Posted on 09/15/2008 4:59:45 AM PDT by pabianice
The hopes of black America ride on his shoulders. But the outcome's way up in the air.
I am a black man born in 1954, the year of Brown v. Board of Education. Fleeing the abuses of Jim Crow, my parents moved from South Carolina to Washington, D.C., later that decade. Tales of racial oppression and racial resistance were staples of conversation in our household. My father often spoke of watching Thurgood Marshall argue the case ( Rice v. Elmore) that invalidated the rule permitting only whites to vote in South Carolina's Democratic primary. Memories of that story played a large part in producing the tears I shed on the evening Barack Obama won this year's primary in the Palmetto State.
Related memories -- the most haunting being our visit to a D.C. funeral home to pay last respects to Medgar Evers, the courageous head of the Mississipppi branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who was murdered by a segregationist -- helped reduce me to tears, again, on the night the senator from Illinois accepted his party's nomination as its candidate for president.
Never before have my emotions been so exercised by a political campaign. For one thing, never before has a candidate so fully challenged the many inhibitions that have prevented people of all races, including African Americans, from seriously envisioning presidential power in the hands of someone other than a white American. With intelligence, verve and elegance, Obama has opened the public mind to the idea of a black president and made that idea broadly attractive.
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Yes, but then again we’ll pay for the reconstruction. Kinda like a kid who in a hissy fit destroys his toy and the parent immediately runs out and buys him a replacement.
I wonder how much time the author has spent researching the racism buried deep down inside of many of his white liberal comrades.
He might not feel so comfortable with the wagon the black community’s been hitched to for the last 50 years.
Thurgood. Another American-hating 'African-American.'
Too many elitist, socialist, empty-headed limousine liberals saw great intellect in this vacuum of a brain.
Too many of his people saw a brilliant negro who spoke for them and made good in whitey's world. Those that did are the ones who see Justice Clarence Thomas as an Uncle Tom because he strictly interprets the Constitution and they heap insults and ridicule upon him while being urged on by the socialist elitist imbeciles.
McCain needs to start running ads of Rev. Martin Luther King, regarding “...a time when men are judged by the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin.”
The few black callers to talk shows that say that they don't support the socialist/marxist Obama, help me to not become completly disgusted. The wonderful talk hosts and politicians like Herman Cain and Michael Steele also give me hope.
Obama and his mindless followers step all over the achievments of the civil rights movement. I expect rioting from a close loss, or from a victory - see NBA and Football championship riots. That is very sad to expect low class, destructive behavior from whole groups. It really sounds racist to expect, but come Novemeber, we will see if the view is correct. I HOPE I am wrong.
(There. I fixed it.)
If the RATs want to improve the odds that blue states like Il and Ca pass shall issue CCW laws, all they have to do is stir up their base like this. What happens in South Central LA and South Chicago are bad enough, but if an attempt is made to export the violence, then the rest of us are going to gun up. The dirty secret (and not a little one) is that most Americans don’t give a s**t about what happens in the ghetto, as long as the people who live there keep their violence to themselves. One gangbanger killing another gangbanger doesn’t get us worked up. OTOH race riots will change the balance, and we’ve tried limiting guns, and that didn’t work. This time Americans are going to got the other way.
The murder of Medgar Evers was a crime, an injustice. Losing an election isn’t.
FABULOUS!LOL
Yet another person, supposedly educated, who offers up more of the "I'm-a-victim" BS doled out by Jesse and Al at every opportunity. In this day and age, there are far too many successful blacks to buy this victim mentality. For virtually all, if they aren't where they want to be on the economic and social ladder, it is because they made bad decisions. It's time they accept responsibility for their own actions.
As far as the election goes, if Obama loses, it's because American voters wanted someone else as their President, not becuase some small fraction of the voting public didn't get their way.
They want to get rid of race.... but use the term when ever it suites their agenda..
I cried when he won the nomination too.... but for different reasons.
I believe the aphorism is “the party of slavery, sedition and sodomy.”
I just watched some Tim Wise videos on youtube today. I’m disgusted how some people are so blinded by race.
It’s really hopeless when people obsess on it so bad.
The author doesn't account for the awful and loathsome addition of Joe Biden to this ticket.
Every time an article such as this is written, it brings me back to that first speech Obama made.
The speech about uniting the country, bringing people together. well.....oookay
I cannot think of a more polarizing and dangerous candidate in my lifetime, than Obama.
This guy doesn’t even realize how he has aided in putting to rest any notion that Obama may claim about being a uniter.
yeah, and here’s hoping that they try messing with the Korean Grocers in LA.
The writer of this article is ‘teaching a course about this election this fall’ and yet the theme of this article is that if Obama loses, it will be because of his race.
How biased and narrow-minded.
Could it be that because the majority of Americans do not live inside the cocoon of the Headquarters of Federal spending, knows as Washington, DC, voters might actually not want to have the policy positions of Obama in charge of their lives for the next four years.
I bet his students are never offered that distinction.
You were right, this thread needed it!!
If I sound agitated it's because I feel - scratch that - I am betrayed by people I thought were friends and whom I have invested years in building friendships.
This BLT (black liberation theology) crap is Anti-America, Unhealthy, and destructive. It isn't good for my family, your family or our whole American and World family. May God please help us.
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