Obama Insults Half a Race
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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The Black man who wants to be president spends
Father's Day at church in loud and general
denunciation of Black males. For added insult, he
describes them as "boys." Barack Obama's primary
audience isn't the conservative Black Pentecostal
congregation, but "white social conservatives in a
race where these voters may be up for grabs," says the
New York Times. In America, even the "Black" cor****ate
candidate runs against Black people. How did such
madness come to pass in 2008? Blame the Black
"progressive" misleaders who failed to challenge Obama
when they had the chance. Now it's too late, and
African Americans are reduced to objects of derision.
"Obama used the occasion of Father's Day to give Black
males the back of his hand."
The Democratic presidential nominee-apparent seldom
speaks directly to Black people, but when he does it
is usually to denounce individuals once close to him
or to criticize The Race in general for some moral
failing. Thus it was no surprise that Barack Obama
used the occasion of Father's Day to give Black males
the back of his hand, no doubt to the delight of
millions of potential white sup****ters. Black males
have "abandoned their responsibilities, acting like
boys instead of men," said Obama, citing statistics on
female-headed households. "You and I know how true
this is in the African-American community."
Even the New York Times could see through Obama's
transparent bid for white approval at Black people's
expense. Re****ter Julie Bosman noted that Obama "laid
out his case in stark terms that would be difficult
for a white candidate to make" - terms (such as boy?)
that "his campaign hopes [will] resonate among white
social conservatives in a race where these voters may
be up for grabs."
In effect, Obama is following an established American
electoral tradition of running against Black people.
He claims to be teaming up with Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh
to promote legislation to combat a "national epidemic
of absentee fathers." However, Obama's church rant was
anything but "race-neutral" - it was targeted directly
at Black males. By selecting the politically
conservative (in Black terms) Apostolic Church of God
as the venue for his blanket Black male denunciation,
Obama also reminded whites that he is no longer a
member of Trinity United Church of Christ, formerly
pastored by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, also located on
Chicago's South Side.
"Obama's church rant was anything but 'race-neutral' -
it was targeted directly at Black males."
To make himself acceptable to whites, Obama finds it
necessary to shout out how unacceptable he finds the
conduct of other Blacks. As could have been expected,
cor****ate headline editors had a field day: "Obama
Tells Black Fathers to Act Like Men" (AFP), "Obama
Calls on Black Men to Be Better Fathers" (U.S. News &
World Re****t), "Black Fathers Missing From Too Many
Lives" (The Age), "Obama Calls for More Responsibility
From Black Fathers" (NYT). Words like these are music
to the ears of those who blame African American
"pathology" for the ills of the ghetto and the nation
as a whole, especially the "Reagan Democrats" Obama so
shamelessly woos.
Can one imagine Obama or any other presidential
aspirant repeatedly hectoring any other ethnic group
on moral issues? Singling out Jews for excessive
materialism? The Irish for excessive drinking? Of
course not; that would be unfair and politically
suicidal. But there are large regions of the white
body politic in which it is not only acceptable, but
damn near required, that politicians demonstrate their
impatience with the alleged moral shortcomings of
Black people. Barack Obama trolls for votes in those
foul waters, at the cost of Black people's dignity.
Obama's two young daughters were seated in the church,
upfront, to hear their father call other Black men
"boys" with no sense of responsibility. Ironically, a
key Black rationale for sup****ting Obama is that he is
a great "role model" for Black children. Imagine that:
an ethnic role model, whose ostensible purpose is to
make The Race proud, yet who with great fanfare
periodically sneers at the supposedly debased morality
of his own people. That's close to the definition of
sick.
Black-Basher, Power Wor****pper
Obama goes race-specific-negative on Black people
whenever it is useful in attracting white electoral
sup****t. Otherwise, he is studiously "race neutral" -
a cynical device he deploys to avoid recognizing the
pervasiveness of racial wrongs against African
Americans. The candidate periodically offers loud and
specific criticisms of Blacks, but prescribes no
programs - not one - to address specific Black
grievances. He feels quite secure with this cruel and
crooked campaign posture, confident that no
significant complaint will emanate from African
American quarters - they are loyal, no matter what.
And for that reason, they need not be respected.
The Black burden is even heavier than that. African
Americans are expected to circle the wagons at the
merest hint of racist threats to the candidate. Any
slight to Obama, real or imagined, must be met with
massive Black response, while Obama's disregard of
Black priorities and sensibilities is endlessly
forgivable. At the commonsensical level, the entire
Obama-Black folks relation****p is so bizarre as to
seem insane. The candidate has been imposed on the
African American polity by cor****ate forces in the
Democratic Party, of which he is a loyal,
Harvard-vetted operative. He constantly swears fealty
to the white American civic religions of American
Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny, both rooted in
race supremacy. He has proven his devotion to this
ghastly Euro-American mythology and worldview, through
public denunciation of liberation theology and ritual
separation from one of its major institutions. He bows
to imperial power and its endless expansion, fully
aware that, as Dr. Martin Luther King phrased it 40
years ago, the military will "draw men and skills and
money like some demonic destructive suction tube,"
draining all hope for creation of a just society.
"Obama bows to imperial power and its endless
expansion."
Obama is no Prince of Peace - more like Damion, of The
Omen. His peace-savaging declaration earlier this
month that "Jerusalem will remain the capital of
Israel, and it must remain undivided" expressed a
position that no U.S. government has ever taken, that
no Arab government can accept and, as Israeli peace
activist Uri Avnery has written, "has disappeared -
quietly, almost secretly - from the arsenal of
official [Israeli] slogans." Translation: Obama is
more hyper-Zionist on Jerusalem than the Israelis
themselves, more than successive American governments
that have never formally recognized Jerusalem as the
capital or as wholly Israeli. He is emphatically
outside the possible parameters of peace in the most
volatile region of the planet. Obama is not a peace
candidate.
To point up how hawkish Obama has shown himself to be
in his groveling before the American Israeli Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC), no less than Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice was dispatched to Jerusalem
this past weekend to caution the Israelis against
building further housing for Jews in the western part
of city, lest they have "a negative effect on the
atmosphere for the negotiation" with Palestinians.
Obama is to the Right of Rice, who had to journey to
Israel to try to clean up the mess he made at the
AIPAC meeting in Wa****ngton! Predictably, the Israelis
rebuked Rice. After all, they can look forward to an
even more pliant Obama administration.
Obama has expressed willingness to militarily violate
the sovereignty of Pakistan - home of the A Q Khan
nuclear proliferation racket and, along with Israel,
among the wildest nuclear cards in the planetary deck
- and to launch "surgical" strikes against Iran, a
catastrophe of unimaginable dimensions.
Is he John McCain? No, and that's literally as much as
can be said with any degree of certainty.
Phony 'Movement'
Most of the commentary and pseudo-re****ting about the
campaign amounts to ramblings of the insane. Insanity
is the logical product of a culture rooted in plunder,
genocide and slavery. There are no guarantees that
social structures marinated in such evil can
ultimately be made habitable. Madness in, madness out.
Only the most courageous, sustained popular struggle
can even hope to distill civilization from its
opposite. The Black Freedom Movement, embedded in the
history of The Americas, could have been - and might
yet become - the great engine of general liberation.
But no transformation is possible if the Great
Diversion and Illusion of Obamamania chokes the sense
and consciousness out of Black America - a true
pathology that has already rendered folks previously
considered among the "best and brightest" among
African Americans deaf, dumb, blind and at the feet of
their utterly false Messiah.
The general African American rush to touch Obama's
garments is understandable - not rational, but
explicable - as the product of 400 years of frustrated
yearnings for "deliverance" by "our own" hands. Add
two parts willful self-delusion plus eight parts
cor****ate public manipulation (the "hope" mantra,
which conjures up totally different visions in the
minds of different consumers), and a full blown
dream-savior appears
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