Mostly responses to the election this week. I noticed after I’d made the list. I noticed when I made the list that a lot of them dealt with Barack Obama’s race, but I guess that reflects the historic nature of his election.
First up, the introduction to the Daily Show/Colbert Report election night special:
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The Best F#$king News Team Ever demand that white people admit that they won’t vote for an African-American:
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Now that Obama is winning, Larry Wilmore and Wyatt Cenac are taking over:
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Jason Jones tells the story of another 90-something who never thought he’d live to see a black man as President, and quite frankly didn’t want to:
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And for a change, some text satire from the Onion.
Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job
WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America…As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, “It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can’t catch a break.”
National Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress
Although polls going into the final weeks of October showed Sen. Obama in the lead, it remained unclear whether the failing economy, dilapidated housing market, crumbling national infrastructure, health care crisis, energy crisis, and five-year-long disastrous war in Iraq had made the nation crappy enough to rise above 300 years of racial prejudice and make lasting change.
