Daily PUMA Column - Commentary by Alessandro Machi

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Governor Newsom, Ralph Northam, the "Photo", and Hogan's Heroes.

DailyPUMA would like to point out the Hypocrisy of Newly Elected California Governor Gavin Newsome being "forgiven" for his affair with a Subordinate's Wife while he was Mayor of San Francisco, while Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is supposed to resign for wearing Blackface in the 80's. According to the wife of the Husband who had the affair with Mr. Newsome, Me Too does not apply because she consented to the affair and felt no pressure. All conveniently wrapped up in a bow because at the end of the day, it was just a Subordinate White Guy Husband who apparently has no standing or victimization, er, because he is after all from White Privilege and we all know that Whites have no Civil Rights to violate nor be victimized by the Actions of others, because um, their White! So Newsome gets to resume his career, the wife can't be blamed for the utter betrayal of her own marriage, and since White Guys are never victims, the husband can just shuck it up. 

Besides the ridiculous double standard that may be partially rooted as to whether the Alleged Victim is Black or White; and besides the supplanting of the Statute of Limitations; Another Disturbing aspect to the Demand that Virginia Governor Northam be removed from office one way or another is there have been no accusations that Mr. Northam has ever acted in a Racist Manner. Can't we at least connect the photo to some other actions that prove racial insensitivity?

The Image of two people, one in a KKK attire, the other in Black Face, reminds me of the 70's Television Show Hogan's Heroes.

Hogan's Heroes premise of a comedy about Prisoners in a German Prison of War Camp during World War II is utterly preposterous, yet the show somehow tap danced the line of comedy with the underlying tone that the War was bad and Prisoners defeating their German Captors was still in the Hearts and Minds of the Episodic Plots.

Perhaps the key to Hogan's Heroes success was the cartoonish  spoofing and characterizations of the German Officers and Hogan's obvious yet kept under wraps contempt for his German counterparts. 

Just as the German Captors tended to be one dimensional and mocked on Hogan's Heroes, isn't it possible that the picture of the BlackFace and KKK garb was mocking a prior time period, not as being funny, but as being obscenely wrong?

Photographically recreating a past wrong does not mean one is condoning it.

How do we not know if the TV show Hogans Heroes itself did not influence the Photo since the Photo was taken many years AFTER Hogan's Heroes had been on the air.

Show me more than a photo if the aim is to disregard, discredit, and change the memory, achievements and reputation of any person.



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