No doubt I'm missing something but I'm not quite sure how it amounts to an expression of egregious racism when Sergio Garcia jokes about inviting Tiger over for some fried chicken - I mean, Tiger is half Filipino - of course this fact usually ignored because in liberal America if you're part black, you're all black, the other race is judged inferior, an oddly racist way of promoting tolerance, but then only a fool would expect common sense from a liberal - but, he being half Filipino, would it have been racist for Garcia to invite Tiger over for some sinangag? Or, turn it around, would it have been racist for Tiger to jokingly invite Garcia over for a big bowl of paella? What if they'd both jokingly invited Rory McIlroy over for a few pints of Guinness? Would the media have risen up in howls of outrage over the Irish once again being stigmatized as drunkards? Is there some argument regarding African-Americans loving their fried food? This is common knowledge, it's the main reason why diabetes runs wild through blacks in America, as a culture they seem pretty damn fond of their fried food - there's not much debating that fact. I don't get it - sure, I understand Garcia was making a 'racial' joke and not in a friendly way - that they dislike each other is well known - but wasn't it rather harmless in the same way such culture based jokes being uttered all over the world on a regular basis are largely harmless? Where's the great offense?
Well, of course, the great offense is in the minds of the white uber liberal elite in America - they manufactured the offense, they stoke the outrage - and that's because nothing gets liberal juices flowing with more ideological rapine than perceptions of white on black racism in America - it's catnip to them, it's the dog whistle [to switch species] that drives them into a wild frenzy of doctrinal rut. Look at 2008: the prospect of the first female president should have at the very least been just as big a story [bigger as far as I'm concerned] as the prospect of the first black [half black] president - not to the white uber liberal elite, wasn't even a competition - which should have been seen as an insult to every woman in America - of course, that would have required the media reporting it as such which was never gonna happen because... well, for reasons that are so obvious one need not finish the thought.
The question is, why this fixation on racism - especially white against black, in fact, that form to the exclusion of all others [indeed, to the liberal intelligentsia racism is strictly the province of rich white men and any southern white male who does not recoil in shame from his heritage] - but why this fixation on claims of racism? Probably several reasons - and not all mere expressions of liberal lunacy or their pronounced tendency to engorge their earnest yet for all that still highly superficial sympathies on perceived victimhood [see obsession with gay nuptials] since the practical political benefits of this obsession on race are manifest - but I tend to focus on two motivations primarily. One, denial: the great liberal experiment in social engineering in the 60s, aka Johnson's Great Society and its sundry spinoffs, was supposed to heal the ills plaguing black culture in America - didn't happen, not even close, some would argue with much legitimacy actually made things worse - being absolutist tyrants the uber liberal elite obviously cannot abide the challenge this abysmal failure presents to the supposed enlightened wisdom of their rule and so they fall back on claims of racism as a way of denying reality - and as besotted idealists they simply cannot function without access to ample means for the denying of reality. The other reason I think is that talk of racism becomes a proxy for the promotion of a socialist ethos - obviously, when it comes to slavery in America, the villain is the rich white guy, he becomes the universal symbol of evil greed and predacious capitalism - consequently a fixation on racism becomes a rather convenient way for the uber liberal to demonize capitalism while promoting the putative charms of the mendacious and enforced egalitarian ideal of socialism.
The troubling thought is - well, one of the troubling thoughts is viz the way uber liberals cling to their media whores and aggrieved cries of racism - the troubling consideration is what happens if [when] the Obama presidency ends in disaster, utter failure? The uber liberal elite is gonna be looking for someone to blame - Obama is gonna be looking for someone to blame - and I think we all know who/what it's gonna be, no? Racism. And then what happens when these unhinged charges of racism filter down to African-Americans who are looking around and noticing that eight years of a black [half black] president did nothing at all to improve their lot in life? Not like they're gonna be inclined to cast blame on a misbegotten liberal ideology or Obama's incompetence. Seems to me you've got the ingredients there for a whole shit load of problems.
