If you haven't seen that amazing moment in rap/pop culture history that is the interview with Cam'ron & Bill O'Reilly here it is below. Please watch because it is absolutely hilarious if nothing else.
Now for anyone that doesn't know, the issue of healthcare in America is extremely near and dear to my heart. Both my parents are physicians and have dedicated their lives to providing quality healthcare to underserved social groups. And as many of you know the issue of race is my life. And so when I look at the government shutdown I see a perfect storm of issues of healthcare colliding with issues of race which has unearthed issues of salty white dudes that are just mad.
Why are they mad? Well lets starts with the article I posted above. The article details information about Michael Needham who is the alleged source of the idea to strong arm the president and force a government shutdown. What's most interesting about ole Mike (can I call you Mike?) is that he is the head of heritage action which is "the lobbying arm of the powerful conservative think-tank the heritage foundation". Now as we have all seen all over the news, many of the voices that are citing the affordable care act as the worst thing since slavery (and i'm not even going to touch how ridiculous that statement is right now) have come out of the heritage foundation. But what is most ironic about the heritage foundation, more ironic than their name, is that the idea of the individual mandate, one of the central tenants of the affordable care act that basically states each american citizen should be mandated to have insurance, COMES FROM THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the core component of the affordable care act, the very same thing the heritage foundation is now trying to destroy was created by (drum roll please) the heritage foundation. I'm telling you, you can't make this shit up. And what's even more ironic about the fact that the man who cooked up the idea for a government shutdown is a part of the organization that helped ideologically create the affordable care act, is that Mitt Romney while governor of Massachusetts used the ideas that came out of the heritage foundation as the framework for the healthcare plan he created for Massachusetts which looks a whole lot like the affordable care act. And we all know how much we love Mitt Romney.
And so as I was reading the article about this dude Mike (not Michael Jordan) I realized that the only reason hundreds of thousands of Americans are suffering at the hands of this government shutdown is because the far right radical republicans are mad, they are mad that the black man is going to get the credit for an idea they came up with first (as if any one person can have the trademark on ideas.......that's sarcasm by the way). These people hate the black body so much and are blinded so much by what they think their whiteness should afford them that they will go to the greatest of lengths to make sure that President Barack Obama does not leave behind an amazing legacy. They can't afford having to deal with the cultural fall out of another Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and so they will stop at nothing so that young kids won't have another hero, so that they won't have to dedicate a national holiday to him, so that they don't ever have to make another monument for a non white person. All that these painfully racist men can handle is their one precious token which is Dr. King, who might I add they have successfully white washed in the American consciousness by only teaching in schools King's more pacifist works and not letting children know how much of an awesome kick ass shit stirrer King really was. I know that I've written Facebook statuses before about how this government shutdown is the glaring sign that America still hates the black body but to read that article and have it be so plain in my face floored me. And all I could think to myself was: damn you racist republicans.....yall mad huh?!
The truth is far stranger than fiction
"YOU MAAAAAAAAAADDDDD!" will always and forever be the most hilarious thing on tv.
ReplyDeleteyou are right on so many points. have you read this article?
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/09/2730651/how-racism-caused-the-shutdown/
it really puts your idea into a longer and deeper historical perspective. that republicans have basically been heated since emancipation....good g-d. that's holding on to a whole lotta hatred.
you maaaaaadddddd *killa cam voice*
reading the article as we speak thanks p!
Deleteand as an aside I also found it hilarious when dame dash goes "good point cam" and cam'ron yells "thank you!" lmao