May 2, 2018

"He wanted to be a neighborhood saint. He's a middle-class, white-privileged saint. He believes he's beloved."

Overheard at Meadhouse.

Can't tell you the context. You're on your own. 

32 comments:

Tommy Duncan said...

Paul Soglin?

Tommy Duncan said...

Chuck?

ARM?

John henry said...

Maybe this "saint" can do something to help blacks cope with Madison's racism

Naaaah...

John Henry

Freeman Hunt said...

Overheard a neighbor saying that?

Sydney said...

I know people like that.

Tank said...

Doh, Zero of course.

Unknown said...

Tommy beat me to Soglin

exhelodrvr1 said...

Tom Brokaw, if the "middle class" in the quote is how the subject views himself, and doesn't represent reality.

Bob Boyd said...

Mead talking to his plants after they seemed to be wondering why the avocado tree gets to come in the house sometimes?

tcrosse said...

Why, it's
The Saint

Ralph L said...

Zeus, and he's right.

gspencer said...

They have to be talking about the milkman, the kind of milkman who no longer exists, the milkman who brought fresh milk every couple of days, in glass bottles, and when he delivered the new bottles he took away the empties; the kind of milkman who would, if asked, have on hand bottles of fresh cream and butter; and to boot, he wore a uniform, a sharp, crisp uniform.

That's who they're talking about. He not only wanted to be loved, he was loved. Especially by the little children who looked out the window awaiting his arrival. Yah!

Phil 314 said...

Is a middle class saint like a bathtub Mary?

etbass said...

Bill Clinton

FIDO said...

Person sounds like a Post Modernist Hater.


While this guy MAY be indulging in passive aggressive behavior, I can see far worse people in this world. The woman* who made the comment for one.

No doubt she enjoys the benefits the 'sainthood' offers her, but she seems fairly comfortable disparaging a person for it.

God forbid she is forced to live in a neighborhood where everyone has HER attitude, which would be 2/3 of a Hobbesian quote: Nasty and Brutish.

If living next to a 'white saint' is such a burden for her to force civility, maybe she should move to 'the hood' and see what the alternative is like.

*The context and the direction of that disparagement leads me to make that assumption.

Ignorance is Bliss said...

[S]He wanted to be a neighborhood saint [bernard].... [s]he's beloved.

Abby?

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pacwest said...

So that's the thanks tha Meade gets for caring for the neighborhood dogs?

Francisco D said...


Is Meade mowing the lawns of the elderly and disabled after a winter of shoveling their walks?

Really nice guy!

Sainthood? Maybe not yet.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

Me?

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

Or is it, I? Grammar Nazis make me nervous as shit...

chickelit said...

“Believe” and “belove” are cognates so I get the narcissist tag. Other than that, I got nuttin’.

tcrosse said...

It's Meade, for putting up with that cruelly neutral woman.

William said...

Probably not Kanye West, but you can't completely eliminate his name from the field either.

Michael K said...

That's who they're talking about. He not only wanted to be loved, he was loved.

Sometimes he even serviced lonely women home alone all day.

langford peel said...

Hey its Meade they are talking about.

He is definitely a Saint.

He lives with you and puts up with your nonsense after all.

wsw said...

Paul Ryan -SW

Jupiter said...

"He believes he's beloved."

"We're depraved on account of we're deprived!"

West Side Story, Officer Krupke

wildswan said...

Mr Rogers. Note: he "wanted" to be a saint. Past tense. And now he is "middle class white privilege" icon. And what is an icon? A picture of a person no longer living who is a saint.

Speaking of privilege, a kid in Wisconsin has responded to Walkout Wednesday by walking out in favor of the Second Amendment on Wednesday, today. The school admin seems to have been slightly stressed at the sight of independent thought. But maybe others should try it. Walkout Wednesday for your beliefs. it really just counter-protesting and is a right as much as any other protest.

David said...

Mike Ditka.

Turns out he was just a bear.

Ann Althouse said...

It’s about a specific person, not Meade or me, but it’s a local person there’s no point in exposing to a random insult.