Hey Mr. Brown,
You raise a lot of key thoughts in your communications. You offer street level politics and boardroom economics alike. No one is perfect therefore I, President Obama, nor anyone else can offer solutions which will fit all people. That would be like you going to your job and pleasing everyone that works within that company. It would be like having 10 children and not getting on the nerves of any of them at any given time. Since you posed the questions, I will answer in my opinion.
Yes there is an astounding uproar over President Obama. If you saw the acceptance speech, the diversity was overwhelming. We don't just want lower gas prices. If we go to war, we want soldiers to fight battles that make sense to the American people. We need healthcare systems that won't turn us away if we don't have a healthcard in our pockets. We need balance to our retirement funds. That is the tip of the iceberg.
It would be ridiculous to say that one man could change ALL of this plus end the oppression of so many people over so many years. One man cannot make an 80 year old gentleman automatically say, "What was I thinking? I respect black people now and I wish that Earl's grandchildren would marry my great grandchildren." It doesn't work that way. In order to have an end, you must have a beginning and vice versa. Stars and planets have beginnings and ends. Wildlife has beginnings and ends. It's the way that God, The Most High, Allah, and anyone else has planned it (with the exception of eternal life beyond practical life of course but I think you catch my drift).
1) We know that he can't ERASE racism. We do hope that bridges can be connected much like the days after 911 when people were concerned about survival rather than race. 2) I'm not sure what Obama's stand is on sentencing at this moment. I'll say that I don't 100% believe that the government administered AIDS and crack specifically to kill black people. To believe that, I would have to believe that white government is stupid enough to believe that there is no race mixing in this country at all. (sidenote: I'll also add that I believe the government did administer the Tuskeegee experiment but again Siphilis wasn't confined to our people.) Even Thomas Jefferson, supposedly, took part in that. Eventually white people would be killing themselves as well because there will always be mixing of races. Even if they didn't feel that we were capable of being their wives, they felt that we were good enough to have s*x with. Also, the immediate discrepancy that I can think of when it comes to sentences is crack vs. cocaine. In that regard there is still mixing among chronic drug users. I honestly can't think of a reason why there's a difference in sentencing here. Enormous amounts of money are made by selling each and they both destroy people in some way. From what I've read, crack destroys people even more than just about any recreational drug out there. Maybe that's why it weighs heavier. It just so happens that it's cheaper. Nobody likes a deal better than people below the poverty line. Hence it gets us the most. In my opinion, marijuana and cigarettes are an equal problem. We will spend our last 20 dollars on either. It's not a government problem, it's a SOCIAL problem that our people need to rid themselves of. 3) In order for us to obtain equity, we have to take charge. We have to trust someone other than ourselves and we have to make ourselves trustworthy. Prime example, I've pitched television shows to networks. My current position is to cut out the networks and create my own methods of broadcasting. We've been creating our own cool cup stands and t-shirt businesses for years. The world is created with leaders and followers. When we put our minds to it, leaders won't be stopped. Create businesses and grow businesses. Maybe the government can offer incentives but they can't create leaders. 4) The president can't deliver the dream. He can only provide hope for the dream which sparks thinking individuals that aren't afraid to fail sometimes. If Obama would've happened to lose this election, it would've been catastrophic. Our people wouldn't turn out in the record numbers for the next election. There would've been riots measurable to Chicago and Watts in the 60's and 70's. This is just a beginning,Earl.
I don't believe that there is 100% unity among our people or any other race. Right now it looks nice but we still kill our own people. We still poison ourselves by choosing drugs over food and civilization. Many of us still aren't taking proper care of our children or families even when we have the means. There is no government that I know of which will remedy that.
Will we criticize? Yes. The criticism began prior to the election. Jesse Jackson and Cornel West have made their differences public. They support the big picture though. I'm sure that you know as well as I do that not all people supported Jack Johnson, MLK, or Malcolm X. Many didn't support Johnson because he bucked the system by dating white women in public. People didn't support MLK because he wanted us to turn the other cheek and Malcolm X because he was too harsh. I'll add that Rev. King was chosen to be the leader when Rosa Parks was jailed. He wasn't the same Martin that he was in 1963. It takes reading between the lines to know the difference but it makes a lot of sense.
As far as impeachment is concerned, I haven't heard any mention of that by President Obama or Senator Obama. Not sure if it's in the plan or not. Would it be because there were no weapons of mass destruction? Would it be for the shift from Osama to Saddam? Would it be because of the financial bailouts? We've seen a President impeached for far less.
Tieuel Legacy! aka Shawnre'...The DDAd
excuse my misstypings
Posted By: Tieuel Legacy
Thursday, November 6th 2008 at 1:18PM
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