Posted on 11/25/2012 11:18:51 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
About eight years ago, I wrote a book called “What if George Bush were a Black Man?” The book was designed to analyze the vast impact that skin color has on our outcomes in a historically racist society. The summarized conclusion of the project was that disparities in the educational, economic and criminal justice systems give black men a much smaller margin of error than the one they would receive if they were white. A white kid in college caught using dope in a frat house gets a slap on the wrist. A black kid in the projects doing the same thing might lose his entire future.
Right around the time I finished the book, a legendary radio show host out of Milwaukee by the name of Keith Murphy asked, “Have you heard of this guy named Barack Obama?” My first response was “Who is he?” and my second question was “How do you say his name again?”
Murphy explained that Obama was a senator from Illinois that “everyone is excited about.” I did my research, and later on CNN, noted that Hillary Clinton may end up getting competition from the guy who was so sharp and charismatic.
Years later, after reflecting on how dumb it was for me to pour my soul into the first book about George Bush, I asked myself the corollary question: “What if Barack Obama were a white man?”
I started off by asking the readers on my Facebook page, a group of highly-intelligent black people who give me perspectives from across the board. Then, I looked in the mirror and asked myself the same question...
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hell, what if it were a man?
He would be in jail.
try as they might, it has never been about color, it’s about policies
First off he wouldn’t have been elected. John Kerry was about as big a Marxist and he went down in flames. If he were elected, the press wouldn’t be able to run interference for him nearly as much and the guilty white liberal vote wouldn’t be carrying him to a second term. In short, if he were white he wouldn’t have been taken seriously outside Chicago.
If Obama were a white man he sure wouldn’t be president now, shoot he may not have been president the first time.
Could never happen. The left destroys any decent, normal-thinking (conservative) person who happens to be a minority. In their distorted world view, all minorities have to be liberal, and any that aren’t, are immediately destroyed.
Clarence Thomas. Allan Keyes. Sarah Palin.
They’ve already started on Marco Rubio.
The question shouldn’t be what if he were white, but what if he were a black conservative? How far would he get? How would the black community treat him? For insight look to Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain and Allen West. All of these accomplished far more than BH0 , yet they’re treated with scorn in the “black community”. The question is why?
I know Boyce Watkins. He is a deranged person (like Cornel West) who sees racism EVERYWHERE! He didn’t publish at Syracuse, filed a lawsuit, and now Syracuse is stuck with him forever. Or until he has a stroke or a mental breakdown.
He may not have even been senator. Hillary probably would’ve been the Dem nominee in ‘08(whether she would’ve won or not would be a different story).
If obama were white, it wouldn’t change a thing.. though blacks wouldn’t vote for him en masse.
Obama would probably be a very popular bar tender on a beach somewhere in Hawaii.
There's the correct answer right there.
Who would care?
The people posting on his website are equally deranged. They don’t see that the only people keeping them down are themselves. Period!
hes more white than black . tie goes to the mother.
“A white kid in college caught using dope in a frat house gets a slap on the wrist. A black kid in the projects doing the same thing might lose his entire future.”
And yet, as you say, Obama managed to hang with his choom gang and even do cocaine without being busted! I don’t know if this answers the author’s question, but that experience certainly appears to have made Obama feel entitled, i.e., that he could do no wrong and would be worshiped uncritically by those around him.
That is absolute BS. I have defended both black and white kids "caught using dope" as a criminal defense attorney for over 25 years and that statement is total BS. A first time posession offense is treated pretty much the same for both black and white kids, depending on whether any other aggrivating circumstances are present.
The Wikipedia article says that he refers to O'Reilly and Hannity as "UnAmerican borderline Klansmen who graduated from the Rush Limbaugh School of Arrogant Self-righteousness", and Juan Williams as "Bill O'Reilly's happy little Negro".
He would be fortunate to be teaching at a community college.
He would be fortunate to be teaching at a community college.
He's be fetching coffee for Bill Clinton.
1. Obama would have never gotten elected if he were just another white candidate in the field of Dem candidates he
landed in.
2. His (half)-”Blackness” trumped the novelty and “history-making” possibilities that everyone assumed were the province
of the Hillary Clinton candidacy.(The possibility of course,
of the first Woman President.)
3. His abstract, high-flying rhetoric would’ve sounded absurd
coming from the mouth of any white candidate, who wouldn’t have dared even try it.Yet it was not only totally acceptable coming out of his mouth, but taken as last-chance Gospel.
4. The Democrat Party “deciders” rolled the dice on Obama for all the reasons we were familiar with at the beginning
but are now conveniently forgotten (when they’re not outright DENIED) by those they knew would vote him in.
5. Obama was granted a totally unearned “moral authority”
from the beginning, just by virtue not of “who he was”, but who the narrative they constructed about him (with his own help through his bogus autobiography) made him out to be.
Remember, this was the guy who was granted a Nobel Peace Prize before he had a chance to do ANYTHING which might have
earned it for him. He was THE ONE, who descended on us miraculously from the Political/Spiritual Heavens, with no verifiable History, AND NO NEED FOR ONE.
I could go on, and on, and on........
Exactly. We would never have heard of him.
If Obama were a white man he would be living in obscurity teaching general ed. classes at a nondescript high school or community college.
Read the comments to the article. If obutthead were white, he’d be assassinated by these homeboys.
You want that oil checked today?
OR
You want fries with that?
What if Dr. Boyce Watkins were an intelligent man?
What if Barak were straight?
If Obama was white then he would never have befriended marxists so as not to be seen as a "white sellout."
If Obama was white, he wouldn't practice racist "black liberation theology" for twenty years and teach his kids "God damn America! That's in the Bible!"
If Obama were white, then he never would have gotten elected in Chicago by convincing Black muslims that he hated whitey too just like them.
If Obama was white, then his wife STILL wouldn't be proud of this country.
“What if Barak were straight?”
Why, then we wouldn’t have elected our first queen:(
However, if he were or claimed to be a RINO he’d be welcome with open arms into GOP-e. And why not? In multi-party systems you walk the party line or you’re out of the party even if it means loss of a parliamentary seat. In our purrfect system on the udder hand, a bona fide Communist such as Obama can claim to be a Dummiecrat or a Repugnican and all is copacetic.
He would still be the worst president EVER elected!
What if Obama, a half black/half white man, was a conservative? Would the black population accept him as one of their own then? I rather doubt it.
If he were a white man, he would only be a state senator if he was still holding office at all.
See my tag line:
If Zero was a white male he would most likely be unemployed or underemployed. It is unlikely he would have ever gone to an Ivory League college. Maybe a good community college.
Maybe manage a 7-11
My bet is he’d be a hack left-wing academic, like Bill Ayers or Bernardine Dohrn, although at a less prestigious institution of higher learning than the U of Illinois or Northwestern.
He’d be late stages AIDS.
Interesting how it seems the only reference to living in "obscurity" revolves around the mention of teaching. As much as I agree with the great majority of Conservatives' viewpoints on this site, I cannot agree on the point made above. What about an obscure electrician? Mechanic? Carpenter? Oh, that's right...I almost forgot...if one does not produce something material or provide some service that is considered "productive" to society, then he or she must be a worthless teacher who provides nothing of benefit to society. Ahh, gotcha'.
And here I thought all along that teachers/professors DO "produce" something for society...silly me! Guess I should get a job at McDonald's so I can be "productive" to society, huh? *spits*
The reason race seems central to presidency of Obama is because liberal racists - especially black ones - have made his race central to his presidency. They have failed to carry on the torch of leadership, freedom and wealth. One could say Black liberals succeeded in not “acting white” with the presidency.
It shows that the limo liberals and their socially engineered diversity tribes are not ready for equality and meaning beyond race even at the time they are rising to majority status. It does not bode well for the future. They will fail to carry this country forward as skin obsessed, backward looking victim-entitled tribalists who reject American independence, wealth and freedom as “white racist.”
And minorities steeped in liberalism will be the majority and if leftist race resentment and jealousy is their vision, they will wallow in the ruins of poverty and oppression they inherit. The illusion of Black victimhood only works when whites are there to fulfill Al Sharpton’s “demandments” and take care of things. Like Detroit shows, eventually things tip. Clinton and Rubin tipped the real estate market - the basis of middle class wealth - in service to liberal race illusions and obsessions. If minorities don’t get a clue, the whole country will be liberalism’s Detroit.
It’s really dumb to reject constitutional freedom’s ideology, wealth and culture in the name of it’s opposite - third world socialism and tribalism. Dumber to name the third world “black liberation” vision of people like Rev. Wright and Luis Farrahakan free and name America’s ideology of freedom and independence, oppression.
Whitey won’t be able to pull the welfare train anymore and if liberals have their way the White man’s ideology and culture of constitutional freedom and wealth creation will go with him. Americans in the future will not have a clue of what happened. Cultural cleansing works that way.
Limo liberals - globalists - will enslave the whole globe in the name of tribal central planning, free stuff and “safety” if minority Americans don’t wake up and grasp that freedom and independence from the dead white guys whom they have been taught to disrespect and hate.
Independence is not a racist’s smash mouth sassy thug like Rev. Wright telling whitey a thing or two about obamafones and EBT cards. Let’s just say that if the vision of America’s minorities doesn’t get out of liberalism’s victim race box, the future is going to be small as easy pickings for the bad guys around the globe. Will rap’s black girls will look pretty with their big butts in a burka?
It’s politically incorrect to say, but America’s “white” freedom and ideals is what every group in America struggled for themselves before globalists came along with this latest plan of humanism for the enslavement of the West. We call it liberalism but the people of the future will not know enough to understand what hit them.
Well stated.
But it's hard to say. If he weren't half-black, he wouldn't have been interested in the things he was interested in.
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