An NPR news burp broadcast some guy comparing Obama's presidency to the election of Nelson Mandela.
Seriously?
America has race issues, no doubt, but to compare them to apartheid South Africa is over the top, down the hill and out to pasture.
- Obama rose through the political ranks the same way as a white guy would - by being a career politician. Obama was not imprisoned for trying to free blacks oppressed by white controlled apartheid government and is not a figure of human struggle for freedom.
- Obama was duly and constitutionally elected like the dumbass before him. Obama is not the first president of a newly democratic country.
- Obama is a man who decided to take a big job - trying to soften the landing of America's fall from being a world superpower. This is very admirable, but not comparable to leading a nation to unity and healing gaping moral wounds caused by imperial colonialism.
I didn't catch the name of the guy in the seconds long NPR sound bite but I do have this to say to him: Fuck. You.
About Me
- R.
- I'm a househusband and stay-at-home dad. What I need are more attentions of the amorous variety. What I get are more entries on the honey-do list. I take stuff apart to see how it works. Sometimes it still works when I put it all back together again.
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