Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired

In the past eight months, I have witnessed the denigration of the presidency.  Yeah, I said denigration.   The office held by the leader of the free world has been reduced, by certain segments of the citizenry, to an object of ridicule.  They have gone over and above the parameters of “freedom of speech” in an effort to attack America’s first recognizably black president.

Opponents of Barack Obama have played the race card over and over.  With each assault against his character, his critics have come closer and closer to calling President Obama a “n______” without spewing the epithet.  It is simply a matter of time before it happens publicly.

The G. W. Syndrome

The erosion of respect for the office of the presidency began over thirty-five years ago with Richard Nixon's contempt for the law and the lives of people.  That travesty was followed by Ronald Reagan's scripted presidency.  Americans suspended belief as we watched Reagan ad lib his way through what we now know was the onset of dementia.  

Bill Clinton's homatic exploits forced us to close our eyes to his behavior.  We had to mentally separate the manwhore from the important office he held.  The dichotomy created a schism in our view of the most esteemed office this country has ever created.  

We also closed our eyes and held our noses as the greatest thievery in the history of American commerce began, under the Clinton administration.  The bill came due in 2008 and plunged the country into economic chaos. 

George W. Bush’s clownish exploits brought respect for the office to an all time low; however, when he spoke before Congress, those that did not fall asleep were at least polite.  No one shouted that Bush was a “MURDERER!” because of all the lives he cost the innocent in Iraq nor was he proclaimed “ignorant white trash” because of his frequent faux pas and obvious lack of intelligence.  Everyone deferred because it was the “polite” thing to do.  

It was the white thing to do in this racially ambivalent society.

White Rules Are For White Folks

“Polite Society” was created after white folks put down their axes and decided to stratify their societies.  The Royals and their gentry adhered to a social structure that demanded that one behave properly in the presence of their socially equals or those that proclaimed superiority by birth right.  There were severe penalties for violating certain codes of conduct IF you were not aligned with the right clan.

After the cast outs survived the first few decades in the Americas, and learned the art of pimping, they were able to adopt many of the genteel habits of their European forefathers.  Codes of conduct were woven into a “society” designed for Anglo Saxons and folks that had enough money to buy their way into the upper class.  Native Americans, Afrikans, working class European immigrants and Mexicans, were exempt from those strict codes of conduct.

Fast forward to today.  We have a man of Afrikan descent in the white house.  He may well be the best American president of modern times BUT is not a full blooded(?) white man and will NEVER be given the considerations traditionally associated with genteel American society. 

White folks tenaciously hold onto beliefs of inherit superiority because the truth of who they are and from wench they came might lead to massive seppuku. 

Woe, The New Metropolis

Barack Obama will save the American way of life but will not be able to save America from itself.  There is a segment of our society that will destroy this country before allowing it to be reclaimed by the black, yellow and brown. 

At the end of the day: everyone puts on their drawers one leg at a time and we all make a big stink when we shit.  We knew that a long time ago but have allowed ego and false pride to created divisions along so called racial lines.

The whole world is watching us and most of them want us to fail.  We're playing in their hands as if it was scripted because we can't let go of ideas that we all know have not worked in the past.

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