Ye know whu’tiss immigration fight is all about? That’s exactly whut it’s about. The fight. They been fightin’ about it fer years. Now they found a new thang about it t’fight about. Arizona. They say the guv signed a law that… that whut? Well whut whut means depends on who’s splainin it. One says it promotes racial profilin’. The nextun says it says righ’tair in black’n white there’ll be NO racial profilin’. (Oops. sayin’ black’n white might pick a fight. Sorry, Mama. I didn’t mean to).
An’nem people on TV that calls they selves journalists or reporters or commentators (they all thank mighty highly of they selves) jist egg it on. Ever see some guest on TV ‘at speaks softly? If y’do, y’won’t hear that’n agin. The job of TV is to promote the fight, not calm it down. Stops bein’ a fight, they all jist move on t’sumpm that is.
An another thang. Why do they always say the governor signed such n’such bill. Aint thare some gang called a legislature that had sumpm t’do with it? Don’t the whole elected bunch have sumpm t’do with it? I spect whoever’s writin’ or sayin’ the news picks the way it’ll seem like heshe wants it to.
Of course, as usual, Washinton has got to be the center of it. They’s a fight somewhere, them boys up’air cain’t stand to stand by. They all got to pick a side an’ jump in. Which side? The side that’s not the side of their opponents, whutever side that is. Y’see they cain’t be heard or seen fightin’ against you an me. They gotta fight FOR us. Or that’s whut it needs t’seem like. An which us they gotta fight for? Whichever can git’em the most votes. Or the most money. Same thang.
Another thang. Is iss the same thang?
I see there’s a move to save the languages in New York City. Languages like Mamuju an Vlashki (Did I spell’em right, Mama?). Well now! How ’bout English? The’s school teachers ‘ese days at thank it’s ok t’say or spell inny word inny way you wont to. Whut ever makes you happy. An we wouldn’t wanna make you feel bad by sayin’ your sayin’ it wrong.
Ay’s people at say git, g-i-t, but wanna spell it get, g-e-t whe’nay write it. An’ney git all over me fer writin’ it like we all say it. You don’t believe me, jist start listenin real close t’them people on TV. Ebm the hifalutin ones say git an agin. Agin an agin! An, jis like me, they do a awful lot of droppin’nem pesky g and t letters on the ends of words. Jist when they talk. Not when they write. See I even get proper once in a while.
One more thang about them furrin languages they’re tryin’ t’save in New York. Mamuju is from Sulawesi. Starbucks has a coffee they call Sulawesi Kulosi. Take a big drank. Then tell me if you can speak any language. I also saw a coffee they call New England Coffee. New England? Now inny idjit knows they don’t grow no coffee in New England. But it has to have a silly name to git people to pay 4 or 5 times whut they’d pay for that fine ol’ Folgers and Maxwell House an Luzianne.
Time f’Siggy agin: Sigmund FREUD: “…we men… find reality generally quite unsatisfactory” Psychoanalysis (1910)
