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I commented last night on this but I see it's still up on the Salon titles on my feed and I can't help but reiterate my extreme displeasure. I see from a look at several pages of comments that I am far from alone in finding this disgusting, demeaning and despicable.
I think what is most egregious about this ridiculous article is that BO himself has talked on more than one occasion about rising above, taking responsibility and making upward movement in one's life by taking on the work to do so. I did not support him as a candidate but I had a lot of respect for him when he said that the black community AND OTHERS IN POVERTY AND CHOOSING LITTLE GOOD needed to seize the opportunity to take responsibility for their futures, educate themselves and aspire to higher goals. Don't you remember? This is what the derelict Jesse Jackson chastised him on, Barack was "talking down", and we heard him uttering his own disgusting curses live on air, not realizing he was broadcasting for all to witness his own low class mentality, his bitter Uncle Tom-hater side to the "honorable Reverend" persona he likes to play to the media.
Along with this responsibility and rising above, unsaid, is the fact that "ghetto" and "thug" values ARE NOT going to be the path to this kind of achievement. Slang and hip hop misogyny, objectification of women and the singular mindless focus on sex, drugs, violence and "rock n' roll/hip hop/whatever" are all markers for the low IQ, low motivation, low class mindset of those who do not wish to "rise above" in any real way to better themselves and their lot in life.
Sadly, in this country, we have allowed or encouraged some part of popular culture to embrace these sick, low class values as acceptably cool. Worshipping the thug style that this author embraces may make you cool in that circle. But you'll never go beyond that line of demarcation between real achievers, real contributors to society, like the Obamas, and "high end" yet dead end thugs like (insert semi-literate gangsta rapper name here) and all the rest. They may have money from their "entertainment" efforts but they don't have real respect from the world - they are caricatures, anomalies with their super low class personas yet implausibly loaded with money and bad taste along with their reprehensible lifestyles. Does anyone seriously think these folks will ever move in the same circles as achievers like the Obamas regularly? Sure they may be the hired help, the "entertainment" or the novelty but there is still that line that will never be crossed because low class and high class really do not mix.
It's a state of mind, really. And obviously this author has chosen to live her life in the low class seats, always yearning for the high class and always looking for a way to bring down those in the high class seats due to that jealousy in her heart. It's sad, but it's her choice. It's just too bad that a media outlet like Salon finds it necessary to populate it's pages with tripe from the low class wannabes.
I wrote before and will again: If I were running Salon, everyone who had anything to do with this racist, sexist, disgusting, low class article would be immediately fired. Shame on all of you involved - just when the world was supposed to change for the better, you came along and cheapened it with this drivel. Somehow I don't think that was part of the change anyone was expecting.
Footnote: Unbelievably, I'm not a white liberal but a white moderate; I didn't even vote for him, have not liked many of his positions nor been enamored of Michelle. Still I appreciate their achievements, intellect, responsibility and willingness to serve and be good role models for young people OF ALL COLORS and I just cannot believe that our society (black, white, green and purple!) tolerates crap like that which this author spews in the name of "racial equality".
