“With Ms O or No!!!” “BO Got to have Hill and Bill!!!”

Wow!!!

This is really some exciting stuff…

It looks like the norm is going to the candidate “Ms O” coined “The One - Barrack Obama!!!”
And as in any great fight the contender still standing with the most point win… So there is no surprize that the Obama camp has a reason to cheer… They fought a long hard honorable campaign therefore it is their right to enjoy the spoils…

I say, “Bravo, Bravo!” And it look like “Ms O” got that slip fixed…

Now comes the decision of who will Obama choose to round out the ticket and guarantee a win for the Dems in the fall??? This is the Trillion Dollar question most pressing at this point… One has only to look at the competition for the general to realize the heightened ramifications of choosing the wrong person for VP post…

As I stated before, John is holding the troupe card here with Condelesa sitting out there in the wings… Also let’s not forget “the Hukkabee!” Hukkabee is still a force on the political stage to deal with…

From my vantage point, Obama does not have a “snow balls chance in hell” of winning the presidency without Hillary on his ticket… As fierce competitors they were two titans clashing with such force the world stopped and took note… Now together, how much more the greater would the force be…

Obama needs Hillary!!!

And quite frankly, history demands it…
This is a new decade, century, and millennium…
Therefore, it is time for a “cultural shift” where we as a people can come together and lay down our differences… As Dr. King said, “black and white; young and old; rich and poor; and all together…
This is the time and the people to bring this “cultural dynamic” to fruition…

Wow!!!

“Now run and tell that…”

“With Ms O or No!!!” “BO Got to Have Hill and Bill!!!”

“Ms O, Tis yo slip Hanging III???”

Ain’t these some exciting times…
A lot has transpired since I last culturally expressed myself…
So we have a lot to catch up on…

But let me start by saying,

“Ms O, Tis yo slip hanging???”

Wow!!!

Cultural Clashes everywhere…
From the Cultural divide of the black preaching style vs political correctness - to - the divisive parallels of the old vs the young… We are seeing the “rubber hit the road” kind of politics now where a spade is most certainly being called a spade… Now whether that spade is an entrenching tool or a card game is the problem…

You see culturally everything boils down to perspective…

Please allow me go lateral here for a moment…
I heard a preacher say recently that in respect to the “Gospel according to Ms O,” Obama the man… He made the observation that the “Gospel according to Ms O” refers one of the largest churches in the world… Where the sermon is preached to millions daily… No offering plate passed, tuning in is enough… I asked this highly respect educated man to elaborate further…

Culturally speaking a minister or pastor is one who feeds the hungry, comforts the needed, gives shelter to the shelter less, and cloth the naked… He said Ms O has done all these things and more… Not only that, he said, Ms O has entertained Kings and Queens… Ms O, is a Cultural phenom… A quintessential woman ordained by God for such a time as this…

Wow!!!
I never thought of “Ms O” in this light before… But I now can see exactly what he meant…

Never-the-less,

Ms O, tis yo slip Hanging???

I’m back…
Let’s see, where do I begin???
Culturally, the last month has been a “cultural train wreck and a political disaster…”
I deliberately stayed out of the fray hoping that someone would take the high road and bring it to an end…
But no one did…
Where is John and Elizabeth when you need them???
The Dems have become home wreckers and are in violation of domestic abuse… The Leaders seem to be afraid to step in and demand order…
The Clintons are slinging mud and Obama is running for cover… The Reps are sitting back enjoying the Drama…
So what is the Dems strategy…
Well, from my perspective, they don’t have one…
How can this be???
How do the Dems expect to win in the end if there is no end in sight???

Wow!!!

Ms O, tis yo slip hanging???

There is a slip up somewhere and someone needs to fix it…
Or let it hang and the end result will be a fashion disaster…
Does anyone feel me???
Can you catch my vibe???

If Obama is the one, then he is going to have to stop running from mud… Take it from me, it will wash off…
Now is the time for a knock-out blow…
I said once before that “politics is not for the weak at heart…”
Obama is going to have to bring out the “big guns” again to counter the attack with overwhelming force…
To squash the Clinton machine once and for all…
If not, neither Dem will have enough left to defeat anyone in the fall…
I believe the one thing they are both forgetting is the third person in the race…

The third person is John’s potential VP…
This person could easily be the scale tipper… If John comes out with someone on the level of a Condelesa Rice, it could be enough to give him a new look… The Dems must remember, a Condelesa is history twice all in one person…
Wow!!!
And it is quite apparent that if John wins, he is likely to place a lot of responsibility on his VP… This would position this person to be the next CNC…
So you see, someone needs to stand up and knock this ball out of the park… If not John will be able to bunt it in for a win…

Culturally speaking, the Clinton Camp has been a quick study of the cultural divide that Obama effectively took advantage of early on… Then it was Hillary that looked out of sink (no misspell) so she threw it at Obama… Now it is Obama that has ducked too many times to know which way is up… If either candidate is going to be effective in the fall, he or she will have to start sharpening their skills for the Reps…
Both sides must remember that what works on Dems will not work on Reps…
So this could really end up a sad story for the Dems if they are not careful…
The ironic thing here is the Dems are the usually the ones who disliked the kinds of tactics the Clinton Camp has used against Obama… These tactics are simply food for the Reps to defeat Obama if he does end up with the nom , (sometime in Oct)… Dahhhhhh!!!

Wow!!!

“Ms O, Tis your slip hanging???”

It sure is and how…
If Obama is the one, then he is the one that need a lot of help right now…
Obama prides himself on his good judgement…
I don’t believe the Rev Wright saga puts his judgement in question… But (wow the first but in the room), how he handles his campaign from this point on will speak volumes about his ability and judgement in pressure situations… Obama is in the final games of the playoffs and he has got to put it away now in order to have enough time to recuperate for the big game…

Obama need “Big Mo” again…
Obama must remember how easy things were when He had “Big Mo” on his side with Ms O…
It was a down smooth ride…
Hillary was the one throttling back then and has had to every since… Obama enjoyed the easy ride and now is feeling the fuel drain of having to throttle harder than ever before… And at these fuel prices. throttling is quite expensive…

So Obama is at a “must do” point in his campaign…
Obama must do something and do it soon in order to keep the faith and trust of the American people… A lot is at stake here and every minute counts…
We know that the Clintons are willing to do a “Thelma and Louise” on this campaign if necessary…
So Obama is going to have to do a “walking tall” to take back territory…

Wow!!!

What a picture…
But this is what we call our Political Process…
This Process is designed to give us the best possible candidate… Now it seems like the best candidate is the one that can sling to most mud at his opponent… The big problem the Dems have is that all the mud is being thrown inside the house…
Who is going to clean this mess up???
Dahhhhhhh…

Well, we will have to wait and see…

Now to lighten things up a little…
And you all know I like to keep it exciting…
Check this out:
I predict that there is going to be a rally of the rich, popular, and famous from every walk of life to put Obama over the top… This will be a testament to the dislike of mud slinging and character assassination the Clinton Camp has forge ahead with for the last month…
The culturally conscious around the nation will make the statement that it is still about the people and not politics as usual…
Tell them you heard it here first…

And now we know what church Obama is going to join…
The Church of “Ms O!”

Well that is that…
Can you feel me…
Somebody say, “Yes, yes, yes we can!!!”
Touch your neighbor and tell them, “Yes, yes, yes we can!!!”

Wow!!!
This is some exciting stuff…
All I got to say is:
“Ms O, Tis yo Slip Hanging?”

“The Audacity of the “House Niggers!!!”"

As I listened to several different viewpoints of Obama’s Historical speech, I realized it was time to address this issue head-on… Let me say, I am not speaking for all African Americans… I am speaking as one who believes that “we as a culture” have to take a hard look at ourselves sometime…
And if the shoe fits, well then…
If not pass it by… Be honest!!!

Let’s start by saying that Obama’s Pastor had the right to say everything he said… That’s why we call this America… This is the only nation on the planet where one can speak their mind without threat of being put in jail…
It’s called the “First Amendment…”
Dahhhhhhhh!!!

Also for the simple fact that the Pastor is ex-military, he has a certain amount of frustration from the spill over of the thoughts of his comrades in harms way now… It is almost impossible for ones who has put on the uniform to not feel the pains and frustrations of the soldiers in harms way…
Soldier PTSD is for real…
And if you have not been there, you don’t have a clue as to what I am speaking of…
But that’s another post…

Another point about Obama’s Pastor is that he spoke his words from the pulpit… Men called of God are tools of God…
And we all know that the Lord works in misterious ways…
No-one can deny that if God had not worked in this way, Senator Barack Obama would not have made this historical speech…
Hummmmmmm!!!

So now we are here at this point in time where history has already recorded this “call to order.” We the people of the United States of America must openly and honestly deal with our race issues head on… We cannot and need not turn back the hands of time…
The call has already gone out…

“So let’s have at it…

“Yes, what “Jack Nicholson” said (Costella) about “niggers” in the movie “The Departed” is a very powerful statement…
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4492/THE-DEPARTED-script…
(Bottom of Page 1)

“That’s what niggers don’t realize. If I got one thing against the black chaps it’s this. No one gives it to you. You have to take it.”

http://culturallyconscious.blogspot.com/2007/11/is-jack-right.html

Again I have to say that this is a powerful statement… It is blunt and direct and hard to swallow, but a powerful statement yet the same… I was reminded of this statement while listening to hardball with Chris… One of his guest was “Pat Buchannon!” Every body know Pat, who is a regular on that show… As I listened to the remarks of these two white men, I realized that they can only effectively deal with issues in their communities… It is up to black people to deal with issues in our communities… It was refreshing to hear them talk with such open candor, but (yes, the great big but in the room.) they were talking about their community…
What about my community???
What about people that look like me???

Well, this train of thought caused me to reminisce on the challenges I have had getting anything done in my community… These guys where talking about how this part of their community works and that part of their community works… I am thinking to myself, I can’t even get my Representative to call me back… This is what is wrong with my community…

So Obama was right when he said that we can’t make the mistake(s) of his Pastor… And one of those very significant mistakes is to point a finger at the other side of the house when our side ain’t in order…

Hummmmmm!!!

So when I look back over the last forty years, I see countless situations where “The Audacity of the “House Niggers”" have failed our own community…

Ok, if it’s about race issues then the critique starts at home…

So let’s have at it…

What do I mean by “House Niggers???” Well as most of us know that during the time of slavery there were the “field niggers” who worked in the fields and the “house niggers” who worked in the master’s house… The field nigger was guaranteed to stay dirty, cold, wet, and hot with lots of hard labor from sun up to sun down… The house nigger was guaranteed a lot better lifestyle with all the benefits of cleanliness, warmth, and plenty to eat… The differences between the two lifestyles were drastic… The field nigger often times carried resentment toward the house nigger… A great depiction of this fact was quite obvious in the Haley Barry character in the movie, “Queen!” In the movie, Haley played the part of a house nigger who found herself among the field niggers when the “Civil War” ended slavery which made her an out cast… Haley’s character uttered the line,
“I’s nigra too,” to make the point of how the field niggers felt about the house niggers…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen:_The_Story_of_an_American_Family

Now we have black members of the House of Representative on the state and federal level who are “House Niggers!” They are voted in by the field niggers who work hard everyday to make ends meet… The field niggers expect the “House Niggers” to be graceous to them and help them in any way they can… But instead it seems that for the most part the “House Niggers” totally forget the field niggers until it is time to be voted in again…

Let me speak plainly… What Pat said on Hardball in essence was, “I don’t want to hear about how bad the blacks have had it in this country for the last forty years. We have given them “House Niggers” to address their needs…”
And guess what, I hate to say it but (yes, the big Black But in the room) Pat is right…”

If black folks have an argument about anything, we must first look within to see where the problem is… How is it that we have had all these superstar athletes, movies stars, singers, and lawyers; all “House Niggers,” and we are still blaming the other side of the house for our problems…
The other side of the house says, “what about all these superstars (House Niggers) your communities have???
Why aren’t they taking care of you???
Good question, “Why aren’t they???”

The line in the movie “Departed” says that the other side of the house thinks we are stupid if we don’t take care of our own…
And they are right…
I have a non-profit… I am sure several black folk have non-profits as well, but (yes, again the big Fat Black But in the Room!) we can’t get these superstars to contribute money to our non-profits to help us help our communities… Who’s the blame, the other side of the house???
I don’t think so…

The blame is “the Audacity of the “House Niggers”" to forget the field niggers until they need us…
What is that about???
Remember we are talking race here…
Obama gave us the permission…
So let’s have at it…

I will give you a prime example of a “House Nigger” failing the field niggers…
The Jena 6 case…
I can hear you now saying, “I knew he was going there…”
You have got that right and I hope you feel the sting…
Young mens lives are ruined because a “House Nigger” by the name of Donald Washington - Federal Attorney of Louisiana, who was appointed by President Bush failed the “field niggers” when they needed him most… I believe most of you know the story how this one “House Nigger” had the responsibility to make a case that what was going on in Jena was a hate crime and the feds should have stepped in but (yes, ladies and gentlemen here is the Big fat BUt in the room) the “House Nigger” did nothing…

What was that about???
Can we blame the other side of the house because the “House Nigger” did not do anything???
I dare say not…
Look at the Duke 3 case…
Every white man with power to do something to help them guys win that case jumped in and did… From the state to the feds and through-out the system…
And we want to cry “racism!”
No! No! No!

Maybe we should do as another “House Nigger” who has not forgotten her position to the field niggers did when she addressed Donald Washington:

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee criticized Washington for not getting involved in the case by saying “I want you to tell me why you, the first black [Western District of Louisiana] U.S. district attorney, did not do more, and I want to know what you’re going to do to get Mychal Bell out of jail!”
http://www.civilrights.org/press_room/buzz_clips/civilrightsorg-stories/jena-6.html

It is the “House Niggers” we as a people must first get straight and let them know that we are no longer going to put up with less than the best from them…
Not this time!!!
Time is up for no representation…
Time is up for less incorporation…
Time is up for not being heard…
The field niggers have a mouthpiece, it is the “House Niggers…”
And when the “House Niggers” don’t speak for us then we can’t blame the other side of the house…
Oh no!!!
Not this time…
No baby, we are coming to you, “House Niggers!!!”

We are going to ask you the question, like Comgress woman Jackson asked, “I want you to tell me, “Why???”

Not this time…
It is not going to take another Jena for us to get meaner toward “The Audacity of the “House Niggers!!!”"
Not this time…
We are not going to sit still and say nothing when “Jack and Pat” can’t believe we are lashing out at a government who has given us the same opportunities to take what we need to be successful for forty years… They are saying, “you have the “House Niggers!!!” What are they doing???

If this sounds like a call to action…
Then so be it!!!
We get angry at “Bill Cosby” when he simply tells us the truth because we don’t want to hear it from a black man… But the fact still remains, “who are we going to blame???”
If we let the “House Niggers” not take care of the field niggers, who then are we to blame???
And even “House Niggers” don’t take care of other “House Niggers!”
Look at Rep. Cynthia Mckinney!
When she had the run in with the Capital Guards, she was cast out… She was thrown back in the field… This is a lesson for those who get to be a “House Nigger.” There is always the field…
But (yes, there is that big fat But again) if the “House Niggers” had stood up together, maybe a reprimand…???

Let me go lateral here for a minute…
I know so many women that would cut your arm off if you grab them… What Rep. Mckinney did was a “cultural response” to someone touching her that is built into her blackness… She could not resist the urge to “forcefully pull away” because it is apart of her “Cultural DNA Self Defense Mechanism!”
And every black woman I know have it…
Rep. Mckinney is the type of “House Nigger” that will not take back and not take down… But (yes again…Big Fat Black But in the room!) like “Bill Cosby,” who may I say has done his part and more to give back to the Black community, we throw them back to the field…

So you see as a people of color, we need to be more accountable to ourselves, our neighborhoods, and our country… I am not saying that a lot of us have not, but (and here we go again with this Big Fat Black But in the room!) if the shoe fits, put it on and change…

Obama openned the door… It is up to us to keep this door of dialogue open and move on through it to our next door of self improvement…
I have used the “House Nigger” metaphor to get your attention and to make a very serious point… I hope I have done just that…
If you are affended about this use of words, you should not be… “House Niggers” were apart of our not so distant “Cultural Past…” One that is not that far removed from us even today…

As of recent days, I have heard several commentators from the other side of the house make comments about hearing their ancestry use the “N” word on occaisons…
This was a direct result of Obama’s speech…
I hope to hear more dialogue from both sides of the house for all of us to find common ground and most importantly to heal our lands… 2 Chronicles 7:14

I hope this writing properly let the “House Niggers” realize that the field niggers are dependent on you to be there for us… I have been trying to get my House of Representative call me back for several month about a very serious problem I have, with no response…
I am depending on him to be there for me…
I am sure there are several other field niggers who are having the same problem… We can continue to blame the other side of the house or we can “say it loud, not this time!!!”

“House Niggers call the field niggers back…”

“We are depending on you to be our support…”

“The Audacity of the “House Niggers!!!”"

“The Speech of the Century!!!”

As I listened to Obama’s speech yesterday, I was very pleased that finally someone was addressing this issue of race that effects us all on a daily basis… I believe Obama was the only person that could speak to this matter in this way. Obama was able to address both sides of the house without bias… Obama, being half white American and half African Kenyan, is the epitome of a true African American… And it was not lost on Obama that His wife is Black American, the product of the slave and the slave master… I believe this was the defining point in this entire speech… It set the standard for how he should be looked upon by all Americans…

This was a much needed speech at this time, when Obama was in the land where the founding fathers penned the “Declaration of Independence…” The home of the “Liberty Bell…” And Yes, the birth place of “Democracy herself!!!”
Symbolisms were everywhere and the “vibe” of history being made was overwhelming…

There are some that would discard this historical speech as just another speech in Obama’s path to the democratic nomination… But this speech was much more than that… It was a down right “honest” look at “we the people” of the United States, now… And let me say, “it is about time!!!”

I can only say, “Bravo Senator Obama! Bravo!!!

Now the ball has been passed on to us, “we the people…” Now “we the people” have to take the ball and run with it… The dialogue has already started on the morning, noon, and evening media shows… Some are condescending and negative to the idea of facing their own issues about race… Others seem to be pleased that someone has finally given them permission to have an open and honest discussion about their own concerns about race…

For the most part, I believe this country is ready for this message, but is this country ready for the messenger???
We will adress this question at a later time…

I hope “we the people” will not allow the narrow-minded few to prevent the populus from expounding on our race issues and finding the common ground to heal our nation…
“Democracy demands it…”
“History demands it…”
And most importantly
“we the people” demand it…

“So let’s have at it…”

“The Speech of the Century!!!”

“The Audacity of Hypocracy!!!”

The Audacity of Hypocracy!!!

Wow!!!

What a historical camcorder moment in time… We have two highly qualified candidates competting for the office of the “Leader of the Free World…” This is truly some exciting stuff!!! Yes, democracy herself is being tested on every front to see if she can withstand the test of time… Each candidate has dung in deep and refuse to give an inch to their opponent, but only one can be the “Commander in Chief…”
So the battle is on…

But one cannot be remissed of the location of this historical stand-off… It is as if history herself chose this battleground state for this “Grand Cultural Showdown…” A state full of historical landmarks and monuments of the very birthplace of our democracy herself… When one thinks of Philadelphia, it is impossible to do so without the image of the “Liberty Bell” flashing across your mind…

Now for some, the story of the “Liberty Bell,” is simply another relic of a time gone past… But for others, the “Liberty Bell” represents a lot more… For African Americans, the “Liberty Bell” represents a

“Voice!”

Wow!!!
Yes, for African Americans, the “Liberty Bell” speaks loudly…
If one looks back in our culture, one would clearly see a time before the liberty bell, when black people (African slaves) had no voice… We were not allowed to exercise any freedom of religion or expression or anything of that nature… We were forced to live a lifestyle of mire existence in utter silence…. We labored our days away praying that “God” would give us a voice… A voice that the angels could hear… A voice sent from “God” himself that no one could deny… So for over a hundred years we prayed and believed that one day, there would come a sign of liberty for us, prisoners of slavery…

Culturally, we lived in a land that cherished our labor but hated our very existence… This was a strange land to us for the African slave was not born a slave… The African slave was not born without a voice… In his mother land, he was born free to live as “God” had intended for all men to live…

Free!!!

And most importantly, the African slave never forgot this… And neither did “God!!!” So as fate would have it, there was a great war here in America for “Liberty” from British rule… As a result of America’s great victory to win it’s independence, a commemorative bell that had beenw ordered was to ring in America’s independence or better yet, “Liberty…”

But first let’s talk about the “culture of the bell…”
The bell in early America was used in every aspect of American life… It was the primary instrument for signalling… It was used to signal worship services, call to order in parlimentary chambers, and in community center calls to arms or gatherings… So you see, the bell was a very essential part of early American life… Everyday at noon the church bell would ring to indicate the time of day… And this practice continued even into the twentith century…
I actually remember the ringing of the church bell as a call to worship on sunday mornings as a child…

So as a result of this great victory over the British, the “Independence bell” was ordered to ring in our independence… By “God’s” truly divine intervention the orderers had an inscription ingraved on the rim of the bell… It was a scripture that read,

An excerpt of Leviticus 25:10 (”Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV X”)

http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/liberty/01_history_02.jsp

The Liberty Bell’s refusal to ring a lie or better said, to ring “The Audacity of Hypocracy,” gave a voice to a people without a voice… The African slave’s prayers had been heard by “God” and the sign came in the form of this bell… Need I say, this bell that is regarded as a prominant monument of the price of “Liberty and Democracy!!!” It is now a symbol of freedom throughout the world…

Therefore as these two great patriots make history stomping down the same paths of our fore-fathers before them, let usnot forget the essence of this video clip in time… Let us all reflect on how far we have come and by “God’s” grace how far we still have to go…

And most importantly, let us not forget the lessons of the “Liberty Bell…” To ring in “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness…” And win, lose, or draw; it is up to us not to ring in division and inequality…

“The Audacity of Hypocracy!!!”

“The Audacity of Democracy!!!”

Wow!!!

Can it get any better???

Yes, it can… It is like the weather, just wait a minute!!!
Unlike the Republicans, the Democrates are living out history… The Democrates are exercising the principles of “democracy” that have not been worked out in some time… And democracy will be stronger for it… This long drawn out process can not hurt the Dems because it is “High Time” for this workout… The Dems are pulling and pushing; tearing down and building up; and most importantly engaging and engaging on ever front democracy’s very soul…

Yes, the soul of democracy is being tested to see if it can truly stand the “test of time…”
With out this testing, our core belief of what democracy truly is - is simple a fable… It is a hypothesis that needs to be proven time and time again to insure it’s theories are sound… With this vigorous exploration of the hieght, depth, and breadth of democracy, we cause her to grow… It is imperiative that this takes place or democracy will wilther and die… She will lose her sprint of vivacy and vitality!!! Yes, she will lose her soul and she will die…
So you see that democracy is alive and living best when she is exercised and allowed to grow and expand to encompass all history has in store for her… Democracy is not fragile only the people charged with keeping her…

Democracy is like the wind…
She comes and goes whereth she will…

So let’s let “Democracy” have her way and in the end she and we will be best served…

“The Audacity of Democracy!!!”

“The Audacity of Diversity!”

Wow!!!

This stuff keeps getting gooder and gooder…

I watched CNN this weekend and saw a segment of Larry King with Tori Spelling… Larry made the statement that the Spelling house was the biggest house in LA… Larry asked Tori what was it like living in the biggest house in LA… Tori said, “From my perspective…”, and she went on to answer… http://search.cnn.com/search.jsp?intl=true&query=tori%20spelling&type=news&sortBy=date

When one looks at Obama’s Pastor’s “Sermon on the Mount,” one must say it is a matter of perspective… Whose perspective was the Pastor speaking of??? Well as a black man in my late forties, I could easily say he was talking from a black man’s perspective…
From my perspective…
He did not say anything shocking to me…
Remember, I am a black man…
I am looking at the world from the perspective of a black man who has lived my entire life in America…

The same America the pastor was talking about is the America I live in everyday… So it is not offensive or anti-patriotic to hear, understand, and speak the truth of these matters… It seems to me that the powers that be are afraid that the truth will be exposed…
Kyra Phillip did a piece on “Noose” a while back where she showed a very ugly time in our recent past where white people hung black people for centuries… www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/studentnews/10/04/sn.transcript.fri/index.html - 61k -

No one can deny that this is our America… This is the America that we call home… So why is so many people claiming to be so surprised or shocked at the Pastor’s statement??? You cannot change the past nor rewrite History… And take it from me, there are still several issues that we as a people need to openly and honestly discuss…

Obama running for president is the only reason there has been a heightened awareness of this open dialogue, but it is about time… It is impossible for us to duck this discussion any longer… I thought we would have crossed this bridge by now, but I guess not… So let’s get at it…

“It’s about Culture!!!”
The true American Culture!!!
First of all, we can not “white wash” this topic… We must call a “spade a spade…”
Obama is running on the idea of the American dream… Dr. King’s dream was deeply rooted in the American dream, but Obama’s roots are strongly embeded in the American dream… We now get to see the man Obama that has fought all of his life to belong… Growing up, Obama was never black enough to be consider totally black and not white enough to be considered totally white…

“Obama is American…”

Therefore, Obama has bridged the gap of the races… When he is talking to a white person, he can relate to having white grandparents that do what white grandparents do… When addressing someone black, he can talk about their struggles of equality and equal justice… So you see, Obama is the “quinessential man…”
We also see a young man from a single parent family looking for the father he never knew then finding him in a man he may not always agreed with but who excepted him for who he was… And just like all of us, we get embarrassed when our parents go off the deep end and say things we don’t agree with but we don’t throw them under bus… We denounce and move on…

Obama is as much the “American dream” as any true American could ever claim to be and unlike some, Obama knows it…
So for all those that would resist the realities of life I say, “change…” American has had “The Audacity of Diversity” from it’s beginning and will have it through out it’s existence… It is this uniquely “American Audacity of Diversity” that makes America Strong… I doubt if we all looked the same that we would all get along… Hummmmmmm!!!

So whether black or white or young or old or rich or poor or shy or bold; we all be Americans and that’s a good thing…

“The Audacity of Diversity!!!”

“I am Mad as Hell and I’m not taking it Sitting Down!!!”

Wow!!!

It is time to do something as “we the people” of the United States of America…
It seems that when Bush don’t get his way the fuel prices start going up… And when Bush gets what he wants, he rewards us by lowering the fuel cost…

I have not done a study but I can see and it looks that way to me… Either way, the people should be mad as hell. We must take action ourselves or we will boil over as a “culture!” How much more can we be expected to take… I have called all the organizations to ask what can be done…
I blog about it all the time…
I talk about it all the time…
But noone has an answer…
I have an answer!!!
Let’s boycott Opec for weeks and file individual lawsuit against the energy dept… Even better, lets protest all around this nation at every gas station until the oil prices come down… Even better, let’s all go on wellfare until the government, that is suppose to be for the people, gets the picture…

I am sure you can hear my frustration and I am not alone… I don’t know exactly what we can do but one thing is for sure, we have got to do something…
We the people of the United States are going to have to take charge of our own dsetiny other wise we are doomed… It might already be too late… I am afraid that if something isn’t done soon, the dollar is going to be in the drench and we are going to be begging the third world for help…

Now of course there are those “Fat Cats” that have stashed tons of euros away from kickbacks and down right thief from our tax dollars who don’t give a damn, but for most of us this is the only country we have… If we don’t do something, who’s fault will it be??? If we don’t do something, what kind of future will we have???

This is a sad story…

What in hell were we fighting for all over the world to come home to ruin???
Is this crazy or what…
It is getting really ugly out here and we are the ones looking bad… Like I said, I am mad as hell and I am ready to do something drastic… When John Lewis was in the the fight for “civil rights,” he along with Andy, Jessie, Martin and the like did something drastic to make change happen… No, I am not talking about something violent, that is not me… But I am seriously talking about something drastic… I can not imagine how “Wall Street” gets a bump when oil prices go up… Dahhhhh!!!

We must do something drastic enough to get the attention of our sleeping or out to lunch government… I don’t believe the President even realize “how fuel prices are defining our culture???” And our governing body representatives make too much money and don’t feel the pain of us average folk… I hope CNN, MSNBC, and any other media outlet will call me in order to start this conversation…

As most of you know, I drive a “big truck” as a day job (until I am discovered :)) and it costed me $4:00 per gallon… That’s 150gals everyday… And no, the shipper don’t cover all the fuel cost… If you are wondering why the cost of everything is going up check out the cost of diesel… Prices will rise in direct collation with fuel cost… Now ladies and gentlemen, that means the increase is pasted down to us… Dahhhhhh!!!

“I am Mad as Hell and I’m not taking it Sitting Down!!!

“Don’t Play the Blame Game!!!”

Ok, ain’t it time for Round Eleven???
Wow!!!
A new start is important for both candidates…

Everybody need to take a deep breath and then exhale… It is time for the Dems to start talking about the issues and reign their staff in…

I don’t believe Hillary is a racist and truly believe she is sorry about any remarks that her staff and husband may have made in the past…

For Obama, I believe he is his own man and regardless to what his former pastor may have said in the past, Obama does not know color…

Either way, it is time to move on… Besides we have to prevail in Nov. because this administration has no clue what to do… I am mad as hell about the condition of our economy and these high fuel prices!!! We must have a person in that office that can clean up this mess and straighten all this crap out… I believe that most people have been pushed to the wall and are ready to do something…

“Don’t Play the Blame Game!!!”

“Will the “Real Democratic Party,” Please Stand Up???”

Wow!!!
This stuff is getting ugly out here…
I don’t know about you, but I am having a hard time recognizing the “Democratic Party” anymore… They are beginning to look alot like the Republicans…

“Will the “Real Democratic Party” Please Stand Up???”

What happened to the party that stood up for “Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Women Rights??? The party that was color, gender, ethnic, and class blind… The party of the people…

Now that said, the candidate does not choose the president, the people do… The voters are the ones who decide who will get the opportunity to serve this nation as it’s leader… I am surprised to hear so much about race and sex and color and class… All these are “Cultural Characteristics” our forefathers fought lived and died for…

So I say where is “Elizabeth Edwards” when you need her!!! Elizabeth Edwards layed out the rules of conduct about the race from the beginning on a segment of “Hard Ball!!!” Mrs Edward strongly suggested to Chris, when he tried to interject the race and gender card into the interveiw, that this race was not about race, sex, or anything discriminating.. She boldly stated, “It’s that what we all fought for (equality)??? I believe we need for El;izabeth Edwards to come back and remind the Dems what they have obviously forgotten… Maybe John Edwards got out too soon… The Edwards brought balance to this sometimes unbalances race…

So, I hope we as a party can come together as “Civil” campaigners and start acting in accordance to party principles…

Now about Florida and Michigan, lets follow the law… If we don’t then don’t say anything when the Republicans are changing the rules in the middle of the game… You see what goes around, comes around…

“Will the Real Democratic Party Please Stand Up???”