The Humor Mill April 2015 | Page 38

By Darryl Litteton I’ve done a lot of things in my short 73 years on this planet. I’ve washed cars, sold men’s cloths, ladies handbags, waterfall candles, vibrating pillows, security alarm systems, security bars (for people who didn’t want to buy the alarms), real estate, mortgages and pens by the gross. I’ve written for radio, TV and film. I’ve produced for all the mediums, authored books, traveled the world doing stand-up, lecturing, mentoring and managed to crank out a couple of kids along the way. I’m bored. So I’ve decided to run for president. I know I won’t win. That’s the point. I really don’t want to be president. I want to be the Vice-President, but you can’t run for number 2. You have to make it look like you want to be the big cheese. Make it appear you can run the world where all you really want is free housing, a jet and VIP seating at Congressional gatherings. Let the other sucker worry about opinion polls. Give me Joe Biden’s job and with me in place nobody would dare harm old Hillary (and I do mean old). You think America really wants another black president? You think anybody black really wants to be president? That’s why I’ll be a shoe-in because it doesn’t matter who Hillary h as with her on the ticket. All I’ve got to do is run so there’s a second place to pick. So my paperwork is filed and I’m ready to do the do. Barack got over on rhetoric and if nothing else I do have rhetoric. The Republicans, on the other hand, have nothing and nobody and a whole lot of both. The GOP field this time out is even more laughable than 2012. In that debacle of a primary season you had elitists, a coon, several confused senators, a handful of ignorant governors and a teasing Donald Trump. 38 This time not much has changed (Trump still teases) with none of the new candidates being anywhere remotely close to being a friend to the black man. Not that any past presidential campaigns have ever dwelled on or vetted that aspect of a candidates qualifications, but this is the Humor Mill and should address what’s really important to its core audience. Do you like niggas? Let’s start with Jeb Bush. Nobody really wants this sucker. Nobody. He wasn’t on a secret dream list anywhere. He‘s merely the best the Establishment have at the moment, but they want him as much as they want another go round with Mitt Romney (who we know is no friend to the black man; especially the Ivy League one that beat the snot out of him in 2012) So let’s get it straight - Nobody wants Jeb Bush. He’s pudgy, a fat head and his last name is Bush. Now as a comedian I have no problem with it. I relish the opportunity to poke fun at another Bush for at least 4 more years. His brother’s tenure were golden days for humorists around the globe. Jeb would be just as much fun; as well as give us the never-thought-of-seriously opportunity to dust off old jokes about his old dustier wrinkle-bodied mama and boulder-head daddy. But the main point is Jeb is no buddy to Blacks. In 1994 Bush launched an unsuccessful bid for the Governor's office. He ran that year as a conservative, and a notable moment in this campaign was when Bush was asked what he would do for African Americans if he gets elected, responding: "It’s time to strive for a society where there’s equality of opportunity, not equality of results. So I’m going to answer your question by saying: probably nothing." Bush lost the election by only 63,940 votes out of 4,206,076 that were cast for the major party candidates. He’ll more-than-likely lose by a close margin to Hillary next year, but lose he will. And so those laugh-filled future days of ragging on him and his dysfunctional ass Kennedywannabes- yet-more- successful- on- the- dynastytip family will probably never crystalize.