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Reverend Jeremiah White,...I mean, Wright

WrightobamaThe Futurist, above all else, is devoted to bringing original ideas, observations, and analyses to the blogosphere.  The Jeremiah Wright controversy has been heavily analyzed from a mind-boggling array of angles.  Yet one noteworthy detail just has not emerged in the discussion.  Maybe, as an Indian-American, I am truly a third party, and what was utterly invisible to the two races involved in the discussion, was somehow the very first question that entered my mind. 

What immediately struck me is that Barack Obama, who is half Kenyan and half white, still has a darker skin tone than Jeremiah Wright.  Indeed, in Africa, Barack Obama himself would be considered white.  Could it be that less than half of Mr. Wright's ancestors are black? 

Halle_berry_in_hamburg_2004To be fair, one must examine additional datapoints.  Fortunately, this research exercise required no additional effort beyond what I was about to do anyway.  I proceeded to search for photographs of Halle Berry, known to have had one white parent, in order to assess her skin tone.  She, too, appears to be of a similar hue as Barack Obama, but distinctly darker than Wright.  Here is more video footage of Wright.  There just is not enough evidence to believe that even 50% of Mr. Wright's DNA originated from sub-Saharan Africa.  Clearly, more than 50% of his ancestry is white. 

Reverend Wright has built a career out of being a leader to a community from which less than 50% of his ancestry comes from, while condemning a race that apparently more than 50% of his ancestry comes from.  He could just as easily have been a pastor in a white community, where the average skin tone would be closer to his own.  White Americans have become so post-racial that it has entirely escaped their notice that the man can scarcely be considered black.  His defenders claim that his anger is a byproduct of the racism he experienced in the Jim Crow era, yet he is actively applying the one-drop rule to himself. 

It is curious that a man who refers to this country as the "U.S. of KKK-A", managed to attend the University of Chicago, and will soon reside in a 10,340 square foot mansion that his church has provided to him.  Most white people are not fortunate enough to live in homes of that size.  Indeed, most Harvard graduates don't manage to acquire such an impressive residence.  Far from shame America, he has demonstrated how generous, to the illogical extreme, this country is.  Nowhere else can someone with light skin pretend to be black, then condemn whites who are closer to his own skin color, and in the process achieve wealth from a nation while simultaneously condemning the same nation through the worst possible insults. 

It appears that Reverend Wright identified a profitable niche, positioned his career accordingly, and reaped a rich bounty.  As appalled as I am as an American, I am just as impressed as an entrepreneur. 

Only in America......

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April 10, 2008 in Comedy, Politics | Permalink | Comments (27) | TrackBack (0)

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The Way Is Hsut

This has nothing to do with futurism, but I could not resist joining the contest being held at Beltway Blogroll - a frenzy in creating puns applicable to fraudster Norman Hsu.

Kingofthedead I recall a scene in Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King, where Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli go into the Paths of the Dead, and meet the King of the Dead, who, as the Army of the Dead surrounds the heroes, chants, "The Way is Shut".

The same applies for the accomplices and beneficiaries of the previously elusive scam artist Norman Hsu.  Regarding those who were accustomed to receiving these ill-gotten funds, The Way is Hsut, and it can't be a positive development for Hillary Clinton's campaign.  Hsu himself skipped his court date to flee, but managed to stay on the lam for just two days, after which his fugitive path to freedom was hsut as well.  He forfeited the $2 million he posted as bail, which is the minimum that he deserves.

I am tempted to expand on something along the lines of "Blue Suede Hsus" or "Hsu Hsu Sudeo", but I'll leave that to the more skilled comics.

Smeagol_2Update : However, I can't let the "My...preHsuous" opportunity go by. 

September 10, 2007 in Comedy | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)

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A Picture is Worth Several Thousand Words

(Scroll down to see the picture.  This article is for comedic purposes only.)

I am going to interrupt my hiatus to present something that seems side-splittingly funny at first, yet frighteningly disturbing once one ponders what lies beneath the surface. 

Tammy Bruce wrote an article in 2005 noting how the intellectual rot of the Leftist ideology has mirrored a deterioration in the physical appearance of Left-wing ideologues.  Bruce makes the case that as the Left degenerated away from a goal of seeking solutions to improve people's lives and towards a militant hatred of anything that does not conform to an increasingly rigid cult, this sordid mentality led to visible declines and even mutations in physical appearance. 

One cannot help but contemplate the literary works that examine certain variations of this theme :

1) The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, where, in the distant future, the human race has split into two branches - the beautiful, sun-loving Eloi, and the insectoid, subterranean Morlocks.  It is revealed that the Morlocks harvest the Eloi for food. 

2) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, where a young man is able to remain immortally handsome while a picture of him grows increasingly ugly with each sin he commits. 

3) The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, where the Orcs, Urug-Hai, and Trolls of Mordor are allegories of expansionist totalitarianism.  Orcs and Urug-Hai are 'manufactured' in underground factories, as there are no female Orcs.  Orcs create nothing of beauty, instead seeking only the destruction of others. 

In viewing the contrasting collections below, the sheer magnitude of the chasm is striking.  Even if one were to adjust for the difference in median age between the two groups, the gap merely shrinks from colossal to gigantic (the median age of the Right-Wing group nonetheless exceeds 40).

Perhaps this is a visible example of Darwinian evolutionary mechanisms.  In nature, many species' have natural predators to weed out the weak or defective members.  Since humans have no natural predators, nature had to adapt in order to continue the filtering process.  Nature responded by making some members of the human species too unattractive to mate (the majority in the lower group are childless).  Oddly, the leftists who consider themselves enlightened for believing in evolution entirely fail to see this glaring irony. 

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December 27, 2006 in Comedy, Political Debate | Permalink | Comments (57) | TrackBack (0)

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