First, here are a few highlight from Rev. Wright’s speech, to provide the context that is once again neglected:
• The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. “God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."
• We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.
• We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
• It just came to me within the past few weeks, y'all, why so many folks are hating on Barack Obama. He doesn't fit the model. He ain't white, he ain't rich, and he ain't privileged. Hillary fits the mold. Europeans fit the mold, Giuliani fits the mold. Rich white men fit the mold. Hillary never had a cab whiz past her and not pick her up because her skin was the wrong colour. Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong… I am sick of Negroes who just do not get it. Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home, Barack was. Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain't never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had her people defined as non-persons.
I support what Rev.Wright said, the true problem is that people get upset when you burst the “myth of America”. How dangerous is it to be in a country when you cannot criticize what is going on around you; the conditions that affect your family, friends, and loved ones? Yet Obama is in a position where he has to bend over and kiss a few asses. If he hadn’t he would have handed over the race to Hilary. Thank God I’m not running for President, I find it hard to bite my tongue and smile as someone puts their hand up my ass. There is no alternative to Obama, though a lot of people don’t seem to see that he and Hilary have platforms that are identical twins. So what’s the difference besides race and gender, the fact that Hilary plays the race card while Obama ignores the sex cheap shot.
I can’t decide if I should ignore the fact that he’s a black man that will enter the white house and leave all my black ideals outside on the sidewalk. Is he going to take the country as it is or still be able to call it on its faults? I think we got our answer during that speech. I guess I really am choosing the less of two evils. Deciding whether or not to accept this election as an “apology” for racism and all of its lasting affects, cause it may be the closest thing we ever get. Or should I tell them to kiss my ass and continue to live without it. Whoever gets up there will shuffle a few things around, but my optimism ends at that. Part of me hopes that Obama will get in there and say “Sike!”
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