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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on January 18th, 2009 - Read comments and add your own
Richard Pryor shows how farcical the idea of a black president seemed in the 1970s. Eddie Murphy seems to think that it’s a bit closer in 1983 – at least if enough white folks get drunk before voting – but hopes he’s nimble if he does win. More than 20 years later, Dave Chappelle still shares his fears and suggests a Mexican vice president as insurance. James Earl Jones has to deal with becoming The Man in 1972 (”It took an accident to make this man President of the United States. What they do to him now won’t be an accident.”) Finally, Obama’s refreshingly honest and thoughtful speech about race in the USA during the election campaign. (This is a YouTube playlist. If you want to see a list of the videos, click the icon next to the play button at the bottom left.)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DCE00CBABA0758D0
There’s also a 1964 clip from the BBC where Martin Luther King predicts a black president in less than 25 years. Only a few years late…
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on July 5th, 2008 - Add a comment
The 6th of July is George W. Bush’s birthday. To celebrate this infernal occasion, for one week only Viralux are making their song Happy Birthday Mr. President available to download as a high-quality MP3 – just click below…
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Happy Birthday Mr. President:
Music: Gordon Dawson and Heather Jones X
Lyrics and vocals: Trish Lyons
Produced by: Viralux
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Posted by Adrian Toll on May 7th, 2008 - Add a comment
One theme that has run throughout the Democratic presidential primaries in the USA has been people’s pleasant amazement that, unless there’s a huge upset (remember George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004?), the next president of the USA will be either a woman or black. This is celebrated as proof of how far the country has come in terms of racial and sexual equality. But, certainly in terms of the political commentary in the media, the race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama brings a further bitter twist to Yoko Ono’s comment that “woman is the nigger of the world” (later turned into a song by her and John Lennon - watch it, including a great introduction by Lennon, on YouTube).
Clinton’s appearance features heavily in the coverage of her campaign, for example Carl Bernstein’s disgust at her “thick ankles”. If we’re talking about appearances, what about Obama’s fat lips? Can you imagine the McCain audience question “How are we going to beat the bitch?”, to which he replied “good question!”, rephrased as “How are we going to beat that black bastard?” There’s a whiff of suspicion that, admittedly along with other concerns about Clinton, the commentators would prefer a man to win, even if he is black.
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