Earl Ofari Hutchsinson and the Black Juicers Liberation Front

In an earlier entry, I discussed how columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson has a tendency to ignore big issues and instead focus on trivial bullshit. Sunday, he did something far worse.

Imagine this scenario:

Martin Luther King standing at the podium at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th, 1963 and uttering these words:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the content of their character, but by the grandness of their stats.

Because that is more or less the point that Hutchinson inadvertently made in his piece, which propounds that the only reason Bonds is facing a perjury trial is because he was a black man who had the audacity to eclipse Babe Ruth. Never mind that the home run record holder had been another African-American, the widely admired Hank Aaron, before Bonds obliterated it with the help of modern chemistry. Basically, Hutchinson is insisting that it is okay to lie to a grand jury in a steroid manufacturing and distribution investigation because his skin color is of a darker hue than Pat Boone's.

Hutchinson then goes on to ask why Roger Clemens isn't in the same predicament. Is Earl paying attention? Clemens is not only being investigated for lying before a congressional committee, but he has been roundly humiliated by the recent revelations of his steroid use that showed that his previous denials concerning his employment of them had been lies. Right now, mud doesn't want to be associated with Clemens, such is the low his public image has sunk to.

Part of the credibility problem many black leaders and writers have with the broader American public is that too many of them are willing to excuse not just misbehavior, but even murder (think O.J. Simpson) because whitey owes them one after two hundred years of slavery and another century of segregation. Nobody with a brain is buying that nonsense.

Hutchinson, Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, Danny Bakewell, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Maxine Waters and that whole lot of narcissistic hustlers have neutered the "content of their character" part of the King dream and see blackness as inherently more virtuous than any other race (which is a false anthropological construct anyway) by dint of victimhood.

Roman emperor Nero had been molested by his father, emperor Tiberius (this is true), so now we should excuse Nero's depredations on his people because of that? Not happening. Nero gets no sympathy from historians and so Bonds deserves none from the public.

Yeah, I know that what Nero did is of far greater import than Bonds' actions. But you get my point. If you want legal equality then you also have to be willing to accept equality of judgment of your moral character. And Bonds, as well as Clemens and A-Rod, flunked.

Bonds and Hutchinson aren't part of King's dream; they are a segment of his nightmares.