Barack Obama refuses to be their n$%%@#. And it's driving them crazy

[wndycty]

Flip And Pop My Collar Like The Fonz

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I got a note from a good friend yesterday expressing shock, and anger, about Drudge and Malkin's usage of that alleged racial beat-down on a school-bus. On some level, I wonder if something's wrong with me. I'm neither shocked, nor angry. This is exactly how I expected these fools to respond to a black president.

If anything, I'm a little giddy. For black people, the clear benefit of Obama is that he is quietly exposing an ancient hatred that has simmered in this country for decades. Rightly or wrongly, a lot of us grew tired of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, mostly because they presented easy foils for Limbaugh-land. Moreover, again rightly or wrongly, they were used to define all of us.

It's intensely grating to live say, in Atlanta, and have some dude in Harlem crowned as your unelected leader. It's even more grating if said dude's agenda seems, in large measure, come down to standing in front of cameras and tweaking his opponents. It's no mistake that O'Reilly and Sharpton would break bread together at Sylvia's--they feed each other.

But Barack Obama, bourgeois in every way that bourgeois is right and just, will not dance.He tells kids to study--and they seethe. He accepts an apology for an immature act of rudeness--and they go hysterical. He takes his wife out for a date--and their veins bulge. His humanity, his ordinary blackness, is killing them. Dig the audio of his response to Kanye West--the way he says, "He's a jackass." He sounds like one of my brothers. And that's the point, because that's what he is. Barack Obama refuses to be their nigger. And it's driving them crazy.

It's about time.

http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/09/flip_and_pop_my_collar_like_the_fonz.php

[Jennicut]

1. This is right on. Obama is too likable...they even admitted it during the whole school speech thing

This scares them. School kids like him, the college kids loved him the other day. The young likes what he stands for and who he is as a person and it drives the RW nuts.
Also, I saw the school bus incident and it was clear it was not a racial thing...it was more a social status thing. The kid being picked on seemed to be the nerd and the kids were the "cool ones". There were plenty of white kids laughing at the other white kid that was beat up. Bullying happens all the time at schools and yet the RW wants to make it a racial issue.

[nevergiveup]

2. I see it every day.

Right-wing racists are terrified of this man. He is too smart and too cool. Way too many white people like him. If Obama succeeds the fringe on the right becomes insignificant. They are in panic mode.

[Lerkfish]

3. Mostly agree, but unfortunately the republicans are still running the show, re: health care

but as far as Obama personally, I totally agree.

[babylonsister]

4. Rec'd. nt

[tridim]

5. I think what really drives them nuts is that he's popular..

even with the majority of white people.

That is unacceptable to the KKK party, it's their worst nightmare.

[NYC_SKP]

6. Exactly, and he does this so very well.

Nothing they try sticks, they don't know what to do.

[HopeOverFear]

7. AMEN AND AMEN AGAIN!!!!

[HopeOverFear]

8. kick

[Enrique]

9. I liked that audio

Obama was being a little black and fitting in perfectly with the mostly if not all white reporters.

I didn't even notice his "ordinary blackness" until this person pointed it out, but after listening to it again I thought, yeah, there it is, and no one cares. Except maybe for some of those folks out there at the tea parties.

[Uzybone]

10. Too late to R, but this was great

[Cha]

11. I love that PO is reacting

like he does to the Racist shite.

I remember during the campaign when Steve Kroft(I think) asked him why he doesn't bring up that he's unique in that he's running as the first Black Candidate for president(paraphasing) and Obama said.. "I think they noticed"!

:rofl: He seriously cracks me up:bounce:

[GivePeaceAchance]

12. Always good to have things out in the open where it can be discussed and talked throug