The passion of the Black Jesus PDF Print E-mail
Written by BooYa   
Friday, 07 August 2009 08:40
Everyone, as we're told, is human and therefore will have shortcomings, or failings, or even inabilities.  
Throughout history people have wanted to point at others and see them as perfect though.  Whether it was
Lennon, Reagan, Kennedy, Jordan, or Oprah, people have always wanted someone to look to as the modern messiah.
Some bask in this and use the opportunity to marinate themselves in the glory until the inevitable
messianic complex develops.  Some fight it or deny it trying to keep their bearings and personality intact.
Most often these people have been musicians, or athletes, but more recently we've collectively, albeit
likely unconsciously, decided that our current Godlike adoration belongs with a politician. Mr Obama, the
Obamessiah, is just the man for such a job. Just the person our collectively frail psyche needs to look to
for perfect leadership of hope.  We eat and eat greedily from that buffet of false hope feeding as if we're
starved.  We walk along as lemmings willfully betraying our ingrained need for individuality and self
importance in favor of the high we get from feeling love and adoration for whomever we decide to errantly
throw it upon.  
I ask now, rhetorically, what happens when that super duper image of perfection starts to fade to us. When
we start to lose our false impression. When we see through the dream we've insisted upon seeing and are
shown the reality that our object of desire is just as human and real as the rest of us.  
I know that many were ready for change, that many needed the metaphorical savior to change our outlook
on life, yet why have they insisted upon foregoing reality for the sake of that icky warm feeling?
A lesson that has been repeated many times and will be repeated many more. We cannot falsify reality
and expect anything less than disappointment.  Our commander-in-chief, the Black Jesus himself, is
walking that path of disappointment, now, that we all set him upon, and has no other option at this point
than to turn his sights to the next task: fail as intended.
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