Dear America: President Obama is not (100%) Caucasian.

[akujunkan]

Get the fuck over it.

Over the past few days I've been mulling over the merits of posting a ranty rant of rantiness about how I'm becoming more convinced with each passing day that Republican obstruction of the stimulus bill is due in large, large part to the fact that Obama is black. Due to this more than the fact that they're sore losers pissed off at losing all the (often immoral, if not illegal) privileges they've amassed for themselves since the Reagan years. (If you want me to justify their "concern for future generations with anything more than a parenthetical aside, you need to stop reading this lj now.)

With all the stories about Republican malfeasance emerging in recent days I'd almost convinced myself that race didn't have much to do with it.

Then metal_dog5 linked me to this, and all I could think is, Et tu, New-York-Fucking-Post?

Seriously, country. Not everyone is white. In fact, many of those people who aren't white are even intelligent, eloquent, moral, and have what it takes to lead nations. Get the fuck over it all ready.

SERIOUSLY.


That will be all.

Comments

[ontogenesis.livejournal.com]

I saw that New York Post cartoon. The cartoonist is a big jerk, I think... even if he's a complete ignoramus who doesn't know that black men used to be called "monkies," how does he think it's OK to imply that a government official should be shot by another government employee or put down like a rabid animal?

I wouldn't say the Republicans are blocking the bill because he's black, though... at least not the majority of them. It's a power play. They harass Democrats, and vice versa.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

I find it very, very, very hard to believe that no one at a media outfit as big as the NYP was unaware, in this day and age, that "monkey" is a racial slur against black people. Especially post-George Allen. Especially in a company run by News Corp. Otherwise, I agree completely with your analysis on that cartoon.

There's harrassment, and there's obstruction. Not a single House Republican and only three Senate Republicans voted for the stimulus bill. Although perhaps I am unfair in attributing this entirely to racism. Republicans have a long history of obstructionism; just look at their history of filibustering in the post-Clinton years.

Democrats, on the other hand, are cowards who talk big to their base but fold under talk radio pressure every time. And they do it because they know that those voters who aren't right, however disgusted they are with Democratic cowardice, have no other options in the current two-party system than to vote for the party that claims to share their political outlook but refuses to put their money where their mouths are.