White Like Them: Obama Caught Not Being Black
Monday, March 10th, 2008This is from the blog: David W. Boles’ Urban Semiotic, this is from Sept 07, I had it bookmarked and forgot to post long ago. Just a little education for some of you white folks.
We already know Barack Obama has a castrating wife and the pain of public observation grew even more extreme as Jesse Jackson recently accused Barack Obama of “acting White.”Now we must wonder if being born into Black skin is enough to be considered “Black” in America — or does the droplet still triumph in the polling place?
Or is there a behavior and an attitude that must be sustained in order to carry out the wishes, dreams and hopes of the “Black” experience that defines a man beyond the blood?
The repercussions of Jackson’s claim are enthralling as an example of political ambition and blind savvy in the making of the namesake:
Jackson sharply criticized presidential hopeful and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for “acting like he’s white” in what Jackson said has been a tepid response to six black juveniles’ arrest on attempted-murder charges in Jena, La. Jackson, who also lives in Illinois, endorsed Obama in March, according to The Associated Press.“If I were a candidate, I’d be all over Jena,” Jackson said after an hour-long speech at Columbia’s historically black Benedict College.
“Jena is a defining moment, just like Selma was a defining moment,” said the iconic civil rights figure, who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1965 Selma civil rights movement and was with King at his 1968 assassination.
Later, Jackson said he did not recall making the “acting like he’s white” comment about Obama, stressing he only wanted to point out the candidates had not seized on an opportunity to highlight the disproportionate criminal punishments black youths too often face.
Does anyone smell a setup?One wonders if Jackson’s breathless accusation of Obama “Acting White” actually helps Obama win White Southern Male votes instead of losing them in a general election because — one could argue, based on Jackson’s claim — “while Obama’s skin is dark, he’s really White on the inside.”Is Jessee Jackson’s accusation a valid one expressed as a public admonition?Or is Jackson cunningly helping promote Obama as a “safer” candidate by separating him from the mainstream “Black” ghetto mentality and thus making him more palatable for White voters to swallow in the future?Will White voters be more comfortable casting a vote for a Black Man who, according to Jesse Jackson, is really White Like Them?
Is it helpful or hurtful to Obama if Jesse Jackson publicly disowns him and, in the process, frees Southern voters to, perhaps, see Obama as “half Black, but not all that bad.”
Obama acting “white”…… remember when I said this:
”remember back when Obama went and pimped himself out to raise mad dollars for Senator Robert “KKK” Byrd. It never hit me until now, I have to give Obama some credit that actually was a good strategic move on his part, and I freely admit I was wrong.
I bet his thinking was…….. this is him talking;
“hey, if I run for president and if old redneck white people have a problem with me I can say to them, for the good of my party I was willing to put aside the racist past of a man who has a clear disdain for black people. Even after raising a record number of dollars for his campaign I bet he still thinks I’m a nigger! I was willing to sell out my own race for the good of the party; I will always put the interest of white folks first, after all I am half white”
All he has to do is show up at a Klan rally and raise a few dollars for the cause and that will help his standing with old white people. LOL!
Be sure to read: “Barack Obama has a castrating wife“
Other old stuff:
Barack Obama — Robert Byrd’s Special Friend
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