By Manila Ryce
Published Tuesday, March 11th, 2008, 3:41 pm
Filed under: Personal Posts, US Politics

7 Responses to ““If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position””

1. How quickly ideals fly out the window when money and power becomes involved.

   Comrade Kevin
   03/12/08 at 2:03 pm
   

2. Well, as long as we’re posing silly hypotheticals, if Hillary Clinton were a man, he wouldn’t be running because his boyfriend wouldn’t have been elected President.

   Fingal
   03/12/08 at 2:58 pm
   

3. Hahahaha This is just further truth that the Democrats, as represented by Hilary Clinton, are not above the cheapest tricks of Karl Rove. Wait a minute, even Karl Rove said candidates should stay away from race and religion baiting. I’m just waiting for the McCain-Clinton ticket. Think about it, a perfect storm to destroy the last glimmers of our false democracy…

   Diablo
   03/13/08 at 5:50 am
   
4. 

   Wow, didn’t know blackness was so beneficial! Where can I sign up?

   PapaFigue
   03/14/08 at 12:58 am
   

5. You guys are usually right on the money, in fact, you’re just about the only site for sore eyes in my book, so to speak, but this time you’ve got it wrong. It’s understandable, the way they’ve got our minds programmed, it’s easy to get it twisted. I am usually the first person to smell racism and call it, even when it is too subtle and eludes others, but for once the honky is clean.

   Here’s the thing: she wasn’t criticizing Obama at all. She was criticizing the racism and absurdity of this little puppet show and distraction from the issues that we call electoral politics. She was pointing out, quite rightly, that when our candidates are chosen for us, it is for all kinds of strategic reasons, This time around they needed to up the ante, they needed something that would “energize” (distract) a skeptical populace that was losing patience, and sometimes even finally getting it (”apathetic”). Another round of balding, separated-at-birth white guys wasn’t gonna cut it anymore.

   So they ran the super-electable, southern, progressive, handsome white guy against the meaningless mainstream Oreo and the Republican Lite woman just to see how we’d react, knowing that their “man” would be president regardless. I’ve come to see elections as the thing they use to distract those of us who aren’t easily baited with OJ or sex “scandals,” a spectacle thrown at us every four years to make sure we never get any momentum going, by, you know, picking an important issue, UNIFYING on that issue, getting a STRATEGY, and following through on it.

   But it’s more than that, as usual, it’s a two-pronged strategy, their team has their playbook together and we have no defense, no offense, we don’t even have a coach.

   Voting is not freedom, it’s the antithesis of freedom. It’s handing your power over to someone else, and in this case, not even someone who agrees with you, let alone knows or cares about you. It’s saying, “I don’t really want to do anything about the world going to hell in a hand basket, I’ll let this fucker handle it.”

   When you go to vote, it won’t do shit to improve your life or the lives of others, regardless of who they choose to manage you. They have this stuff figured out decades in advance, and they are playing us, whether it’s with the good cop or the bad cop this time. Aside from machinations at the very top, the system itself is self perpetuating, so the players are irrelevent. A momentary setback in world domination should never be mistaken for a victory on our part. The system requires a certain amount of fluidity to survive, and liberal reforms are nothing more than time-released steam to keep the rabble in line.

   What voting does provide is a litmus test for the managers, to see how restless the natives are getting. They are like the Borg, always adapting, always using what they’ve learned to refine their effectiveness. And this election is the most transparent example of how they can be entertained by their own control, as they throw Mr. Ralph Nader and Mr. Michael Gravel and Mr. Dennis Kucinich to the lions and amuse themselves with how they manipulate us into voting for their choices.

   But back to Ferraro. Far from being racist in this instance, she was just observing the pathetic liberal non-Black amerikan pastime of being blinded by the non-white. C’mon, Obama is obviously being used as a token and a ploy, and if he were exactly who he is, big goofy ears, annoying vocal timbre, conservative tilt, meaningless vagueness and all, but white, nobody would be talking about how “charismatic” (lol) he is.

   In the Black community, we would just call him an annoying geek. In high school, he wouldn’t be at the cool table, the sexy table, the activist table, the bohemian table, the intellectual table, or even the jock table. He wouldn’t be getting laid. He’d be that nerd on the school newspaper who couldn’t write poetry. And he sure as hell wouldn’t be standing in that corner of the blacktop where the down black kids hang out.

   If I were foolish enough to vote again, I too would be inclined to place vain hope in his vague promises of “change” and togetherness before voting for Clinton, even though being female is a far better indicator of potential for compassion and insight than this non-existent fairy tale they’ve conditioned us to believe in, called “race.”

   (Oh, I can hear the ignorant outcry on that one, but for those who misunderstand my meaning, don’t yet know that it is a scientific impossibility, and have failed to notice that the only true, if superficial, “racial” differences between us are cultural):

   Please note that Obama is firmly rooted in the culture of affluence and academia, and that this is not even remotely similar to the culture of spacial awareness, expressive body language, spiritual depth, grounded sexuality, physical courage, rhythmic sensitivity, and deep wisdom versus meaningless verbiage (or as the greatest political songwriter of our time, the late great Mr. James Brown would say, “Sittin’ there talkin’, but sayin’ nothin’”) that we all have come to identify as Blackness.

   To the degree that such labels have any meaning, Obama is not Black any more than Hillary Clinton is a Woman. Functionally (which is all that matters), she’s a white man without a dick and he’s a dark skinned white man, and if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be where they are. It’s the price of admission: your soul.

   But if DC and Hollywood have taught me anything, it’s that they’re both in show business. Our candidates are cast by the delegated casting directors of the true powers that be, those super rich owners whose names we never hear. And look how clever they are: I just wasted half an hour talking about their puppet show instead of doing anything to chip away at these shackles on my feet.

   theshiznit
   03/14/08 at 1:22 pm
   
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   “Please note that Obama is firmly rooted in the culture of affluence and academia, and that this is not even remotely similar to the culture of spacial awareness, expressive body language, spiritual depth, grounded sexuality, physical courage, rhythmic sensitivity, and deep wisdom versus meaningless verbiage (or as the greatest political songwriter of our time, the late great Mr. James Brown would say, “Sittin’ there talkin’, but sayin’ nothin’”) that we all have come to identify as Blackness.

   To the degree that such labels have any meaning, Obama is not Black any more than Hillary Clinton is a Woman. Functionally (which is all that matters), she’s a white man without a dick and he’s a dark skinned white man, and if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be where they are. It’s the price of admission: your soul. ”
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   I disagree with that on so many levels, I’m not sure I can fully express them all. Obama would not have been welcome where the “down” black people hang out? A dark-skinned white man? Wow. Luckily we represent a broader range than you describe. The “black” tent is one of the biggest and most inclusive around. And after a year of listening to the media question Obama’s blackness, I hear no such absurd speculation among black Obama supporters today. Thank god.

   J. Milton
   03/15/08 at 8:05 am
   

7. A member of Hillary Clinton’s national campaign, Geraldine Ferraro, has publicly asserted, “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.” Hillary Clinton has been satisfied to brush aside this bigoted remark by saying no more than, “I do not agree.”

   Clinton’s mild rebuke of Ferraro’s bigoted assertion is in marked contrast to her tongue-clicking disapproval of Obama’s denunciation of Louis Farrakhan for an anti-Semitic remark. Clinton said, “We’ve got to be even stronger,” but apparently “stronger” words do not apply to her denunciation of racist remarks made by a member of her own campaign.

   So what say members of the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania Republicans from the time of the Great Emancipator Abe Lincoln and Quaker abolitionists have vigorously insisted that the color of a person’s skin in no way lessens an individual’s worth.

   In 1863 and far more trying times than these, Lincoln came to Pennsylvania and looked out on a war scared battlefield at Gettysburg and reminded the assembled mourners that our country is “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Now as an interested nation looks on to the political tussle taking place in Pennsylvania, will Pennsylvanian Democrats affirm that a respect for the worth of all people extends well beyond an African-American performing well on the field of play in Penn State’s Beaver Stadium?

   When we vote we say as much about whom we are as we do about for whom we are voting.

   Sam Osborne
   03/18/08 at 3:49 am
   

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