Ok, I’m scanning through various sites and I find this article by the BBC entitled: Che: The icon and the ad.
Here is the first portion of the article:
Che Guevara, his eyes framed by heavy brows, a single-starred beret pulled over his unruly hair, stares out of the shot with glowering intensity.It’s now 40 years since the Argentine-born rebel was shot dead, so any young radicals who cheered on his revolutionary struggles in Cuba and Bolivia are well into middle age.
But the image has been infinitely repeated - emblazoned on T-shirts and sprayed on to walls, transformed into pop art and used to wrap ice-creams and sell cigarettes - and its appeal has not faded.
“There is no other image like it. What other image has been sustained in this way?” asks Trisha Ziff, the curator of a touring exhibition on the iconography of Che.
“Che Guevara has become a brand. And the brand’s logo is the image, which represents change. It has becomes the icon of the outside thinker, at whatever level - whether it is anti-war, pro-green or anti-globalisation,” she says.
Read the rest of the article here if you wish.
Now after I finished laughing at another example of liberals never ending search for symbolic images to inspire themselves and to present a “cool” image to others, I could not help but to be inspired by the gospel according to Chris, now I’m not picking on him, but frankly his words inspire me. I wish I had more participants on this site that would be more participatory and express more heart felt opinions. As Mrs. Snoop can attest nothing motivates me more that to be challenged on my principles.
What few people know outside those who frequent this blog is my views on the world have changed very little since I was very young. I got to my way of thinking by observing and paying attention to the world around me, by being a realist about how to interpret what I see, what people say, how they say it, what I read and WHY was it written.
Ah I miss the days on Lawrence.com and the heated political and societal exchanges that took place for a time.
More constant rants were followed up by my dear daughter-in-law suggesting that I start my own blog and more than two years later here I am ranting, news aggregating but most of all learning.
Back to Mr. Che; the link to the Che article was accompanied by a picture of Jay-Z on stage performing proudly wearing “Che fashion” designs. Frankly any black person wearing Che garb is exceedingly clueless, but who am I to judge.
I am reminded back in the day when clueless black folks would wear Malcolm X fashions, t-shirts, necklaces, ball caps, ect and when I first noticed the trend I use to think to myself are some of these fools wearing this stuff particularly when it was highly unlikely that many of the people wearing the garb even know who the hell Malcolm X was or what he stood for.
Black folks also were fond of African fashions as well, the fact that Africa comprises 46 countries is of course irrelevant, not to mention that most black “Africans” have little respect and show contempt for black folks here in America.
Yes I know, “Snoop we is just connecting with our homeland!”
Funny thing tho, you rarely saw folks sporting Martin Luther King merchandise, but he was a peaceful soul, refused to blame whitey, saw a future where we will be judge not by the color of our skin but the content of our character.
However according to Chris; “anyone who denies their own ethnic identity is denying themselves.”
Not to go into why I found that line of thinking irrelevant years ago, but way too many of us need some sort of symbolism to define ourselves. Whether it’s our particular faith, our political leanings or something as superficial as what sports team we cheer for or what body part we need to tattoo or pierce. Others use the flag (U.S.) , or a flag (confederate) other use their ethnicity.
The problem with black folks is we deny the other parts of who we are and ONLY promote the pigment portion of who we are.
Never mind that, again, back to Che; I find is an exceedingly ridiculous symbol, nevertheless his image is prominently displayed at virtually every liberal protest or anti-American rally.
As I am hammering this post out I’m thinking do the people who wear the Che icon even know who the fuck he was?
Now I know the people who can tolerate my grammatically flawed rants here are exceedingly educated, however in case someone read this who is not familiar with our friend Che…
“Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!”
“Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become … “Che Guevara
I find it fascinating that liberals believe that “Man” is innately good. The good just has to be encouraged by unrestrained personal license and therapy. So, evils like (Che), crime and terrorism cannot be simply condemned as evil. Liberals have to look for a “politically-correct” root cause for wrongdoing.
Popular scapegoats for Liberals are: “Poverty” (even when that poverty is the fruit of a dysfunctional society unwilling to adapt to new realities), “Racism”(which might limit one’s opportunities but doesn’t lead directly to criminal behavior), “Zionism” (the Jews always make a convenient scapegoat), “Colonialism” (even though most of the colonial empires educated their subjects and built enough infrastructure for said former subjects to make a better go at modern statehood than they otherwise could have), or “Alienation” ( a convenient dodge for those who lack ambition, a work ethic, or any sense of personal responsibility).
Therefore, the United States, being relatively rich, powerful, and the world’s policeman must be the cause of all the world’s ills. The solution is to hand our American sovereignty and military over to the Che’s of the world.
Supporting Che was just about making a statement - of sticking it to companies, America and the West.
Making Che Guevara into someone worthy of admiration is the most successful thing the ‘Left’ has managed to do in the past fifty years. Forget the fact that this is the man, who had no shame in murdering innocent civilians, was a major human rights violator, and put gays (who were ‘deviants’), religious minorities and other undesirables into concentration camps.
I can hear some of you ranting “Oh but Snoop you clearly don’t understand”; ok I’m trying to write this piece with a straight face.
How can Liberals make such a morally ignorant symbol? It’s really quite simple. First off, to a liberal, history is mutable. History to be valid has to be reinterpreted by each generation and by each “oppressed minority”. You end up with no history at all, unless it is in the Orwellian sense of constant reinvention to suit the causes of the immediate present.
Facts don’t matter much either. Facts are hard and cold, results don’t matter, only intentions. How else can a bloody-handed murderer like Che Guevara still remain a cool lefty icon? So what if Castro runs real gulags and Guevara was his hangman? Castro brought free health care and education to Cuba.
It’s all about emotions. Liberals have to be constantly outraged, they feel the need to express their outrage by outraging others. Why else would a picture of a crucifix and a beaker of piss be considered great art and a murderous human being is considered a fashion statement.
However I am scolded once again because I foolishly believe that my political ideals and values are manufactured and I engage in “conservative negro hysterics.” I just don’t have a suitable symbol for my hysterics.
Well then I guess I need a “symbol” that I can wear to proudly show the world my conservative Negro hysterics, maybe a Booker T. Washington t-shirt!
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