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There's A Black Man In The White House With The Blues

by: konopelli

Wed May 13, 2009 at 08:58:55 AM PDT

(With apologies to Lowell George/Little Feat)

You had to see this coming. Via FAIR's blog:

Rush Limbaugh Comes Right Out and Says It
05/13/2009 by Jim Naureckas
Political Animal's Steve Benen (5/12/09) notes a recent Rush Limbaugh broadcast (5/11/09) that makes the racist subtext of the right's critique of Barack Obama virtually explicit:
The [economic] deterioration reflects lower tax revenues and higher costs for bank failures, unemployment benefits and food stamps. But in the Oval Office of the White House none of this is a problem. This is the objective. The objective is unemployment. The objective is more food stamp benefits. The objective is more unemployment benefits. The objective is an expanding welfare state. And the objective is to take the nation's wealth and return to it to the nation's, quote, "rightful owners." Think reparations. Think forced reparations here if you want to understand what actually is going on.
So Limbaugh thinks Obama is intentionally creating unemployment in order to boost food stamps, unemployment and welfare as a form of "forced reparations"; he's wrecking the economy, in other words, in order to benefit black people. If Limbaugh is the voice of opposition to Obama, no wonder that opposition is so concentrated in the states of the old Confederacy.

konopelli :: There's A Black Man In The White House With The Blues

Damned as much for a goat as for a ram! Obama's in the position I predicted early on last year: Whether or not he wants it, as an avatar for the aspirations and grievances of the 'minority' whose racial identity he shares, Obama would be seen and portrayed by his detractors--60 million of them voted against him--as being the 'tool' of the marginalized folks with whose interests his skin color and associated "morphological" characteristics associates him whether he likes it or not. On evidence, he seemingly does NOT like it; he ran AWAY from blackness and racialism, as much as out-right rejecting any but an anonymous, generic sympathy for the plight of blacks, or his ability/desire to asist them in Office.

So, if he's going to be attacked for assisting his 'racial' base, he might as well be damned for a goat as a sheep, and actually DO something for that part of his constituency.

He won't. He'll continue to be a tool of the Owners, serving their interests as loyally as any faithful old retainer, and if something good accrues to the people, well, shit happens...

But what the fuck, he should..,.

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There's A Black Man In The White House With The Blues | 3 comments

Characteris-Tips? (6.00 / 1)

"I'll hire half the working class to kill off the other half."-- Jay Gould, robber-baron

by: konopelli @ Wed May 13, 2009 at 11:03:41 AM CDT

I'm curious... (0.00 / 0)

The more I think about it, the less I understand what the picture has to do with the current race baiting that Limbaugh and his ilk are doing.

Unless you think that Limbaugh et al. are using the naivete of people like the ones in the picture to frighten ignorant whites into thinking that Obama is going to turn all his attention to THEM and give THEM all the stimulus money? You seem to have posted the picture... and then forgotten all about it. Just... not addressed it at all.

DId you read my Daily Rant, incidentally?

--7.88, --6.56 If I can't rant, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

by: Maryscott O'Connor @ Wed May 13, 2009 at 12:58:04 PM CDT

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I chose it as an (ironic) illustration of the double bind (4.00 / 1)

Obama's in.

Double bind. Gregory Bateson husband of margaret Meade, coined the phrase for the state in psychology which is the same as a philosophical aporia: the irreconcilable contradiction...

Because, precisely as you note, ANY presidential 'attention' to the specific concerns of those with whom his ethnicity associates him--economic and social justice, for example--will be taken as special pleading by the terrified white folks...dare i say I warned against it 18 months ago...

"I'll hire half the working class to kill off the other half."-- Jay Gould, robber-baron

by: konopelli @ Wed May 13, 2009 at 20:12:36 PM CDT

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