My wife , daughter, and I saw 2016 last night, as part of a night out for my birthday, ‘dinner and a show”.
It was ultimately pretty mild, especially at the beginning, for roughly the first third, when it almost seemed like a pro-Obama campaign film. D’Souza very cleverly framed it with
a running parallel between his life and Obama’s and all the things they had “in common”.I think this opening section was
designed that way precisely to establish D’Souza’s own quality of “likeability”, always considered Obama’s Ace in the Hole. However, the movie slowly and steadily got better and better, more and more serious, and the clever and colorful graphics kept it moving quickly and eye-catchingly.
I had always been kind of dubious about D’Souza’s “Roots of Obama’s Rage” thesis, primarily because I thought it reeked of simplistic pop psychology, and in effect gave Obama too much credit for “principle” while absolving him of any responsibility for his worldview. The movie however presents this in a kind of shorthand which at least made it understandable to those still large numbers who still don’t know the essential things about Obama.
For me the film started to get very good just as it started to get very blunt: Shelby Steele shown in an extended phone conversation was direct and to the point.
When I got home I looked up the Rotten Tomatoes reviews.
Only 27, mostly obscure critics give it only a 30% rating,
but predictably audience approval was near 80%.
The other thing I noticed was how Obama is called a Kogelo, from the Kogelo tribe.
This is where the racist theory falls off. Truth is, the Kogelos are like the Hoovas in Madagascar or the Inui in Canada. They are the same basic natives as the Manjakas in the former and the InuiTs in the latter.
Why do these trouble making tribes get to promote their agenda as being truly african, black or indian is completely horse crap.
... and I say this in my previous post because a black dude asked me how I can be African and be against Obama. I told his ignorant arse that Africa is continent of various tribes, and my tribe does not accept Obama’s tribe, that is why.
Being for America or Africa, or whatever, does not make one pro-Obama. THese people are ignorant.