January 20, 2009, - 2:31 pm
Ellen Burstyn: Obama Inauguration is Our Payment for Her (& Others’) Guilt Over THEIR Racism
By Debbie Schlussel
As I’ve written many times, last year, on this site, the election of Barack Obama won’t end the constant affirmative action over past racism that we are endlessly subjected to, even though many of our parents and grandparents weren’t even here at that time. On the contrary, Obama’s Inauguration, as we saw earlier today, will only encourage the race merchants, at least one of whom spoke at the event. I’m talking about the racist Rev. Joseph Lowery’s claim that White people have yet to do the right thing (he’s waiting for the White Man to “embrace what is right”). Apparently those of us with White skin are all wrongdoers, in his worldview. And in Obama’s too, since he invited him and since his camp likely vetted this BS beforehand.
On Sunday, Tavis Smiley told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the inauguration of Obama as President is “only the down payment” on what America owes Black people. To that, I ask, when do we White eternal wrongdoers get to walk out on that mortgage and walk away, or at least get some kind of federal bailout from this constant set of payments we can’t afford after this down payment we can’t afford?
And then, there is White “wrongdoer” Ellen Burstyn (See Rev. Lowery’s Inauguration comments). This nutjob actress, at the O-Nauguration, is typical of the White “wrongdoers” (See Rev. Lowery’s Inauguration comments) who helped elect Barack Obama. She recounts her sorrow over an instance of racism that she actually believes she is not responsible for. But in reality, she was a participant. And it is her guilt over her racism and that of millions more Americans that deluded them into voting for this guy and causes them to continue to see apparitions of a deity in him that simply aren’t there.
Ellen Burstyn portrayed Barbara Bush on screen in Oliver Stone’s W, but in reality the Academy Award winner has never been to an inauguration. “If you’re only going to do one inauguration in your life, this is the one,” Burstyn said.
As a member of the Creative Coalition, she spoke Monday to a group of the nation’s top high school students. She told them that after she graduated from high school in Detroit in the 1950s, she took a bus trip to Texas on a crowded public bus there she sat next to a black man, who was startled and jumped up. A white man informed her, “We don’t sit next to colored folks down here,” she said. “I felt this shame come over me that went right into my heart.
“Today that shame is lifted on Martin Luther King’s birthday, and I have the honor to read the words of our next president, Barack Obama.”
Um, Ellen, that racism you committed when you sat by and allowed this to happen is not “lifted.” Voting for, electing, and inaugurating this guy won’t change what you did.
Ms. Burstyn–who fancies herself a New-Age Sufi Muslim minister (I don’t think real Sufis see her thus) did nothing and didn’t sit with the Black guy or beckon him to sit down while she stood. Yes, she participated in the racism against this Black man on the bus. Not me. So why should I have to pay for her racism with a liberal, inexperienced, far-left vessel as President, who starts out his first day with a man he invited to speak to America, calling all of us White wrongdoers, people who have yet to “embrace what is right”?
Hello . . .?
Four to eight years of this crap because of the racism of this White liberal anti-Rosa Parks’ White guilt and that of tens of millions of other Americans. What we need to solve this is a National Psychiatric Czar, not a Black President.
Get ready for your next payment on whatever it is upon which Tavis Smiley et al. believe we only made a downpayment.
Oh puke. I am going to get sick of this so soon. I just hope this proves we are not racists, and that affirmative action is not as neccessary as it used to be.
mindy1 on January 20, 2009 at 3:13 pm