This is going to sound very contradictory, but I believe it is quite true.
Americans will buy shoes because a great black athlete sells them, Michael Jordan.
Americans will buy shoes because a great white athlete sells them, Peyton Manning.
Is that racism?
No, racism is when someone makes a decision on the quality of a person or their ability based on the color of their skin.
People in the south like Colin Powell, some whites in the south like Obama. In some respects, there is greater racism in the north than in the south, but if we look to the number of black senators and congressmen compared to the percentages of black people in America...clearly there is a reason why we do not see appropriate representation of black politicians at this level of congress.
Why is that?
Is it because of racism, or is it because the parties themselves are racists and will not back the blacks who want to run for congress or the senate, or is it because the parties fear that the voters will vote on the basis of skin color and not on political qualifications.
I remember 20 years ago it was very hard to find a black head coach in the NFL. Now we have seen a super bowl where both coaches were black. In 20 years, that is some damn fine progress.
College athletics is doing a miserable job of allowing black head coaches to get a chance, but the college system is a good old boy system run to a great extent by the good old boy alumni association. In the past year, we have seen one black coach get fired (Carl Durrell) and now at Washington another black coach has resigned at the end of the year (Tyrone Willingham). What are the chances that another black head coach will take their jobs?
What an Obama victory will do for America is beyond anything else government could do to empower blacks and their thinking that the deck is perpetually stacked against them.
No longer can any black man say, and hopefully someday a black woman that "I can't be president because of the color of my skin."
Obama as a president will do more to inspire blacks than anything I can imagine, and I seriously doubt that Obama who was not spoon fed is going to want to coddle or spoon feed other black Americans.
He is the best thing that can happen in America to overcome the residual racism we suffer from, that holds back our country for both black and white people. It is the healing that has long needed to take place, and I believe Obama truly understands the opportunity he has to "make it right" by just doing the right thing.
I pray to God that if he does get elected, that he does not get killed. I don't care if they keep him locked up in a bullet proof glass cage to protect his life, because if he gets elected, and then killed by some white guy...then that would be the worst thing that could ever happen to the self esteem and sense of change in America.
MLK's assassination did more damage than people can imagine. It killed the hopes and dreams of many white and black Americans that we could one day rise above the pettiness of racial divides.
Obama is the promise of the chance for the US to once again become a United states and stop with all this divisiveness.
We are all on the same side actually. The enemy is within us in the name of ignorance, and outside of us in the name of nationalism by every other country that would have us fall like so many other empires.
United we stand, and together as racists we fall...
Americans will buy shoes because a great black athlete sells them, Michael Jordan.
Americans will buy shoes because a great white athlete sells them, Peyton Manning.
Is that racism?
No, racism is when someone makes a decision on the quality of a person or their ability based on the color of their skin.
People in the south like Colin Powell, some whites in the south like Obama. In some respects, there is greater racism in the north than in the south, but if we look to the number of black senators and congressmen compared to the percentages of black people in America...clearly there is a reason why we do not see appropriate representation of black politicians at this level of congress.
Why is that?
Is it because of racism, or is it because the parties themselves are racists and will not back the blacks who want to run for congress or the senate, or is it because the parties fear that the voters will vote on the basis of skin color and not on political qualifications.
I remember 20 years ago it was very hard to find a black head coach in the NFL. Now we have seen a super bowl where both coaches were black. In 20 years, that is some damn fine progress.
College athletics is doing a miserable job of allowing black head coaches to get a chance, but the college system is a good old boy system run to a great extent by the good old boy alumni association. In the past year, we have seen one black coach get fired (Carl Durrell) and now at Washington another black coach has resigned at the end of the year (Tyrone Willingham). What are the chances that another black head coach will take their jobs?
What an Obama victory will do for America is beyond anything else government could do to empower blacks and their thinking that the deck is perpetually stacked against them.
No longer can any black man say, and hopefully someday a black woman that "I can't be president because of the color of my skin."
Obama as a president will do more to inspire blacks than anything I can imagine, and I seriously doubt that Obama who was not spoon fed is going to want to coddle or spoon feed other black Americans.
He is the best thing that can happen in America to overcome the residual racism we suffer from, that holds back our country for both black and white people. It is the healing that has long needed to take place, and I believe Obama truly understands the opportunity he has to "make it right" by just doing the right thing.
I pray to God that if he does get elected, that he does not get killed. I don't care if they keep him locked up in a bullet proof glass cage to protect his life, because if he gets elected, and then killed by some white guy...then that would be the worst thing that could ever happen to the self esteem and sense of change in America.
MLK's assassination did more damage than people can imagine. It killed the hopes and dreams of many white and black Americans that we could one day rise above the pettiness of racial divides.
Obama is the promise of the chance for the US to once again become a United states and stop with all this divisiveness.
We are all on the same side actually. The enemy is within us in the name of ignorance, and outside of us in the name of nationalism by every other country that would have us fall like so many other empires.
United we stand, and together as racists we fall...
