One week ago, the President of Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, blamed the world financial crisis on “whitey”:
“this was a crisis that was fostered and boosted by irrational behavior of people that are white, blue-eyed, that before the crisis looked like they knew everything about economics.”
He further removed any misunderstanding about the nature of his comments when he added:
“I’m not acquainted with any black banker,” Lula said. “The part of humanity that’s responsible should pay for the crisis.”
Today, President Obama praised President Lula:
“That’s my man, right here, love this guy. He’s the most popular politician on Earth. It’s because of his good looks,” Obama said.
I saw Obama greet the Queen of England, I didn’t hear him make a comment about how well she looked. Obama met Sarkozy and didn’t mention his looks. Obama met Brown last month and didn’t mention his looks.
Why would Obama mention Lula’s looks?
I’m left with two possibilities. With his comment, either Obama was saying:
Lula, you’re speaking truth to power, brother. The man is just trying to keep us down!
or he was saying:
You can tell by looking at me that I didn’t cause this problem. But, that guy I inherited this all from? He was sure enough a honky cracker!
The problem is that I’m not really fluent in victimese so I’m puzzled on the exact translation.
