March 31, 2008
"Did Obama Do
His Homework?"©
Vol. 3 Issue 7
If you listened to Barack Obama's
explanation of his relationship with his
former [?]
minister, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, you were
probably impressed by the way he
handled the podium and spoke so eloquently.
You may have been taken in by his
words, especially when he started his speech
with "We the people." If he had done his
homework and reviewed the Black movement
over the last forty-five years, he should
have said, You the people. [My italics] Why?
Because the self-anointed, movers and
shakers of the Black Movement, like
Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, do
not appear to want to be part of "We the
people." Their rhetoric and hypocrisy have
kept
the racial divide as wide as the Grand
Canyon.
Some Blacks seem to want to be
segregated. They celebrate the Black Miss
America Contest, and Black
Movie Awards; they have their own magazines,
Jet and Ebony and a host of other Black-only
functions.
They have their own schools. How many white
lawyers do you know who have graduated from
Howard
University?
If I started a Miss White America Pageant
or published a magazine called The
Caucasian, the press,
Reverends Jackson and Sharpton, and everyone
else in the movement would have a battery of
lawyers
with restraining orders at my door in
minutes. Then their lawsuits would follow
close behind.
I would be labeled a racist.
When is Black America going to start
taking responsibility for itself? If Dr.
Martin Luther King were alive today, do you
believe that Jackson and Sharpton would have
the power they have? Dr. King preached to
pull yourself up by the bootstraps and make
something of yourself. If you wait for the
government, you may die waiting.
During the 2004 Presidential race,
Senators Kerry and Edwards, cried out, "Help
is on the way!" Look
back at some of the great black leaders in
the country who did not wait for government
help and
entitlements and did it on their own—Sen.
Obama and his wife Michele included. So why
is he
advocating how White America and the
government have failed the Blacks. He knows
how to pull himself
up. Why not lead by example.
The self-anointed leaders’ like Jackson
and Sharpton’s rhetoric, helps keep the
racial problem in the spotlight. They have
also enlisted the help of the media in their
quest. They want to keep racial problems in
the vanguard even when they do not exist. I
believe the press helps to stir up a
hornet’s nest every time they have something
to report. They select and twist things out
of context to fit their agenda, especially
when it comes to race-relations.
Let us look back to 1997, when
professional golfer Tiger Woods won the
Masters Tournament.
For those of you who are not familiar
with the tournament that takes place every
year, the previous year’s winner hosts a
champion’s dinner for the current winner.
The host is also the person who chooses the
menu.
At the end of the tournament Fuzzy
Zoeller, a fellow professional golfer, was
interviewed about Tiger’s win. When asked
for his opinion by the press, about Tiger,
Zoeller said, "That little boy is driving
well and he’s putting well. He is doing
everything it takes to win. Therefore, you
know what you people do when he gets in
here. You pat him on the back, say
congratulations, enjoy it, and tell him not
to serve fried chicken next year..."
The press had a field day. It got so out
of hand that Fuzzy Zoeller lost his sponsor.
He was asked by the press to make a public
apology. Even Oprah got into the fray. Yet
everyone on the professional tour knows what
a jokester he is.
If Tiger Woods were Italian and Zoeller
said next year tell him not to serve
meatballs and spaghetti, or if he were
Jewish and he said it looks like bagels and
lox for dinner, the press would have laughed
along with him. However, their agenda raised
its ugly head, so they went ahead and made
it racial. Did anyone get hurt except Fuzzy?
Was the remark racial? I do not believe it
was. Every ethnic group has their own
dietary pleasures and we make fun of them
all the time, without harm. Why does the
press always seem to exacerbate the
situation? Every time they intentionally
make something racial out of a situation,
they move the Civil Rights Movement backward
by helping to incite the movement’s leaders.
On March 21, 2008, during a speaking
engagement, Barrack Obama said—"after so
many stops on the
campaign and eating hundreds of fried
chicken dinners—Don’t you just miss those
chicken dinners?"
Duh!
When Alex Haley's book "Roots" aired as a
mini-series on TV, it presented a
double-edge sword. First, it brought to the
forefront the problems during slavery. The
second and negative event it caused was a
movement that Blacks embraced, which said,
we must go back to our African roots.
Suddenly children were given African tribal
names. Some educators were dressing in
tribal clothes. As a result, they find it
difficult applying for employment when their
new names resemble Kawani Lumumba Jones
[Pseudonym] or they show up for interviews
in a long robe and sandals. Yes, prejudice
to some degree still survives in America
today. However, it is being exacerbated by
what appears to be a Black agenda.
Therefore, in retrospect, Obama missed
the mark and, in doing so, missed the
message. He did the
same in Ohio when he proclaimed that if
elected, he will renegotiate NAFTA to bring
back the jobs to
Ohio. What about the NAFTA created jobs in
the rest of America, will they be lost? If
he wanted to be honest, he would have said,
"NAFTA is good for America. Sometimes it may
hurt some part of the
country, however, in the big picture, it is
good for the country. It is up to you to
move where the jobs are."
When Toyota and Honda opened their plants
in Tennessee, they were hiring by the
thousands. How many
unemployed workers in Detroit relocated?
There is a Japanese proverb that says, "A
wise willow bends in the wind."
Senator Obama was one of the first to
call for the dismissal of Don Imus, however,
not of Reverend
Wright. All Imus did was insult a basketball
team—Wright insulted America. Do I hear the
word hypocrite?
Therefore, it appears to me that Obama
missed the mark. People have to learn to
help themselves, not
wait in line for entitlements.
I can picture Dr. King looking down from
Heaven, watching Obama speak. He is pursing
his lips and
shaking his head from side to side.
And, that is my opinion.
Michael Solomon/p>
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