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The Racist Element of the Bergdahl Trade
Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:34 pm
Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:34 pm
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I want to make it clear that I’m not criticizing the president for his decision to rescue Bergdahl, but there’s something that the white left is afraid to talk about here. When Obama traded five men of color for one white man – he made a very clear statement about race. He let the entire world know that one white life is worth at least five brown ones, and that is incredibly fricked up and gross and problematic.
Think for a second – if Bush had made that trade, is there any doubt that we would be calling him out for how outrageously racist it was? If a white man had traded five brown men for one white man, we would be quick to see it for what it was – an affirmation of white privilege and power. But, because Obama is a man of color himself, it seems as if no one noticed.
I can only imagine the struggle Obama, a man of people of color, must have felt as he authorized that trade. He was betraying himself – the black part of himself – while simultaneously affirming the privilege and power structures inherent in the white part of himself. The courage it took to make that decision is remarkable, and again, I feel like he made the right choice, but we should really look at this situation and use it as a way to reflect on our cultural attitudes to the devaluation and reductive characterization of colorful men that we objectify through cisrace projections of cultural self-worth.
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When oppressed people of color process the Bergdahl trade, I imagine they initially feel the same as most white liberals – they’re glad that Obama made a decision that infuriates the right. But when they _ethnically_ process the trade with their minds of color, they can’t help but feel shame. They can’t help but feel betrayed and victimized by a president that is supposed to smash the white supremacist patriarchy that would make this kind of trade in the first place.
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It’s important to remember that if Bergdahl was not white, he would still be in Taliban hands, and if those “terrorists” at Gitmo had not been men of color, there would not have been any deal. And before you even begin to think about criticizing this standpoint, remember that anything you say in opposition to this just shows your support of both racism and the GOP.
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Oh lord!
Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:36 pm to cwill
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He was betraying himself – the black part of himself – while simultaneously affirming the privilege and power structures inherent in the white part of himself. The courage it took to make that decision is remarkable
This post was edited on 6/9/14 at 5:38 pm
Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:37 pm to cwill
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And before you even begin to think about criticizing this standpoint, remember that anything you say in opposition to this just shows your support of both racism and the GOP.
I wish you would've posted this first. Could've saved some time
Posted on 6/9/14 at 5:37 pm to cwill
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I imagine they initially feel the same as most white liberals – they’re glad that Obama made a decision that infuriates the right.
Is that how the left judges foreign policy decisions?
Posted on 6/9/14 at 6:04 pm to cwill
i woke up on crazy world...not sure how long go,,or, how i got here. but, I am on crazy world.
Posted on 6/9/14 at 6:07 pm to cwill
The inmates are running the asylum
Posted on 6/9/14 at 6:08 pm to BlackHelicopterPilot
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BlackHelicopterPilot
I would gladly trade 5 white people for 1 of you
Posted on 6/9/14 at 6:10 pm to Vols&Shaft83
You would be overpaying.
I am worth 2 whites and a Hispanic....TOPS
I am worth 2 whites and a Hispanic....TOPS
Posted on 6/9/14 at 6:11 pm to cwill
Clearly liberal progressives are capable of playing the race-card in any instance no matter how creatively fricked up of a contortion is required.
Posted on 6/9/14 at 6:13 pm to BlackHelicopterPilot
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You would be overpaying.
I am worth 2 whites and a Hispanic....TOPS
You are worth so much more than that to me.
*no homo
**strong jungle fever
Posted on 6/9/14 at 6:19 pm to BlackHelicopterPilot
Also by Nicole Mullen:
It's satire guys.
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When I was a little girl growing up in the late 1970s in Babiyar, Maryland, it was pretty much common knowledge among my friends that black people’s poop was white. We’d sit and talk about it in the girls’ bathroom, whispering and passing notes through the little half-dollar-sized hole that Mr. Woodruff had cut out in the wall. “Hey Nicole, you know black people poop white, right?” “Jeez, Barbara. I know that!” I would reply, afraid to let my ignorance slip through my precocious façade. When you’re a kid, you take things like that as passive gospel. It’s filed away in your mind as a quiet but inexorable fact, and it’s such a logical idea that it stays there forever, unchallenged and still, like an old can of soup in the cupboard that’s not technically expired but you wouldn’t eat. That’s how it was for me, until I recently took a class at my community college and found out that this whole time, I have been wrong. Black people do not, and have not ever, pooped white. Whereas white people, almost always, poop brown. All I have to say is: What. The. frick. Are we for real with this? I’m so fricking mad about it that I am literally shaking. Every single brown poop that white people take is a microaggression. Every single non-white poop that black people take is a step back towards slavery. And you know what the worst part is? We don’t even really have a solution to all of this. You see, one of the biggest struggles in critical race theory right now is figuring out if black people should be pooping white or if white people should stop pooping brown. While interracial pooping is great for familiarizing people with other hues of individuals, it also can be divisive. Unfortunately, we still live in a society that poop shames. It’s still seen as a bad thing to like to poop and to wear diapers. Until we resolve the issue of poop shaming and fully accept fecal matter is a beautiful and respectable part of our bodies, there’s always going to be that negative association – we’ll always see poop as something inherently bad and dirty. This is where the problem is introduced, as people will learn to hate their poop. Blacks who poop white will hate their white poop, and subsequently hate white people, and vice versa for white people who poop brown. The alternative is to introduce a way for white people to stop pooping brown, and make sure that everyone’s poop-color aligns with their race. White people poop white, brown people poop brown, everyone is happy. Or are they? The trade off with this solution is that it encourages segregation. When we finally do put a stop to the poop shaming, and people learn to accept and love poop, we’ll have a poop-segregated society. What do we do then if we have black people who want to poop white or white people who want to poop brown? Do we tell them no, they aren’t allowed to experience the poop of other cultures? This leads us right back to the problem of racially divisive attitudes. Some scholars have even proposed using science and burritos to create a type of multicolored poop, and allow both brown and white people to poop something that resembles a yin-yang symbol, but this is offensive to Asians, who are clearly the master race, as they do not poop at all, only pee. All I know is that we need to find a solution to this problem, and we need to do it now. We can’t keep pooping like this. We can’t wait for another generation to handle this for us, we need to get online and come up with as many hashtags as possible. We need to start change.org petitions and tweet at food manufacturers asking them why they are blatantly supporting racist poops. We need to write letters to employers of people who question whether or not any of this matters so we can get them fired. We need to Change-The-Way-We-Poop. We need to wipe out America’s poop problem.
It's satire guys.
This post was edited on 6/9/14 at 6:21 pm
Posted on 6/9/14 at 6:21 pm to UPT
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It's satire guys.
Finally!
Posted on 6/9/14 at 6:26 pm to cwill
Good thing he isn't Jewish. Israel has exchanged 7000 prisoners for 19 Israel
ETA: If that's satire then the board needs to be changes to Satireboard because we see shite like that often.
ETA: If that's satire then the board needs to be changes to Satireboard because we see shite like that often.
This post was edited on 6/9/14 at 6:30 pm
Posted on 6/9/14 at 6:33 pm to cwill
That has to be satire. No way is there anyone that stupid
Posted on 6/9/14 at 6:35 pm to Vegas Bengal
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ETA: If that's satire then the board needs to be changes to Satireboard because we see shite like that often.
It's obviously satire and I think it's funny that you are so discombobulated by it that you somehow think it's satirizing the right.
Posted on 6/9/14 at 6:40 pm to CptBengal
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The inmates are running the asylum
I can promise you, there can't be many people that could have come up with this angle (Well maybe three on TD, but I digress), but people are really getting to see what liberals are......
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