Listen up folks, I have something I need to ask and it’s not gonna be easy. Now, many of you are preparing to make the trip to DC this weekend to celebrate the inauguration of President-Elect Obama. And I am sure that you have heard that there are millions of people expected to hit a city that boasts a population of barely 600,000. I, who usually does just fine in big crowds, am actually a little nervous about this trip. I understand that this is a historical moment and so many people need to see, feel and experience it. However, I think the only way this can be a remotely successful and enjoyable event for all attendees is if a certain group decides to stay home: White people.
Yes you, and your “liberal” scarf too.
Now, before you guys start with the “Obama is about unity and change and friendship” or “He’s half-Whiiiiite!” and “I’m a liberal” and “My third cousin twice removed has a neighbor who may or may not be half-octroon”, I just want you to see where I’m going with this. DC is mad small. Maaaaad small. I know, because I ran those streets for about five years. There just isn’t enough room for everybody to go. Now, if we look at it mathematically, you will see why I am asking White people to stay home:
Chances Whites have had to go see the inauguration of a White president: 43
Chances Blacks have had to go see the inauguration of a Black president: 1
Now, I should be able to stop the argument here, shake hands and know that I will be able to comfortably enjoy my time in DC without being crushed to death by people who should have very well stayed home. But I know that sheer logic is not enough to deny the White man what he wants. *Le sigh*
So let’s look at it this way: while we realize that Barack couldn’t have been elected without White people, what is the whole reason that his win was so amazing, so seemingly impossible? Oh yeah….WHITE PEOPLE. Why yes, those decades and decades of oppression and racism did make the idea of a Black president sound crazy, didn’t they? I think instead of coming to DC and patting yourselves on the back for a job well done (AKA doing the right thing for once), Barack’s inauguration day should be a day of atonement for White people. Stay home and think about all the ways you can REALLY support our new President’s message of hope and change by confronting your racism. Most White people will tell you that they are not racists, but have done zip, zlich, zero to eradicate racism…though they could have a much bigger impact in doing so that most Black folks ever could.
Something else worth considering- like it or lump it, Black people are gonna turn Inauguration Weekend into All Star Weekend. The club is gonna be jumpin’ jumpin’ like Destiny’s Child circa 1999. We know that we party a little bit differently than you guys….
Black party
White party
So…yeah, White folks. Stay home, I promise to take plenty of pictures and tell you all about it. We can share him on January 21st, but on THE BIG DAY…he’s ours. We need this more than you, trust.
I’m just sayin,
Sister Toldja
We’re gonna need about 500 drums of industrial strength Febreeze to wash the stink out of an already stinky town once this bullsh*t is over. Much like Baltimore, we’ve now given the keys to the criminals. Flatrock.
How many of the black people you insist are more deserving of seeing this president sworn in have been campaigning for him since 2003 when he was barely known even in Chicago? If you had any true desire to see an America without racial divides you’d keep your mouth shut. You are the African American equivalent of my loser-country-bumpkin cousin spouting his ignorance and doing nothing but stalling change. Whites have had 42 chances to see a white president inaugurated? Sure. Including George Bush and Ronald Reagan. Keep in mind what this means for us lowly non-blacks who have supported Barack since the very beginning, too. And also keep in mind that there is a lot of work to be done in this country, and that unfortunately, there is still a large racial divide. Further, Obama will be up for reelection in four years. The insolent reactions of people like you could very well have an impact on whether or not some less-than-open-minded whites choose to vote for him again in 2012. Please, I worked very hard for this and it means a lot to me – and I didn’t work for it for people like you. Just keep yourself on the bandwagon on which you jumped, and which people like me started, and just for the love of God, shut up.
Sounds like you’re up for segregation. Maybe you should think about your views expressed above. Maybe you’re more racist than most of the white people you want to stay home. And yes, without the white vote, Obama NEVER would’ve made it in. As for history, get over it. There is a new history being made. Revel in that rather than dwell on the past. As you would say, “you just ignant”
you’re a cunt
Personally, I believe the post was INCREDIBLE! It makes perfect sense! I think the ppl that are getting worked up are ignorant b/c how is it likely that white ppl will stay home? how is that even possible? The fact that this post is a joke shouldn’t be a question!
I’m also enjoying how some ppl are saying “i don’t see color” or “race isn’t an issue.” Well in case you didn’t know we are in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! Race is always an issue. You can not sit here and tell me that when you first heard that Obama was RUNNING for president…you didn’t think..”A BLACK MAN IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT”
Hell I did! Racism is sooo far from being removed it’s sickening. I’m proud to say that I have a Black president! If i was going to D.C. (i can’t afford the trip) I would be pissed if a White person was blocking my view! Call me racist (I don’t care)!
Racism is taught…Da Massas taught me!
This blog is pathetic, for so many reasons that I don’t even want to elaborate. I don’t care whether this is a joke or not; it’s a shame that people like you have opportunities to publish their ridiculous, backwards, fucked up, racist, delusional, generalizing opinions. Stop posting…there’s just no point to having this stuff on the public domain. Race is becoming obsolete, but fools like you are trying to bring it back. Why can’t it be about people, not about the color of your skin? What a joke. Discussion of race portrayed as “progress” is disgusting. Get a life.
I(as a black girl) think you are close minded and racist urself. You are a beautiful educated person but why too much hate girl? seriously, insteady of critisizing white people you need to look at yourself. Black people dont need people like you because you can’t educate anybody. Take peoples advice seriously and try to change yourself.
The idea that only white people can be racist is an idea born from the ivory tower, an idiotic, intellectual exercise devoid of the reality it seeks to influence.
This article is straight-up racist. The oppressed always seek to become the oppressors…look at the lack of understanding between the black community and the gay rights movement. Or the lack of political solidarity between the black community and the latino community, two groups who, politically, have everything to gain or lose by working with or opposing one another.
It’s always nice to have someone to crap on.
If your hypothetical “black people” can’t find a way to get along with all the other Americans who want to view the inauguration of their President, who represents so much to so many, then perhaps you have the wrong group of people tagged who need to stay home.
Me…I look forward to standing with a bunch of fellow Americans as *we* celebrate the inauguration of our new President.
Ooooh, now I’m definitely going out Tuesday. I love being the only white person around.
thinkin’ it.
asian church girl over here wants to say to you–keep preachin’ it.
Black people smell bad, commit crime in a disproportionate manner, throw trash on the ground, butcher the English language, and have too many children. They are a race of humans that hadn’t advanced past the stone age when we first found them. They have been trying to speed up to European standards and are epically failing. Go back to Africa.
Eh, not angry over this, I can appreciate an attempt at humor, and it certainly was enjoyed by its “target audience”. But it’s the hints of sincerity in the reasoning, not the facetious request, that I believe is the root of the responders’ discomfort (other than those who are complete idiots, whom I have no defense for). However, in the spirit of the post, and also in response to the less diplomatic of the blog’s defenders, here are a few reasons why black people should want white people at the inauguration:
1) No matter WHAT color the crowd is, a couple million people in DC, all of them THIS worked up, means trouble. If everyone there is black, and stuff goes down, all the blame’s going to go to you guys.
2) If white people all sit at home and watch the inauguration on TV, and see ONLY black people, they’re going to freak the hell out and think it’s a coup instead of a step towards unity, and then he won’t be able to get squat done over the next four years.
3) According to Toni Morrison, this will be the third opportunity to attend the inauguration of a black president.
4) It would be weird for a President to not have his own Vice President at his inauguration.
5) If only black people can be there, you’d have to deal with Barack getting sworn in by Clarence Thomas.
By the way, I personally will not be attending the inauguration. Voted for the other guy. Politics thing, not a race thing. If Michael Steele ran for President, I’d vote for him. But if all my white liberal friends that want to save kittens while simultaneously performing gay marriages and writing checks to Darfur want to go, more power to them.
Anyways, on a more serious note, keep in mind, those that would defend this comment with the voracity of many of those who have decried it, that we should avoid comments that are “divisive at a time when we need unity; racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems”.
It might be more fun to make this a white president vs. a black president thing, and to assume we’re always going to work towards separate ends, to say that this President is MINE and NOT yours, stay away…
“But I have asserted a firm conviction – a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people – that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice if we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union.”
So you can say, tongue in cheek, that maybe it would be best if white people stayed at home. You can say that white people are whiny, privileged, “snitches”, ignorant, or racist. And white people, you can respond by saying black people are complainers, victims, entitled, reverse racist, or angry. We can use the N word and we can call people YT, or any other derogatory term we can think of.
“We can do that.
But if we do, I can tell you that in the next election, we’ll be talking about some other distraction. And then another one. And then another one. And nothing will change.”
All quotes, if you haven’t gathered, were made by Barack Obama, during his Speech on Race, March 18, 2008.
i wonder why they decide to stay anonymous? it’s all like that ‘i said it but didn’t mean it” crap when people get called out or put on the spot for their racism.
i like this post and will forever read your blog.
keep up the good work sistah!
@ Anon 9:07 PM
RE: Your “jokes” about starving a Black person, etc.; I’m still waiting for the humor in those classic cases of ignorance to come forth…they weren’t funny to this 46-year-old White man when he heard them in Oklahoma 30 years ago, and they’re still just as ignorant in 2009. I learned in years past that friends are not defined by color, religion, or any of that divisive arcana that you find hilarious; rather, friends are defined by what you would do for them (and they, you).
To Sister Toldja-Do not agree with your concept, in all honesty…but I have a question:
What would President Obama think if there wasn’t a true rainbow of faces there to see the culmination of a dream, and the triumph of intellect over racism?
I voted, as did many of my non-Black co-posters here, not because Barack Obama was Black, nor because he was half-White; we voted for him because he was the best person for the job.
Had Hillary gotten the nomination, it’d be another 4 years of “Where’s Bill?”, as in Who’s the next Monica Lewinsky/Paula Jones? If he managed to do the job while still doing the crap he did w/ Lewinsky, he’d have a heckuva lot of girl-chasing time in ’09, having no job to go to. There are still some who remember that Lewinsky deal, and it cost Hillary the nomination; that, and the fact that we still haven’t matured enough as people to elect a woman as President…Obama’s election eliminated one barrier to true equality in the electoral process. If we ever manage to elect a Black or Asian woman to the Presidency, then two more barriers come down like a game of Jenga in an earthquake.
As to your suggestion that no Whites come, I think you can see how few rose to follow your suggestion…perhaps because, as some other posters opined before me, it would be just as bad as a White person saying all Black people should stay away.
With this post, you slap the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King right in the face, harder than a soap-opera harlot…Dr. King was a great man, with great ideas; and now, one of those ideas took hold with the electorate and put a man whose intellect rivals that of Dr. King in the Oval Office…this is Politics Done Right, unlike our Governor, Rod “Cha-chinnnng!” Blagojevich, who exists as the latest example of Politics Done Wrong.
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