paid a lofty tuition expense for the education we are now receiving, however bitter the lesson might be.
Not only are we being treated to the revelations of past mis-deeds of supposed “black leaders”, but we are witnessing what I believe to be the fracturing of the foundation on which these leaders have exploited those they have pretended to “protect” for all of these decades. Not only that, but there are many who have begun to emerge from under that umbrella and they are righteously indignant, and they are vociferous about the experience. Hallelujah…to a point. They are bearing a burden which I pray they can bear.
There is a cottage industry in the “protection of minorities” and the black leaders have become wealthy as the (pardon the pun) “white knights” and the arbiters of what is right and what is wrong regarding the masses they shepherd, but increasingly the “herd” is rebelling and the power has begun to be sapped from the leaders. What it means is that those emerging from the shelter are joining society as equals and shedding the mantle of victim, despite the fact that they are now targets for victimization from members of the same “race”, a word I am loathe to use, which is why I surround it with quotation marks.
I must question the intent of Dr. King’s Dream and whether he ever envisioned that it would be used to bring about the demise of Duke. I have serious doubts, but what do I know? I’m white, and at least for the time being, I am automatically excluded from being a member of a society who can actually see with clarity an end to racism.
Go figure.
-Woody
