I have been noticing something. It started at the beginning of the primary season, and it has now gone full scale. The Republican Convention and the Sarah Palin pick highlighted what I had feared:
No Black man will EVER be qualified enough to be President.
When Jesse Jackson ran for President, no one really thought he would win. He was seen by too many blue collar folks as an extremist. I frankly felt that he wasn't smart enough, so, as a Black woman, I didn't vote for him. Al Sharpton, well, I don't even need to comment on him or that baffoon Alan Keyes.
Enter Barack Obama. A self-made man, a son of a single mother, who earned his way into the most prestigious schools in the country. A guy who has traveled the world, graduated from Columbia and Harvard. A guy who beat the odds and became the first black editor in chief of Harvard Law Review. A guy who married a woman very accomplished in her own right. In a day and age where lucrative opportunities outside of rapping and sports for a black man are scarce, Obama passed up high paying jobs to become a community organizer. When he saw that he couldn't make the difference he wanted, he went to law school. He served 8 years in the Illinois state senate, and worked across party lines to effectuate change. He won a seat in the United States senate and impressed the most influential members, Democratic and Republican alike. He passed ground-breaking legislation, and had a personality and oratorial skills that are unsurpassed. He has written two best selling books, and has won a Grammy for best spoken word. He has been vetted like no other candidate, with the opposition creating scandal when they could find none. He has had to fire anyone that said anything hurtful about anybody, while those same people released pit bulls on him. White women accused him of being a sexist, forgetting all the while that he has een called every racial name imaginable by our country's supposed leaders. They have insulted his wife, questioned their parenting skills, belittled his achievements, and basically called him an "empty suit". They accused a man who just paid off his student loans an "elitist". According to the GOP and the media, EVERYTHING about him was and is fair game.
Meanwhile, McCain, a man who got into the Naval Academy on legacy still only managed to graduate at the bottom of his class. Despite this, he STILL was awarded a prestigious aviator's position and he commenced to crash numerous planes before being taken prisoner in Vietnam. While his wife stayed at home and faithfully waited for him, she was disfigured in a car crash but chose not to upset him by telling him. How is she repaid? By McCain coming home and abandoning her for a hot young beauty queen. The word from the MSM? Nothing.
He has done nothing for his constituents in Arizona, so much so that even his home state has become a battleground state. Now, he is a maverick, even though he and his wife were entrenched in the Keating Five scandal, something we have heard NOTHING from in the media. He botches every speech he makes, behaves like a foul mouthed caveman, and feels like the five years out of his 73 spent suffering somehow makes him owed the Presidency. Kind of how Hillary thinks being married to a successful President gives her carte blanche to be President.
While Obama was serving someone other than himself, Palin was walking across a stage in a swimsuit for the Miss Wasilla pageant. This woman took seven years to get an undergraduate degree, but SHE'S accomplished. She was a mayor of a town with 6000 people and managed to run them 20 million into debt. Don't forget the PTA Presidency, which REALLY helped her hone her executive experience. Her foreign policy experience? Hell, she's close to Russia, next question? Obama has been dogged for not giving the press enough access, yet Palin is given breathing room for weeks on end while she is coached in seclusion. Obama was bashed for allowing his children to attend Rev. Wright's church, but we are supposed to regard a woman with a 17 year old pregnant daughter, whose mate is a loud foul mouthed redneck, as a personal family matter. She attacks Obama and calls him names and blatantly lies, yet Obama and Biden have to be careful of how they approach her. Then, they'll be seen as wimps.
DOES ANYONE SEE WHAT I'M GETTING AT HERE? I cannot believe that his surrogates, at the very least would point out this. Obama is more accomplished than almost any candidate we've ever had, yet he's being compared to an idiotic, beauty queen wanna be, right wing extremist, annoying woman who is obviously a horrible mother with a rotten attitude and a sense of entitlement. She read a speech written entirely by others, and now the same party who accused Obama of being the teleprompter master and not focusing on issues are singing the praises of this empty dress.
I'm so disgusted I could puke because this shit could actually work. We cannot allow this to happen people.