tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post6273468116777194247..comments2024-02-15T05:08:32.917-06:00Comments on Cliff's Crib: Flex Your Muscles Mr. PresidentCliftonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03389032037779987856noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-12077632878580002582009-11-05T12:57:29.219-06:002009-11-05T12:57:29.219-06:00Cliff here's an interesting piece about why th...Cliff here's an interesting piece about why that flexing shit will never happen: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/opinion/04patterson.html?_r=1&emc=eta1<br /><br />Apparently, The Changeling and his apologists, some of whom are socially and financially "free" - to an extent (Oprah, Cosby, Gates) and even those who are not (the rest of Blacks who voted for him), still subscribe to the slave mentality of <b>"wearing the mask" </b> in order to get from Massuh what we need & deserve as a people. <br /><br />"You know he can't tell those white folks that!" "You know he's got to help us on the down-low!" and "Just give him some time!" are all manifestations of the way WE undervalue ourselves - not to mention how we let the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy continue to devalue us. It's 2009 and sorry, for this Sista -that's not freedom and it doesn't engender warm fuzzy feelings of respect for either Obama or his other Black sell-outs whose wealth and societal positions he ensured as long as they play the game with him.<br /><br />This insightful piece from Chickenbones: http://www.nathanielturner.com/impotenceneednotbepermanent.htm<br /><br />hits the nail on the head when it comes to the Changeling in particular, and Black men/women "in Power" (I say that laughingly) in general who are complicit in the charade of the "First BLack president:"<br /><br /><b>"A Black overseer wielding the whip did not change the social conditions one iota for the majority of our people. No slave was fooled into thinking that the creation of Black overseers was an objective improvement for the enslaved majority. Everyone knew the Black overseer had cast his lot with the slave master in exchange for personal gain. Was this Black overseer The Man? NO! The Black overseer was a servant at best, a flunky and traitor at worse. What of today's civil servants?</b><br /><br />Hope you get a chance to read it.DebChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02018798227792356966noreply@blogger.com