The farmer in Iowa gushed, saying that he had never heard a speech like it, that it was a rousing, moving speech. They have promoted him relentlessly over the past year, almost like a savior or the second coming. They are now using his "persona", what it is that they perceive it to be, to whip one candidate with it. William Bennett, the pundits pundit, has come out with a glowing account of why he thinks this man is one who is running on the right stuff.
Born in 1961, he wasn't old enough to participate in the civil rights movement. He doesn't have the angst that so many of us had growing up during that time, knowing that as black Americans we were the most hated people on earth. He didn't grow up with Jim Crow, segregated towns, cities, schools and the like. Growing up in the 1970's he would never feel the kind of racism this country reserved only for blacks, and was not even living in this country during the height of civil rights movement. By the time he arrived here it was all but over so it's imprint is not even on him. He does not have the anger black men in the country once had due to the horrific practices of racism, he doesn't know how it seared the soul, how whites kept their feet on the necks of blacks to keep them down and out. Barack Obama was not even in the country when Dr. King was assassinated.
They are saying that he is not like Rev. Jesse Jackson or Rev. Al Sharpton. Jackson was prominent during the civil rights movement, during and after Dr. King's death, has run organizations of his own for the advancement of race relations in this country, and has been forever in the face of whites for their treatment of blacks. Still is. Then there is Al Sharpton, he of Tawana Brawley fame. Rev. Al has become known as the ambulance chaser of the civil rights movement, as it were, but still, a great many in the black community have come to respect him. Iit was he, who had dinner with the great white Bill O'Rielly, who then declared that he was so shocked and surprised that everyone dined like they had good sense, with no one calling m'fer I want more tea. Both of these men campaigned to be president of this country, and both men continue to lend their time and talents to the modern day civil rights movement. Both are black, and that is where the difference comes in.
William Bennett says "Barack Hussiene Obama has taught the black community that you don't have to act like Jesse Jackson...Al Sharpton." Many in the republican party praise him, possibly a great many have crossed party lines in Iowa to vote for him. Why? Essentially because Barack Obama represents the "good Negro", more like what main stream whites wish most blacks were like. There are still millions of whites in this country who remember the precivil rights movement in this country, who remember the atmosphere of time when this country presented an Andy Griffith like quality, before blacks wanted anything, or were even a visible force. Blacks remained in the background and "knew their place", which was nowhere and subservient to whites. They didn't want anything, didn't ask for anything and were a happy go lucky people. Until Ms. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and Dr. King showed up.
Basically, what whites are saying is that with his history, his parentage, his looks and his education, Barack Obama doesn't remind them of the past, with it's racist bigotry, or it's present, with it's hidden racist bigotry. He doesn't make them feel uncomfortable the way Jesse would have, or Al, he doesn't call them to task for all the thins left undone, segregated housing, bad schools, no way into college for the young without affirmative action, bad health care, job descrimination. He is not black. His skin color is not in the face of whites, doesn't make them think of his darker skinned brothers and sisters, on whose faces anger, even hatred, make them feel guilt when they look at him, because they know he doesn't share a black history. Many of them probably even know facts I've stated here, that he wasn't even in the country during the height of the civil rights movement, which makes him even more perfect in their eyes. He has even managed to attain the kind of education most blacks here in this country still struggle to attain. In other words, he is the perfect black non black man, one with virtually none of the authentic black history that some of us still carry.
The republican machine loves Obama so much that they have stopped talking about him. Why? Because they would really prefer that he were the democratic nominee and not Edwards and most definitely Hillary Clinton, who they think is unbeatable. If he were to become the nominee they figure they can beat the living hell out of him. If he were to go on to become president they think they can control him. He wants to sit down to a table where he has very little foreign policy experience, except his vote on the war, or rather against it. Keeping your enemy close is one thing, but you still have to know that they are the enemy and always will be. Those people want power and the fact that their own extremely bad mistakes in world affairs has not diminished[ this. They still see their business as unfinished, and by hook or by crook, they have proven that they will try everything within their grasp to retain that power. Including making a puppet out of Barack Obama.
Yes, Obama represents to most white Americans what they all wish to see in all of us as black people, the good Negro. The good Negro, who leaves his past behind even though whites do not, who don't question white authority, but wait patiently for any little crumb whites will give us, when they want to give it to us, and in what quantity and quality. They figure that with the passage of all and any civil rights legislation of old that all our problems are solved, all our legal needs are taken care of, and we should not be agitating as in days of old for anything. We need to stop following Jesse and Al, and listen to that good Negro, Barack, with no history of the old civil rights movement, no thoughts of reminding whites that while the movement died when they killed Dr. King, there is still a deep and vast racial divide in the country, being continually fostered by them.
If nominated as the democratic presidential hope, Barack Obama will get my vote, but it will be a hostage vote, as it were. I will give him my vote because I don't believe in an anti vote, not voting in protest. Because I'm black I must vote as long as I have the breath to do so. If there is a vote while I'm on my death bed then I will do my damnedest to lift my hand and vote. People died in the country to assure that I could exercise that right, and to do less would fail them. So, Obama will get my vote only for being the nominee and there's no other way I can help it. My own belief is that Mr. Obama needed just a tad more experience for me, especially where foreign policy is concerned, even though he runs a committee on foreign policy! That was all I wanted, and I think that's all any other black folks want. The experience. But my other fear is that without that civil rights background Barack Obama will become nothing more than the good Negro, and believe me, white folks will let him know, in no uncertain terms.
The above has been published in my dkos diary just to make 'em holler, lol.
Born in 1961, he wasn't old enough to participate in the civil rights movement. He doesn't have the angst that so many of us had growing up during that time, knowing that as black Americans we were the most hated people on earth. He didn't grow up with Jim Crow, segregated towns, cities, schools and the like. Growing up in the 1970's he would never feel the kind of racism this country reserved only for blacks, and was not even living in this country during the height of civil rights movement. By the time he arrived here it was all but over so it's imprint is not even on him. He does not have the anger black men in the country once had due to the horrific practices of racism, he doesn't know how it seared the soul, how whites kept their feet on the necks of blacks to keep them down and out. Barack Obama was not even in the country when Dr. King was assassinated.
They are saying that he is not like Rev. Jesse Jackson or Rev. Al Sharpton. Jackson was prominent during the civil rights movement, during and after Dr. King's death, has run organizations of his own for the advancement of race relations in this country, and has been forever in the face of whites for their treatment of blacks. Still is. Then there is Al Sharpton, he of Tawana Brawley fame. Rev. Al has become known as the ambulance chaser of the civil rights movement, as it were, but still, a great many in the black community have come to respect him. Iit was he, who had dinner with the great white Bill O'Rielly, who then declared that he was so shocked and surprised that everyone dined like they had good sense, with no one calling m'fer I want more tea. Both of these men campaigned to be president of this country, and both men continue to lend their time and talents to the modern day civil rights movement. Both are black, and that is where the difference comes in.
William Bennett says "Barack Hussiene Obama has taught the black community that you don't have to act like Jesse Jackson...Al Sharpton." Many in the republican party praise him, possibly a great many have crossed party lines in Iowa to vote for him. Why? Essentially because Barack Obama represents the "good Negro", more like what main stream whites wish most blacks were like. There are still millions of whites in this country who remember the precivil rights movement in this country, who remember the atmosphere of time when this country presented an Andy Griffith like quality, before blacks wanted anything, or were even a visible force. Blacks remained in the background and "knew their place", which was nowhere and subservient to whites. They didn't want anything, didn't ask for anything and were a happy go lucky people. Until Ms. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and Dr. King showed up.
Basically, what whites are saying is that with his history, his parentage, his looks and his education, Barack Obama doesn't remind them of the past, with it's racist bigotry, or it's present, with it's hidden racist bigotry. He doesn't make them feel uncomfortable the way Jesse would have, or Al, he doesn't call them to task for all the thins left undone, segregated housing, bad schools, no way into college for the young without affirmative action, bad health care, job descrimination. He is not black. His skin color is not in the face of whites, doesn't make them think of his darker skinned brothers and sisters, on whose faces anger, even hatred, make them feel guilt when they look at him, because they know he doesn't share a black history. Many of them probably even know facts I've stated here, that he wasn't even in the country during the height of the civil rights movement, which makes him even more perfect in their eyes. He has even managed to attain the kind of education most blacks here in this country still struggle to attain. In other words, he is the perfect black non black man, one with virtually none of the authentic black history that some of us still carry.
The republican machine loves Obama so much that they have stopped talking about him. Why? Because they would really prefer that he were the democratic nominee and not Edwards and most definitely Hillary Clinton, who they think is unbeatable. If he were to become the nominee they figure they can beat the living hell out of him. If he were to go on to become president they think they can control him. He wants to sit down to a table where he has very little foreign policy experience, except his vote on the war, or rather against it. Keeping your enemy close is one thing, but you still have to know that they are the enemy and always will be. Those people want power and the fact that their own extremely bad mistakes in world affairs has not diminished[ this. They still see their business as unfinished, and by hook or by crook, they have proven that they will try everything within their grasp to retain that power. Including making a puppet out of Barack Obama.
Yes, Obama represents to most white Americans what they all wish to see in all of us as black people, the good Negro. The good Negro, who leaves his past behind even though whites do not, who don't question white authority, but wait patiently for any little crumb whites will give us, when they want to give it to us, and in what quantity and quality. They figure that with the passage of all and any civil rights legislation of old that all our problems are solved, all our legal needs are taken care of, and we should not be agitating as in days of old for anything. We need to stop following Jesse and Al, and listen to that good Negro, Barack, with no history of the old civil rights movement, no thoughts of reminding whites that while the movement died when they killed Dr. King, there is still a deep and vast racial divide in the country, being continually fostered by them.
If nominated as the democratic presidential hope, Barack Obama will get my vote, but it will be a hostage vote, as it were. I will give him my vote because I don't believe in an anti vote, not voting in protest. Because I'm black I must vote as long as I have the breath to do so. If there is a vote while I'm on my death bed then I will do my damnedest to lift my hand and vote. People died in the country to assure that I could exercise that right, and to do less would fail them. So, Obama will get my vote only for being the nominee and there's no other way I can help it. My own belief is that Mr. Obama needed just a tad more experience for me, especially where foreign policy is concerned, even though he runs a committee on foreign policy! That was all I wanted, and I think that's all any other black folks want. The experience. But my other fear is that without that civil rights background Barack Obama will become nothing more than the good Negro, and believe me, white folks will let him know, in no uncertain terms.
The above has been published in my dkos diary just to make 'em holler, lol.
3 comments:
Damn good post Mrs.Jazzy!!
I hope you don't mind if I link this post to my site,because you have said everything that I have been saying for months. Keep writing and I will keep reading!!!
Go right ahead, be my guest! Lol, my sis and I have so much to say about this knucklehead.
Obama doesn't need for the White folk to tell him. He is learning that he looks Black, talks Black, has love in his heart for everyone, like all Blacks good and bad, trained and untrained do, and that he cannot count on those crabs in a basket pulling him back in his "place" because they would rather fetch for the Massah's wife than one of their own... They believe that he is like they and they don't trust each other. You are the "they" I speak of and shame on you for being like that. YOU are the House Nigger and Barack is the Nigger that has no home. Raised by the Massah's family he still is Black and he has to deal with people who would not dream to even TRY to lead, afraid to let him do so. My name is Ron Means and I live in Austin Texas. I am Black thru and thru and I will never pull down a Brother for any one against the Brother, if the Brother is a good man. Not a Good Negro... but a Good Man. Too bad you don't see it. Is it fear that prevents you or ignorance?
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