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Recently, an Associated Press/Yahoo poll stated race WILL play a major part in this upcoming election. Specifically, "one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them 'lazy,' 'violent' or responsible for their own troubles."Now first, I have to applaud Sen. Barack Obama for not allowing race to play any part in his campaign. This is - I believe - the main area that made it no where near possible for Rev.'s Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton to have a snowball's chance in hell of winning their respective runs for President.
Personally, I do not believe that America is any more or less "ready" for a black president now than they were back in `88 when Jackson ran or when Sharpton ran four years ago. In fact, the reality is the same people who never wanted a black president back then still do not want one now.
This AP/Yahoo poll only goes to prove that the views many (but not all) white Americans have held about blacks have not changed one bit, and it is this view that I have labeled "the arrogance of their ignorance." It is this arrogance that makes them funny to me. Not funny in any sense that brings a smile to my heart, but funny in the sense that I have to laugh to keep from telling these types of people where they can go and how fast they can get there.
You see ... The truth is that they recognize their ignorance. They know it for the ugliness that it is, and they cannot stand to face it; however, the beliefs are so deeply ingrained in their brain waves - in their DNA, that they can neither let it go - nor can they face it. Unfortunately, it is because they refuse to face it, they will never be able to move beyond it. Instead, they want US (black folk) to move beyond it. They want us to let them off the hook. Neither Jackson nor Sharpton could or would ever let them off the hook. As for Sen. Obama ... he can afford to allow them some respite from that hook. You see, what fails to be realized here is that Sen. Obama is a TRUE "African-American."
I say "true" in the sense that unlike myself; unlike Jackson - unlike Sharpton, Sen. Barack Obama is NOT a descendant of slaves. He is the son of an indigenous Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas. However, in the "arrogance of their ignorance," this "40% of all white Americans that hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks," including many Democrats and independents, do not see the bridge between the ethnicities that Obama not only represents, but actually is. No ... they only see a black man.
If this election - like all others preceding it were left up to many of the people who participated in that AP/Yahoo survey, I probably would not have much faith in Sen. Obama's chances to win this election. However, in the end, it's not really going to be up to them. Oh no ... this election is going to be up to the youth. The last two elections were stolen ... straight jacked. That's not going to happen this time around.
This time around - I believe - that what is true and just will prevail.
And should it not ... heh heh heh ... well, in that case, what I believe is that relations between the ethnicities in this country will see a darkness tha may very well take us back half a century, and the world that watches outside of the borders of the United States will take full advantage of the implosion predicated by "the arrogance of their ignorance;" that arrogance upon which this country has become decadent and fat.
That being said ... Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
Personally, I do not believe that America is any more or less "ready" for a black president now than they were back in `88 when Jackson ran or when Sharpton ran four years ago. In fact, the reality is the same people who never wanted a black president back then still do not want one now.
This AP/Yahoo poll only goes to prove that the views many (but not all) white Americans have held about blacks have not changed one bit, and it is this view that I have labeled "the arrogance of their ignorance." It is this arrogance that makes them funny to me. Not funny in any sense that brings a smile to my heart, but funny in the sense that I have to laugh to keep from telling these types of people where they can go and how fast they can get there.
You see ... The truth is that they recognize their ignorance. They know it for the ugliness that it is, and they cannot stand to face it; however, the beliefs are so deeply ingrained in their brain waves - in their DNA, that they can neither let it go - nor can they face it. Unfortunately, it is because they refuse to face it, they will never be able to move beyond it. Instead, they want US (black folk) to move beyond it. They want us to let them off the hook. Neither Jackson nor Sharpton could or would ever let them off the hook. As for Sen. Obama ... he can afford to allow them some respite from that hook. You see, what fails to be realized here is that Sen. Obama is a TRUE "African-American."
I say "true" in the sense that unlike myself; unlike Jackson - unlike Sharpton, Sen. Barack Obama is NOT a descendant of slaves. He is the son of an indigenous Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas. However, in the "arrogance of their ignorance," this "40% of all white Americans that hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks," including many Democrats and independents, do not see the bridge between the ethnicities that Obama not only represents, but actually is. No ... they only see a black man.
If this election - like all others preceding it were left up to many of the people who participated in that AP/Yahoo survey, I probably would not have much faith in Sen. Obama's chances to win this election. However, in the end, it's not really going to be up to them. Oh no ... this election is going to be up to the youth. The last two elections were stolen ... straight jacked. That's not going to happen this time around.
This time around - I believe - that what is true and just will prevail.
And should it not ... heh heh heh ... well, in that case, what I believe is that relations between the ethnicities in this country will see a darkness tha may very well take us back half a century, and the world that watches outside of the borders of the United States will take full advantage of the implosion predicated by "the arrogance of their ignorance;" that arrogance upon which this country has become decadent and fat.
That being said ... Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
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