Saturday, September 20, 2008

Check the put-on accent


So where's the fokken dashiki?
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7 comments:

Tecumseh said...

That's before the bus, right?

9/20/2008 1:17 PM
Mr roT said...

It was at the station, apparently.

9/20/2008 1:24 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

I don't get it.

9/20/2008 8:12 PM
Mr roT said...

1) You don't think he be talkin' blacka fo' de colored folk?

2) Wright has not been brought up yet. Will he be?

9/20/2008 9:22 PM
Mr roT said...

Pepe, don't be like a schmuck. He doesn't sound like that in front of any old audience. He was raised by white in white towns and went to white schools.
He has no blacker an accent than you do.

9/21/2008 12:10 AM
Pepe le Pew said...

How is that different from dubbyah sounding like an idiot when addressing the americans ?

9/21/2008 7:11 PM
Mr roT said...

I could answer the way you want and say that Bush is being genuinely an idiot, but I don't believe that.

I do think that Bush is not claiming to be a man of the people when talks in a rustic accent since he almost always talks that way. He probably genuinely likes being an adopted Texan and likes the feel of that sound whether he sounded that way at Andover or not. I bet he reacted against those Andover, Yale and Harvard assholes and slipped into a simpler persona comfortably when he left there. I don't think he turns it on and off deliberately.

Obama does not always talk like someone with zero education sitting on a porch in Alabamy with three skinny hound dogs. He bought into the academic persona and became the urbane guy through and through. His first meeting with black America was probably in Chicago and he probably learned how to talk like that there. It was a way for him to be black enough for the blacks there to vote him as it is now on a grander stage. Remember the Jesse Jackson types saying he wasn't black enough and Biden saying he was a nice clean guy? Each had heard white Hussein, apparently.

The idea of a post-racial black candidate sounds good, the country could use it, I suppose, but he's not it. He's hyperracialized so that he comes off like "not one of that kind" in the salons near Harvard Square while he's "one of us" in South Side Chicago. How can that be? He's switching.

This is what a lot of people don't like about the guy. It's that he's a Rorschach test on legs. People see what they want to see. That includes racists, by the way.

9/21/2008 11:04 PM

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