A Day of Celebration.....
HAPPY OBAMA DAY!!
I can't help but feel hopeful, optimistic, and proud today. I watched the Inauguration and following speech yesterday with my fellow Clinic co-workers. Some 30 of us sat around the large desk in our conference room cheering throughout.
Mixed in with my colleagues were a dozen or so schizophrenic clinic clients. It was truly a surreal experience watching the Inauguration with a bunch of half-lucid psychotics. One of them stared at Obama's image with a horrified expression quietly mumbling near incoherent phrases describing some strange paranoid delusion re. the President "watching her". Another client irritatingly walked back and forth in front of the television screen....his/her (couldn't tell) therapist directed her to have a seat. Another sat two seats to my right popping his morning pills, rocking back and forth in his chair, and occasionally giggling to himself. And another, wearing a black Obama shirt, smiled at the TV, pointed at the Obama image and repeated "Wassup, Wassup....Wassup!" throughout the entire event.
So I knew I shouldn't have, but I did. I listened to conservative radio in the afternoon, "just to get a different perspective", I told myself. Big mistake. They dismiss our hope and would rather feel hopeless. They dismiss our optimism in favor of fear. They dismiss our pride in our country and see it as anti-White racism. While they mock us for seeing Obama as the Messiah, they have no insight into how they see that him as the Anti-Christ.
Their is an almost perverted wish to have out Country falter, fall further into economic hardship, fail in our war against terrorism just so they can PROVE US WRONG. And the ONE utterly obvious point that these Neocon's can't seem to fathom is how people of color see this as a symbolic victory....how being the first Black president, and what that means, and how that demonstrates how far we've come, and how so many see this as a Victory brought out from the culmination of generations of struggle...they simply do not see how powerfully important this moment is for soo many. They don't get it. They mock the tears of joy. They mock the jubilation. They laugh at our Hope and our Pride in our Country. And their apparent empathic incapacitation has left them unable understand why folks are soo emotional today, especially Black people...the entire historical narrative is lost on them. What a pity...what a pity.
Fifty years from now, what will these Neo-con fan-boys say to their grandchildren? "Obama meant nothing. I didn't celebrate his victory because being the First Black President is unimportant. In fact, I wanted him to fail. I don't care what he means to people around the world. All of them, every single one of them are stupid. Him being elected means absolutely NADA. I don't acknowledge his Presidency's historic impact...its all a bunch of hooey to me. Big deal if he's black...big...frickin...deal."
...what a pity.
Anywayz, other than the Inauguration, I have pretty much had nothing else but CAR STUFF swimming around my head...literally almost every quiet moment I have, I think about car stuff: camber, toe, inverted coilovers, spring rates, limited slip diffs, tire width, air-fuel mixture, etc. etc. This is what happens when I get a new car.
Anywayz, gotta go....
I can't help but feel hopeful, optimistic, and proud today. I watched the Inauguration and following speech yesterday with my fellow Clinic co-workers. Some 30 of us sat around the large desk in our conference room cheering throughout.
Mixed in with my colleagues were a dozen or so schizophrenic clinic clients. It was truly a surreal experience watching the Inauguration with a bunch of half-lucid psychotics. One of them stared at Obama's image with a horrified expression quietly mumbling near incoherent phrases describing some strange paranoid delusion re. the President "watching her". Another client irritatingly walked back and forth in front of the television screen....his/her (couldn't tell) therapist directed her to have a seat. Another sat two seats to my right popping his morning pills, rocking back and forth in his chair, and occasionally giggling to himself. And another, wearing a black Obama shirt, smiled at the TV, pointed at the Obama image and repeated "Wassup, Wassup....Wassup!" throughout the entire event.
So I knew I shouldn't have, but I did. I listened to conservative radio in the afternoon, "just to get a different perspective", I told myself. Big mistake. They dismiss our hope and would rather feel hopeless. They dismiss our optimism in favor of fear. They dismiss our pride in our country and see it as anti-White racism. While they mock us for seeing Obama as the Messiah, they have no insight into how they see that him as the Anti-Christ.
Their is an almost perverted wish to have out Country falter, fall further into economic hardship, fail in our war against terrorism just so they can PROVE US WRONG. And the ONE utterly obvious point that these Neocon's can't seem to fathom is how people of color see this as a symbolic victory....how being the first Black president, and what that means, and how that demonstrates how far we've come, and how so many see this as a Victory brought out from the culmination of generations of struggle...they simply do not see how powerfully important this moment is for soo many. They don't get it. They mock the tears of joy. They mock the jubilation. They laugh at our Hope and our Pride in our Country. And their apparent empathic incapacitation has left them unable understand why folks are soo emotional today, especially Black people...the entire historical narrative is lost on them. What a pity...what a pity.
Fifty years from now, what will these Neo-con fan-boys say to their grandchildren? "Obama meant nothing. I didn't celebrate his victory because being the First Black President is unimportant. In fact, I wanted him to fail. I don't care what he means to people around the world. All of them, every single one of them are stupid. Him being elected means absolutely NADA. I don't acknowledge his Presidency's historic impact...its all a bunch of hooey to me. Big deal if he's black...big...frickin...deal."
...what a pity.
Anywayz, other than the Inauguration, I have pretty much had nothing else but CAR STUFF swimming around my head...literally almost every quiet moment I have, I think about car stuff: camber, toe, inverted coilovers, spring rates, limited slip diffs, tire width, air-fuel mixture, etc. etc. This is what happens when I get a new car.
Anywayz, gotta go....
posted by supergoober at
2:09 PM
2 Comments:
And you know what SG? Those Neocons will become irrelevant for the next 4 years......they will only cater to a small group of mouth breathers who are bitter and didn't see the pendulum swinging as it gathered momentum all those years ago. The "reign" of the White man is coming to an end...but instead of embracing the New World Order, they fear it.....stupid stupid people...
The Oregonian ran a full page of the complete text of the inauguration speech. It has been rightfully pinned to my cube wall so that, hopefully, everyone in the office will remember where they were when we watched history be made.
P.S.: It's your move SG.
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