as i commented on this sad lg&m thread:
abl’s hissy fit and attention-starved antics have more to do with moore’s perceived lack of support for obama than his obvious, white-sheet deep-seated racism. i mean, it’s obvious that moore is the worst person who ever lived and thank the gods we have a vibrant, original thinker like abl to illuminate us to this universal truth.
coates and the others justifying her nonsense should know better.
and:
never rely on what abl says. she’s very much like bill maher: much more interested in the attention than anything else.
moore can be a lunkhead all he wants, but when an attention-whore like imani gandy gets her dander up over a stupid quip lifted from bill maher of all people, some things just seem a little off. obama is black. moore ain't no pat buchanan. why is an angry black lady so angry about moore's line? undoubtedly it's because moore has not been sufficiently supportive of obama. moore's point is pretty simple: the first black president is as big a piece of shit as most of the white presidents. that's not moore's fault. that's obama's fault. yes, obama spent the campaign telling everyone who listened carefully that he was fully-formed corporate tool. yes, he promised fealty to the elitist ideals of the mellons and the koches and the petersons. yes, he ran as solidly right-wing clinton democrat without the tacky blowjob scandals. but, he made speeches, flowery empty speeches full of hope 'n change bullshit designed to disguise his rather mundane and familiar political beliefs. the pointless hope of what passes for the left of the democratic party was a naive belief that a black man would be somehow better than the not-black assholes who came before.
not every comment about race is racist. some obviously racist nonsense is given a pass because it doesn't matter. boston celtics? that's pretty fucking racist to the drunken fuckin' southie mick bastards, but they got bigger fish to fry. saying obama governs like--too much like--many previous presidents, all of whom happened to be not black, is not racist. bringing race into things, especially black/white in this country where so many fuckers still proudly fight a lost war to keep the odious plantation ideal alive, is always dangerous because it gives a possible opening to both the racist assholes and the attention whores of all stripes. moore's remark was racial, possibly--obama is obviously not a white guy--but not racist.
ta-nehisi coates and mother jones should know better, and in fact, i'm sure they do. coates is being a stalwart obama supporter and using this racist bullshit to keep the true believers on the compound. mother jones has a history with moore, so fuck them; they're just playing dumb for fun. either that or rick ungar is the brightest bulb left on that tree, and in that case, they aren't playing. regardless, imani gandy is such a proven screeching drama queen that the obama-fluffer crowd would do better to leave her to her babbling and not follow her obvious inanities. if they have any hope for a second term, obama's supporters can do better than that angry black lady.
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