Monday, April 02, 2007

Why Barack Obama should deliver subliminal messages through 50 cents's song?

Joe Biden's recent comments on Barack Obama, the U.S presidential candidate, being far removed from blacks in the U.S have riled up a trivial brouhaha of sorts. But the comments merit a thought or two. Not for Obama is biracial or a mud blood, the latter term has been used to assuage all you Harry Potter maniacs. Obama is the progeny of a white Americam mother and a black Kenyan father. But the majority of the blacks in America find their roots in West African slaves brought to Uncle Sam as slaves. This demographic is best represented by the 50 cents. I t is far removed from Senator Obama, a man well versed in political acumen and rhetoric. This is the way Americans know their blacks and maybe even the world knows no other way. But Obama has rather despised his biraciality and clung on to his black identity with laser-beam-focus. He visits a black church and echoes the voices of concern of black America. His fate in the next presidential election hinges on a knives edge but his prime concern, for his arch nemesis is an iron lady ready to conquer by the sword, prior to that his prime concern should be to make his identity easy to fathom for the average American. Maybe, he can cut an album with 50 cents and deliver subliminal messages to the Americans pertaining to his racial identity and cultivate an image of himself he most desires.

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