The Bimp Culture and The Colorado Shooter

The art of an epoch tells us much about the ethos of the times.  Baby boomer generation songs mostly concerned love and propriety.  We all remember Wake Up Little Suzie-like numbers:

Wake up, little Susie, wake up

Wake up, little Susie, wake up

We’ve both been sound asleep, wake up, little Susie, and weep

The movie’s over, it’s four o’clock, and we’re in trouble deep

Wake up little Susie

Wake up little Susie, well

Whatta we gonna tell your mama

Whatta we gonna tell your pa

Whatta we gonna tell our friends when they say “ooh-la-la”

Wake up little Susie

Wake up little Susie, well

Fast forward to today and we find songs like this:

Fuck You

(Chorus)

I see you driving 'round town

With the girl I love and I'm like,

Fuck you!

Oo, oo, ooo

I guess the change in my pocket

Wasn't enough I'm like,

Fuck you!

And fuck her too!

I said, if I was richer, I'd still be with ya

Ha, now ain't that some shit? (ain't that some shit?)

And although there's pain in my chest

I still wish you the best with a...

Fuck you!

Oo, oo, ooo

So, what degenerate would write or sing a song like that?  Cee-Lo Green, a black rap “artist” that Barack Hussein Obama has praised and who has been an Obama fundraiser. According to ABC News, March 16, 2012, Green even had the arrogance to start singing the Fuck You song for an Obama campaign event at the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia.

The generational divide is just as stark concerning motion pictures.  The guy in the black hat now is the hero, the anti-civility and/or anti-American hero.  That brings me to the impetus for this blog: When I accessed the IMBd movie site—a site that reviews and rates motion pictures—I was struck by the contrast between the Batman (1966) movie poster and the Dark Knight Rises (2012) poster.  Nineteen sixty-six showed a photo of physically normal-looking Batman and Robin staring forward with bright bluish background, nothing sinister.  Twenty-twelve, on the other hand, depicted a black, shadowy, Kevlar muscle-coated Batman standing with clenched fists in front of an explosion; above him in upper-case font was written, “A FIRE WILL RISE.”   We find then that the “good guy” has become “bad,” and we are expected to regard that as good.

Twenty-four-year-old James Eagan Holmes, the Batman movie shooter, has been reared in what I call a bimp-oriented society that celebrates asociality and violence.  To refresh your memory, “bimp” is an acronym for black inner-city male persona.  A bimp is an aggressive, narcissistic, psychopathic-like, if not frankly psychopathic, gang-banger personality.  The media feed our children a steady diet of bimp behavior in the form of rap music and hostility-laden books, television, and movies.  Anyone who speaks-out against bimps is labeled as a racist, as though opposing bimps means opposing all black people.  In fact, some white people maintain the bimp demeanor and very few black people are bimps. It is persona and not skin color that determines who is and who isn’t a bimp.

I am not saying that James Eagan Holmes is a bimp.  I firmly believe that he merely is crazy, probably Schizophrenic.  But crazy people express their insanity in a cultural context.  Holmes has grown up in a society wherein violent, asocial bimps receive an inordinate share of attention; the Batman shooter acted out his psychopathology, either deliberately or inadvertently, so as to make the most of his moment in the spotlight, just as crotch-holding, expletive-spewing rap stars do.  

After all, President Barack Obama provided a legitimate political platform from which Cee-Lo Green sang his Fuck You song and got national media exposure.  And who could forget that Obama championed the political career of hate-mongering Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones, the Administration’s former Special Advisor for Green Jobs.  Van Jones’ own rap label, called Freedom Fighter Records, has supported racist criminals including convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal.

When a United States president celebrates uncivil and extremist elements, he sets the tone for the one-time violence that occurred in Aurora, Colorado and for the daily gang-banging and murdering that occurs every day in Barack Obama’s Chicago and throughout majority black inner-cities across the nation.