Half-White President Fails All-Black Americans

On June 9, 2009, while performing at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, comedienne Wanda Sykes quipped:  "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?'"  Upon which the audience exploded in uproarious laughter.  Why so intense a response?  What was so funny?

    

If you accept the explanation of the American Psychological Association's Sadie F. Dingfelder, "Research suggests that the critical ingredient for a chuckle is incongruity.  But if you can also point to some unspoken truth, you'll hit humor gold."   The rationale certainly seems to apply to the joke in question.  First, Sykes is female, black and openly-gay, a member of the three staunchest Obama support groups.  At the time of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, it literally was laughable to imagine such persons deriding the President.  Second, Wanda had tapped into the journalist audience's unconscious awareness that prior to his election Obama's black identity and capacity to represent blacks had been openly and vociferously debated in the African American community.  For instance, as early as March 17, 2000, Illinois Democratic Representative and former Black Panther, Bobby Rush mocked Barack's racial identity credentials saying, “Barack is a person who read about the civil rights protests and thinks he knows all about it. He went to Harvard and became an educated fool.”   And on October 17, 2007, CNN reported that "Among black registered Democrats overall, Clinton had a 57 percent to 33 percent lead over Obama" in the Democratic Presidential Primary.

January 28, 2013, the Washington Post ran a piece summarizing Obama's first term entitled “NAACP president: Black people worse off under Obama”   Ten months later, a similar opinion was proffered when on October 10, 2013, while appearing on Fox News's Hannity show, Tavis Smiley, a black talk show host, asserted that "The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category."

In a December 16, 2013 article, speaking of African American young adults, Tom Allison of Huff Post’s Black Voices writes:

The situation is actually getting worse for 25-to 34-year-olds. Black workers in that age group actually suffer a worse unemployment rate than they did a year ago. New data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that in November 2013 black workers aged 25 to 34 had an unemployment rate of 13.6 percent. In November 2012, the rate was 12.7 percent. This is more than double the rate of white workers in the same age group who face a 5.9 percent unemployment rate.

We see then that Barack Obama is not the black messiah.  As Wanda Sykes’s joke underscores, Barack Obama is not even authentically black.  Every cell in Barack’s body always was and always will be as white as they are black.  Black and white Americans know that the President is biracial, but they, like he, choose to play racial games in order to declare him the first black president.  He won the office because of his false racial identity.  Obama did not have and does not have either the personality or the leadership qualities to effectively lead our nation.  Having given Barack 92 percent of their vote in 2008 and 91 percent in 2012 and having received nothing in return, black America has learned that lesson the hard way. 

The reality is that Barack Obama is a half-white man and a half-black man.  Maybe we need to think of him merely as a human.  A half-white president is not black and being black or white is no relevant criterion from which to vote.  Being black or white does not qualify anyone for anything, leastwise the presidency.  Next time, let’s take Martin Luther King, Junior’s advice and judge our presidential candidates not by the color of their skin by the contents of his or her character.  Competency to serve, rather than race, seems like a good standard. 

Barack Obama: A Life of Lies

That everyone lies is a commonsense notion supported by psychological research.   But while everyone lies occasionally, few people lie chronically.  Most refrain from habitual lying due to moral sense and/or from fear that others will discover their lies and punish them.

To succeed as a professional liar then, one must develop two essential skills.  First, he needs to insulate his conscience from information that challenges his lies.   Second, he must be supremely confident that his audience is so naive as to accept the lies and that they are unwilling or incapable of retaliating should they discover his deceptions.

In his quasi-autobiographical book Dreams from My Father that he is admits is fabricated in parts, Barack Obama unwittingly describes some roots of his lying character.  Barack, then called "Barry," explains his lying ways and his fear of being caught in lies by his father's visit to his 5^th grade classroom.  Jon Meacham in an August 22 2008 Time article entitled “What Barack Obama Learned from His Father” summarizes the episode nicely:

Obama was not delighted by the visit. He dreaded it. He had boasted that he came from African royalty, and that his father was a prince. "My grandfather, see, he's a chief," Barry had told his classmates. "It's sort of like the king of the tribe, you know … like the Indians. So that makes my father a prince. He'll take over when my grandfather dies." The truth was more mundane—tragically mundane, in Barry's view. The Obamas were Luo, a nomadic tribe that, as Barry recalled, "raised cattle and lived in mud huts and ate corn meal and yams and something called millet. Their traditional costume was a leather thong across the crotch." Told that Miss Hefty had invited Obama Sr. to the class to talk about life in Kenya, Barry was crushed: his tale of princely blood would be exposed, he feared, by the harsh reality of mud huts. "I couldn't imagine worse news," Obama wrote of the invitation to his father. "I spent that night and all of the next day trying to suppress thoughts of the inevitable … all my lies exposed, the painful jokes afterward. Each time I remembered, my body squirmed as if it had received a jolt to the nerves."

Please note the content of young Barack’s lies.  At age ten, his deception does not concern age-consistent desire.  He is not lying to avoid punishment for some infraction and he is not lying to take possession of some material good.  No.  Barack Obama is lying to feed his fragile self-esteem and to enhance his identity.  The issue is one of tenuous, conflicted identity, a desperate attempt to prove first to himself and then to others that he is special and worthy of adulation.  The lie reveals both the fragile narcissism and nascent megalomania that comprise the foundation of Barack Hussein Obama’s personality.

So Obama has had the requisite character to be a successful liar.  But a successful liar demands a gullible audience.   

It was here that Barack Obama truly shined.  He realized intuitively that biracial persons are a true minority, one with a miniscule constituency.  Barack could not be successful as a biracial candidate.  He needed to be black in order to profit from black enthusiasm and white guilt.  No one would dare question a black man.  No one would dare call a black man a liar, for to do so would open them up to charges of vile racism.  And Obama was proved correct when in November 2009, during the President’s health care speech, Representative Joe Wilson from South Carolina shouted "You lie," was set upon as if by all the dogs from hell, and shamed into recanting his criticism.

Interesting that Wilson had chosen to focus on healthcare lies, since Obama’s healthcare lies now are center stage.  Interesting that Barry Barack Obama, the child, feared that the father who gave him physical life would be the one to expose his lies when for President Barack Hussein Obama, the adult, it is the media who gave him electoral life that has exposed his lies.  For in the December16, 2013 ultra-liberal Washington Post, Glenn Kessler described Obama as having uttered the first, third, and fifth most egregious political lies of the year:  (Number One) “If you like your health-care plan, you can keep it.”  (Number Three) “The Capitol Hill janitors just got a pay cut” and (Number Five) “The day after Benghazi happened, I acknowledged that this was an act of terrorism.”

The lying, identity-conflicted, narcissistic, megalomaniacal Barry Obama, then, continues to inhabit the body and mind of Barack Obama.   The President still is fully capable of professional shameless prevarication.  But maybe, just maybe, the previously lie-colluding press and ultra-liberal electorate are beginning to see Obama for the double-speaking demagogue that he always has been.      

Racial Absurdity in America: One More Chance to Divide the Nation by Color

I initially hesitated to comment on Aisha Harris’ December 10, 2013 article in Slate entitled "Santa Claus Should Not Be a White Man Anymore," since, on the surface, it is so inane.  But race in America is, in fact, inane and the ideas contained within the piece lie at the very heart of our racial dysfunction.   

Miss Harris’ language reveals how she uses Santa Claus as a foil to ventilate her anti-white racial animus.   In the essay, she refers to the “pale seasonal visitor” and the “melanin-deficient Santa.”  In so doing, she equates white with sickly and/or impaired.  The comments are especially telling because American high-profile authors and speakers regularly contrast and praise “people of color’ with white people and, in so doing, they consciously and/or unconsciously conspire to make Caucasians into deficient aliens.  Everyone on earth is a person of color except white people who are colorless. 

And Harris does not rest with merely denigrating white skin color; she is equally facile in promoting the stereotype that “old white men” should be ignored or ridiculed.   The image of Santa Claus permits her to mock the “fat-old-white-man” and to have a good laugh in the process. 

To appreciate the significance of the confluence of old, white, and male, one must understand that high profile media and political types regularly use the expression “old white” as if it were a slur.  There are thousands of examples of this usage but I will limit myself to one.

Oprah Winfrey, the black person who arguably has profited more financially from white support than any single person in world history, traveled to the United Kingdom in November, 2013 to promote her race-based film, The Butler.   Thus, from the start, her propaganda mission was to underscore race and to glorify blacks.  At a BBC interview with Will Gompertz, Winfrey asserted, "There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die."  Of course, Oprah was referring to “old white” people as if “old black” people have nary a racist bone in their bodies.  And the inimitable, holier-than-thou Oprah prefers that whites "just die."

Within the still extant racially-divisive tradition, then, Aisha Harris uses Santa Claus to promote a racist agenda by using well-worn racist language and references.  But, since she is black, Harris is immune from accusations of racism.  She rationalizes her protest by suggesting, “Of course, since we created Santa, we can certainly change him however we’d like…”  Aisha, although not melanin-deficient, apparently has her own deficiencies.  I refer her to stnicholascenter.org, a site dedicated to “discovering the truth about Santa Claus.”  There, as in thousands of other sources, Ms. Harris will discover that she was not among those who created Santa, that Santa was created hundreds of years ago by white people who “discovered,” explored, and settled America.  The myth is not hers to change; it is a shared European fantasy.  Aisha Harris can embrace or reject Santa Claus as she chooses but she has no right change the version that Americans have enjoyed for generations. 

Regarding Ms. Harris' authority to dictate what we should and should not believe, I must conclude by noting that at the very end of her Slate article is the following:  “Correction, Dec. 10, 2013: This article originally misidentified penguins as mammals. They are birds.”  Apparently, the lady obsessed with the Santa Claus fantasy is not sufficiently well versed in reality to know that penguins are birds.  

Race Talk in America: Pathologically Biased to the Core

By now many Americans have heard of the “knock-out game” in which blacks coldcock unsuspecting white passersby whom they see on the street.  Given that black-on-white aggression usually is attributed to “random” acts of violence, as opposed to white-on-black aggression that always is dubbed “vicious racist attacks” maybe we can double speak the events to call them “random acts of black violence against white people.”  Noteworthy is that in New York City white victims mostly have been Jews, the whites with a sterling history of black advocacy, the whites who literally helped to establish the NAACP in the early 1900s.   

With the above in mind, let’s direct our attention to the On the Record show hosted by Greta Van Susteren during which she interviewed New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Jew, who expressed profound concern about the vicious black-on-white assaults.  He spoke personally about his new habit of repeatedly, nervously glancing around when he walks the streets of Brooklyn.

Van Susteren: This has been going on across the country. But I'm curious, is it -- is it targeting Jewish citizens in New York? Do you have there's a specific target? Is anything said as the attackers attack? I take it there's no robbery involved. Is there anything to suggest this is a specific target?

Hikind: In almost all the cases nothing is said. Nothing is taken. It so happens that literally almost every single victim in New York has been Jewish and almost every single perpetrator has been black. It's not my job to say is it racial or not. At this point, it hardly matters.

Is it not Mr. Hikind’s job to say whether it is racial or not, and does it hardly matter?   

Mr. Hikind is a Democrat and no doubt aware of the oft-quoted John F. Kennedy remark, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” (that Kennedy incorrectly attributed to British philosopher Edmund Burke).  To my way of thinking, all that is necessary for racial evil to triumph is for good men to censor their racially-oriented thoughts and comments to the extent that they are incapable of stating that which is racially obvious.  Or, to paraphrase George Orwell, “Freedom is the freedom to say that when ‘almost every single racial victim’ is white and ‘almost every single perpetrator has been black,’ black racists are to blame.”

In my book, Barry Barack Hussein Suitor Obama : Identity and Racial Hypocrisy in America, I asserted that it is racial double standards, double speak, and double binds that lie at the heart of our country’s racial torment.  If a Jewish assemblyman, renowned for his battles against antisemitism, cannot call racism racism, then who can?

To my way of thinking, racial excuse-making causes more problems that it attempts to heal.  Anyone with an ounce of common sense sees right through the racial hypocrisy promulgated by the government and the media.  The double speak kindles simmering racial resentment that broadens and deepens the racial divide. When citizens’ just issues are dismissed or minimized, they become more recalcitrant and more intense in their opposition to force-fed, politically-inspired racial propaganda.