Bronze Trinity and Obama March

When I held my first Obama event, March 31, 2007,folks wanted to know Obama. That was over a year ago, 15 months for me of pushing the Obama message for change. Some folks learned that Obama was marketable. And what that meant to raced white folks was is Obama hot? Will Obama's products sell, if so there would be money to be made. Raced white folks understood, the message and image of Obama for President was change and more change. Obama invited any and ever taker to join the band of brand entrepreneurship in marketing the product: Obama.

But many within the African-American community saw this as simply politics as some vendors and the Internet began to create and create while African-Americans dissed and complained about Obama Yes, I Can message. Now those same folks are trying to position themselves for photo opportunities, when Obama is on first name basis with folks who responded with their $10. or even $5 early into the campaign. (You can still go to my site here and give.) Newspapers and television stations made money while African-Americans called each other Uncle Tom, or charged Obama with being 90% beyond blackness.

These folks thought it was simply about politics. These folks should have spoke to H.R. Clinton. Clinton spent millions of her own money to claim the title. Yet African-Americans were fighting in the Afrosphere about gender issues, race issues, McCain issues, and got no money issues as to which blog was on top.

But as soon as it began crystal clear that Obama was going to win, these same folks became instant long term fans of Obama.

But Bronze Trinity was a O fan long before it became popular to be a fan and had no problem expressing her excitement about the O man on the blogosphere. Some folks in their reasoning for not supporting Obama early on were voicing a lot of nonsense made to appear like it made sense.

These folks were never political but were tied into proving or showing raced white folks that they had arrived ! These African-Americans were more progressive than many in the Afrosphere, so they hinted. These folks soldout with the integrated buy in and joined Obama critics in saying Obama was too young and inexperienced to hold the highest office in the United States. In essence, Obama was not qualified simply because he was a "black man." A cute black man sells in America.



P.S. These same folks were slow to come to Shaquanda Cotton defense. Remember? I put my first Obama dvd in a safe place, I hope?





Hat tip to Bronze Trinity: