THE CAMPAIGN ISSUE: VOLUME 16, VOLUME 32
BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET
by Malik Isasis






















Barack Obama has finally sat down in front of the mirror and applied the black face makeup with fire engine-red lips stick and donned the white gloves. He has become the tap dancing negro the media has always wanted him to be. In the past several weeks Obama has shown that he is not above smiling wide and saying, “Yas’sah, I’s make you feel real comfortable boss.”

It is always people of color who have to renegotiate their being to make the white supremacist establishment media feel safe. It saddens me that Obama has already squandered the good will of the white, brown, red, and yellow progressives who’ve put him over the top because of renewed enthusiasm for change. I can’t say I didn’t see this coming. In December of 2006 in a post called Black Man Running I said this of the media and Obama:

I think Barack is nuanced and understands that the media is not his friend. He knows that the media is setting him up for a glorious fall. Howard Dean can testify to this truth. Dean, who knows what it’s like to be a media-darling, was a front-runner in the 2004 Presidential Race, but it was when he lost a primary race in Iowa to John Kerry and tried to rally his supporters by cheering, “Yaaah!” that the media took him out like a professional hit job. It was if everything was already aligned. Dean in his campaign, did threaten to break up large media conglomerates, is there a connection?

The media is not your friend Barack.

They are trying to make you precious, make you hire a grip of overbearing political consultants who will neuter your political passion (remember John Kerry?)…you’re going to become too safe to speak your mind, too safe to offend anyone, too safe to speak truth-to-power, just like your possible running mate, Hillary Clinton.

Republicans Win Even When They Lose

Because Democrats are weak, and have a genetic flaw in their political gene to want to please and be validated by the Republicans and media, they go out of their way to distance themselves from their base. Republicans proudly wear conservatism, while Democrats scatter like roaches when the lights are turned on, from liberalism. Obama is displaying such cowardice in all the key issues: FISA, gun control, expansion of Bush’s faith-based programs, status quos on Cuba, Iran and the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

What have the Democrats gained over the past eight years of giving the Republicans what they wanted? It’s obvious isn’t it? Why self-serving power that benefits them (Democrats) of course. No matter how many back flips Democrats do for the Republicans and the corporate media, the Republicans and the corporate media will still hate you. They hate you. Understand that?

There is no center in American politics. Conservatism is the new center. So, as Obama tap-dances right of center, he’s going to find himself on his ass off the stage and back in the senate with a president McCain. So no matter how far right you go Mr. Obama to gain votes, the Republicans and the corporate media will continue to portray you as the Brother from Another Planet.

You’re being played, just as other presidential nominees Al Gore and John Kerry had before you. The Republicans and corporate media will get you to move to the so-called center by convincing you to wear American flag lapel pins, praising Jesus at every opportunity, and they will still bash your fucking head in. A note to you my brother: before you even started twisting like a pretzel on your political values, you had wide support that helped put you over the top financially and politically.

So go ahead, keep dodging being seen with Muslims, run from black folk, run from progressives and liberals at your own expense. You’re going to find yourself among the pantheon of Democratic presidential losers.

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