An Historic Day, But, Oh What a Disappointment
45 years ago today, the Reverend Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. A wonder of language and vision for the future it defined the civil rights movement for many white people. What a disappointment to me that it apparently did not do so for the many for whom Reverend King struggled.
You see, tonight, U.S. Senator Barack Hussein Obama will accept the nomination of his party for the office of President of the United States. How unfortunate that this man was chosen. He who can himself point to the many opportunities he has fully exploited but derides the nation as holding people down. He who's wife has called this country "mean". He who has exploited his racial minority appearance. He who's policies (in as much as he's gone on record by voting or speaking) are opposed to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He who will not care for the least of his actual brethren. He who has called friend and used the influence of a man (William Ayers) who has unrepentantly used the most violent of means to oppose this country. He who has run on change but has used old school politics to destroy his opponents.
This man who is a socialist/communist, raised by socialists/communists, friend of socialists/communists and radicals has been selected by one of the two major political parties as nominee/candidate for the office of President of the United States of America. How disappointing.
We could have had any number of hard working, USofA loving, men of character and integrity who were coincidentally men (or women!) of color. In not having such a person, in having a hater of America, in having a non-patriot, inexperienced in all but cut-throat politics, a product of the Daley Chicago political machine, who has lied even about his racial make-up in an attempt to exploit his "blackness", we have the antithesis of Martin Luther King's dream, of our dream. What a disappointment.
Tonight, he is attempting to further exploit his "rock star" quality in his acceptance speech. His performance will be opened by, not other speakers, but other rock stars. He will not be confined to a convention hall but in an open air venue on a stage arranged to look like a Greek amphitheater. It is as though the messiah, the god, had stepped down from Mount Olympus to call his flock to him. Speaker of the House, Representative (Democrat) Pelosi has called him a "gift of God". I rather think that anybody who dares think themselves such is anything but that.
Yet I hear, again and again, people, that is to say black people, will be voting for him because Barack Hussein Obama is "black" and for no other reason. What a disappointment.
For us, the American ideal is personified in the concept of self-reliance, work ethic, honesty/forthrightness, decency, personal property rights, family, religion, an ability to defend oneself from criminals and crooked politicians, and personal responsibility.
