Posted on 09/15/2008 8:08:51 AM PDT by Publius804
The Big 'What If'
The hopes of black America ride on his shoulders. But the outcome's way up in the air.
By Randall Kennedy Sunday, September 14, 2008; Page B01
I am a black man born in 1954, the year of Brown v. Board of Education. Fleeing the abuses of Jim Crow, my parents moved from South Carolina to Washington, D.C., later that decade. Tales of racial oppression and racial resistance were staples of conversation in our household. My father often spoke of watching Thurgood Marshall argue the case ( Rice v. Elmore) that invalidated the rule permitting only whites to vote in South Carolina's Democratic primary. Memories of that story played a large part in producing the tears I shed on the evening Barack Obama won this year's primary in the Palmetto State.
Related memories -- the most haunting being our visit to a D.C. funeral home to pay last respects to Medgar Evers, the courageous head of the Mississipppi branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who was murdered by a segregationist -- helped reduce me to tears, again, on the night the senator from Illinois accepted his party's nomination as its candidate for president.
Never before have my emotions been so exercised by a political campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Dr King’s dream of a country where the content of a man’s character is more important than the color of his skin has not been realized, at least among black democrats.
"For one thing, never before has a candidate so fully challenged the many inhibitions that have prevented people of all races, including African Americans, from seriously envisioning presidential power in the hands of someone other than a white American."
Those who look at the Office of President as POWER, are only thinking that 'if we get this guy' in office, WE WILL HAVE THE POWER. The Office of President is all about RESPONSIBILITY, and not about POWER. That's what the dems , the DEM candidates, and the protestors at the DNC convention are all about. POWER. CONTROL OVER OTHERS. And yet they can't even control themselves.
“.... dream of a country where the content of a man’s character is more important than just the fact that he claims to be black, and the messiah.”
Excellent point.
Devasting Video for the media to IGNORE
A lot of wisdom packed into a few words. If the RNC was smart, they would make it into a television commercial with clips of the hyper partisan speeches of the donks versus the low key nature of the GOP.
“My mother will be sorry if Obama loses, but she won’t feel disillusioned, because she hasn’t allowed herself to get her hopes up. She has insisted throughout that “the white folks are going to refuse one way or another to permit Obama to become president.”
Boo hoo...try running a conservative black next time.
****(Messiah Alert)**
Please, the only Messiah I know about IS Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
Obama just thinks he is the messiah.
Use of the term offends me.
His followers think he is a messiah too...frightening...very frightening..
Sadly, man people have opted for worldly solutions to their problems. Identity politics/government programs and other forms of idolatry are what is killing our nation. This is a cultural war, and the only real weapon is the only real defense is the Word that became flesh and dwelt among us.
Obama needs to repent.
Jesus said in the future many would come saying they are a savior.
This is one of those situations.
One, if both Powell and Rice had lived up to promises (hope) this would be a far different election. Picture Hillary running against a moderately conservative black candidate.
Two, the culture calmly accepts the idea that voting for a 'brother' is not racism, while voting against a dangerous socialist with a vague and scripted past, who happens to be part black and carries two muslim names - is racist.
And, three, all this talk of breaking through racial barriers, being disappointed, and fearing that granny will never see real equality, doesn't get applied to good people like Clarence Thomas. Hacks like Kennedy only assign blackness to those who agree with their own socialist principles - maybe they should have thought it out before declaring BJC the 'first black president'.
Here’s the pattern:
2000 - Bush “stole” the election
2004 - Kerry was “swiftboated” by Republican liars
2008 - The country as a whole is racist, especially the Republicans
The pattern is moving towards a split between two factions, with the left side progressively blaming more and more people for their failures at the ballot box. Their hatred of American culture and the American people is becoming more and more visible as they are consistently rejected election after election.
If the Democrats lose in 2008, I expect to see riots, civil disobiedence, and outright treason. If they lose again in 2012, the rage will be so great that I could see actual killings and mayhem in some places.
The left has been destroying cultures since the Committee for Public Safety made Paris safe for the Revolution. We’re just the latest in the long list of places ruined by “progressive” thinking.
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