Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
There is nothing that will be as empowering for blacks and other minority groups than to see Obama win the presidency in November.
Nothing.
If Obama loses, there will be nothing as depressing as well for the the blacks and other minority groups.
People need dreams that can be actualized, and Obama becoming president will go a long way to inspiring minority groups to believe they too can be whoever they want.
Sadly, race is still an issue, and an Obama presidency will go a long way to make race less of an issue.
Yes, race is still a major issue:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...ry-Clintons-supporters-shun-Barack-Obama.html
Boy, nothing could be further from the truth. I love it when other folks want to define for my folks what is empowering to us. You totally went off track when you said, "Nothing!"
Many of us are empowered now! And that number is increasing daily as we ween our folks off
YOUR message that we can only achieve ultimately if Barak wins. I spoke in front of a group of black kids last week and I have another group to work with this Wednesday. We are showing them that they don't REQUIRE an Obama victory to make it out of the cellar that the believe they own. It's messages like yours that empower the Jackson/Sharpton trains to stay full of folks who claim that white folks hate us and want us dead.
As a matter of fact, please keep this message of "Black People Need Obama" to yourself. Especially keep it away from my black children. I spend countless hours attempting to deprogram our kids from thinking that their success or failure is governed by someone other than themselves. I never see or hear you telling white kids that they need white folks in power for them to survive the basic day-to-day. If Barak wins, will you need help with your mortages for white folks to be successful? Is there some great net being woven to help you personally stop failing to do the right thing?
My people can make it, McCain or Barak! Neither will have a major impact that would outstrip:
a) going to class
b) doing homework
c) spending within their means
d) continuing education and training - THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES FOR LIFE!!!
e) saving for a rainy day
f) imporving their own lot in life through self-efforts
.....And most importantly....
G) STOP LISTENING TO FOLKS WHO TELL YOU THAT YOU NEED BARACK TO WIN SO YOU CAN FEEL GOOD ENOUGH TO THEN GO OUT AND ACCOMPLISH ITEMS A THROUGH F!!!
And for your information, should Barak lose, we will not fall into the mental Abyss that you fear. There are too many around like me to make sure that they don't give you the satisfaction of being correct. And we'll continue tell them the message we've been telling them all along. Maybe then they'll stop listening to YOU and start their own climbs towards self-achievement!! Thanks!
