The Cynic’s Cache

Write this down if you need to, it might come in handy.

Next time you hear somebody ranting and raving about blacks getting the shafted on everything, blacks getting discriminated against, and blacks being kept down by “the Man,” do me a favor and kick them in the teeth.

We just elected a black man for president. For the first time in American history, a black man (I will not use that ridiculous phrase “African-American”) has gotten elected president. Black. In a nation historically led by old rich white guys. In a nation with an unpleasant history of fucking over every minority imaginable, we now have a president that comes from a race formerly oppressed. Really, does it get much more “equal” than that?

I don’t give a damn what color they are or if they’re even human. If they’re spouting off garbage about how poorly we treat black people, they’re either fools or snakes with agendas.

Isn’t it about time we dropped this racial insanity and started unfucking American society? Did you ever wonder that racial problems might stem from treating black people and white people as if they were separate subspecies of human? Now that we’re going to have a president with dark skin, I hope we can quit bickering about it and get something done right for a change.

My apologies, children.  I know you are starving and might die of it before you even get your first pube, but it looks like there will be less money for food this year.  See, GenCon, which gamers know as the biggest annual collection of game nerd, wanted to give money to a group that feeds you.  The problem is that the charity they wanted to give money to decided that hating games was more important than your empty stomach.

See, this charity was loved by Gary Gygax, who is more or less the guy that made D&D exist.  He died not long ago and is mourned by many millions the world over.  He brought joy to the lives of countless people through the hobby that he helped found.  A lot of people considered him an all-around swell guy.  GenCon did a charity auction is his honor and wanted to give the money to the Christian Children’s Fund.

But what did they do?  They turned the money down.  They failed at their goal: feeding the starving.  In the name of keeping up appearances by snubbing what amounts to a silly little game that nerds use to waste their time, they turned down money that could help the people they’re supposedly helping.

I’m sorry to those of you that are going to starve, but apparently this is more important than your lives.

Acting and blathering aside, I have to ask, what the fuck, CCF?  What the fuck?  I can’t even begin to comprehend the idea of a charity that refuses money because it was raised partly by the sale of things related to a game.