America’s Continued Shame:

There is a com­mon thread that runs through­out all play­ers in the Republican par­ty which has at its core a con­cert­ed attempt to pre­tend that President Barack Obama is not pres­i­dent of the United States. Republicans have long attempt­ed to sow scorn and dis­dain on the intel­li­gent left, in an attempt to paint them as Elitists, out of touch and far removed from the American real­i­ty, “oth­er”. 

They have sought to devel­op a nar­ra­tive that is “aw shucks” argu­ing that a pres­i­dent should be a laid back per­son in the mold of say Ronald Reagan or George Bush the 43^rd pres­i­dent. They sell the mer­its of a pres­i­dent who one would want to have a beer with. They have been suc­cess­ful in demo­niz­ing and label­ing Democratic can­di­dates like John Kerry, and Michael Dukakis as Massachuset lib­er­als, mak­ing the word lib­er­al a nasty stain and a neg­a­tive car­i­ca­ture. Of course two of the archi­tects of that dem­a­goguery Newt Gingrich and Bush’s brain, Karl Rove, are still a part of the polit­i­cal land­scape. Gingrich is involved in a fal­ter­ing polit­i­cal cam­paign against chief neme­sis Mitt Romney,while Rove heads up a pow­er­ful super pac that col­lects tens of mil­lions of dol­lars from wealthy donors like the Koch broth­ers and casi­no mogul Sheldon Alderson to fund right-wing can­di­dates in their quest to destroy Obama. Incredibly Gingrich is now whin­ing shame­ful­ly, his com­plaints? Negative cam­paign ads from Mitt Romney’s cam­paign and super pac. Spit in the sky it falls in your face.

The nar­ra­tive some­how places con­ven­tion­al wis­dom on its head, it con­vinces large parts of the coun­try par­tic­u­lar­ly the south­ern states that edu­cat­ed peo­ple are some­how un-American. By this rea­son­ing they have man­aged to con­vince large swaths of the pop­u­la­tion that peo­ple who play by the rules, gets an edu­ca­tion, raise a fam­i­ly, and live a decent dra­ma-free life, are some­how not American. Throw a black guy in there with a Muslim sound­ing name and the afore­men­tioned attrib­ut­es and this guy must be from Mars.

These are the same intel­lec­tu­al­ly chal­lenged folks who argue that (Global warm­ing is a hoax), This is the (drill baby drill) crowd which argues for unre­strained drilling for oil and nat­ur­al gas with­out a sin­gle thought for the envi­ron­ment. Anyone who dare men­tion the need for clean drink­ing water, clean air, and the need to pro­tect the eco sys­tem is cas­ti­gat­ed as the ene­my and an exam­ple of what is wrong with America.

There are those who pre­tend that what we are see­ing hap­pen­ing in this coun­try is just the com­mon nas­ti­ness of American pol­i­tics play­ing out. They are quick to point out that pres­i­dent Bush was treat­ed rather bad­ly by the left.

Really?

I just ref­ered to the for­mer leader of the free world as “pres­i­dent Bush”. When was the last time a repub­li­can ref­ered to our pres­i­dent as pres­i­dent Obama? The lunatic fringe of the repub­li­can par­ty has con­vinced some of the most intel­lec­tu­al­ly chal­lenged among their base that this pres­i­dent is not real­ly the president.

As we have seen from the moron­ic failed attempts of the birther move­ment led by ego­ma­ni­ac Donald Trump and oth­ers, to that woman in Florida who told Rick Santorum she does not refer to the Obama as pres­i­dent Obama, because he is not real­ly the pres­i­dent. She went on to tell him she won­ders why some­one does­n’t get him (ref­fer­ing to the pres­i­dent) out of there. To which the equal­ly moron­ic Santorum respond­ed “I am trying to get him out of there myself”.

The mind­set of the lunatic right imag­ines, if they are able to con­vince their equal­ly lunatic sup­port­ers that Barack Obama is not the pres­i­dent of the United States, some­how he will not be seen to be. Their strat­e­gy is tan­ta­mount to remov­ing the num­ber 44 from the Hindu-Arabic numer­al sys­tem and hope we will not notice we missed a number.

Throughout his­to­ry only 44 men has been so hon­ored to be called pres­i­dent of the United States, many has sought that office, many have failed , to date we have only had 44 men attain that lofty posi­tion, 43 white men, 1 black man. That his­tor­i­cal fact will nev­er be elim­i­nat­ed from the annals of history.

That there are peo­ple in this coun­try who pos­sess such bla­tant men­tal retar­da­tion to some­how want to sup­press the fact that a black man has attained what they said we could­n’t do is tes­ta­ment to our for­ti­tude. After 300 years of slav­ery, lynch­ing, rape, , jim crow ‚and every­thing that they could throw at us, the indomitable spirt of our peo­ple has shone through all the adver­si­ty to accom­plish what some can only dream about.

Sarah Palin Newt Gingrich

The dis­re­spect that has been shown to this pres­i­dent has been astound­ing, and has been noth­ing like we have seen before. MSNBC Martin Bashir com­ment­ed that repub­li­cans nev­er fail to refer to Sarah Palin as Governor , even though she was unable to com­plete a sin­gle term as gov­er­nor of Alaska, they also nev­er fail to refer to Gingrich as Speaker, even though he was ran out of con­gress on ethics vio­la­tion charges. Yet they are adamant in call­ing the pres­i­dent Barack Obama, a man who won by a large plu­ral­i­ty of the votes and the elec­toral col­lege to become the 44^th pres­i­dent of the United States.

This nas­ti­ness is noth­ing new, we saw ele­ments of it in the race between Hillary Clinton and Obama in the pri­maries , we saw the signs , we saw the despi­ca­ble racial car­i­ca­tures, we heard the nean­derthal remarks, and they were com­ing from Democrats.

The more it seemed Barack Obama was going to be the nom­i­nee the nas­ti­er the attacks became. Thanks to the inter­ven­tion of Senator Dianne Feinstein of California after Obama secured the nom­i­na­tion it appeared that the hatch­et was buried between Clinton and Obama. I am still not con­vinced that either Hillary or Bill Clinton vot­ed for Obama.

What we saw hap­pen between Clinton and Obama was indeed small pota­toes when Sarah Palin was inject­ed into the con­ver­sa­tion. She came with a brand of nas­ti­ness that we have seen metas­ta­sized into what is now a despi­ca­ble scorched earth brand of pol­i­tics, that seem hell-bent on total destruc­tion of the oppo­nent and win at all cost. I per­son­al­ly thought that the inflam­ma­to­ry nature of the vit­ri­ol sur­prised even the man at the top of the then repub­li­can tick­et, John McCain.
Sarah Palin it appeared, did not receive the memo that black peo­ple were eman­ci­pat­ed, her entire demeanor and tone sug­gest­ed she felt this black man belonged on the plan­ta­tion, many argue it was her intel­lect or lack there­of which was at play here. Having seen and heard her dur­ing the cam­paign influ­enced me to lean toward the lat­ter argument.

Most Americans who love their coun­try and respect her insti­tu­tions includ­ing the pres­i­den­cy, find it offen­sive the way this pres­i­dent is char­ac­ter­ized and treat­ed in gen­er­al. If you ask the pres­i­dent he will most like­ly parse and brush it aside as insignif­i­cant, that is what is to be expect­ed from him he is not expect­ed to speak about it, Obama, in order to be elect­ed pres­i­dent of his own coun­try had to pre­tend he was not a black man, in essence he had to pre­tend for the con­sump­tion and ben­e­fit of the illit­er­ate to be water, colourless!!

Neither Jessie Jackson nor Al Sharpton adopt­ed this pos­ture , there is no evi­dence that either gen­tle­men were even capa­ble or desirous of adopt­ing that pos­ture, and as such we will nev­er talk about pres­i­dents Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton. This fact is not nec­es­sar­i­ly an indict­ment on Mister Obama , he sought to use a dif­fer­ent path-way to get to where he want­ed to get to, we may argue with the path tak­en but I seri­ous­ly doubt that any­one would argue with the results.

I think where mis­ter Obama may have been a lit­tle naïve’, to bor­row a term from his for­mer demo­c­ra­t­ic oppo­nent Hillary Clinton, is where I pre­sume he felt that after win­ning the pres­i­den­cy America would have been trans­formed into a post racial soci­ety. This naiveté’ may have emanat­ed from Mister Obama’s eth­nic­i­ty, being the off­spring of a white moth­er and a black father. The pres­i­dent is all to will­ing to point to his white fam­i­ly mem­bers, repub­li­cans are equal­ly as quick to say we don’t care. President Obama being from Hawaii prob­a­bly nev­er heard about the one drop of black blood rule which has long been part of jim crow laws and insti­tu­tion­al­ized racism in America.

The unfor­tu­nate truth about mis­ter Obama’s post racial soci­ety is that for the most part, it is a fig­ment of his imag­i­na­tion. As Dr Martin Luther King Jr. envi­sioned a coun­try where lit­tle black kids and lit­tle white kids played togeth­er over 40 years ago, we have seen the kids play­ing togeth­er but the racial hatred per­sists. We have to face the sad truths that we can­not leg­is­late moral­i­ty, we can­not leg­is­late human­i­ty, we can­not leg­is­late respect, we can­not leg­is­late Godliness. As the world wit­nessed those black stu­dents walk through a gaunt­let of hate­ful , jeer­ing peo­ple in lit­tle Rock Arkansas, despite the pres­ence of fed­er­al troops, we must come to grips with the real­i­ties that nei­ther fed­er­al troops nor fed­er­al leg­is­la­tion will change the repro­bate minds of those whom are pre­dis­posed to hate.

THIS WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN

ABOVE IS THE GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA JAN BREWER, WITH HER FINGER IN THE FACE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDENT PLAYS IT DOWN AS WE HAVE COME TO EXPECT FROM HIM. HOWEVER THIS IS THE MOST DISRESPECTFUL CRASS, AND BORISH DISPLAY IMAGINABLE FROM SOMEONE WHO IS NOT FIT TO WIPE HIS SHOES. A DISPICABLE CLASSLESS MOMENT ONE THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY , A STAIN ON THE STATE AND THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA.

No oth­er pres­i­dent and his wife has been more cir­cum­spect and dig­ni­fied in the way they have com­port­ed them­selves whilst in the White House, than Barack and Michelle Obama. In fair­ness, President George Bush and his wife Laura were won­der­ful ambas­sadors in that regard. I per­son­al­ly liked pres­i­dent Bush and his wife Laura, even though I dis­agreed with most if not all of mis­ter Bush’s poli­cies, Laura Bush was a smil­ing lev­el-head­ed human being of impec­ca­ble char­ac­ter. Thank you Laura Bush for stand­ing up for Michelle Obama when the wolves were out to devour her.

There is a def­i­nite strat­e­gy to this dis­re­spect­ful demo­niz­ing of pres­i­dent Obama, not only is it geared toward an attempt­ed de-lig­itimiza­tion of this pres­i­dent but there is a more sin­is­ter mes­sage inher­ent in the strat­e­gy. One has to ask what prompt­ed that man to open fire at the White House with an AK47 rifle recent­ly? What is the rea­son for the rise in hate groups, includ­ing neo-nazis, skin­heads, and anti-gov­ern­ment mili­tias in the United States as report­ed by the FBI.

Let me be clear, the pal­pa­ble dis­re­spect is not only con­fined to pres­i­dent Obama, it may have been ampli­fied under his admin­is­tra­tion but it sure isn’t con­fined to him . There are a long line of self hat­ing  Uncle Tom Negroes who seem all of a sud­den to have crawled out of the wood-work to speak neg­a­tive dis­parag­ing things about the pres­i­dent, I don’t have to name them they know them­selves. These uncle toms were silent dur­ing the Bush years, too scared to open their mouths about any­thing for fear they would be sent to Gitmo. Now they are out in full force crit­i­ciz­ing this pres­i­dent. None is more painful to lis­ten to than Florida con­gress­man Allen West.

Here’s what he had to say recent­ly over the weekend.

“We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and my dear friend the chair­man of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain’t on the table.” He added, “Take your mes­sage of equal­i­ty of achieve­ment, take your mes­sage of eco­nom­ic depen­den­cy, take your mes­sage of enslav­ing the entre­pre­neur­ial will and spir­it of the American peo­ple some­where else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bot­tom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America.“est said at a Lincoln Day Dinner for the Palm Beach County GOP,

Allen West.Florida congressman:

Then on Tuesday January 31^st. Allen West attempt­ed to walk back his Uncle Tom moment of idio­cy, telling Soledad Obrien of CNN that what he was point­ing to, was that he was some­how in awe of a nation that allowed a poor boy from Atlanta Georgia to reach the heights he has reached.

Clearly Congressman Allen West is inca­pable of con­tain­ing his glee of becom­ing a Colonel in the United States Army and now a US con­gress­man, so he kicks the lad­der away that he climbed to the top on, so no one else could climb up as he has.

I won­der what con­gress­man Allen West would have done if he was born to a white moth­er and a black father who was a stu­dent from a dif­fer­ent con­ti­nent, then his par­ents divorced and he was made to move to live in anoth­er coun­try on anoth­er con­ti­nent , with his mom and a new hus­band , then brought back to live with his grand par­ents, strug­gling to define who he was, but ulti­mate­ly attend­ing Occidental col­lege in California, Columbia University, and Harvard Law school and be the Editor of the Harvard law Review. Then spend time work­ing to improve the lives of oth­ers in com­mu­ni­ty orga­ni­za­tions, then becom­ing a State Senator, then a US Senator, and final­ly becom­ing the pres­i­dent of the United States of America . And did I men­tion receiv­ing a Nobel Peace Prize? All accom­plished in under 50 years.

If Allen West a con­gress­man, is will­ing to ban­ish the most pow­er­ful man on the plan­et, the most pow­er­ful man in the United States Senate the most pow­er­ful woman in the US House of Representative, an estab­lished con­gress­woman and DCC chair from America, what would he do to us ordi­nary nobodys had he accom­plished what Barack Obama has accomplished?

During slav­ery slave own­ers used divi­sive tac­tics to keep slaves in check, some were told they were dif­fer­ent than oth­ers, usu­al­ly those who worked in the big house were made to believe they had some kind of leg up over those in the fields. This strat­e­gy worked in ensur­ing that a free flow of infor­ma­tion was forth­com­ing to “Massa” in the big house . That tac­tic helped to keep slav­ery in place for over 300 years.

Today we see that divide and con­quer still works with many who share the same skin col­or with us, if noth­ing else. This is evi­dent in black folks whom are more than hap­py to dis­re­spect his own broth­er in order to please his mas­ters. The more things change the more they remain the same. It’s in every aspect of black America, Allen west is so over­joyed that white Floridians vot­ed him into office he can­not con­tain his glee, in his hur­ry to shuck , jive and please mas­sa, he dis­re­spect oth­ers and kicks the lad­der away, not will­ing to allow anoth­er poor per­son climb up .

Pathetic!!!