If You Thought People Liked Obama, Don’t Worry; It’s 0nly Black People.

One of my non-blogging buddies (one of the coolest mofos on the planet, actually) tipped me to this nice little article, by Byron York, entitled The black-white divide in Obama’s popularity. Imagine the look on my face when I read this, the very first paragraph (actually, don’t imagine that look; it’s not pretty):

On his 100th day in office, Barack Obama enjoys high job approval ratings, no matter what poll you consult. But if a new survey by the New York Times is accurate, the president and some of his policies are significantly less popular with white Americans than with black Americans, and his sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are.

Um, yeah…WTF?

This dude actually wrote this. Here, let me translate this for you:

Black people don’t count (or if they do count, they sure as hell don’t count for more than 3/5’s of a white person) so, even if President Obama has a high approval rating, it’s not accurate (or actual) because black folks are all up in the mix. We all know that only white people’s opinions matter, right?

The entire article says nothing other than black people like Obama, and so he’s not really as popular as you think he is. It doesn’t matter that we happen to be members of the population and so our opinions count too. It doesn’t matter that black folks also overwhelmingly liked Bill Clinton. No one challenged Bill Clinton’s popularity because black folks loved him (ok, now that I think on this some more, I bet a good handful of folks did, but still). But when a lot of black folks happen to like another black dude, well then obviously something is amiss.

Post-Racial United States. Gotta love it.

Stupidest Ever Quotation of the Day

I need to come up with a category or tag for this distinct brand of special, wherein a black right-wing political pundit is trying so hard to please and appear post-racial that white, right-wing pundits come off as having more sense when it comes to race issues and politics.

Via Media Matters:

“[S]he’s got this Stokely Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going. If she starts talking, as [Townhall Magazine contributor and Weekly Standard contributing blogger] Mary Katharine [Ham] suggested, her instinct is to start with this ‘blame America,’ you know, ‘I’m the victim.’ If that stuff starts to come out, people will go bananas, and she’ll go from being the new Jackie O to being something of an albatross.”

“This Stokely Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going”?

*Headdesk*

Um…yeah…I’m not sure what to do with this one other than to echo Ta-Nehisi Coates: Williams obviously knows next to nothing about either Obama or Carmichael.

H/T Professor Tracey.

President Barack Hussein Obama

I am, simply, happy right now.

Don’t Let the Door Hitcha!

In just less than 24 hours, that fuckwit of a President, George W. Bush, will be gone! All I have to say is, “don’t let the door hitcha, punk ass!” I invite everyone to join me in…

(I almost posted Prince’s “1999,” a song which, I must admit, I still love, but the irony of posting a video by a now known homophobe on the eve of having to sit through that other homophobe, Rick Warren’s, invocation was too much to handle.)

Tomorrow, I’ll be throwing virtual shoes. And my aim is on point!

Dear Black Republicans

When friggin’ Newt Gingrich seems to be more offended by racist bullshit than you are, well, all I gotta say is that it becomes painfully obvious that you are getting played.

Michael Steele, Ken Blackwell, really you need to quit.

I’m just saying.

With warmest regards,

Kevin.

Rick Warren? Say It Ain’t So!

Ok, President-Elect Obama. I sometimes just don’t get you. While I think it’s cool and all that Time named you the Person of the Year, and you certainly deserve it, I am absolutely baffled at your choice of Rev. Rick Warren to give the invocation speech at your innauguration. What gives? I understand that you’re all about reaching across the aisle, and I respect that. I’d be flipping folks off, so you’re probably a better person than I; and I’ve long ago come to terms with the fact that you are not as progressive as I’d like you to be (and if you were, you wouldn’t be the President-Elect right now); but really, why are you giving a platform to a staunchly anti-gay, anti-choice minister, a man who refers to pro-choice folks as “holocaust deniers“?

I am so sick of people trying to make a point by disrespecting people’s lives and histories–both on the left and the right. That shit is so tired and needs to be called out more often.

There are many, many ministers out there that use their faith as an avenue of justice. I know. I’ve worked with them. The Rev. Rick Warren is not one of them. Here’s someone you could look up. Why? Why did you have to chose this man?

I also gotta say, that Aretha Franklin, who sang “Respect” and “Someday We’ll All Be Free” at a concert for Bill Clinton, will be following Warren…well, the irony of that is about to make my head explode.

I want to believe that my vote for you was the right thing to do. Please don’t prove me wrong. I hate being wrong.

Yes, I Just Went There

Not even seperated at birth...

I see no other way to describe this mess.

That a Supreme Court Judge, a black one at that, would actually dignify this baseless, racist, hateful meme that Obama is not a “natural born citizen” is beyond the pale.

It’s gonna be a long four years, folks.