Posted on 02/16/2012 1:07:44 PM PST by crosshairs
There has always been something bittersweet about the life experience of Maya Angelou. Think of the literature fashioned from a harsh and tragic upbringing in racially segregated Missouri and Arkansas: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; Wouldn't Take Nothing for my Journey Now. Think of her triumphs articulating the struggle of African Americans through the civil rights era. Consider that each year, her birthday, 4 April, brings with it both joy and painful memories.
Who would share that anniversary with the assassination of her friend, Martin Luther King? This year, if it progresses as Angelou expects, will exacerbate the pattern, bringing a momentous high, but not before some sickening lows. Don't worry about Barack Obama, says the chronicler of black history. He'll be re-elected. He deserves to be re-elected. But between now and November, it's going to get nasty. "I think we are going to see a number of people who say: 'I have no racial prejudice in my heart, not in my conversation,'" Angelou says. "But in the next few months, as we wind up to the double campaign, I tell you we are going to see some nastiness, some vulgarity, I think. They'll pull the sheets off."
Obama has critics and doubters. Angelou, the sage of black America, now 83, has no time for them. "I think he has done a remarkable job, knowing how much he has been opposed," she says. "Every suggestion he makes, the Republicans en masse fight against him or don't vote at all." It's about him being a Democrat and being the first black president, she says. Angelou worked with King in the 1960s as northern co-ordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the pair debated the possibility of a black president.
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There’s none so blind as those who will not see.
She’s just another low-rent racist.
She loves Hussein for his skin color. That’s all.
>>>”But in the next few months, as we wind up to the double campaign, I tell you we are going to see some nastiness, some vulgarity, I think. They’ll pull the sheets off.”<<<
Hey, Maya! Stereotyping people with ugly lies based on nothing more than your prejudice is called bigotry. Ascribing ugly motives and behaviors according to skin color is called racism.
You’re a sad little racist. Go to hell.
But hey, he’s black (sort of).
“Maya Angelou: ‘Barack Obama has done a remarkable job’”
Compared to what?
Words of wisdom from the affirmative action poet.
Maya is being vulgar already, saying those who will oppose 0 will "... pull the sheets off." She is directly implying that those who oppose 0 are KKK members. Not all racists are white ...
Remarkable is right! Everywhere I go, people are remarking. They are saying, “Remark this!”
People who voted for him are wishing they could remark their ballot. He remarked his non-existent birth certificate. He remarked his Social Security applications half a dozen times. His college papers have been remarked. So, yes, he is probably the most remarked identity since Carlos the Jackal. Remarkable.
I make all my political decisions based on the opinion of senile black poets.
At turning America into Mogadishu.
Now there’s a totally objective evaluation. No reason at all to suspect any bias on the part of Angelou.
Was she a Republican back then, because the Rev. Mrtin Luther King, Jr. sure was. President Lincoln (R-IL) freed the slaves, while the Democrats were the party of the KKK, Jim Crow, segregation, Gov. George Wallace (D-AL), the Dixiecrats, Harry Truman (”I think one man is just as good as another so long as he’s not a n*gger or a Chinaman.”), US Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) (”Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”) and many others...
“They’ll pull the sheets off”
Yeah, we saw this happen after 0bama was elected.
The “sheets” came off of black racial animosity.
If Obama’s done a “remarkable job,” in the sense of a very good job, then golly: What would a BAD job look like?
The poetic ho!
Barack Obama was a man of no talent or experience beyond making speeches when he ran for President after leaving no mark on the Illinois Legislature or the US Senate where he served in virtual anonymity. The leverage he had with voters was the ability to deride anyone who disagreed with him as a racist.
You said it!
Her prose is about as good as Zer0's presidency.
They suk.
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