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Posted on 04/29/2011 8:52:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
OAKLAND, CA.---Years ago we mourned the loss of Rosa Parks, Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, also the death of Congressperson Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman to run for the presidency of the United States. These events were devastating for African Americans.
Mrs. Coretta Scott King, The First Lady or Matriarch of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States passed away in December 2006.
The contributions of these three powerful, educated, and influential African American women caused them to be a positive permanent part of American history.
Mrs. King was the founder and main supporter of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Following in the footsteps of her husband, she focused on the philosophy of non-violence throughout the world.
In 1983, she was the prominent leader in creating the Reverend Doctor King’s birthday as the first African American National Holiday. Also she was one of the few African Americans that supported same sex marriages, which drew ire from the African American Christian Community. She always stressed human rights first then civil rights.
Americans celebrated Mrs. King’s home-going with great honor-- music, historic reviews, and preaching. Many political and social leaders attendant that service. They came from around the world to show their respect. She had the honor of lying in State at the capitol building in Atlanta.
Members of the King family sat in the front row (which is traditional at Baptist Home-going Celebrations) with four of our nation’s presidents: Former presidents Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, George Hubert Walker Bush, Sr., and then current President George W. Bush and his wife Laura.
Bernice King (youngest daughter of Coretta and Martin) Assistant Pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church helped with the eulogy. This hallowed event was to be a tribute to Coretta Scott King’s life. However some individuals lash out and used it as a political forum against then sitting President George W. Bush. It is happening again with right wing, Tea Party, and Birther members in regards to our first Black President. Southern California Republican (Orange County) Marilyn Davenport posted pictures on the internet of President Obama with a chimpanzee face. This is not the first time and it probably won’t be the last.
They are disrespecting themselves and the President of the United States, our leader of the country. Dehumanizing another human being only dehumanizes yourself.
The Roots of Racism run deep in this country and it appears that the Obama administration has exposed it and brought it to the surface. It has been stated that The Right Wing political movement in the States of Wisconsin, Arizona, and Southern California are fueled by race and class based issues.
African Americans have always been polite, correct, and reverent in church services. At Mrs. King’s service someone forgot to tell (SCLC) Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Reverend Joseph Lowery and President Jimmy Carter to mind their manners. Both of these caring men may have been correct, but this occasion was not the place to air their political grievances.
Most African Americans agree that Mr. Bush was not attentive to their needs or their communities. This should have never happened.
The Birther, Right Wing, and the Tea Party should reflect on this sad moment and how they felt five years ago. The fact remains that African Americans have seldom publicly attacked a sitting president en-masse and when they did, they were politically ostracized. Example, Kanye West, at the Katrina Hurricane Fund Raising Telethon. West has never recovered from his public comments. West stated that President Bush did not care for African Americans.
The American political divide has deepened and it has created two worlds, two economies, and two classes, not communicating with each other. This has to change to create a better America.
In our short 280-year history African Americans have always respected the office of President of the United States. Protocol, respect, and courtesy to an incumbent president were not shown at Mrs. King’s funeral. Many have stated that The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. nor Mrs. King would have approved of the unacceptable actions taken that day.
African Americans have disagreed with many sitting Presidents-- President Richard Millhouse Nixon is a classic example of African Americans not siding with our nation’s leader or it’s leadership. African Americans have composed songs and written books about such rifts. They have always maintained a level of respect for the office of the presidency. Clearly times have changed, just as our leaders have changed. Political pondants like Donald Trump, Sara Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Fox News, Marilyn Davenport and some other GOP leaders do not play by the same rules, nor do they have the same moral compass.
Finally, African Americans may not respect the man that sits in the oval office, but have always respected the office of the President of the United States. This should be given to President Barack Hussain Obama. Respect should be shown whether agreeing or disagreeing with his policies. African Americans had done so for many years it is time for Right Wing Americans to be civil and do likewise.
This is what some right wing political activist don’t understand because they have never had to share power. Maybe these fringe leaders need to look in the mirror.
Respect is for everyone and right now the United States is not doing very well with respecting a Black man in the White House.
Aside from the fact that he has earned absolutely no respect; the truth is that there is nothing that mandates respect by virtue of position.
He deserves no more respect than the National Socialist Democrat party gave to either Bush or Reagan. The democrat party set the bar and rules for “respect” and should expect the same level of respect they give to conservatives.
FUBO & FAD
i’m a white, male, hard working, Christian, business owner.
not only doesn’t 0bama repsect me, he is doing everything he can to make my life more difficult.
respect him? BAH! i’d sooner spit on him
What? You mean you cannot go along with this latest obscene affirmative action move by the state of Hawaii to commit document fraud in order to protect an affirmative action hire is not only not qualified or eligible but actually has open contempt for the Republic? Hold on, Oprah, Holder, and the entire of the kneepadding media will call you a racist for not going along with this latest gross affirmative action! This is affirmative action designed america now, get with the script. The democrat criminal enterprise has devoted fifty years of their empowerment—purchased at times with the slaughter of millions of alive unborn black children—to reach this milestone of affirmative action criminality. The least you could do is enjoy the mugging, cracker.
Where do you even start with something like this?
I respected the office of the President until there was a lying racist anti-american thug sitting in it. Now if he and any future President wants my respect they will have to earn it. No more freebies, gimmees, mulligans. Obama has destroyed the office and what it stands for along with the Constitution.
“Let Allen West run for President and get back to us on that racist BS. “
I am salivating like Pavlov’s dog over the prospect of the left’s dilemma with race when Allen West becomes a major candidate.
In the eyes of the left the only thing that could make West a better candidate were if he were gay.
Southern California Republican (Orange County) Marilyn Davenport posted pictures on the internet of President Obama with a chimpanzee face. This is not the first time and it probably won’t be the last.
They are disrespecting themselves and the President of the United States, our leader of the country. Dehumanizing another human being only dehumanizes yourself..... But it was perfectly acceptable to do the same thing to the white guy, GWB. Give me a break. If blacks do it to me I can’t fight back?
That Marxist hater of America? No way!
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i can respect the office without respecting the man IN the office.
2 years until the 100th anniversary of the income tax.
Found this quote from MLK.
“If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people—a black people—who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." From an address given in Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 31, 1955
screw the author of this article.
obama is an EVIL piece of garbage and deserves the treatment that Bush got....to hell with him and the idiots that blindly support him....
They will dismiss him as a sell out and 90% of blacks wouldn’t support him because he has an R beside his name.
Sadly, when we should be looking past race and not staring at it, the most shallow people on the planet are the 90% of blacks who view everything through the Democrat Club and then through Race. I guess they learned they don’t benefit from true equality and want special protected minority rights.
It is disgraceful.
You can’t make me.
Think he is a closet Islamic Socialist?
I sure do.
They are the ones that use race, separate us by races, poll by race,campaign by race, and we are the racists.
I will not give respect, it must be earned no matter what f&^$%#! race you are.
and this guy aint even close.
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