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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Picture of the Day

Thought. Since the late 1960's and early 70's there has been a serious discussion of how the world would be different if it were run by a woman.

Nobody ever seriously discussed the possibility of the world being run by a black man.


(Sen. Barack Obama and his wife Michelle eat ice cream at Prince Puckler's ice cream shop in Eugene, Ore., May 17, 2008.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong))

posted by mikevotes at 6:42 AM

3 Comments:

  • Well, we do know how different the world would be if it were run by a complete idiot....
    Seriously, I don't think that discussion ever came up because nobody thought that a black man might get elected before a woman did.

    By Blogger Lew Scannon, at 11:15 AM  

  • Barack Obama is a White & Black man. Continuing to describe him as a black man seems to perform two things (perhaps more, yes?): #1 is the characterization elevates the patriarchal bloodline above all else, wiping Barack's mother's genetic contributions clean off his DNA map. It is somehow a given that he is a "black man." What's curious about this male-dominated view is that Christians accept the Old Testament (Semitic Torah) as the revealed word of their god, the kicker being that in order to be Jewish one must have been born of a Jewish mother, giving the bloodline nod to the woman (makes some sense: men have this habit of casting their sperm far afield, while women [theoretically] shepherd their eggs with a bit more discretion).

    #2: referring to Barack as a "black man" will cause a significant portion of the population to not choose him, based upon his being black. A button is pushed rather than a thought evoked. Democrats would be well-advised to respond, when asked about a "black candidate's chances to be elected in November" to point out that Obama is a "White & Black man" (true, we are not simply our skin tones, but there are too many dragons already out there to try and logically point this out--attention spans being what they are).

    I may drop by Jesus' General to promote this idea (in a manly way) but I am curious: anyone believe this idea has merit?

    Last add: Obama is flawed, Hillary is flawed, but I will vote for the Democratic candidate for president in November. Anyone who drops one because of the other is not a Democrat but is instead a political cultist. Do we want four more years of GOP executive rule?

    ++++

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:54 PM  

  • Lew, that's my point. No one ever even considered it a real possibility.

    ....

    MJS, yeah, I though about that while I was writing this. (but I wanted a punch in the post.)

    Many, many months ago, I wrote a post asking why no one ever talks about the white half of Obama's heritage.

    And, to your point, I do think it makes a difference, because it plays into the racial discussion more strongly than it should.

    Ideally, Obama would be running as a man, not as a black man or a white man.

    I read several articles this AM talking about Clinton running as a woman, and went to the parallel.

    Bottom line, you're right. I plead guilty to carrying the type.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 1:42 PM  

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