Essay 114

Delayed reactions with MultiCultClassics Minutes…

• Georgia law officials decided to pardon Black maid Lena Baker for killing a White guy — 60 years after the state executed Baker in the electric chair for the crime. Justice delayed is justice denied. Or just a death sentence, in this case.

• Louis Farrakhan agreed with Mexico’s President Vicente Fox for saying Mexicans take the jobs “not even Blacks want.” Farrakhan continued that Blacks don’t want to pick fruit because they’ve already “picked enough cotton.” Next, Farrakhan will present a stirring tribute to Memin Pinguin.

• Mexicans also agreed with Farrakhan and Fox, based on surveys conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center. Over 40% of Mexican adults would come to the U.S. if possible — and 20% would willingly take an illegal route. For Mexican college graduates, the numbers are also high. Over 33% want to leave, and one of eight are ready to go illegally. Maybe Farrakhan should organize a Million Mexican Man March.

• Michael Jackson didn’t show up to court wearing pajamas. He just didn’t show up at all. Jackson faces a civil suit from a New Orleans man who claimed the King of Pop sexually assaulted him in 1984. That was the year Jackson’s hair was set on fire during a Pepsi commercial shoot. Given Jackson’s multiple facial transformations since then, it’s unlikely the victim could make a positive ID now.

• A bunch of ecologists want to bring African animals to live in North America. Wonder how PETA would react to this scenario — by comparing the transported critters to slave ships?