posted by Bryson Nobles
Probably. The 2009 definition of racist seems to be:
a person who carelessly says or does anything race-related within earshot of a race member other than their own that at least one person with an active imagination could take exception to, irregardless of the merits of the statement.
So maybe Glenn Beck is right; maybe Obama IS a racist. But then so is he just by saying it.
And now so am I. See how that works? It’s all a bit ridiculous actually. What is even more ridiculous is Glenn Beck is now popular for his aggressive opinions (while Kanye is crucified – damn, more racism), in the same country that put people in jail for wearing anti-Bush t-shirts just 4 years ago. But…somehow this is cool (damn, more racism).
Isn’t it also a stretch to call Obama “racist” because of his past, and maybe privately maintained, connection with radical Reverend Wright. Well, let’s consider this: George Bush is a white guy from Texas, an Ivy League alum, who likes to hunt and comes from a family with a very high social status because of his grandfather’s dealings and his father’s career. For my money, the odds of him having a “Reverend Wright” in his life, a relationship that he’d feel publicly obliged to denounce if it came into the public arena, is extremely likely. Is that a racist conclusion? But hey…what are you gonna do?
What’s more interesting is WHY Obama is a being called a racist. I had an odd suspicion that Obama could be the beginning of the end of racism. But not like most people think. I saw Obama’s presidential win as an ethnic “win” for white people. As my imagination would have it, white intellectuals have never quite been able to overcome the “black people can’t be racist because they don’t have power and authority to oppress or exclude white people” response in the race dialogue. Enter Obama. Black, check! Power and authority, check! Oppression of republicans in the predominately white Congress and exclusion of tax benefits for the wealthy (whites), double check!! We have a winner.
Add to that that everything is about race with him, even when it’s not, and the conversation is bound to happen. I think that it could be a blessing is disguise however because the day we find white people calling black people racist at the same rate the blacks say it about whites, it is probably losing its impact. There was once power in the exclusive rights to label people racist. But, as sure as white people abandon the suburbs when black people arrive, so too will black people abandon labeling folks racist for ironically the same reason – they both lose their value.
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