Barack, I didn’t do it for this. (great poem of Barackisms)

pajamas media ^ | 3/19/2008 | roger simon

[milwguy]

Barack, I didn’t do it for this.

Barack, I was a civil rights worker… South Carolina, 1966… 22 yrs old … helping old folks register to vote, teaching kids to read and write, directing Raisin in the Sun…

Barack, I didn’t do it for this.

Barack, I dream of my kindergarten best friend Andy from Walden School, Manhattan, born one day after me, shot dead in Mississippi 1964.

Barack, I idolized Stokley Carmichael and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Barack, I lost the full use of my left hand for life in South Carolina.

Barack, I didn’t do it for this.

Barack, I gave hundreds to the Black Panthers for their children’s breakfast program when I was 25 and a young screenwriter in Echo Park, Los Angeles, even though I knew Huey was crazy and was worried my money might have been going for guns, even though I had my own children in the house when the Panthers came over, their jackets bulging.

Barack, I made excuses for the Black Power Movement even though I knew it was turning racist.

Barack, I didn’t do it for this.

Barack, your speech was bullshit.

[milwguy]

Please read the entire thing!

[2ndDivisionVet]

He would’ve been four and a half in 1966, not 22.

[cowboyway]

Barack, your speech was bullshit

Barack, your campaign was bullshit.

[Zionist Conspirator]

He would’ve been four and a half in 1966, not 22.

I think he's placing the words in Andrew Goodman's mouth rather than speaking for himself. But since Goodman was killed in 1964, I suppose he's not.

Now I'm really confused.

[milwguy]

Roger Simon, the WRITER, the CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, the one whose friend was killed marching was 22 at the time.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Roger Simon, the WRITER, the CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, the one whose friend was killed marching was 22 at the time.

Thanks for clearing that up. Now I know who to blame for sounding like a naive jerk.

[Steely Tom]

From the linked page:

Roger L. Simon is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, novelist and blogger, and the CEO of Pajamas Media.

Roger, I hate to tell you, but the "Reverend" Wright and his more action-oriented followers will be delighted to kill you, your entire family, and any other white person who's handy. And, for that matter, any black person who gets in their way, or otherwise tries to defend a white person stands a good chance of ending up a corpse.

That's what your efforts bought us.

Well, that and a few decades of feeling good about yourself. Which I'm not saying you weren't entitled to.

[Mercat]

My father didn’t march but as manager of the Houston Greyhound Bus station, he integrated it and the Post House before the Civil Rights Act was passed. For that he and we his family were harrassed and threatened. He was put on unpaid leave by the company and we ended up moving to Kansas as soon as my brother graduated from high school. In other words, we were run out of town. He didn’t do it for this.