I have been fighting off getting full blown sick. Today my body claimed as a day of rest. While I've been sleeping off and on waking every so often checking Kos for some diaries to lurk in, my floaty light headiness recalled something from the way back. Louis Farrakhan. I believe he said he was going be silent while Barack Obama campaigned and through his presidency. (I could be lying because I’m sick) I seem remember something to the effect of Louis Farrakhan stating he would self censor through Barack Obama’s Presidency so that his words would not be used against President Obama. I bet he didn't count on another four years. Stewing on this I am feeling like I got a drink of Kool-Aid with no sugar in it. And Kool-Aid with no sugar might as well be the cheap version--Flavor-Aid. I miss Farrakhan. Love him or hate him by word he will bring conversation to the table; it will be more than surface fluff. I can’t help but to wonder what he is thinking about Ferguson and all the events of the last few years of Barack Obama’s Presidency.
If the former Speaker of the House and gentleman Newt Gingrich can put words in a dead man’s mouth I think I am safe speculating on some things Farrakhan might say in a couple of years and at least he’s alive to dispute anything I might write here if he wants to.
One of the events I want him to speak on is the Tavis Smiley/Cornell West tour. I think he might allude to crabs in a barrel on that one. They barely let Barak and Michelle move in the place before they hopped on a bus to essentially bring him to task for something systemic and beyond his control. Black people have always known when economic times are bad in the U.S. because it’s worse in our communities. Do you know how many times I ate beanie weenies growing up? Beans and cornbread, cabbage, potatoes every conceivable way a potato could be made. To this day even Chef Ramsey can’t imagine away to make a potato that my grandma didn’t already cover. Scrambling from pay day to pay day to live. Yeah, I am ready for some Farrakhan to bring a few things home.
I truly look forward to his take on the whole Obama is not a citizen of the U.S. . Wait scratch Farrakhan on this one. My do over here is JOHNNIEEE COCHRAN! I MISS YOU!!! (Sniffling here tears rolling down my cheek.) I won’t do what I scorned the former gentleman of doing by putting words in a dead man’s mouth. I just can’t help but to think that Johnny Cochran on a couple of shows with T.V. heads would have changed the birther narrative sooner rather than later.
Somewhere along the way these last year’s we sorta stop calling people out for disrespecting The President of The United States. We didn’t remember that in spite of of politics the office no matter the man sitting in the office is as much a vision of America as the damaged concept of Democracy is a vision of America. So Hillary Rodham Clinton while you are out there framing our story to tell the world please be sure and frame a vision of the American Presidency as worthy of respect without regard to who holds the presidency while Barak Obama is still the sitting president. Then maybe I will consider voting for you. (Sorry about that little rant within the rant).
While I was ranting up in the prior paragraph I realized this is bigger than Louis Farrakhan. I was thinking on how social commentary is missing the likes of people like Farrakhan and Richard Pryor who would surely make a joke of Ted Cruz farting in the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport T.S.A. body scan machine. What would he think of how Prime Minster Netanyahu behaved toward the president? (I feel another bout of sleep pulling me down so I will wind it up.)
I was prompted to think on these things as I read Denise Oliver Velez’s Diaryhttp://www.dailykos.com/... about the Ferguson Kids video and the hate it received on You Tube. Smoothnmellow http://www.dailykos.com/... did a diary on the video yesterday with a great comment section. We must change the commentary on racism and how we view and approach our place in America as African American Citizens we must direct the dialogue and we need all our resources which include Louis Farrakhan. Don’t hate me, but we need White people too. As much as we have been excluded from the conversation on the table in a systemic way we must hear the voice of our sisters and brothers who stand with us. Thank you to the diaries here that has addressed the smell of racism. (My rant is done)
So I don’t know what democracy really means if you can be given the right to vote and then somebody can take it away and make your vote null and void, create circumstances of debt that you might not be able to pay under present conditions. But wherever there’s a carcass, there’s a buzzard somewhere.---Louis Farrakhan
Irini