Michelle
Jeremiah Wright
William Ayers
Bernadine Dorn
Also, Obama came off looking like Al Sharpton -— and it did not do Obama ANY good that Sharpton and the other race hustlers came to his defense.
For me, this is bittersweet, as I thought that the ONLY silver lining with Obama was that he might put the race issue behind us, for ALL of us, for good!
No chance of that now.
But we do have another silver lining: a complete repudiation of Marxism, by this country, is brewing, and the race baiting Obama has lost any personal sympathy most of us might have had for him.
I agree 100%! Sorry.. .this one got me on the stump! Here I go!
This was the ONE great issue Obama had a chance to put the final nail in, and some would say that just his being elected did some good in that regard. But he has thrown away that great opportunity to fill the shoes of Dr. Martin Luther King, and continue King's legacy of uniting all people, judging people by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin. He has completely flushed that opportunity down the proverbial toilet. And this is a terrible shame.
Obama turns out to be a shallow man, very shallow. Dr. King would not have accepted a desk for the Oval Office made out of slave ship wood, an object that would seem to send a message: "Payback for slavery is around the corner, whitey!" Dr. King, I believe, would have been a much bigger man than that, and he would have seen this opportunity for what it is.
We can certainly sit around spanking ourselves all day for the sins of our fathers, a perfect waste of time, or we can spend our time achieving good education standards and a strong economy that empowers all of us to enjoy the American Dream.
Slavery wasn't invented in America... it was invented in Africa, and practiced by most of the European powers during that time in history. Slavery and social injustice have left an ugly stain on every continent. But here in America, we act as if our own country was the only one to have done any wrong, committed any unjust act, and therefore our country is worthy of being tossed into the dustbin of history.
I actually heard a young black man say a few weeks ago: "It's ok to hate my country because the Founders had slaves." While there is certainly some truth behind it, where on Earth is the place where slavery was never practiced? Is it OK to hate Africa, too? Because forms of slavery still exist there today.
We will not toss out the baby with the bath water, or cut off our nose to spite our face. We have been given a tremendous gift, a Constitutional Republic, that guarantees the greatest amount of freedom and provides the greatest economic opportunity of any government on Earth. We will be fools to destroy that great gift, based on some injustice that our parents, grandparents, or even great grandparents suffered in the past.
This ideology of victimhood is what Obama could have laid to rest. In so doing, he would have freed black Americans from the bondage of victimhood and empowered them to achieve the American Dream. He could have healed this country in so many ways. But that task must be left for another black President, on some other day. It will probably take a black REPUBLICAN to get the job done.
And we will know when that wise and mature President has arrived, because he or she will be willing to sit down with Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice, but I'll bet Obama is so shallow of a partisan politician that he can't even bring himself to have a beer with them.