Elitist Is Now A Racial Slur
Listen up all you racists: Don’t call Obama an elitist because according to David K. Shipler, you are just calling him uppity and we all know what follows uppity!
[W]hen his opponents branded him an elitist and an outsider, his race made it easier to drive a wedge between him and the white, rural voters he has courted. As an African American, he was supposedly looking down from a place he didn’t belong and looking in from a distance he could not cross.
This could not happen as dramatically were it not for embedded racial attitudes. “Elitist” is another word for “arrogant,” which is another word for “uppity,” that old calumny applied to blacks who stood up for themselves:Furthermore, casting Obama as “out of touch” plays harmoniously with the traditional notion of blacks as “others” at the edge of the mainstream, separate from the whole.
Gee, and to think that the entire time I was in my rich, almost all white, preppy school, I thought the opposing schools were calling us snobs, nose in the air stuck up bitches and elitists! Who knew they were talking to the 6 black kids in the school and not us white kids?!?!?!
Cuffy Meigs reminds us: “So, the next time you’re about to say, well, anything negative about Obama, think twice. The pasty, woolly dude who once delicately called working-class Rustbelt caucasians “white n*ggers” is watching your every move.”
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April 16, 2008 - 04:18 PM on April 16th, 2008
Just another attempt by Shipler and those like him to control and limit debate.
And Shipler is with the LA Times, the paper that reported falsely about a Sean Combs tie to Tupak’s first shooting. What does say about him and Times?
April 16, 2008 - 04:54 PM on April 16th, 2008
The pig Obama is so owned its a joke if he becomes the next ruler in washington he will be in the white house because the white Oligarch wants him inside the white House and fo no other reason.
sad fact is no matter who becomes the next ruler the USA Is dead as a nation of freedom and the tool that murdered it is P.C. With mass Amnesty.
April 16, 2008 - 07:02 PM on April 16th, 2008
A Snob is a Snob. His color doesn’t matter. BTW isn’t the LA Times the paper that coined the phrase “Magic Negro” to describe Obama? I would call that more racist than calling him a snob.