Posted on 06/20/2017 8:45:51 AM PDT by drewh
I remember the day after the 2016 Election, a friend of mine who happens to be white, remarked on social media that he "finally wasn't embarrassed of America and our President."
I sprained my eyes rolling them and they have never fully recovered.
Since then I've heard this sentiment echoed by more white folks than I can count, especially in recent months; supposed relief at once again having a leader who instills pride.
I don't have the time to ask each of the individually, I'll ask here:
So, you were embarrassed for the past 8 years, huh?
Really?
What exactly were you embarrassed by?
Were you embarrassed by his lone and enduring twenty-five year marriage to a strong woman he's never ceased to publicly praise, respect, or cherish?
Were you embarrassed by the way he lovingly and sweetly parented and protected his daughters?
Were you embarrassed by his Columbia University degree in Political Science or his graduating magna cum laude from Harvard Law School?
Maybe you were embarrassed by his white American and Black Kenyan parents, or the diversity he was raised in as normal?
Were you embarrassed by his eloquence, his quick wit, his easy humor, his seeming comfort meeting with both world leaders and street cleaners; by his bright smile or his sense of empathy or his steadiness — perhaps by his lack of personal scandals or verbal gaffes or impulsive tirades?
No. Of course you weren't.
Honestly, I don't believe you were ever embarrassed. That word implies an association that brings ridicule, one that makes you ashamed by association, and if that's something you claim to have experienced over the past eight years by having Barack Obama representing you in the world — I'm going to suggest you rethink your word choice.
You weren't "embarrassed" by Barack Obama.
You were threatened by him. You were offended by him. You were challenged by him. You were enraged by him.
But I don't believe it had anything to do with his resume or his experience or his character or his conduct in office — because you seem fully proud right now to be associated with a three-time married, serial adulterer and confessed predator; a man whose election and business dealings and relationships are riddled with controversy and malfeasance. You're perfectly fine being represented by a bullying, obnoxious, genitalia-grabbing, Tweet-ranting, Prime Minister-shoving charlatan who's managed to offend all our allies in a few short months. And you're okay with him putting on religious faith like a rented, dusty, ill-fitting tuxedo and immediately tossing it in the garbage when he's finished with it.
None of that you're embarrassed of? I wonder how that works.
Actually, I'm afraid I have an idea. I hope I'm wrong.
Listen, you're perfectly within your rights to have disagreed with Barack Obama's policies or to have taken issue with his tactics. No one's claiming he was a flawless politician or a perfect human being. But somehow I don't think that's what we're talking about here. I think the thing President Obama did that really upset you, white friend — was having a complexion that was far darker than you were ever comfortable with. I think the President we have now feels much better.
Because objectively speaking, if what's happening in our country right now doesn't cause you great shame and doesn't induce the continual meeting of your palm to your face — I don't believe embarrassment is ever something you struggle with.
No, if you claimed to be "embarrassed" by Barack Obama but you're not embarrassed by Donald Trump — I'm going to strongly suggest it was largely a pigmentation issue.
I've read "Rules For Radicals".I read the interview that that author gave just before he descended into hell.
I've read the works of...and about the accomplishments of...one Bill Ayers.I took particular note of the interview he gave to the NY Times,which they published in their 9/11/2001 morning edition.
I remember being referred to as a "typical white person" who "bitterly clings to their guns and religion".
I agree. I am sure my opinion will be discounted because I say Trump isn’t an embarrassment but I admire the way he is pursuing the nation’s best interests. He may embarrass me in the future but it hasn’t happened yet.
I’m embarrassed that Republicans chose to run a malignant dwarf and a east coast liberal with ‘magic’ underwear against a unqualified HalfRican faggot and.....still lost!
Obama continues to disgust me.
His hatred of America and efforts to smother its virtues and success.
This hate was expanded toward all western culture, Christianity, and Judaism.
I wasn’t? I thought I was...silly me....
ronaldus magnus and 45 understand how to talk directly to the American people in language they can understand. that is what the liberals cant understand!
It’s more than knowing how to talk to the people. Clinton was glib. What makes the difference, at least in my mind, is that I always felt Reagan and now Trump loved and appreciated the American people. Bush 2 managed it sometimes. You can’t fake that. Too many presidents let slip their belief that the American people are the equivalent of the batty old Aunt in the attic or the hick cousin or a rube to be manipulated someone to be laughed at during the right cocktail parties here and abroad.
I was embarrassed for all Zero voters.
Obama was more embarrassing that Carter.. and a bigger failure... only a media that would not tell the truth, combined with a public school system that has abject failed for nearly 40 years that propped his pathetic incompetence up
don’t forget the unlimited FISA wiretapping warrants of almost every american
Obie sucked worse than the pnut fahmah! ...
lol
BO was malignant, and more actively destructive. The country is in a far weaker position than 1976-80, as well, so his damage ran much deeper.
We'll know in a generation or so, if we're able to recover. 4 years of Trump might stop the bleeding, 8 might start a recovery. But, I'll likely not be around to see the end of it.
Were you embarrassed by his Columbia University degree in Political Science or his graduating magna cum laude from Harvard Law School?
...let's see the records.
Keeping them rolled back until he finds a brain back there.
Keep looking, John.
John Pavlovitz, what a condescending little pr!ck. I can’t tell which is inserted deeper… his obsequious little brown nose in Hussein’s anus or his head up in his own anus.
A semi-literate Affirmative Action hire who would have been better at being a fluffer in a Musloid bathhouse, now that you axe...😀
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