Not Black Enough
Feb 11, 2008
Right now, the conventional wisdom among rabidly anti-American leftists - no shortage of them here in Canada, unfortunately - is that there's no way a black man could ever become President. If Obama does become President, the new conventional wisdom among rabidly anti-American leftists - the ones who don't have a nervous breakdown, anyway - will be that he's not "authentically black" enough.
What's the difference between authentic black and ... fake black?
Actually there's another popular option amongst the whacko left: the idea that if Obama is elceted, he will immediately be assassinated.
This is not just a fringe view either; Nobel laureate Doris Lessing recently predicted that if Obama is elected "they would murder him". No word on exactly who "they" are, but judging by the usual moonbat woo, "they" are either the NWO, Illuminati, "Zionists" (aka Jews), the oil industry, the military-industrial-complex, or Neocons. Either way, don't expect the left-wing craziness and depravity to go away any time soon.
Posted by: Alex | Feb 11, 2008 at 10:40 PM
This is what I wrote over at Damian's site:
I noticed that racism was dead a few years ago, but couldn't get Americans to to agree with me, even if they couldn't find any evidence I was wrong.
I think most people refuse to be the first person to say any new observation out loud - the rule is that you can't be the first.
After Obama, whether he wins or just gets close, it will be possible to talk about post-racist America, because the truth is too fucking obvious to ignore.
But it was obvious before hand, one only had to be sensitive to the culture, to look at attitudes.
As I said the problem, among Americans, is that we get our opinions from each other, not from observation.
Foreigners, such as Canadians (and more so, people in more remote countries) rely on OLD images from the media and entertainment and OLD history books to define the US. So to Europeans, America will be the murder of Martin Luther King, the KKK and 60's riots in LA no matter how obsolete. Cultural change, attitude changes can't be seen from a distance.
Posted by: Cafe Alpha | Feb 11, 2008 at 11:48 PM
"Foreigners, such as Canadians (and more so, people in more remote countries) rely on OLD images from the media and entertainment and OLD history books to define the US."
I noticed that with international students at my university. When asked about their choice of Canada and not the US, they would reply with, "Oh, the US is filled with racism, drugs and guns."
Then later, they'd go visit some friends / relatives in the US, spend some time there, and come back to only wish that they had gone to a university in the US!
Posted by: Isaac Schrödinger | Feb 12, 2008 at 07:13 AM
If Obama wins and is removed in the next election it will "prove" that Americans are racist for not giving him a second term. (Or if they fail to give him the Democratic congress he needs or blah blah blah.)
As for not being really black or black enough, they mean electable. If Americans will vote for him he must not be a real black since Americans would never vote for a black candidate.
It's the new shocking intellectual discovery that is sweeping the world; a replacement for logic - "Largic". It sounds like logic, but tastes like lard! Easy to use and so vague that you can't prove it wrong.
Posted by: Saul Wall | Feb 12, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Saul Well: I don't know why but I've a slightly modified Queen tune playing in my head: A Kind of Largic.
I blame the harsh Canadian weather.
Posted by: Isaac Schrödinger | Feb 12, 2008 at 08:06 PM
I distinctly remember someone from the rabid extreme left calling Colin Powell "Uncle Tom". Nothing new, I guess...
Posted by: SnoopyTheGoon | Feb 18, 2008 at 01:33 PM