“For Blacks in France, Obama’s Rise Is Reason to Rejoice, and to Hope”

That writer working for the New York Times who writes about Blacks and our “hope” in “For Blacks in France, Obama’s Rise Is Reason to Rejoice, and to Hope” is either comfortable with knowing that this Black “hope” thing has been going on for hundreds of years or the writer is a poor student of American history (regardless of the possible white history degree with honors from Yale). These Times writers (almost all of whom would self-describe themselves as “white”) keep great company because even Cornel West speaks of the “tragic, comic hope” of his people.

I remove the concept of “hope” from my dialogue about what really matters in the world not because I am deliberately trying to make me inaccessible to properly assimilated people but because the concept of “hope” works too well in captivity. Me need freedom. Although most of the overweight people who have dismissed me years ago (when they were slim and fine) would assume that I have replaced the word “hope” with the word “hate,” no lady my replacement for “hope” is the power in the word develop.

So let’s try this: Obama’s rise is reason to develop. Does that work for you? Should not young people who would expect to working behind a cash register see Obama and have reason to develop beyond the service class? Fat-ass mufukkas too, too often hate themselves with a passion (but somehow expect you to love them) should not “hope” to be physically fit they should develop ways to get with fitness. You see why I can’t seriously “monetize” my Blog? Talking shit about fat people and the stock of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. just made me lose almost all of the online readership of the United States. Of course, the use of the word “white” in a sentence does not help business either—unless you are down with stuff white people like.

So while all of this fascist bullshit is going on in the United States, I did not expect an article like “For Blacks in France, Obama’s Rise Is Reason to Rejoice, and to Hope” that says stuff like:

To this may be added Cran’s findings that the percentage of blacks in France who hold university degrees is 55, compared with 37 percent for the general population. But the number of blacks who get stuck in the working class is 45 percent, compared with 34 percent for the national average.

You see, when I read a Blog like Black Women in Europe, I mistakenly led myself to the conclusion that the educated (and properly missionary trained) Black woman in Europe really has no limits. I mean… just look at Antony and Cleopatra (just look at Ayaan Hirsi). Should I regard Black Women in Europe like Black Enterprise Magazine—a Potemkin Village of “Black progress” (damn it, now I just lost almost all of the readership of English-speaking Europe)?

So, while I am losing readers, let me go further and say that Barack Obama support shows me many things the writers of Black Enterprise Magazine find uninteresting (or unprofitable):

• Remember the Chris Rock joke about people being surprised how well Colin Powell speaks. “He speaks so well!” What Chris Rock is saying is that these people are revealing their ignorance about Black people through their sincere, well-meaning fascination. What is heart breaking for me is to see how many Black people—especially the people who might actually give birth to other Black people (Black women)—are sincerely captivated with Barack Obama. I am arrogantly confident that you have no idea how deeply hurtful it is to me to have an African-descended child looking up at me like I’m some alien from outer space while holding her mother’s hand. Children are the truth—which why so many of them are abused by adults who lie to themselves…
• Displaying Barack Obama support is an opportunity well-meaning white people have been waiting for… I am not bringing this up to “complain” about these enthusiastic “white” people. I bring this up because I often sense an ‘expectation’ of a certain reaction I am supposed to produce because it has been made clear to me that I am in the presence of a ‘special kind’ of Obama supporter. Sorry dude: until actions in office distinguish, here in the rasx() context Barack Obama is no different from Bill Clinton. He might even be no different from John F. Kennedy which is better but still not enough to revive a civil rights movement to pick up from the elementary place Dr. King left off…
• Barack Obama is an official excuse for people of color who socialize in very white environments to “engage” their “friends” on “issues of race.” Great for you. But for the rest of us colored people who emerged from very colored environments (some of us educated without debilitating assimilation), engaging people about “race”—especially with people who would consider themselves “newbies” is extremely uninteresting (being stuck with grown-ass newbies can delay personal development). Sadly, we super-bad colored folks are an ostracized minority, trapped between two “worlds” of white ignorance and black-ass-bombastic-prideful ignorance. Boo hoo. Weep weep. Just to help you with whatever uncaring Hollywood sarcasm you might have.Now, of course, I do not expect the highly educated writers of the New York Times to locate the possibility of taking one step forward and two steps back in celebrating a revival of the Négritude movement. Being wowed by neo-Négritude is like being blown away by Terence Trent D’arby because you never heard or felt James Brown. You people outnumber me so at least you have a lot of places to go this weekend in low-cut denim pants—and I’ll go take a pleasant solitary walk or somethin’…

But I do expect the handful of readers of this Blog to remember the life and death of the negritude-era poet David Mandessi Diop. Also, for more Obama details of his last trip to Europe from Black Women living in Europe, see “Barack Obama in Berlin: How we in Germany experienced the visit.” And, of course, the latest sexy critique of “monetizing” a Blog comes to me as “Blog Pimping, or: Who Do You Want to Delight?”

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