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Today we should all be celebrating the Inauguration of our first African American President. Agree with him or not it is a historic moment for which this country should rightly be proud.
His supporters also have every right to be happy and celebratory today for their victory. However, there is a loud and bullying minority of them that threaten to mar the whole thing. Who see this not as a historic moment, but as an empowering one, and that not in a good way.
The Community Organizer Who Would Be King has a whole lot of healing to do. And it’s not just political, but racial as well.
I have not a racist fiber in my soul. My parents didn’t, either. They raised me right and I’m happy to report my wife and I raised our daughters the same way.
Sometimes, though, others make it very hard to be a good Christian, to stay that way, especially when the racism is directed at you.
Daughter # 1 lives and works in Philly. At a company that does contract work for the Federal Government. She lives in an area just a few scant blocks from where the Black Panther incident occurred on Election Day. The revelers on Election night were out of control. She regularly gets treated like crap on the bus she rides to work.
Today half her office force took the day off to watch the Inauguration. I've no problem with that. Yet when she needed off to keep a specialized doctor's appointment she was denied. She wound up in the Emergency Room two days later.
She is the lone white girl living and working in a heavily African American community. She took heavy verbal abuse not for supporting McCain but for NOT supporting Obama. Abuse of the “you’re racist if you don’t” variety.
So today she asked the only white supervisor if my daughter’s supervisor would be coming in today. A black employee heard the question and said to them both “let me tell you something. Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day. Today is the inauguration of the first black president. Ain’t no black people supposed to be at work this week, we ain’t doin’ nothin’!”
The kid wanted to bitch slap her into next week (we also raised our daughters to be no one’s pushover) but under the circumstances thought better of it.
The supervisor just laughed. No kidding, no reprimand, no rebuke. Just chuckled. Nervously. I’m trying to get the kid to report the incident but she fears reprisal. Yeah, it’s that bad there.
I know this is not indicative of all African Americans, I have many friends who are black and would be aghast at this. So does she. But there is a large portion in certain communities right now that seems openly hostile to their white neighbors and co-workers and feel empowered to do so because the President is black. You’ve seen reports of it on other sites as well and I’m telling you it’s not made up or blown out of proportion. In some places it is very bad right now.
So, Mr. Obama, you have your work cut out for you. Not only to you need to deal with two unfinished wars but you have a helluva divide forming in this country that your candidacy helped provoke AND YOU SEEMINGLY DID VERY LITTLE TO STOP. And you’d better get busy on it right quick before it starts to shred at this nation’s fibers. We have some very real external existential threats to this nation. We do not need internal distractions of this type.
I, personally, don’t think you’re up to the challenge.
For the sake of our Country I hope I’m wrong.
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Obama's Quagmire
Today we should all be celebrating the Inauguration of our first African American President. Agree with him or not it is a historic moment for which this country should rightly be proud.
His supporters also have every right to be happy and celebratory today for their victory. However, there is a loud and bullying minority of them that threaten to mar the whole thing. Who see this not as a historic moment, but as an empowering one, and that not in a good way.
The Community Organizer Who Would Be King has a whole lot of healing to do. And it’s not just political, but racial as well.
I have not a racist fiber in my soul. My parents didn’t, either. They raised me right and I’m happy to report my wife and I raised our daughters the same way.
Sometimes, though, others make it very hard to be a good Christian, to stay that way, especially when the racism is directed at you.
Daughter # 1 lives and works in Philly. At a company that does contract work for the Federal Government. She lives in an area just a few scant blocks from where the Black Panther incident occurred on Election Day. The revelers on Election night were out of control. She regularly gets treated like crap on the bus she rides to work.
Today half her office force took the day off to watch the Inauguration. I've no problem with that. Yet when she needed off to keep a specialized doctor's appointment she was denied. She wound up in the Emergency Room two days later.
She is the lone white girl living and working in a heavily African American community. She took heavy verbal abuse not for supporting McCain but for NOT supporting Obama. Abuse of the “you’re racist if you don’t” variety.
So today she asked the only white supervisor if my daughter’s supervisor would be coming in today. A black employee heard the question and said to them both “let me tell you something. Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day. Today is the inauguration of the first black president. Ain’t no black people supposed to be at work this week, we ain’t doin’ nothin’!”
The kid wanted to bitch slap her into next week (we also raised our daughters to be no one’s pushover) but under the circumstances thought better of it.
The supervisor just laughed. No kidding, no reprimand, no rebuke. Just chuckled. Nervously. I’m trying to get the kid to report the incident but she fears reprisal. Yeah, it’s that bad there.
I know this is not indicative of all African Americans, I have many friends who are black and would be aghast at this. So does she. But there is a large portion in certain communities right now that seems openly hostile to their white neighbors and co-workers and feel empowered to do so because the President is black. You’ve seen reports of it on other sites as well and I’m telling you it’s not made up or blown out of proportion. In some places it is very bad right now.
So, Mr. Obama, you have your work cut out for you. Not only to you need to deal with two unfinished wars but you have a helluva divide forming in this country that your candidacy helped provoke AND YOU SEEMINGLY DID VERY LITTLE TO STOP. And you’d better get busy on it right quick before it starts to shred at this nation’s fibers. We have some very real external existential threats to this nation. We do not need internal distractions of this type.
I, personally, don’t think you’re up to the challenge.
For the sake of our Country I hope I’m wrong.
- Poll: Only 4% Of Blacks Say Obama Has Improved Race Relations
In 2009, 75% of blacks believed Obama would help race relations. The Dream is Deferred. . . . More frustrating for African Americans is how the president has burst their 2009 bubble of hope that he would do something bold on race. Rasmussen Reports,...
- Obama's Racist Demagoguery
Pam Geller writing at World Net Daily: Obama's racist demagoguery Posted: July 22, 20091:00 am Eastern By Pamela Geller© 2009 After reading Barack Obama's speech at the 100th anniversary of the founding of the NAACP Thursday, there is no getting...
- Don't Piss Down My Back And Tell Me It's Raining
File this one with other recent hijinks like Dealergate. Don't tell me racism isn't a problem in America. Whether you're the only one who has to work the day after Christmas, can't get off for a serious medical problem when anyone else...
- Obama’s Ten Point Black Manifesto
Now that Obama is our next President, here’s what he needs to do before anything else if he’s serious about helping his race and bringing us together. ONE: Tell the world that America is no longer a racist country. In fact celebrate the fact that...
- Part I: Barack Obama Revealed, A Dire Warning From An African American...
Author: "Jazzman646" An insightful article by Jazzman646 :I have been hoping I would never have to write this article. I hoped it would never get to this point, which would force me to openly speak out against the first African American to seriously...