knotquiteawake wrote:Like... people get that he's being facetious? Right? Playing on the fact that so many are obsessed with BO? And are expecting BO to pull them out of poverty? He is not making a literal comparison but an inappropriate tongue in cheek comment mocking those who think BO will save them from everything.
I've seen tons of conservative/christian people going nuts over this. I don't get it. Comedians say considerably worse things that would offend the religious all that time.
I'm a conservative Christian, and I'm not going nuts over this, but I definitely did not take away that he was being tongue in cheek. What I took away was that he was not calling Obama his Lord and Savior (initial caps) on a
religious/spiritual level, but that he definitely
was calling Obama his lord and savior (lower case) on a
political level. I think that he definitely believes that Obama is going to solve all the nation's problems if stupid white people would just get out his way and let him.
By the way, this is entirely consistent with some of Jamie Foxx's previous political pronouncements. He is most definitely sold out to the big-government tax-and-spend paradigm, and so his statement in this video is merely another of his uninformed and incorrect pronouncements, born out of a sense of entitlement.........particularly for people of color.
By the way, I am actually deeply offended by BET. We all know what kind of outcry would ensue if someone were benighted enough to found WET. The fact is that I am a customer of some "black" entertainment. For instance, I am particularly a fan of Tyler Perry....even though I don't share either his political views or some of his scriptural interpretations. But I do believe that his shows promote family, the benefits of a two parent household, and Christianity—even if his theologically based interpretations of government's role in our lives is more liberal than my own. And as far as acting ability goes, I actually think Jamie Foxx is brilliant. His portrayal of Ray Charles was truly great, all the way down to the bone. So called "Black Entertainment" has made DEEP inroads into the culture at large, and those inroads are bought and paid for by pure talent. Not ALL of them are talented. Certainly black entertainment has contributed to the degradation of the culture as much as any other ethnic group's contributions. Blacks do not own all of the blame for that degradation, any more than whites own it, or hispanics own it, or any other singled-out group owns it. To quote the Apostle Paul, "
All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."
The problem with BET is that it has gone the way of the NAACP. Whatever role BET played early on in the promotion of black entertainers has been outlived by its role as a force for division and racial separatism. Black entertainers no longer
need BET in order to flourish in the entertainment market at large, in the same way that black citizens no longer
need the NAACP to participate and flourish in political or social life. Both the BET and NAACP have morphed into organizations that promote separatism. That is probably unintentional, at least on a superficial level, but that is the end result of both organizations' continuing to act in ways that try to justify their own existences. They are like 17th century doctors......at first they bled the patient to make him better, and then when their bleeding the patient made him worse, they bled him some more to make him better.
They are vampires, and Jamie Foxx is merely their faithful servant.
TAM, once again you are right on point!