Comments on: Of the Mixed-Blooded and the Marxists http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/05/26/of-the-mixed-blooded-and-the-marxists.html High-minded, fanatically malthusian perspectives Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tdaxp » Blog Archive » William Ayers: Actually Dangerous http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/05/26/of-the-mixed-blooded-and-the-marxists.html/comment-page-1#comment-77246 tdaxp » Blog Archive » William Ayers: Actually Dangerous Tue, 27 May 2008 13:50:26 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=5593#comment-77246 [...] Of the Mixed-Blooded and the Marxists [...] [...] Of the Mixed-Blooded and the Marxists [...]

]]> By: Dan tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/05/26/of-the-mixed-blooded-and-the-marxists.html/comment-page-1#comment-77195 Dan tdaxp Tue, 27 May 2008 11:52:16 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=5593#comment-77195 Curtis, <blockquote>Lol, and what is that? </blockquote> "Out of many, one." This refers literally to the sovereigns, of course, but has the double-meaning of references the assimilation of peoples from all over the world into one American culture. Backwards-looking multiculturalism strives to turn this on end, breaking one American culture into many. Note Obama's hostility towards the mixed-race, because they were not exclusively minority enough. Curtis,

Lol, and what is that?

“Out of many, one.” This refers literally to the sovereigns, of course, but has the double-meaning of references the assimilation of peoples from all over the world into one American culture.

Backwards-looking multiculturalism strives to turn this on end, breaking one American culture into many. Note Obama’s hostility towards the mixed-race, because they were not exclusively minority enough.

]]> By: Curtis Gale Weeks http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/05/26/of-the-mixed-blooded-and-the-marxists.html/comment-page-1#comment-77027 Curtis Gale Weeks Tue, 27 May 2008 07:13:20 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=5593#comment-77027 <blockquote>A rejection of what America is all about.</blockquote> Lol, and what is that? This reminds of the thought I've had when listening to flag-lapel-wearing patriots who say they love America but "To hell with Wright!" Um...Wright is a part of America. Abortion is a part of America. Homosexuality is a part of America. An obtuse and convoluted tax code is a part of America. So what do these folk mean when they say "America" and that they love it? Obama: "They, they, they. That was the problem with people like Joyce. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounded real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people…" That is seeing the irony of the situation. Look, they are still calling him the black candidate. They, they, they. Whoever they are.

A rejection of what America is all about.

Lol, and what is that? This reminds of the thought I’ve had when listening to flag-lapel-wearing patriots who say they love America but “To hell with Wright!” Um…Wright is a part of America. Abortion is a part of America. Homosexuality is a part of America. An obtuse and convoluted tax code is a part of America. So what do these folk mean when they say “America” and that they love it?

Obama: “They, they, they. That was the problem with people like Joyce. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounded real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people…” That is seeing the irony of the situation. Look, they are still calling him the black candidate. They, they, they. Whoever they are.

]]> By: Dan tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/05/26/of-the-mixed-blooded-and-the-marxists.html/comment-page-1#comment-76970 Dan tdaxp Tue, 27 May 2008 02:42:59 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=5593#comment-76970 Mark in The Free Republic excerpt reminds me of my grandfather-in-law, who left his ancestral farm in Xi'an and never looked back, as well as others who forsook the olive tree for a better life. But Barack? I can (and fully understand & support) a sentimental love for the place of one's childhood. But for a place one never lived? That reminds me of those Norwegian nationalists you see running around South Dakota, renaming themselves "Johannsen" from "Johnson," and mimicing a world that is foreign & unknown to them. A rejection of what America is all about. Mark in The Free Republic excerpt reminds me of my grandfather-in-law, who left his ancestral farm in Xi’an and never looked back, as well as others who forsook the olive tree for a better life.

But Barack? I can (and fully understand & support) a sentimental love for the place of one’s childhood. But for a place one never lived?

That reminds me of those Norwegian nationalists you see running around South Dakota, renaming themselves “Johannsen” from “Johnson,” and mimicing a world that is foreign & unknown to them.

A rejection of what America is all about.

]]> By: ElamBend http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/05/26/of-the-mixed-blooded-and-the-marxists.html/comment-page-1#comment-76964 ElamBend Tue, 27 May 2008 02:25:58 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/?p=5593#comment-76964 I think the point of Obama's passage here is that he was unsure of his own identiity, particularly his self-chosen identity as black and so afraid of being associate with anything other than black that he sought out anything to prove his blackness. I read this as his recognizing that he was doing this. However, his actions in later years make me not so sure. His obsession with the father that he did not know and who showed no evidence or really wanting to know him is striking. (and incomplete contract to his half-brother Mark, supposedly his doppelganger, who rejected their father [1]). It's also been clear to my eyes that he searched out Wright's church in order to ingratiate himself as authentically black. (Having moved in the edge of Chicago South Side politics, this may have been a necessary move for a mixed-race outsider like Obama). I don't think the big lesson from this is racism on the part of Obama, but a fundamental unsureness of his own self-identity. He clearly is confident in himself, even cocky, but I fear that there lies a hidden self-doubt in his place in the world due to abandonment by both his parents. When you want to be President, you gotta know who you are and what you believe. I'm not sure he does. [1] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1987822/posts I think the point of Obama’s passage here is that he was unsure of his own identiity, particularly his self-chosen identity as black and so afraid of being associate with anything other than black that he sought out anything to prove his blackness. I read this as his recognizing that he was doing this.

However, his actions in later years make me not so sure. His obsession with the father that he did not know and who showed no evidence or really wanting to know him is striking. (and incomplete contract to his half-brother Mark, supposedly his doppelganger, who rejected their father [1]).

It’s also been clear to my eyes that he searched out Wright’s church in order to ingratiate himself as authentically black. (Having moved in the edge of Chicago South Side politics, this may have been a necessary move for a mixed-race outsider like Obama).

I don’t think the big lesson from this is racism on the part of Obama, but a fundamental unsureness of his own self-identity. He clearly is confident in himself, even cocky, but I fear that there lies a hidden self-doubt in his place in the world due to abandonment by both his parents. When you want to be President, you gotta know who you are and what you believe. I’m not sure he does.

[1] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1987822/posts

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