Read What I See

 

     Read the title of this article again as it represents today’s reality.  We are in desperate need of unity.  A new beginning means we don’t have and African-American president for if he was African he could not be our president.  We don’t live in the African Continent we live in North America therefore anyone born here is an American and not an African.

Follow up:

  I am a naturalized citizen and do not call myself Something-American.  When I took the U. S. oath of citizenship I became an American.  I find disrespectful and maybe even unpatriotic that many of our citizens are referring to our newly elected President as something other than an American.  If we want a united America we don’t tell our citizens that our President is something else.  We know we are a nation of immigrants but first and foremost we are Americans and that is how we should address ourselves if we are to find unity.

     If Barack Obama was not born in Africa then he is not an African-American.  Unlike most of our black citizens he is not a descendant of slaves and being half descendant from Caucasian Americans he could very well be the descendant of slave owners.  But all of this for the sake of argument is really irrelevant as Barack Obama graciously is the best witness to the argument.  Unless someone can prove otherwise there are two things that I have never heard him say.  First that he is an African-American and the simple explanation is that he is not.  This makes a lot of sense for if he was born in Hawaii that makes him an American and nothing else.  Second I have never heard him say that he is Black.  He has said that he is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas and this in reality does not make him black unless you believe in the Jim Crow “one drop rule.”  The entire American Continent and the Caribbean use the term Mulatto for a mixed Negro and Caucasian.  It is only in the United States that the racist Jim Crow ideology exists.  Even the South Africans use the term Mulatto.  Actually the term Mulatto was also used in the United States until the Jim Crow one drop rule made it almost impossible to correctly apply it.  Blacks in our nation have been critical of those who display the Confederate flag for what they say it represents.  At same time they embrace Jim Crow’s ideology that if someone is partially white they must be entirely black.  I don’t understand why to this date blacks in our nation have not broken away from this rule that was created to be specifically racially discriminatory.

     There are many things that are racially incomprehensible in our nation and none strikes me more than our Black citizens embracing the Democratic Party.  As intense as the subject of slavery still is among blacks I wonder how many really know that Abraham Lincoln, the president that set them free was a Republican.  Jim Crow who enacted discriminatory laws in the South and the person that said that as long as a person had one drop of black blood he was still black, was a Democrat.  Woodrow Wilson, who believed that segregation was in the best interest of Black Americans and White Americans alike, was a Democrat.  Jimmy Carter who saw himself as a benefactor of blacks made them victims of his bad economic policies with double digit inflation and 7.7% unemployment.  Mortgage interest rates reached an unbelievable 20%.  Who suffered more under these conditions than the poor and the blacks?  By the time he was voted out of office after a single term only the more affluent Americans were able to afford the purchase of a home.  It was Ronald Reagan a Republican who cleaned up the mess that Carter left behind.  During the George W. Bush administration another Republican, more Black Americans purchased homes than at any other time in history.  True we had a mortgage meltdown but it was due to abuses by crooks and politicians that put selfishness above the best interest of our citizens.  These politicians were not looking out for the people they just wanted their votes.  It has been said that  "Democrats are not in love with black people they are in love with black votes.” 

     It has been unfairly stated that the Republican Party is the Party of white people as if they reject Blacks.  It is the choice of Blacks to allow themselves to be fooled by the Democratic Party.  They would be more than welcome if they decided to become fellow Republicans.  Even on social issues like religion and homosexuality blacks in America are conservative and more in tune with Republican than with Democrats.  The issue of abortion that so strongly separate Liberal Democrats and Conservative Republicans proves that it is the largest factor in controlling the population growth of blacks in America.  The Bush administration two times appointed a black Secretary of State but the black community did not give them the respect and admiration that they deserved until one of them endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate.  This is an unacceptable double standard from our black citizens.  For many years wealthy Americans and Republicans gave our black citizens jobs while the Democrats gave them Welfare and food stamps.  Illegal aliens were able to find jobs because the Democrats were handing out money in a way that discouraged poor blacks from working.  Perhaps blacks instead of listening to Jeremiah Wright, Jessie Jackson and Louis Farrakhan should have paid more attention to Pastor James D. Manning and Bill Cosby.  We could take note that Barack Obama has disowned Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan while Jessie Jackson was caught on video wishing to castrate him for comments that he had made about blacks.

     The black leaders for nearly fifty years have been deceiving and instigating our black citizens with the belief that white people deprive them of opportunity.  During that time tens of millions of immigrants mostly from Mexico and Central America have migrated, more times than not illegally and have managed to succeed.  The advantage immigrants had was that they were not brainwashed by activists with the notion that the white man was exploiting and keeping them down.  Immigrants saw the jobs offered by rich white people as a blessing in their hope to succeed in our country. 

     Hopefully with the election of Barack Obama all of the misinformation of the self-proclaimed black leaders may have come to an end.  Barack Obama is an example of what the message to blacks should have always been: Find a job, get an education, and assume responsibility and you will be absorbed into the American culture as an equal as long as you behave as one.  It is a shame that for decades this was not the message that black leaders offered.

     As a supporter of John McCain and an optimist I am beginning to see a bright side to the election of Barack Obama.  This should finally put activists like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton into retirement.  Now we have a President that is half black and no one can deceitfully argue anymore that this is not the land of opportunity for all.  Given the fact that Barack Obama rose through his hard work and effort he will not likely accept the argument of the old activists.  He will not likely allow excuses from those that are irresponsible and do not take charge of their lives.  If I had to guess I would say that four years from now if Barack Obama runs for a second term he will not have the same percentage of support from blacks that he had on his first run.

     Based on Barack Obama's past performance and associations I have been very opposed to see him become president.  There is a large list of cons that can be read in the articles that I wrote during the campaign and many of them still stand.  I do have to admit that he does not have the same theme that he started with.  Towards the end of the campaign except for the issue of medical insurance and taxes he sounded like John McCain.  During the second presidential debate numerously he repeated himself by saying “I agree with Senator McCain.  Perhaps this is the main reason why the debates were so boring and there was never a clear winner even when their respective sides claimed victory. 

     His recent rhetoric has moved him away from the left and now he is sitting closer to the middle in social and defense issues.  It is too early to tell yet whether he is a changed politician or not.  National security briefings will open his eyes further.  I am not giving him full approval and there are issues that I will be closely monitoring.  Having said this I noticed that he is no longer willing to pull our troops out of Iraq in defeat and he is going to make many of his supporters very unhappy when he has no other choice but to bomb Iran to keep them from becoming nuclear.  If he doesn’t he will be made a fool by the Iranians just as Jimmy Carter was.  History should teach him that the North Koreans fooled Bill Clinton and became nuclear while he was trying to negotiate with them.  As our President he has to do what is best for our country.  He is no longer a citizen who criticizes the President, he soon will be a President who will be criticized by the citizens.  We can also anticipate that the honeymoon with the Democratic Congress and Senate will be short lived.

     My congratulations to the 44^th American President