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HE WON'T DANCE

Just as the race baiting increases, even in the face of Jimmy Carter's frank assessment of the matter, comes this observation from Ta-Nehisi Coates

The nut of it.

Barack Obama, bourgeois in every way that bourgeois is right and just, will not dance. He tells kids to study--and they seethe. He accepts an apology for an immature act of rudeness--and they go hysterical. He takes his wife out for a date--and their veins bulge. His humanity, his ordinary blackness, is killing them. Dig the audio of his response to Kanye West--the way he says, "He's a jackass." He sounds like one of my brothers. And that's the point, because that's what he is. Barack Obama refuses to be their nigger. And it's driving them crazy.
It's about time.

Labels: Administration Obama, race