Tot lot totalitarianism
May 17, 2010 on 11:40 pm | In Uncatagorized Bastard |
“Can you believe that?” was the indignant question that floated out of the gringo’s tubby face upward toward my deck after I just witnesses a rather large, rather angry black man who seconds earlier was going to bludgeon said gringo with a push and scoot kiddie wagon.
“Yeah you were in the wrong dude.”
“What???” not the question a man who was threatening calling the cops on an aggressor wanted to hear.
“He was here first” I notice the rather large black man walk into the then empty park to hash things out with his girlfriend. I think it was a break up and a rather ugly one at that because of all the, how could you do that to me, questions the man was hurling at his girl. You can tell when a man is hurt there is that tone of pain in his voice that he is desperately trying to hide so that his girl who he still cares about does not think of him as a pussy.
“WHAT! He was swearing in front of my child!” It’s true he was he was a hurt man just intruded upon by a witless khaki short wearing mutherfucker who decided this was the perfect park to have his kid play on the teeter totter. No matter that there was an obvious heated discussion going on and that a girl was begging her man to give her one more chance.
“Yeah so you should have gone to another park, there are plenty around on this street.” I point out.
“HE WAS SWEARING IN FRONT OF MY CHILD!!!” Like I didn’t hear him. Like this was a concept that makes his interloping excusable. I wasn’t there for that part of it but I pieced it together. Parent thinks that him having a kid gives him the right to claim the park as. His white skin gives hip the right to dismiss the affairs of a black couple as unimportant when juxtaposed to the idea of his aryan baby curse word free swing experience. I have friends with kids, I get it. Wanting to shield them from reality as long as they can. Wanting to give them the world while hiding all of the ugly parts away. I get it. The issue I have is that parents, especially most of the newer ones, tend to get so wrapped up in the world of their kids that they forget that almost everybody else who is childless doesn’t give a two farts about their parenting goals. Especially not if they are strangers and are going through some pretty painful shit at that moment. So what I surmise happened was the couple was going at it, the tubby self righteous dad wanted to earn that “worlds greatest dad” proclamation that adorns his office mug, and so he decides to give the couple a lesson on manners especially in front of children. Angry black man wanting to hurt something as much as he is hurting finds an outlet in the form of pasty whitey and I come out on my deck to see the commotion and maybe try to jump in for a rescue.
“Yeah white entitlement is a bitch, you should have just gone to another park but instead you kicked them out.” I bet he feels alright with himself though because hey he’s not racist he voted for Obama. Thing about segregated communities such as mine is that the cultivate subcutaneous racism like mold on wonderbread.
“YOU’RE CRAZY!” for not agreeing with him. For not giving a shit that some little white turd wrangler heard the word motherfucker. Or for actually caring enough to call it as I see it.
“Sure your kid learned that swears are bad but he also learned how to be an uppity cracker, congrats!” Honestly though that kid won’t remember a thing. He’ll grow up jerk off to the internet, learn the word motherfucker, raise white babies of his own and vote liberal all while tsk-tsking rappers and kids who dress like them.
In the end all that mattered was that nobody got bludgeon or arrested or had to jump in to help out some stupid white yuppie whose tunnel vision got him an ass whoopin.
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Three comments:
1.) The traditional use of “tot lots” is for kids on teeter-totters, not adults swearing loudly
2.) I’m unconvinced your story has anything to do with race. If you swapped the races, or eliminated them completely the story still makes complete sense.
3.) The father could have gone to another park, but the couple, being adults, could also have moved their private conversation to anywhere private. Unless the teeter-totter was a vital visual allegory to their conversation, them yelling while walking away seems trivial.
Comment by kyle — May 18, 2010 #
1) Fuck traditions.
2) Of course you do whitey.
3) Public park is public.
Comment by Anarking Is Dead — August 29, 2010 #