Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Call me when Jesus decides on an endorsement

Endorsements are a strange thing. Consider this week's latest endorsements of Barama by Ted Kennedy and Toni Morrison.

I love Ted Kennedy, but he is a drunk bastard. Not to mention that if Barama mentions JFK one more time in a speech, he's likely to get assassinated in Dallas, TX. (Besides, why has Teddy avoided the Kennedy curse?)

But what really gets me is Ms. Morrison's endorsement. This woman, who famously labeled Bill Clinton as the "first Black President" has the audacity to make her opinion known once again with Barama. I lost a lot of respect for her because all of the things that she said made Clinton "Black" are often times considered derogatory and undesirable:

In 1998, Morrison wrote a column for the New Yorker magazine in which she wrote of Bill Clinton: "White skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas."


Yeah, because that's how I want mainstream culture to see Blacks. Barama couldn't be farther from the above description, yet she thinks he is the Great White Hope.

so. over. it.

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