Have A Real Worldview of WSP and Black America

Here’s a Quote from the UK Guardian on the state of American White Folks and why they are so hateful lately.

For the poorest 90% of US families – the overwhelming majority of whom are white – median income has been effectively stagnant for a generation. Meanwhile social mobility has stalled.

Here’s todays’ spokesman – Lupe’ Fiasco; with his topical hit – American Terrorist. We Love This Tune and Lupe Too.

This is from two years ago – when they thought the economy was strong. yeah right.

In this situation, many white Americans do not sense their experience compared with non-white Americans is one of relative privilege – because over the last 30 years, they are relatively no better off.

Uhhh Ruhhhh so we have achieved Equal Opportunity under the Law apparently. But what does that mean for Black Folks ? well it means that the ones who have made some moves are sharing their experiences to bring the experience back to their communities. They’ve finally seen that sharing actually can elevate a nation – as Nancy Reagan used to say;  bless her heart.

This is an example of how Blackfolks who try to spill truth are called a lie and ignored when they ask relevant questions about Whitefolks Politics.

Okayyyy lets change the subject to cool things off for a minute

Black People have you ever seen your cousins from Peru ? yes we actually have Black Grandmas able to travel and bring the experience back to others, to encourage that upward mobility.

We find it Unfortunante that the perceptions of Black Americans are sometimes limited and don’t include the whole world view. Especially the view of europeans toward Blackfolks in America.  Blackfolks are totally discounted as a political block since the tea party, as they quote “have opposed Obama  across the board simply because  He’s Black“.

Race was too narrow a lens through which to examine opposition to Obama, as it was to understand what happened in Katrina. Racism cannot explain all of it. Indeed it’s not even the half of it.

Ohhh yes it’s a whole new view and most Black Folks don’t even have a clue that this is the reality of most of the rest of the world. Sadly it appears that White Folks think that Black Folks don’t actually have an opinion or any political power to muster up a candidate. Ala Barack Obama.

Take a peek at this clipping from a long piece in the UK Guardian

For white Americans, things aren’t what they used to be

Debates about what is motivating the rightwing resurgence against Obama’s presidency often take a similar course. In the many conversations I have had with the right, I have not once even inferred they might be racist. But the retort that they are not racist comes back just as sharply as if I did. So let’s start by pointing out that American conservatives have plenty of reasons to oppose Obama that have nothing to do with his race. For all his shortcomings he remains the most progressive president for at least 60 years. He has expanded public spending and healthcare; drawn down troops from Iraq; and campaigned on redistributing wealth by raising taxes on the rich. Bill Clinton was nowhere near as liberal – and look what they did to him.

Nor is racially charged rhetoric a preserve of American conservatives. During the democratic primary campaign, Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, argued that Obama should be undermined on grounds of race. “His roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited,” Penn said. “Let’s explicitly own ‘American’ in our programmes, the speeches and the values. He doesn’t.”

To ask where racism ends and politics begins sets up a false dichotomy – US politics has always been steeped in race, and racism has always been a political and electoral force. The psychic scars of centuries are not removed as a result of one person being elected. Indeed, if the racial polarisation of the electorate in the mid-terms is anything to go by, they may have deepened and been made even more raw as a result of it.

Let’s also concede that his race is a factor. It would be remarkable if it were not. The reason his election had such symbolic resonance was precisely because it was assumed so unlikely in a country where black people are overrepresented in jail and among the poor, and underrepresented in politics and power. Since the 1960s, American conservatism’s national electoral strategy has hinged, in no small part, on leveraging white southerners from Democrats with scarcely veiled racial messages.

Attempts to deny that Obama was born in the US and that he is Christian (common among Republicans and predominant among Tea Partiers) are, to some degree, proxies for race. They are a way of casting him as “other” without touching less acceptable bigotry. A recent Washington Post survey of Tea Party groups found that 11% said Obama’s race, religion or ethnic background were “very important” or “somewhat important” in the support their group has received. A relatively small number of racist posters have consistently been seen at Tea Party rallies.

So while racism may significantly shape the character and inform the intensity of opposition to Obama (the week he was elected gun sales rose 50% compared with the previous year), it does not drive it. But his particular constellation of identities are better understood not so much as objects of racial animus but as signifiers for a far broader set of geopolitical, economic and demographic anxieties.

For the poorest 90% of US families – the overwhelming majority of whom are white – median income has been effectively stagnant for a generation. Meanwhile social mobility has stalled. In this situation, many white Americans do not sense their experience compared with non-white Americans is one of relative privilege – because over the last 30 years, they are relatively no better off.

Many blame this on the outside world. From 47 countries polled by Pew in 2007, Americans showed the sharpest decline in their support for foreign trade and had the least positive view of it. The US may have been one of the principal motors of neoliberal globalisation, but its citizens are also its victims. In the absence of any vehicle for international class solidarity, threats of outsourcing, product dumping, deflating the dollar and Chinese creditors provide the material basis for a strain of xenophobia that goes beyond a simple loathing of foreigners.

To the sting of economic vulnerability is added the indignity of geopolitical decline. As the sole global superpower, the US would once have been able to rig the competition with carrots, sticks and, if need be, B52s. Now it must accept that Indians, Chinese, Brazilians and others can also change the rules.

Add to this failed wars against predominantly Muslim countries after terrorist attacks by Islamic fundamentalists, a broken immigration system, and projections that non-whites will be a majority by 2042, and you have the roots of a race-based backlash. Put bluntly, being American is no longer what it used to be – at home or abroad. And for those particularly invested in the relative privilege of being a white American it is not difficult to see how the election of a black president – with an African name and a foreign father who was a non-practising Muslim – could become a focus for discontent.

Race was too narrow a lens through which to examine opposition to Obama, as it was to understand what happened in Katrina. Racism cannot explain all of it. Indeed it’s not even the half of it.
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Sadly the rest of the world looks at Black America as a sort of disjointed non power that is swaying in the wind. Everything from President Obama’s Name to his Birthplace have been used as wedges to force the view away from the progress his administration has made.

America and yes I do mean The Whole of Excited America – are you really all just a buncha scared rednecks ? because if you’re not, that’s how the world sees’ it from your politics; and social activism.

Lets look at Mr Excitement himself -  Glenn Beck talk about Fixing American History.

Amazingly this is a multiple episode piece that actually addresses the problems in teaching American History from a racist standpoint. it’s actually important that Glenn Beck is the presenter since his voice is calming to some of those excited Tea Partiers.

Again we ask, When will the reality of America Land of the Free Home of the Brave finally mean Every American ?

We ask our American Singers to wrap it up for ya, in the rawest form – acoustic; with Matthew Santos.

So America are you really Superstars ?

Probably not in this lifetime again, sadly

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