Hello this is my first discussion post. Long time lurker from the reddit days just recently joined here.
Alright to the topic.
I'm sure all of you are familiar with the story "The Grasshopper and the Ant". After seeing an old Disney cartoon of the story this afternoon I'm looking at it in a new light. While not, I would guess, Aesops original intent I believe this could be an interesting lesson in race differences as well as hard work. To put it plainly the grasshopper is a nigger. (And not just because he can jump high)
First I'll deal with the grasshopper
* * Like most blacks the grasshopper does not plan for the future; frittering away his time on pleasure and saving nothing for the hard winter months.
* * He derides the industrious ants for working hard to store food for the winter
* *In the cartoon when winter does come and the grasshopper is starving he goes to the ants for help, which the ants provide. In the story the grasshopper learns a lesson. In real life not so much. Except perhaps that that well intentioned ants(whites) will provide for you.
Now to the Ants.
* * The ants do plan for the winter ahead, storing food so they can provide for everyone in the colony
* * The ants value hard work and work cooperatively to complete their goal. All ants have a job be they farmers, trash men, or soldiers
* * The ants are altruistic where it appears the grasshopper would most likely not be were the situation reversed
Some other differences not apropos to the story; Grasshoppers do not build. Neither nest nor structures of any kind, swarming only to mate, and consume, think locust; whereas ants build intricate and sometimes very large colonies all through precise communication and cooperation. Ant have clear hierarchical social structures. Grass hoppers by and large are solitary. I'm sure I could go on but I'm no entomologist. And I don't want anyone to think I'm down on grasshoppers. Unlike niggers they're an important part of the our natural world.
P.S. sorry for the crappy formatting.
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[–] AlphaWookie ago
Glad to have you out of the shadows. I hope to someday drink with you in the halls of Valhalla.