You betcha.........and right back to ya !!

So true down here in the heart of Bama.

Thanks for this insight. (I've been away 4 days).

Some BLM sympathizer probably made it all up just to be noticed.

Why I am concealed carry. I'm not not going to look for trouble by attending any stupid protest. But should any young men try to put their hands on this limping along 70-year-old for any reason, they shall receive a 9mm shock of their bullying lives.

"Don't bother to examine a folly -- ask yourself only what it accomplishes." https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

Yes. Yes it was.

The root of political correctness (which is the term created to describe such behavior), which we have allowed to infest our society and justifies this type of silly behavior.

Yet nowhere in the press reports, even in the those sympathetic to the hysteria, do we see a description of exactly how "bananas" are believed to "demean blacks" or how that would justify the hysterical reaction to the banana peel that missed the trash can. This is more fundamental than even the race obsession -- emotions driving their behavior without even a pretense of rationality are regarded as the standard. You are to somehow anticipate and avoid emotionally 'offending' the privileged 'protected classes', which by their standards is impossible. And when you inevitably do, you must bow and scrape with apologies, which are not accepted and not to be expected to be accepted. Facts and reason don't matter. All you can do is shut up and say and do nothing in the 'self censorship' of dhimmitude towards the 'protected classes' of 'ethnic' emotionalists.

Laughing at them is regarded by antiba as a more insidious hate crime than the original pin the banana peel on a tree "racism". Their emotions are all that are allowed to matter.

"Don't bother to examine a folly -- ask yourself only what it accomplishes." The significance isn't the banana or whatever they imagined it to symbolize or the juvenile hysteria over it. The university officials are joining in the hysteria and pandering to it, just as they did at Middlebury College and the sites of many other student riots. What they have "accomplished" is the supremacy of emotional anti-reason as the standard, and that is what is happening to America and western civilization.

I will have to add to my contention that there are geographical differences I have noticed. I live in Las Vegas, and the entitlement is rampant here, as it was in California. However, I visited Atlanta and I would say there is less entitlement there. I would attribute that to an appreciation that I noticed to being treated like any other person. That probably comes from the fact that there are still remnants of a previous white culture to treat blacks differently. My nature has always been to initially treat all people the same, and when I did that, I found the blacks quite pleasant. Such a difference from the west coast, where the blacks have the racist chip on their shoulder no matter how you treat them.

I would try to correct your conetention that...."the overwhelming percentage of black people seem to subscribe to the entitlement fostered by Obama." By pointing out that the majority of what we see written or spoken on TV is due to a small minority of spokespeople. For instance the race-baiters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Or the white guilting Democrat oligarchy who are trying to use this as a political issue. However the fact of the matter is that a true majority of the black community has been led down the Primrose path to the notion that things like this really are racism. So unfortunately I will have to wholly agree with your contention.

I am seriously attempting to come up with a sly and funny answer, but the subject is more ridiculous than anything I could dream up.

There once was a girl named Anna,
Who had an affair with a banana,
She threw it in a tree,
For all the world to see,
Then bought a fresh one for her sister Hannah.

You don't understand the seriousness of this. Bananas are a gateway fruit to the much larger danger of heavy pineapples falling from trees.

Bananas are also soft, vulnerable victims. That's why they brought in the FBI to track down hate crimes by Antiba https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/us...

Its a matter of whether you have time to get to know each person and judge them on that basis- or NOT. In a small town or within a group of friends, I would not need to generalize. But in a big city where I might interact with perhaps 1000 people out of a population of several million, initial generalizations are quite effective, although indeed some of the good people are missed if they are exceptions to the generalizations used.

"It is entirely possible for someone to be black and still be a reasonable person. "
Viewing people as groups, esp based on their physical features, is such awful nonsense.

Although this is an apocryphal quote attributed to Freud, it seems to apply here: "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." I had never heard of discarding a banana in a tree, but a friend of mine says he does it if there is no available trash can. At least it's organic and will decompose quickly.

I agree actually. they have the profit agenda and they dont care what they say as long as it gets advertising revenue.

Well, the media make it appear that way, term. But the media have their agenda and they don't care who they use to accomplish their hidden goals.

It is entirely possible for someone to be black and still be a reasonable person. But the overwhelming percentage of black people seem to subscribe to the entitlement fostered by Obama.

The mental status and composure of people in this country is very concerning. It seems to me like the pressure is rising, so much so that I had to execute plan B and remove myself (from Chicago). I go to a village of less than 400 and just yesterday I got to watch a domestic dispute with an older woman beating a teenage boy in the backyard. There was despair on the part of the boy and anger and vengeance on the part of the woman. County cops showed up 15 minutes later. The only observation I have is that pressure is rising. I was kinda glad to see a broom stick and metal pole as weapons instead of what Chicagoans prefer.

Funny thing about that is it's a "Southern" tradition.
It's Not a black American thing, it's a Southern cultural thing...that was the dig but you know the demoncraps...they themselves feel guilty about their own racism and like an X smoker, call out everyone else.

It also is never limited to a race thing, it is any ethnicity, sexual orientation, hair color, age group. The education system has programmed the younglings to think in terms of "I'm special", and I am (fill in you specialness), almost immediately followed by "And I am discriminated against". That opens the door to the Clinton/Bernies who "feel their pain" and will "fix everything if you vote for me".

Nope Term, I have black friends I work with, and respect, and I still run into the entitled ones. I ignore them, but my friends are good people, who are smart, work hard and are very considerate of others. This is just as bad as letting 23 white supremacists define the entire 100 million whites in America. Utter BS. I usually resort to the MLK statement, and a lot of times they shut up, risking a breakdown at having to figure out if the can blaspheme their hero, and at the same time be a whiny POS, it doesn't go together.