Post by flatandy on Jan 21, 2009 15:57:35 GMT
So, as I was driving to, and from, the football yesterday (another home win, by the way, keeping up some spectacular home form only matched by how bad we are away) I was listening to the BBC about the inauguration.
It seems that the BBC are unaware that Barack Obama has no family heritage in the civil rights movement, he is not the descendent of a slave, and if anyone was making people sit on the back of a bus it's probably his maternal family from Kansas.
They also seem unaware that, perhaps, the interesting things about Obama are what he takes as his policy positions and so on.
Instead they were broadcasting from Alabama and talking purely, and solely, in terms of race. Look. It's a black man. Who'd have thought? Isn't it clever, a bit like a monkey dancing a black man can be president. Don't ask about how well he does it, just be astonished that he does it at all.
"Hello, black person who was in a riot half a century ago. What do you feel."
"I'm in tears, I've been in tears since the election."
"Do you feel all you have fought for has come true?"
"No. I did not fight to be patronised by British journalists purely on the basis of my skin colour. I've been in tears of frustration at quite how patronising you arseholes are. I didn't fight so I could have people assuming that someone's good just because they're black, and just because he's black I must agree with, and support, him. How fucking retarded is that, Mr BBC Twat?"
"As you can see, the mood is festive here, a feeling that a change really has come"
[cue black music from the late 60s, etc].
Gah.
It seems that the BBC are unaware that Barack Obama has no family heritage in the civil rights movement, he is not the descendent of a slave, and if anyone was making people sit on the back of a bus it's probably his maternal family from Kansas.
They also seem unaware that, perhaps, the interesting things about Obama are what he takes as his policy positions and so on.
Instead they were broadcasting from Alabama and talking purely, and solely, in terms of race. Look. It's a black man. Who'd have thought? Isn't it clever, a bit like a monkey dancing a black man can be president. Don't ask about how well he does it, just be astonished that he does it at all.
"Hello, black person who was in a riot half a century ago. What do you feel."
"I'm in tears, I've been in tears since the election."
"Do you feel all you have fought for has come true?"
"No. I did not fight to be patronised by British journalists purely on the basis of my skin colour. I've been in tears of frustration at quite how patronising you arseholes are. I didn't fight so I could have people assuming that someone's good just because they're black, and just because he's black I must agree with, and support, him. How fucking retarded is that, Mr BBC Twat?"
"As you can see, the mood is festive here, a feeling that a change really has come"
[cue black music from the late 60s, etc].
Gah.
