That Little Race Thing

Barack the Obamessiah transcended race, didn't he?  Problem is, he seems to have forgotten to bring all his followers along on the magic carpet ride with him.  The Jawa Report brings us this gem:

Let the Post-Racial Era Begin

Let the good times roll:

Prosecutors said Hart, who is black, yelled "'White [expletive], [expletive] McCain--you white police can't do nothing anymore.'" With that, she reached through the window of a squad car and slapped a white male officer in the face, according to Assistant State's Atty. Lorraine Scaduto.

Celita Hart was apparantly pissed at the man for trying to violate her god given right to celebrate Obama's victory by --- firing a gun in downtown Chicago.

Then we have this from Michelle Malkin:

There is a new national slogan/anthem catching on among America's youth. It's a popular rap song, a t-shirt, and a taunting chant.

It is this: "MY PRESIDENT IS BLACK."

Go ahead and Google it. They're blasting it on the streets of Chicago, saying it like a prayer in Durham, singing it on campus, and putting it on their kids' clothes in Harlem.

...

Obama supporter and rapper Young Jeezy, who worked the phone banks for his candidate before Election Day, penned "My President Is Black" in time for the Democrat convention in August and invoked it after Obama's victory.

A sample of the lyrics:

Yeah Be The Realest [S***] I Never Wrote
I Aint Write This [S***] By The Way [N****]
Some Real [S***] Right Here [N****]
This Will Be The Realest [S***] You Ever Quote

There's a lot more, but it's mostly a bunch of filthy racial garbage.

Finally, Diana West has some things to say about post-racialism vs. Obamamania:

Longing to "escape the stigma of racism," as Steele calls it, white voters became "enchanted" with Obama because their support for him provided evidence and certification of their own now self-evident state of "post-racial" enlightenment.

But, as Steele further explains, there's an inherent contradiction to this unusual, if not historically unique, relationship. "When whites -- especially today's younger generation -- proudly support Obama for his post-racialism, they unwittingly embrace race as their primary motivation. They think and act racially, not post-racially. The point is that a post-racial society ... seduces whites with a vision of the racial innocence precisely to coerce them into acting out of a racial motivation. A real post-racialist ... would not care about displaying or documenting his racial innocence. Such a person would evaluate Obama politically rather than culturally."

For almost two years, Obama has been, in Steele's words, evaluated culturally. This has resulted in reverential media non-coverage and now post-election judgments and metaphors that are already beginning to defy satire. Of course, Barack Obama didn't end the Civil War, isn't the reincarnation of RFK, and benefits from, but didn't bring about, the long-entrenched social changes that facilitated his political rise. As he now heads to the White House, it's crucial that he finally be regarded as a politician, not a messiah, and as a man, not a moral judgment. Otherwise, the cultural juggernaut he seems likely to unleash will be unstoppable.

Every single bit of this glorification of Obama is about race.  It's not about unity, intelligence, overcoming difficulty, or even hope-n-change.  If it was, his race would never have been a factor.  But, we have all seen how race was a HUGE factor in this election, so that idea is ridiculous.  Even when race plainly has nothing to do with anything, it still gets brought in as an automatic defense.  One example is how a couple of (real) reporters simply asked the Obamessiah about his Marxist economic plan and *GASP!* asked him to explain how it's not Marxist.  The response: you're banned.  And, you're also a racist.

Get used to it - you've got four more years to go.

There's my two cents.