Mental Health Alert!

Yesterday, Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for president.



Several political pundits see the former Army general and secretary of state’s endorsement as significant since Powell is a Republican; spoke at length during 2000 Republican convention; and, supported both Bush 41 and Bush 43. Also, Powell has known John McCain for 25 years and they both served in the military during Vietnam so supporting Obama was a difficult but well-thought out decision. Despite Powell’s detailed and genuine explanation of why he decided to go against his own party to support Obama, there are numerous reports that say Powell is only supporting Obama because he’s black.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015268.php

In other words, white people who support Obama do so based on his policy positions or white guilt while black people support Obama because he looks like them. It’s as if white people vote with their brains and black people vote with their eyes. The people who believe that all black people think alike and therefore support Barack Obama suffer from two mental disorders: convenient amnesia and white paranoia.

In this case, convenient amnesia can easily be cured by doing a little history reading or through a simple Google search. A quick fact check would show that black people have been supporting white people through various means even when supporting a white person was not in their best interest.

(See, Blacks fighting for the Confederacy: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/blackcs.htm)

Further, history illustrates that since blacks have been allowed to vote, they have supported numerous white candidates for president. As a matter of fact, blacks historically supported Republicans up until the 1970s based on Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Just over a year ago, 70% of black voters supported Hillary Clinton, not Barack Obama.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/11/28/2007-11-28_black_voters_support_hillary_clinton_ove.html

Why did black people support all of these white candidates? Black people could have chosen not to engage in the process or only support blacks like Frederick Douglass, Barbara Jordan, or Jesse Jackson. Why weren’t the majority of black people supporting Clarence Thomas, Alan Keyes or Ward Connerly? At least they are “100%” black, while Barack Obama is biracial. Could it be that black people actually look at the policies, campaigns and platforms of all candidates just like whites? What’s interesting about this form of convenient amnesia is that with all of the evidence of blacks supporting whites in general and often times over other blacks is that all it takes is one black person (or biracial in this case) to get a majority of black support to trigger white paranoia.

Before diagnosing someone with white paranoia, one must be able to spot the symptoms. Similar to basic paranoia, the main symptom of white paranoia is permanent delusion. Related symptoms of delusion can reveal that the white person is suspicious, irritable, depressed, jealous, selfish, and bitter. Doesn’t that sound like Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Ann Coulter and George Will? So what’s the cause of white paranoia? The main cause of white paranoia is white privilege, but that’s another disease that’s a silent killer.

http://mmcisaac.faculty.asu.edu/emc598ge/Unpacking.html

Sure there are other similarities between basic and white paranoia like feelings of inferiority, emotional composition and genetics; however, one of the most significant causes of white paranoia is what Colin Powell displayed: independent thinking by blacks. Historically, whites have frowned upon and often killed blacks for thinking for themselves. Self-determining black people that exercise independent judgment will always produce white paranoia. (See, Malcolm X, Sojourner Truth, Stokley Carmichael, Martin Luther King, etc.)

So as we get closer to November 4th, I’m asking everyone to have patience for those people who are displaying increased mental instability as the likelihood of Obama presidency looms over the horizon. If they can turn on one of their own in Colin Powell, just imagine how the disease could effect you…