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Calling Obama the Great White Hope is the Same as Calling him a N-gga.

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The word N-gga means something only because Jamestown
means something.

Because because the fact that Black Wall Street got torched
means something.

Because 1968 means something.

Because acting white means something.

Because 40 acres and a mule means something.

Because Black WWII veterans got systematically robbed
and nothing has been done about it.

In 2008, I have become particularly attuned to the notion of burden sharing.
For instance, if you and I decide to go to dinner, but want me to drive
out to the boondocks because you don’t want to pay for gas, or don’t
want to drive, or because it is your favorite restaurant, then that
would constitute me shouldering the majority of the burden for this dinner.

In this dinner called ethnicity/race taking ’08 Presidential elections,
the burden of being a n-gga or even the great white hope, based on this
article, has been shifted clearly to Black folks.

In this piece Mr. Greenberg, is trying to clown Obama for
playing the hand he was dealt. It’s as if he resents the fact that
Obama can be so slick and to have the audacity to try and WIN.

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There would be NO NEED for a great white hope if the
Great Negro Stereotype weren’t on the other side of the coin.
Willie Horton anyone?

I am all for a critique of Obama, or any of the candidates. Wasn’t
I talking about Huckabee last week? But please, don’t bring out
the magnify glass and forget your mirror. Not this year.
Last year, I wrote a lot about that fact that there is a thin
line between resentment and love and I think that is at work here.

That people want to cheer for you, but simultaneously resent
you when you win. It’s tiring.

Americans (infer garden variety White voters) are NOT going to
for him if he hammers race down their throats.

Americans, get uncomfortable if you talk about race at
happy hour, the lunch hour, or too loudly on the train.

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Is David Greenberg simply just hating or does
he have a point?

Obama, the Great White Hope, or the Negro that Hate Produced?
^^^^thats so good and egregious I just surprised MYSELF.

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Blacks and Women, What if I am Both?

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By Wang Xiao Song


You can always tell when my personal life is in turmoil because
there will be very few posts. But then again, I blog through crisis as well.

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I guess it cuts both ways. First, my internet was down last weekend.
Then, the Barnes and Noble didn’t have lap top plug. Finally, on Sunday,

SJ told me he got (post holiday) cold feet.

Then I started trippin’ off the fact that my sister, for some reason,
thought that because we were living in the same state that I should
feel obligated to to kick it with her on Christmas. Did i mention
that I have not rocked with her since Clinton was president. Man.

That girl needs a 12 step program and Jesus before I f*ck with her.
She and our momma got funk that predates my existence on earth.
I am not touching that with a ten foot pole.

The good news is that my old school homie, d-shot contacted me
and we ironed some ’03 funk out and have re-connected.
It’s weird with those historical friendships. Its like, you want
to be cool with the person again, but sometimes the moment has passed.
With her, I feel like I made the right choice. She sounded the same,
and seemed happy to hear from me.


I felt compelled to post this morning, before I went to Glide, when I read this
article in The Times about Race and Gender in the presidential election.
Sentences like this, on the history of Voting Rights for White women and
Black people, make me feel so invisible it ain’t even funny.
Of course the authors have no idea.

?The movements have been so deeply linked, and usually in harmony,? said Sara Evans, author of ?Personal Politics: The Roots of Women?s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left? and a historian at the University of Minnesota. ?But there will always be points of tension, too,? Ms. Evans said, especially when the broad ideals that blacks and women have typically shared ? in their fight for the vote, non-discrimination and economic equality ? give way to the nitty-gritty of reaching consensus, setting policy, passing legislation and, in the case of elections, making choices

What the highlighted fragment really means is WHITE women and
Black people, but they expect us to make the inference.
The problem that I have with it is that language reflects
the accepted notion that this issue is ABOUT Black men
and White women, that is if you let the media and the academic’s
tell it, it is. I can’t help but read that and think,
well what if I am apart of both groups?
According to this article, that overlap is irrelevant.


The article does a interesting job contextualizing this history of
the abolitionist movement/Voters rights movement.
Peep the dialog between Candy Stanton and Fredrick Douglas.

During a heated meeting in New York City?s Steinway Hall in 1869, Stanton wondered, ?Shall American statesmen … so amend their constitutions as to make their wives and mothers the political inferiors of unlettered and unwashed ditch-diggers, bootblacks, butchers and barbers, fresh from the slave plantations of the South?? At which point, Douglass rose, paid tribute to Stanton?s years of work on civil rights for all, and replied, ?When women, because they are women, are hunted down through the cities of New York and New Orleans; when they are dragged from their houses and hung from lampposts; when their children are torn from their arms and their brains dashed out upon the pavement; when they are objects of insult and rage at every turn; when they are in danger of having their homes burnt down… then they will have an urgency to obtain the ballot equal to our own.?

Fredrick Douglas, go hard, hunh?

How come the two movements were unable to see that it was
only together that they would win?

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When you fall out with your old school homies,
do you leave the door for re-entry wide open or a little cracked?

Why do n*ggas get cold feet?

Why didn’t the abolitionist and the womens rights cats continue to
work together?
Did they not receive the Willie Lynch memo?

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If I Were President

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When I first conceived of this post, errr, 6 hours ago,
I was going to skip the article that Steinem wrote in
The Times and go for the gusto with the comments section.

The article is about voting based on race or gender.
The commenter’s write,

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January 8th, 2008 7:18 amLink

Thank you, very well said. Watching the beating Senator Clinton is getting has made me realize that this country was broken at the foundation, when the Constitution did not include women. And why are the young women so anxious to throw away all the gains the prior generations bled for? Is there any hope for our nation?

? SP, North Carolina

Uhhhhh. The same reason why White Women
protest AGAINST AFFIRMATIVE action.

Out.For.Self.

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January 8th, 2008 7:18 amLink

I think the more appropriate conclusion is that those who are both female AND black would have a difficult time reaching to highest heights in politics. If Hillary Clinton was black she wouldn’t have a shot. Her whiteness, like Obama’s maleness, then, provides them with this shot at the White House. Perhaps Ms. Steinem could have discussed the advantages that Senator Clinton, a white woman, would have over a similarly situated black woman.

? Rob, Washington, DC

Dude. If Hillary Clinton were Black, Bill Clinton would have major
f*cking problems. It would be more like Bill wh?

9.

January 8th, 2008 7:18 amLink

“So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?” Could it be because white women in this country have always had a degree of agency that has exceeded that of black men and black women by an order of magnitude? Univeral human emancipation is, or should be, our goal. Your diatribe against Mr. Obama is uncalled for. Moreover, I believe it can only turn voters against Ms. Clinton if she does not repudiate it.

? malnicore, nyc

You know whats cute? I know, based on the writing, that this
person is a lawyer.

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January 8th, 2008 7:12 amLink
“But what worries me is that he is seen as unifying by his race while she is seen as divisive by her sex.”

So what you’re saying is…..the last 41 WHITE presidents were chosen because of their ability to bring all factions together? I wonder if this case would hold up in, let’s say, Isreal? Hillary is divisive because a majority of people view her as a fake, and haven’t liked her from day one. It has nothing to do with her gender. Maybe it has to do with the fact that we’re sick and tired of seeing the same political family in office again. Change would be ending the dynasty.

? Jazzence, Los Angeles

Yeah. That same family sh*t is kinda real ya’ll.

Tonight, I came across an article by Timothy Noah in Slate,
pointing out the fallacy in Steinem’s article and I realized
that I was at a loss. because I knew I needed to include
it as well. Here is what Timothy has to say about
Steinem going to bat for Hillary,

“Gender,” writes Gloria Steinem on the op-ed page of the
Jan. 8 New York Times, “is probably the most restricting
force in American life.” That is incorrect. Poverty is the
most restricting force in American life. It’s become
somewhat unfashionable to point this out, but I don’t see
how it could be otherwise. Given the choice between being
born poor and being born female, which would you choose?

How about, a White Man?

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If you could come back as someone else,
who would it be? Fridah? Jay-Z? Dre?
Bill Gates, lol! Mrs. Bill Gates <<< Man, if poverty is the most
restricting force in American Life,
then what can we do about it? I think on that sh*t every day,
and my conclusion is that you have to go directly to the
mommas and the dads to provide the support they they
arn’t getting else where.

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Kennedy was as Real as ‘Pac: Bobby Kennedy Part II

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I am naming my son Bobby Kennedy.

I have always had a fascination with ’68 but
something has brought it to the surface again.

My new found interest stems from learning, courtesy
of BMC, that the seeds of disrespect for life circa the ’88 crack era
were sewn in the disrespect for life during the ’68 era.
’68, the era of protests, national guard shooting to kill,
urban riots, King/Kennedy assassination era.

In the movie Bobby, they used footage of his actual historical
speeches in the film.

This man was so sincere, warm and compelling, I was floored.

Birkhold put it lovely when he said that Kennedy
spoke the truest sh*t, just like ‘Pac.

Here was a dude, from MONEY, but totally rode
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What was so moving about just seeing him
on a old crusty video was that his sincerity was so compelling.
This sincerity jumped off the screen.

I mentioned my new fascination with him to my dad,
asking, “Where is the Bobby Kennedy?” He responded saying,
that “they only come once a lifetime.”

Sensing my disappointment, he caught himself, saying,
“that there was one probably being made right now.”

I couldn’t help but feel let down by his response.

At the end of the day, like ‘Pac, its great to know that he even lived
for the short time that he did.

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What do you know about Bobby Kennedy? ’68?

Why doesn’t anyone make the connection
between ’68 and ’88?

Do you agree that there is in fact a connection?

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Obama Might Get Murked: Bobby Kennedy Part I

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I came to this conclusion while watching the film Bobby
over holiday’s. If you have been a long time reader, you
already know that I have long contended that guns and
entrenched racism don’t bode well for Black
Presidential candidates.

Watching the movie Bobby further confirmed this for me.

Back to Obama.

If I hear one more person say its not about race, I am going
to mail them a chit’in Popsicle. Real talk.

But there?s no doubt that for one night, in one state, Americans
dramatically changed the subject. Race didn?t matter ? even
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as Mr. Obama galvanized his supporters by promising to
toss historical and political division aside.

It would be better stated if Kirk stated that
White Iowans voted for him INSPITE of him being Black,

I mean. The VERY fact that HE IS BLACK, makes his win
in Ohio meaningful and substantial.

If he were a white man, he would be just another white dude
that won in Iowa, Kirk.

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I wonder whats going through Oprah’s head right now.

Why do folks INSIST on saying its not about race
when it is all day?

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