Post by sudan on Feb 15, 2007 14:10:55 GMT -5
Why was Obama absent from the State of the Black Union Conference?
There are many in black America who legitimately question Obama's commitment to black Americans, and who wonder if white America has at last attained its trojan horse...
In a span of less than one week US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, has managed to simultaneously both deeply insult and negate black America, while courting what appears to be an increasing amount of white Americans, many of whom are in flagrant denial of their own colour privilege and racism and who clearly grasp that Obama represents no substantive challenge to the continuation of their aforementioned privilege and/or racism.
Launching his US Presidential campaign from Springfield, Illinois, the home of former US President and cynical racist Abraham Lincoln; Obama apparently wishes us to believe that Abraham Lincoln was an emancipator of black people in America, when in fact Mr. Lincoln was a Republican Party opportunist who did not emancipate black slaves, but callously manipulated them. Indeed, as noted historian Lerone Bennett, Jr. wrote concerning Abraham Lincoln: "Lincoln says slavery is wrong, but he also says he is opposed to giving Negroes social and political equality.”
Thus, it becomes increasingly clear as to perhaps why some white Americans seemingly have such a cuddly comfort level with Obama's candidacy. Further adding insult to injury, Obama apparently somehow did not find it important enough for him to be in attendance at The State of the Black Union 2007 nationally televised conference recently held at Hampton University in Virginia. It would appear that at all costs Obama must keep a ‘safe distance’ from forthrightly, substantively, and undeniably identifying himself directly with black people who are seriously committed to real versus superficial social and political equality in America.
At that nationally televised day long event, Obama could have shared with black America and the nation as a whole, his substantive thoughts, plans, and ideas as to how he intends to address black America's pressing concerns which ultimately affect the entire nation. Moreover, Obama's astounding absence from The State of the Black Union 2007 conference speaks volumes as to his defacto lack of commitment to black America; something in which no doubt many white Americans find enormous comfort while being able to hypocritically embrace a ‘black’ person's candidacy for the US Presidency.
There are many in black America who legitimately question Obama's commitment to black Americans, and who wonder if white America has at last attained its trojan horse black U.S. Presidential candidate in the person of Obama. As Conrad Worrill, Director of Inner-City Studies at North-eastern Illinois University, is quoted as saying in the Los Angeles Times: "The question is: Will this generation of new, college-trained beneficiaries of the black political power movement in America fight for black political interests?"
One of the ‘beneficiaries of the black political power movement in America’ is the Harvard University trained, now US Presidential candidate, Barack Obama. Had it not been for the ongoing collective struggle of black Americans and indeed had there been no Frederick Douglass, no Harriet Tubman, no Mary McLeod Bethune, or no Rosa Parks and certain allies; it is doubtful that America's racist so-called anti-miscegenation laws would ever have allowed Obama's Kenyan father to marry the white American woman who became Obama's mother. Many Black Americans have paid and are still paying a terribly high price for the benefits enjoyed by a relatively few ‘beneficiaries.’ [/i][/color]
There are many in black America who legitimately question Obama's commitment to black Americans, and who wonder if white America has at last attained its trojan horse...
In a span of less than one week US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, has managed to simultaneously both deeply insult and negate black America, while courting what appears to be an increasing amount of white Americans, many of whom are in flagrant denial of their own colour privilege and racism and who clearly grasp that Obama represents no substantive challenge to the continuation of their aforementioned privilege and/or racism.
Launching his US Presidential campaign from Springfield, Illinois, the home of former US President and cynical racist Abraham Lincoln; Obama apparently wishes us to believe that Abraham Lincoln was an emancipator of black people in America, when in fact Mr. Lincoln was a Republican Party opportunist who did not emancipate black slaves, but callously manipulated them. Indeed, as noted historian Lerone Bennett, Jr. wrote concerning Abraham Lincoln: "Lincoln says slavery is wrong, but he also says he is opposed to giving Negroes social and political equality.”
Thus, it becomes increasingly clear as to perhaps why some white Americans seemingly have such a cuddly comfort level with Obama's candidacy. Further adding insult to injury, Obama apparently somehow did not find it important enough for him to be in attendance at The State of the Black Union 2007 nationally televised conference recently held at Hampton University in Virginia. It would appear that at all costs Obama must keep a ‘safe distance’ from forthrightly, substantively, and undeniably identifying himself directly with black people who are seriously committed to real versus superficial social and political equality in America.
At that nationally televised day long event, Obama could have shared with black America and the nation as a whole, his substantive thoughts, plans, and ideas as to how he intends to address black America's pressing concerns which ultimately affect the entire nation. Moreover, Obama's astounding absence from The State of the Black Union 2007 conference speaks volumes as to his defacto lack of commitment to black America; something in which no doubt many white Americans find enormous comfort while being able to hypocritically embrace a ‘black’ person's candidacy for the US Presidency.
There are many in black America who legitimately question Obama's commitment to black Americans, and who wonder if white America has at last attained its trojan horse black U.S. Presidential candidate in the person of Obama. As Conrad Worrill, Director of Inner-City Studies at North-eastern Illinois University, is quoted as saying in the Los Angeles Times: "The question is: Will this generation of new, college-trained beneficiaries of the black political power movement in America fight for black political interests?"
One of the ‘beneficiaries of the black political power movement in America’ is the Harvard University trained, now US Presidential candidate, Barack Obama. Had it not been for the ongoing collective struggle of black Americans and indeed had there been no Frederick Douglass, no Harriet Tubman, no Mary McLeod Bethune, or no Rosa Parks and certain allies; it is doubtful that America's racist so-called anti-miscegenation laws would ever have allowed Obama's Kenyan father to marry the white American woman who became Obama's mother. Many Black Americans have paid and are still paying a terribly high price for the benefits enjoyed by a relatively few ‘beneficiaries.’ [/i][/color]