Tomorrow never comes

I have been absent from the blogosphere for too long. Well, maybe not too long but a long time nonetheless. Since I last posted there have been a few things that have significance for me both physically and psychically. Of course, there is the communal electoral event that resulted in the rise to prominence (and some would say power) of President Obama. Other issues include the deepening crisis of the economy (both domestic and international) and the role of the new faithful opposition in American political society.

It is with great trepidation mixed with the air of celebration that we view the ascendancy of our man, Barack Obama, to the pinnacle of political power. Not knowing what is behind the door of the future and who Obama has, or will, find behind the curtain that shields the wizards that wield the levers of society today, we all express some degree of satisfaction and anticipation of the future. Embedded in the consciousness of the Black experience and the white reality is the role and potential of Africans both in America and in the World. It has been noticed that the choice made by both Blacks and whites (and apparently Obama himself) to identify a man that had one white parent and one black parent as a Black person is a reflection of the ongoing power, prominence and preeminence of externalized White superiority and internalized Black inferiority in European society. If indeed he (Obama) is half and half then he is just as much one as the other. The idea of who is black and who is white is reflected in the embeddedness of the "one drop rule."

The identification of Obama as a Black man and the first "Black" president is an acknowledgment of the continuing state of the world where those of European descent define and dictate what is reality through force of arms, thought domination and resource control. Is Obama's parentage a reason for Blacks to celebrate as an accomplishment of social progress that a person who has both a "white" parent of European descent and a "Black" parent of African descent has been elected President? Is Obama's parentage a reason for white people to celebrate as an achievement of social enlightenment that a person who has both a "white" parent of European descent and a "Black" parent of African descent has been elected President? We will leave it to you to answer.

But why can't we celebrate the victory of the "best man" for the job, the most qualified by American opinion, as reflected in the vote, for the job or the victor of the political race? Why must we see the event in terms of biological race? The embeddedness of the concept in the culture persists despite scientific objections to it and declarations of its irrelevance, inaccuracy and ineffectiveness as a social, political or biological concept of any specificity and clarity.

Specious is what I think most of the scientist that ogled and ahh'ed the "inconvenient truth" about climate change and the harm caused to the environment by the obstinate and backwards refusal to acknowledge and face the truth of the physical world chocking from the economic waste products of the contemporary European expression of life and its concomitant lifestyle. Yet ol' Al did not venture into the inconvenient truth that lay nestled in a wood pile in his old Tennessee home which is choking the social world with the emotional waste products of the contemporary European expression of society and its concomitant social practices of internalized oppression and externalized colonization of the minds, bodies and spirits of both white and non-white people.

This rant is all about Obama. It is slowly preparing the back story for the saga that he will write unless he flips the script and gets rid of Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers and Tim Geithner along with their associated social and economic philosophies. Now even after looking at the links that I have provided you may wonder what I am objecting to. After all these guys are about as mainstream and embedded in contemporary society at the highest levels as you can get. But then that is my complaint or rather concern.

The economy. What can I say that hasn't been said? Are we experiencing a seismic shift of the old order giving way to the new? Is America joining the Soviet Union on the dustbin of economic history? The Funkadelic music group released an album years ago named "America Eats its Young." I think it is becoming clear that we can say the same thing about capitalism.

I have my grandson in my lap now and he demands my immediate attention so more later.




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