I have now read every rant and reasoned critique about the Reverend Wright posted on WordPress today, and I now feel compelled to write on Wright. I have not seen YouTube footage of the delusional evangelist because my computer is too old to sustain the streaming of video, but I think I have digested the core of the sermons. It seems that it is really Michelle Obama’s fault that our hero has been cast into the abyss, if I read the blogs rightly, because it is she who, as a real African-American, espouses the crazy notions that AIDs is a white US plot to kill Africans, and it is she who, as a real African-American, hates America. Frankly, who can blame her. Her ancestors, not his, were brought over to America in chains and even though the cuffs and collars have come off, it isn’t as if being black in America is some sort of privilege. Obama is African American because he is half African and half American (meaning white person). Michelle Obama is African-American because no matter what her actual ancestry, back there somewhere was an enslaved person from Africa, and that’s her history, her badge to wear. So it stands to reason that she is the one white people ought to fear, not her African American husband.
And I fear Laura Bush so much more than I fear her husband or his shadow, Mr. Cheney. Women, whether they are librarians or doctors, have their husbands in thrall because of S-E-X.
Senator Obama is not responsible for anything. That is why we love him. Without responsibility he has done nothing. You can’t pin anything good on him, but the bad can just as easily slip away. It’s funny that he is squirming over this, since all he really needs to do is blame it on his wife and every good man, white, black or other, will understand it. Even those of us who were feminists before Hillary Clinton scared the pants and the hard-ons off of us are ready to side with Barack if he wants to tell us that he was forced to use a high-priced call girl service because his wife thought his white mother gave him AIDs to destroy his black wife…oh, god, wait, I am getting my stories confused. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
Let’s stick to facts, shall we? Back in the 1930s when most black people were minding their own business trying to stay away from lynch mobs, there were two prophets of note: Marcus Garvey and W.D. Fard. Except that no white people had ever heard of W.D. Fard until Malcolm X published his autobiography and explained to us how the world, according to the Nation of Islam, was created by a mad scientist who also made white devils. Malcolm X believed this and why not? His father, a Garveyite, was murdered by white people. His mother was locked up in an insane asylum. To an intelligent but undereducated young black man in prison, this cockamamy theory could easily make sense.
Fast forward to AIDs as a US conspiracy against black people in Africa. Let’s face it, black people aren’t alone in conspiracy theories and just because the theories of black people are different from the theories of white people, we ought not be too judgmental. Hell, it’s way easier to believe the AIDs theory as a US idea than it is to believe AIDs is God’s judgment on homosexuals–oh, but wait, white Christian people believe that latter one, so perhaps I wrote in haste.
Here’s the message. Just vote for Hillary Clinton. She doesn’t try to cozy up to evangelical nutters who think the Catholic Church is a Satanic cult. She doesn’t read the nonsense of the Honorable Elijah Muhammed. She isn’t a racist despite what the Obama camp and the Republicans want us to think. She doesn’t use high priced call girls (I know there is that persistent rumor but it’s not true), and she doesn’t try to pretend she has values when she doesn’t. She is not vapid or change-oriented. She is a straight-talker who knows how to run a bureaucracy and probably has enough on Washington pols to live up to the legacy of Lyndon Johnson. Let’s hope the war doesn’t bog her down. I think she’ll be a great president, and I am not be facetious about that. I give her $50 a week ever since Edwards got out of the race because she doesn’t believe in mad scientists, bipartisanship, or voodoo economics.
