Cornell West: Obama Has Been "Deracinated"

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Obama isn't black enough for Cornel West-- who Rush Limbaugh describes as a man who "...hangs around the ghettos of Harvard and Princeton..." LOL!

Sorry - here's the link: www.truthdig.com/report/print/the_obama_deception_why_cornel_west_went_ballistic_20110516/

“I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men,” West said. “It’s understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. . . . When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening.”

“Obama, coming out of Kansas influence, white, loving grandparents, coming out of Hawaii and Indonesia, when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow and so on, he is very apprehensive,” West said. “He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. It is understandable.”

[ed1066]

Cornell West is a fraud, a race pimp just like Jackson and Sharpton...

[Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ]

Interesting...racism is alive and well, when a black person complains the prez is not black enough.

[henryclay]

West, who did 65 campaign events for Obama, believed in the potential for change and was encouraged by the populist rhetoric of the Obama campaign. He now nurses, like many others who placed their faith in Obama, the anguish of the deceived, , ,

“I was thinking maybe he has at least some progressive populist instincts that could become more manifest after the cautious policies of being a senator and working with [Sen. Joe] Lieberman as his mentor,” he says. “But it became very clear when I looked at the neoliberal economic team. The first announcement of Summers and Geithner I went ballistic. I said, ‘Oh, my God, I have really been misled. . . .

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Oh, to be sure-- the fact he is just an Ivy League blowhard isn't the only irony in all of his rant.

[ed1066]

I said, ‘Oh, my God, I have really been misled. . . .

Now, don't we have someone around here who likes to refer to large groups of people as "misled" (among other expletives)? Perhaps he should meet Mr. West...

[swamp]

So a privileged black guy is saying that because another black guy didn't grow up in whatever context he thinks black people should grow up in, he can't relate to other black people? Huh. Good to know. Does that hold true for white people too?

[marshabar1]

“I was thinking maybe he has at least some progressive populist instincts that could become more manifest after the cautious policies of being a senator and working with [Sen. Joe] Lieberman as his mentor,” he says.

“But it became very clear when I looked at the neoliberal economic team. The first announcement of (Lawrence) Summers

It must be difficult to go from master of the universe to servant of the people.

National Economic Council Chairman Lawrence Summers has a reputation for intellectual arrogance. Sunday’s New York Times described him as “the brilliant but sometimes supercilious Mr. Summers.”

He’s the son of two economists, nephew of two Nobel Prize winners (from opposite sides of the family, no less), former Treasury secretary and former president of Harvard.

And in the leadup to the global financial collapse, his brain commanded top dollar. The hedge fund D.E. Shaw, where Summers was a managing director, paid him $5.2 million last year, according to his financial disclosure form.

Summers collected another $2.77 million for speaking before some of the same institutions receiving bailout money, including Goldman Sachs ($202,500) and JPMorgan ($67,500).

Now he’s part of an administration that’s calling for executive salary caps.

and Geithner I went ballistic.

I said, ‘Oh, my God, I have really been misled at a very deep level.’

And the same is true for Dennis Ross and the other neo-imperial elites.

I said, ‘I have been thoroughly misled, all this populist language is just a facade. I was under the impression that he might bring in the voices of brother Joseph Stiglitz

and brother Paul Krugman.

I figured, OK, given the structure of constraints of the capitalist democratic procedure that’s probably the best he could do. But at least he would have some voices concerned about working people, dealing with issues of jobs and downsizing and banks, some semblance of democratic accountability for Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats who are just running amuck. I was completely wrong.”

(from OP link)


Poor duped populi.. Obama delivered up Fascistic Keynesian Socialism instead of a ready made Venezuela style Participatory Democracy.

Welcome to the real world.

Should have listened to his words and ignored your lying eyes. He wasn't exactly a pig in a poke.

traditionalliberalism.blogspot.com/2010/09/fascism-keynesianism-socialism.html

[ed1066]

May 19, 2011 13:05:12 GMT -5 swamp said:

So a privileged black guy is saying that because another black guy didn't grow up in whatever context he thinks black people should grow up in, he can't relate to other black people? Huh. Good to know. Does that hold true for white people too?

No, because white people don't have the same issue with "authenticity" that many black people have. You don't hear a white person saying another white person isn't "white enough", do you?

[swamp]

May 19, 2011 13:10:47 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

May 19, 2011 13:05:12 GMT -5 swamp said:

So a privileged black guy is saying that because another black guy didn't grow up in whatever context he thinks black people should grow up in, he can't relate to other black people? Huh. Good to know. Does that hold true for white people too?

No, because white people don't have the same issue with "authenticity" that many black people have. You don't hear a white person saying another white person isn't "white enough", do you?

I've seen white people being accused of being overly white..........

[cme1201]

May 19, 2011 13:19:58 GMT -5 swamp said:

May 19, 2011 13:10:47 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

No, because white people don't have the same issue with "authenticity" that many black people have. You don't hear a white person saying another white person isn't "white enough", do you?

I've seen white people being accused of being overly white..........

They must have been looking at my legs.

[ed1066]

May 19, 2011 13:19:58 GMT -5 swamp said:

May 19, 2011 13:10:47 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

No, because white people don't have the same issue with "authenticity" that many black people have. You don't hear a white person saying another white person isn't "white enough", do you?

I've seen white people being accused of being overly white..........

Well, I do enjoy this website:
stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

[swamp]

I accuse DH of being overly white when he attempts to dance. He looks like a frog in a blender.

[marshabar1]

Thanks for thread, Paul. A very interesting look into the regime.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

May 19, 2011 13:19:58 GMT -5 swamp said:

May 19, 2011 13:10:47 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

No, because white people don't have the same issue with "authenticity" that many black people have. You don't hear a white person saying another white person isn't "white enough", do you?

I've seen white people being accused of being overly white..........

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

I'm whiter than sour cream...

[ed1066]

May 19, 2011 14:37:05 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

I'm whiter than sour cream...

LOL! Is that Donny Osmond in the background?

[ty]

May 19, 2011 14:37:05 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

I'm whiter than sour cream...

I would have topped you with a nice cherry if you had said Whip Cream.

[ameiko]

Wow, I might have to defend Barry again!

That said, I have commented before: the same kids who used to beat up Barry for not being black enough (only half black, well educated) are the same who now embrace him.

Life is just funny that way.

[pepper112765]

May 19, 2011 13:10:47 GMT -5 @ed1066 said:

May 19, 2011 13:05:12 GMT -5 swamp said:

So a privileged black guy is saying that because another black guy didn't grow up in whatever context he thinks black people should grow up in, he can't relate to other black people? Huh. Good to know. Does that hold true for white people too?

No, because white people don't have the same issue with "authenticity" that many black people have. You don't hear a white person saying another white person isn't "white enough", do you?

Ed is exactly right. Although I understand Cornell West's perspective, I don't agree with it. Barack Obama was raised in a caucasian household even though he had an African father. So his upbringing is not a conventional one. Additionally, Africans look down on Black Americans, as if they are better, so even if his father stuck around and they continued to live in the US, he wouldn't have been encouraged to hang around black americans. Additionally there is a problem with Black Americans with respect to skin tone. The perception is lighter skinned blacks are treated better than darker skinned blacks because they appear less threatening. As a black woman, although very light complexioned, I have heard this plenty of times in the workplace and have always heard how I think I am better because I am light as a child growing up all the way to adulthood. It was a bit worse for my older sisters, who all have blue, green and grey eyes, with that type of conflict because of how they looked.

[pepper112765]

The "skin tone thing" is the result of slavery. And there must be some validity to the perception that lighter is better, because there are plenty of very light blacks that passed as white because it was easier for them to survive. I even know of a few families in the Maryland area who were encouraged to only marry light (even intermarry), so that their children would be also. It is a sick, sick thing honestly.