Did anyone else notice the subtle racism in the Times this morning? This was the blurb for, and a paragraph from, “The TV Watch: On the Small Screen, Intimacy and Welcome Silence for Obama’s Big Rally” by Alessandra Stanley:
Wearing a flag pin and a confident mien, Barack Obama looked like a presidential candidate accepting the nomination of the Democratic party.
Well, excuse me, but what else should he look like?
And then there was David Brooks’ infantile response to Obama's historic speech, which serves as an indication of Republican desperation. I can’t believe the Times actually prints this stuff. On a par with McCain’s Paris Hilton video, Brooks insults “a new generation of Americans, a generation that came of age amid iced chai and mocha strawberry Frappucinos, a generation with a historical memory that doesn’t extend past Coke Zero.” Brooks, who was once responsible for an inane rail against hipster parents, of all things, must be feeling the pain of encroaching old fartdom.
Wearing a flag pin and a confident mien, Barack Obama looked like a presidential candidate accepting the nomination of the Democratic party.
Well, excuse me, but what else should he look like?
And then there was David Brooks’ infantile response to Obama's historic speech, which serves as an indication of Republican desperation. I can’t believe the Times actually prints this stuff. On a par with McCain’s Paris Hilton video, Brooks insults “a new generation of Americans, a generation that came of age amid iced chai and mocha strawberry Frappucinos, a generation with a historical memory that doesn’t extend past Coke Zero.” Brooks, who was once responsible for an inane rail against hipster parents, of all things, must be feeling the pain of encroaching old fartdom.
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I was shopping in a small clothing store (in downtown Portland, Maine) yesterday morning when a group of several women including myself spontaneously started up a conversation about Obama's speech seen the night before. One of the women said that she has a friend, an older woman, who stunned her by admitting that she will not vote for Obama simply because she "doesn't recognize him." (?!)
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In my stalking of right-wing extremists, I have seen that there is a whole crowd of people who really are that clueless--who look at Obama and Palin and say, "she's got more 'executive experience' than he does," and their thought processes end there. I think that people with very rigid moral reasoning capacities are incapable of perceiving Obama's strengths. For them, 'morality' is solely about figuring out who the 'bad people' are and attacking them; you figure out the 'bad people' by applying a black-and-white set of rules to their external identities. Empathy, subtlety, depth of consideration, organizational skills, and ability to understand differences among people mean nothing to them.
I think this election is symbolic of a major shift that is taking place in human consciousness right now. We're moving from rigidity and tribalism to a wider, more empathic range of consciousness. It's touch and go whether the majority can or will make the shift, though. I'm praying that we rise to the occasion.
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