Amused Cynic

I’m not registered at HotAir, and their registration is closed, so the only way I can contribute to their caption contest is to link here at my own blog. So….here goes. Here is my caption for this contest, and I think I won hands down. h/t Instapundit.

Fredo Corleone: It ain’t the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I’m smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb… I’m smart and I want respect!

Michael Corleone: Fredo, you’re nothing to me now. You’re not a brother, you’re not a friend. I don’t want to know you or what you do. I don’t want to see you at the hotels, I don’t want you near my house. When you see our mother, Rahm, I want to know a day in advance, so I won’t be there. You understand?

EDIT: On the same page with Neo-neocon…

So, anyone who sees this as condescending is ipso facto racist. As for me, the moment I first looked at the photo, what came to my mind was something quite different: Mafia don. But I suppose that’s racist as well—towards Italians, or Sicilians, or Mafiosi, or whatever. Although some of my best friends are…

So Obama can’t be called condescending, especially if he’s looking at a white man, without the caller being called racist.

But what if Obama were to look condescendingly at a black man? Could we call him condescending then? No; if we did, we’d be guilty of saying Obama’s an Uncle Tom, looking down on his own race. And that would be, um, racist of us.