Go back, go back, go back to the woods. Your coach is a farmer and your team is no good.
I remember when those chants filled tiny high school gymnasiums all over eastern Kentucky. It was an inevitable group cheer for when home teams put the game away in the closing minutes.
It really didn't seem too over the top, compared with other group cheers we fell back on when victory was assured and we wanted to assert our superiority through poetry.
But it could bring the ire of school officials who were quick to point out that most of our schools were in the woods and there was nothing wrong with being a farmer and just because we were winning by 27 didn't really mean their team was no good. It was just having a bad night.
Most importantly, it was the kind of chant most of us got over once we'd left high school and entered the world. Once graduated, it was easy to figure out the only difference, in general terms, between Elkhorn City and Virgie and Johns Creek and Millard was spelling. And once you'd spent a few nights in Lexington or Johnson City, Pikeville wasn't so shiny, either.
In other words, our crude cheers were just the kind of incantations you'd expect from a bunch of un-self-aware and accomplishment-lite adolescents. Give us a couple of years and most would be slightly embarrassed by the silliness of the taunt. Go back to where you came from is as pointless and empty as "so's your mother."
Which brings us to today. The self-absorbed spoiled brat in the White House has decided to prove, once again, what a raging twit he is by going full "go back where you came from" on four women who were popularly elected to represent their communities in Washington, DC.
By being popularly elected, they're all ahead of the Fraud in Chief right out of the gate. How on earth can he make America White Again when these four...all darker than his spray on tan...question everything he does?
When he tweeted they should go back to where they came from, he wasn't talking about New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, or Minnesota, the actual places they came from. No, he was referring to wherever that place is that brown skinned people come from.
Well, one of them came from Somalia first, some of Trump's intellectual peers point out. True, say the grown ups, and she's been a United States citizen longer than that refugee married to Cadet Bonespurs.
The only time he'd suggest she go back to where she came from is when a younger version of herself shows up at his back door. You know, like he did with his other wives.
So when the Donald singles out four women, all of color, all with religious beliefs very different than his (none of them worship money), and all legitimately elected to congress by their constituents, and demands they go back to where they came from, he's not being a racist, just himself.
An immature, un-self-aware, accomplishment-lite, uninformed, self-centered adolescent with racist aspirations.