A black bourgeoisie perspective on U.S. politics
Pat Buchanan, having a complete racist meltdown on MSNBC. When a black person succeeds, it drives folks like Pat to insanity, because it destabalizes the underlying assumptions of white superiority that they hold as articles of faith.
Let’s take these claims one at a time shall we?
1. Barack Obama is only getting 90% of the black vote because he’s black.
Many people have cited white candidates, such as Al Gore or John Kerry, who have one the black vote by overwhelming margins in the general election. But this is somewhat apples to oranges, since Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama aren’t in the GE, they’re in the primary. A white Democrat like Al Gore would never win the black vote in such overwhelming numbers against a white opponent like Bill Bradley, would he?
Actually, that’s exactly what happened.
It’s true that Barack Obama is propped up by a long line of black Chief Executives, like Presidents Al Sharpton, Carol Mosely Braun, Jesse Jackson and Alan Keyes. But the fact that Obama is winning might have something to do with the fact that he’s a really tough campaigner, a shrewd fundraiser and has built a fantastic organization. I hear he can talk purty too. Unfortunately, that’s the kind of thing that would require Pat Buchanan to admit that black people can be as brilliant and capable as any white person, which is a thought that makes him wake up in the middle of the night swaddled in urine soaked white sheets. No, he wasn’t in bed, he just slept in his clothes.
Black Man < White Woman < White Man
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