Tapping your wife > dapping your wife

When I saw, the other day, that Obama celebrating his clinching the nomination by giving his wife some dap, the only thing that occurred to me was that it looked a little bit fruity. Obama's wrist is obviously not as strong as most black men's. Perhaps if he'd spent some time in the joint, like most of us will at some time or another.

This also occurred to me when he made the mistake of going bowling with some cracka-ass crackas out in Pennsylvania and he could hardly hold the ball like a grown person. He probably would've gotten a better score if he'd just held it with both his hands down between his legs (no Boutros) and given it a shove down the lane as if he was an 8 year-old.

At any rate, if I was him, I'd see about not taking part in any more activities that are gonna draw any attention to his wrist. From now through the beginning of November, he should just act like he's Bob Dole.

But come to find out, the form of the dap was hardly the issue. A lot of these white pundits, who probably wouldn't know from a good pound anyway, are more concerned with the fact that he gave his wife a pound in the first place. They act as if they've never seen such a thing before in their lives. I was watching cable news at my parents' house a couple of hours ago, and there were two different segments on it in just a 30 minute span.

The typical line in the media is that the dap was yet another sign that Obama is your cool (black) uncle, and that giving your wife a pound is the hip, new alternative to giving your wife a hug, or a peck on the cheek. It's probably gonna be all over the place in the coming days and weeks. I've even heard some feminist broads talking about how giving your wife a pound is more progressive than giving her a kiss, because it suggests she's your equal.

Heh.

I weighed in on dapgate over at XXL just now. My theory is that Obama's handlers probably suggested that he stop just short of putting his mouth on his wife on stage, because this is the first time we've had a black person make it this far in the election, and you know white people still have a lot of hang-ups about black people's sexuality. If Obama would've gone in like Al Gore did back in 2000, this shit could have been a repeat of Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl.

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