Mr. Barack Obama's going to be swept into the Oval Office on a wave of SWEET WHITE GUILT. Some of it perfectly sincere! Other of it...less so.
I mean, run the numbers with me here a bit, and you tell me if I got it wrong: picture all your casual whiteys out there...not your white power whiteys, just your average whiteys, maybe a little disinvested with the whole race thing (well they can afford to be, runs the counter-argument), maybe a little sick of the whole nag nag nag about racism. Well shoot. Many of these folks would LOVE to see a proud black man elected president! Of course they would! Why wouldn't they? See, they'd figure they could then say "well, so much for racism huh? Can't keep talking about THAT crap any more can ya? BLACK PRESIDENT, Y'ALL! I mean, what more needs to be said? How much more bold a symbol can we as a society realize? Can we all please give it a rest now?"
Well of course, they'd be wrong about all that. Fat chance. But you know there's still a lot of people dying to make just that case. Yeah. And it'd actually be a pretty persuasive case.
Yeah.
The lynchpin of the whole thing is this, and I hope all the virulent violent hater-type racists out there wise up on this one for once: Hilary's hints notwithstanding: DON'T DO IT. DON'T EVEN TRY IT. Even a failed attempt would ruin the whole picture. Everybody would say SEE?!!! THERE'S your racism! THAT'S why racism can never be closed the book on!
Maybe everyone would not say it quite so awkward. But you get the drift: you got to get the guy in there, he's got to serve his whole term without incident, if he get's reelected, BONUS. If not, no big. Point made anyway.
As long as he leaves office safe and sound, I think your average race-averse white person can start to drop the guilt act and get a little smug about how oh so enlightened we the people have become in our own lifetime.
HEY! Who'd a thunk we'd live to see it!
I'm getting excited already. New era, peoples. Out with the old. In with the bold.
I mean, run the numbers with me here a bit, and you tell me if I got it wrong: picture all your casual whiteys out there...not your white power whiteys, just your average whiteys, maybe a little disinvested with the whole race thing (well they can afford to be, runs the counter-argument), maybe a little sick of the whole nag nag nag about racism. Well shoot. Many of these folks would LOVE to see a proud black man elected president! Of course they would! Why wouldn't they? See, they'd figure they could then say "well, so much for racism huh? Can't keep talking about THAT crap any more can ya? BLACK PRESIDENT, Y'ALL! I mean, what more needs to be said? How much more bold a symbol can we as a society realize? Can we all please give it a rest now?"
Well of course, they'd be wrong about all that. Fat chance. But you know there's still a lot of people dying to make just that case. Yeah. And it'd actually be a pretty persuasive case.
Yeah.
The lynchpin of the whole thing is this, and I hope all the virulent violent hater-type racists out there wise up on this one for once: Hilary's hints notwithstanding: DON'T DO IT. DON'T EVEN TRY IT. Even a failed attempt would ruin the whole picture. Everybody would say SEE?!!! THERE'S your racism! THAT'S why racism can never be closed the book on!
Maybe everyone would not say it quite so awkward. But you get the drift: you got to get the guy in there, he's got to serve his whole term without incident, if he get's reelected, BONUS. If not, no big. Point made anyway.
As long as he leaves office safe and sound, I think your average race-averse white person can start to drop the guilt act and get a little smug about how oh so enlightened we the people have become in our own lifetime.
HEY! Who'd a thunk we'd live to see it!
I'm getting excited already. New era, peoples. Out with the old. In with the bold.
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