#93. MARs Attacking

Mankind has long been fascinated with the Red Planet, as the prospect that the fourth planet from the sun and closest to our own earth might be home to an advanced civilization has dominated the thoughts of educated men for centuries.

H.G. Wells penned the terrifying novel "The War of the Worlds", which depicted a Martian invasion of earth and the subsequent inability of European munitions to stop the invaders from taking the planet through total war. The book has spawned numerous films of the same name and all end the same way, the death of the martians through inadverdent biological warfare:

"From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain."

Another film that dealt with the threat of Red Planet induced destruction was "Mars Attacks!" - a 1996 Tim Burton film that lampooned the Sci-Fi movies of the 1960s. Earth is invaded by Martians and the combined military's of the planet our helpless against the superior aramaments of our Mars' dwelling enemies.

However, these ficticious residents of Mars have little effect at phasing Black people, but another, more sinister form of MARs leave Black people feeling as helpless as those who listened to the 1930s "War of the Worlds" broadcast by Orson Welles.

MARs is the designated acronym of Middle American Radicals popularized by Sam Francis, an intellectual who in death will gain a larger following than during his award-winning career:

"Middle American Radicals (MARs) are essentially middle-income, white, often ethnic voters who see themselves as an exploited and dispossessed group, excluded from meaningful political participation, threatened by the tax and trade policies of the government, victimized by its tolerance of crime, immigration and social deviance, and ignored or ridiculed by the major cultural institutions of the media and education."

Francis believed that MARs would attack during the Clinton Administration, but the anger of these white people crystallized into the election of George W. Bush and eventually became dormant in the Red States of America.

Black people and disingenuous white liberals look with incredulous eyes toward the Red States as they view these states with suspension and fear. During the 2008 election, Mein Obama had this to say about the MARs who inhabit Red States:

"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate and they have not.

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

MARs that inhabit America may not come from the Red Planet, but to Black people, Red States are much worse. They have given birth to people who question Barack Obama's right to be president through the Birther Movement; white people who still long for Pre-Obama America; and the Tea Party Tax Day protests that have even seeped into Blue States.

The Henry Louis Gates incident showed that the MARs attack Sam Francis believed would take place in the 1990s was projected a decade early and Black people understand exactly what set off the negative reactions to the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: his race.

MARs might not admit it yet, but the reason they are attacking from Red States is because they believe an alien to Pre-Obama America is now leading them and their beloved nation into ruin.

MARs used to have FOX News Channel to contain their anger, but even that channel is no longer enough to hold off the attack.

The debate about Universal Healthcare has set-off a massive amount of protests from white people, who will pay the tax burden of that proposed system where everyone will insured:

"Those whites that you see at the health care meetings, that was really Ronald Reagan's America," said John Kenneth White, a presidential scholar at the Catholic University of America and author of the newly published "Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family and Religion Ended the Reagan Era."

"Reagan's California exists today only on the commemorative license plate. That California that elected him governor twice and president twice is no more," White said. He believes some of the anger behind the health care debate is from "a sense that power has shifted in the country, and the country they thought they knew doesn't exist anymore."

Names like Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones and even Barack Obama fuel the fire that threatens to turn into a conflagaration of MARs anger throughout America:

Van Jones said: "The American way, manufactuered by these white folks in office. By these rich men here to mock us. The United States is a stolen land led by right-wing, war hungry, oil thirsty. And when it's all said and done they still can't clean their own place because they got people of color playing servant to do that sh*t for them... The true terrorists are made in the US, in this police state..."

Disingenuous white liberals find the MARs Attacking threat to be a burden and worthy of condescension:

"So the birthers, the anti-tax tea-partiers, the town hall hecklers -- these are "either" the genuine grass roots or evil conspirators staging scenes for YouTube? The quiver on the lips of the man pushing the wheelchair, the crazed risk of carrying a pistol around a president -- too heartfelt to be an act. The lockstep strangeness of the mad lies on the protesters' signs -- too uniform to be spontaneous. They are both. If you don't understand that any moment of genuine political change always produces both, you can't understand America, where the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and where elites exploit the crazy for their own narrow interests."

However, Black people know better. They sense in these movements that arise from Red States an omninous warning to THE AGE OF OBAMA and understand that the economic meltdown of the country and the desire to further tax white people to pay for the 40 million uninsured - and largely Black -is finally opening a few eyes.

The fact that Mein Obama has appointed people of his race to public office that hold views that would make George Wallace blush is finally driving MARs to attack.

Even Mein Obama speaking to school children has been met with historic animosity from MARs attackers:

"But the public resentment toward Barack Obama that has been bubbling under the surface has finally boiled over.

The purely racist actions by local and national school systems is a sign of tumultuous times ahead for Obama and his administration. According to online reports, local school principals have ordered teachers not to show a planned Obama address to schoolchildren on Tuesday, Sept. 8."

Stuff Black People Don't Like includes MARs Attacking, for the road to THE AGE OF OBAMA was once paved with the same gold as the yellow brick road, but now, white people are beginning to see the man behind the curtain:

"One black congressman, Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), was quoted last week alleging that opposition to Obama's healthcare policies was "a bias, a prejudice, an emotional feeling."

"Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is president of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, 'How did this happen?' " Rangel said, according to the New York Post."

MARs Attacking is an idea that Sam Francis believed would come at some point, and it is precisely this idea that Black people do not like for we are seeing a Red State invasion unfold before our eyes. And this time, what the radio is broadcasting is not Halloween prank.

And remember, it all started with Sarah Palin.