The "Race" Conundrum...

Hello, all, it's been a while since we last communicated (over a year - how the time flies).  We've seen many things: Obama re-elected, Tiger Woods re-ascension to golfing heights, Bin Laden's comeuppance, Newtown, a freakish natural disaster - a hurricane (Sandy) in the northeast, and most of all - the slow but steady creeping insanity of the rank-and-file dominant white male psyche.  Now, my grandfather used to say, "It doesn't take all day to do nothing" and "You can't tell it all in one sitting" so I'm not about to try and relate everything that I've experienced or been thinking over the last year!  I, for one, am glad that memory mercifully deletes enough experiences and storage-locks others so that we can get on with the business of living.  Therefore I'm not tempted to live in the past except as it relates to the future.  So allow me to share these few thoughts:

1. Race in my title is in quotes because I read and saw a fascinating article and PBS program that made a coherently cohesive logical argument for why human beings come in ethnicities and not races.  The primary point being that there are not enough physiological differences at the cellular level for us to be considered different from each other racially.  Basically, the fact that we can mate successfully producing normally functioning offspring makes our differences more about geographic adaptation than those of evolved races like Cro-Magnon, Neanderthal, and Java people of the homo-sapien variety...
2. Obama's reelection has sent the white male dominated establishment over the collective edge and they are grasping desperately for fantasies.  Actions that mark the behaviors of the clinically insane.  Witness their combined efforts to embrace anything that opposes the prospect of the President succeeding on any front: the economy, jobs, the crumbling infrastructure, the environment, education, and even their own personal safety regarding gun control when the will of 91% of the population to have stricter gun control laws in the form of universal background checks is overridden by the gun manufacturers lobby known as the nra... 
3. The republicons have allowed a fringe element of not even comically cloaked racists calling themselves the tea party to control the thought capital, or lack thereof, of their efforts even after seeing their political efforts go up in flames in massive and historic proportions.  This isn't unexpected because any party that has seen newt gingrick (no mispelling, that's his given spelling before he changed it for political nuance), david duke, bob bauer, sarah palin, michelle bachman, sheriff joe apaio, and george allen on it's national stage can't be faulted for longing for the good ol' days of slavery, Jim Crow, and separate-but-equal.  Why they were willing to invoke the wrath of GOD on this Christian nation (NOT!) by having a non-Christian mormon in the White House!  Side Point: Christianity teaches that there is only One GOD and one Path to Him, and that's Through JESUS CHRIST.  So exactly how does a nation founded on freedom to worship any god you choose or none at all qualify as Christian?  Short answer - it doesn't...
4. The demicrats are little better.  You certainly have to ask yourself why the party that initially held a substantial Congressional majority in both houses didn't get more done in the first two years of the President's term and then willingly proved themselves so ineffectual as to get routed in the 2010 elections ceding majority power in the House in a landslide and maintaining only a slim majority in the Senate.  Couple that with the remaining question of why after a 5M vote squashing of willard mitt romney last year, they still haven't closed ranks behind the President to force-feed this country the medicine it needs to get back on track?  Of course, you'll hear them talk about filibusters and veto proof majorities but where was that same talk and political stalemating they when bush-cheyney occupied the Oval Office with unearned and unwarranted dictatorial-like powers that allowed them to shove two unfunded wars and stomp on countless freedoms while fostering usury for most of America that bankrupted the nation while creating a new oligarchical class of the top 2%?

This insanity proposition submitted by me is based on the fact that there isn't a single logical defense that's been offered by otherwise thoughtful people with the capacity for rational thought.  They ramble on, shouting down simple questions that infer and imply both truth and common sense because their minds have been unable to cope with the fact that their worldview has been turned upside down, inside out, topsy-turvy.  This brings us back to President Obama and Tiger Woods.  The White House and the golf course were symbolic of the clung-to created illusion of permanent white male world dominance.  Both of these institutions were supposedly the forever domain of white male superiority and both have been taken over by of all things -- two opposite-white men!  And not just once but now twice (Oh, the horror, the horror of it all!)

You see, as traumatic as the first incarnation of the Tiger & Barack show was, it was presumed to be only a temporary condition that once the good white power structure worshiped their god properly, the almighty dollar, and pressed the issue by training and recruiting successors to take back their rightful places; all would again be right with the world.  Why there was even glee in the tumultuous state of Tiger's marital woes, and more in the chance to see a non-Christian white prove that even he was a better alternative than a Christian man of color.  This is a Christian nation, is it not? (Again NOT!)  Funny thing happened on the way to the past.  Tiger began to right his ship and reassert himself as golf's dominant force and Barack -- well, you know the rest...

That's when the combined intellect of the white male dominant power structure began to implode and lose its grip on reality.  A second term at the top makes them both legit even in the eyes of the white power structure.  The birther message finally lost its steam.  The secret Muslim rantings even subsided.  The nonsense didn't work and now the harsh reality has set in.  Even though the good of all America is good for the white male establishment too, they'd rather commit the treason that leads to national suicide than to rescue the country.  Even when figuratively, actually, and ultimately this is a good, if not great, thing for them too!  If a black man is going to get the credit then he may be somehow seen as a success paving the way for other minorities to someday usurp their divine right to sit in these two highest representations of their lost philosophy of the white male being entitled to rule the world.

So, be very careful, my friends, because there is a heightening sense of this irrationality that is becoming increasingly evident.  Have you noted the number of white officials who have allowed hateful racial epithets to drip confidently from their lips only to offer up a terse apology when called on it but then refusing to step aside, resign, or receive reprimands for their behaviors?  You see, this has regressed from the poorly concealed racist emails, cartoons, and jokes that popped up during the first term.  These comments are now being verbalized in public forums and the speakers are sure enough of themselves to have resisted calls and actions calling for their removal.  This indicates a graduated infection that will only get worse without proper treatment.  It began with Sen. john mccain's infamous "that one over there" in one of the 2008 presidential debates, US Rep-SC joe wilson's "You lie!" at Obama's 1st State of the Union address, and AZ gov jan brewer's wagging her finger disrespectfully while seemingly scolding the leader of the free world.  Unfortunately, the President didn't understand the menacing cancer that was about to metastasize onto the American consciousness and thus he didn't act aggressively and assertively to eradicate it at the source by using the might of the highest office in the land.  Since then, there's been an opening of Pandora's taboo box of not approaching the third rail of incendiary comments.

Remember the days of Jimmy the Greek, Al Campanis, Howard Cosell, Sen. robert byrd, and others who were summarily dismissed or reprimanded for broaching these same areas without nearly the bravado of these latest forays.  Well, my friends, this has all led me to the following inescapable questions: if we've backslid this far toward the good 'ol days, where will it end?  Can lynchings and Jim Crow be far behind?  Gerrymandering and emergency managers in predominantly black cities in Michigan, are these the wave of the future?  When voting rights are considered by a sitting Supreme Court justice to be a racial entitlement (without so much as a peep from the handkerchief head justice who sits next to him), what do you think they'll come for next?  We're not different races just different ethnicities.  That has to make some kind of difference!  I'm just sayin' because it had to be said...