Some good old-fashioned TRUTH-TELLING here:
Republicans, Need a Minority To Love? Try President Obama
By: Black Liberal Boomer
If President Obama is unsure what to do with himself once he leaves office, he can always do standup. The man is just funny.
But of all the lines he delivered at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner (and he made sure to get his licks in with a razor), the hands-down keeper was when he suggested that if the Republicans were really sincere about their new outreach efforts to attract more minorities, perhaps they might want to do a “test run” by reaching out to the President of the United States.
No one else could have DELIVERED this SLICE & DICE line of TRUTH, more effectively than President Barack Hussein Obama. NOBODY
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
President Obama Puts on the “Double Cork” for his Brilliant “Race Minstrel” Performance at the 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
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Barack Obama’s genius performance at the 2013 Washington Correspondents’ Dinner was his version of “double corking.”
Obama’s pretending to be Daniel Day-Lewis, a white man, depicting, the President, a black man, was also a type of “reverse passing.” In a complementary manner, Tracy Morgan, an African-American comedian who deftly manipulated and signified on stereotypes of black authenticity and race on the award winning TV show 30 Rock, was cast as Joe Biden.
Obama’s double-corked comedy routine, was like the best humor and satire, a means for critique and truth-telling. It was also transgressive and revealing in some quiet, but no less sharp, ways.
Obama is a man beset by paradoxes. He is the United States’ first black President; he is also a President who just happens to be black. Obama has made the tactical and strategic choice to be silent on matters of black uplift, and how racism continues to negatively impact the life chances of African-Americans and other people of color. Yet, his opponents on the Right have viciously savaged him by mobilizing white racial resentment, overt bigotry, and “dog whistle politics” to suggest that Barack Obama is an illegitimate, black usurper who wants to “oppress” white people.
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You really must watch PBO at WCHD. #nerdprom As my Twitter friend Leenie wrote “He killed it. Dug it up and killed it again.” Brutal and hilarious.
Yes; it was BRUTAL, and TRUTH. If these Rethugs don’t respect our President, because he’s BLACK. Black folks aren’t trying to hang with these fools. You DISS POTUS, you DISS US. PERIOD
sliced and diced
Go, Mr. President.
LOL PBO nailed them all and at the end of his delivery, called on EVERYONE TO do BETTER, including himself.
Did you see Calista Gingrich as the camera panned the crowd? That helmet hair and that ghoulish grin spoke volumes.