It’s almost becoming laughable the extent that some will go to deny the agency of black people now that Barack Obama is poised to upset the natural order and become President of the United States. When I first heard that Colin Powell had endorsed Sen. Obama, I was pissed that I had to go to work because I wanted to hit up all of the Righty blogs to see which would be the first to claim that he did so out of racial solidarity . While I wasn’t able to catch one of the first, Republicans and other righty types have proven that they are as predictable as ever. There was at least one surprise, though. I was all set to head over to Michelle Malkin’s place to watch her screech “because he’s black!” and it turns out that she didn’t go there. Go Figure.
Now, this wouldn’t be a good post-racial society about to elect the first black President if there weren’t plenty of hanging imagery, stereotyping, and a little bit of proud racist language just for shits and giggles, but I hadn’t considered that these fools were just waiting for the moment to use some good ol’ fashioned blackface.
Yes, Gen. Colin Powell is now a traitor. And ooh gee! A blackfaced traitor at that! Nevermind that he’s endorsed plenty of white Republicans. Nevermind that he’s one of many white Republicans that are also endorsing Obama. Nevermind that the friggin Chicago Tribune, which has never in it’s existence endorsed a Democrat for President, endorsed Obama. No, Colin Powell is black, Obama is black, and so there can be no other reason that he would endorse Obama other than because they’re both black. And of course, no one is openly calling any of those white Republicans traitors. No, they’re all free thinkers exercising their free thinkedness.
Seriously, you people can’t be any more transparent.
I was happy I was not on the computer yesterday for any great length of time because my fingers would have been numb.
As ridiculously futile as the attempts were to point out the faulty logic of the “he did it because of race” talk I couldn’t help but try. Hundreds of conservative ideologues jumping ship and hoping on the kool-aid truck, most of them white, but Powell is a traitor?
Logic left the building a long time ago.
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I have been waiting for months for a good answer to my question…
“Why do people assume that black people support Obama solely because he’s black, but don’t assume whites aren’t voting for McCain just because he’s white?”
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I think they do assume that people vote for white males because they are white males. So it isn’t surprising that they project their own mindless prejudice.
When a person argues that women only vote for women because they are women, and black people only vote for a black person because they are black, it seems to me that they are quite clearly revealing the basis for their own choice.
He was even asked about this during his Meet the Press interview, and he pointed out that if that’s what he was doing, he could have done it months ago. He then went into great detail as to why he was troubled by McCain and why he was supporting Obama. The conservatives who say this was a move of racial solidarity simply want it to be so, because then it is less damning of their candidate in their eyes. Fools.
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@thebewilderness: Y’know that’s a really good point. I’ll take it a step further and wonder if these same people also think that women, poc, and everyone else that isn’t a het white male should also vote for white males because they are white males. Because that’s the natural order of things to them.