In the light of his historic victory and Tuesday's swearing in, I keep hearing that we are now in the post racial era. Now that the people have spoken. Now that they have declared the leader of the free world a black man, Abracadabra! Presto, change-o! Just like that, racism has disappeared across the land, throughout the minds and hearts of American men and women.
Not so fast. Although many Americans, who are not of color, have gotten more used to the idea of a President Barack Hussein Obama, they're not quite yet there. Read the right-wing blogs or listen to Rush "Screw America, I want Obama's policies to fail" Limbaugh. When it comes to That One, these folks have no love even for a brief presidential honeymoon period. They're already whining and wolfing. And hating.
In fact, they were behaving badly right after he won the election. Talk about change you can believe in, Joyce and I picked up the defaced Five Spot above, with the Confederate stars and bars over President Lincoln's face, on the Pennsylvania Turnpike at a toll booth when we handed over a sawbuck while we were returning from a Trotter Group meeting in Washington, D.C. in mid November.
The wingnuts, like many native southern whites seven score after the Civil War ended, are losing ugly.
I'd offer them a chill pill but I'm not sure it would be the correct, I mean, the right remedy. So, why don't we all just watch a movie, Our Negro President! Actually, a video tape. Yeah, that's the ticket. Check it out, it's magically funny. Shazam!
Stumble It!
