With the state of white America in a frenzy still over the Obama--Gates--Crowley beer summit, which is merely symptomatic of the real issue: "the inexorable transformation of America into a white-minority country in some 30 years — by 2042 in the latest Census Bureau estimate." This transformation is causing serious jitters, if not panic, in some white people's bodie, according to Frank Rich in this morning's New York Times. These notions that the Republicans have to defeat Obama rather than save the nation's economy, I believe, are linked to this premise that white men have to make sure that a man of color does not succeed as president, especially where they have botched everything up.
However, as Linda, as irate partygoer at a 60th birthday celebration quipped last night: Obama's half white. Don't we get some credit for his genius and extraordinary talent? Afterall, he was raised by his white mother and white grandparents!
Frank Rich continues: The birth-certificate canard is just the latest version of those campaign-year attempts to strip Obama of his American identity with faux controversies over flag pins, the Pledge of Allegiance and his middle name. Last summer, Cokie Roberts of ABC News even faulted him for taking a vacation in his home state of Hawaii, which she described as a “foreign, exotic place,” in contrast to her proposed choice of Myrtle Beach, S.C., in the real America of Dixie.
Perhaps this will placate nervous white people: the entire cast from the Seinfeld series will be reuniting this season on Curb Your Enthusiasm, according to creator and world's number one cranky Jewish guy, Larry David. This year's script "theme" is the reunion, and members of the cast will appear in five episodes. Will that make it better?
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