"There Ain't No Bat" and There Ain't No Black Fascists Either!

Like many people, once I see a movie I have no desire to view it again; that is, in most cases. Of course, books are quite a different thing as they are a gift that can be opened over and over again and be just as new as the first time. However, in the case of movies there are exceptions to the rule; there are always exceptions to the rule. I am known for stating that "the only thing that is absolute, is that nothing is absolute” (an original quote, mind you).

There are two movies that I have seen over a thousand times. Quite literally. One is Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas." The other is the first (actually second) "Batman" movie starring Michael Keaton as The Batman. And, if the movie weren't good enough, Prince (RIP) did the soundtrack. Oh joy!

Pursuant to full and unadulterated disclosure, one of the worst “whippings” (more like beatings) I ever received was resultant of my childhood adoration for Batman. I have always been a “crusader” of sorts. However, that is a story for another time, another place.

You can take Salem out of the country but, you can’t take the country out of Salem.

In the first movie of the Batman "franchise" starring Keaton, the opening scene is of two thugs that rob a family in an alley. They go to a nearby rooftop to divvy up the meager loot. As they do so, one of them is nervous and scared of "da Bat" as Batman has been sighted recently and bad guys have met some rather unfortunate ends. His partner is dismissive of the "da Bat" and belittles him by telling him he is foolish. His nervous counterpart says to him "but what about Johnny Gobbs?" Apparently, ole Johnny took a leap of off a roof and there was no blood in the body or on the ground. His dismissive partner tells him Johnny got loaded and fell off of the roof. The scared, nervous guy continues to say he wants to get off of the roof. Finally, his dismissive partner in crime tells him "Shut up! There... ain't... no... bat! Shut...up!"

There ain't no Bat.

Ain't no Black fascists either.

Since the election of Donald “Agent Orange” Trump, it has been as though I’ve been in a time-warp. As a word nerd and, thusly, wordsmith, I have been morbidly fascinated by the exhumation of terms that hearken back to my days of world history in high school. My world history teacher was also my first football coach and he was as iron-fisted as a teacher as he was a head coach. Seems that all of my teachers and, later, professors were like that.

Lucky me.

Bill Holiday, semi-affectionately known as “Doc,” was truly engrossed and fascinated by “world” history. Now, “world” means European, to the European. He would drone on and on until he stopped; and when he stopped, he would assign chapters for his students to read. As a student, one would have a very brief period of time to marry lecture with textbook. Then you would be tested. Brutally tested.

Until the election of Agent Orange, I had long since mercifully forgotten the days of Coach Holiday’s world history class. Perhaps it was even repression, of sorts. Terms like The Hapsburgs (and their inbreeding), The Ottoman Empire, oligarchs, autocrats, plutocrats, fascism, authoritarianism and Marxism (I am fond of Karl) had been happily relegated and buried in the cobwebbed, dark and musty recesses of my mind.

To my chagrin and unwitting reality, fate has required exhumation of same.

Fascism

The word fascism comes from fascio, the Italian word for bundle, which in this case represents bundles of people. Its origins go back to Ancient Rome, when the fasces was a bundle of wood with an ax head, carried by leaders.

Rome has always been bad news for Alkebulanians, Original Americans (both of which are my ancestors) and other “people of color.” This is evidenced by the modern day equivalent of Ancient Rome; the United States and “The West.” Truth be told I, apparently, have some Roman/European ancestors as well, but they are a criminal default resultant of rape and, thereby, are not only irrelevant and unacknowledged, but loathed.

Fascism is the political viewpoint that one's nation and race are superior to all others. Since “race” is a European construct…well, you know where this is going. This, by definition, excludes “people of color” from being fascists as do so many other things. Fascism is “a mass political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism, militarism, and the supremacy of both the nation and the single, powerful leader over the individual citizen. Fascist movements in Europe were the set of various fascist ideologies which were practiced by governments and political organizations in Europe during the 20th century. Fascism was born in Italy following World War I, and other fascist movements, influenced by Italian Fascism, subsequently emerged across Europe.

Okie dokie.

Fascism was founded in 1919 by Benito Mussolini. Fascism led to World War II. Fascism was also relevant in World War I, though in its embryonic, undefined stages. The projected "World War III", beginning in Ukraine is less than a days drive from Poland; virtually the same distance away as the geographic distance between World War I and World War II. Both wars were auspiciously to "fight fascism" which is the same rubbish propagandized today. There has never been a black fascist nor oligarch. More "innocent" black and brown people, that have zero interest in Ukraine, are dying than there have been "brave" Ukrainians dying. The "world" sees this.

These "world" wars were not skirmishes that involved the world's majority, yet the world's majority always ends up paying the heaviest price as in the current state of affairs. For instance, in World War I (From 1915), the Europeans began conscripting thousands of Alkebulanian men. The French alone sent 450,000 Alkebulanian soldiers from their colonies in West and North Alkebulan to fight against Germany on the frontline in Europe. In World War II (a war of which my Arkansas born Grandfather was a wounded veteran) hundreds of thousands of West Alkebulanian soldiers were sent to the front in Europe. Countless men from the British colonies had to serve as bearers and in other non-combatant roles. In France, Germany and Italy, in India, Burma or on the Pacific islands, Alkebulanian soldiers died for their European colonial masters. World War I began in Bosnia, which is less than a day's drive, about 15 hours, from Poland; the flash-point of World War II.

Like a reanimated zombie, fascism and the long dead terms from Doc Holiday’s world history class have come back from the dead; with a vengeance. They are personified in Agent Orange Trump, Beebee Nut-and-yahoo, Vicktor Orban and a bunch of other crack-pot white boys. And just like it was before their ideological interment, the world’s majority will pay the price for their zombie apocalypse.

Hopefully, this time, upon the vanquishment of their barbarous ideology and murderous penchants the world’s majority will place the equivalent of a silver bullet right between the eyes of their humanitarian indifference, racial hatred and homicidal tendencies. The sickly-sweet stench of their exhumation is causing global nauseouness. The rivers of vomit pursuant to their exhumation is not only unbearable, but unacceptable. The starkness of a meager 12 percent of the world’s population constantly imperiling the global majority with sick and twisted ideologies has to cease and desist.

“There ain’t no bat,” and there ain’t no Black fascists, either.