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mercuryblues

(16,266 posts)
9. That's what I thought
Tue May 24, 2016, 04:43 PM
May 2016

My original comment was MHP explained it nicely. I chuckled and said to myself, that wasn't nice at all. She splayed him out like a large mouth bass.

“I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men,” West says. “It’s understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He is just as human as I am, but that is his cultural formation. When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening. And that’s true for a white brother. When you get a white brother who meets a free, independent black man, they got to be mature to really embrace fully what the brother is saying to them. It’s a tension, given the history. It can be overcome. Obama, coming out of Kansas influence, white, loving grandparents, coming out of Hawaii and Indonesia, when he meets these independent black folk who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow and so on, he is very apprehensive. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. It is understandable.

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/epeoplesview.net/2011/05/cornel-wests-race-baiting-antisemitic.html


this article brings up, Obama also grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, which is 18% white.

If MHP splayed him, Spandan Chakrabarti reeled him in.

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