Hello World!!!
It’s hot to death in the A, ain’t it? A few weeks ago, I was contemplating buying a row boat to get around it was raining so much and now ya girl is two shades darker and sweating at the most inconvenient times…God must be like, “I make it rain, y’all complain…I make the sun shine, y’all grumblin’…it don’t stop!” Ha, ha, let me stop trippin’ and complainin’…Thank God it’s sunny!
Okay, so last week, I was checking my home page at Facebook and one of my friends posted a most fascinating article, Crazy Right-Wing Myths About Obama 2.0: The Post-Inaguration Edition of Odd Things Conservatives Believe About Obama. Teleprompters! Hitler Youth! Satan!written by the Salon staff. Excellent piece! Wish I had written it! The article includes an assemblage of ludicrous myths and the data to dispel them. So here are some of the myths they included…
- Obama can’t function without a teleprompter, even uses it for answers at press conferences.
- Obama’s stimulus provided cash for a “levitating train” between Disneyland and Nevada brothels.
- Obama is a socialist.
- Obama has created his own version of the Hitler Youth. And MY PERSONAL FAVORITE…
- Barack Obama is the antichrist!
So during the election, I heard whisperings from people around me that Obama could be the antichrist…after all, he descended on the scene without much of a warning. Cornell West said Obama “rose like Phoenix” in a speech at Morehouse last year. And anyone who has attended church for more than a year has heard about the antichrist and how he will mysteriously appear on the world scene…But I did not know there was a whole movement dedicated to this whispering…According to the article, there are several Web sites devoted to this topic such as www.barackobamantichrist.blogspot.com, www.obamaantichrist.blogspot.com and www.beastobama.com.
On obamaantichrist.blogspot.com, there is a post about Obama distancing himself from the observance of the National Day of Prayer. The author states this is a reason why Obama could be the antichrist. But then, the author confesses about worrying at point if past President George W. Bush was the antichrist in the same article…That’s just weird…So on the one hand, this author thinks that Bush, the creater of the word “evildoer” could have been the antichrist and on the other hand, the most intelligent president we’ve had in quite some time is the antichrist…Sounds like an illness a few pills may help! The title of another post is “Obama and the Pagan Aspects of the White House Easter Egg Roll.”
According to the article, the antichrist is described as “lightning from heaven” in the Bible which translates to “baraq o bama” in Hebrew…Biblical scholars is that true? And the president’s limo is nicknamed “the Beast.” And finally, on the day after the election, the winning lottery number in Illinois was 6 _ _…(Yes, I’m crazy superstitious…I have a hard time writing that number out for any reason…) So is that enough evidence for y’all? I’ve said this before, and I will say it again: Why the black man gotta be the antichrist? We’ve had slave masters, adulterers, racists and warmongers as presidents! Why does the black man have to be the antichrist?
In other news, another one of my Facebook friends posted another article, “What Single Women Can Learn From Michelle: Would Most Type A Professional Women Have Dated Dated Barack When He was a Broke, Big-Eared Organizer With a Funny Name?” byJenee Desmond-Harris on the root.com. You can see where the author is going from the title. As we have all heard at this point, although our president was a summer associate from Harvard when he met our future First Lady, he was not the typical guy. He had a weird name. He was a community organizer. In one interview, President Obama said his car was so raggedy, you could see the road underneath the car. He had big ears.
The author states that many black women would have overlooked him because he didn’t have swag at that point in his life…Do you agree? I’m not so sure about that…Yeah, he didn’t have swag but he was a black man at Harvard…I wouldn’t pass that up – raggedy car or not…But I can see where the author is going…many of us seem to overlook the regular guy who may be going places for the guy who seems to have already arrived…My girls and I have been discussing this issue for a while…One of my friends, who is known to date men with impressive credentials, said,”Where would one even meet a regular guy,” or something similar. Funny, huh? She said this statement after another friend recommended dating “regular guys.” What makes a man regular? That’s the question to ask I think…If regular means hard-working, decent, intelligent, attractive, Christian sans the snooty attitude, I’m ’bout it.
But here’s another question: What Can Single Men Learn From Barack? As one commenter noted, are many Ivy-league educated black men checkin’ for that quintessential girl from around the way…? Or is it that once they have achieved that height, all they can see is white…y’all know what I’m saying…it’s certainly the move for many black men in power…Our First Lady is now known for her guns and style of dress, but I wonder if the same men that are praising her right now would be trying to step to her if they saw her at the light on Memorial Drive…She is smart and capable, but she doesn’t have Eurocentric features…so what many black men may need to realize is that smart, capable, assertive, undeniably black women are the way to go…As we’ve come to know, Michelle LaVaughn is the woman!
So to the “around the way girls” myself included, I post this throwback LL Cool J jam:
Any thoughts?
Tripped me out at the beginning of this video when LL said he was looking for a “regular” girl, not Ivana but Tawanna…
Good post, Jackie!!! I know many a sista who would’ve overlooked Barack Obama before he got his swagga. I, however, started dating my husband when we were both in school. He was on the bus line, lived at home – but had just one “Accounting Student of the Quarter”. Hot, right??? And he looked good in an apple hat 🙂
Hey Tiffany!
Girl, “Accounting Student of the Quarter” ain’t nothin’ to play with…You got to make it, you gotta count it or you can’t keep it!!! Very hot, ha,ha!
Obama the antichrist? Don’t think so, but it would appear that way. Guess time will tell. I only wish people would let time tell what kind of President he is. He was judged more in 100 days than Bush was in 8 years.
As for the women and men thing, men have a little easier time finding a wife than women have finding a husband. Why? Because men are more realistic when it comes to wifey. We don’t grow up with the perfect woman in our dreams to marry. We might not be mature enough when we see/meet her, but eventually we usually get it together. Only thing we know is she WILL be a lady. Women on the other hand, no words need be spoken.
Yes, mature real men looking for a real woman would have tried to holla at Michelle sitting at the light on Memorial Drive. She’s not a top shelf beauty queen, but she’s not butt-ugly either. She’s all the things you mentioned and everything a man wants in The One.
Kinda hard to stop playing though when a lot of beautiful, so called top shelf (looks only) women agree to be playthings. You don’t play with a woman like Michelle. You cherish, respect, and try to keep her. Thing is, some women think they are Michelle-type material. The only difference between them and a hoodrat plaything is a college degree, nicer residence, better car, better job, and the hoodrat doesn’t expect a call in the morning.
We all need to check ourselves.
@DR,
I sooo AGREE that if women across the board stood up and decided to NOT be playthings, then women would have less to complain about…men would have to MAN up at that point because women wouldn’t fall for the okey doke, but I know its easier said than done…and I think that overall men do get more mature with time…
I used to want an undercover nerd back in the day. You know hard enough to take care of me should anything jump off, but just as comfortable watching Frazier, and understanding the shows double entendres and multiple metaphors…and if he was creative, driven and spiritual, I was gonna lock him in my basement, so nobody else could have him. Okay so I still want this type of man and think I got ’em (thanks GOD!)….AND I think that Obama’s dip in his confidant walk, he can handle his business if it ever came to it….but I guess it now that he’s the leader of the free world. Take that you antichrist conspirators! Good post Miss J…
the writer in me is cringing at the multiple grammar errors in my earlier comments..its late…forgive me..hope you get my gist…
@Joyce,
Girl, your comment is fine and VERY MUCH appreciated!!! You must be in my head because that kind of man sounds perfect…
I loved this post and agree with everything you said! Folks are crazy. They’re so afraid of a powerful black man, they have to come up with something …
BTW, Michelle is my personal shero.
Speaking from personal experience… I would look for other things ahead of a Harvard Law Degree when it comes to picking a husband!
Not touching the antichrist thing. The whole notion sickens me.
Now on passing up a black Harvard man… You might well have. He was one of several hundred Black men at Harvard. Having gone to another Ivy League school, I can tell you that they’re not quite as rare as people seem to think. And yes, the ones with big ears, kind of goofy, lacking in swag often did get passed over by the Black women. That was over 20 years ago (around the time of the Obamas) and I suspect it hasn’t changed much.
Yeah Barack does display antichristic tendancies but what President didn’t. Regan was called the antichrist because each of his names had six letters in it. Nobody ever thought of all his other foolishness? He did enough regardless of his name to qualify.
Clinton and Bush may have supported the national day of prayer but I’m sure they didn’t pray before Monica who didn’t inhale (oops sorry that was Bill) and settinng up Cheney to make all that money off the bodies of our men and women in Iraq, respectively.
For the record, the Easter egg roll has been a White House tradition for years. He’s just following suit.
Whether he is or isn’t da antichrist, my suggestion is that we look in our own closet…goin’ up in da church house er’ Sunday praisin’ da Lawd, getting slayed in tha spirit then raisin’ hell Mon. thru Sat. while kickin’ it with our co-workers, family, and Christian “friends wit’ benefits”. Obama is who he is. Who is you and I?
@Tess, hmmm…I forgot about that…
@Patricia, that’s a shame…I bet you those women that passed over the goofy guys are kicking themselves now…
@cbb, very good points…I try to submit my will to Christ, but some days, I want to do my own thang…
Why do you always have to hate on the white girls. It is a two way street and if a black man chooses a white girl than that is his choice so suck it up.
Bus to Orly Taitz’ 9/8 – 8 AM Santa Ana, Calif, court hearing on Obama’ fraud, lies and tricking
Be there in force and protest Obama. Yell it like town hall.
Obama’s the Antichrist and this the Revelation and Apocalypse.
He frauded his ID to get the Potus post.
By lies he got the nuke bomb at his beck and call.
Nukes’re a grave matter he can blow up the planet in 1 second. High Treason.
FBI arrest him: try him; send him to Death Row. Life-prison for doing Treason to world’s highest post: Potus.
@ A. Curtis, I don’t think your comment fits this post…
@ Geir Smith, I guess everyone has a right to their own opinion, but I certainly don’t agree with you.