Guyana Chronicle New York Edition Week-ending October 21, 2016
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WITH MICHAEL DEREK ROBERTS robertsconsulting@gmx.com * (347) 279-6668 In recent days the American mainstream media has been dominated and fascinated by video about Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump's boastful, raunchy, mouthing-off about his being entitled to grope women's private parts in some very vulgar and colorful sexually explicit language. Of course, social media erupted into a maelstrom of pros and cons, for and against, literally wiping out news coverage of a powerful hurricane that killed 15 in the United States and over 500 in Haiti. Almost on cue Trump's statements, made when he was about 60 years old, suddenly rose to the level of malignant sexual abuse. And the condemnations came swift, sharp, self-serving and unrelenting. So was the chronic hypocrisy. But let me first clarify my position. men - Black, White or other - engage in Trump's statements, including those dis- with their peers EVERY DAY — day in paraging a former Miss Universe, and — day out to more lesser degrees. To preother obnoxious anti-female utterings tend that this is somehow alarming and he's made, in my view, amount to the be- unusual, and out of place — and anomaly, havior of an extremely insecure man, who if you will — is to be a blithering hypdespite his money and accomplishments, ocrite. suffers greatly from an acute case of low To understand Americans today reself-esteem, a severe inferiority complex quires one to become versed in a lot of and crippling insecurity. Then there is the things: Our attitudes to sports, sitcoms, hypocrisy of those who have historically loving our pets as family, our fixation enabled Trump for so long and who now with "stars" and superheroes, and our seek to destroy the Frankenstein monster numbness to endemic and systemic comthat they so carefully, deliberately and munity violence. But to really understand happily created with such political aban- Americans we must dive into the deep don and alacrity. Still, all this does not in depths of our hypocrisy. For example, we any way excuse Trump's asinine behav- lie about religion, pretending to love ior. peace and meekness as "good Christians," For sure, Donald Trump is a bully while reaching near orgasmic heights, and a coward; a man-boy still prone to while watching men in thighs violently pitching marbles and throwing finger- knock each other down on a football field. sucking tantrums. Tie's a bloviating nin- We lecture other nations about drug use compoop and political charlatan. And the and abuse, when we abuse and are Republican Party has known this for over hooked on so many drugs, that a large two decades — 20 years now. They knew number of us walk around each day in a about his chronic bed-hopping and zombified, drug-hazed stupor. woman-shaming activities long before he But nowhere is American hypoc-risy sought the presidency of the United uglier and evident than when it comes to States. So to behave as if these new video sex. Yes, we are doing it; but so many revelations are so shocking to top mem- Americans object to doing it that this opbers of the Republican Party is breadth- position to other people having sex, taking hypocrisy and the American drives American politics. American politipeople should call them out on it. That cians, ignorant of the Bible AND Christidoes not take away from the fact that anity, would legislate about whom to love Trump's behavior is utterly despicable or sleep with, rather than fixing the econand reprehensible - it just further explains omy, creating jobs, and other serious isthe complicity of his party and its supine, sues. Republicans and Democrats are whorishness by turning a blind eye to his willing to spite a majority of people and ugly dalliances and engaging in such en- the country by promoting and egging on abling behavior. an anti-gay and anti-choice agenda. Using But perhaps the most revolting thing sex as a political tool, they have created about this latest Trump fumble - and I'm false narratives, to rile up just as ignorant NOT defending him - is the hypocrisy religious people to vote against their and repressed sexual hang-ups of people neighbor's right to use birth control and on television, behaving as if his state- abortion, or their neighbor's right to have ments are somehow so far-fetched, and sex with someone of the same gender. out of place in American society today, Today, in the process of one of the as to be closely aligned with leprosy. For most divisive and quirky presidential me. Trump's gutter-mouth actions and elections, American prudery means that statements arc reprehensible for a man of both our tabloid and actual news media 70-years-old, who has grown children - are regularly and consistently dominated including daughters. But his statements by sex scandals. As the sexual hypocrites are hardly uncommon. In fact, they can be pontificate and stake out positions, diheard in great regularity and abundance vorced from the American reality, debate in EVERY bar in the United States. And on these scandals are conducted as if the the truth be told, this is the kind of ado- entire media establishment was run by lescent conversation that MOST young
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18th century middle-aged sweater-knitting spinsters. Trump's sex-laden video and dirty statements are interpreted and spun as if they were witnessing a drunkon-vodka, mooning college freshman, hell-bent on engaging in flagrante delicto with a barnyard animal -preferably a sow. You'd think with the springs going out on our fainting sofas that we are a nation whose bedsprings got no wear and tear, but you'd be wrong. Polls tell us that a majority of Americans have sex 2.3 times a week and 19 out of 20 Americans have sex before marriage in full violation of every Sunday, Christian admonish-
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— ments against such behavior. We like to have sex for pleasure and we also like to mix it up — there is a rapid rise in Americans now admitting to anal sex. AND we LOVE porn AND the conservatives (read Republicans) who denounce other people's sexual choices and activities as "good Christians" some, are even more avid porn consumers that the rest of us. WHAT A BUNCH OF SEXUALLY REPRESSED HYPOCRITES! Americans, even today, continue to (continued on page 25)
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