Comments on: Obama’s Race

By: Ricorun

Ricorun — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:43:50 +0000

Thank you runasim for the best and truest one-sentence summaries I've yet come across: The most unexpected consequence of Obama's candidacy is the dsiplay of the 1001 different angles from which it is being analyzed, parsed, spun, and generally used as fodder for pundit self-expression.

That was poetry. Unfortunately, you offered said pundits more fodder with: Oddly, the white part of Obama's racial heritage is rarely acknowledged. That would be a worthy topic to explore by one Obama watcher or another. What does it mean that it's not?

I suppose it's only natural though. Obama's candidacy is unusual in many different ways -- and singularly unusual in many more. Because of that it stands to reason he would be put under a microscope -- the kind of microscope that only an extremely capable and extremely confident individual could withstand. Time will tell if he is such an individual.

Just between you and me though... I hope he is. But I also hope that my hope doesn't transform itself into some sort of mindless self-projection based upon trivialities of one sort or another.

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:14:50 +0000

It that is a response to what I have written, it is illogical nonsense.

While the kiddie “progressives” make a big deal of race and engage in all kinds of fiction and worse when referring to “racism” that isn't there, the rest of us simply look at and evaluate Obama as this year's Dem candidate and likely future President.

By: runasim

runasim — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:53:19 +0000

Other dinosaurs from the past epxloit a degree of progess to practice denial about the continuing pervasiveness of racism and the racial institutional consequences of the past.

If only all the dinosaurs would hold their own convention, while the rest of us TALK about the past, the present and the future – all three, fully.

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:18:49 +0000

“What does it mean that it's not?”

PC is powerful.

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:18:02 +0000

The best thing is that Obama is not one of the dinosaurs from the past who exploit Perpetual Victimhood Forever, Inc. [tm], and he is a positive PC channel for many who otherwise would keep repeating the myths about our continued “oppressive” society (but where no racism is demonstrated they say it's just “hidden” or “in code,” etc.) and a continued need for White Guilt Over Slavery. (Civil rights were restored in 1965 and even the South got cleaned up by the 1980s. Many of us are not about to succumb to the pathological guilt-and-atonement nonsense; I never enslaved anybody, am not racist, and am not to be expected to behave in a diseased manner for others' choices and decisions to satisfy a few “progressives” [sic].)

By: runasim

runasim — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:22:15 +0000

The most unexpected consequence of Obama's candidacy is the dsiplay of the 1001 different angles from which it is being analyzed, parsed, spun, and generally used as fodder for pundit self-expression.

It would all be good, if it didn't come across as a competition for the one and only true way to understand the impkications of race.
It's not either/or, folks.

Oddly, the white part of Obama's racial heritage is rarely acknowledged. That would be a worthy topic to explore by one Obama watcher or another.
What does it mean that it's not?