Yowza! It didn't take long for Obama to be centered in the sights of the pro-Hillary drive by media! Check out this article from a Deb Dickerson over at Salon.com: Barack Obama would be the great black hope in the next presidential race -- if he were actually black.
I am confident that I have held out longer than any other pundit to weigh in on both the phenomenon that is Barack Obama and the question of whether race will trump gender as America looks toward election 2008...Since the issue was always framed as a battle between gender and race (read: non-whiteness -- the question is moot when all the players are white), I didn't have the heart (or the stomach) to point out the obvious: Obama isn't black. 'Black,' in our political and social reality, means those descended from West African slaves. Voluntary immigrants of African descent ... are just that, voluntary immigrants of African descent with markedly different outlooks on the role of race in their lives and in politics. At a minimum, it can't be assumed that a Nigerian cabdriver and a third-generation Harlemite have more in common than the fact a cop won't bother to make the distinction. They're both 'black' as a matter of skin color and DNA, but only the Harlemite, for better or worse, is politically and culturally black, as we use the term. We know a great deal about black people.
"We know next to nothing about immigrants of African descent...Whites, on the other hand, are engaged in a paroxysm of self-congratulation; [Barack] is the equivalent of [your] 'black friend.' Swooning over nice, safe Obama means you aren't a racist. I honestly can't look without feeling pity, and indeed mercy, at whites' need for absolution. For all our sakes, it seemed (again) best not to point out the obvious: You're not embracing a black man, a descendant of slaves. You're replacing the black man with an immigrant of recent African descent of whom you can approve without feeling either guilty or frightened. If he were Ronald Washington from Detroit, even with the same résumé, he wouldn't be getting this kind of love.
Washington would have to earn it, not just show promise of it, and even then whites would remain wary.... Since [Obama] had no part in our racial history, he is free of it. And once he's opened the door to even an awkward embrace of candidates of color for the highest offices, the door will stay open. A side door, but an open door. Yet until Obama survives the scourging he's about to receive from Hillary Clinton (God help him if he really did lie about his Muslim background) and the electoral process, no candidate of color will ever be taken seriously," until he survives this. "Clinton isn't about to leave the stage in the name of racial progress, and the pundit class has only just begun to take apart the senator's record, associates and bank accounts. Still, this is progress. A non-black on the down low about his non-blackness is about to get what blacks have always asked for: to be judged on his merits. So let's all just pretend that we've really overcome."
Read more of the article for this hit piece on the Illinois Senator. Seems Deb isn't sure Obama is being "trained" properly.
Now, if I had written this, as a white person, I would be excorciated. However, because Obama isn't dressed in a dashiki and isn't thuggin' and buggin', he is raked over the coals because of his ancestry? Isn't that racist? I mean, I am no Obama fan, but for goodness sake, this sounds just like the lame stuff the Clintonites do to insult people like Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, and others who do not heel to the stereotypes of blacks either as buck toothed country bumpkin manservants or as revolutionary thuglife tatoo hip hop afficionados. This is ridiculous, and it smells of veiled attacks from the mistress of mean, Hillary Clinton. This is what liberals do. They have to divide and conquer. Now, the Left, which wants Madame Hillary to win, has to take out the miscreant Obama. Yes, he is a cute sideshow, but the Empress has awakened! Get out of the way! And the best way to do that is to attack his blackness, his heritage, to make him out to be an Uncle Tom! Disgusting! However, as a Conservative, it is a guilty pleasure to watch these folks eviscerate each other, I must say....But this whole thing is really very disturbing, if you think about it. I mean, what, "he's the diet Coke of blackness, just not black enough..." Come on now.....Be careful Obama, there is still room in that national park for another Vince Foster....you better bow out now, or who knows, the Empress might do a special on you....
