Why have some of us elected to move to panic city?
All this expressed concern when we know, or should have known that once the opponent's mask came off and her husband opened his big mouth and inserted both feet within during the South Carolina primsry, the black voters formerly squarely in her camp were put off by their derision and that was the start of MSM's decision to play up the portrayal of Barack as a 'black' candididate, with no regard to the fact that he's won more than a few predominantly white states.
The MSM attacks are and continue to be unfair and unbalanced. We shouldn't whine but recognize that the double standard is real and it exists, it seems to me white pastors of conservative leanings can say what they want, when they want. They receive not so much as a slap on the wrist and instead are invited into the white house for prayer breakfasts( case in point Rev. Graham), yet Barack is held responsible for one Wright soundbyte out of 36yrs of ministery, countless sermons, tireless community service, service to his nation and in the line of fire as a marine, 4 aquired degrees, 1 PhD and several honourary academic degrees.
How's 'fair and balanced' looking now?
Barack is held to standards that are lofty by anyone's measure when disparaging news reports about our opponents are few and far between. I happen to disagree with his denounciation of Wrights words, they were ill timed to be sure but on the whole-nothing but the truth delivered in a somewhat forceful manner.
Some are worried about these sounbytes making their way into adverts put out by republican 527's. I'm not worried about the 527's during the general, I think Brarack's party has learnt a thing or two about winning elections and I would not be surprised if the DNC had several 527's operating on the nominee's behalf. What's worrying me is the treacherous path TO the actual nomination as the closer we get, the worse it will get for us in my opinion. Those threatened by change in the status quo hve alot to lose and they're using every weapon at their disposal to quash the movement and Barack's candidacy.
It is true racism is their weapon of last resort-as Wright said, and I paraphrase: this country has failed to live up to it's promise of equality and freedom for all irrespective of skin colour. So the naysayers tactic ahve been :why not reassure people that the old constructs need to remain in place? Why not encourage them to remain in their comfort zones as opposed to challenging such out dated and repulsive pre-conceived notions? Everything is fine as is, why disrupt it?
Change, as Barack often says, is hard. I can safely say we're all waking up to that realization, and we do one another no favours by assuming we can skim over the issue of historic prejudice and dicrimination that has had an effect and continues to affect how black people see themselves, see their place in this country and struggle with how to express their anger, dissapointment and hurt. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction (Newtons 3rd law of motion) pushback and blowback are a fact of life and this is why I think that rather than denounce Wright's words, Barack should have first put them into context then reinvigorate his change message by saying the country needs change in people's relations to one another and change in how it relates to the world at large.
But in the final analysis this is Barack's campaign, though we each own apart of it by contributing our money, time and effort to donating, calling and canvassing to GOTV; strategic decision making stops with him and I will not stop or in any way lessen my support for his candidature-I believe he stands more than head and shoulders above the alternatives..
So why the perceived dents to his public image? Again, Barack's public image is only threatened by those harbouring out dated and repulsive pre-conceived notions that those whose skin is a different hue are to be feared, have suspect motives or to be outright hated. If this country cannot see it's way past such ugliness then in my opinion, it does not deserve Barack-perhaps a taste of McCain with a 100yr war in Iraq + war on a new front with Iran meanwhile the economy continues to tank and debt to the Chinese soars is just what is needed to shock everyone back into reality.
Support a new dawn for the politics of the future:http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/Ishara~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I adopted the name Hussein to denounce the politics of fear, suspicion and hatred.
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