It’s a democratic country, but ask for what you deserve and they’ll label you “one of those militant niggers.” (My friend [of color] jokes that I should consider myself lucky they didn’t call me something that would earn me a spot on the “No-fly” list). Speaking of flies, what do you call any place outside my childhood homestead? A no-fly zone!
Here is my take on racism. Published in the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/22/charging-john-terry-wont-end-racism
I’m in the middle of talking about what my African people need to gain food stability and this World Bank idiot interrupts me — in the most bureaucratic, condescending voice possible — to say, “Protectionism can get you in a lot of trouble.”
That’s not what I was talking about, but since he brought it up, here is a question you don’t have to answer: Why doesn’t any of these idiots screaming, “If you love your country buy ‘MADE IN USA’” ever get in trouble for preaching protectionism?
And why is it acceptable for liberals foodies to cry, “buy local?”
Funny how we trust me to know what’s good for our American kids at the university but not what is good for my family in Africa.
I don’t mean to suggest that Bruno Serato’s work is more important than that of the award winner, Robin Lim, who saves the lives of so many mothers and babies by ensuring they get healthy births. Lim has done more for the world than those Hollywood celebrities, who CNN allowed to hijack the gala and turn it into a mini Academy Awards. But Serato is my “CNN Hero of the Year.”
I like Serato because of what he said to those underworked and overpaid men and women, whose only problem in life is figuring out how to evade paparazzi.
“I want to feed kids who are starving all over the world,”said Serato, a restauranteur who for six years has fed hungry children in Anaheim, Calif. “But before I do that, I want to feed the children here in America. We should not have hungry children in our own backyard. It is time to do something about it.”
Anyone watching the awards from outside the US might find it difficult to fathom that children in a country that often describes itself as “the greatest nation on Earth” should go hungry. But there are more than 60 million Americans of all races who live in abject poverty. (Add the ones who are in denial and have taken massive debt to perpetuate the dream and the number gets much higher).
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