Barack Obama: The corporate masters’ 21st century ‘House Negro’

“The theme you describe, ‘independence from the military-corporation’ is one that all sorts of people and groups can unite around. I believe millions, probably tens of millions of people are ready for this because there is little left of the early euphoria that greeted Obama’s election.”—Howard Zinn [January, 2010]

 

“Just as the slavemaster of that day used Tom, the house Negro, to keep the field Negroes in check, the same old slavemaster today has Negroes who are nothing but modern Uncle Toms, to keep you and me in check, keep us under control, keep us passive and peaceful and nonviolent . . . It’s like when you go to the dentist, and the man’s going to take your tooth. You’re going to fight him when he starts pulling. So he squirts some stuff in your jaw called novocaine, to make you think they’re not doing anything to you. So you sit there and ‘cause you’ve got all that novocaine in your jaw, you suffer peacefully. Blood running all down your jaw, and you don’t know what’s happening. ‘Cause someone has taught you to suffer peacefully.”—Malcolm X (el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) [February, 1965]

 

The time has arrived to recognize that everyday, ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people are all, in varying degrees, de facto slaves on the U.S. Empire’s corporate/military plantation of economic austerity, manipulation, subterfuge, and the shredding of the U.S. Constitution. The “novocaine” utilized by the systemic corporate/military puppet masters on this plantation is none other than Barack Obama and his nauseating contingent of Democrat and Republican Party actors.

Moreover, on this 21st century U.S. plantation, economic austerity for the masses and never-ending corporate blood-sucking by the few are defined as being a necessary “sacrifice,” while bloody self-perpetuating U.S. foreign wars are euphemistically defined as ensuring the peace. The corporate-stream media, which incorrectly and hideously propagates itself as the so-called “mainstream” media, is the primary purveyor of this corporate political system’s novocaine of disinformation, obfuscation, and egregious omission.

Then of course there are those systemic gatekeepers who attempt to distract everyday people by narrowly prattling on and on about the obvious need for decent paying jobs, while meticulously ignoring the fact that the most effective way to bring about decent jobs, etc., in this sinking economy is to immediately, forthrightly, and systemically [i.e., fundamentally and structurally] change the direction of the political ‘ship of state.’ Anything short of this, for everyday people, amounts to rearranging the deck chairs on the ill-fated RMS Titanic just prior to slamming into a jagged, protruding iceberg and slipping below the ocean’s cold waves of increased austerity and despair. These gatekeepers know full well, that notwithstanding Barack Obama’s incessant double-speak rhetoric, he will do nothing of substance to force his corporate-backers and puppet masters to provide massive jobs, and to give back to everyday people what has been taken from them in the name of “free” market profit (for the already bloated rich).

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