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August 11, 2008
Obama Arab Action Affirmative: Just words
On Arab Affirmative Action Presidential Candidate Barak Hussein Obama
To call a spade a sp... no, poor choice of words, and one must not mention how some Democrats may be spooked ...
“Some of my closest friends are ...” nope, but I have respect. I grew up finding inspiration in rap, and having black classmates, black sports competitors and team-members and heroes, and a few black friends. I am aware that Black is cool. I'm literate so I know blacks have suffered greatly and continue to suffer greatly. Now for the bitter medicine:
Does America want an Affirmative Action president ? And an Arab one at that?
Obama is not a wolf, but an Arab. He's not in sheep's clothing, but in
Black clothing.
“I read somewhere that he hid his race in his college application,
so he's not an affirmative action case ... ...
... but I don't know how he could have hid it during the interview...”
is what a Bush-hating friend acknowledged.
We may notice that his Obama's name is closer to Barachu Husni Obaham
than Barry Harrison O'Malley. These are not
"Just Words" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffwY74XbS4)
but rather "just names"?
Why unmask him? Arabs and Muslims are of course not inherently bad. That his heritage may be reasonably described by an objective observer as Arab should perhaps in itself be of no great concern. (And parodies that exaggerate his Arabism do not refute the essential facts.) The problem is that he's
in the tank for Arabs, and for Islam as it is actually manifested among global Muslims.
Islam is an identity to which he can be expected to side with more
closely than other pandered-to interest groups. (This leaves ambiguity
as to how he may regard the principles of Islam and the degree to which Islamic societies reflect them, such principles which to a post-modern thinker like him are but narrative tools...)
Why is he wearing the mask?
1 Base. It keeps the blacks confident in him, and without that base he would never have had anything;
2 AA Benefits. It affords him the benefits of black affirmative action rather than the question marks of Arab affirmative action;
3 Zap. It gives him a stack of “Racism!” zaps that he occasionally resorts to; and MOST IMPORTANT:
4 Symbolism. Being the black David of our age (to which Goliath?) gives him symbolic power that is so awesome it's almost overwhelming in itself!
"I have become a symbol..." Obama said. Indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a25kH75MB7I&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=islXuW7qmqc
Another salient question is why we have so far failed to unmask him.
One reason may be that he is so much fun. He's charismatic and rhetorically gifted and just a damn stretch more entertaining than dull old "Honest John" McCain. Our postnationalist and
entertainment-world-fused news media cannot help but stare at the Obamanon. **I don't know what to do with this one.** Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are broadcast over and over daily, every three
hours, while Red Eye is aired but once, at 3AM! There are also real
war and global Balance-of-Power issues, and such concerns as: If our
policy is to never draw the line with respect to an Enemy who openly
seeks our destruction, doesn't that mean we eventually lose even the free speech of drawing Cartoons (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rUVDTmMD7s)? (This is a reference to the Danish Muslim cartoon controversy and how pathetically it played out in America, rather than the New Yorker cover Muslim cartoon controversy.)
If Our behavior is 80% just and 20% faulty, there are those who will
still inveigh against our impurity, even as the Enemy is their active 1% among their highly sympathetic 20% among their somewhat sympathetic 80%...
Reverend Wright's "Audacity of Hope" (yes the title of Obama's book is
from a sermon from his Spiritual Mentor, the man who married him with
his wife and baptized his children) is for WHICH Change? (Recognizing
that such change is surely of the "yes we can" and "we believe in" sort.)?!
The Rev. Pflegrant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UByFZ07mIC8) ...
His erstwhile Church's
love of Farrakhan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epok-l2AUMY) ...
His Church's
blame of Israel. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3hrcCszAacY) ...
Not "just words" but "just friends" and "just community" and "just
Spiritual Mentor"? His numerous substantial affiliations in the Pally
world and the Terror-symp world? Brzezinsky? And it's a GOOD thing that this would-be master diplomat ditched his mentor and his church for his political advantage, and that he made exaggerated promises to Israel that he quickly backed away from in front of another audience?
“Hey, just empower the hero Obama and he will discover the great
responsibilities that such power entails, and learn to enact our dreams” ?
Will America's Original Sin of slavery (along its long line of original sins) be finally Cleansed by this Obama coronation? Is such a course in
the interest of even the ignorant masses who drink in the fantasy? Condy
Rice is ignored and derided for leaving the plantation, but surely
Republican was not the party of Lincoln.
He who seemed not just black, but black and white, not just b&w, but
B&W and Red all over (i.e., dumb commie revolutionist, and so
charismatic he gives the media tingly legs and is thereby widely Read
of), is truly golden (43% arab, 6% black, but only a jackass would be
unsporting enough to acquire such intel, and surely it's a coincidence
that Muslims tend to think he's a Muslim) all over.
An appealing symbol or an imprudent risk?
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6T0b03UGrU)
Both?
There are many things McCain says (and neglects) that concern me (on
Saudi, tech/competition in general, MMA, global warming, immigration,
and more), but it's nice that he personally is an authentic hero. I'm
sympathetic to the NOTA idea or the suggestion my friend made of a
Bloomberg candidacy (though I'd prefer Lieberman). A new Center seems
healthy. I'd like it to include ideas such as those of
"Winner Take All"
author Elkus's warnings on tech policy, national information processing
capacity, and their relation to competitiveness
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfqKZlMfnX4&feature=user). Elkus for
Sec'y of Tech (Competitiveness, Security, and Digital Government).
Welcome O-thusiasts to reveal how this analysis is naive or unfair, or
concede its validity and express (or link to) additional concerns of
comparable significance.
Posted by matt at August 11, 2008 06:51 AM
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