Running emacs without any customisation

[uzibalqa]

I have the following in my .emacs file.  Calling (xepty 'nogo) should
not execute anything.  But when I run emacs, I get a black background.

I thought I would get the equivalent of "emacs -Q".

(defun xepty (&optional statck)
  "Launch xepty tools for Emacs."

  (unless (equal statck 'nogo)
    (add-to-list 'load-path "${HOME}/xepty/")
    (load "xepty")
    (xepty-tools)))

(xepty 'nogo)

(custom-set-variables
 '(savehist-additional-variables '(xepty-frame-pos))
 '(xepty-frame-pos '(34 . 34)))