poseur racista

the quote i pasted below represents a euro-centric worldview and the same attitude pat buchanan adopted prior to the pennsylvania primary. i am just amassing all the evidence for when i take america to court for being fucking racist.

from huffington post link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-zogby/
ball-is-now-in-obamas-cou_b_98239.html:

"Make no mistake -- the Clinton win in Pennsylvania puts the burden of proof back on the shoulders of Obama, who must show white ethnic voters that he is worthy of their support. He did this effectively in Wisconsin earlier this year, and he must do it again in Indiana. They were evaluating him in Pennsylvania, and he closed the gap with Clinton in the week before the election, but he was unable to close the deal with them for the reasons I mentioned above."

what is wrong with white male voters?

the alternative title is: what is wrong with pat buchanan?

as i sit by my TV ... pat buchanan asks the question: what is wrong with barack obama (if he fails to win white male voters in PA)? WOW ... on so many levels i rush to express 14 different thoughts at once ...

let me start with the love struggle. when pat buchanan poses questions like these on NATIONAL television i want to rip his heart out - thereby voiding all opportunities to love pat because well, he would be a dead and heartless body lying on the floor. at which point i would buy a tee shirt saying I HEART PAT BUCHANAN. that would be easy. but how to love him while his ole ass is still alive???

sigh. i'm digging deep for compassion and here it goes: pat buchanan is simply a product of his environment and family and life experiences. he views the entire world through his own tailor-made-white-man-lens. he lives in his own dream. he is a husband and father ... probably a grandfather. he breathes just like me. he cries (i know he does!) just like me. he gets scared, nervous, and proud ... just like me.


sigh.

i guess i'm really mad that he has so much POWER. the kind of power where you can say your personal opinion and it gets carried into every home in america by msnbc airwaves ... the kind of power where you can say what you think and if it's controversial enough ... bbc, cspan, cnn, and the ny times will call your assistant to schedule an interview.

the power of posing the question.

it is real. it is very strong. it is why the media has so much POWER. even if the question is illegitimate i.e. is the bell curve book right - do black people genetically have a lower intellect? or what is wrong with barack obama (if he doesn't win white male voters in PA)? or do you love america more than your pastor reverend wright?

the power of posing the question ... is the power to frame the argument. it is the power to set the terms of the debate.

it would never occur to pat to pose the reverse question ... he makes an automatic assumption that the person who is wrong ... is barack. sure, candidates must win voters and not the other way around. ok. so?

why won't white males vote for obama? is there something obama must do or should we take a closer look at the voter? or maybe the question could have been: why isn't barack obama winning that contingency? is something wrong with those white men if they don't vote for him? why does anybody have to be WRONG? maybe there's a more nuanced and smart analysis of the situation.

but instead pat, in his infinite wisdom, suggests ... there is something ... WRONG - with barack obama.

nothing is wrong. not with barack. and not with white male voters. i'm tempted to say the only one wrong is PAT BUCHANAN ... but that would not be very loving ...

sigh. i am so tired of old racists who never step out of their old black, laced up shoes ... i am so tired of these white men who have the power to pose the question ... even as a black man marches towards the presidential nomination ...

i only hope ... the Lord's plan is to show america to itself and others ... to make us bleed so bad with this emotional poison ... that we are eventually purged, cleansed and purified in the fire ... but pat buchanan will never read this (cuz uh nobody reads this right now) ...

or will he? at this point (now having purged my own poision) ... i simply pray.

attitude

And a guy in a Phillies hat held the hand of his young child as he put his finger in my face and calmly told me, "If you think the niggers got attitudes now, wait till they get the White House."

-- from the Philadelphia City Paper

why i love bam bam!!!!

he's THAT dude!

debatable debacle

i have pasted below my favorite review of last night's 'presidential' debate. yeah, it was retarded and whether it was in fact a 'debate' is debatable. all these other bloggers are saying what i could say so i won't say it.

but what i haven't read anywhere is my racialized take on this 'debate' ... maybe cuz i'm blackety black black BLACK ... and crazy ... but ummm last night's 'prezidential debate' reminded me of what it's like to go to an all-white college and be the only black student in the class ... even if the prof is black or hindi or whatever ... many times THE black student has to prove why they are in the classroom ... your papers gotta be tighter, your analysis sharper, your questions more relevant, and grammar and diction clearly enunciated ... (at least if you buy into that bullshit)

... barack obama got dished with retarded ass questions (no offense to mentally disabled people - i am not talking about you) about how much his pastor LOVES america, and the weather underground ... because ... he is the only black kid in the class.

not that we mind! we used to it. and barack is the best at it.

here's what glenn greenwald had to say at salon.com ... and he provides links to other commentaries on last nite's debacle ... love yourself by informing yourself:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/17/debate/

jon stewart says it best

some favorite lines: 'changing the fundamentals of arithmetic' & 'the bigot swing vote'

strange trees bear bitter fruit

i am not a superdelegate.

i do not have a cable news show ... yet.

and america is the strange tree by the way.

but in my parent's living room in early, early april i declared that barack obama would win pennsylvania.

i got grandparents in KOP (king of prussia, PA) which is the home to the 2nd biggest mall in america. i used to live in philly ... does that make me an expert? well, what makes any of these pundits experts? i just got a gut feeling cuz what i know is that pennsy is not ohio ... thank God.

i got a gut feeling in the middle of hardball with chris matthews ... that obama would win PA.

who knows where it came from? but if i've learned anything after too many years of formal education it is that ... you must trust your gut.

and then the bitter battle blew up. and i thought: God works in mysterious ways.

cuz at first (on mid-Friday of april 11th) it seemed as if this bitter bullshit was gonna bite bam bam in the butt and cost him votes all throughout blue-collar america.

but it has not. my points below are going from least intelligent to most intelligent. the first point is the most obvious and the least profound and it kinda builds from there ... it's also going in order of the way people think ... people think about sensationalism first, and truth last ...

first off, clinton and mccain's "elitist" attacks are blowing up in their faces. ery body in blog-o-ville is already saying what most of america knows - they (mccain and clinton) are the elites of the elites! and it has also been revealed that senator hills' own husband made similar remarks to obama's.

second, obama was right. nuff said.

third, 2008 is not 1998 and it really aint 1984 (geraldine!). hillary clinton has been in a time warp throughout this entire campaign. she thinks red states are still red ... she thinks women can't appear human ... she thinks she has to pander ... she thinks she has to 'play the game' ... i don't uh blame her but i call a spade a spade - she's misreading the american landscape of TODAY, 2008 ... and now, she assumes that she can take the sexy words out of obama's mouth and stuff them down america's throat as if it was the total truth.

hillary clinton is having GOP flashbacks ... she's acting as if she is in a 1990's campaign. hillary thinks that the tactics republicans used so successfully against gore and so on will work against her own democratic rival. what she doesn't recognize is that obama is too smart and has elevated the conversational bar too high for that.

she's acting like the american people are not fed up with the iraq war - both parties ... she's acting like george w. bush gave idiocy, soundbites, and the republican party a good name ... i think g-dub innoculated america from nepotism ... america is now (post-9/11 and post-george w. bush) ready for some substance, real experience, and a whole lotta hope ...

fourth, the words are out of context (surprise surprise). never mind that obama said many words before and after the bitter quote ... i got a more balanced account of what was said and how it was said from someone else who was there (click this link to read it for yourself here : http:// www.huffingtonpost.com/david-coleman/ i-was-there-what-obama-re_b_96553.html).

turns out obama also talked about urban, large-city people in the same manner. what strikes me as HILLARIOUS is that mayhill fowler, who broke this story on huffingtonpost.com, had NOTHING to say about obama's critique of low-income city dwellers. i think it reveals fowler's own personal issues - like the fact that she is preoccupied with how SHE experiences america and this campaign - as evidenced in her other blogs. it also shows a lack of balanced journalism. sure, you can say obama said bitter this and bitter that ... but to be 'fair' and that is what journalism 'strives' to do she should also have said that obama did have comments about urban blight.

i'd love to see THOSE quotes - about how ghetto folk are self-destructive - thrown about on cnn, politico.com and the ny times in equal measure. but that would be too much like ... wright, right? that would mean that all the white newcasters would have to think about people who don't effect them ... they would have to stop worrying about how blue collar (code for WHITE) small town residents will be offended by obama. the majority-white media is stuck on these quotes because they feel that obama is talking about their FAMILY. they are also stuck in the same campaign paradigm as hillary which is so 2004. you know that pol talk i heard on meet the press this sunday: the democractic party always fails to reach the centrist southerner, the mid west miner ........ they are not so concerned about obama's prescriptions and sociological analysis of the majority of colored people who live in urban areas.

well, i'm still calling it. obama gonna take PA. both clinton and bam bam gave a speech in pennsy this morning of april 14th and both referenced obama's 'bitter' remarks. bam bam was met with applause and cheers. clinton got BOO-ed.

pennsylvania can smell bullshit a mile away. which is why my prediction will come true. oh, yes, it can.