Pod people

Aaaand the beat goes on, despite America beating it briskly about the head and neck in the mid-terms a week ago.

Down in Mississippi, where the state just elected a black United States Senator for first time in 145 years, a couple of dopey white sorority girls got caught on a ring camera making monkey noises outside the apartment of three black women,  and now the usual suspects are raising thousands in defense of their inalienable right to be racist nitwits.

Meanwhile, in Indiana …

Some podcaster dude podcasting for a podcast covering Center Grove High School athletics (but which has no affiliation with the school) thought it would be cute to indulge tired racist tropes about black people ahead of this week’s regional football game between predominantly white Center Grove and predominantly black Warren Central.

Joked that a lot of the Warren Central kids were ignorant sumbitches who couldn’t read, the Pod People did. Said some of the football players were actually 20 or 21 years old.  Said there are young kids in the school system who aren’t as young as they should be for the grade they’re in.

Yeesh. You’d think these people could come up with some new material after all this time. But, nah.

Now, those sorority girls down at Ole Miss, that’s just a case of kids not being raised right. Ditto whoever’s defending them — seriously, the Magic Intertoobz are crawling with their defenders right now — and whoever’s giving them Go Fund Me money because, doggone it, the little darlings are being persecuted for their beliefs.

Or some such thing.

But those podcasters in Indiana?

The main guy broadcast a public apology/non-apology that somehow made things worse, saying, aw, shucks, fellas, we were just trash-talking a little.

Holy schnikies. And they were questioning the Warren Central kids’ intelligence? 

‘Cause it takes a special kind of stupid to spew not only racist garbage, but painfully unoriginal racist garbage. And then semi-defend it. It’s as if the Pod People portaled back to 1866 or ‘67, listened to some sheet-wearing unreconstructed Confederates, and said “Boy, this is great stuff! Can’t wait to use it on the podcast!”

And, OK, so maybe that’s being a trifle overreactive, and thus plays into America’s current fondness for overreaction. But you know something?

The kicker to all this is Warren Central already beat Center Grove in the regular season. And the Warriors are unbeaten and ranked No. 2 in Class 6A. And Friday’s game is at Warren Central.

All of which means it takes a REALLY special kind of stupid to hand an unbeaten team that’s already beaten you bulletin board material a couple of days before you play them again.

Makes you want to give the Pod People a reading comprehension test, doesn’t it?

Also makes you wish Center Grove’s coach, who cannot be happy about this, would haul them out to the practice field and make him run gassers until his tongue’s painting the turf.

Oh, yeah.