Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.

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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Sad to say, but Chris Rock may be too generous to white America as a whole here. If I saw Ike and Tina Turner sitting together, I probably wouldn't think "Oh, he stopped punching her in the face." I'd more likely think "I hope he's stopped punching her in the face, but I'm worried that he's just being nice for a little while and will turn out to be the same shit he always was."

When Obama was elected (and before that, when people I never expected to be capable of voting for a black man told me they wished Colin Powell would run), I thought "maybe this means we're getting over some things." But I'm afraid I should have thought "but maybe we're just being nice for a little while, and a bunch of the old ugliness is going to come back out again."

Powell and Obama are two very different situations. Powell was okay because he was a Black Republican from the military. In Whiteworld, that's a perfect token. Obama was a Black Democrat with hints of a social justice agenda. In Whiteworld, that's a Socialist.

The thinking I've heard applied to both among whites is, paraphrasing, a guy like Powell would be a good example for Blacks. He'd be a Bill Cosby, telling Black youth to pull up their pants and join the Army.* Obama (who actually did give such a speech), is a Black who just wants to steal money and give it to welfare mothers, Acorn, and Al Sharpton.**

Whites want to celebrate Black achievement because it makes them feel good about society, and excuses a lot of disparity that remains as a remnant of slavery and Jim Crow. But a majority also demand that Blacks of highest achievement retain a bit of Uncle Tom subservience. Obama had the temerity to take control and tell white America all was not well. This pissed off a lot of these types. How dare the Black they allowed to be President say he wants to change things? Nevermind that he actually ran the country, for the most part, like a moderate Republican.

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* Obviously, this comparison is no longer used.
** A similar comparison might be Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas. Whites love Clarence. Quick to tell you how great an example he is for Black youth. Marshall's rarely mentioned, despite his opinions holding 5X the intellectual heft of anything Thomas could ever hope to author, and most being of far greater historical significance.