Dear Dog,
Ugh. I know “ugh’” isn’t really an appropriate way to begin a letter. But ugh. I don’t really have much to write to you. I’m not necessarily surprised by your fondness for the word “nigger,” not only because I can’t imagine the bounty hunting profession is one that requires much in the way of racial sensitivity, but also because, well, I don’t know. You sort of seem like the type.
The reason I don’t feel like I have much to write to you is because I don’t think you’re particularly special. I mean, you have a reality show, sure. But it’s nothing I have ever caught myself watching. And I watch a lot of television. So that says something. You’re also definitely a racist, even if you want to deny it to save your job. But that’s certainly not special. Guys like you come a dime a dozen. So you can drop “alohas” and deliver canned apologies and meet with Al Sharpton and hold press conferences and maybe even get your job back in the end. But you’ll only have done those things to save your livelihood. Not to “cure” your racism.
I suppose that I’m a little tired, not of all of these “racism exposés” — they serve as valuable proof to the nutjobs who actually want to claim racism no longer exists — but of all of the racism damage control. It just rings false. It’s not like you didn’t know the word was wrong before you said it. The tape that exposes you actually shows that you were scared that people would find out you said it all the time and you would lose your job. If you knew it was wrong before, and you know it’s wrong now, what is meeting Al Sharpton really going to do for you? Nothing, that’s what.
Anyway, I sort of just wish we could drop the pretense and you could go back* to hating people like me, and I could go back to not paying attention to people like you. We’d probably all be happier.
Much Respect & Aloha,
L.W.
*I won’t be mad if you don’t get your reality show back, though.
seconded.
(excuse my typing i’m french canadian)
In evaluating the circumstances of the last few days, A&E has decided to take Dog The Bounty Hunter off the network’s schedule for the foreseeable future…
What about records like dead prez, onyx, brand nubian who rap about killing those and death to the white man, why those albums are still in stores?
When black people say they are not treat the same as white, its true but not in the way they think (sometimes). I guess what is bad for some people,is not for others!
Not to mess with anybody, just asking.
Love & respect
^^^^^^
…Killing those crackers…
Since you’re just asking.. Those rappers you mentioned, if they say those things, aren’t right either, but the difference is that rappers don’t have a 400 year history of actually killing white folks in the country. Neither do they control the Congress, the Senate and multiple police departments which can actually effectuate policy that makes those things happen. It’s the difference between writing a letter to Santa and writing an executive order. One of those things can make it happen.
I could not name one song by any of the above people who you’ve mentioned and I don’t feel like fact-checking. The fact that I’ve never heard their music means that they aren’t huge public figures. Dog isn’t that huge or influential a public figure, but I could describe who he is and what he does from both promos of his show and watching it for a few minutes. The more public a figure you are, the more it matters. Would alone care if I sat in my house and went on about killing white people? Lots of people express far more hateful views online, emboldened by the anonymity of the internet. I’m sure that if people actually KNEW of said lyrics, they’d be pissed and say something about it. Certain stores supposedly don’t carry violent stuff but you’ll probably find some hateful stuff in there by little-known “artists”
Let’s look at it from a different point of view, frenchy. Dog is such a total asshole that his OWN son turned him in. That has nothing to do with race. So in my opinion he’s getting what he deserves (or at least what his son thinks he deserves). Karma is a bitch as we like to say in the states.