So if someone wanted to call out Bernie/Liz for liking some entertainment in some entertainment piece puff thread made for them, then pop off. They're rich, powerful, and can take it. But just know with Obama here, we aren't criticizing simply policies or bills he signed his name to.
And Obama did some good, sure. But some really tragically bad stuff also happened, bad stuff that gets whitewashed and excused in a similar manner that we see of conservatives doing for the GOP. All for what?
Speaking more on just Obama himself, Cornell West gets to the heart of it:
Lithub: Cornel West on Why James Baldwin Matters More Than Ever
CW: Mmmhmm. But you know what, things have changed since Obama in regard to that claim. We know based on empirical data that historically black people have been the most anti-war constituency in the history of the nation. After six and a half years with a black president, a black face at the head of the American Empire, the black community waving the flag, defending Obama, defending the status quo… more pro-war. That quick. That fast.
If Obama wants to undermine Libya and kill Gaddafi, wave the flag. We protect a black president. If Obama wants to drop bombs on seven countries that happen to be Muslim, we wave the flag and defend the black president. You see, all of a sudden now, blackness becomes, in part, of species of blindness in regard to moral integrity. It's just a matter of success: he won, he won, we've got to defend him. It's a beautiful thing he won, especially given who he was running against, but Baldwin's about integrity. He's about moral consistency. 25,000 bombs dropped year after year under Obama. What did black spokesmen say? Not a mumbling word. Would Baldwin have spoken out? Hell yes. How come? Because he's got moral integrity. He's not concerned about popularity. That's a shift.
What happened about the critique of the Empire? We no longer launch a critique at the empire when there's a black face running it? But when there's a white face running it we still militant and resistant? That's what Baldwin would be radically calling into question. That changes our moment. We're in a post-Obama moment, which is a neo-fascist moment linked to Trump and Bannon and others, but we also are dealing with a black community very different than what Baldwin was talking about. We're dealing with a black community that was involved in symbolic celebration but concrete hibernation in terms of critique of empire, critique of wealth inequality, critique of class inequality and so forth, you see.
Obama is treated like a modern day superhero. The Boys has a lot to say about how superheroes are kinda shit and self-important and lie and kill at will with zero oversight. Comparisons are going to be drawn just on that considering the absolute magnitude of what we're talking about. Years and years of human rights abuses and murders and congressional hearings about said murders that were ignored, and followed up with more murder and lying.
The superheros == drone connection just helps make it even more relevant to Obama and why his name might get brought up.
