Post-Modern Post-Racialism and the Obama Presidency

Written by Rob Taylor
Yesterday leftist rag The Daily Beast ran an article by squishy White “Republican” John Avlon claiming that everyone in the “birther” movement is a racist who hates Black people. The birther movement, for those of you unfamiliar with it, is a collection of mainly conservatives who are convinced Obama isn’t a natural born citizen. The Birther-in-Chief is actual Black man Alan Keyes who has been hitting this note for about a year.

Nowhere in Avlon’s lefty hit piece does he mention that Alan Keyes is the driving force behind the birther movement, nor does the bleating mass of commenters lapping up his intellectual sputum mention that or the fact that Obama isn’t a “Black man.” He is, like me, Bi-racial. Unlike me, his Black ancestors have not been in America since the 1700s, he has no roots in the Black community, and grew up in countries that had no Black population to speak of. There is even some evidence to support that his violent communist family from Kenya is involved in ethnic cleansing of Black Africans from different tribes, and those of different faiths.

Yet for Avlon, Barack Obama is the perfect Black man.

Obama promised a post-racial presidency but his entire appeal to White liberals is his “Blackness” which is mediated to the extreme by his unfamiliarity with Black American culture. The media criticized Michael Steele for making a joke about bring fried chicken to a picnic without bothering to figure out if fried chicken is something Black people like to take on picnics. It is, and my Grandmother’s fried chicken was Ambrosia wrapped in aluminum foil and slightly chilled from being in a cooler full of Shop Rite brand sodas on the way to our favorite family fishing hole.

It should be noted that the criticism of Steele, based solely on his off-hand remark that shared Black American culture with the world, came from White Obama supporters like noted hack Bill Browning. Browning claimed that Steele, a Black man, was racist against Blacks for mentioning fried chicken as a picnic food. Obama encourages this sort of post-modern redefinition of racism implicitly by standing idle now, and during his entire political career, while his clan of White “liberals” burned their rhetorical crosses on the lawns of anyone who dared to criticize the essentially White progressive agenda Obama represents. Obama is not Black and he is by any definition a token for the far left, but in this wildly redefined world he is representative of a people he knows nothing about and the power of White leftists to delineate what is “real” Black behavior and who is an Uncle Tom.

It’s an upside down world, but one in which there is still one fiction that has survived, if only because it is too important to the race baiting industry that has stolen the cause of Black advancement, and that is the Black man as perpetual victim of a racist state. In his rambling and asinine address on health care last night I saw that one of the journalists in his harem threw him what he considers a soft ball and asked him about overrated academic hack Henry Gates’ arrest. Obama lied about the details of the arrest, then called the police stupid in a display so childish all Americans should have been mortified. That the officer who the left is now claiming falsely is a racist, James Crowley, once gave a Black man mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and only arrested Gates when the belligerent Harvard professor followed him out of the house to berate him is almost a given. Obama’s friend got arrested, and since he is a Black man it was racism.

Ignore for a moment that it’s fairly unimportant. A couple of thousand people are getting arrested and thrown in a drunk tank or holding cell as you read this, only to be released after they cool off in a time honored policing technique designed to keep the arrestees from getting in more trouble. Obama supporters care about none of these people, or the addictions/mental illnesses that lead many of them into these situations. Obama is “their Black” and Gates is the Black guy who writes the books they leave on their coffee tables to show people how “aware” they are so a defense of them is tendered, so paternalistic that it’s a surprise they didn’t baby powder Gates’ little tush afterward.

The Boston Globe did, when they removed the arrest report because it reflected badly on Gates, you know, by telling the truth. If Gates wasn’t drunk during this encounter he is frankly the biggest ass in Cambridge. The Globe removing the report was an attempt to make the arresting officer look racist, even though there was no racism in the incident. Obama added fuel to that fire in what he laughably calls a post-racial presidency. White leftists are already orgasmic over Barack’s “honesty” about a subject they know nothing about which is how Black Americans are treated by the police. Ironically, the man that gives them license to do so, Barack Obama, knows nothing about it either.

The consequences of this post-modern post-racialism are an increase in racial animosity and the potential for violence and civil unrest. I blogged yesterday about a tense racial stand-off in Texas, and in this new post-racial America vicious Black on White hate crimes like the Newsom/Christian murders or the Wichita Massacre have still yet to be addressed by the national media. Both cases have been slowly scrubbed of their most horrific details on the web, as the ever shrinking Wikipedia entries for both attest to. Most recently, the assault on a White family on the Fourth of July by a gang of Blacks who made racist comments during the attackshould prove that the leftist class/race warfare narrative in this country does more harm than good, and the post-modern construct of post-racialism will only lead to more mayhem.

When he leaves office Obama will have allowed a White driven academic understanding of racism to drive policies that will further segregate America and undo years of struggle to bring Americans together. If that’s what he meant by post-racial, then he’s a success, but I suspect he meant something entirely different. That lofty goal cannot be achieved within the White progressive power structure, and a Black man would know that.