None of this of course is irrelevant to, but is actually prelude to the Obama case for the presidency. Now that he has become the democratic nominee, all that remains for him to do to establish his fitness for the job is to establish his racial bona fides. Nothing else even remotely matters to the American public or to the American social order. All the chatter now is about "how black Obama is," as if a parsing his pedigree down to the level of the gene, might somehow reveal how good or bad a President he might become. By that measure, President Bush should have been an outstanding President.
With all of the problems we have in the world, how does Obama establish with a certainty his bona fides before the white American public? He does so by pawing the ground, and snarling his teeth back at black folks like a junkyard dog. As his first act as a nominee he viciously bites his own tail by attacking his own tribe: Black men. Suddenly, and unaccountably, all that matters in the colonized mind of this "presumptive leader of the Western world,"- the number one problem in the world is that Blacks as a whole are irresponsible human beings; "they are not pulling their weight."- "There may still be a bit of racism remaining on the margins of American society, but in the main, Blacks are responsible for their own miserable plight."- Sounds like a script written by the Ku Klux Klan to me.
That was Obama's opening salvo; that was his job interview speech to the American public. That was his valedictory message to the NAACP, and to the world at large: Mr. Obama, the racist white people did not miss your point. You have passed the test. You are now in the safety zone. You are no longer just an Oreo, Like Condoleeza, Colin and Clarence, you are an "honorary white American."- You can have the job. Congratulations!
But as if this were not enough, unlike Powell, Watts, Thomas, Gonzales, Chavez, Yoo, and Condoleeza who at least had the cover of being Republicans, Obama, this hand-picked Democrat from Oprah-land, has gone one step further: He has not just attacked the black tribe as a whole, but his own sub-tribal group, black men in particular, including his own father, and he has done so viciously and keeps the Bill Cosby refrain going as if it is a new reverse "rap style campaign song: ["Whose your daddy? whose your daddy? You don't know because like me, you don't have a daddy! bump-de-bump- de bump "-etc.]
With such an open demonstration of self-hatred, no wonder "everyone's favorite Black candidate for life,"- the Reverend Jessie Jackson has suggested that Obama needed to be neutered. But surely, the good Reverend must already have known that America's Grand Dame, the Talk Show Queen for life, Oprah, has already done that job for him.
The Meaning of Obama Campaign and the NACCP "Meet the Candidates Session."-
For those who doubt this analysis or consider it flippant, then the recent "NAACP Meet the Candidates Session"- should seal the case for me. When both candidates can go before the NAACP and tell that organization to "go to hell"- in their own special coded language, and that august body, by giving them both standing ovation, actually demonstrates that it looked forward to going there, I believe we have passed a new dangerously negative Rubicon in American politics and American race relations.
It is one thing for McCain to try to resell his anti-bussing "school voucher"- snake oil to the group, but quite another for Obama to tell them that they are all deadbeats, and irresponsible, and they all stand and cheer as if he had just said that he would end racism with the first stroke of this Presidential pen. What actually happened is scary in the overly-staged restrained passivity but their equally curious collective emotional outburst.
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