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I love that folks like you and others can string all the info together and get it out there in the universe. Best thing about blogging for me.
Oh Wow---You suddenly figured out that you were wrong after all this time! BS! You're so done come November!
Go Barack 08!
Just reading that snippet, and knowing what my parents used to talk about on the Day King Was Assassinated, and how blacks reacted differently from whites........ I read:
* 'feeling just as everyone else did back home' as 'thank god that nigger is dead!' or 'thank god that commie ungrateful unAmerican nigger is dead!'
* more uncertain and alarmed for my country in the darkness' as 'what are those niggers gonna burn down/rape now in retaliation?' (see also Pat Buchanan's insistance on how many black men rape white women, to the exclusion of everything else)
* 'good news from America was hard to come by.' as 'thank god that nigger is dead!' or 'thank god that commie ungrateful unAmerican nigger is dead!'
But I'm being unfair to McCain, maybe he was 'different'. Again, it's because of what my parents used to say about what they experienced in mixed company the night King died (and how significant my grandmother's respect and emphasis was towards Bobby Kennedy and his speech in Indianapolis that same night). There's some historical revisioning going on in America in regards to what the majority of white Americans felt about King (and how many of the old timers still feel about King) -- and how America wants to portray herself as feeling. In another generation, our grandchildren will probably hear that only hardcore racists hated King and the rest of the country (read: mainstream white america) was behind him 100 percent.
Without seeing the video, I don't mind the black man holding his umbrella; unlike the men who hold Beyonce and Mariah Carey and Madonna's umbrellas, McCain's earned that type of protection. I assume that black man is trained in forms of jujitsu that haven't been released to the public yet. Too many assassins out there and McCain's a real target. That's colorblind to me, without seeing the video. I'll pull it up after work.
Here you go:
I want to say that I'm deeply disappointed that my dear brother Barack Obama decided not to go pay tribute and lay his wreath for the great Martin Luther King, Jr. That brother Martin's profound love and deep sacrifice for black people, America and humanity is in no way reducible to political calculations, even for the campaign for presidency. That Martin Luther King Jr.'s deep commitment to unarmed truth and unconditional love can in no way be subject to strategies for access to political power. Hence, I have a very deep disagreement with my dear brother, Barack Obama -- in this case, commitment to truth is in tension with the quest for power.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cornel-west/on-ob... Tavis Smiley
Please know that McCain's youngest child is a black child he and his wife adopted.
"McCain: Well it was primarily my wife's Cindy's idea. She was in Bangladesh and she and some of the medical personnel visited Mother Theresa's orphanage to try and help the children there. There were two little baby girls there. One had a heart problem the other a severe cleft palate. Cindy was very concerned about their ability to survive and their need for medical treatment, so she decided to bring them here for medical treatment. She fell in love with both of them. We decided to adopt Bridget. Two close friends of ours, adopted Mickey, the other child."
Why are you posting this nonsense? You are protesting too much which only means that YOU are racist. Adopting a non-white child does NOT make someone non-racist, but they are often self-righteous (see Angelina Jolie and Madonna).
P.S. - The McCain's adopted daughter is Bangladeshi NOT black. Get your facts straight - and get a life.
McCain's adopted child is not black and you said it yourself, Bangladesh.
Truthseeker-
You said, "However, who is Dr. West and why should Barack care about his approval? I guess Obama's nobody's whipping boy. He is his own man and will not pander to anyone - black nor white."
Mabye you have not been paying attention but he is under control (white control) and is not a free man even if he wanted to be.
Here is my take, I really am sick of people turning yesterday into a presidential media fiasco. Clinton tearing up, McCain lying and Obama in whereever. Its about remebering King's true message, magnificent life and what he wanted and was unable, due to his untimely death, to accomplish. Hillary disrespected the man in January and McCain could care less about him.McCain is being supported by the media, hands down. He is the media pet, not Obama and not Clinton. I heard that lame speech but most of his speeches are lame. The guy is less than mediocre.
I responded to your racist accusation elsewhere. I wasn't "protesting" anything. Am beginning to think most at this site are too overly sensitive in assuming that if someone posts anything close to a difference in agreement that we are automatically considered racist.
As I have said numerous times before. I'm not black, I am Native American and know what it is to experience racism first hand. My only point about John McCain was to be cautious in condemning him. Ok, So I'm stupid in that his adopted daughter is Cambodian or Bangladeshi...which I guess to some means she isn't black? Well in Kentucky, if your skin color is dark enough, they don't care what your origins are. In any case, I appreciate the education. I do know John McCain's daughters heritage was enough to sink his presidency aspirations in S. Carolina when he ran against Bush.
Wow. What a change! I was hoping for a new level of discourse and tone from Obama supporters. After all, that's why you're all so 'inspired' Obama. No more 'politics as usual.' HA!
'Warmonger'
'Archie Bunker'
Obama supporters will soon bring their man down into the mud.
Or maybe they already have...Obama won't personally repudiate Ed Schultz for smearing McCain as a 'warmonger.'
The comment about the man holding the umbrella...That's race-baiting!
Keep up the old Dem meme...' All Republicans are racist'
New kind of politics? Pathetic.
White
I agree with your previous comments.
Obama has promised to change the tone, style and level of discourse in the upcoming campaign. But it is obvious to me that commenters here at JJP will use race-baiting(seeing racism where none exists) instead of debate.
Be careful JJP. This may play to the Dem base, but white moderates truly drawn to Obama's message and looking for a forum to debate and advance Obama's candidacy may find it increasingly difficult if posts like this become the norm.
Consider this post my first entry in the JJPattacksMcCainwiki.
I agree but I believe that West's support of Obama has always been a critical one.
However yea, Hillary and McCain need to and have been called out just not by the mainstream media. Her tearing (her story is probably not even true)up and McCain's speech are pretty funny.
P.S. Republicans, thanks for you protest, if you dont want to read what is here then go elsewhere but dont attack the bloggers...moving on.
Bloggers are responsible for the words they write. This rant was way over the top and inappropriate considering that it illustrates exactly the kind of political discourse Obama himself is attempting to move the country away from.
I will continue to call it like I see it. BTW, I'm not a Republican.
Lately, he has taken to advertising on anti-immigrant websites, so this kind of hate isn't anything new.
I don't agree with the booing. People should have boycotted the event. It would have spoken volumes if he would not have had any audience to address.
Amen!