Comment and Response to Omarosa Post

Received this comment to yesterday's post "What Kind Of Person Would Think That?", which began with me saying "I have no particular use for Omarosa."

AnonymousAugust 15, 2018 at 9:43 AM

You have no use for Omarosa?
I think you just showed your true colors as a misogynistic and racist old white guy when you so flippantly dismiss as useless, a strong, independent, free thinking African-American woman!

Whoa!  Now that's an odd reaction!  Have I been insulted?  Should I be offended?

Mr./Ms. Anonymous could be a regular reader having some crank-yanking fun with me (I hope).  Or he/she could be a first-timer who did a web search for "Omarosa," stumbled upon Buster's Blog, and read no further than the first sentence.  I have no idea.

To be clear, I have no use for Omarosa not because she's an African-American woman, but because she's as Trump-ish as Trump himself.  She's a needy narcissist known for being known, and is desperate to keep it that way.  Like Trump, she's utterly selfish and totally transactional.  Both are day-traders without a long game.  Both will say and do whatever they believe will best serve their personal needs today, in this moment.  And both are perfectly willing to do a complete 180 tomorrow, if they feel it'll help them.

Long ago, Omarosa sold her soul to suck up to TV Trump.  Departing the White House in 2017, she swore, unbelievably, that she left on good terms and that Yam Face was certainly not a racist.  Today she says, more believably, that she was indeed fired and that Trump is of course a racist who regularly dropped the N-word during her days on The Apprentice.

Omarosa is an African-American woman.  But her track record as a shamelessly opportunistic Trump sycophant is not a record of strength, independence or free-thinking.  It's a record of calculation and greed.  So yes, given her weak and malleable character, in the long haul I have no use for Omarosa as a person.

Although she's clearly flawed and compromised, she may still prove temporarily useful in our current troubled moment.  If Omarosa has dirt which can help take Trump out, that would be news we could use!  Bring it on!  I'd be all for that transaction and would thank her for her help in a good cause.

But the flippant old white guy says if we're looking for genuinely strong, independent, free-thinking African-American women, don't look in Omarosa's direction.  For such role models, look instead to Michelle Obama, Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm, Angela Davis, Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and Ida B. Wells, to name a few.