President of the World

"You're grinning," I said in what I heard as in a dream.  "And it's strange that you should still be grinning, given your bungling of unconditional support for the Jews when evil Palestinians -- like Nazis -- are attacking the Jews.

"What naive idealistic nonsense made you think that you could be President of the world?  Didn't you know of the rep that Presidents of our country had when times were so rough that nobody ever smiled, before you learned to walk or talk?  Presidents in those days belonged to a race that produced men who took charge.

"They went into Asia where they were outnumbered a million to one by Asians and they took over; went into Afrika and they -- again outnumbered a milliion to one -- took over; kept keeping it up in "Latin America" (a name that disrespects the indigenous people there).  In every country that they entered as Presidents of the United States they were looked upon and accepted as The President, The most powerful man in the world.

"The people of the world looked upon the Presidents of our country as men of a race who could tell us black citizens where we could live in a city and where we couldn't; what public place we could enter and what place we couldn't; where we could sit down and where we couldn't; where we could drink water and where we couldn't.  The people -- even blacks -- throughout the world knew that they could enter our country and only had to disrespect us and they would be accepted by people of The President's race.

"You were not old enough in the '60s when we -- and whites -- "sold out," went into the streets with fire and bullets and spilling blood.  You were never even part of a neighborhood teenage gang or group poised 24-hours a day to "throw down" on those we considered our enemies.

"People of the world -- especially Asians and Arabs and "Latin" Americans (most indigenous people don't call themselves "Latins") -- never saw in their country one of our race in such a high position as you occupy.  They do not see you as The President, The most powerful man in the world.  Do you find that funny?  You're still grinning."