Just had to post this.

I read this blog today and couldn't help but post this comment. The thread was concerning, not Barack's blackness, but Michelle's blackness being the real issue with white America's fear of an Obama White House. This man's comment is astounding.

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Your analysis is superb and helpful.
But I still am astounded that anyone would be threatened rather than thrilled by
the thought of her being first lady.I am white. I have 4 kids. And dear God in
heaven let them all have the pride and brilliance of Michelle Obama.And to those
macho crackers who are reeling at the thought of a black woman being in a
leadership role, a position of authority, I have only a scornful reaction.Get
the fuck out now crackers, because your day is ending and you will be expected
to go back in your little holes and disappear from sight, along with your
dumb-as-a-log, civil liberties-hating, dipshit of a President.And as to what you
probably fear most profoundly and most deeply, i.e., that the end of white power
will occasion some payback, let me assure you -- as a white male with a full
cracker appearance -- of the following:We know who you are. And white guys like
me -- who you haven’t noticed because you have been too fucking dumb to think
that wealthy and powerful white family guys like me have been loathing you --
have been watching you use male privilege and whiteness to gain riches and power
and prestige. We have watched you demean and ridicule and hate and -- worst of
all -- smirk. We have watched you sit in steam rooms at clubs and universities,
we have been sitting in those rooms next to you, we have been listening. And to
say we despise you is ----- well, let us just say that despise is a term of
affection compared to the loathing we feel. And you day, your eclipse, your
decline, is at hand. And you know what, dipshit, you won’ t even know it is me
loathing you because one way I am going to be part of the payback against
privilege, is by expressing completely disingenuous sympathy as you and all the
condescending racists watch your world crumble.And while you won’t know who I am
-- you'll think I am your friend because I will be acting and smiling and giving
you white pats on the back -- I will be doing everything covert I can to undo
everything you have worked for and gained on the backs of those you treated with
condescension.You may be pretty much dumb asses yourselves, but I know you are
smart enough to remember all the times you treated people of color with
arrogance, every time you mumbled “nigger,” every time you raised your voice to
a waiter who couldn’t scurry around fast enough to suit your white ass, every
time you moaned about affirmative action while sopping up white affirmative
action, every pathetic time you told a pollster that you were voting for a black
candidate and then went in the booth and pulled the secret white lever that you
and I know about and then only told one white friend.Well guess what? I am the
white friend you told! And I laughed with you. But then I went home and added
you to the list of macho white trash that would eventually lose it all.But then
again, I have already been causing you a shitload of trouble. In fact, you may
know who I am: Remember when you had that really nice boss who was loyal to you
and to whom you were loyal? And remember the sad day when he called you in and
told you that there was nothing he wouldn’t do to avoid having to let a great
guy like you go? And then he gave you a hug? And you walked out. I was the guy.
And I fired your sorry white ass because your arrogance and condescension and
racism and blatant use of male privilege sickened me. And because every time you
told a nigger joke you never even considered that anyone in your presence might
not have a racist lily white country club honky-ass family like you.You felt
safe around me. And that was your mistake. In the beginning of Ralph Ellison’s
tour de force The Invisible Man, the unnamed black protagonist is given a
recommendation letter that he doesn’t know will sabotage and ruin him. Well, so
help me, on countless occasions I have sabotaged careers of white men who
thought no one was watching when they used the race or gender card. And now it
will only get worse. So tomorrow, when you go to your bank or law firm or
hospital or university, take a close look at your supervisors. You know the ones
who claim to look out for you. The ones who make more money than you but who you
don’t envy because they care about you?Well, one of them is me. And not only do
I not give a flying fuck about you, my kindness is a mask for loathing.I pity
your poor bastards. Because I’m not the black guy whose ascension you fear, I’m
one of you. I look like you. In fact, I am sitting in my office looking out at
you right now. I just winked at you, in fact. You look safe and secure in your
arrogance, your whiteness. Good. Relax. In fact, email me another of your
dumbest white sexist or racist jokes. I promise to laugh. That’s what I want.
Just know that I know everything. I’ve seen everything. And know that now I am
waiting for what for me will be the last straw. The next Barack joke or the next
time you demean a woman like Michelle, you are going to be standing there like a
fucking cyclone just hit you. And you’ll be asking:What happened to my career?
Where did my juice go? My privilege?I can’t wait. Come on asshole, make fun of
Michelle Obama. I dare you, you arrogant fuck.Make my day.