Cracker Reality

We enter the season of joy with a media storm over a redneck named, Phil Robertson, who has offended gays and blacks on his worthless "reality" show Duck Dynasty. Although I have never watched the show and in truth did not know it existed, the flap surrounding it's doesn't surprise me. Whites like him have the same views nationwide. They were raised that way. They live in the false world of equality, non-discrimination, and Christian morality; all of which is false in America. 

For the people at A&E who produced the show, they know that Duck Dynasty perfectly portray a large segment of American thinking. They know that through years of denial, self-delusion, mainstream media propaganda, and political negligence that many Americans will appeal to a show that displays intolerance and ignorance because Americans can't handle the truth of their own existence let alone the facts of life of other, in their view, "non-standard" Americans. It is easy to put on a show that denigrates those Americans and justifies "standard" Americans beliefs about such people.

Millions of Americans actually believe that people of color and gays are destroying America's exceptionalism while not understanding the very system that keeps a boot on their necks. They believe their is no discrimination and that people don't succeed because they are all lazy and uneducated. Gays are considered sick or anti-Christian people determined to pervert their children and larger society. They believe this despite all the evidence to the contrary. They ignore this evidence and follow the hate and racism spouted from Fox News, racist talk show host and pundits because it mirrors the beliefs they have held since the first time they sat at a dinner table and listened to their parents and relatives spout the same garbage. 

Phil Robertson defined a reality that they the viewers all share. He expresses the real reason that A&E put the show on the air because they know there are millions of Americans who believe and live the beliefs of Mr. Robertson. So why not make money out of it. Mr. Robertson confessed one truth: he is "White Trash". And corporate media makes millions off the white trash of America.