WHITEY LOSING IT...

[Crazy Levi]

http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-09-29/ ... -its-mind/

White America Has Lost Its Mind
The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular

About 12:01 on the afternoon of January 20, 2009, the white American mind began to unravel.

It had been a pretty good run up to that point. The brains of white folks had been humming along cogently for near on 400 years on this continent, with little sign that any serious trouble was brewing. White people, after all, had managed to invent a spiffy new form of self-government so that all white men (and, eventually, women) could have a say in how white people were taxed and governed. White minds had also nearly universally occupied just about every branch of that government and, for more than two centuries, had kept sole possession of the leadership of its executive branch (whose parsonage, after all, is called the White House).

But when that streak was broken—and, for the first time, a non-white president accepted the oath of office—white America rapidly began to lose its grip.

As with other forms of dementia, the signs weren't obvious at first. After the 2008 election, when former House majority leader Tom DeLay suggested that instead of a formal inauguration, Barack Obama should "have a nice little chicken dinner, and we'll save the $125 million," black folks didn't miss the implication. References to chicken, particularly of the fried variety, have long served as a kind of code when white folks referred to black people and their gustatory preferences—and weren't many of us already accustomed to older white politicians making such gaffes? But who among us sensed that it was a harbinger that an entire nation was plunging into madness?

Who didn't chuckle, after all, the first time they heard that white people had doubts that Barack Obama had even been born in the United States and was therefore ineligible to be president? It sounded like one of those Internet stories in which some (usually white) writer does his best to prove something everyone knows to be true is actually the exact opposite. And you go along with it for a few paragraphs to see how long the writer can convince you that what you know is right is actually wrong.

Seemed like that, didn't it? After all, what was the beef? Obama's father was Kenyan, and the kid was born in Hawaii—which is barely a part of the United States to begin with (only a state in 1959!). His mother was white, and after the Kenyan guy left, she married an Indonesian guy, so little Barack lived in Jakarta for a while before coming back to Hawaii to be brought up largely by his white grandparents. . . . And that's it? Come on, this was after-school-special material, the kind of thing that brings a tear to your eye because little half-Kenyan/half-white Barry made good, not the stuff of conspiracy novels.

But the more you shook your head at it, the more it seemed to have taken root deep in the lizard part of the white nervous system. Obama is not an American. He says he's Christian, but he has a Muslim-sounding name. He's not black, he's not white. . . . Is . . . is he even human?

Today, Newsweek has found, nearly a quarter of Americans believe that Obama is a Muslim, with barely 42 percent of the nation accepting his claim that he's a Christian. CNN finds that a quarter of Americans also believe that Obama was "probably or definitely" born in another country.

Harris found in an online poll that 14 percent of Americans believe in their hearts that President Barack Obama is the antichrist, with nearly a quarter of Republicans saying so.

At least in this form, however, Satan (sometimes) wears a flag pin.

What was going on? Had decades of sucking down so much high-fructose corn syrup not only made Americans incredibly obese, but also messed with white brain chemistry to the point that some sort of tipping point had occurred?

Not a bad theory, but no, there's a simpler explanation, with two parts: For the first time in their lives, baby boomers are hard up against it economically, and white boy is becoming outnumbered and it's got his bowels chilled with fear.

"In an age of diminished resources, the United States may be heading for an intensifying confrontation between the gray and the brown," writes Ronald Brownstein in his July National Journal article, "The Gray and the Brown: The Generational Mismatch." That's a polite and understated way of saying that older white folks are losing their shit as they're being replaced by young brown and black kids while the economy is in the crapper.

Brownstein notes that 40 percent of the nation's population under 18 is already non-white, with that number significantly higher in the Southwest (read: Mexicans!). By 2023, that number of young non-whites will be an outright national majority.

At the same time, the baby boomers are getting older. At 80 percent white, boomers have gotten pretty used to dominating nearly every field of endeavor in this country since they came of age—politics, business, education, the arts—just about everything but MTV programming. Boomers set the national agenda in so many ways that we can forget how much the national economy and national media cater to them. Bewildered by the number of Cialis ads you see on television showing those flabby couples sitting in bathtubs? Or the way that older women are suddenly "cougars" and "MILFs" and . . . oh, yeah, you remember, boomers are getting old, but still want to think they can get the sheets sweaty. See? Boomers and their fixations and fears explain nearly everything. . . .

[MurrayFiend]

1. Stop biting Cliffy's style.

2. Christ, this shit always makes me roll my eyes; oh, the idiocy:

Today, Newsweek has found, nearly a quarter of Americans believe that Obama is a Muslim, with barely 42 percent of the nation accepting his claim that he's a Christian. CNN finds that a quarter of Americans also believe that Obama was "probably or definitely" born in another country.

Harris found in an online poll that 14 percent of Americans believe in their hearts that President Barack Obama is the antichrist, with nearly a quarter of Republicans saying so.

[EvilMadman]

Barack Obama, who will be the nation’s first African-American president, won the largest share of white support of any Democrat in a two-man race since 1976.

A stunning 54 percent of young white voters supported Obama, compared with 44 percent who went for McCain, the senator from Arizona. In the past three decades, no Democratic presidential nominee has won more than 45 percent of young whites.

politico.com

Fully 96 percent of black voters supported Obama and constituted 13 percent of the electorate, a 2-percentage-point rise in their national turnout.

politico.com

But how long will that really last if the economy keeps on circling the drain?

A "deeply disappointed" supporter put President Obama on the grill yesterday at a town-hall meeting, telling him that he hasn't lived up to hopes, that she's grown exhausted defending him and that she is fearful about returning to the "hot dogs-and-beans era" of her life because he's not helping the financially strapped middle class.

"I've been told that I voted for a man who said he's going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class. I'm one of those people, and I'm waiting, sir," Velma Hart told Obama. "I'm waiting. I don't feel it yet," the mom and Army Reserve veteran continued.

Hart, the chief financial officer for the veterans group AMVETS, was among the roomful of businesspeople pressing Obama for answers at a televised town hall in Washington sponsored by CNBC. Hart lives with her husband, Karlton, who works as a facilities administrator at DC's Verizon Center, and their two teenage daughters in suburban Maryland. Yesterday she said she feels their middle-class lifestyle slipping away.

"I'm also a mother. I'm a wife. I'm an American veteran, and I'm one of your middle-class Americans. And, quite frankly, I'm exhausted," she said. "I'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now."

"I have two children in private school. The financial recession has taken an enormous toll on my family," Hart said. "My husband and I have joked for years that we thought we were well beyond the hot dogs-and-beans era of our lives. But, quite frankly, it is starting to knock on our door and ring true that that might be where we are headed again."

nypost.com

[MurrayFiend]

What does that have to do with folks' opinions re: Obama NOW?

[EvilMadman]

What does that have to do with folks' opinions re: Obama NOW?

The only demographic that blindly hates Obama with a passion, are the lunatic fringe religious/conservatives (who I take it, mostly hate him for his alleged "socialist" ideology), and the old die-hard racists, and not all "White America", as I thought that article was implying. Sorry if I read it wrong.

[MurrayFiend]

I do hate White folks, but yeah, the article's definitely stretching if it's saying all you bleached-ass motherfuckers is displaying the same craziness. I hear you, brah.

[EvilMadman]

I do hate White folks, but yeah, the article's definitely stretching if it's saying all you bleached-ass motherfuckers is displaying the same craziness. I hear you, brah.

[MurrayFiend]

No surprise Levi buys into lefty kook articles, at any rate.

[SeminiferousButtNoid]

The only demographic that blindly hates Obama with a passion, are the lunatic fringe religious/conservatives (who I take it, mostly hate him for his alleged "socialist" ideology),

Alleged? His policies and political philosophy have been heavily influenced by the Frankfurt Declaration since he was at Harvard. Social democracy is still socialism.

[MurrayFiend]

Your mom's a socialist.

[MasterOfMeatPuppets]

Yo momma's so Socialist...

[Crazy Levi]

No surprise Levi buys into lefty kook articles, at any rate.

Who said I buy into it? I'm just biting Cliffy's style and posting interesting articles to start enlightening discussion.

But the gist of it I do kinda buy...your most vociferous Obama haters are in at least some small way racist. They never became this unhinged during the Clinton years, and they hated that guy's guts. There's gotta be more to it than just disliking his policies.

I'm entitled to my opinion on that.

[tylamonroe]

No surprise Levi buys into lefty kook articles, at any rate.

Who said I buy into it? I'm just biting Cliffy's style and posting interesting articles to start enlightening discussion.

But the gist of it I do kinda buy...your most vociferous Obama haters are in at least some small way racist. They never became this unhinged during the Clinton years, and they hated that guy's guts. There's gotta be more to it than just disliking his policies.

I'm entitled to my opinion on that.

We don't hate him because he's black. We hate him because he's MUSLIM! Jesus in a pair of fuck me heels christ get it straight. An n-bomb Iran, 14 trillion in new debt, the destruction of the greatest health care system in the world and 10% unemployment are just minor bitches. The fucking darkie is a MUSLIM!!!!!!!

[Drunk Kennedy]

No surprise Levi buys into lefty kook articles, at any rate.

Who said I buy into it? I'm just biting Cliffy's style and posting interesting articles to start enlightening discussion.

But the gist of it I do kinda buy...your most vociferous Obama haters are in at least some small way racist. They never became this unhinged during the Clinton years, and they hated that guy's guts. There's gotta be more to it than just disliking his policies.

I'm entitled to my opinion on that.

We don't hate him because he's black. We hate him because he's MUSLIM! Jesus in a pair of fuck me heels christ get it straight. An n-bomb Iran, 14 trillion in new debt, the destruction of the greatest health care system in the world and 10% unemployment are just minor bitches. The fucking darkie is a MUSLIM!!!!!!!

EXCELLENT post!!