VERA LYNN & the N WORD

once a young revolutionary, he died an old Uncle Tom 

Vera Lynn died last week, aged 103, of a broken neck.

A series of neck-wrenching shifts in politeness over her long lifetime finally did her in.

For, all her life, Dame Vera tried to be polite, tried to do the right thing.

Even as a child, she never called anyone a n-g-e- or b-a-k : always a c-l-r-d as was then correct and polite.

But then a new generation of leadership dismissed the old leaders as Uncle Toms for tolerating the use of c-l-r-d : Booker T Washington and W E B Du Bois didn’t like those terms, felt them to be offensive.

Better we call ourselves n-g-o or even N-g-o : so gradually more and more N-g-os did just that.

Then a new generation led by Stokely Carmichael kicked out that once young leadership, to replace them with themselves : the wheel had turned and b-a-k or B-a-k was once again popular.

New leaders always steal all the best jobs by calling yesterday’s once-young-revolutionaires “Uncle Toms”.

Always have and always will : political correctness is always a naked power grab, using words not guns to gain the good jobs in life.

That famous book about Quebec politics was retitled “The White B-a-ks of America”. (Too bad no one told Wendy Mesley that.)

But all too soon a new generation of leaders called Stokely an Uncle Tom and said B-a-k was offensive, : we are A-r-c-n A-e-i-a-s.

Kids : don’t call A-e-i-a-ns of G-r-a-n descent G-r-a-n A-e-i-a-ns though, its offensive.

Just wait a few decades : N-g-o will have returned to favour.

But Vera couldn’t wait : cashed in her chips.

Can’t say I’d blame her....