…saying “they beâ€? when they mean “they are,â€?…

That is, like, so true. There is, like, no way that, like, white people would ever mangle the English language in, like, any way. Y’all are just, like, angry at Burt for pointing out the truth and stuff.

Well, I think it also includes:

Condi
Clarence Thomas
Michael Steele
Lyn Swann
Armstrong Williams
That crazy preacher dude wingers always wheel out to slam Jesse Jackson

And Colin Powell was on the list until he got all uppity.

Seriously, keep it shut!

Therefore the Shorter Burt Prelutsky: I like Black people, but I hate the Black people who seem to me inferior, which is pretty much all of them. And only when I can make that statement without being mislabled as a racist will we truly have a colorblind society.

Ouch. Thanks. I needed that. Apols. to Jack, etc.

There were a lot more than four. The Cleopatra of renown, lover of Caesar and Marc Antony, was the seventh Cleopatra of the Ptolemaic (Macedonian, not Greek) dynasty. There were also several Seluecid Cleopatras, a sister of Alexander named Cleopatra and a wife of Phillip II (not the mother of Alexander and the previously mentioned Cleopatra). There were also two Cleopatra Selenes, the daughter and grand-daughter of Cleopatra VII and Marc Antony.

The vast majority of these women were, most likely, blonde haired, light skinned and grey or blue eyed like most Macedonians who were far fairer than the Greeks to their south. Don’t tell Mark Noonan, but these Macedonian succesor dynasties were really into shtupping their siblings so there wasn’t much, if any, non-Macedonian blood in Cleopatra (and her competence would be a fair argument that incest isn’t neccesarilly a bad thing). Her daughter was probably darker since Marcus Antonius, like many Romans, was a fairly dusky guy.

And back then, nickels had a bee on ‘em! “Gimme twenty bees,” we’d say. In fact, I wore a twenty pound beard of bees for that woman, but she didn’t care.

Wait. Where was I? Oh, yeah. I think a colorblind society would be a pretty cool thing, too. You could call me a conservative if you wanted, but then that screed I did over on my poli blog about conservatives would apply to me, and I’d have to cry.

I didn’t bury a link. I’ve given up blogwhoring for the next five minutes, at least.

“Niggers!”

I hope I’m wrong but, this Burt Prelutsky may have written or co-written some classic episodes of M*A*S*H back in the ’70s.

Actually, if I remember correctly, he wrote the entire first season of “Branded”.

Holmes!