AmeriKKKa the Usual

I'm getting cracked up by people's concern about Obama's sentiment toward white people--that is to say, critics who are trying to sling mud against the Obama campaign. Is white America ignoring the fact that Obama's mother is WHITE?! I will admit I haven't been following all this ridiculous controversy, as much as I would like, but I haven't heard anyone say anything about Obama's mixed ethnicity. My theory is that AmeriKKKa is getting scared about his popularity and willing to muster up fear in the heart of the ignorant. What we're witnessing is racism against black Americans. People who oppose Obama are desperate to slander him. Ah, but that is the pungent stench of politics, c'est non?

...If I may interject, I would like to explain that I'm sitting in a hotel in the middle of nowhere-Ohio, watching Sean Hannity on Fox News, and Karl Rove is on looking like a racist douche bag...

While we're on the subject, I want to admit that there is a large part of me that is embarrassed to be a white man. I would say that this guilt throughout my young-adult life had influenced me to seek out membership in subcultures (esp. the "punk" community, and more recently the "hiphop" community) such that I might distance myself from mainstream America. I have tried to immerse myself in communities of people that follow egalitarian principles. I have at times resorted to piercing my nose and cutting my hair to outwardly distinguish myself from popular culture and embody that opposition. I have embraced alternative technologies that challenge conventional ones. At times like the height of this controversy, I want to shed all of my associations with a society that is so manipulated and willing to fall in line in a system founded on imperialism and racism, built by slavery, and designed to generate immense wealth for a few while grinding down an overwhelming majority.

Go pick up Dr. James Cone's Black Theology of Liberation. Good read. Not to drop names or anything, but I was fortunate enough to meet Dr. Cone and I care about his message. Jesus was a black man that was crucified under an oppressive regime.
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Meanwhile, Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern has recently (and unapologetically) said homosexuals are a bigger threat to the U.S. than terrorists. My friend Amanda has written a terrifically eloquent response in her blog, Only One Manda, which you will find linked on the left. I am currently writing Mrs. Kern an email to express my feelings. Please check out Amanda's article which unveils the incongruity of homophobia and modern Christianity.