How does Chuck Norris stay dry when it rains? He doesn’t have to. Chuck Norris decides when it rains. The man who has reportedly counted to infinity…twice…has released the official real American tough guy position on Ferguson and how black people should move forward.
Remember that this is Chuck Norris, so these hallowed words will undoubtedly be added to the bible one day:
A true solution for Ferguson — and every other social skirmish like it — can only be found in changing the narrative. I think I found it — or him — at Pearl Harbor, and just in time for its 73rd anniversary.
You can tell that conservative patriots immediately conjured the image of Gooding, screaming as he shoots down a Japanese Zero and assuring the Captain “You taught us well, Cap. You taught us well.”
Norris did in fact summon the spirit of naval war hero Doris “Dorie” Miller, whose story is filled with inspiration. Norris, however, takes a wrong turn and twists the story to suit the needs and often parroted “deal with it” mentality of conservatives.
Apparently being a horrible actor wasn’t enough for Chuck. He also feels the need to be a horrible human being.
Norris uses this quote from USS Utah mess attendant Clark Simmons as the preface for his position piece:
You have to understand that when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president in 1932, he opened up the Navy again to blacks, but in one area only; they were called mess attendants, stewards and cooks. The Navy was so structured that if you were black, this was what they had you do in the Navy; you only could be a servant.
What Clark described as indentured servitude Norris convoluted into inspirational teachings for blacks:
What we regard now as racial restrictions, Miller saw as opportunities. So he joined the Navy as a mess attendant 3rd class, but it didn’t stop there. He was promoted to 2nd class and then 1st class and eventually to ship’s cook 3rd class.
Wow. All the way to ship’s cook 3rd class. Norris obviously doesn’t see just what an imbecile he looks like at this point as he furthers the cause of racial inequality by pointing out all of Miller’s achievements:
In May 1942, Miller became the first black man to receive the Navy Cross for bravery in the line of fire, which Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, personally presented to Miller on board the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. In addition to the Navy Cross, Miller was honored with the Purple Heart; the American Defense Service Medal, Fleet Clasp; the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; and the World War II Victory Medal.
What Norris doesn’t realize is that he’s pointing out the exemplary service record of an extremely brave man who paid the ultimate price for his service when he was killed on board the USS Liscome Bay in 1943.
Dorie Miller, recipient of the Navy Cross, purple heart and American-Defense Service Medal, died a ship’s cook 3rd class.
Adding insult to injury, literally, Norris provides proof of how grand being discriminated against can be. Miller was honored not only with a mess hall and a barracks, but with a naval destroyer as well. No, wait, it was a naval destroyer escort, the USS Miller. Miller must have been so proud that these things were bestowed in his honor, in 1973, 40 years after his death.
Ultimately what Norris is saying is that black people should embrace discrimination and use it to their advantage, just like Dorie Miller did:
In the midst of minuscule rights and privileges for African-Americans, Dorie didn’t play the victim, engage in class warfare or even fight for racial justice. He simply led the way through service to his country and fellow-man. He laced up his bootstraps and fought for a better life for himself, his family and his country.
Dorie didn’t engage in class warfare because Dorie died 30 years before the civil rights movement. Had Dorie engaged in class warfare or stood up for the rights of black people in the 1930’s or 1940s, Dorie would have most likely been lynched for it.
Norris then closes with the status quo “get over it and make something of yourself” conservative tripe:
Maybe it’s time we quit hunting for evidence to support our views or conclusions that degrade others. Maybe it’s time we shake the stereotypes. Maybe it’s time to cease the friendly fire on fellow Americans. Maybe it’s time we quit making excuses and blaming others for why we don’t press onward and upward. Maybe it’s time we simply follow Miller’s model for personal excellence and encourage others to do the same.
Good news for black Americans. It doesn’t matter if you’re discriminated against. It makes no difference that you face an uphill battle, especially in today’s racially charged climate. Yes, black people, you too can aspire to be as great as Dorie Miller. You can accomplish great things, earn the accolades of great people and prove that you are every bit as valuable to America as the white people like Norris who live sheltered and privileged lives.
As long as you don’t mind dying a 3rd class servant.
How do you know if you’re a racist? You don’t. Chuck Norris decides if you’re a racist.
H/T: Town Hall | Image: bornrich.com
If you don’t think African Americans are capable of overcoming discrimination and oppression, then you’re the racist. No nation on Earth has ever been *given* any advantage. They took it or didn’t get it. We have to do the same. Deal with it.
why should they have to? cuz you guys are a holes? Think before you write….
Is the thinker the one who accepts reality for what it is, or the one who eats whatever unrealistic tripe they’re fed just because it’s fashionable?
Say, instead of ranting about the ability of African Americans to overcome discrimination and oppression, how about focusing on getting RID of discrimination and oppression to begin with?
Right.
Okay, so the way to get people to consider you equal is to whine and cry about it?
Or is it to actually do and be better than the stereotype?
Norris you were a lousy actor and now even worst racist! I wished Bruce lee was still alive to kick your ass again!
Here is the perfect illustration of the right-wing blindness to white privilege. Apparently there is nothing particularly wrong with African-Americans being restricted in the leadership positions they are allowed to hold. After all, 1 in 10,000 or so can rise above that and become heroes. So, because Ben Carson became a doctor, Herman Cain became a pizza mogul and Barack Obama became President, therefore black people just need to get off welfare and work harder to be anything they want to be. On the other hand, all the “special privileges” the government is giving to minorities is apparently such a burden to white people, they are being held back?
Pahahahah
“So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years.” -chris rock
I don’t think he’s blind to “white” privilege. I think he’s just fought and worked with enough Africans to be aware that the only way we’re going to make things better for ourselves is to stop being socially dependent and work our natural privilege.
…meaning we’re going to do what we’re going to do with or without you or your permission or approval.
The ONLY ones who think this stringy 70+ yr.old racist is anything worth mentioning is teenage boys who use his image in their stupid memes. He’s a joke even to them.
Didn’t know I could hate a person without even know him/her… now I know I can, what a POS!
Sorry, but on the planet Earth, every living being is forced to compete. Don’t like it, find another planet.
If only people would apply that to whoever taught the writer of this article that mammals being given everything without earning anything is good for them.
Mammals, yes…perhaps. You keep feeding a cat and it’ll never leave your back porch. Keep feeding a dog and it will recognize you as an alpha and adopt you into its “pack.”
Humans on the other hand are supposed to be evolved. concepts like empathy, compassion, kindness and love are emphasized over the more animalistic tendencies of fight or flight and survival of the fittest.
If you are sick, I will care for you. If you are hungry, I will feed you. If you need clothing, I will give you my coat. If you are old and feeble I will give you a comfortable place to exist until you pass from this earth…yadda yadda yadda…Basic human feel good humanity stuff like that.
Then along comes this chick named Ayn Rand (it’s not all her fault of course, but hey…Ya gotta start somewhere, right?) who basically writes a literary treatise on being a misanthropic self centered a…hole to everyone around you *just* to justify her own pathetic lifestyle…and fifty years later, people are still taking her books and running off the end of the god da-ned end of the earth with it and expect the rest of us to follow along.
I know…it’s much much deeper than that.
They like to say that we as a country are the laughingstock of the world…and they’re right. We are. But…it’s not for the reasons they’re telling you.
In case you haven’t noticed, humans have been quite okay with being “animalistic” selfish a-holes for a good long time before Ayn Rand was able to lift a pen. People are kind to those who they consider part of their in-group and cruel to whoever they consider “other”. This is how it has always been.
The only way we’re going to get over that is to get all humans to realize that all life is the in-group. Good luck with that. Sincerely. I do hope that someday someone figures out a way to start training people that way from infancy without going to the other extreme of cultural erasure and denial.
Even then, we will still compete as individuals, though in a healthier way. Until then, we must play the cards we’re dealt in this time.
I’m not defending Chuck Norris specifically, but he is a lot closer to the truth than a lot of people. We can’t wait to be given anything by those who consider us “other”. We have to compete, win, take, and do a better job than our former oppressors and their dumb lackeys.
There is no way to convince someone who refuses to see your humanity of your humanity except to express your superhumanity and then your ability to be humane despite that.
He’s both…If Andy Griffith, Jack Lord, even Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, Chuck wouldn’t be saying these words. He would have been eating them!