Resoultion Four: Love Conquers All. (Subtitle:) Maybe He's Not Black? Maybe She Is? Maybe The Great Plotnik is Dreaming?
Last night at TIAPOS, The Great Plotnik and The Great Large Pants told Blonde Bombshell and The Great Mushnik all about the Boise St. victory over Oklahoma in the Whatever-It-Was Bowl on New Year's Day.
The two women got particularly interested when the story got to the part about the star tailback, who had just scored the most improbable winning 2-point conversion in college football history, proposing to the head cheerleader fifteen minutes later on nationwide TV.
WHAT a story! The TV movie must be in production as we blog, because Plot saw this morning that the popular U-Tube video has already been removed from U-Tube at the request of Twentieth Century Fox.
And yet -- what about the painfully obvious other part of this story? Can Plotnik allow himself to feel hopeful about American society? That is -- the almost completely white underdog Boise State team defeats the almost completely black huge favorite Oklahoma team, and afterwards the mixed-race halfback proposes to the white head cheerleader, gives her a big slobbery kiss (and a diamond the size of the check this couple is likely to receive from Twentieth Century Fox) on nationwide TV, she screams YESSSSSS into the camera and jumps into his arms, and not one word is spoken about race?
Lord, Lord, have we come this far? Is it possible?
Or ... is the 400 pound gorilla still in charge here? The gorilla who says we will NOT discuss race, we will NOT discuss racial equality or inequality, but we WILL pretend everything is just ducky across the land?
Dang it, Plotnik, will you STOP being such a damp sponge? Isn't it obvious that the best cure-all for problems that might seem insurmountable to one generation, but fall naturally in the next, is the passage of enough time? Has enough time really passed, then? Plotnik looks at his watch. He didn't think so, but...hey.
This was not supposed to be another New Year's Resolution, but why not? Resolution Number Four is: Believe that Love Conquers All.
Tomorrow: Tinkerbell.
(Plotnik! Will you Shut UP!!)
posted by DAK @ 9:58 AM
2 Comments:
I think that time is the answer to all that race stuff - it just takes a LOT more of it than we would like. But that's not the story today, the story is that game!
I've never seen anything like it. I normally root for any old Big 8 teams that show up in bowl games, but I had to change to the Potato Pickers as I watched the game - their quarterback actually looked like he was enjoying the game and I have a soft spot for underdogs.
And twice I was absolutely sure the Potato Pickers had lost it, only to see them pull remarkable plays out of their butt. Wow.
I also understand that the Fox sideline guy kind of blew the surprise of the marriage thing. Figures.
And Notre Dame got their crosses whacked. Nice!
Of course love conquers all! Where have you been? Shakespeare knew that and things haven't really changed in that respect!
I think you have to look at life through your children's eyes, you did such a good job of raising them, as did other parents....that the race thing is just not an issue, to them.
The race card is only an issue in violence...never in love. Or at least that's my observation here in Atlanta.
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