All that people care about is the look, because there's figures on this. 70% of what people react to is the look, you know, it's how you look; and 20% is about how you sound; and only 10% is what you say.
So if you look good and sound good, just go up there and keep confirming and denying things. Everyone will go wild! Oh, yeah, oh yeah!
Black skin.
A black friend of mine told me once, "No matter what, every morning I look in the mirror and I see black skin." He didn't explain it; he didn't have to. And if you need me to, then you probably won't care about what I'm about to say.
Black skin. A broad nose. Thick lips. Curly hair. How's that for non-verbal communication? That's 70% of the Obama message sent and received in Ohio ... and Michigan...and Pennsylvania...and Florida...and all the "important states." Fact is, it's the message sent to all the "unimportant...boutique...caucus states" too.
Got it? And another thing:
Can we agree that Obama didn't to get those characteristics when he was ready to come out of his mother's womb? Can we agree that none of us gives prior agreement to how we look, what color our skin is, what gender we are? Can we agree that we don't have the luxury of choosing our own parents?
Can we agree on that? Good.
So what's left? What's left is what we do with it. There's no sense of satisfaction to be had from complaining about how hard you fall. The only thing that matters is how high you bounce.
So when Geraldine Ferraro complains about Barack Hussein Obama's "good luck" at being named with that name and having that black skin and broad nose and curly hair, well I don't know WTF she's talking about.
She proclaims her innocence but you know what? She's insulting my intelligence instead.
No matter what she says, I know exactly what she's doing: she's inciting fear in Hillary's base voters in Pennsylvania. She knows (as any smart politician knows) that fear moves voters. And in Pennsylvania, Hillary's base is afraid of two things: that Obama can't win and/or (if he does) it'll mean the beginning of the end of white supremacy.
So the Clinton campaign draws attention to the 70% of Obama's non-verbal message because, well, to be blunt, it's the easiest fucking way to win the contest.
That is so yesterday. I want to know how to deal with tomorrow.
That's how I see it; I could be wrong. But I doubt it.