Anyone familiar with Charles Schultz's Charlie Brown, knows that he is the good natured albeit naive character who gets punked at every turn. Despite being punked by Lucy he still determines that this time Lucy will not pull the football away and he wont fall flat on his ass. Every year He's asked to be the manager of the Christmas song and is insulted numerous times but still he persists. He doesn't have any words for his so called friends and his friends get along just fine regardless. In other words, Charlie Brown doesn't expect much from his "friends" and in return they insult and use him at will for their own ends. This is what transpired last night at the Democratic "Debate."
I knew that Obama's preacher would be an issue. I thought it would wait until the general election, but I knew it was coming. I wasn't expecting Farrakhan to be brought up though. Perhaps a blind spot on my par, but the response went exactly as expected by anyone familiar with the game. Obama was asked to denounce Farrakhan and was pushed to 'reject" him. However; before I get into his response I want to point out the sheer hypocrisy and white supremacist point being made here. Have any of the candidates, left or right been asked to denounce the Christian Right and their clear anti-non-Christianism? Or their Anti-Muslim leanings? How about the denunciation of and rejection of the 700 Club due to the rantings of it's leader? No. When White supremacists spew off at the mouth there's nothing to say. They have radio shows and the public is distracted because the preachers of modern white supremacy don't wear white sheets, shave their heads or do Hitler salutes.
Secondly why ought Obama be made to make a statement about an organization that as he pointed out, he did not solicit help or support from nor had an explicit extension of help from? but lets get to the point here.
Black folks are a known quantity to the Democrats. Black folks will vote Democratic regardless of whether they have the football pulled from in front of them or are insulted. Politically they have shown themselves to really have nowhere else to turn to. Therefore the black population is ignored by one half the ruling party and used by the other half.
Secondly, Among the black population in the US, a small fraction of them are actually politically and historically aware, which is also reflective of the greater population. Of this small fraction of the black population that has any real political clue, an even smaller portion of that population are members of the NOI or even support that organization. Therefore relative to the greater white population and the strength of the Jewish Lobby, the political strength of Black America is about as heavy as ash after a fire. Last night it showed.
Had black folks and in particular the activist wing of black folk had any real clout then Obama would have been able to respond thusly:
"Before I answer this question let me ask: What has Farrakhan done to anyone? Has Farrakhan set up discriminatory laws against Jews or anyone else for that matter? Has the NOI racially profiled white people or any other people for that matter? Has the NOI been responsible for the sub-prime mortgage mess? Has the NOI been responsible for any racially motivated murders against non-black people? Lynchings, beatings or shootings? Has the NOI set up or proposed the set up of internment camps?
So exactly what is the reason for this fixation on Farrakhan who poses absolutely no threat to anyone in the US?"
Instead though, rather than doing something, you know, different as the supposed candidate of "change" We got a speech on how much he supports Jewish people, Israel and his undying devotion to the security of a group of people who are not even US citizens. Think on that for a minute. The welfare of people who can't vote and don't pay taxes have more representation and more respect than that of tax paying citizens of the US.
Obama also pointed out his "Sista Soulja" moment, which we commented on, at Ebenezer Baptist Church on King's birthday where he insulted black folks in one of their houses and received loud applause for it.
So last night was a clear as day demonstration of the Charlie Brownification of the Black electorate. The black electorate, so moved by the slave shack to White House narrative, so used to being ignored and taken for granted that they will allow themselves to be insulted (if they even know they are being insulted) and back of the bussed to other constituents and even non-constituents over seas.
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