Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Racism Has A Black Face And Its Name Is Obama!

So, two men try to enter a locked dwelling in the middle of the day. It appears they have no key and are trying to force an entrance to the building. A neighbor or passerby happened to see the men struggling to open the door. Thinking that a burglary might be in progress the witness notified the local police department. A police sergeant responded. After interviewing the witness the police sergeant observed a man standing inside the now open doorway to the residence. The officer approached the man and asked him for identification. The man refused to identify himself, instead responding in racially inflammatory language.
The police officer asked the man inside the house to come outside to speak with him in order to help resolve the problem since the officer had been sent to investigate a suspected home burglary.
The man inside became abusive making racially insulting remarks in reply to the officer’s request.
The situation escalated to a point at which the police sergeant arrested the unruly man who had refused to identify himself or his right to be inside the residence. The arrest for disorderly conduct was made when the man came out of the house shouting demands at the police officer. He was taken into custody after leaving the sanctity of the house. At no time was the police officer rude nor did he use racially abusive language.
A supervisor was summoned and eventually the man was released after it was determined that he was Henry Louis Gates Jr., an African-American scholar and professor, who is a resident of the house in question, and was in fact employed at Harvard University. The professor accused the police officer of racism. You already know this story. You have already heard it on the news and watched the coverage of it on television. You already know that the police officer was a Caucasian and the man arrested was a so-called African-American or Negro and a personal friend of Barack Obama.
The following day during a press conference, Barak Obama was asked for a comment about the incident and replied by saying that the police "acted stupidly" and suggested the police officer owed Gates an apology. At that point, Obama was unaware of all the details of the arrest and criticized the police officer apparently because he is white. This knee-jerk reaction puts great illumination on the racism of Obama’s attitude.
Much in Obama’s writings, speeches and personal affiliations points out the intense feelings he bears against Whites in general and even to those close to him such as his white grandmother. During the election campaign his fealty to and support of Black Liberation Theology and to the chief writers and leaders in the Black superiority movement was made vividly clear. There are many faces which bear the mark of the racial bigot and they are of many colors. And while many Whites ashamedly wear the mark it has come to pass that some blacks, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright, for example, come to mind who never fail to hurl the charge of racism as part of the performance of their professions.
And now the white police sergeant is being drawn to the White House to meet with Obama and Henry Gates so the two of them can educate the poor stupid White officer in how to deal with Black people. The invitation itself already an insult seems to imply that the offer of free beer was sure to attract a White man to this civil slaughter.
The racist is a fascist. The racist demands that everyone bow to his will. The racist insists that he always knows better how everyone else should treat his race. The racist can never see his own prejudice, never account for his own bigotry, never acknowledge the guilt of his own brethren but is always ready to play the race card at the appearance of a television camera. The rest of us, Black and White alike, sit in front of our televison sets or listen to our radios wondering what our Black or White neighbor is thinking. And whether he is thinking of us.
The only good news is that charges of racism have begun to sound hollow, especially when compared alongside the attitudes of the multitude of Blacks in America who recognize the efforts made on both sides of the racial border to smooth out the ripples and to erase the ugliness of the past. Obama only does that when he’s reading his Teleprompter. Take that away and the face of racism becomes clear. It is black and its name is Obama.

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