Why Obama doesn't dare become the 'angry black man'

[NCTexan]

CNN:

 

Why Obama doesn't dare become the 'angry black man'

 

(CNN) -- Here's proof that President Obama has indeed ushered in a new era in race relations.

Who would have ever expected some white Americans to demand that an African-American man show more rage?

 

If you've followed the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, you've heard the complaints that Obama isn't showing enough emotion.

 

But scholars say Obama's critics ignore a lesson from American history: Many white Americans don't like angry black men.

 

It's the lesson Obama absorbed from his upbringing, and from an impromptu remark he delivered last summer. Yet it's a lesson he may now have to jettison, they say, as public outrage spreads.

 

"Folks are waiting for a Samuel Jackson 'Snakes on the Plane' moment from this president as in: 'We gotta' get this $#@!!* oil back in the $#!!* rig!' But that's just not who Obama is,'' says Saladin Ambar, a political science professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

 

Some of the same people crying for Obama to show more emotion would have voted against him if he had displayed anger during his presidential run, says William Jelani Cobb, author of "The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress."

 

"It would have fed deeply into a pre-existing set of narratives about the angry black man," Cobb says. "The anger would have gotten in the way. He would have frightened off white voters who were interested in him because he seemed to be like the black guy they worked with or went to graduate school with -- not a black guy who is threatening."

 

Obama ready to kick butt?

 

Now some critics say that Obama should be a little bit more threatening.

 

On Monday, Matt Lauer on NBC's "Today" told Obama that critics don't want him to react to the oil disaster by meeting with experts and being calm. They want him to "kick some butt."

 

Obama responded by saying he talks to experts "because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick."

 

Obama's tough talk comes after criticism mounted over his response to the oil fiasco.

 

During a White House press briefing last week, a reporter told Obama's press secretary that most people haven't seen rage from the president. (That led Obama's press secretary to say he had seen an enraged Obama's "clenched jaws" in meetings.)

 

Obama's cool temperament even prompted black filmmaker Spike Lee to tell CNN that for at least one time, Obama should "go off."

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Right thinking people don't care if he's angry... or angry and black... or an angry black man!

 

They would just like to see some results, and not just a bunch of words or photo ops on the beach.

 

[Pepper]

Rush to NCTexan: "Right on, right on, right on!"

 

What a divisive article. It has nothing to do with race. It's all about feeding the Great Ego.

 

He cannot show anger because he is not a genuine person. Normal people cannot experience his emotions. And Zero certainly can't fathom the feelings of normal people.

 

The first post-racial President and first post-American pPresident.

 

- ripped off from WSJ comment.

[Pepper]

NCTexan

 

"clenched jaws" - oh, puhleaze.

 

Two times he has a clenched jaw expression:

 

1. when someone dares question the Great Ego in public.

 

2. when Mee-chelle is nagging him and wondering if he's seen Valerie Jarret or Vera Baker lately.

[NCTexan]

Pepper!

 

The whole premise of the CNN article is BS.

 

America LOVES angry black men!

 

But we expect them to be a member of the "A Team". And Barry ain't nearly on that team.

 

"I pity the fool..."

[righteousmomma]

John Blake, CNN, who wrote the article and tons of others adoring Obama, has little information on himself anywhere on Google or Bing.

But! His perspectives in many of his articles made me suspicious of his own prejudicess. The only personal tidbit I can find is he went to Howard University and he did an internship at the Chicago Tribune 20 years ago where he saw "The one " in action with his spell binding magic but did not put 2 and 2 together about "WHO" this "honey" colored demigod with magical spell casting glow was until 20 years later.