Obama Light: Now With 95% Less Negro Dialect
January 10th, 2010 at 10:51 am by Brian
Artist’s Rendering: Ass not really that dark.
Projection ain’t just for movie theaters, folks. As Cranky pointed out the selective outrage that always seems to effect national Democrats, the revelations that Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s book “Game Change” is threatening to unleash is bound to give us a sequel to America’s Historic Conversation On Race that we all need to have so much:
–In lobbying the late Sen. Edward Kennedy to endorse his wife, former President Clinton angered the liberal icon by belittling Obama. Telling a friend about the conversation, Kennedy recalled Clinton had said “a few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee,” the authors paraphrase.
At least he didn’t say anything about Obama being the half and half for his coffee. These arbiters of racial sensitivity. And at least he didn’t say anything about shining his shoes or then Chuckles McPonytail would be obligated to defend him.
It’s this type of black-on-black violence, the First Black President and the Second One, engaged in these rhetorical drive-bys by the Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X of our times that makes me worry about the future of our Idiocracy. A real tempest in a demitasse.
–Reid said Obama could fare well nationally as an African-American candidate because he was “light-skinned” and didn’t speak with a “Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.” Saturday, the majority leader said he had used “poor choice of words” and called Obama to apologize; the White House issued a statement indicating that the president had forgiven Reid.
Now everybody’s making ado about the “light-skinned” and “Negro dialect” mentions but I don’t see anyone talking about the last part of it – the “unless he wanted to have one” comment. That’s the part that needs fleshing out. Why would such an erudite, by all appearances “clean” and well-scrubbed politician want to speak in some ghettofied dialect? Presumably, Reid is not referring to an African dialect but the one that Al Gore and Hillary Clinton usually devolve into – the Stepin Fetchit-ism from the pulpits of black churches.
That’s the explanation I want. When does Reid think that it is beneficial for Obama to get ghetto? Maybe when he’s going to shame someone on the other side for an innocuous remark?
Not to worry, folks. Not to worry. Once he knew the story was going to break (read: yesterday), Dingy Harry immediately called to apologize and kiss Obama’s light-skinned ass. All that’s left is for him to kiss it and for the media to ignore this story by tomorrow morning.
Nothing fosters racial conciliation more than a bigot and a race huckster coming together in the name of stealing all your money.
Thank God For Taxation Without Representation Update: Attention, all you Washington, D.C. vacationers. If you think you can seize on Harry Reid’s comments and find a friend in the black community then you better recognize:
D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is warning Republicans against trying to make hay out of Harry Reid’s comments about Barack Obama’s skin color and lack of a “Negro dialect.” The nonvoting member of Congress said Reid’s opponents “will not find a welcome mat in the black community” if they try to seize on his remarks.
Norton, a black woman who represents one of the most heavily African-American cities in the country, said Reid will enjoy support from the black community because he has “earned it with long support of civil rights and many other issues that matter most to African-Americans.”
So don’t wonder where the mat is if you end up in the D.C. area. You won’t be able to find it. Some crazy woman stole it and is running around with it to protect a man who can appreciate the finer points of her negro dialect that she’s taking out on you.
He earned that right.
January 10th, 2010 at 11:12 am
Great post – all leading up to the money shot, and knockout blow, at the end.
I had to repost in it’s entirety, lest someone not clicking the link.
January 10th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Thanks BigFur. You know we’re down with IOTW.
January 10th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Dude… Platinum, once again. I am watching and waiting with race-baited breath to see if the Washington Compost or any other complicit cadre of Press-titutes will go after Harry Reid’s resignation as hard as they went after Trent Lott or even George Allen for that fakhaktah Maccaca remark.
January 10th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Yid – if Stephopottamuses’ reaction is indicative of the snow job fix the media has on Reid’s comments he may singlehandedly defeat global warming
After all, these were “private” comments. The media is not allowed to report on the contents of a private conversation especially when it’s the Senate Majority Leader discussing the gradients of acceptable negridity of his party’s candidate.
He earned the right to say it though.
January 11th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Greetings:
I grew up in the Bronx in the ’50s and ’60s. When I would refer to Negroes as “colored people”, my mother would correct me by saying, “They’re not colored, they’re born that way.”
With this latest brouhaha, I can’t help but wonder if we have lost the ability to discriminate between “racial” comments and “racist” comments. While I can certainly grant that Senator Reid’s comments would qualify, in my mind, as racial, I don’t see that they rise to the level of racist. The latter implies some significant level of negative feeling.
I have a lot more of a problem with people trying to move “Negro” into the steadily growing category that includes “the n-word”. Negro is a racial word; “the n-word” is racist.
January 11th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
11B – his “negative feelings” are towards the dark-skint, brokedid Anglish speaking variety.