Capoeira - or Pervasive evidence of the Stupidity of White Folk

Warning - offensive material ahead, especially for you crackers out there. As an avid observer of history, I'm all for leveling the playing field culturally - anyone who knows my political views know this. While I think that affirmative action and all are good things to have, I think that the emphasis should be placed elsewhere. White supremists and ethnocentrists alike have been espousing the inferiority of other races for eons. Not only were they wrong, they didn't take into account the stupid acts they(white folk) commited. Context, people! Why aren't there academic scholars devoting their lives and research to Caucasians and the stupid things they've done? Why are they focusing on trying to convince us that the Hopi Indians are just as great as the Romans? Those in cultural studies need to reassess their values and priorities. I, for one, as a former anthorpology student will start off on this virtuous task We non-crackers have been shit on for far too long and I for one am about to shit back! (That didn't come out like I had intented and stop thinking what you're thinking).

Recently, I went to a capoeira demonstration. For those of you who don't know, capoeira is a form of Brazilian martial art/dance. Brazilian slaves devised an entire fighting system under the radar of their masters by masking the moves with song and dance. Now, I've always heard about it and have since been intrigued by the notion. Just the sheer fact that it survived attests to its success in transmitting this art covertly. I was much less impressed once I finally saw a demonstration of capoeira. Apparently, these slaves didn't try too hard in terms of masking their true intent. It's about as thinly veiled as the current administration's justifications for attacking Irag - No, we're not here for the oil.... It's just coincidence that right after the fall of Iraq, the first thing we secured were all things oil related. Sewage, crucial infrastructure needed for rebuilding Iraq? No, oil. That's enough of my political diatribe.

So, back to capoeira. Visualize this: A bunch of people are singing, playing big-ass instruments that look like an archery bow with a major goiter issue....so these guys are grooving to the music. Suddenly, people start pairing up and start air-punching and kicking each other! Between a few kicks and punches, they would shake their booties and such in order to remind everyone that they're just dancing. The more athletic ones would turn kicks into summersaults. Um, yeah like that's going to fool me but then again, MY PEOPLE DIDN'T OWN SLAVES! We're the ones who first came to understand basic truths like KARMA and knew better than to enslave others. The last time one of us tried that shit, they paid dearly (WWII Japan).