ADullAche

I’m talking about one of those head-over-heels, butterflies in the stomach, getting that glassy eyed look every time you stare across the table at your one true love. It’s even more confusing when it’s a forbidden love, one you knew you shouldn’t have gotten involved in to begin with, but all along you kept finding ways to make it work because it feels so good even though it’s oh, so wrong.

Sorry Barack, you’re going to have to find a new date for the prom.

Frankly I’m surprised it lasted this long. To be honest, I’m surprised it started at all. America will flirt with people of color every now and then, but any serious relationship usually goes on behind closed doors and is most often non-consensual. (You can ask Essie Mae Washington-Williams, the daughter of dead cracker race-baiter Strom Thurmond and his 15 – yes fifteen – year old maid. In Thurmond’s defense, he was 22 and not a senator yet.)

You could tell from the beginning this wouldn’t last. Of course you expected the right-wing to use all it’s secret code for “No Coloreds Allowed.” They played the Arab card early on, explaining it’s not that Obama’s black, it’s that he has the middle name of the darker skinned folks of the Middle East. Not darker than Obama, but darker than us, and that’s plenty dark.

Of course, the left-wing did everything possible to embrace the man, while at the same time keeping just enough distance so they wouldn’t be hit when the shoe they were all waiting for dropped.

All along everyone in the media was looking hard for something to say that would derail him – and they found it. Interestingly enough, it wasn’t sex, or graft, or sloth, or shady real estate deals, or even kicking a dog. It was a uniquely ‘black thing’. It was Obama’s Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, preaching in a uniquely black settning with a uniquely black message to a uniquely black audience, that made us roll over the morning after and think, “How much did I drink last night?”

Apparently, not enough. So it’s back on the horse America. Let’s hit the bars tonight and see if we can get lucky…again.

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