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Junious Ricardo Stanton
The Clinton’s fiendishly cunning plan to destroy Barack Obama’s
non-threatening public image by directly linking him to an
outspoken
unabashedly pro-black minister is succeeding beyond their widest
expectations. This was a calculated and choreographed campaign to
undermine Obama in the minds of white folks. The groundwork was
laid by
Clinton supporters like Geraldine Ferraro and Pennsylvania
governor Ed
Rendell. Ferraro played the "bad cop" charging Obama was only
where he
was because he was Black. She was adamant, she refused to back
down from
her statement so she willingly took the hit. Her resignation
helped
bolster Clinton’s position with whites because it played out
older
whites worst nightmare, a white person losing their job because
of a
black person. That incident forced white people to acknowledge
the
elephant in the room, race. Ed Rendell played the good cop making
the
rounds on the cable networks when Hillary Rodham Clinton was at
her
nadir. Obama was beating Clinton like she stole something making
her
look bad as he garnered delegates left and right winning eleven
straight
primaries. Rendell went on the air whining that Obama was getting
a free
pass from the media. Rendell even had the audacity to say the
media was
not scrutinizing Obama’s speeches or his campaign. Yet no one in
the
mainstream media challenged Clinton or her supporters on their
cockamamy
assertion she had more experience to be Commander in Chief than
Obama;
as if being married to Bill Clinton gave her presidential
experience!?
Both Ferraro and Rendell were setting us up for what was to come,
a
vicious yet subtle attack on Obama by playing the race card. The
attack
was aimed primarily at Obama’s core,young white people. That’s
why they
first used You Tube to get the snippets of Rev. Wright out to the
people
who use that particular medium, young folks. As many of us who
are
familiar with You Tube know, something can be hot there but not
make any
impression outside that medium or have any impact or influence
beyond
the circle of folks who frequent You Tube. To penetrate the
consciousness of older whites who don’t know anything about that
technology and to get more folks to log onto You Tube to see it,
the
corporate media colluded with the Clinton’s to manufacture a
controversy. Images of a Black preacher railing against the
hypocrisy,
mendacity and rapine of AmeriKKKa, daring to make moral judgments
about
AmeriKKKa’s crimes against humanity triggered deeply rooted
psychological angst amongst white people. The images and words of
Rev.
Jeremiah A Wright Jr. shocked and unsettled most white people.
Wright’s
words immediately put them on the defensive, a position that
makes them
extremely uncomfortable. Wright exposed their evil. The righteous
indignation of his sermon was genuine, rightly so because he was
chastising AmeriKKKa for her wickedness and wanton inhumanity.
But for
whites who have been snookered and brainwashed into believing
they have
exemption from moral accountability and their perceived "white
skinned
privilege" gives them the right to do whatever they want,
anywhere they
want, Wright’s message cut to the quick. Wright challenged their
"we’re
the good guys" delusions.
The Clinton’s knew this strategy would work. They knew showing an
angry
Rev. Wright denouncing AmeriKKKa’s ruthlessness and the imperial
blood
lust that has guided AmeriKKKa since before its founding as a
nation,
would generate animosity against Wright and by extension Barack
Obama.
"How dare he say such things." is the thought of many whites. To
them
Wright is unpatriotic even though he served honorably in the US
military. By linking Obama to Wrights’s words, Obama was put on
the
defensive just like the Clinton’s knew they would. When they
tried to
tie him the Louis Farrakhan that didn’t work. When they tried to
say he
was a Muslim to exploit the Islamophobia the US mainstream media
has
created, that didn’t work either. But they knew about Rev.
Jeremiah
Wright from the git go. They knew he was pro-black, an anathema
to most
whites, because their fragile self-images are threatened by
people who
are not mindlessly Eurocentric. The media tried to make an issue
about
Wright’s theology early on, but Obama cut them off at the pass by
disassociating himself from Wright and not inviting him to
participate
in his campaign launch. The Clinton’s, simply filed the
information away
for use another day.
While Obama has faced the firestorm and controversy head on,
major
damage has been done. He was sailing smoothly along as the "Good
Negro",
articulate, enthusiastic and intelligent a Black (the one drop
rule is
still in effect) candidate who never mentioned race. Obama
eschewed the
topic because to do so made whites uncomfortable, and to make
white
people uncomfortable is to court disaster. Race and color are the
festering sins of AmeriKKKa, sins white folks avoid ‘fessing up
to at
all costs. Like the sin of genocide against the Native Americans,
which
also undercuts their "we are moral and civilized" image, the race
issue
also forces them to see themselves outside the bogus parameters
they
have constructed about themselves. They are forced to confront
behaviors
that undermine their delusional notions of being civilized. Their
collective behaviors are so egregious and pervasive, to maintain
their
sense of comfort and domination whites and their victims, the
Native
Americans and Blacks expend inordinate amounts of energy deluding
ourselves things are getting better, but they are not.
Racism and violence have metastasized deep into the marrow of
AmeriKKKa.
Obama’s message offered hope, he exhorted the need for change
generating
a false sense of healing. He seems to actually believe AmeriKKKa
can be
better. Alas even if that is true, people like the Clintons
really don’t
want change. They want the status quo because they benefit from
things
not changing. So to prove how committed they are to the status
quo they
offered up Rev Jeremiah Wright Jr to the racism gods as their
sacrifice.
Just like Bill Clinton offered up Sistah Souljah when he was
running.
Now Rev. Wright is being demonized, vilified and castigated by
the white
media. They have to, because he poses a serious threat to their
self-image and their policies. If this were sixty years ago an
uppity
Negro like Buddy Wright would have been found hanging from a tree
or his
church would have been bombed. But today they lynch you
electronically,
for the whole world to see. The difference between the old time
lynchin’
and today’s version is, back in the day when they lynched you,
you were
dead for good. Today if you aren’t strong enough to withstand the
vilification, and character assassination, you become a living
example
of a broken man or woman, which is what they really want. They
want a
symbolically castrated, emasculated man, psychologically wounded
and
hobbling for all the world to see. Buddy Wright can take it and
he will
bounce back stronger than ever.
The Clintons and the media mind control apparatus are playing the
tried
and true slave massa role/game: beat down or lynch an "uppity"
black
leader and the rest of us will fall in line. By fall in line
whites
mean: go along with their okey-doke, swallow your manhood and
humanity,
think like they tell us to think and don’t get out of our
"place". It
remains to be seen how successful that part of their strategy
will be.
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