That is, let me break down this health care reform backlash for ya. I mean, I simply can't abide anymore the attempts by Obama's (he's the man!) enemies to politicize/sanitize what we all recognize well by now. What? You don't recognize White Privilege when you see and hear it? Listen, when Barack was elected, WP couldn't believe reality. Yet, with the talk of "racism now officially being dead", they found a silver lining of sorts. After all, they still run everything, right?
But when BO didn't simply take office, and instead TOOK OFFICE-- with his cold Chicago bop, his cool command of all situations, his willingness to go right to the mic and to travel, selling his policies direct to all Americans, with his determination that, dammit, something's gonna get passed through these legislators, or else, 'cause that's what prez's do, he's shown that a change has truly come. See, some of us are accustomed to looking thru the filter of race without freaking because it's always been a reality, and not a always happy one, but we remain proud of who we are, and of our accomplishments against all odds, and of our forebears' struggles. Race relations for us has just been one more factor, like a tree stump in the yard; you either pull it out or work around it, but it (normally) shouldn't blow your mind!
Them other folks tho'--Oho!--that WP is so heavy on them and through them that they've never given it a thought. They are so cuckoo with regard to their WP that they feel put upon nowadays, and cry because you are supposed to be the privileged group, audaciously crying out for reparations, of all things! (And that was in the nineties!)
So, now to have a BLACK MAN (there, I said it) obviously in charge, doing it large, loving his wife, promoting his kids, getting clapped on the back by most of the nation for doing the best with the left-behind mess (haven't we spent the last 450 years cleaning up those folks' mess)--Wwwelll... Need I say more? If you were them, you'd be batshit crazy over this, too! But eventually you'd face reality and agree that, though you hated it in theory, BO's 1st year's been pretty impressive. That's the difference 'twixt the two. These WP folks will never give in. They have too much hatred and vinegarry vitriol within them to realize, repent and reevaluate themselves. So they will do whatever they dream necessary to turn back the clock. That's the definition of reactionary; committed to maintaining the status quo. Yeah, the quo in which I possessed second class status or no status at all.
So, if you dig life in these United States lately, then get or remain active at making things even better, however you decide that's done. Use your voice to support the right and pull the covers off the wrong. Pay attention, don't let them pull it AGAIN. Whattya mean "AGAIN"? When was the first time, you ask? Remember a little decade or two known as Reconstruction in America???
Look it up.
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