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...
(Excerpt) Read more at blackbluedog.com ...
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.
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