Sunday, December 16, 2012

ARTHUR SILBER: God Damn You, America, and Your White, Privileged Grief

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2012/12/god-damn-you-america-and-your-white.html

GT sez:
PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE IN ITS ENTIRETY BEFORE YOU DRAW A CONCLUSION.

...while there are references now and then in news stories to Newtown being a "wealthy" or "affluent" town, I haven't seen much highlighting of some easily available facts about Newtown: 95% of those who live in Newtown are white, and the estimated median household family income is around $120,000. This is one very small, enormously privileged fraction of America; it certainly is not representative of America in any general sense in the smallest degree.

And that makes it the perfect tragedy for the Age of Obama, and the perfect opportunity for Weeping Obama to make his appearance. Never mind those whom Obama orders to be murdered; don't give a thought to the children abused, humiliated and tormented in ways that will scar them for the rest of their lives; ignore the families destroyed by Obama's zealous pursuit of the monstrous War on Drugs. None of those victims are people like us, they're not human beings who actually matter. Who gives a damn what happens to them? These are among the hideous effects of the unrelentingly cruel and brutal reality America entered when it elected its first black president, a man who perfectly embodies the white authoritarian-corporatist-militarist State, and who ran as white man. You elected -- and reelected -- a white man who is also a vicious killer. What did you expect?

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