Grabbing the third rail just for fun — MAGA hats and writer Jaime O'Neill

05 February 2019

Some people are enrichingly fun

Yesterday, I used one of Jaime O'Neill's essays as a segue for ripping into our vacuous culture.

Today, I'm using another.

This time to credit Mr. O'Neill's courageous foolishness in saying what many of us think about our fellow deluded fellow humans.

Given our similar ages, grabbing the third rail must have an old guy appeal.

Can you relate to O'Neill's pharmacy episode?

Addressing the high cost of American health care, and most Americans' inability to pay for it, O'Neill wrote this — (not for the sweetly spoken):

[A]s we were making our way through the supermarket next door to Rite-Aid, I saw an enormous black guy in a white MAGA cap [see what that is, here].

I kept wondering if a white MAGA hat meant something different than a red MAGA hat, especially if the white MAGA hat was on a black guy's head, especially a black guy who, by the look of him, was going to be needing insulin pretty soon, if he didn't already.

I looked at his hat again and said "really?" in hopes he'd reassure me that when a black guy wears a white hat with the MAGA letters emblazoned on it, that ain't the same thing as when some ignorant white cracker ass motherfucker is wearing it.

Please, man, I thought, tell a brother it ain't so.

But, alas, it turns out a MAGA hat is just the same old hate-and-fear symbol

no matter what color it comes in,

or whose head it's on,

which proves once again,

if proof be needed, that stupid comes in all colors,

though you might have to be a tad stupider and maybe even a little more deplorable to plunk that hat on your head

if you're a black dude with rather obvious need of affordable health care.

Regarding O'Neill's observation

Black Agenda Report implicitly addresses dumbshit equivalence across the races on a daily basis.

The Report is reliably caustic about the societal problem presented by so many African-Americans failing to recognize and support their own core interests.

Of course, the Lamestream United States ignores BAR, too.

This said, maybe there was more to the MAGA hat anecdote

Perhaps the Rite-Aid guy was a wealthy fascist with a disregard for those less comfortably situated. One can imagine multiple scenarios supporting the quasi-intelligent wearing of his indicator hat.

On the other hand, we do have difficulty coming up a reasonable explanation for MAGA Wearer's implied and arguably self-destructive coddling of the President's obvious bigotry.

But nobody's perfect. Nuance abounds.

The moral? — Ain't none, 'cept that . . .

Our planet is in no danger of experiencing a majority shortage of fools.

Illusion, delusion and self-destruction are equal opportunity employers. Coming up with workably humane political structures is difficult.

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Grabbing the third rail just for fun — MAGA hats and writer Jaime O'Neill