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When I arrived at the home for retired racial stereotypes in Hollywood last week, Buckwheat and the Kingfish were poring over a blueprint. "Here we is," squeaked Buckwheat, beckoning me over. "These are the plans for our new branch, the Home for Racial Stereotypers Who Ought to Seek Early Retirement. We're naming it after Don Imus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imus 'n' Andy | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...Kingfish agreed. "But this time it's white politicians in South Carolina who're making fools of themselves by claiming that the Confederate battle flag doesn't have anything to do with slavery and segregation! They say they're just trying to honor their 'Southern heritage' by flying it over the statehouse. Now, that's really STUPID! Everybody knows that until Martin Luther King Jr. came along, the so-called Southern Way of Life that the flag symbolizes was based on keeping black folks separate and unequal. Pretending otherwise is ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Confederacy of Dunces | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...Maybe they need psychological counseling, like that baseball player John Rocker," mused the Kingfish. "He hasn't said anything crazier than the vile remark from state senator Arthur Ravenel, who called the N.A.A.C.P. the 'National Association of Retarded People' for opposing the flag. The next day he apologized to retarded people, but he hasn't told the N.A.A.C.P. he was sorry. Talk about STUPID...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Confederacy of Dunces | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...Maybe that's because the white folks are afraid the government would have to pay reparations to African Americans if they fessed up about what their ancestors did to our ancestors," said Kingfish. "Brother White, didn't you calculate a couple of years ago that the due bill for slavery could be as much as $24 trillion? I sho' could use my share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Confederacy of Dunces | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...being STUPID, Kingfish?" said the Frito Bandito, as he began to deal the next hand. "If you could ever get white folks to admit that black folks are owed reparations for slavery, they'd probably try to pay it off with Confederate money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Confederacy of Dunces | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

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