How Many Ways Will the White Right Hate on President Obama for Hosting the Country's First "Kid President"...Who Also Happens to be Black?

Once more, this is the President I voted for. He has demonstrated his ghetto nerd bonafides once more.

I often qualify my observations about Barack Obama by framing them with the language that "he is a President who happens to black." In moments such as the above, where he took the time to meet with a black 3rd grader who is the "Kid President" and give him a tour of the White House, he is a Black President.

Yes, this is largely symbolic. But, in a country where if for example you were a black person born in the 1970s in the United States, your grandmother's grandmother would likely have been a slave, these small moments are potent: they are made even more so by the artifacts and images of Brother King and others which Obama has chosen to adorn the inner sanctum of power that is the Oval Office.

Obama's cool pose, his language, and code-switching as he speaks with young Mr. Robbie Novack leave no doubt that the President is a man comfortable in his own skin, and how he has successfully navigated the twisted and often perilous route that is blackness and black masculinity.

I always try to understand those with whom I have differences of political thought, values, and beliefs. In a basic way, I can almost, note I said almost, understand how the White Right and worst elements of the Tea Party GOP (with their Birtherism conspiranoid fantasies), can quite literally hate the idea of a black man in the White House, living there with his beautiful family, and being so at ease in that space.

Historically, American governance has equaled white government by law, habit, and tradition. Obama and his family's presence is a smack in the fact of that standing-rule.

President Obama's effortless grace is impressive. How his detractors among the conservative media establishment, the Tea Party brigands, and the racially resentful White Right in mass, will inevitably find a way to smear and detract from a precious and innocent moment when President Obama entertained the country's Kid President will reveal once more how existentially ugly and bigoted those folks actually are.

Again, I understand. When one has power they are forever fearful of losing it...it warps the mind. And when one has lived a life where to be "American" is synonymous with a certain type of "whiteness," the idea of a black man, his family, and guests being n the White House, living as American royalty, is too much to reconcile. The cognitive dissonance among some on the Right about these matters is more than I care to try to understand or process because I love my sanity.

The rage is their fuel and political meth. How many of them are going to hit the proverbial pipe as they watch the Kid President and Barack Obama's tour of the White House?