What Do You People Want?

Earthly perfection is what 'you people' want. The white 'you people' want perfect absolution; the black 'you people' want perfect vengeance.

Be careful what you wish for.

Denied their blanket absolution, some whites mumble and even scream the n-word, as if it just dawned on them that some black people hate them; even though the Black version of Barack Obama's and Jeremiah Wright's Liberation Theology has existed for only a little less time than legislated federal Civil Rights and Voting Rights have--a small fraction of the lifespan of this country.

Denied their vengeance, some blacks say “yeah, we knew you hated us all along,” in spite of the fact that most whites manifestly don’t hate us and many have gone against their parents, friends and communities to stand up for what’s right; in spite of the fact that the ones who do hate blacks have conspired to keep some of us in a more refined form of bondage—also known as reproductive “choice” and subsidized indolence--with our own assistance. We're not hated by all or even most whites, in spite of how the progeny of the new slaves have preyed upon all—black, white and other.

All of the players in this game wanted to be the innocent party, the wronged party. All wanted to ignore reality and history.

Then along came Obama--the guy who talks post-racial and sleeps Black Power--and all the fronting ceases. All masks are dropped. And all the sh*t-fits commence.

You people wanted the Moon and all you got was merely another flawed human to project your higher hopes and lower fantasies onto. And now you're mad.

It's your own fault, though; your fault that you accepted an earthly savior.

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Comments

[darwin]

So now what?

[baldilocks]

I don't understand the question; I'm not it either.

[Old Mike]

As a Christian, I try to have my views line up with God's. Though I can't find this exact quote in the Bible, I'm not too nervous about God calling me on the carpet for putting words in His mouth. On race: I(God) only created one. Yes you don't all look just alike. Wouldn't it be boring if you did. On forgivness: If you're Mine, it's not optional, it's a command.

[Dick Stanley]

To answer your headline (since I never bought into Obama to begin with): I want the first black president to be at least a moderate, but preferably a conservative. And I'm not in any hurry. I don't need a magic negro or a guy in a mask, or absolution from a history that occurred before I was old enough to vote. I'm not surprised Obama proved to be a phony. I'm just glad it happened now instead of after the inauguration.

[DarkStar]

People want Tiger Woods.

[Cobb]

Althea Gibson.

[brotherbrown]

Nah, Heathcliff Huxtable.

[baldilocks]

But, conversely, nobody wants the 2008 version of Bill Cosby. :-)

[brotherbrown]

Unfortunately, Mr Cosby's personal life has had a few indescretions that would probably disqualify him in this era of the sex scandal as political drama.

[wazowsky]

I'm white - I don't want absolution, I didn't do anything. My ancestors didn't do anything - they weren't here. Why do you assume "whites" are some monolithic bloc with homogeneous views, history and guilt? I really really resent that. I don't assume all blacks have the same views and chips on their shoulders - I don't assume all blacks have the same ANYTHING, or that there is such a thing as "all blacks" - do me the same courtesy please.

[baldilocks]

I'm white - I don't want absolution, I didn't do anything.

I'm black and I don't want vengeance.

Most people who read this were able to figure out that I wasn't talking about them. Perhaps they noticed the qualifiers 'some,' 'most,' 'not all,' etc.

It seems that the second step in solving this thing is to stop taking everything personally--to dispense with the notion that everything is about 'you.'

Perhaps you could do me the courtesy of taking the first step: reading more carefully before you accuse me of something that I most certainly did not to do. Just a thought.