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[Ben Smith] February 16, 2008 Read More: Barack Obama
NYT's Keller compares Obama and Mandela
^^^^^^^ CB: Marvin mentioned Denzell Washington. I'm thinking Tiger Woods or Derek Jeter or Barry Bonds (smile)
On the cover of Barry (!) Obama's book ,his grandfather looks like Ronald Reagan a little. Evidently, his grandfather was a salesman. At the point where he isn't doing so well, there a slight Willie Loman theme to his character. Barry lived with his grandparents for a while. I wouldn't underestimate the ability of a regular anti-racist white man( and woman , Tutu was her nickname) to show a Black kid how to negotiate race among middle American white people. Tutu worked as an executive in a small bank, and made more money than Gramps at one point. Gramps was sort of a Ronald Reagan gone good.
With all the other non-progressive stuff in his campaign, a central revolutionary chord in US politics is Black/White unity, and big O is your boy for that. He literally personifies Black/White unity.
The majorly accepted ideology on race among whites today is to quote Martin Luther King " judge by the content of character not the color of the skin." O says OK white people take race out of it. I'm the superior character. And actually he's kind of a giant individual character by coincidence of birth. He's fully Black and fully White , for one thing, and gets the max out of that American personality dialectic . Barry is on character steroids.
For Nietszche fans, here's your Superman, baby. Live from around the world , Hawaii, Indonesia, Kenya and Chicago, Barry O. Comin at ya right out the slave class. President of the Harvard law review.
Sometimes there's something to hybrid vigor ( smile).