Hatred trumps indoctrination

Since 1998, three hundred and fifty two members of congress have left office.  Of those 352 members, 79% of them have worked as lobbyists.  That’s 4 out of 5.  That is called fascism where the members who run business and government are the same people.

Back to John Potts and Rolla, MO.  Apparently John felt comfortable telling me about the lynching of a black man since I was considered an outlaw and outsider by the fascist rulers.  Also John was very proud about the killing of a black man; it apparently made him feel amerikan.

The second incident in Rolla involving a black man occurred one evening in a local dive at the north end of town.  Even though the establishment wasn’t my kind of place, the limited choices in Rolla meant that if I wanted to be around people I had to go to what I referred to as “The Dive”.  Than particular evening I was standing around listening to the music when three soldiers in uniform walked in.  I assumed they were from the near-by Fort Leonard Wood and from their youthful appearance they probably had just completed their basic training.  Two of the soldiers were white and the third one was a young black man.

When you entered this bar, if you walked straight ahead, you walked past a series of booths on your right and small tables on your left.  If you made a left after entering, which the three soldiers did, you walked past the bar on the left and some individual tables on the right.  As the three men started to walk past the bar, a man seated in the first booth with three friends, jumped up, rushed up behind the trailing black soldier and with his foot, he clipped the back of the soldiers foot which caused him to stumble and fall.  The culprit in this case raced back to his booth and quickly sat down before the black soldier could recover.  The culprit and his three friends sat their laughing and slapping hands.  Apparently I had missed the humor in all of this because the four people in the booth thought it was really funny.  No one else in the place said or did anything.

After the black man regained his composure, the three soldiers looked around the place briefly and then turned around and exited the bar.

I was really surprised because amerikans are so indoctrinated to worship the military that I would have thought that there would have been some conflict in the man who caused the fall.  There should have been the love of the military versus his hatred of Blacks.  But this perpetrator showed no signs of conflict.  He reacted almost instantly at the sight of the black soldier and then he rejoiced at the fall of the man.  And no one said a word.  In defense of the people there, probably at least half of them didn’t even see what had happened prior to the soldier falling.  But it appeared John was right, Blacks may come into Rolla, but they never leave.