The GSA, the President, and the Bimps: Making Disrespectability Respectable

The General Services Administration website http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/21354  tells us that:

GSA oversees the business of the U.S. federal government. GSA’s acquisition solutions supplies federal purchasers with cost-effective high-quality products and services from commercial vendors. GSA provides workplaces for federal employees, and oversees the preservation of historic federal properties. Its policies covering travel, property and management practices promote efficient government operations… GSA leverages the buying power of the federal government to secure, in the most cost-effective, transparent, and sustainable manner possible, the goods, services, and real property that the civilian federal government needs to operate.

In essence, the GSA is the nuts and bolts agency literally ensuring that the United States government can work; it, in a sense, is the most federal of the federal agencies.   The GSA administrator is chosen by and reports to the president.  One would expect, therefore, that the GSA chief is philosophically in tune with Barack Obama and attempts to promote policies and practices to please the boss. 

Martha N. Johnson, GSA administrator until her resignation on April 2, 2012 in the wake of the Department’s  abuse scandal, was especially indebted to Obama; he had made her a co-leader of his GSA transition team in 2008 and in 2010 he fought to have her confirmed to the GSA leadership position when Congress balked.  To quote the President, “Nobody can tell me that there's anything particularly wrong with her. They're blocking her because of some unrelated matter. Don't hold this — this woman hostage.”

One would expect that Ms. Johnson’s gratitude might have been such that she fully and enthusiastically fashioned a GSA “corporate culture” complimentary to Barack Obama.  The staff had to know that she admired him and his style.

In any case, news footage of the GSA scandal had Barack Hussein Obama written all over it—the offenders evidenced the same swaggering bimp theatrics that we observed from President-endorsed rap stars such as Cee Lo Green and  Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr., both of whom freely and publically broadcast  degrading words such as “nigga,” “fuck,” and other in-the-hood profane expletives and both have performed at the White House..  

The news film showed GSA employees dancing and gesturing in a manner consistent with the bimpest of the bimp rappers.  Workers danced to and fro, pumping their arms and splaying their fingers.   The “performers” wore their caps askew.  They waved money in the air and pointed to their “bling.”   In one skit, an especially “cocky” guy pranced between two approaching policemen, gesticulating and shouldering them aside, as one might see on an MTV rap video.  Of the persons pictured, about 80 percent were white.

All this proves what I have said a thousand times:  You don’t have to be black to be a bimp: arrogance, vulgarity, egotism, and narcissism cross all racial and ethnic boundaries.

Barack Obama contributed to the GSA scandal unwittingly, merely by being the dark-triad personality that he is.  He and his supporters created a culture that elevated bimp antics and self-indulgent disrespect to a governmentally acceptable level.   When bimps and rappers behaved in asocial, anti-American, outrageous manner, Obama had remained mostly silent, the only exception being times when he believed that the crude behavior was widely publicized and would have cost him politically. 

In short, Barack Hussein Obama has fostered an us-versus-them Whitehouse mentality, implying that traditional “white” Leave It to Beaver morality needs to be replaced by 21^st Century rapping bimp with-it-ness.     

The GSA folks, then,  acted out their renditions of bimp behavior—distorted views of what is black cool—consistent with what they had seen their swaggering first black (really biracial) president repeatedly endorsed, directly or implicitly.   As shown in the news footage, the General Services gang was ecstatically living it up— smug and tickled with delight.  They perhaps felt that they had reached a point of 21^st Century social sophistication such that one day, with a little luck, they, too, could make it to the Oval Office as their mentor has.      

Barack Obama: A Post Racial President?

To thunderous applause, Lady Liberty blew out the last celebratory candle that adorned the 2008 presidential election.   America had elected its first “black” (actually biracial) president, Barack Obama.   According to one white writer, Timothy Noah of Slate magazine November 10, 2008, Barack had won “a larger proportion of white votes than any previous nonincumbent Democratic presidential candidate since Carter.”  Noah added, “The sad reality is that no Democratic candidate for president since Lyndon Johnson has won a majority of white votes (and even he lost 1964's white Southern vote to Barry Goldwater). “    

Does this mean that the positive black racism obsessed Noah was crediting white America in the media’s perennial white versus black propaganda war?  Not on your life!  Rather, Timothy felt compelled to complain that Obama receive “only 43 percent of the white vote.”   Not even when underscoring that whites had turned out in greater numbers for Barack Obama than for any white nonincumbent Democrat candidate since Carter could Timothy Noah be racially content.   He conveniently forgot to mention that “only” 96 percent of black voters chose Obama.

If Noah had stopped there, he only could be found guilty of “fuzzy” or “sloppy” thinking.  But this was no mere mindless error.  Timothy Noah was determined to rain even more heavily on Miss Liberty’s black-white reconciliation parade.  To do so, he argued that “the stubborn refusal of a majority of whites to vote Democratic is all about race.”

Then again, to people like Noah, isn’t everything ultimately about race?

If a white racial know-it-all like Timothy could find a way to “accentuate the negative and eeeeliminate the positive,” then what about the black identity slavemasters: the Al Sharptons, and Jesse Jacksons?  They were not about to let the “race thing’ get away from them.  They could not survive without real, fancied, overt or covert racial strife.  How would they make a living?  How would they win acclaim?  Where would the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus be if race were put on the backburner? 

No.  Something had to be done and fast.  Thus was born the now clichéd talking point that in one way or another asserts that we have not advanced to a “post racial” America. 

Actually, as I have written many times, I do agree that our country is not racially blind.  I do not believe any country ever has been or ever will be totally racially blind.  But that belief is no different than saying that no country ever will be blind to gender or age.  There is quite a difference, however, between accepting that people are aware of race and the expectation that people must be racially biased because of their awareness.  There is quite a difference between seeing difference and repeatedly underscoring and exploiting it for personal gain to the detriment of the country as a whole.

As recently as the April 9, 2012 edition of Newsweek, Daniel Klaidman, a white man, wrote an article inspired by the Tryvon Martin shooting subtitled, the “treacherous politics of race.” Klaidman spent most of his time writing about black racial identity and the extent of black leadership acceptance of Barack Obama and the Attorney General, Eric H. Holder.  The article concluded with a reference to the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman trial:

Early this week, Holder will get a briefing on the fast-moving developments in the Martin case. Justice Department staffers have interviewed Martin’s parents, and the probe is proceeding apace. The outcome—and how much the Obama administration is identified with it—could have a lasting impact on the president’s legacy on racial issues, and the attorney general’s, too. Come Election Day, it might even help rally the black community, which has sometimes been disappointed that the president has not done more for its members.

Black identity slavemasters—white and black—must keep the nation focused on race for their own self-serving ends.  They need Trayvon Martin and Henry Louis Gates Jr “cases” to keep their racial exploitation businesses going.  In a country of about 312 million people, there always will be plenty of cross race problems to feed the blood lust of racial identity vampires.   In the aggregate, however, you and I will determine whether the ghouls suck America dry.

And, by the way, if Timothy Noah of Slate magazine wants to better investigate the meaning behind his biased belief that “the stubborn refusal of a majority of whites to vote Democratic is all about race,” he should read the Daniel Klaidman Newsweek article.  He might then understand my contention that the stubborn refusal of Barack Hussein Obama and Eric H. Holder to govern America evenhandedly truly is all about race.     

Out of the Closet: Yes, I Am Biracial

I never told my wife.  My kids did not know.  My lifelong friends had no inkling. In fact, not until the last several days did I accept the simple truth that I am biracial.

So how did I discern my dual racial heritage?  As a typically race-naïve former white man, I deferred to a putative race expert: Barack Obama, the guy who subtitled his autobiography, A Story of Race and Inheritance.

In the Obama book, I learned the necessary and sufficient elements that determine racial identity.   Barack explained that he had a black father and a white mother.  With impeccable logic and persuasive narrative, he led me page by page through a narcissistically obsessive journey to the inevitable conclusion that he is a black man.  Like a veritable racial Einstein, through painstaking inferential, deductive analysis, Barack had discovered the counterintuitive fact that in order to be black a person need only have one black parent—satisfying one-half of the racial criteria proves sufficient to balance the entire racial identity equation.

Barack Obama’s insights started my feeble mind whirling, racially introspecting like never before.  As I obsessed about the fact that I had a white father and a white mother, the obvious finally hit me: I am biracial.  Why?  Before Obama, I mistakenly had presumed that a black person is one who had two black parents, as opposed to a biracial person, like Barack, who had one black and one white parent. 

After reading Obama, I know that in racial matters, half a parental inheritance is as good as the whole thing.  The genetic formula goes something like this:  I, Barack Obama, was born one black parent short of the full black complement, but I choose to be black, not biracial. 

If Barack is black but only satisfies half the criteria for being black, I am biracial for the same reason; that is, I satisfy half the parental inheritance of a black and white biracial person: I was born one black parent short of being biracial, and since half a racial inheritance is as good as the whole inheritance, I choose to be biracial, not white.

Sound crazy.  Sure is.  Race in 21^st Century America is analogous to anti-Darwinism in the early 20^th Century.

You probably recall something of the famous Scopes “Monkey” Trial of 1925 during which Bryan, a rabid anti-evolutionist, squared off against Clarence Darrow, a famous criminal defense lawyer.   Bryan and Obama share several similarities: Like Obama, Bryan was a gifted orator and a liberal, Progressive Democrat.  Like Obama, Bryan “truly believed” in his heart that he was right, and that was enough for him.  Like Barack Obama, William Bryan ignored biological and other scientific data inconveniently at odds with his beliefs; his self-evident truth required no empirically supportive data.  And like Barack, William promoted legislation to force-feed his irrationality down the throats of the American people.

William Jennings Bryan could not imagine a God who used evolution to enact his will.  Bryan had framed evolution as an either-or: religion versus biological science, humanity either had resulted from an act of God or from a satanic naturalistic blunder.  Either religion or science, nothing in between; Darwin’s Theory was ipso facto blasphemy. 

And so it is with Obama: either or, white or black with nothing in between, no half-steps.  As a 21^st Century William Jennings Bryan, Barack Hussein Obama approaches his racial identity with evangelical fervor.  Obama wants to be black to fulfill the fanciful dreams that he believes he inherited from his father.  Only one inconvenient complication: he is half white.  How troubling, to be bi-racial. His solution is to employ racially dichotomous thinking, reasoning that since he is not all white, he must be all black. 

By adhering to the half-is-whole rule, Barack silences his biracial identity demons sufficiently to live out his heroic race-based fantasies.  Moreover, he reinforces his racial delusion and insufficient black credibility by seeking likeminded racial extremists who share his identity-oriented delusional system.

Barack’s anti-biracial battle has been a life-long, consuming preoccupation.  To cite merely one example, consider the following excerpt from Obama’s autobiography: “I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”
  
Unfortunate for him, Barack Obama’s biracial hide and seek never has worked.  He lives a life dogged by a pervasive national black identity neurosis.  For instance, at the May 2009 White House Correspondents' Association dinner, African American comedian Wanda Sykes exclaims, "The first black president!  I'm proud to be able to say that. That's unless you screw up. And then it's going to be, 'What's up with the half-white guy?'"

To Sykes, mocking biracials is great sport.  Other black identity slavemasters, however, are deadly serious, such as those who excoriated Tiger Woods when he expressed discomfort at being called black rather than the multi-racial person who he is.  The identity slavemasters mock and ostracize non-conforming “mixed” persons, calling them Uncle Tom, Sell-out, or Not-Black-Enough. 

Biracial people, who consistently, unapologetically identify themselves as such, literally embody our nation’s hope for real racial reconciliation.  Down to the cellular level, they are living testaments to racial equality and harmony.  They are not either-or.  They are not half of anything.  They simply are who they are, persons with a black and white parent. 

Our country needs a modern Clarence Darrow to take on President Obama so as to dispel the either-or, half-is-whole racial identity standard and to replace it with an attitude brave enough to celebrate the biological reality of bi-racials and multi-racials.  Even if Clarence comes along, however, I do not expect a quick fix.  Darrow did lose the Scopes Trial.

As one uniquely qualified to initiate and lead a national dialogue about biracial identity, President Obama still has an opportunity to become an All-American racial hero.  In Navy Seal-like fashion, he should conduct search and destroy missions to ferret out and eliminate the double standards, double speak, and double binds that racial terrorists employ daily to poison black-white interpersonal relations.  Barack can initiate the assault by resolutely and consistently proclaiming his self not black, not white, but black and white.  In order to do so, Obama first would need to set aside his narcissistic, dreams-from-my father fantasies, a most improbable action.

So until Barack Hussein Obama and his racially divisive and duplicitous supporters overcome their systemic racial hypocrisy, I will remain one of the approximately 4,856,136 biracial and multi-racial Americans quietly campaigning for justice.  Do you think that Eric Himpton Holder, Jr., our race-absorbed Attorney General, will find a class-action biracial identity civil rights case worthy of federal investigation?   

Obama the First

He is a man of firsts.  To name a couple:  Barack Hussein Obama is the first president to howl in protest if anyone says his middle name during an election campaign; Barack is the only president ever to have written an autobiography whose Introduction ends with the admission that the story he wrote cannot be trusted;  and Mr. Obama is the first self-servingly unable to distinguish between a bi-racial and a black person.

How about his most recent first? 

Now I do not pretend to be a historian, but I am confident that Barack Obama broke new ground on March 16, 2012.  That day, black rapper, Cee Lo Green, warmed up the partisan re-elect-the-president crowd at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia as it was preparing to Barack around the clock.  The event was not a teeny bopper extravaganza, either.  Rather, Obama lovers paid had $500-per-ticket to attend.   It surely was a well-educated, sophisticated group of in-the-knows who had assembled that day.

Up stepped Cee Lo to prove how low Obama supporters can go as he sang his x-rated song, “Forget You.” 

I see you driving ’round town

With the girl i love and i’m like,

Fuck you!

Oo, oo, ooo

I guess the change in my pocket

Wasn’t enough i’m like,

Fuck you!

And fuck her too!

I said, if i was richer, i’d still be with ya

Ha, now ain’t that some shit? (ain’t that some shit?)

And although there’s pain in my chest

I still wish you the best with a…

Fuck you!

Oo, oo, ooo

“Forget You” also contained a couple obligatory “nigga” comments, just so everyone would be sure of Cee Lo’s other affiliation; that is, his bimp connection.

What was President Barack Obama’s opinion about the Honorable Mr. Green’s conduct at his campaign site?  Dead silence.  How about Barack’s flunkey-in-chief, Press Secretary Jay Carney?  Carney admitted only that the swaggering, super cool, with-it Mr. Obama is a card-carrying fan of Cee Lo Green and that he might have a few Cee Lo songs on his iPod.

On May 11, 2011 a similar incident had played out.  Rapper Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr., known as Common, was invited to the White House to read “poetry.”  Common had gotten lots of press for his misogynistic and crude language, just the kind of guy that government should endorse.  Consider “Ghetto Dreams:”

I Want A Bitch That Look Good And Cook Good

Cinderella Fancy, But She Still Look Hood

Butt Naked In The Kitchen Flipping Pancakes

Plus She Tricking From The Dough That Her Man Makes

We Got Our Own Handshake

Her Titties Ain’t Fake

Fucking In The Car Cause We Just Can’t Wait To Get Home

Early In The Morn’ Getting Stoned

Pretty With Her Eyes Low, Bunny Buy A Bible

This The Type Of Bitch That BIG Said He Would Die For

It's Type That I'd Ride Or Stay Alive For

Tatts On Her Back, Looking All Tribal

She Know Shoes Like She Know Survival

Well Put Together, She Weathers The Storm

Seen Her Brother Die So Forever She Strong

Hear Beyonce’s Song And She Gotta Perform

Whether Fucking Or Fighting: We Getting It On!

As with Cee Lo Green ,  Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr. also sprinkled the word “nigga” throughout his song to add a little race-baiting spice. 

So, let’s get this straight: Barack Obama, the guy with the abiding desire to “lift up” black children by encouraging them to stay in school, eat nutritiously, and refrain from gang-banging and other forms of banging, gives his presidential seal of approval  to over-inflated, egotistical, foul-mouthed bimps.

 

Obama chooses to endorse and to be endorsed by in-the-hood criminal role models like Green and Common.   Barack and his boys do not see the connection between bimp lifestyle-promoting role models such as Cee Lo and Common, and the tragic death of Trayvon Martin.  Right now, in-the-street blame is directed at the “white Hispanic,” George Zimmerman, and, as always, the police.   Who will Barack Obama racially scapegoat when the next black child or adolescent is gunned-down?

One thing is certain.  Barack is the first swaggering president ever to publically promote bimp language and behavior that celebrates a violent, arrogant, inner-city black male subculture diametrically at odds with traditional American mores.   He is the first president ever to elevate his own misguided, distorted racial identity affiliation and preoccupation above presidential responsibility to all of our youth, to our entire nation, and to the futures of all of our ethnicities and races.   And he is the first president unable to differentiate his biracial heritage from that of people who have an exclusively black heritage. 

The last presidential first is particularly unfortunate, given that biracial people often suffer discrimination from both blacks and whites.  Biracials sure could use a president courageous enough to be the first to advocate that they be accepted for the equally two-race people that they are, the first president to suggest that people simple be honest about who they are and not play the perennial American side-taking race game.

The hopelessly identity-conflicted Barack Obama has lived his life desperate to prove to himself and others that he is black, rather than bi-racial.  Accordingly, he feels compelled to promote whatever he thinks will further his tenuous black credentials, regardless of the consequences for our black, white, and in-between citizens.  Obama thinks that by pretending to be all-black he can hide behind a shield of racial invulnerability, that neither media nor private citizens would dare question his racial extremism so long as they are cloaked in the mantle of African Americanism.  That’s another Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama egoistic presidential first.