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The reality is for diss-ing all Black men......

 

E. Ablorh-Odjidja

October 10, 2015

 

White liberal America only loves Blacks it can validate. The publication GQ, a liberal, leftish-leaning American publication, is not validating Dr. Ben Carson.  He is a conservative.

 

There is an article in the GQ's current publication, written by Drew Magary, titled "F*ck Ben Carson."

 

The title does certainly not read like praise, even if you are not Black or a Ben Carson fan you will understand it as disrespectful and an insult.  It is an undisguised four-letter word, regardless of how you parse it.

 

Who is Dr. Ben Carson?

 

He is a distinguished and acclaimed brain surgeon; went to the same Ivy League schools as the rest of them.  But he is Black like President Obama.

 

Liberals love and validate Obama. They are 400% certain he is brilliant.  And countless times, they have affirmed his policies, even to the point of awarding him the Nobel Peace Prize before he was ready for one.  They just love Obama.

 

But these same liberals hate Ben Carson, despite his many accomplishments!

 

Ben Carson is in the Republican primaries as a hopeful presidential candidate for 2016 and is doing extremely well in poll after poll nationally.  And just like Obama’s candidature, Carson’s is also historical.  For should he win, it would be the first time one Black succeeded another in the American presidency.

 

But liberals are made “four-letter word” unhappy by the prospect that Carson, the conservative, could win.  The same can be said about the Black majority who constantly vote for the Democrat party.

 

There are reasons why liberals are not enamored with Ben Carson. However, it is hard to figure out why the Black majority doesn’t.  But the simple answer is that Dr. Ben Carson is not a politically correct thinker. He is a Republican, a conservative, a Christian, going against abortion, and a supporter of the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, for the right of the people to own and bear arms.

 

This 2nd Amendment was meant for all people of the United States.  But the intention of this amendment has been muddled by mostly liberals.  Sadly, some Blacks also misunderstand the purpose of the 2nd Amendment.

 

At epochal moments in Black history  Blacks could not own guns and therefore were made vulnerable to Ku Klux Klan attacks until the NRA showed up.  The white liberal culture has forgotten these moments.

 

In Monroe, North Carolina 1958, during the Jim Crow era, Black NRA members, led by Robert Williams, a retired Marine who had opened an NAACP chapter there, successfully vanquished the KKK who had come to burn down houses (and probably lynch a few too).

 

The 2nd Amendment, on that day, became the equalizer and later for Blacks in racist crime-vulnerable communities in America.

 

However, it is Dr. Ben Carson’s support for the 2nd Amendment that makes him contemptible for this white writer. Ben Carson, a brain surgeon who has accomplished more with one rescue surgery than this racist, white writer could in a lifetime, is seen as an idiot.

 

Ben Carson, "the Good Doctor made it clear this week that he is not only willing to replicate Trump’s signature brand of hot-garbage-spewing, but he’ll say even DUMBER shit." Wrote Drew Magory.

 

What occasioned Magory’s outburst was that Dr. Carson was asked on an MSNBC television show about the recent Oregon shooting. 

 

Dr. Carson’s response was  "Not only would I probably not cooperate with him, but I also would not just stand there and let him shoot me. I would say, ‘Hey, guys, everybody attacks him. He may shoot me, but he can’t get us all.”

 

In the same interview, Ben Carson echoed the bravery of the 9/11 heroes who had forced down the plane, with the hijackers aboard, in an open field in Pennsylvania.

 

The contempt does end with Magory the GQ writer.  Ben Carson has an unfavorable reputation even among his academic peers, some of whom are Blacks.

 

"Dr. Ben Carson deserves a “‘coon of the year’ award,” said a tweet from Prof. Anthea Butler of the University of Pennsylvania Religious-Studies Department "and a frequent MSNBC guest."  Reported Breitbart Publication, October 06, 2015.

 

No need to describe who a “coon” or “an Uncle Tom” is because Prof. Anthea Butler, a Black, liberal politically correct academic knows the contemptible language when it is used in inter-racial verbal warfare.

 

In the Black community, Black conservative politicians are left vulnerable to attacks by their own kind.  Let a Drew Magary be disrespectful to a Dr. Carson, who by any description must be intellectually superior and you would have Black “coons” rushing to the defense of the white liberal.   Of course, “yessah master” dies hard!

 

For Anthea Butlers this attack on Dr. Carson provides the opportunity to genuflect for validation.  The title, "F*ck Ben Carson," should have caused a rise of anger in the heart of Anthea Butler but it didn’t!

 

Common sense must call for a Black backlash against a white writer saying "F*ck Ben Carson". If Dr, Carson can be "f*cked" the best among us could also be “f*cked” and tared "coons."  Correct, or does one need to sound politically correct first?

 

But come to think of it, the plantation mentality seems to be die-hard among some of us!  One has to have this mentality to be validated.  One has to think like a white liberal, never mind the fact that his or her beliefs go contrary to your culture and ultimately wipe out your self-interest.

 

Not being a preacher, I can only see such a fellow like Prof. Anthea Butler from the human perspective.  She is a moral coward.  As said in James 4, "So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin." I don’t know much about sin.  I know moral cowardice.

 

Some of us Blacks hailed Obama in his bid for the presidency, not because we were ideological soul mates with liberals.  We saw it as a chance to make history and an opportunity to affirm ourselves as Blacks.

 

But some Blacks mock Ben Carson now because he is not running as a Democrat. Gone is the historical imperative that forced many of us to vote for Obama.  Had it been written “F’ck Barack Obama,” America would have burned.  But the Black Democrat is so happy to help a white liberal writer dump on Dr. Carson. 

 

You will recall that during the KKK gun totting era, Blacks were defenseless. Magory would have Ben Carson behave defenselessly and like a coward in the face of a hostile attack!  But this same writer, in another article, had admitted that he couldn't explain to his kids why 9/11 happened!

 

Drew Magary was certainly not afraid of his kids. Nor lacked the words to describe the deliberate 'happenstance' of 9/11.  He was just shit scared of the consequence if he stated the truth about the Islamic terrorist attack.

 

My advice to Anthea, however, she should not under any political circumstance allow a white writer to call ANY Black man a "coon", not even if she were truly married to one.

 

E. Ablorh-Odjidja, Publisher www.ghanadot.com, Washington, DC, October 10, 2015.

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