Romney and Ryan’s Racial Codes

[Wild74]

Romney and Ryan’s Racial Codes

National Review Online - The Corner ^ | September 2, 2012 | Deroy Murdock

 

Posted on Sunday, September 02, 2012 4:54:05 PM by Cincinatus' Wife

 

After GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s rousing and effective convention acceptance speech last night, I found myself snapping my fingers as the GOP convention’s band in Tampa played that old hit, “Living in America.” Suddenly, it dawned on me: Team Romney might be transmitting racial messages.

 

I consulted my copy of the definitive reference on this topic, A Black Man’s Guide to Whitey’s Racial Code, by Jesse Jackson and Kanye West (Sharpton Books, 2010). I flipped past the highly apologetic introduction by Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.). Just as I suspected, page 178 confirmed that “Living in America” was a Billboard Top 4 song by the Godfather of Soul, James Brown. This, as Jackson and West teach us, is a subtle message designed to remind Caucasians that President Obama has brown skin. Also, the song was written by Dan Hartman and Charlie Midnight. It doesn’t get any darker than midnight.

 

Marveling at the high art of this inter-ethnic information transfer, I checked Romney’s speech itself for additional clandestine, Caucasian communications.

 

Sure enough, Romney said, “I grew up in Detroit.” Michigan’s chief city is nicknamed Motown and was the home of Berry Gordy’s legendary music label, Motown Records. Motown made household names of such enormous talents as Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder. This reference very skillfully alerted white people that Mr. Wonder performed at the White House in early 2009, with President Obama clapping along with the rest of the crowd.

 

I also decided to review vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s soaring and inspirational acceptance speech. It proved to be a veritable NSA of racial code.

 

In his exquisitely written speech’s most eloquent line, Ryan remarked that the Obama presidency is “like a ship trying to sail on yesterday’s wind.” One of America’s dirty little secrets is that sailing is a predominantly white pastime. Ryan deftly informed America’s majority-white yachtsmen that Obama is black. Surely some were unaware of this fact.

 

Ryan cited Solyndra, the half-billion-dollar monument to President Obama’s bankrupt green vision, commenting on Solyndra’s “gold-plated connections.” While some might think that Ryan referred to the busted company’s political ties to Obama, which yielded $528 million in now-rancid federal loan guarantees, Ryan actually tied Obama to the world of Gangsta Rap, many of whose stars wear gold-plated bling around their necks and even gold-plate their teeth. Some of them also have scored gold records, which drives the point home, oh so lightly.

 

Finally, at the end of his speech, Ryan kissed his blond-haired, blue-eyed wife. This was a covert signal to white Americans: Unlike Barack Obama’s better half, Paul Ryan’s wife is white, not black. As a black man, it took me and my Jesse Jackson/Kanye West guide all night and most of the morning to decipher Romney and Ryan’s racial code. I truly envy my white readers who immediately could interpret the siren song of these dog whistles.

[KirtFalcon]

:lol: :D :lol:

[cheaptrick77]

Must be a slow day @ National Review Online (Labor Day weekend) . . . <img src="http://forums.macresource.com/smileys/zzz.gif"/>

[Wild74]

Must be a slow day @ National Review Online (Labor Day weekend) . . . <img src="http://forums.macresource.com/smileys/zzz.gif"/>

 

Actually I should be in Church or watching netflix but my knee is killing me so I thought I throw up a little teaser for the coming week :P

[cheaptrick77]

:)

[Paradox]

Thought Obama was Hawaiian.

 

Has that changed?

[Wild74]

Poor thing. Must be the proverbial football knee? :)

 

You're not getting all gouty are you? :)

 

I call it the overweight knee.... :D