I Know Jim Crow Personally

For those who expected President Obama to perform miracles during his first one hundred days, think again. The Republican partisan lines are alive and kicking with the usual total disregard for those who need the most relief. What strikes me as ironically funny is the fact they really don't have a clue. To the Republican old guard there is nothing worse than being called a liberal. I occasionally work with a man who is so "Right-Wing" and bigoted, every time I see him, I think of "Archie Bunker". There was a lovable quality to Archie, he was a fictional character that made us laugh during the time slot he held in prime time on TV. This guy is scary because he is real! He works as an HIV Prevention Case Manager. His assigned areas are usually inner city and minority populated. During a conversation we were having one day, he pointed out the beauty of Reaganomics, the "Myth of Global Warming", the reason women should not be feminists and a host of other bigoted topics. When President Obama was elected, this guy stood in the middle of a room full of African Americans and did his best to trash the man. He made a comment about Obama is going to make all illegal immigrants legal. Well happens to be Canadian, a fact I forgot to mentioned. I never met a Canadian bigot before. Most Canadians I have met usually were pretty open-minded. This guy is such a bigot, he I keep looking for his White Hood and burning cross. I witnessed him being very condescending to women, (especially to women of color). He kind of made my stomach turn. What really confuses me is why he had the audacity to choose Social Work as his profession. I honestly look to see him plastered into the concrete for his behavior. Heaven knows there have been times when I wanted to do it myself. I think it best to wait and watch. I continue to attack his theories when he opens his mouth. I let him know my people are not stupid and you cannot just tell us anything. Oh by the way, he is the only White person on his detail and you would think he was the slave master. He even subscribes to the theory that Blacks will go to heaven as servants to whites, after death. Unfortunately, he is the rule as opposed to the exception when you are confronted with the Republican "old guard". They just throw the "moderates" out front. Sometimes I feel like I am back in the fifties, when I talk to people like this guy. I have a name for him; Jim Crow. Ignorance is a shame to most, bliss to people like Jim Crow.