By Paul Weiser
In a recent incident, a radio talk host lost his job for referring to championship women's basketball players as "nappy-headed, tattooed hoes." (That's phonetic, the exact spelling should be "'ho's.") Joking aside, there's a serious issue hiding here - and it's not about black hypocrisy.
The host was, judging from his words, what's called a "wiger" - that is, a non-black person who wants to be, not just black, but a black of the worst sort. (Substitute an "n" and add "g," the derivation emerges.) This is precisely the impulse which leads upper-class (or at least high-income) Britons to adopt chav manners (or lack therof): in this respect, race matters to Americans only because our chavs have color as well as anti-culture.
Why do wigers do it? To be "cool," "with-it," and (for a radio personality) just to communicate with the trash audience segment - which has a great interest in both sports and trash-talk. But for other non-blacks who ape underclass vices of language and deportment there's a further motivation: in escaping middle-class civilized behavior, they put aside both its supposed conformity and (most importantly) its moral standards. Be a fake black, have black fake friends!
Because - as this incident shows, and any wiger must understand at all times - the supposed respect of trash-blacks/chavs is always conditional and subject to instant revocation (accompanied by a demand for money and a knife in the gut, as the Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons of this world demonstrate). At root, the chav culture is based on physical, not verbal violence. It's a gang - a criminal conspiracy - not a social club.
So don't look so surprised, wiger. They were always laughing behind your back, only waiting to scream in your face. Just hand over your wallet and hope you don't bleed out before the ambulance arrives.
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