You may love Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, Michael Jordan, or Darius Rucker but that does not make these celebrities any less black. The attempt to re-categorize members of the African-American community as “post racial,” SEE FULL POST AT SODAHEAD.COM
When President Barack Obama was accused of elitism during his campaign, I chuckled. How could the son of a single mother be more elite than the son of a four star admiral? John McCain, an underachieving, Naval Academy frat boy-esque boozer who graduated near the bottom of his class, used that claim against a wonkish, debt ridden, Harvard grad named SEE FULL POST AT SODAHEAD.COM
While perusing Facebook this morning, I was struck by an article posted by one of my friends. The article was entitled, “One Year Out: President Obama’s Fall” and was written by conservative Charles Krauthammer. Enough said right? Krauthammer has never seen a liberal or moderate idea with which he could identify or give praise. In his feeble mind, the only good ideas are conservative ideas. I’m always bothered by people who can’t see outside their own ideologies and since Krauthammer is one of those people, my first impulse was to move on and scan past the article, maybe find a cool YouTube video. But alas, I was intrigued .. and then infuriated.
In the article, Krauthammer makes the argument that President Obama is failing not because of his accomplishments (or lack thereof) during his first year, but because he’s liberal. Now, those of us who are progressive see Krauthammer’s premise for what it is; a gargantuan pile of cow dung.
Krauthammer points to Obama’s health care initiative as one of many big liberal ideas which spooked America, turned them off, and caused Obama’s poll numbers to plummet. Bullsh*t.
If you didn’t know health care was on Obama’s agenda when he was elected, then you weren’t paying attention. The guy was honest about his intentions, he just hasn’t worked to bring them to fruition. This is an Obama failure, not a liberal failure.
If Obama were truly a liberal, he would’ve fought for universal health care, or at least a public option. But he hasn’t. In fact, he hasn’t worked to promote any truly liberal initiatives. This has disappointed liberals and is one of the key reasons why Obama’s poll numbers are plummeting among liberal voters.
So nice try Krauthammer. I know you hate liberals and would love nothing more than to wrap them up in President Obama’s failures. The problem is simply that it’s just not true. I guess it’s true what they say; the truth never gets in the way of a good story.
About how you made promises that you obviously had not intention of keeping. Don’t think I don’t think about it. And guess what, I’ll be thinking about it in 2012. I know, I know…you thought that because I was black you could just charm my vote right out of my sweet little hands. Well, guess what, I ‘ve got a surprise for you my dear.
I rarely link to articles offsite (except for my own) only because I think it’s a sign of lazy blogging. Let’s be honest, I have a blog to share my OWN point of view, not someone else’s right? ‘Tiz True. But occasionlly, an article is so powerful and on point that I can’t look away. Well, that’s how I feel about Drew Westen’s December 20th editorial in the Huffington Post which deals squarely with President Obama’s leadership (or lack thereof). I couldn’t look away, and neither should you. Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with Mr. Westen, this Op-Ed is super – a must read.
If you still don’t believe me (you CYNIC!), here’s a wee little taste;
What’s costing the president are three things: a laissez faire style of leadership that appears weak and removed to everyday Americans, a failure to articulate and defend any coherent ideological position on virtually anything, and a widespread perception that he cares more about special interests like bank, credit card, oil and coal, and health and pharmaceutical companies than he does about the people they are shafting……………CLICK HERE TO READ ARTICLE
I know my postings have been kinda few and far between as of late, but it’s for good reason. Your Queen blogger is in the process of reorganizing and reinventing this ‘lil piece of blog heaven. So bear with me please as I’m not a techie by training so this CSS and HTML confusits me. Just remember, I HEART YOU!
OH! Almost forgot! Spatterblog will also be undergoing a name change……the new name will describe MOI… just u wait ! *wink*
The world is watching in awe at your total lack of humility, class, and common sense. When one adds the endorsement deals, tournament cash, and net profit from your many business ventures, estimates total your earnings at over one billion dollars. This phenomenal success begs the question; how could you be so stupid?
“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.” – Proverbs 16:18
Quite simply, your superior athletic talent led you to believe that you were not only more talented than your peers, but also better than your peers. I was watching The Oprah Winfrey Show when you smiled that big cheesy grin and explained to Oprah that you were not black, but “Caublinasian”. I remember wandering what Oprah, a woman who has been harrowingly honest about the role race plays in her life, must’ve been thinking as she witnessed your sly attempt to back-peddle away from who you are. How could you not understand that race isn’t as much about how you identify as it is about how other people identify you?
Even now, your press release wreaks with the overtones of an indignant brat, not a grown man fighting to retain control of his image. In your press release you write, “Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn’t have to mean public confessions.” You don’t even know how to apologize.
When you sold your public image to Nike and Gatorade, you became a public figure with a public life. And when you and your wife engaged in a dispute which resulted in a neighbor making a call to 9-1-1, you invited the authorities into your life. Had you behaved like a man Tiger, and handled your private business inside the home you and your wife share (instead of running away), this incident never would’ve occurred. This is not the fault of the press or media. This is your failure and you should own it.
Since you were the married man caught cavorting with models and cocktail waitresses, then you should be the man to offer a clean, unequivocal apology to your fans (of which I am not one).
The saddest part of this whole fiasco is that you could’ve been one of the African-American community’s many heroes, but now you’re just one of our most pitiful disappointments. I do hope your “Caublinasian” brothers and sisters come to your defense. Lord knows the African-American community won’t.
Kasim Reed defeated Mary Norwood in the Atlanta Mayor’s election by a 51% to 49% margin. A little too close for comfort in a mostly black city but a win’s a win. This should serve as a warning to all Progressives in and around Atlanta, don’t sleep!
If the flurry of media reports is true, then the injuries for which Tiger Woods was taken to a local hospital for treatment were caused by his wife, not his car accident. Well, well, well, guess it’s true what old folks always say, “You never know somebody ‘til you know somebody.” Who would’ve thought that Tiger Woods’ nice European model wife would’ve taken a golf club to his car and her fingernails to his face?
One would never have gotten that impression by tracing Tiger’s steps from age five ‘til the night of his car crash. Tiger orchestrated every step of his career in a deliberate attempt to eliminate any hint of blackness. You see, to Tiger, black was synonymous with mess and black women were synonymous with loud ghetto mess. So, he ran away in much the same way that so many others have before him; Clarence Thomas, Michael Jackson, Sammy Sosa (skin lightening cream has given many a Negro false hope).
In Woods’ haste to retreat from his own blackness, he did not account for the fact that his wife would never abandon her whiteness. In her mind, Tiger is her black husband and she’s his white wife. What good is it to run away from who you are if you’re the only one running?
Woods’ Achilles heel is the fact that he has never fully owned his blackness. He’s addressed it only at the most aesthetic of levels during interviews with reporters who were fixated with the idea of a black golfer. Tiger himself though, has always insisted upon being referred to as “Caublinasian”, not black. This resistance to everything black has created a knowledge gap. It has caused Woods’ to stereotype African-Americans in general and African American women in particular.
In essence, Tiger ran into this swirl mess by trying to avoid a black mess. His misapprehensions about black women led him to a white woman who attempted to scratch out his eyes and destroy his car.
You see, Tiger, we black women are a complex group. We are not homogeneous. We have diverse ideas, points of view, and yes, even temperaments. It would behoove you to get to know us (no offense to your blond bombshell).
