I loved Obama. He was a black dude, a cool black dude, running for president of the goddamn USofA.
And listen, I get it. It’s not only that this is a good reason, it’s the only reason you need. People in Africa still wear Change shirts. The inhabitants and descendants of Africa have been treated to such a series of of fucked up, it is one of the greatest vindications in human memory.
But let’s go back. There was Miles Davis and Coltrane and Charles Mingus. What were those guys? Charlie Parker? Thelonious Monk? They wore suits. They were elegance and sophistication itself, Thelonious’ albums routinely featured the high end modern art of the day. They were high culture and high cultured. The republican dream. None of the black vindication shit, just taking America and commanding the top, no racial history.
Is thtat right? Is that the right thing? I mean, is it correct to just overlook slavery and segregation and all of what those two things mean in terms of heritage for black kids today? The burden?
Obama or Mingus (I think Mingus is the unsung hero)?
I mean, these guys put themselves up there in musical history with Vivaldi and Bach and Beethoven. People in 500 years will still freak. They just calmly inserted themselves there, in the upper echelons of westorn continuity.
Is that more important than slavery?
Looking at Obama. If we judge him on Mingus terms, he was an absolute falure, an epic betrayal, even expost facto. Thanks to Breitbart, the guy, Andrew Breitbart, we now know he was up to some of the classic old rotten political shennanigans before being President with Acorn and a scam where black farmers were supposed to get whatchamacallit money for being descendants of slaves, except the black farmers never got the money and it was a huge scam that made Obama and some people money and some good deomcrat-kosher publicity. After that, as president, he did exactly nothing of what he promised, change the whole system to make it cool on people, which we now know can’t be done anyway in the first place, socialism is intrinsically impersonal because of the bearocracy required to make it run, aside from all its other great shortcomings and insults to humankind, but also did a bunch of things extra that were psychopathic at best. Empowering Iran, wrecking all of mediteranian Arabia pluis Northern Africa, like demolishing it completely, making Iraq look like a not-too-bad job, expanding the creepy CIA your-computer-is-watching-you shit a lot, just being a horrible dude. Prison system didn’t change, black neighbourhoods didn’t change. Ain’t shit changed except for the worse.
But the vindication stands. He is still a cool black dude that won the presidency of the USofA.
Why do I default to republican? Because, other than its great achievements like with the Jazz dudes, that IS the republican dream, its idea of integrating into and making great even i means forgetting horrible shit of history, it is the only safeguard against true psychos taking over. People don’t understand how decicive the US has been in creating this relatively free world we have. They don’t understand how drastically different it would be. How very drastically different.
We need the US, cause everything else really, REALLY sucks. Bunch o backward ass lunatics.
Better than the alternative. While I admit I cannot decide on the fundamental inward issue, of greatness vs vindication, it takes me less than a second to look at a map of the globe and go yeah, no, USA motherfucker.
MAGA
Fuck it.
Because the other dilemma is not clear cut in any case. The case for the republican dream is strong. Just… Damn… Slavery was kinda fucked up.
But it’s close enough tha the other thing tilts it decisively.