Last month Ed Cleveland talked about the media circus
surrounding America’s black president-elect, Barack
Obama. He discussed how the media have constructed a
new hero, a new Black savior, who has arisen now, two
generations after the end of the civil rights movement,
to finish the job. I mean, just look at the worshipful
attitude the media have toward him: the weeping women
on TV, the trendy idiots with those ridiculous “change”
and “hope” bumper stickers stuck to everything
in site, the university students marching and shouting
and hugging each other in triumph. It’s as if
John Brown, Martin Luther King, and George Clooney were
all rolled into one little pampered, ivy league-educated,
Mulatto exterior. He is being hailed everywhere as a
symbol of universal change—even Louis Farrakhan,
whose Nation of Islam was just a few years ago calling
for the overthrow of the American government, has fallen
for the racket, calling Obama “the hope for the
entire world.” And among media personalities,
there has never been such unanimity about the significance
of a presidential election. No matter if they are black
or white or sophisticated or air-headed or lesbian or
conservative or liberal or whatever—everyone seems
to be pretty convinced that Obama’s election means
something big for this country. And perhaps they’re
right.
Barack Obama has a background that is, in many ways,
a little different than that of most American presidents:
his upbringing was not particularly pampered, and as
he passed through his college years he seemed to be
more of a local activist and political opportunist than
a man with his eyesight on the presidency. After finishing
up at Harvard Law, Obama went to Chicago, working with
non-profit organizations and making himself quite popular
with the local Blacks—passing out meals and giving
speeches, milking the terminally corrupt Chicago local
political scene. He was eventually elected to the Illinois
State Senate in 1996, where he served until being elected
to the U.S. Senate in 2004. And in a few weeks, of course,
he’ll be sworn in as the forty-fourth president
of the United States and will move into the White House
with his wife and their two daughters. And, according
to the one of the biggest stories on today’s network
news, he’s now busy picking out a dog that will
move into the house with them.
Now, that’s pretty fast, considering that, only
a few years ago, Barack Obama was a slick community
organizer, not a politician. But he’s been around
long enough, of course, to have learned how to follow
orders. And that’s all that really counts. Unfortunately,
Barack Obama is simply not the revolutionary loose cannon
that so many paranoid conservatives are terrified about.
He’ll probably cater a little more to the rabble,
to the Blacks and the Chicanos and the white welfare
coalition, but that’s just the Democratic way.
There is zero chance, I guarantee you, that Barack Obama
will do anything remarkable during his entire presidency.
Even if he were the disgruntled Marxist that these gullible,
conservative idiots were making him out to be, anyone
who has half a brain and has paid any attention whatsoever
to modern American politics understands that, regardless
of whatever scruples and convictions an American politician
might have before he rises to the national scene, he
cannot expect to rise much further than local office
without the consent of the mass media. Obama would never
have gotten anywhere near the presidency if the men
who actually run things behind the scenes were not absolutely
sure that he won’t upset their apple cart. The
fact that Obama is black, and that he has a uniformly
leftist voting record in the Senate, and that he has
a truly horrifying, media generated cult following does
not change the fact that he is simply a puppet for the
men who really run the country. The fact that he’s
a charming and popular and slightly darker puppet does
little to change the reality of the American political
situation. He, like Bush and Clinton before him, will
do what he’s told. As we’ve already seen,
he’ll fine tune his message to remind the lemmings
that he’s bringing them progress and change and
hope, but he’ll make the right political appointments,
he’ll make the right promises, and he will not,
throughout the entire time he’ll be in office,
make a single significant change to the way this country
is run.
So what should all this mean to us, to racially conscious
White Americans? What does it mean for us to have Barack
Obama as our head of state? I think Ed Cleveland was
right last month when he suggested that Obama will become
a new American savior, a hero our children will be taught
to look up to for generations and generations: America’s
first black president. I say that we can start looking
forward to the minting of a new two hundred dollar bill
or a fifty-cent piece. Or, why not—how sensitive
and politically correct would it be of us to simply
remove from our currency all those dead white males
who owned slaves? We can have the Obama quarter and
the O.J. Simpson nickel, alongside the Bill Clinton
dollar bill, the Henry Kissinger twenty, and the Michael
Jackson two dollar bill. Of course I’m exaggerating,
but only very slightly. If the economy pulls together
early in the Obama administration, he will have almost
unprecedented political capital, not to mention an adoring
media, that the string pullers can use to push any scheme
whatsoever upon the American people. And they can expect
100% complicity from the media.
In this regard, I want to share something with you
that helped me understand the extent to which our society
has become literally obsessed with celebrities—and
how powerful that celebrity status has become in controlling
the American political process. Earlier this week I
saw a photograph, which has now been reprinted in the
online editions of several of the nation’s largest
newspapers, of Barack Obama shirtless at a Hawaiian
beach. The newscasts that have carried the story, of
course, have been filled with “oohs” and
“ahhs” from women who are ecstatic about
their new president—who rave about how cool and
sexy he is, about how he’s a “new kind of
president.” Well, that’s certainly true.
In one sense, he certainly is a new kind of president.
The average American, and I’m talking now about
both women and men, think it’s about time that
we have a man in the White House who winks at them through
the TV screen and gets his chest waxed for beach vacations.
They recognize that he’d be just as home in a
Calvin Klein cologne ad as he would be on a dollar bill,
and they think that’s just great; they think this
is the wave of the future: a coffee-colored president,
still in his forties, with biceps, a flashy suit, and
a charming smile. To the vast majority of the American
public, that’s change they can believe in. And
it reflects, I believe, a very real shift in the American
political process—one which the Republicans were
too stupid to recognize when they chose John McCain
as their presidential candidate. They ignored the glitz
and glamour that have come to dominate American cultural
life and Americans’ perceptions of power and influence;
they did not recognize the shift in American society
which has now led to the successive election of three
remarkably young presidents: two in their forties, and
all three under fifty five. The media have created a
new presidential image, and Obama’s success owes
much to the fact that he fits so well that new media
generated representation. In the coming years we will
see, I believe, a radical shift in the types of men—excuse
me: types of people—who are electable. The expectations
of the American public have been transformed, and the
image of the older, experienced, white male American
president is out; young, charming, fit, “aww shucks”
candidates are in. These days one could find just as
fitting a presidential candidate on the set of the nearest
soap opera as one could on the floor of the Senate.
And that’s a remarkable change which is going
to leave a lasting impact on the American political
process.
Also of importance to this topic is this year’s
tremendous growth in the popularity of alternative political
candidates, who, though they didn’t make much
headway on Election Day, have proven that alternative
politics can affect American political discourse. Affecting
the discourse, of course, is not the same as affecting
the way our government is run. But Obama owes much of
his success to the American public’s dissatisfaction
with the current administration, and much of that dissatisfaction
is in turn due to the media’s fallout with Bush
and the rise in visibility of alternative political
candidates. All of Obama’s hullabaloo about change
and hope and progress wouldn’t have caught on
with the lemmings if their televisions hadn’t
taught them that it was time for change and hope and
progress. The media were able to ostracize Bush and
the Republicans while simultaneously giving substantial
notice to non-system candidates. And while doing this,
they still treated these non-system politicians like
Ron Paul and Ralph Nader as if they were on the fringe
and were the types of candidates that no decent person
could support. Regardless, the mere appearance of third
party candidates into the mainstream political scene
in effect displayed to the lemmings that disgust with
the current order was widespread. So the media were
able to contrast more radical reformers like Paul and
Nader with a moderate, so-called “reformer”
like Barack Obama. And the American electorate, never
difficult to predict, shuffled right into the trap,
voting for the “moderate,” “sensible,”
and system-approved candidate for change. It’s
a simple process, but it worked like a charm, and I’m
sure we’ll see it again in the future as more
and more Americans grow disenchanted with the two party
shell game.
You know, it’s easy for us to dismiss Obama’s
election as simply the next downward step in America’s
long, inevitable decline. After all, we’ve been
watching the country self-destruct for so long that
the election of a Black president, even if it appears
a little premature, doesn’t really seem that shocking.
While most of us five years ago would never have imagined
that a Black could be elected to the American presidency
in the 2008 election, the past few years have only reinforced
our convictions that the American government is so corrupt
and so politically correct that nothing, no matter how
bizarre or nonsensical, is possible. George Bush’s
careless disregard for the wishes of the American people
has done much to awaken all Americans, not just extremists
like me, to the fact of their government’s corruption.
It’s commonly accepted, even among flag wavers
and lemmings, that every domestic and foreign policy
decision made by the Bush government is not based upon
some democratic principle that pretends to respect and
abide the wishes of the American majority. Even they
understand that the American democratic political system
is a sham, a farce. Only they don’t care, as long
as their boy George W., or Barack, or Bill, or whoever
gets the sanctified majority of votes, is still sitting
in the White House signing orders and keeping an eye
on things for them. What happens to the world around
them—what happens to their people, their country,
even their own children’s future—means nothing
to them. As long as they can still hold on to their
self-indulgent lifestyles—their credit cards,
their twelve packs, and their Christmas vacations—they
don’t care about what their government does, no
matter how corrupt or pathetic or destructive it is.
This is nothing new, of course. But with Obama’s
election we have the most obvious and current example
of our society’s sickness. And this really doesn’t
have much to do with the fact that Obama is black, because
his election says more about political correctness and
white guilt than it does about so-called racial justice
for Blacks. The media will spin his victory as if it
means that America has reached true brotherhood and
love and equality—blah, blah, blah. But that,
of course, is simply an illusion. As America is getting
darker and darker every year, tensions are building
between America’s white majority and the non-Whites
who are literally flooding their communities. Even though
Obama won the 2008 election, the majority of white Americans
are unsettled about having him as president. While many
Whites will go out of their way to assure you that Obama’s
race had nothing to do with why they don’t support
him, a great deal of them will be quite frank about
their discomfort with voting for a black president.
They’re tired of being pushed around, and they’re
tired of political correctness and racial preferences
and everything else. And they certainly don’t
want a new president who will be even more eager than
Bush and Clinton to push the kosher agenda on racial
matters. The appearance of Barack Obama onto the political
scene, and then his almost incredible victory and rise
to superstardom, has given many Whites the courage to
voice their frustrations with the whole system. It,
more than any other event in recent American history,
has shoved race into the center of public attention.
Obama’s election has introduced race into the
American public discourse more effectively than any
merely political issue, including illegal immigration
and affirmative action. Everyday the media have been
filled with story after story about race, and they haven’t
had to deny that it is the central issue in contemporary
American life. They have had to openly admit that race
is splitting America—that Americans are expressing
their most powerful political agency, their right to
vote, along racial lines. The fact that Blacks almost
unanimously voted for Obama wasn’t a shock to
anyone, just like the fact that West Virginia and Montana
voted for McCain wasn’t much of a surprise either.
Americans understand how race functions in our country
today, and they understand that the slick, Jewish, MTV-trash
portrait of the world is simply ridiculous. They might
not understand why this dream world has been concocted
and exactly what it’s doing to our country, but
they look at their communities and realize that we simply
aren’t “just getting along” like everyone
does on TV. And I don’t just mean large-scale
interracial violence, which is largely confined to the
Black and Latino communities; I mean racial polarization,
resent, and self-segregation. These developments help
us see that, despite the unprecedented amount of enforced
diversity and multiculturalism in our society, the issue
of race is simply not going to go away. No matter how
diverse and cosmopolitan America becomes, race will
continue its drive toward the core of the American sociopolitical
atmosphere, and that is certainly a positive development
for us. It’s something that we’ll be able
to use to our advantage as the nation continues to decline
and our people start looking for alternatives to the
traditional American party line.
