Monday, January 7, 2008

The woman behind the man, the darkness behind the light by Lawrence Auster

Barack Obama may not be a "race man," to use the old-fashioned expression for a black who puts his race first and foremost, but his wife Michelle is certainly a race woman. In the first ten minutes of a talk she gave on Sunday to a group of New Hampshire voters, the text and subtext of every sentence was that we are all isolated from each other, we're all cynical and fearful of each other, because there has never been a black president, but if we elect her husband, that will show that we're ready to go beyond our limits, ready to reach beyond our fears, prepared to leave our skepticism behind, and realize that we're one people. In her mind everything bad and ill about America is connected with the "isolation" that we, meaning whites, are experiencing, meaning that we're isolated from blacks, but we if elect Obama, then we won't be isolated any more, and our psychic ills will be cured. The guilty, fearful white people (guilty toward and fearful of blacks) will be cured, by opening themselves fully to blacks. This woman is negative about everything about America, describing us over and over as a mean, fearful country, and in a tone of unwavering resentment.

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