Posted on 01/12/2009 12:17:41 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Editor's note: The n-word appears in this piece because CNN feels the context in which it is used is pertinent to the story of James "Little Man" Presley.
SLEDGE, Mississippi (CNN) -- James Presley stands amid chopped cotton, the thick Mississippi mud caked on his well-worn boots. A smile spreads across his face when he talks about voting for Barack Obama and what that might mean for generations to come. His voice picks up a notch. He holds his head up a bit higher.
"There's a heap of pride in voting for a black man," he says.
At 78, Presley is a legend of the past living in the present and now hopeful for the future. A grandson of slaves, he's one of the few men left in America so closely tied to his slave past, still farming cotton on the same land as his ancestors. He's picked cotton since he was just 6 years old.
He and his wife of 57 years, Eva May, raised 13 children and six grandchildren in a cypress-sided house in the middle of cotton fields in northwestern Mississippi. He was a sharecropper most his life, but rarely qualified for food stamps.
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He's lived a raw-knuckled life where hope moved at a molasses-slow pace. The last time he had hope for a better future was four decades ago -- first with President John F. Kennedy and then with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Obama has changed everything to the poor in these parts.
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From Messiah to Moses...hmm.. he got a demotion..........
“There’s a heap of pride in voting for a black man,”
Racist old fart.
What a demotion! I thought Obama was the Messiah!
this is so touching makes me want to cry......jk
Let’s hope we only have to wander the desert for 4 years instead of 40.
Bambi is nothing for American blacks. He’s a member of an East African Muslim slave-trading tribe that in fact probably captured and sold the West African ancestors of our former slave population.
Also, he’s not an African American himself, as that is really meant to be understood. He’s the (probably foreign-born) product of a white hippie and a foreign-born African graduate student. Hardly the stuff of which sharecroppers were made. He’s lighter than a paper bag, though, so I guess that means he’s born to rule. True Blue Vein Club material.
Wow, I think Obama should abolish slavery and set this old man free.
“He’s a member of an East African Muslim slave-trading tribe that in fact probably captured and sold the West African ancestors of our former slave population.”
Cannot be said enough.
“He’s a member of an East African Muslim slave-trading tribe that in fact probably captured and sold the West African ancestors of our former slave population.”
Cannot be said enough.
Another lamb to the slaughter
Most of the slaves came from central. western and southern Africa. Most of the slave traders came from northeasten Africa. You can look it up.
The sickness is getting worse.
The similarities are amazing. Queen Pelosi pulled him out of the Reids, where he was floating in his mother media’s basket of lies covered with tar to make them float. He suckled at the breast of the left, learning at their feet.
He won’t be throwing down a staff to have it turn into a snake though. In time, he will probably be revealed to be the snake.
To bad the God I serve doesn’t fit in here anywhere.
The old man’s been duped. Sad really.
Pretty close, but I think he has more of a chance of being Poses than Moses.
Nice graphic.
McCain has more in common with American blacks that Obama does.
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