(There. I fixed it.)
I have heard that Obama is more American Arab than African
American is that true?
My next question is if he is elected and fails will the Africans Americans blame the white man the Republicans or both.
My teenage grandchildren have a black father. Therefore they like Obama. I was thinking about them last week, how it wouldn’t do any good to try to change their minds, when I realized how angry they would be when he loses. I guess it is like trying to convince a teenager with a broken heart from puppy love that this will pass and a better person will come along soon.
"Black America" (and by that, I mean the 52% of blacks who have decided to be "African-Americans" rather than being Americans) will be forever bitter and disappointed until the day that it's hopes ride on it's own shoulders. No charismatic liar is going to wash away the self-applied stigma carried by a group that lives in the past, blames The Man for every problem they continue to accept in their own communities, and that thinks Rap Music is cool.
Every February I am educated about dozens of impressive blacks of the past who, rightfully so, earned my respect by advancing science, healing the the sick, and creating Jazz, Rock, Swing, R&B and Gospel. And then I look around today, and see thugs making millions calling women "hoes" and getting shot because after becoming millionaires, they continue to hang with the same loosers and act like petty criminals.
A big chunk of black society has wonderfully struggled, learned, achieved, and succeeded, and gone on to be Americans. Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Bill Cosby, and others should be heroes to black youth, if the world made sense. Instead, the failed part of black culture teaches them that these impressive people are actually "too white" (which implies that somehow, a significant group of their culture seems to think achievement is "not a black thing", which darn near makes me weep.)
Black America, however you define it, has got to adopt a higher standard for itself, and expect more of itself. What would impress me was if I heard the REVERAND Jackson and other black preachers saying, "Drugs will make you broke, steal from your family, and kill you. The unwed mother is not to be abandoned, but the behavior is not to be accepted. Black children need a strong father, and if you can't find a man who will behave responsibly and marry you first, it is better if you didn't have sex. Blaming someone else because you dropped out of high school is stupid. Get a job and work hard at it until you succeed; don't complain that the jobs that will hire you don't pay enough while you wait for a check from the government.
There have been endless brave, smart, and kind black people in the past who have earned my respect. And our "Great Society" handout, the multi-billion dollar Reparations program we have flushed down the drain-hole of history has done what generations of bigots, Nazi's and Klansmen could never do...destroyed the black family. As a white person, I apologize for all the money we spent trying to make ourselves feel better about slavery; we should have set it up so that we expected something back in exchange for all the checks. And I am sorry that most white people are scared to admit this, and are willing to go right on writing the checks, when we should be expecting some kind of thanks instead of Reverend Wright's blustery anti-Christian hatred.
If you teach a man to fish, he will go get a job as a fisherman and feed his family for life. If you give a man a fish, he will endlessly complain that it isn't fresh enough, is the wrong kind, wasn't cooked the way he likes it...and anyway, yours is bigger!