Shame on you American's

Cafferty: Obama: Race a factor?

 

From CNN's Jack Cafferty

"Race is arguably the biggest issue in this election, and it’s one that nobody’s talking about.

The differences between Barack Obama and John McCain couldn’t be more well-defined. Obama wants to change Washington. McCain is a part of Washington and a part of the Bush legacy. Yet the polls remain close. Doesn’t make sense…unless it’s race.

Time magazine’s Michael Grunwald says race is the elephant in the room. He says Barack Obama needs to tread lightly as he fights back against the McCain-Palin campaign attacks.

He writes, “Over the past 18 months, Obama has been attacked as a naive novice, an empty suit, a tax-and-spend liberal, an arugula-grazing élitist and a corrupt ward heeler, but the only attacks that clearly stung him involved the Rev. Jeremiah Wright - attacks that portrayed him as an angry black man under the influence of an even angrier black man.”

The angry black man, he goes on to say, doesn’t have broad appeal in White America. And even though the makeup of our population is changing, whites are still the majority in this country. How ironic that the giant step forward of nominating an African American for president may ultimately keep us mired in the past."

Duh

I said this over a year ago, its so typical of America to play the same  race game again and again,

To pretend its all ok

that we have grown and matured enough as a country, to elect a Black man or a woman for that case, to the office of the Presidency.

We obviously haven't.

Obama is caught between a rock and a hard place

like so many black males before him.

It just shows that no matter how high you rise in this country, that you still have

to play the game. Slave codes are still as evident today as they were years ago.

Ok there are lots of whites that do believe

but these were probably ancestors of the folks that were a part of the underground railroad.

descendants of John Brown,

descendents of those that marched and died

right along side my folks

but the rest, come on

America is still mired down in silly stuff

family values

what the hell is that to be talking about.

abortion rights,

Patriotism,

fiddling away while Rome Burns

But Man it has been an amazing exp to watch the young folks in my city Newark New jersey, get involved.

from Gang bangers, to students to the common poor kid in the streets.

they are singing out Obama's name

They are just so Damn proud and full of hope,

America

if you break there hearts again

break their hearts

like you do every day

with your neglect and indifference

with your,

jails  and bad schools

lack of jobs.

You will reap the what you sow

I cant remember another time like this

not since the 1970's

I easily predicted what would happen

that America would stay America

and would show its racist face

to the world once more

I predicted

that the glow  of Obama would wear off

and Americans would again show the world

how silly and scared we really are of change

and man this isn't just about race

How could you seriously elect McCain

and that Sarah what's her name

she is the Clarence Thomas of the woman's movement

cant we find a Anita hill just for her

Sarah your  voice drives me to distraction

and yes I will talk about how she looks

if I read one more article about her hair

that woman is wearing a damn beehive

what the hell is wrong with folks

anyway

America would watch the country go

down in financial ruin, just to stop a black man from taking its highest office

that is a hell of a statement

So America

cut off your nose to spite your face America

typical

If Obama loses

I will not only be devastated

but angry

and listen to  me on this one

I am not in any way advocating violence

but

if Obama loses

watch the streets in the inner city's

watch them closely

because people of color and our higher minded friends are going to be pissed

and the world will click its tongue

and like Katrina

the whole world will again see

what America really thinks of them

how can America lead the world

advocate democracy destroy

blow up country's like Iraq

and then went it is time

for it to step up

it takes a turn back into the wind

that will drive it into the past

I agree with Jack

I like angry old men like myself

me and jack could easily sit on a bench

drinking sweet tea

and tossing peanut shells at passing

pedestrians

You Go jack

call America

out Shame on you

shame on us all