Category: Politics

Let’s talk about these awful Obama portraits for a minute.

First let me say, I don’t really care.

But it’s a good example of our progressive society today.

These portraits represent three aspects of our modern society:

1) Everything is rooted in identity politics.
2) There’s no such thing as truth.
3) Progressives think the only way to fight oppression is to oppress.

Three days before these portraits were unveiled Andrew Sullivan wrote in New York Magazine, about campus culture infecting the rest of America, “Objective truth? Ha! The culture is now saturated with the concept of “your own truth” — based usually on your experience of race and gender. In the culture, it is now highly controversial for individuals in one racial/gender group to write about or portray anyone outside it — because there is no art that isn’t rooted in identity…”

Enter Erin Biba, science writer for BBC. She wrote on Twitter, “Dear white people, it is beautiful that the Obama portraits are bringing so much joy to the black community. That is the only opinion you need to have about them.”

There it is. Perfect example of what Sullivan was talking about. There is no art that is not rooted in identity. The Obama portraits were unveiled, they’re objectively terrible and inappropriate for this project, but it has to be seen through the lens of race: black people have to love it, white people have to be happy that black people love it, and if you have any other opinion other than that you’re racist.

You can’t look at this art as a person. You have to look at it based on your racial identity. So say progressives.

Second, there’s no such thing as truth.

The Michelle Obama portrait doesn’t look like her.

Kate Bennett from CNN, “It’s not supposed to “look like her” in the traditional sense of portraiture.”

That makes no sense. “It’s not supposed to look like her?” Yes it is. It is supposed to look like her. Exactly in the traditional sense of portraiture, it’s supposed to look like her.

We’re at such a point in “there’s no such thing as truth” where portraits aren’t even supposed to look like the people who are being painted.

Third, progressives think the only way to fight oppression is to oppress.

The artist who painted the Obama portrait has two other paintings where a black woman is cutting off the head of a white woman.

Barack Obama said he chose the artist because “What I was always struck by when I saw his portraits was the degree to which they challenged our ideas of power and privilege”

So these paintings are a take on Judith of Holofernes:

The story of Judith, she was a beautiful woman, the general of an invading army was about to invade her hometown. She seduces him, He gets drunk, passes out, and then she beheads him.”

You may have heard that this Obama artist “likes to place black people in historical scenes”. I read that and thought, “Oh, so he takes the battle of Lexington and Concord and paints black people in it.” He’ll “Hamiltonize” historical scenes!

Well, not really. What he did was take this one story involving two white people, he made Judith black and the he made the general a white woman.

This isn’t heroic. To use Barack Obama’s words, I guess he’s challenging the idea of power and privilege. But, he’s doing it with different power and privilege.

This is Neo-Marxism. Marxism is seeing the world as a battle between the oppressed and the oppressors. If you view the world this way, then the only solution is to switch roles and for you to become the oppressor.

If your heads were once cut off, the only solution is to now cut off heads.

Which is what we’re supposed to celebrate with this artist’s paintings.

So, in conclusion, again, I don’t really care, but garbage in, garbage out. Our modern culture says 1) You are your identity group 2) There’s no such thing as truth and 3) If you’re oppressed, you need to get power so you can oppress.

These paintings are a nice example of all of this.

Garbage in, garbage out.

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Did you watch any of Nancy Pelosi filibustering on the House floor?

Of course you didn’t.

But I do want to play one part of it for you. Here she is talking about her grandson who is around 10 years old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_89ybQVsDE

Wow. She says that’s beautiful. I think that’s awful.

Now, if your listening to this and you believe that all conservatives are racist, then you think I’m going to say this is awful because “white people are better than brown people! Why would a white person want to be brown.”

Nope. That’s not my argument. And that’s why I’m not the racist. If that’s what you think I’m going to say…You are. Stop being so obsessed with race.

I don’t blame this 10 year old kid, he’s just a kid, I’m not attacking him. It’s about his parents and his grandma and the society they’re working hard to create.

I think this birthday wish from this kid is sad. I think his wish to have brown skin is sad because he shouldn’t be looking at his friend and making judgments on his skin color.

He should say, “You know grandma, I wish I was as loyal of a friend as Antonio” “I wish I could be as funny as Antonio” “I wish I could be as thoughtful as my friend Antonio,” not “I wish I had brown skin like Antonio.”

But Pelosi, and the progressive philosophy and obsession on race has taught this kid to only view his friend through the prism of race. As opposed to looking at the content of his character.

Why would this kid even see his friends race? Kids don’t see race. Parents show their kids race. Kids don’t pick that up on their own. They’re taught that. So what has this 10-year-old heard about Hispanic and brown people? [I hate that term so much, by the way, but I guess that’s what we’re supposed to use today]. what has this kid heard about brown people that would make him want to be one more than a white kid?

This reminds me of a story of a transgendered boy.

Here is the story told by Michelle Cretella, M.D., president of the American College of Pediatricians (stars at 2:02):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-NQhDfloaM&t=2m2s

It makes perfect sense why a six-year-old would think this. What’s awful is that adults go along with that thinking and say, “Ya, wear a dress to school!” as opposed to figuring out what the root of it is. In this story the family then started to pay more attention to the boy, and miraculously he was a boy again!

I think this is similar. Nancy Pelosi is so proud that her grandson’s, 10 year old birthday wish was to have skin more like his Guatemalan friend. What’s the root of that? What’s this boy hearing around the house about brown people that would make him want another skin color? I’m sure he hears his parents and grandma talk about how great Hispanics are, and how great brown people are and how we need more brown people and love brown people and they’re DREAMers. And this kid interprets this stuff as “brown is good.”

I’m sure he’s even heard stuff about how white people are oppressors, how could white people vote for Donald Trump and elect this racist president, and the rise of white supremacy, and that’s so bad. And I’m sure this kid interprets this as “white is bad”.

To the point where this white kid doesn’t want to be white anymore. He wants to be this other skin color that is good.

See right this is a fetish for race, this is one reason why it’s so dangerous.

We ate dinner last night with some friends, they have two kids in their 20s, and I asked what characteristics they most admire about their daughter. We have a girl on the way, I wanted to get their perspective on raising a girl. The three characteristics they most admire about their daughter:

1) She has a quiet confidence

2) She respects her body

3) She is a loyal friend.

Those are great, I want that vision for my daughter.

Notice what wasn’t there: she’s brown! Or she’s great, but I really wish she was Hispanic. Or even shallow stuf: I’m so glad my daughter is skinny. I’m so glad she has nice hair, I’m glad she has nice skin. That would be such a lame answer to that question.

If my son Jack was ten and his birthday wish was to be “tall like my friend Antonio.” We’d chat about that, we’d talk about why? We’d talk about what’s really important, and what’s in your control. We’d talk about content of character. “Son, why do you want to be tall?” “Because tall people are better at basketball.” “Alright well, let me tell you about Muggsy Bogues, he was 5’3”, but more importantly there are things that are more important than basketball. Let’s talk about character. Who’s the person who’s the man you really want to be.”

So Nancy Pelosi said she’s proud of her grandson’s wish. I think that’s a warning sign. It’s not the kids fault, I don’t blame the 10 year old. But that’s a nice opportunity for a chat about character and what really matters.