Get Read 4 Whitewashing of Barack Obama

Part I of a Two Part Series

Frederick Douglas noted that the white man will make it as difficult as he can for a black man to succeed and then when he does, the white man will no longer consider him black! (I am paraphrasing here)

Douglas was writing in reference to Benjamin Banniker (if you don’t know who he was, consider yourself ignorant of American history) and Benjamin Franklin.

Tragically, the same ugly history rears its head in many conversations that I have heard by whites referencing Obama.

After over 350 years of classifying any person with from one drop (the “one drop theory” the “1/16th theory”) of African American blood as black, all of a sudden when a black man succeeds to the White House, he is no longer black! As many whites have commented, “Obama is just as white as he is black.” This represents over 350 years of continued rank hypocracy.

Now I know what I have to do for my mixed ancestry to be recognized: I gotta run for President and win, or perhaps governor of California would suffice.

Black Americans have been “mixed” for centuries (quadroons, octoroons, half-breeds, zombies, mulattos, etc.) and they have been uniformly referred to as “black” by whites without a blink of the eye, until now.

Suddenly a black man earns the most powerful office in the world and he is no longer black! My, how far we have come! John McCain did not run as a “white” candidate. Obama did not run as a “black” candidate, but that label was place on the latter—at least until now. Nobody in his right mind would ever think that Obama would govern as a “black” (whatever that means) President. But, what does reality have to do with it anyway?

I say, keep him black, black, black! For by doing so, it assuages white guilt that a black man has won the highest office in the land. If we can assuage white guilt, maybe we can get rid of black victimology. As for me, it does not matter how we get rid of black victimology, just as long as we do so. Black victimology is the bane of black progress. There is no intention here to deny the tremendous harm that slavery, segregation and discrimination have wrought on black folks. But, if it “ain’t” working, we have to fix it; victimology is not working, except for the black parasitic leadership class.

Next, Part Two, focuses on race & leadership

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