It was only a matter of time before a blogger at the Daily Kos felt the pain of Barack Obama suffering from being "President While Black." The blogger with the byline "The Plainsman" insists Obama has been treated more disrespectfully than any U.S. president in history:
There are few adults in the USA, black or white, who have not at least heard of the expression "DWB" which is short for "Driving While Black." Even if you aren't sure what it means, you've heard it. Well, for the last two years, our half-white, half-black, Hawaii born and raised, private school educated President, a man who did not grow up in a black, urban environment or a southern segregated one, has experienced a similar phenomenon: PWB or "President While Black."
Basically, DWB -and now PWB- means to be completely disrespected by others, usually an individual or groups of people who are not black, and who feel no hesitation about treating you disrespectfully because in their minds: A. They have a right to do it (white privilege), and B. There is little if anything that your black ass can do about it.
This Kosmonaut at least suggests the Left is also uncomfortable with Obama because he doesn't fit liberal stereotypes of Jesse Jackson-ness:
Without belaboring the issue, this President has been treated more disrespectfully by both the right and the left, than any President in U.S. history. Not even Abraham Lincoln, hated by the South and slaveholding sympathizers was disrespected by a member of Congress in the way good ol' boy Joe Wilson disrespected Obama. From "you lie!" on the right, to massive bellyaching on the left over Libya and anything involving the Middle East (soundly defeated in this great column by Joshua Greenman ) .
As an African American, I sometimes get the feeling that progressives are completely puzzled by a black politician without an explicit civil rights agenda, without "Reverend" in front of his name, but someone who is clearly not conservative, clearly on our side: (Obama's Accomplishments) .
The piece ends with a lecture for the Left: "Want even more progress? Then aim your fire in the direction of the real enemy: the Republicans and their Tea Baggin' agents. Stop doing the enemy's work for them by undercutting the best president we've had in more than forty years."
[Hat tip: Bugs Raplin]
