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Obama is Still “Other” to Too Many White Folk

03 Wednesday Aug 2011

Posted by Sherry in Editorials, GOP, Media, racism, The Wackos

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"your boy" racism, GOP, Pat Buchanan, President Obama

I happened to be watching MSNBC, and Rev. Al Sharpton’s show when Pat Buchanan let his subconscious control his mouth. You can see the full video here, but the jist of it was this:

Buchanan referred to the President of the United States of America as “your boy.” Sharpton was quick to call him on it,  but Buchanan either was stupefyingly unaware of what he had said, or chose to ignore his racist innuendo.

Many of course would dismiss Buchanan’s stupid remark as the slightly dementia-driven meanderings of a marginalized “player” who is limited to being the honking GOP voice at MSNBC, but I found it shocking that MSNBC did nothing to repudiate Mr. Buchanan’s inappropriate remarks. Much more fuss has been made for far less when it comes to the increasingly thin-skinned media.

In any case, this is but one example. Buchanan’s remarks were wrong on two counts. First of course is the awful use of the term “boy” in reference to a black adult male. This is such a flag in the African-American community that nothing further needs be said. Buchanan shows that deep within his soul, he still “thinks” this way, whatever may be his public pronouncements.

As worse is the claim that President Obama is somehow “your” president and not “our” president. This is the second time this has happened within a week or so. Deadbeat Dad Joe Walsh (R-Il) also referred to President Obama as “your” President to Chris Matthews in their famous “hey Chris” interview.

What those who use this phrase fail to see, or perhaps see all too well, is that this is not some partisan reference, such as “you Democrats” or “you Republicans.” It is recognition that to some Republicans, the President is somehow illegitimate in their eyes. You can put that down to ideology but there is plenty of reason to put it down more to racism, acknowledged or subconscious.

When you add up all the attempts to marginalize this President as “other” you are left with the unsavory taste in your mouth that suggests that this is not politics as usual. No doubt there was plenty of hatred against Bill Clinton by the right. Perhaps then too, there were references to his being “your” president. But we have gone far beyond those paltry attempts to paint a president as evil.

Here we see a concerted effort on a broad base to define a president as not a citizen, not patriotic, not having the best interests of the country at heart, at being a plant to effect a Muslim caliphate takeover, as being a Socialist/Fascist/Nazi/Communist, even when all those things are basically contradictory to each other. Plenty of pundits give voice to the idea that this President is determined to “taking down this country” on behalf of past racial wrongs. This is an insanity that is so bizarre and so unreal that it bespeaks a deeply felt-knowing or unknowing visceral hatred of this man because of his skin color.

It’s just that those white people who feel such things are in the final respect utter cowards. If they truly believed in their rhetoric they would stand up proudly and proclaim their hatred of all things unwhite (however the hell you would define that). They would not need to hide behind a “majority” of fellow travelers. True ideologues are not afraid to buck the mainstream and stand up for what is “right.”

No, these fools know they are wrong, yet they are desperate to find a way to absolve themselves from the miserable state of their own lives. When you are told again and again that you can “be anything you want to be” in the great land of America, failure is not an option. And if you are not succeeding, if you are still that grease monkey in the local filling station after twelve years, well you need something to blame. And there are plenty of good folks you can depend on to feed your need to blame.

Pathetically these miserable folks don’t see that the likes of Rush and Sean and Glenn and all the rest of the vipers who make millions projectile vomiting their hatred, hate them as well. They sit over their three-hundred dollar meals with their fine wines and they laugh at the rabble that makes them rich. They no more care about your plight than they care about the poor moles killed by the lawn guy on their estate. You serve their purpose, short and long term.

Plenty of folks say that poor old Pat didn’t mean nothin’ by his “your boy” statement. He’s from another era, he had no clue. Well, screw that. He knew, or he should have known, and if he didn’t, then he has no business being given a public pulpit for his stupidity.

 It’s time to call things what they are, and stand up. Well, what do you say?

 

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The Line

03 Wednesday Aug 2011

Posted by Sherry in Humor, Life in the Meadow, Short Stories

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Nobody escapes. Nobody.

That funny feeling starts the minute you enter the building. Sure, you shove it down, because you have THINGS to do. You have stuff to get. You have a list. You are checking it twice.

Depending on how anal retentive you are, you don’t have to traipse the entire store three times to secure all your needs.

And then you have to go, there. You know. To the, shhhhh, check out.

You approach cautiously. You scan furtively. You spot the opposition, who eye you warily as they too scan the landscape.

You are all in search of the short line. Once spotted, everyone converges with break neck speed. You win! You smile, you grin, you fairly tap dance, sticking it to the losers who slink away to the longer lines.

But wait, here it comes!

The short line is also the dreaded DEAD LINE.

At first you don’t notice. You are still filled with euphoria over your win. You start to plan your strategy, expecting any moment to start unloading your soon to be possessions unto the conveyor belt.

Then you look up, and puzzlement ensues. Why nothing is happening up there. You stare. You try to listen. What is everyone STANDING AROUND DOING NOTHING FOR?

You will eventually discover that one of the following has occurred:

  1. The idiot ahead of you has forgotten their MONEY.
  2. The idiot ahead of you had ONLY 15 items but is buying them for 15 idiot friends and each has to be rung up separately because the 15 “friends” don’t trust each other.
  3. The item has no price tag and the clerk is unwilling to accept the protestations that the 32″ Flat Screen HD TV is on sale for $24.95.
  4. The idiot cannot find a credit card that is acceptable. The bank rejects them all, and the poor fool is reduced to counting out change to pay the bill.
  5. The idiot is dead but is so stupid they don’t fall down so they can be shoved out of the way.
  6. The idiot “forgot” three items at the far corners and middle of the store, and will be “right back.”
  7. The clerk needs to stop to polish her nails, gossip with the clerk at the next register, or take a call from President Obama.

You sigh. You groan. You turn and engage the idiot behind you about the fact that this “always happens to me.” You glance up to see that your original opponents in line racing are almost checked out and are looking at you with varying degrees of “cheaters never win” looks and smarmy self satisfaction that it is you and not them.

You cry, and ask God why.

You then proceed from the store to the bank.

Things are different here. There is a funnel system. You cannot pick the bad line. But trauma awaits you here too.

You try to be patient. And it seems that the line moves along nicely. You’re actually moving every couple of minutes. You count, and figure you will be out in time to pick up the kids before they are taken by the police to child services for neglect. With the lawyers fees and all, you do not want to go THERE.

Suddenly, as nice as slippery jello, you are next in line. And you wait. And wait. And wait. Finally, finally, as you scan back and forth, like you are watching a tennis game, you think you see someone packing up their business.

You are ready to go! And YES, they move away from the clerk. And you start briskly for the window, when it happens! The idiot clerk flings the “WINDOW CLOSED” sign down triumphantly.

Now you slink back to the front of the line, in the glare of God knows how many ugly stares. Somehow that was your fault. Now they all are let down.

Perspiration accumulates along brow and upper lip. You must be FASTER next time. You can feel the hot breath of all those behind folks. They are there to veritably push you to the next opening.

Two hours later, you escape.

You vow, to do this crap online next time.

This is the way life is folks. It is far beyond the realm of statistical chance. It is deliberate. It is something that Jesus and God never tire of laughing about as they watch. “Look at that one! Oh Son, that one is gonna blow a gasket!” “Dad, dad, over here! This dude is turning beet red and jumping up and down!”

So glad we amuse you two. It’s a shitty thing I tell ya.

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