Bobby Rush, that is. You probably noticed Bobby when, on March 28th. he wore a “hoodie” on the floor of the House Of Representatives and rambled half-incoherently about the Trayvon Martin shooting, only desisting after being “bum’s-rushed“ off the House floor.
The inimitable Mr. Rush had tried to lecture America about racism and gun control, two subjects on which he, admittedly, can speak with some authority. Racism, because this congressman of nearly 20 years had been a militantly racist Black Panther, and gun control because in 1969 he served six months in jail for illegal weapons possession. Apparently, since becoming a legislator, Rushy has gotten religion. But, then again, don’t they all?
Rush asserted that Trayvon had been shot because he wore a hoodie.
I beg to differ. Trayvon was shot because of the bimp subculture. Those who read Barack Obama, Identity, and Racial Hypocrisy in America know that I coined the term “bimp” to mean black inner-city male persona, a persona mostly referring to so-called “gangsta” lifestyle.
The gangsta subculture celebrates crude, racist, sexist rap music, hyper-masculine, criminal behavior, misogynistic treatment of women, and, of course, rap garb of which the hoodie is the essential marker. Skim through NBA magazines or watch a couple surveillance camera videos of crime scenes and you undoubtedly will see a snarling hooded face staring back at you.
You might now be thinking that all bimps, by definition, are black, but, if so, you are wrong. Ninety-eight percent of black people are no more bimp than I am. There certainly are whites and persons of every race and ethnicity who qualify for bimp “status.” Not skin color or ethnicity, but behavior makes a bimp a bimp. Even some females fit the criteria.
Bimp is associated with African Americans because it was pioneered by a handful of them and reinforced by an army of mostly white media and mostly white elitist opinion-makers. Media and elitist whites always are on the prowl for any way to garner attention and make money. How could they let the attention-grabbing bimp subculture go unexploited? Even if they had, there always are black identity slavemasters—the Bobby Rushes, Jesse Jacksons, and Al Sharptons—who will define as black-obligatory any money-making persona, behavior, or activity that draws a sharp distinction between what is black versus white, anything that divides rather than unites the races.
If Bobby Rush wants to spearhead a movement to counter the senseless murder of Trayvon Martin, I suggest that he organize against the bimp subculture. That would require him to switch sides as he claims he had done about possession of illegal firearms, to figuratively speaking, take off his hoodie, and encourage his constituents to do so as well or, in Spike Lee’s words, simply to “do the right thing.”
Lest you think that I do not agree with anything that Bobby Rush ever has said, I want to quote what I believe are some of the most perspicacious comments ever spoken regarding Barack Hussein Obama. To quote Mr. Rush in the year 2000: “Barack Obama went to Harvard and became an educated fool. Barack is a person who read about the civil-rights protests and thinks he knows all about it."
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