Posted on 07/07/2011 5:38:15 AM PDT by Lakeshark
My fellow Americans, in regard to the U.S. presidency, please tell me we are over "the black thing." Can we move past race and gender and simply elect the best American for the job?
Due to liberal media manipulation and guilt, America elected an incompetent black guy as leader of the free world to prove that we are not racist. Obama's black skin has made him untouchable, the left's dream tool to further their socialist agenda. Once America gets over "the black thing", will the liberal media demand we elect Hilliary to prove we are not sexist?
How long will it be before the liberal media demands that we elect our first openly gay/lesbian president to prove that we are not homophobic?
I believe that the novelty of a black guy in the White House is over -- been there, done that, got the historic Obama (false) Hope & Change t-shirt.
I hereby proclaim the season of Presidential Affirmative Action over!
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The ubiquitous “black thang” is an evil caricature. Ask yourself what GOOD things the black/Negro presence in America brought after slavery’s abolition, and you can compile an impressive list. Many kinds of music, a depth of Christianity (not the Wright kind) that has to be seen to be believed, the dignity of regained freedom. Herman Cain shows all of that. Obama and his coterie flaunts the caricature.
If he only could... that would be just stepping out of Jim Crow but before the Great Society debacle. And black people appreciated the Republicans.
Indeed, laughing at the “race card” IS “racist”.
If he doesn't win, he'd be extremely valuable in the next administration.
The Left will never get over “the Black Thing” the race card is too valuable! But even according to them Obama was suppossed to be Post Racial and move the Country beyond all this...So I guess we are! No Need to Re-Elect!
They’re going to need a leader for that purpose — disgust with Obama won’t suffice. A Martin Luther King Jr. kind of leader, one who would not be shy about denouncing the evil hucksterism of figures like Farrakhan, Sharpton, and Wright, while voicing an inspiring vision and being willing to suffer for his principles. Herman Cain, and maybe Allen West, might be able to step into those shoes.
As long as conservatives call this biracial with no slave blood “black” we cede them the use of the race card.
His only connection to black America is his families slave owning past.
I forgot who said it first, but it’s worth repeating:
“The independents voted Barak into office in 2008 to prove they weren’t racist. They will vote him out of office in 2012 to prove they aren’t stupid.”
Youa are correct as far as you go.Balcks have brought some good in this country, but you have to have the scales so often shown with the statue of Justice, where she is blidndfolded and the scales do the weighing.
“Many kinds of music, a depth of Christianity (not the Wright kind) that has to be seen to be believed, the dignity of regained freedom.”
Has to be weighed against the cost of keeping so many of them incarcerated for murder, theft,dope and other things. The cost of paying affirmative action people who cannot do the job they were hired for, the cost of riots in our cities and the ever present threat of more if they are not satisfied they are getting enough. The cost of the ever-present race card thrown out nearly daily. The cost of Barrack Hussein Obama in the White House.
I dopn’t deny blacks have made a contributuioon to good, but lets not deny their other contributions as well. For me I can take some black music, but rap is an atrocity, calling it music or WTF is it is, it isn’t music.
I do see much dignity in many blacks I know , but I see drugs ,criminal acts, sloth, and ignorance in so many others.
Do we really wonder which way the scales would tip?
Hopefully one day they will even out or even tip the other way,I hope to see it, but I don’t think I will live that long.
What’s wrong with holding up the good as a good example while repudiating the bad? It’s the unthinking racist who wants to stick everything that black people do in a “blind justice scale” and come up with a blanket verdict. As far as I am concerned rap is from the dark side and needn’t be held up with the good examples — but that leaves blues, jazz, rock, and even some classical.
The Great Society, an idea that was mostly of whites, played a large part in what was intended as a safety net for poor people but turned out to be a hammock lowering into hell. Black people were just beginning to come out of illogical social disfavor with the end of Jim Crow. They were more likely to be poor than white people were because Jim Crow limited their options for sharing in the wealth of the white sector. The Great Society grabbed the poor in its jaws, and guess who got the brunt of it. Fathers felt less responsible to their families if the government would just replace them with a monthly check to single mothers. Many other related ills resulted.
Based on this, I would say that Obama has at least a decent chance of being re-elected. There is simply more white guilt out there than we realize, I think. That would be the only reason I can come up with for why his poll numbers remain above water - it clearly isn't based on his performance.
Really?
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
“I was never in to the “Black thing” to begin with, and have yet to see anything I like about it.”
In our lifetime, we never will see any good come from it. In fact, I believe the worst is yet to come.
Too late, they already proved they ARE stupid by voting FOR him in 2008.
Yeah it’s all the Great Society’s fault.
All somone else’s fault , it always is , and certainly you are right we shouldn’t judge them since it’s someone else’s fault.
So no matter which way that scale tips we who think some personal responsibilty is required are racist.
You have demonstrably gone off the deep end, attempting to distract and destroy the original idea, which was to have a POSITIVE example of black America in the limelight to serve as an inspiration to good. You go wallowing off in your beside-the-point complaints about how black America is so awful in the collective. Well if they are so awful, how much the more is a good inspiration to them needed?
So: What you are saying is that they have never had a good inspiration?
I beg to differ.
One more in the form of Herman Cain is good, Look up Charles Lollar and Allan West. It appears their good inspirations are mostly ignored. Charles Lollar ran for Congress in Steny Hoyers district and was a great candidate, but he wasn’t black enough for them. Former Maryland Lieut Governor Mike Steele ran for Senator against an a-hole named Cardin and lost, Steele wasn’t black enough.
There are many others who are good positive examples of black America, but as you say, I am off the deep end.
By the way Allan West did get elected,and is serving in the Congress. Good man, Conservative. I don’t know how they slipped up on him. LOL.
When I look at the Black Congressional Caucus. I am flabber gasted that this pack of oafs , tax cheats,ethics violators, and racists can be part of Congress.
You really strain to read anything and everything through your “let them go damn themselves” agenda don’t you?
Herman Cain has Class with a capital C that Shows with a capital S. You can keep carping about irrelevant factors but I see a door for the hand of God, to shamelessly mix metaphors. Quick, who does black really right? If half of America or something can’t even name one Supreme Court justice, how you expect them to come up with Clarence Thomas. Herman Cain will be on a stage grander than any of those.
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