As multiple scandals besiege his administration, President Obama made time to address the students of Morehouse College, a \u201chistorically black\u201d institution of higher learning.\u00a0\u00a0 According to Front Page Magazine\u2019s Daniel Greenfield, Obama is simply resorting to the race card, the Rosetta stone for escaping political travails of leftists everywhere.<\/p>\n
Greenfield is correct as far as he goes.\u00a0 The problem is that he doesn\u2019t go nearly far enough.<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s entire career is a race card.<\/p>\n
To put it another way, while many of the labels that his opponents have ascribed to him fit to some extent or other, none of them fit like the proverbial glove.\u00a0 The reason for this is that \u201csocialist,\u201d \u201cAlinskyite,\u201d \u201cradical leftist,\u201d \u201canti-colonialist\u201d and the rest fail to capture the essence of that which fundamentally drives Obama: race. \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
More specifically, none of these characterizations does justice to the fact that it is his lifelong quest to secure for himself \u201cauthentic\u201d blackness <\/i>that animates Obama.<\/p>\n
To put it simply, while he most certainly does subscribe to leftism and all that this entails, Obama\u2019s ideology of choice is \u201cblackism.\u201d\u00a0 By affirming this ideology, authentic blackness is achieved.<\/p>\n
Like all ideologies, blackism is a creed <\/i>or doctrine. <\/i>It consists of the following tenets.<\/p>\n
First, history is to be understood as an epic interracial melodrama.\u00a0 Historical actors, though, are not flesh and blood individuals but abstract categories, namely the categories of \u201cwhite oppression\u201d and \u201cnon-white suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n
Second, white racism is alone the thread that unites the past with the present.\u00a0 White racism remains endemic\u2014even if it is not as \u201covert\u201d as it once was.<\/p>\n
It is this belief that accounts for why, despite having been elected twice <\/i>to the American presidency, Obama and his surrogates can still talk about America\u2019s \u201cracism\u201d and that of his rivals.<\/p>\n
Third, \u201csocial justice\u201d is society\u2019s cardinal virtue.<\/p>\n
The federal government must become an instrument for compensating blacks for historical injustices.\u00a0 Only a powerful, activist government can rectify racial inequalities, inequities that are the legacy of centuries of white racism.<\/p>\n
Finally, \u201cracial authenticity\u201d is both possible and desirable.\u00a0 And racial authenticity can be achieved by simply affirming blackism!<\/p>\n
The words of Professor Cornel West are instructive here.\u00a0 According to West, since \u201c\u2019black enough\u2019 always means \u2018bold enough,\u2019\u201d Clarence Thomas, a \u201cphenotypically, beautifully black\u201d person is nevertheless not black enough.\u00a0 Thomas is \u201ca right-wing conservative who sides with the strong against the weak\u201d and, thus, is \u201cnot bold enough.\u201d\u00a0 On the other hand, Thurgood Marshall, \u201ca beautifully high-yellow black,\u201d most definitely was \u201cblack enough because he was bold enough.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t side with the strong, he sided with the weak.\u201d<\/p>\n
A blackist must be black by birth, it is true, but his biology alone is not sufficient. And it is neither necessary nor sufficient that the blackist be fluent in black culture.<\/p>\n
An ideology comprises the cliff notes, the Reader\u2019s Digest <\/i>version, so to speak, of an older, vastly more complex cultural tradition.<\/p>\n
In religion, ideology assumes the form of theology.\u00a0 For example, the Christian religion had already been a way of life for hundreds of years before the Nicene Creed\u2014a quintessential expression of its theology\u2014was formulated.\u00a0 The latter is an abridgment of the former, a relatively few simple propositions that, in theory, can be affirmed by anyone and at any time.<\/p>\n
There is a complex of cultural traditions that is peculiar to many, but not all,<\/i> black Americans.\u00a0 Blackism is a distillation of these traditions, \u201cthe black experience\u201d in America boiled down to a handful of propositions easily affirmed by all biologically black persons\u2014whether they are personally familiar with these traditions or not.<\/p>\n
In other words, blackism is the <\/i>ideology for the Barack Obamas of the world.<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s first memoir, Dreams From My Father: A Story of <\/i>Race and Inheritance, <\/i>is nothing more or less than one man\u2019s odyssey in search, not so much of a father, but of racial identity.\u00a0 Separated by eons from \u201cthe black experience,\u201d Obama has spent the better part of his natural existence, and all of his adult life, aching to be seen, and to see himself, as \u201cauthentically\u201d black.<\/p>\n
It is this aching that accounts for Dreams. <\/i>It is this aching that explains <\/i>Obama\u2019s pursuit of Jeremiah Wright and his insistence upon sitting for some 20 years in Wright\u2019s church, a church saturated in Black Liberation Theology.\u00a0 It is Obama\u2019s desire to secure racial authenticity that motivated him to become a \u201ccommunity activist,\u201d attend Louis Farrakhan\u2019s \u201cMillion Man March,\u201d and once claim that he opposed the idea of reparations because he didn\u2019t think that it went far enough.\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n
But the cultural traditions of black Americans have always been as alien to Obama as they are alien to any of the thousands of privileged whites with whom he attended The University of Chicago and Harvard.\u00a0\u00a0 The ideology of blackism, however, permits him to surmount this. Simply affirm its tenets and presto!\u2014instant racial authenticity!<\/p>\n
Make no mistakes about it, whatever else may be said of Obama\u2019s allegiances, he is first and always a true believer in the ideology of blackism.<\/p>\n
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