about PHIL ROBERTSON'S GQ article

"I have read this controversial article, and did not walk away in a huff. There was too much to listen to, weigh, and contemplate because of the style of writing, the content and the person interviewed, and the personality and religious bent of the author and the subject Phil Robertson. What I understand about the South, race, innuendo, sexual politics, world and national history, poor white trash, Jim Crow, sexism, fundamentalism, faith and poverty left me with an open mind to listen to Phil Robertson.

In this century my need to hear the stories of white folks who lived before integration was law is very important. Their voices like the voices of slaves in the 1870's were shunted to the side, and how, or if they could heal was of no importance to the dominant culture as those two groups squeak out a living and struggled internally with elements of truth, lies and contradictions that Phil Robertson subtly informed us when he said in the GQ article, “I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field.... They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.” Or maybe this quote of his was not dissected publicly because the average person today does not have the historical basis to grasp, understand, and think about the many things he said in a few sentences? Or perhaps the silence on the subject he smoothly addressed by Blacks and whites is indicative of something ominous for Black Americans? Maybe Black Americans are no longer relevant??

That being said the first thing shocking to me in this interview was in the first paragraph, and it came from Drew Magary, the author. In the first paragraph his insult was degrading, and directed at the core of womanhood, femininity, and there was not a peep, or an outcry by women. I shouldn't be surprised. Women in this day and time in this country posture in the strength of their economic gains, political power, and social status, but the framework of what works against them is solidly in place. I am not going to point out the glaring insult. Why do that? Protecting the grounds of the Gay Movement gains more points than the profundity of the Sacred Feminine, which is not a reality in the visual or the spiritual concepts, but is an embryo in the form of the possibility of ascension.

These are my words. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.26.13

What The Duck?

Drew Magary (@drewmagary) 
is a GQ correspondent and a staff writer for Deadspin.



Let’s start with the crossbow, because the crossbow is huge. I’m sitting in the passenger seat of a camo-painted ATV, rumbling through the northern Louisiana backwoods with Phil Robertson, founder of the Duck Commander company, patriarch at the heart of A&E’s smash reality hit Duck Dynasty, and my tour guide for the afternoon. There are seat belts in this ATV, but it doesn’t look like they’ve ever been used. Phil is not wearing one. I am not wearing one, because I don’t want Phil to think I’m a pussy. (Too late!) The crossbow—a Barnett model equipped with a steel-tipped four-blade broadhead arrow—is perched on the dash between us. It looks like you could shoot through a goddamn mountain with it.

“That’ll bury up in you and kill you dead,” Phil says.

The bow is cocked and loaded, just in case a deer stumbles in front of us and we need to do a redneck drive-by on the poor bastard, but the safety is on. SAFETY FIRST. Still, Phil warns me, “You don’t want to be bumping that.”

As we drive out into the woods, past a sign that reads parish maintenance ends, Phil is telling me all about the land around us and how the animals are a glorious gift from God and how blowing their heads off is part of His plan for us.

“Look at this,” he says, gesturing to the surrounding wilderness. “The Almighty gave us this. Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that’s when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian. After the flood, he said, ‘I’m giving you everything now. Animals are wild.’”



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