WHY HE'S NOT MY PRESIDENT: Reason #'s 61 & 62
MOHAMMED HUSSEIN OBAMA finds emphasis on "racial identification" (read anti-white bogotry - jillosophy) useful for his global transnational agenda
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Can We Get Beyond Race?
Sunday, April 19, 2009
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The Washington Post informs us of the presidential visit to Latin American with a headline “Race a Dominant Theme at Summit.” It then goes on to describe how Obama resonates with those leaders of “indigenous” heritage in Latin America.
Something here is not quite right. Our president ran on a platform of racial transcendence, but he now heads south to talk race (“'The president put it [race] on the table very explicitly' at the opening ceremony, said a senior Obama administration official who participates in closed-door meetings with the president.”) with some leaders who have explicitly employed racially charged stereotypes, such as Chavez’s use of “Go to Hell, Gringos,” or Brazil's president Lula's reference to “white blue-eyed” bankers who caused the financial meltdown.
Yet rather than discouraging such racial polarization, the president of a racially diverse, melting-pot America, finds the emphasis on racial identification useful for his global transnational agenda (or as the Post put it more mildly, “Obama has mentioned his race as part of a Latin America agenda broader than the Bush administration's, which focused primarily on promoting an economic policy of free trade, government privatizations and lower public debt. The mix became known as the Washington Consensus, a term used as an epithet in much of Latin America.”)
What does “broader” mean? Many of us do not see the likes of Chavez, Ortega, Morales, et al. as victims of much of anything, but rather savvy autocratic would-be dictators bent on using stale tropes like colonization and racism to explain away their own miserable failures as leaders, and to advance their own agendas of personal aggrandizement. The more they see an American president apologize abroad, the more they rant about the U.S. past in search of more apologies.
A common denominator with Obama's easy emphasis on racial divides — when juxtaposed to past evocation abroad of his Muslim sensitivities and middle name, serial apologies about American sins and pathologies, and constant denunciation of his predecessor — is a sense that the past tradition of America is culpable and therefore not his own—made explicit in his response to Daniel Ortega's diatribe that he was just three months old during the Bay of Pigs troubles, and by extension not responsible for American transgressions. Again, separately all these new approaches are in themselves understandable, but in the aggregate they form a disturbing pattern seen earlier with the off-handed remarks about "typical white person," the stereotyping of rural Pennsylvanians along lines of class and race, and the 20-year long patronage of a clearly racist preacher.
At some point, Obama needs to take a hiatus from this racialist identification, and, like a Sec. Condoleezza Rice, transcend race, let achievements and policies speak for themselves, and thus rise or fall on the content of his own character.
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The Washington Post informs us of the presidential visit to Latin American with a headline “Race a Dominant Theme at Summit.” It then goes on to describe how Obama resonates with those leaders of “indigenous” heritage in Latin America.
Something here is not quite right. Our president ran on a platform of racial transcendence, but he now heads south to talk race (“'The president put it [race] on the table very explicitly' at the opening ceremony, said a senior Obama administration official who participates in closed-door meetings with the president.”) with some leaders who have explicitly employed racially charged stereotypes, such as Chavez’s use of “Go to Hell, Gringos,” or Brazil's president Lula's reference to “white blue-eyed” bankers who caused the financial meltdown.
Yet rather than discouraging such racial polarization, the president of a racially diverse, melting-pot America, finds the emphasis on racial identification useful for his global transnational agenda (or as the Post put it more mildly, “Obama has mentioned his race as part of a Latin America agenda broader than the Bush administration's, which focused primarily on promoting an economic policy of free trade, government privatizations and lower public debt. The mix became known as the Washington Consensus, a term used as an epithet in much of Latin America.”)
What does “broader” mean? Many of us do not see the likes of Chavez, Ortega, Morales, et al. as victims of much of anything, but rather savvy autocratic would-be dictators bent on using stale tropes like colonization and racism to explain away their own miserable failures as leaders, and to advance their own agendas of personal aggrandizement. The more they see an American president apologize abroad, the more they rant about the U.S. past in search of more apologies.
A common denominator with Obama's easy emphasis on racial divides — when juxtaposed to past evocation abroad of his Muslim sensitivities and middle name, serial apologies about American sins and pathologies, and constant denunciation of his predecessor — is a sense that the past tradition of America is culpable and therefore not his own—made explicit in his response to Daniel Ortega's diatribe that he was just three months old during the Bay of Pigs troubles, and by extension not responsible for American transgressions. Again, separately all these new approaches are in themselves understandable, but in the aggregate they form a disturbing pattern seen earlier with the off-handed remarks about "typical white person," the stereotyping of rural Pennsylvanians along lines of class and race, and the 20-year long patronage of a clearly racist preacher.
At some point, Obama needs to take a hiatus from this racialist identification, and, like a Sec. Condoleezza Rice, transcend race, let achievements and policies speak for themselves, and thus rise or fall on the content of his own character.
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Last October, like millions of fellow Americans I was 100% opposed to all bank bailouts, and I have also been opposed to the auto bailout, the stimulus, even more bailouts, even more wasted money, and now the near 4 trillion dollar budget. I have been against these bailouts no matter who the President was, no matter which party was in control, but Obama is going far beyond what Bush ever did - he wants complete control.
Many larger banks who received TARP funds, many of which did not want the money in the first place, have been pushing to give the money back, the government has refused - why would they ever refuse? Because they want control, they want control of salaries of all employees, and bonuses - they have introduced legislation to back both claims. Why would they want control of salaries and bonuses now that it has been proven they support it, it could be because Obama hates capitalism...or...there is no other option...
Last October, like millions of fellow Americans I was 100% opposed to all bank bailouts, and I have also been opposed to the auto bailout, the stimulus, even more bailouts, even more wasted money, and now the near 4 trillion dollar budget. I have been against these bailouts no matter who the President was, no matter which party was in control, but Obama is going far beyond what Bush ever did - he wants complete control.
Many larger banks who received TARP funds, many of which did not want the money in the first place, have been pushing to give the money back, the government has refused - why would they ever refuse? Because they want control, they want control of salaries of all employees, and bonuses - they have introduced legislation to back both claims. Why would they want control of salaries and bonuses now that it has been proven they support it, it could be because Obama hates capitalism...or...there is no other option...
posted by jillosophy at 4/20/2009 02:50:00 PM
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