Dear Rod Blagojevich
I got on Twitter on Monday morning to see a hailstorm of tweets from people talking about Rod Blagojevich making some foolish statements about President Obama. So HE has the honor of being the recipient of my first sternly-worded letter in 2010.
Oh, and this is what he said, by the way: “I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.” (Quote from NYTimes)
Dear Blago,
Well congratulations. You shined shoes growing up. Where should I send the Gold Medal of Suffering that you clearly think you deserve to get? Where should I send the documentary filmmakers to shoot the epic named “Blago: The Struggles of Childhood?” I’m not sure what your point was in spewing that ignorance you did. In fact, you had no point. Why? Let me break it down to you.
I had no idea someone had made you some kind of expert on the Black experience, and Negro-hood. No really. Who died and made you the spokesperson for Blackness? I bet it wasn’t Rosa or Martin. Last I checked, you were from Serbia, lack melanin, and haven’t spent a DAY of your life as a Black man. Am I wrong? Did I blink and miss the day your lineage was set free in the Underground Railroad by Araminta Ross the gun-toter (aka Harriet Tubman)? Naw I didn’t.
Also, I didn’t get the memo that one of the criteria for being Black (besides being melanin-blessed) was suffering. In THAT case, my middle-class African self better go turn in some kinda Black suffering waiver because my Colored-ness may be up for debate. Do I need to go appear before the Council of Black Verificators? So I gotta live Celie’s life, not Claire’s (Huxtable) to be Black. Please stop the madness.
Hehe! This made me cackle. From TotallyLooksLike.com. @Mdrwhitener sent it to me on Twitter. She’s clearly a foolery enabler.
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7 Comments
His hair hat ain't never gon' be right, Luvvie!! NEVER!!
He is just mad because every black person he knows is stylin' on him in every way imaginable. President Obama being the main one. Blago thinks he should have the life the President is living.
I'd like to donate the entire seasons of both "Good Times" & "The Cosby Show" to his gift basket. Dumb politicians need educatin'!! That should help.
i mean, what can you really say after such a well stated letter?
aside from i clearly should have emptied my bladder before reading this as i damn near peed on myself!!!! lmao!!!!
Seriously…the legoman comparision was icing on the cake.
*cackling*
He's such an idiot.
Since when is living in a 5 bedroom apartment poor, unless you got more kids than the Jacksons, Blago's only got one brother that's like 2 extra rooms!!
A 5 bedroom apartment? Why does his apartment have more bedrooms than my own home?!! GTFOOHWTBS Rod. If one more person (black, white, or whatever) swears that they're "blacker" than me, based on their level of suffering, they better jump off a bridge before I push them. Eff his lifespace.
He is an embarrassment to the state… and white folks.
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