Posted by
ParallaxAdHoc on Saturday, October 25, 2008 11:02:23 AM
The MLK dream was: that people shall be judged by the content of their character not the color of the skin. Secretary Powell’s endorsement of B. Hussein Obama is the exact anti-thesis to this dream.
When there was buzz about Gen. Powell being the best presidential timber in the yard, he did not make public his party affiliation. Or if he did, I simply missed it. My take is, Gen. Powell was acutely aware that the color of his skin was a significant component of his popularity. A Democrat/Republican angle would slice deeply into that popularity, especially given the fact that the black community is overwhelmingly a Democratic constituency.
It is misleading to assume that he is a Republican just because he was SOSOTUS in a Republican administration. After all this Compassionate Conservatism administration nurtured a Clintonite Mineta in its cabinet.
The Powel BHO endorsement is a quintessential anti-MLK moment. It is another eloquent illustration that this presidential race is all about race. Why else is BHO billed as the transformational candidate by the MSM? It is the triumph of pigmentation over character.
Kudos to Geraldine Ferraro for being the first one to point out this fact in public. She was taken to the cleaners by the mainstream media for it. But it only further illustrates the point how this presidential race is all about race.
Speaking of racial divides, B. Hussein Obama did consciously select his racial identity. Despite his white mother and his white grandparents who raised him, he went off as a teenager to seek out his black identity. Contrast this with Tiger Woods who publicly objects being identified as an African American on the grounds that it is disrespectful of his mother’s Asian heritage to be so labeled.
When BHO repeatedly points out that he looks different from the presidents pictured in the dollar bills, better believe that he is race baiting. Also better believe that he is doing it rather effectively. This is the only explanation that seems to make sense why there is a dearth of campaign posters and bumper stickers in the NY Suffolk county neighborhoods.
I consider it an act of political cowardice to buy into this racial nonsense. We have too much at stake in this election. It infuriates me that some are intimidated into not expressing ourselves. It infuriates me that my white neighbor who took from me a McCain/Palin yard poster but does not put it up on her yard because of her next door neighbor which happens to be a household occupied by a black family.
If we are cowered into not doing what we want during an Obama candidacy, what else will we volunteer not to do in an Obama presidency?
For the record, I am a first-generation American. I am a non-white, married into three generations of a white family. I am a registered Independent who voted for President Bush in 2004 as my first vote as an American citizen. I am outraged that in this election cycle we seem to be effectively intimated by the Obama campaign.
So I enjoin you, fellow Americans: Don’t let the racial bigots take away your right to vote your conscience. Not in an election cycle when we are at war with bigots of all shades and colors, most prominent among them being Red!