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This blog, which nobody actually reads anyway, occasionally invents new words. We did it here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
This morning I’d like to propose something different. Let’s get rid of some words.
Namely, these two: “unite” and all derivatives, “unify,” “unity,” etc…and “divide.”
Scrap ’em.
They don’t mean anything anymore.
I’ve really had it up to here with being told what a wonderful speech was delivered by He Whose Middle Name Must Never Be Used. It has really gone around the bend. Even in Bob Herbert-land, it has become a special brand of nonsense.
The speech, which has gotten wonderful reviews, should be required reading in classrooms across the country — and in as many other venues as possible. With a worldview that embraces both justice and healing, Senator Obama is better on these issues than any American leader since King.
Unfortunately, what is more likely to happen is that the essence of the speech will be lost in the din that inevitably erupts whenever there is a racial controversy in the United States.
The fundamental message that Senator Obama is trying to get across is that the racial madness that has perverted so many elections needs to stop — and stop now.
And the best way we can do that, is to toss His Obamaness out on his ear. And toss now.
Sen. Obama’s reverse-racist pastor got caught spewing his vitriol on YouTube…thank heavens we live in the age of YouTube…and they’re telling me Obama addressed this with a wonderful speech that helped “unify” the country on the subject of race. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe his speech was all about how all black churches have hateful crap like this and us “typical white persons” should just learn to deal with it. That, in 2008, crap-hockers like Herbert tell me, is “unifying.”
Not only is it divisive, but beneath the glaring incompetence at recognizing the difference between those two, which Obama evidently has — I struggle to think of a personal attribute that would more effectively disqualify a candidate from any important office.
Obama’s a poor leader, plain and simple. His qualification for the office he currently seeks — for any occupation — is that he has a golden throat. Fine. Let him sell cleaning solvents and exercise equipment on infomercials at three in the morning. He can do that all week, and then on Sunday go back to those “services.”
How embarrassing. People are dividing us and we’re calling them “uniters” — and the worst part is, it seems we’re just following through on something we’ve been doing for forty years. They make their careers out of telling us how different we are due to the color of our skin, and we reward them by allowing them to continue those careers as long as possible, becoming as rich as possible.
Hey, maybe if I was Obama I’d want my cut too. But I think we should stop looking at this garbage and thinking of it as unifying…in any way at all. We’re being divided. Divided, by racists and hucksters who want us to be divided. And then they tell us they’re unifying us.
Beyond ridiculous.
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You’re SUCH an ingrate, Morgan. Why can you not accept Obama as Your Savior? He’ll absolve us all of Our White Guilt! Think of the benefits, not the downside… An America without White Guilt! What could be better than that?
- Buck | 03/25/2008 @ 12:00While you’re at it, can we eliminate the phrase REVERSE DISCRIMINATION? A racist is a racist, right? Why are those other than white described with that moniker?
And, as Buck sez, just accept the ObamaMessiah into your heart, and you too will ‘create change’ and leave dat ole devil white guilt behind, while Saving the Planet!
Get behind me, white guilt! I accept the ObamahMessiah as mah saviour!
One thing, where does that leave Jehovah in the scheme of things? Hmmm, this might not be as thought out as I first imagined…
- HoundOfDoom | 03/25/2008 @ 14:56Morgan,
I have to take exception with the use of the term “reverse racist”. It implies that white people are the default racists and everyone else is some permutation of that standard. A racist is a racist is a racist be he white, black or whatever.
- Duffy | 03/25/2008 @ 17:43