“I worked for the Obama campaign, but honestly- You f*ckin’! In Israel! You mother! Stop it!”

I thought this video was pretty interesting. Angry, drunk, American Jewish kids in Israel, one guy says he volunteered for Obama’s campaign, who are angry at Obama’s Cairo speech. I first saw it on The Mad Jewess. Then I found it here on this leftist, fake-bipartisan site called “Common Dreams.”

“Common Dreams” quoted a reaction to the video by Ta-Nehisi Coates:

“For what it’s worth, on a very visceral level, what I see is a bunch of drunk racist white kids, doing what I’d expect a bunch of drunk racist white kids to do. I don’t really have ‘higher expectations’ because of the particulars of the Jewish experience, any more than I have ‘higher expectations’ for Irish-Americans due to the oppressive immigrant experience of their ancestors.”

I looked up this guy (it’s a guy). According to Wikipedia, he’s a writer who went to Howard University and lives in Harlem with his “partner.” I don’t know if he’s gay or just trying to be interesting.

The Atlantic gives this as his bio:

Born in 1975 the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore, not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

Ah, only cultural reference is to some tv show. Perfect. Here we are. I’m assuming “Mecca” means “Howard University.”

I checked out his blog at The Atlantic. This is what I found:

“Conservatism, with its belief in institutions, traditions, and the past, will seemingly always privilege (perhaps inadvertently) the powerful over the powerless. Institutions, traditions and the past belong to those with power. Privileging them, privileges their agents.”

Boy, he likes that word “privilege,” doesn’t he? I bet he pronounces it ringingly, with three syllables. One of those words that sound real good- like “audacity.” Meaning is secondary to sibilance: I learned that in college. I guess you’d do like a little hiss with the “s” in “agents” too, to signify to the crowd that they’re supposed to chime in at that point. So, other than the fact that this guy positions himself as blanketly against “institutions, traditions, and the past,” (that’s a tall order!) except for, I imagine, those institutions which employ him, what is his point? Let’s face it, his statements are nonsensical and don’t withstand any kind of scrutiny. He’s mumbo-jumboing around a lot of hot postmodern terms because that’s how he makes his money. The basic message is this: that conservatives are powerful and liberals are not. Pure lie of the Left.

Hey, speaking of powerlessness. Last night I asked my mother what her friends who are Democrats think of Obama. My mother is in her early ’70s, and her friends are about the same age. She said, “They’re terrified. Nobody knows what he’s going to do next.” I said indignantly, “We shouldn’t be terrified. We’re Americans.” “We’re powerless,” my mother snapped. I paused, and I thought of Michelle Malkin, GM, Professor Jacobson, Gateway Pundit, and I said, “No, we’re not.”

So, a lot of people feeling powerless these days, my man Ta-Nazy.

Later in the same entry he wrote:

“Thus Sotomayor’s focus on her identity as a “wise Latina” pose is seen as the disturbing result of multiculturalism run amok, not having been raised in a country where the tangible mechanisms of white supremacy were in full effect.”

I had a guy at work send me an article from The Atlantic (after I stupidly got into a political discussion with him, and assuredly showed my hand in the process). This guy was an extremely intelligent lawyer whose J.D. was from Columbia (I know, I know, Columbia… but still). So, I had the impression that The Atlantic isn’t some lunatic fringe publication for idiots. Mr. Too-Crazy Ta-Nazy has disabused me of my mistaken impression.

We’ve been fighting with one hand behind our backs, out of some kind of notion of politesse, and I guess, amongst some people some feelings of racial guilt. I heard one caller call in to the Rush Limbaugh show, he sounded stricken, he said he voted for Obama because he thought it would promote “racial healing,” then he couldn’t believe it when Obama sat there and said nothing when Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil, said of the current financial crisis, “It is a crisis caused and encouraged by the irrational behaviour of white people with blue eyes.”

We’ve been fighting with one hand behind our backs- due to our own stupid hubris. We thought racism was very simple: a strictly American phenomenon, emanating from whites mainly towards blacks, right? So the way to fix it is for white people to elect a black president, right? Once we show the black people we love them, everything will be all right, right? (Sounds like Obama’s policy toward the “Muslim world.”) Look, “racism” is as complicated as sexuality or religion- or politics. Obama never fooled me for an instant- I think in part because I’ve travelled a lot, so I’ve had to assess people of different cultures a lot, I’ve studied at an Ivy League university, so I know the groupthink craziness that’s going on there, and I’ve had black friends (I know, I know: “But some of my best friends!…” but it’s true.).

I think the time has come to stop fighting with one hand tied behind our back. We need to stand. Just stand. Don’t give an inch. This racism thing is a witch hunt. The chief characteristic of witch hunts is the nebulous quality of the accusations. Allegations that are easy to sling, and very very difficult to disprove. Accusations of witchcraft (“I have the names here in my pockets of eighty-seven card-carrying witches/communists/racists!”), due to the nebulous nature of the crime, may only be absolved by character witnesses. This set-up gives a lot of power to the character witnesses, power which is a political tool. The way to disable this political tool is to name it, describe it, call it out, and refuse to be intimidated by it.

The time has come to call a spade a spade.

Sorry, I just thought that was funny. What’re you gonna do- arrest me for joking? Maybe.