Kinky Friedman is a Mouth-Breathing, Knuckle-Dragging Dixiecrat

Holy Half-Nelson!

It just came to me. A bolt out of the blue.

Kinky Friedman is a mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging Dixiecrat.

How do you get all of those qualities all rolled up into this black Stetsoned, cigar (and grass) smoking (Willie doesn’t lie), boot-wearing, Guinness-drinking-in-a-moving-vehicle, minority-disparaging candidate for Texas governor?

Until recently, I thought that Zell Miller was the last specimen of Dixiecrat on the face of the earth. I have since met, through my work in Fort Bend County, several of their, previously believed extinct ilk. I thought that they had all evolved in the past twenty years. Their original protective coloration was blue, but they can now blend in well to red surroundings.

Almost all.

Kinky Friedman is a Dixiecrat.

Dixiecrats are an enigma to me. They profess all of the Democratic Party values that I embrace. They hate the war in Iraq. They think that the Republican-dominated Congress has built up a debt that will be difficult to pay down without some sacrifice. And, in addition to that, they don’t especially “cotton up” to non-white people.

How can a person hold humanistic Democratic values, and also be a racist? Be a Dixiecrat. Dixiecrats cannot separate observation from inference. It came to me when I read, as mentioned in my previous posting, that Kinky Friedman offered that he is “not a racist, but a realist”.

Bells rang.

Dixiecrats are un-self-acknowledged racists. They don’t know that they are racists because they see their conclusions as fact. Kinky said that Katrina victims who have not returned to New Orleans are “crack heads and thugs”. I know several Katrina victims. They are not crack heads. They do not knock over old ladies for their social security checks. They are unanimously pissed off at Kinky’s suggestion that this is so. This is true about Dixiecrats: they cannot differentiate between an objective observation and an inference. Their conclusions become their reality. They are realists, but sadly, only in their own minds.

So when Kinky does the n-word. When he refers to Katrina victims as criminals. When he fails to apologize for any of that, calling himself, instead, a “realist”. The explanation is this: Kinky is only being Kinky. And Kinky Friedman is a Dixiecrat.

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