Gosh, the helium Presidente Zero's people released around the polling places in November didn't work on her.
Posted on 09/12/2009 4:13:39 AM PDT by kingattax
The Obama election was a milestone in our country's history. Blacks danced in the streets, talked about feelings of finally being able to feel at home in America, and cried for the cameras. But as a black woman in the Age of Obama, I don't see anything that reveals that Blacks in America have anything to celebrate. I grew up in the Deep South during the 1960's, so I'm quite aware of the issues our country faced at that time. Blacks mourned the deaths of two of their most profound leaders, Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This was a time when those who represented the leadership of Black Americans promoted a longing for the "Motherland."
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” I embrace the American qualities of freedom to worship, freedom to have my own opinion, freedom to express my views, freedom to achieve whatever it is God has created me to achieve. I hope that I will find others like me who are willing to break ties with the things that divide us, and embrace the timeless principles that have made this country the greatest nation on earth. That is why, when the next U.S. Census occurs, I will be making a new category just for me, the classification of being an American.”
Nicely done, Mary Baker.
Great article! Thanks for posting it.
This is an excellent idea for all of us.
By law your banker is to observe your race and note it.
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I’ve known a few “African Americans” who have gone “back” to see their “roots” in Africa.
They come home to America saying I am an American or perhaps a Black American but they drop that little African American deal.
Doesn’t matter if they are from Mississippi, Boston or L.A.
Malcolm X was quite a mischief maker towards people of all colors, which detail I presume this article skims by for brevity.
This “African-American” stuff is so silly because, as she says, it contains cultural presumptions. If race must be tracked, then limit it to something like Black/White/Red/Yellow/Mixed.
Wonderful article that should be front page NYT, but will never pass the sniff test by African American leaders, and that a shame.
Gosh, the helium Presidente Zero's people released around the polling places in November didn't work on her.
—one is reminded of Cassius Clay, oops-Mohammed Ali—”I’m glad my ancestors got on that boat” (after his first trip to Africa)
Any hyphen with American, whether it be religious, cultural,sexual or gender, serves to weaken what it means to be an American.
I am an American Catholic of Polish descent. Save the pollak jokes, I have heard them all by now LOL.
What a Declaration if Independence THIS is! I love it, Congratulations, Mary. Godspeed to you!
Being white, I don’t know what blacks feel, think or live, but I suspect they’re a lot like me, another American, and as I see people of color in all subdivisions, middle class, upper middle class, upper class, it looks as though Martin King’s dream is close to being realized. So I would like to think we’ve put the race thing behind us, where it belongs.
I don’t understand the majority of Blacks voting Democrat, but then, I don’t understand the Whites I know voting for Barack Hussein Obama. Neither makes sense.
Mary is my sister, more surely than if we had been born to the same parents, because we’ve been Born Again to one Father!
You’re right to home school too, Mary. Government schools are bad influences.
I’ve known a few “African Americans” who have gone “back” to see their “roots” in Africa.
And do they fall on their knees & thank God for being born in America? Just wondering.
. . . but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that ``We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,'' and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.
Journalist Keith Richburg covered events in Africa in the 1990’s, including the Rwandan civil war. He then wrote a book entitled, “Out of America.” He wrote that he went to Africa as an African-American, and left it as an American. He was roasted by the liberal establishment for daring to think on his own and for breaking with liberal orthodoxy.
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