tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post5347076261859624256..comments2023-10-28T03:07:12.758-07:00Comments on Mirror On America: Black and BLACKER: The RACIAL Politics of the Obama Marriage? WTF? Here we go againBrian http://www.blogger.com/profile/07872444863142531165noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-32348657051266949472008-08-19T16:28:00.000-07:002008-08-19T16:28:00.000-07:00zinjanthropus,Bravo my friend. You framed it perf...zinjanthropus,<BR/><BR/>Bravo my friend. You framed it perfectly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-85239478568775240602008-08-15T07:27:00.000-07:002008-08-15T07:27:00.000-07:00There's a coworker of mine named Pete. Pete's Whit...There's a coworker of mine named Pete. Pete's White and an avid hunter. He's a very good hunter as far as I can tell; judging by the remarks of lesser hunters and also judging by his increasingly frequent appearances in magazines with names like “Doe Monthly” and “American White Tail.” He does stuff like make glue out of deer pus and fabricating his own slugs that he loads himself. He’s got a long beard and mustache and wears mostly camouflage clothing. <BR/><BR/>Got the picture? Imagine our dear Black Snob being sent by Essence to cover his campaign. One can imagine how many redneck stereotypes she would perpetuate and the vast amount of assumptions she would make about good ole Pete. I can visualize sentences like. “His wife was NOT related to him before they wed” and “There was no visible porn in his library.” <BR/><BR/>It’s not Snob’s fault that she has no idea of how the average “outdoorsy” hunter type lives and what he believes in…or is it? Haven’t sportsman/ fisherman/ rural/ Libertarian NRA members been on television and run for office and written books? Aren’t there enough of those types of people in sitcoms, on talk radio, on trial and in publications for snob to have gotten at least a fleeting glimpse? Of course there are. If Ted Nugent became a serious presidential candidate, a major magazine would either;<BR/><BR/>1. Send another reporter or <BR/><BR/>2. Make sure Snob was sufficiently armed to do the job.<BR/> <BR/>Well Snob would’ve been or she wouldn’t even have the damn job.<BR/> <BR/>The writer of the offensive Obama piece employs good punctuation, decent grammar and concise prose. I can see, in her writing, an attempt at even handedness and impartiality. It’s just that she has no basis from which to comment. This is the true crime. That in this day, there are still people who have such limited views on American lives, and that they actually have jobs.<BR/><BR/>Who the flying fuck would hire a writer without enough knowledge about several “types” of Americans anyway? I could understand if they’re a specialist, knowledgeable about one discipline. But it’s not likely that any sane editor would send Jay-Z to do a piece on Dale Earnhardt Jr.<BR/><BR/>The Obamas are not that rare anyway. There are hundreds of Kenneth Chenault, Jessye Norman, Franklin Raines, Colin Powell or Wynton Marsalis types and many times more Cornell Wests, Henry Louis Gates(es?), not to mention the dozens of thousands of midlevel management types who, raise their children and pay their taxes and vacation a few times a year and possess PHD or master’s degrees. <BR/><BR/>This woman’s frame of reference is all backwards. No one taught her to flush her mind so she’s had to write through the shit that’s still there.<BR/><BR/>WTF? Indeed.zinjanthropushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08343338945753534483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21083673.post-64396268136573888142008-08-15T02:37:00.000-07:002008-08-15T02:37:00.000-07:00What is it with these New England magazines? I cou...What is it with these New England magazines? <BR/><BR/>I couldn't stomach the whole article. And I couldn't determine the authors point in her focus on Michelle. Marrying a Black woman is framed as a regression for Barack.<BR/><BR/>And yet again, the undertone was.... Black = inherently defective.... Be afraid. Different also = defective.<BR/><BR/>This is another result of the fact that the media does not understand Black families in this Country who have reached a certain level. Instead of trying to get a genuine understanding of them.... writers, pundits and reporters let their myths and fantasies run out of control.<BR/><BR/><I>"She’s a type we’ve rarely seen in the public eye, a well-educated woman who is a dedicated mother, successful in her career, and happens to be black."</I><BR/><BR/>This is what we have discussed before... they don't know what to think about Michelle... so they speculate. Both Barack and Michelle seem so foreign to them that they don't know what to make of them. It's that "exotic" thing again.<BR/><BR/>Michelle and Barack don't fit into the stereotypical molds set by the media gatekeepers...and that makes a lot of folks upset. <BR/><BR/>Some of that is the fault of Blacks as well. That's what I am always complaining about regarding the need to improve the Black image in America. Blacks have been the victim of so much negative imagery (often at the hands of others of the same ethnic group) that many Americans expect these negative images to be internalized even by those who don't match the stereotypes. When they find something that is otherwise.... the particular Black person is seen as "strange". That's the same thing I ran into in high school... I was seen as abnormal because I actually wanted to study and get decent grades. <BR/><BR/>I guess the media is going to have their own narrow view of Black folks, no matter how much evidence that they find to the contrary. There are thousands of Obama families... but unfortunately America rarely sees them.<BR/><BR/>We have to blame BET too.... that's why I despise the network and have so many problems with the images coming from modern Black culture... <BR/><BR/>But even with all that...the message from this report seemed overly negative.<BR/><BR/>I'd like to know who put the author up to this article...Brian https://www.blogger.com/profile/07872444863142531165noreply@blogger.com