OBAMA: “Brothers should pull up their pants”
Another victory for whiteness.
Whether through chastising Blacks for feeding their kids fried chicken for breakfast; by spending Father’s Day reprimanding black men for acting like “boys” rather than responsible adults; or by spewing out nonsense like “the single biggest thing” that we could do to reduce inner-city poverty “is to encourage teenage girls to finish high school and avoid having children out of wedlock,” Whites are happy to find in Barack Obama a person who could get away with saying all that they’d been thinking and privately saying. Add to that the following:
On today’s NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, they mentioned that earlier this week Barack Obama was interviewed by MTV. And when asked about his thoughts on a municipal ban on sagging pants, this was his response:
“Here is my attitude: I think people passing a law against people wearing sagging pants is a waste of time. We should be focused on creating jobs, improving our schools, health care, dealing with the war in Iraq, and anybody, any public official, that is worrying about sagging pants probably needs to spend some time focusing on real problems out there. Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants. You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What’s wrong with that? Come on. There are some issues that we face, that you don’t have to pass a law, but that doesn’t mean folks can’t have some sense and some respect for other people and, you know, some people might not want to see your underwear — I’m one of them.”
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1598409/20081102/story.jhtml
Of course, the liberal NPR Wait Wait audience couldn’t contain their roars of applause and appreciation.
It’s Barack Obama’s call to blacks that they accommodate themselves to the mainstream culture, because “members of every minority group continue to be measured largely by the degree of our assimilation.” (See: Audacity of Hope for this and the black girls and wedlock quote above)
I can’t let people get away with thinking that a black man as the leader of a tyrannical regime is supposed to be a “good thing” for Blacks or anybody at all. Or that it’s supposed to be a good thing that there exists a role model like Obama for blacks because he isn’t “an athlete or a rapper.”
I am embarassed for anyone who, while voting for Barack Obama because he was black somehow thought it would be good for building a “post-race” society. This presidential election was historic, but only in the sense that it showed that black skin is equally corruptable as is white. This presidential election was historic, but only in the sense that it shows that we don’t know what racism is.
And it proves, and it will continue to prove that we, so-called “leftists,” don’t know what social justice ever meant. And even more than that, we don’t even know how to begin to imagine it.
