What's really funny is how some white people view him as an elitist. Why? He plans to 'redistribute' the wealth they've been hoarding in their pockets since they started getting all of those tax breaks. Before the trolls get started...I am a business owner that has benefited from many of those breaks so don't get it twisted, Doesn't make it right.
I think most black people can agree the above video is the best example of how ridiculous the statement "Barack Obama is an elitist" is. I know Hillary Clinton is the first person to bring this up, but she lost the nomination didn't she? Clinton managed to alienate me and a few others with her tactics throughout her campaign.
I'm beginning to wonder just how many Black Republicans McCain has offended in the past two years? He started out really well during the primaries, not getting involved in the cat fight Clinton tried to put on, but he has since taken a dive from the Empire State Building and has yet to hit the ground. It must have been a serious blow to have the endorsement from Colin Powell go to our great Senator, but it should have awakened him to something.
We are a younger generation raised on the hope of our parents and grandparents. They become angry with us when we are not as hard pressed as they are, but we weren’t raised that way. This generation hasn’t seen their fathers drug from their homes and hung from the trees in front of the house all for the fun and amusement of another. This generation hasn’t seen children being escorted to school UNDER ARMED GUARD, because their parents wanted them to have equal education that was supposed to be afforded them BY LAW. This generation hasn’t watched people try to escape a fire hose turned on them at full blast for simply protesting the fact they couldn’t sit at a lunch counter. This generation hasn’t watched a man fight in the name of freedom that wasn’t afforded to him.
This generation (most of it anyway) has been taught that everyone should respect each other as equals. We all have a common goal and must work together to succeed at that goal. It’s not right to judge a man for frivolous things instead; to judge him by his character and how he treats others. This generation was transformed overnight and by that I mean attitudes changed where an infrastructure wasn’t set up to change with it.
Money was the answer and people naturally assumed these smiling thriving African Americans were accurate representations of our community. Suddenly there was money for housing, food, medicine, and all you had to do was to stand in line, fill out paperwork, and then wait for a check. It was a good idea, but education and jobs were missing. You needed an education for a competitive job–enter student loans. A vicious cycle began where some of us mistook the rantings of our parents and grandparents and thought we were entitled to the ’free money’. I’ve even heard my brothers and sisters utter the words, "They built this country on the backs of my ancestors and whupped they asses the whole time. Man, I’m trying to get mine!"
The rest of us internalize it and use it as motivation and the will to press forward. The rest of us know it is a slap in the face to every relative who suffered under the oppression of the ’old’ America. Who cares if you have to work twice or three times as hard to get anywhere at least you have the opportunity. So what if you have to change your way of thinking, dress, friends, speech, CHURCH. Yes, there are those of us that feel that way.
Then there are some of us that feel enough is enough. Black folk been around a long time, and if you don’t understand us by now you don’t want to. I hate to even go here, but shows like the Good Times, Jeffersons, The Cosby Show, A Different World, etc changed the way the America viewed our community. America forgot there were folk still as poor or poorer than the beloved Evans family. America forgot proud men like James Evans who were deeply angry over the state of affairs and never knew. He was seen as a good father struggling to make it so his wife could stay home. America never really saw another strong Black family at length until the Cosbys came along. I again mean no disrespect, but from my view minority groups as a whole were not accurately represented on television until they started appearing on the Black programs.
Now they're scared. Who will they be voting for on Tuesday? Is it Cliff Huxtable or James Evans, Phillip Banks or Ned the Wino? No, I think his name is Barack, Barack Obama a poor black kid from the island of Hawaii raised by his white grandparents to believe he stood on 'the shoulders of giants' and he's going to return this country to the grace God has given!
UPDATE: Thanks for all who left a comment. I have to agree with libdevil in that I am afraid of what will happen if a black president is elected. Now looking at the poll, I have to offer an apology. I agree it isn't the same question as the title of the diary...seems like I am polling racist voters and that wasn't my intention. I wrote this diary, because I feel this is a real issue. People are afraid to talk about it and this is why a tip jar wasn't added. Thanks again!
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