Thursday mornings at 9:00 a.m. I do a live version of my Daily Rant on the Craig Henne Show which airs on the Patriot Radio Network. Yesterday I told Craig and his listening audience the dirty little secret every black person knows–a dirty little secret that even the whites who know that secret are afraid to voice in private, much less publicly.
It’s the dirty little secret that is the pink elephant in the middle of the room that undermines every conversation on/about race, regardless of where said conversation takes place. It is also the single greatest crime (yes, I said crime), of which the Obamas are guilty. I’m talking about the raw animus, per definition and actions, that many blacks privately harbor against their perception of white society as a whole.
The white politically correct are dutifully ignorant to the reality of this. They blame the malevolence on historical actions, white racism, and on social inequality. The truth is that it has nothing to do with any of those things and everything to do with the socialist encroachment into the psyche of the first generation of post-slavery blacks.
Certainly, while white guilt and demagoguery by nefarious, opportunistic blacks acerbated this animus, the Obamas have used their overt racial animus toward whites in a way that is nothing short of criminal. In my syndicated column, “Michelle Obama’s Inner Demons” (http://www.wnd.com/2008/04/60963/) I described in detail her open hostility toward whites.
Obama, in graphic detail, outlines his contempt for whites which is directed at his own mother, in his book Dreams From My Father:
From Dreams From My Father:
“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”
From Dreams From My Father:
“I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”
From Dreams From My Father:
“There was something about her that made me wary, a little too sure of herself, maybe and white.”
From Dreams From My Father:
“It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
From Dreams From My Father:
“I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself: the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”
Obama was elected as the President of the United States. That means he was elected to treat all of her people the same and impartially, regardless of the color of their skin. He has done anything but that. In his devastatingly critical treatise on the Obama Department of Justice, author J. Christian Adams, outlines the transpicuous and flagrant prejudice against whites by the agency which was established to ensure fairness for all. Obama has allowed and supported the racialist actions of Eric Holder. In so doing, he has broken the oath he swore to uphold when he took office. In the view of this essayist, that is a criminality for which he should be impeached. But vapid and feckless white Republicans are afraid of the ridicule they will be confronted with by blacks and a complicit and compliant media. Ergo, Obama’s bigoted criminal behavior continues unabridged.
There are three key groups that Obama needs in order for him to be reelected. They are blacks, Hispanics, and the voting age youths. The youth vote, i.e., college students, are successfully being herded into his corner by socialist professors who condemn all that America represents and by Obama promising free education and student loan forgiveness. He believes that he can win the Hispanic vote by promising amnesty and special dispensations. But blacks, while the majority are solidly behind him, will not turn out to vote in the numbers needed, unless they can be energized with baseless lies that the white man is “gonna” inflict some new (or old) atrocity against them.
Obama knows this all too well. That is one reason he injected himself into the Trayvon Martin shooting exactly as he did. He needed to ensure black unrest. Now that he has blacks riled up, he knows they will be susceptible to his further machinations. I predict that will include vicious attacks against the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, because he is a Mormon.
Like it or not, fair or not, the history of Mormon views on race, specifically as they pertained to blacks, will be charges Romney is not prepared or capable of defending against. Obama will move to have his minions exploit that history.
Race is not dividing our country–those using it as currency to advance their agenda are. We must be as aggressive and outspoken in our condemnation of the Obamas for this as he and his minions will be in exploiting it.
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Obama does not seem to have bonded with his white mother. It’s really not that suprising, since her son seems to have been more a statement to her beliefs about race and society than a wanted child one loves and nurtures. Why else would you leave him in the care of others so much while you follow your own persuits? Yes, apparently there were times when she played the mommy role, but that seems to have been when it fit into her relationship with whatever man she was involved with, such as his stepfather. I think it’s safe to assume he didn’t feel all that wanted, or a part of her world, and with a child’s mind he may have assumed it was because he wasn’t white. Of course, I doubt she would have been any more of a mother had he looked white, but before a child understsnds that the damage is already done.
Hi there, i just needed to drop you a line to say that i thoroughly enjoyed this particular post of yours, I have subscribed to your RSS feeds and have skimmed a few of your posts before but this one really stood out for me. I know that I am just a stranger to you but I figured you might appreciate the appreciation Take care and keep blogging.
With every little thing that appears to be building throughout this particular subject material, many of your points of view tend to be fairly exciting. Nonetheless, I beg your pardon, but I do not subscribe to your whole plan, all be it stimulating none the less. It seems to me that your opinions are actually not totally validated and in actuality you are generally your self not wholly certain of the argument. In any event I did take pleasure in examining it.
suzy rudig: you are entitled to your opinion…
The second to last paragraph is something that I had not considered and I thank you for that insight. I have listened to the Warren Jeffs tapes teaching on blacks, as I had heard, but not for myself, how racist they were. I was shocked at what they teach about the “seed of Cain” and how blacks will be the VERY last people that get blessings and how none of them can hold the priesthood ever. Although Jeffs’ group was considered Fundamental LDS, they taught straight from their own books written by the founders of LDS. Which makes it interesting when I see ads with black Mormons on them: are they just throwing them a bone when they really don’t believe that they belong with them?
What you said actually makes this all seem like it could not be a coincidence, and something orchestrated in the backrooms of power. A President fomenting racial hatred and then his opponent’s religion places blacks as low as Untouchables are in India’s caste system. It may prove too much if Obama’s puppetmaster get him going on that.
I believe that Obama’s sole purpose is to break America and prime them for a world government. People seem to be worried about so many other things that it’s like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Thank you, Mychal, for everything that you do in bringing an intelligent and reasoning perspective to this madness.
jason daniel: he is a marxist-leninist…and he intent is to make that the system we live under…
Hi Mr. Massie, i can’t say i enjoy your rants because quite frankly they terrify me in their accuracy of the Obamas and their agenda…what terrifies me more is the complacency of the American people! I see people speak of voting him out in November but see polls that show he will not be voted out! I see comments of outrage and big words but still see no actions….i hear internet talk of NDAA, executive orders, fema camps, hollow point bullets bought by homeland security and more yet no one talks about the big picture these pieces are painting! I told my husband 6 years ago that last time a dictator of this kind was in power the Jews wore yellow stars and were subjected to unspeakable, inhuman acts but that this time it will be white conservatives wearing the star! I see my thoughts coming to fruition and yet like in WWll there are people who still believe this can’t happen in America yet i watch a painting being composed by Obama and his group that is terrifying should it be completed! I in turn, don’t understand why others in “power” who seem to oppose Obama aren’t screaming this from every mountaintop, rooftop and TV possible…how can we stop this when all we seem to be doing is “ranting”? Thank you.
ej: continuing to share the facts and keep people informed resulted in dan rather getting fired when he tried to claim fraudulent national guard records belonged to George W. Bush…and it was the similar work of the swift boaters that torpedoed john kerry…have you taken time to write the white house and tell them you are tired of michelle obama’s lavish vacations and over-the-top spending…the media picked up on and an interviewer quizzed obama about their spending…I called for the media and people to find the truth of larry sinclair saying he had repeated sexual relations w/ obama and a few days later van jones brought made reference to obama’s could say he was homosexual and blacks would still vote for him…after people started writing the white house michelle immediately came out and responded she was more popular than her husband…it was their way of trying to deflect when in fact we know they are both annoyed and concerned about the ground swell of contempt for them and their policies…and I happen to know there are other things being done to further educate voters and topple this regime…
Thank you for your reply…i guess i just feel like they are arrogant, self serving people who show nothing but contempt for this country and all it stands for…i have often referred to them as “louis and marie”…as they flaunt their “riches” in our faces…but i need to remember, even when things look bleak that the people took those 2 down and we the People can take this regime down as well… I will write immediately and encourage everyone i know to do the same…thanks again for your willingness to stand up for America! EJ
ej: my friend now you’re talking…I agree w/ what you have written…in the weeks upcoming there will be much more you and your friends will be able to do…sound the alarm…we are not going to just roll over for this menace…
Hi Mr. Massie, i can’t say i enjoy your rants because quite frankly they terrify me in their accuracy of the Obamas and their agenda…what terrifies me more is the complacency of the
I apologize, my comment accidentally got submitted before i was done…please see my full comment …i do not know how to delete this incomplete one. Thanks
ej: no prob…
good stuff keep up the good analysis of “the king and QUEEN”.
I enjoy the firmness and honesty in your dialogues ,though possibly too many “big”
words along the way ex: in todays offering –did you mean acerbate or exacerbate
thank you rrv
bob vallee: htk you…I write as I spk and talk…that said you will find typos in the wall street journal…and I don’t remember people telling William F. Buckley to change his speech patterns…if I were talking to 3 yr olds I might be inclined to but they are not my audience…albeit we spoke to our son throughout his life and today his he shows the benefit of same…
As usual, Mychal, you’re right on the spot with your rant! Why hasn’t someone with some authority disengaged this presidency before now? The Consititution has been tromped on and Obama is working without the Legislative Branch (I wonder if they still get their paychecks?) and now the Judical Branch is being undermined. I never dreamed he would play the race card to be the Tyrant of the United States.
marilyn: I did and warned people about going back to late 2003…
Mychal Massie – your command of the English language and your knowledge/understanding/insight to the present American condition boggles my mind. I am grateful I ‘discovered’ you – talk about a serendipitous fluke!!
Question: (Re: Martin/Zimmerman fiasco) – why do black people gravitate toward Sharpton, Jackson, Wright et al when there are many even keeled, brilliant black people they could emulate – you, Allen West, Clarence Thomas, Condoleeza Rice, Martin Luther King, Tony Dungee, Magic Johnson, Bill Cosby – all walks of life – not to mention those who make up the country’s history?
(Re: your comment to not be afraid – people fear the unknown and Obama has us totally unaware of what will happed from one day to the next).
smogdew: ignorance prompts people to do dumb things…
Mychal, I find your colum fantastic. I can’t understand why Obama is not called out. I have to be honest whenever Obama is on t.v. I leave the room. I see Obama more than I see my husband. He works. Whats Obamas excuse.
joanne clarke: lol…I turn the sound down whenever he comes on…the sound of his voice sickens me and I know whatever he says after hello is a lie…
Truth…with courage… Thank you… Americans need to be inspired…I hope they heed your words… If things aren’t turned around, I fear for the worst…..
t. snyder: make that truth w/ willingness…it’s not courage…
Great piece Mr Massie! I liked especially that you quoted Obama’s own words from his book & would like to add another quote from his book, one I think is very relevant to what is at least part of his agenda today & helps show who he identifies with, which is neither black, white, Asian, Mexican or Americans of any kind!!
“This is the actual quote from Obama’s book “Audacity of Hope” :
” In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that **I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
He has done just that & stood with Muslims against American Citizens many times; NY Ground Zero Mosque(look up what Cordoba means to Muslims), no TSA pat downs or naked scans at airports for Muslim women, millions to build, refurbish mosques around the world, & regime change from Shi’ite to Sunni in the Middle East, just to name a few! And we must not forget the deep bow given to the Saudi King or apologizing for the USA in Cairo! Too bad this wasn’t just another of the many, many lies he’s told through out his political career!
n holiway: you are spot on…
I say it’s time for all good, liberty loving, God Fearing People, to take the gloves off and fight fire with fire! Hit Obama with his own words, taken from his own works (his books) and his broken promises from his 2008 campaign! Hit him hard with his no valid experience or job record before becoming senator and then President and his unethical behavior in “stealing” the senate seat and primary in 1996 in Illinois. Damn….hit him just on his lack of ethics and morals and his failure to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States! Hit him on his own demons…..his hate for white people and all this country represented before he came along to bring it down! Since when does this election become a “one way street”. We have the ammunition…..now we have to use it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ RVD-”Since when does this election become a “one way street”.
The election became a one way street when we decide it was politically correct to ignore the fraud that we all knew about & looked the other way, just as we’re doing now about the primaries! Instance after Instance of “in your face” fraud but we’re still allowing Romney to be shoved down our throat, knowing he had to be a party to it since it was on his behalf! By standing silent while they give the contract to count the vote in Nov to a Spanish company with no accountability to the American people & with no record or paper trail to even challenge the count. That’s why it’s “their” street & we’re not permitted by either the Dems or GOP to travel on it without their permission!
N Holiway: you are correct that there was a lot of funny stuff going on in the primaries, this has been well documented with no accountability of the funny business. Isn’t anyone going to do something about it?
n holiway…..I agree totally! What is so ludicrous is the fact that Conservatives/Republicans outnumber the communists, let we let them take the lead in everything and just “let it happen”! Exactly the point I tried making in my previous post. Obama was mentored by a Communist, his grandparents were communists, his Mother and Father hated us, his friends all radicals, and Van Jones an communist by his own admission. Why then is anyone even afraid to utter those words? That’s what I mean by fighting fire with fire. We have to stop being so politically correct. The only place it is going to get all of us is on our knees!
rvd: because as I wrote they are all spawned from the same seed…others fear not getting interviews…
n holiway: I’ve been preaching that very message since march 2009…I started warning people it was coming…
rvd: we must use the truth, his words and actions to swift boat him…we will get no help from the media or republican party…
Once again, Mychal, thank you for exercising your (current) right of free speech!!!!!!!
Interesting thought LadyHawke. This is a recurring topic I have been repeatedly exposed to lately that I have been trying to wrap my head around the best way of explaining it. I’m not talking about the racial issues, rather the thoughts that things used to be better. I found a quote recently which finally hit the nail on the head for me:
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” – Marcel Pagnol
I hope you can find as much inspiration in this as I did. Have a blessed day!
jason l: the past was better than today…the present is bad and getting worst…and if obama is reelected there will be nothing to prevent him from further destroying our nation and dividing the country…short of impeachment…
deb: thk you…I’m not prepared to stop spkg out…
Great Article in a time when things feel tense. I am a 30′s white female and raised through the 80′s and 90′s in a time that felt so un-racist. It was a united time and skin color was nothing but a blank canvas for the person within. We were taught to learn about the painting and the depths of a person.
The tension that grows today in public is un-nerving. A slight fear grips in public places now for no reason.
So many men, women and children have sacraficed their lives for this great country. Just as many white people died to free black people as enslave them. Is it just ignorance that we do not refer to our history to educate ourselves on equality and the pain that brought us this far? The civil war lost us the most amount of lives in our history.
History holds the facts and the truth that so many would like to forget so they can push their agenda. The United States did not start slavery. So many other countries already practiced this act, while that does not make it right it does make it historic in other countries as well.
ladyhawke: you’re right…but keep in mind neither I nor those on this page care what color you are…
“But vapid and feckless white Republicans are afraid of the ridicule they will be confronted with by blacks and a complicit and compliant media.”
That is the very heart of the problem. So we ask why White Republicans, especially those in Washington, continue to shirk their duty to speak truthfully. It is because the pink elephant is constantly being fed by the media and brought before the public displayed as the symbol of white conservative Americans. The only way this stigma can be defeated is for Black American conservative to be seated at the top to speak the truth and put an end to the charade. Now do you see why it was so important for the regime to kill off Herman Cain before he could even get started?
bill sr: forget about their color…they stand silent because they are spawned from the same seed…and you are spot on about Herman Cain…
Thank you again for your honesty Mychal, you are a brave one! I did not read Obama’s book but I am dismayed how anyone can feel that way toward their own mother. What was he “fed” as a child that would lead him to hate his own mother? (That’s what it sounds like any way.) Growing up, I was taught to not hate anyone, while blacks (some? most? all?) are being raised on hatred? What great news! Glad to know we are all on the same page.
From what I can gather, Barack Obama (aka Barry Soetero) was repeatedly abandoned by his liberal-cause-chasing mother. Add that to the fact that his father abandoned them both and you can see a young person growing up with NO sense of self. He was sent to live with his grandparents who introduced him to a fellow socialist/marxist/communist Franklin Davis, a black man who had tremendous influence on the development of the man who became BHO (BS).
Another quote from his books I have read before is that he intentionally sought out the more radical students during his college years.
And PLEASE can anyone tell me why an American citizen with half a brain would vote for such a man???? A man WHO WAS KNOWN to have been a member of a radical black liberation church for over 20 years – with a church leader who constantly preached AGAINST the United States of America!!!!
Once again I ask…PLEASE can anyone tell me why any thinking American citizen would vote for such a man????
cape conservative: hatred of george bush, because he was black, and white guilt…then there where those who believed the lies he was telling…
dlb: I’m not brave..I’m willing…and you are right about so mnay black children being taught brought up on animus…obama is a product of his confused children and abandonment that fed into what was probably already emotional instability…
All of our politicians are scared of people of color. It has gotten to the point in this country that freedom of speech is no longer possible lest we rile up the “blacks, “hispanics,” “gays” or the “muslims.” I guess we lost our country because all we get are threats of violence and this whole “racism” thing. Have to pander to every little minority group or they won’t vote for us.
I fear the time is drawing near when we as a country destroy ourselves from within. United we stand, divided we fall. Our president in his infinite wisdom has decided to create or at least exacerbate a race war.
We are importing the enemy through open borders and lax immigration laws which favor those people most infused with a sense of grievance against us. Even our justice system has been permeated by this insidious problem of looking at melanin rich epidermous and deciding cases based on who has a darker complexion. Trayvon’s circus comes to mind. This isn’t “justice.” Nor is it “rule of LAW!” It’s racism in its truest form.
There is no appeasing these people! NOTHING will make them happy. Will they be happy when the US is no more? Will they be happy to live under Sharia? Will it help them to have our entire country go broke? Will everybody be happy when spanish is our national language? Will blacks be happy to have MS-13 come for them? They’ve been doing it all around this country. Nothing can be done because it’s racist to mention it. What happens when there is no more welfare or government programs? Would the gays be happy if we lionize them and worship them because of things they do in the bedroom that *I* don’t even want to think about?
I’ve tried and tried to think of just one single thing that would satisfy any one of these groups. Even total capitulation wouldn’t make any of them happy. So why worry about it? Well, its because of the constant threats of violence and the whining of the perpetually aggrieved, exacerbated by a racist and appeasement oriented administration.
j_m: you nailed it…I like your first paragraph…
Mychal,
Thanks as usual for your boldness in pointing out what should be so obvious to all Americans. I have written my Congressman many times regarding the lack of courage shown in dealing with Obama and the destructive actions and attitudes he takes toward my country. And his reply to me is: yes, you guessed it, silence. It is downright frightening that the people chosen to represent us and to protect what is in our best interest seem to be cowards. Who’s looking out for me in Washington?
doublesmith: the answer to your question is no one is…which why we must get rid of them…
ThankYou for your outspoken words!!So Let’s see…by Obama’s standards,if George Zimmerman is a white-Hispanic, then that makes Obama a white-Kenyan!
Great article and information that the state controlled media will never make public.
This man is a disgrace and the fact that he made it the White House is an even bigger disgrace.
Great job as usual.
ben: agreed he is a disgrace and he has disgraced the office of president…
Thank you for posting all that you do,Mychael. What Mr. Obama fails to realize is that he can deny his mother’s “race” all he wants to but he is still, half “white”. And not all that black from what I understand, isn’t there a fair amount of Egyptian blood in him also?
I also saw the open pushing of Democratic candidates when I was in school, just a couple of years ago. It was not supposed to happen, but it did. One professor at a college I went to openly told the students who to vote for. In that class was the daughter of the local president of the Republican committee. Oops. :) A couple of Republican bigwigs visited the college and said “this will stop now”. It did. For a little while. I thought the federal funding and state funding for that school should have been yanked away for a year and an example made….
Mychal, Millie, I have not been in school for almost forty years, and even then it was high school, and the beginnings of pushing for the left had already begun.
I never got in hot water for confronting such behavior only because I was so much in hot water there was no room for added charges, but I was almost expelled constantly because my visceral hatred of communism, born out of early experience in Europe, and having witnessed it, personally, and calling out the textbook lies, stating dates, bombings, personal witness as a 1, 2, all the way to five, when we moved back to the states, and personal witness made the leftist history teachers outraged, but stifled.
Millie, the facts you present and were presented by your classmate should have been taken to congressional hearings, and federal and state funding should have ended forever.
As long as we allow “education” to be funded by government funds, and grants from the rich, they will remain institutions of indoctrination, and not learning facilities.
I live on V.A. disability and S.S. disability due to my multiple sclerosis, acquired in the Gulf war, but I live in far greater happiness, working as the machinist I am and have been, making almost nothing at all, than when I was highly paid, to do work I hated.
Professors should not be a highly paid profession, even if it is the most important job, or perhaps because it is a most important job.
In my life, the highest paid have been those who could influence the most, with the most professional and top of their profession approaching such levels of pay only for the part of a percent, and they generally are substantially behind the propagandists.
When the Church and the student tuition paid the cost of Yale and Harvard, they taught principle, logic, reasoning, ratiocination, and history. Everything else taught is derived from these methods, applied to facets of the other, history. All science comes out of this, all law equally so, and all of what is learned is true, by this means and method.
With private grants, public grants, and no moral foundation, the schools teach what is desired by benefactors, and teaching socialism and teaching progressivism as an extention of socialism, while teaching moral and ethical standards are “straw man constructs” means the student is removed from the rational world, by the amount that student invests in the belief system laid upon them, and they come out not empty, but actually having lost knowledge they learned by experience, and truths which have been glossed over, and buried, because the simplest logic that one can discover in just living in the world, amply denies every aspect of socialism and its war cousin, communism.
Semper Fidelis, Semper Paratus,
John McClain
GySgt, USMC, ret.
Vanceboro, NC
john mcclain: oncce again you have nailed it…
millie: the federal funding should have been stopped…that is the reason I am an advocate of private institutions that take no government money and that adhere to my philosophies…why should my child go to a school I’m paying a ton of money to send him to…so he can be mistreated if he doesn’t absorb the socialist crap professors are teaching…
Good morning, sir. I do enjoy your “rants” each day. Thank you for your bravery in writing them. My question is…..has anybody from the “regime” tried quieting you? Have you or your family been threatened since you come right out and speak ill against Obama and his ilk???
I will add your name to my prayers of keeping safe.
God bless you….and keep writing.
Betrayed!
betrayed: it’s not bravery…it’s willingness…and yes they have tired to intimidate me…but I wasn’t raised a shrinking violet…my God is greater than obama…I plan to keep writing as look as God gives me strength and lucidity…
It takes a lot of courage to say what you did in this article.
It is obvious to me that your brain is wired to seek out the truth and report it no matter the consequences.
Thank you.
deputydog60: once again I repeat that it isn’t courage…it’s willingness…
Thats a great article, Mychal. It says everything most Americans would like to say but are too afraid.
steve lai: America has got to stop being afraid…
Stop being afraid… I try to imagine being one of the blacks who fought for Civil Rights in this country, in the 60s… those who chose to be unafraid. God bless their courage.
Is that where we are again, with a role reversal. Now its white America that needs to march or “have a dream”, speak to the masses, and prepare to suffer the consequences — and there are many real consequences?
Mychal, how does America stop being afraid?
I would only like to say that it’s understandable that many people are afraid to speak out. There’s nothing wrong with feeling afraid; the problem begins when you let that fear stop you from doing what’s right, i.e., speak out against this moral bankruptcy that infects our government and society.
carol mason: awesome comment…well said and absolutely true…
Thank heaven for Mychal and the handful of others who are willing to fire shots across the bow of the Obama ship of state!
Lest we forget: this is a Chicago politician who is nothing more than a pick-pocket in a Brooks Brothers suit stealing the financial future of the present and future generations of Americans!!! He and his henchmen from Chicago have half of our nation’s electorate content to vote for someone with no more substance than a high school homecoming king! When is this country going to wake up and realize our elected officials have greased the rails to sending this nation over the edge to socialism or worse.