Black President: Blessing or Curse

I’m having trouble with something … a friend sent me a blog link that I found disturbing: a blog titled Black President: Blessing or Curse?. The writer (a woman of African-American descent) made this statement, “we have finally reached the pinnacle of historic events to where a blatant racist society has finally opted to elect a black president”. I don’t agree with her. A blatant racist society would never, never elect a President of a different race…ever! Why would it? … that should be blatantly clear to anyone. But, alas, we are not a blatant racist society or country … or perhaps she doesn’t know the meaning of the word. I’ve read and re-read her blog, but I have not found the blessing part of having Mr. Obama as President in it (maybe she’s still working on that … or waiting for some blessings to occur).

According to my friend, the lady is very nice, well educated, and is pursuing her doctoral degree on a full scholarship. (Now would a blatant racist society really allow that?) I don’t support President Obama … does that make me a racist? No, it doesn’t. I don’t support him on the issues. I also think he has a poor decision making ability and is a terrible judge of character … but most of all, I don’t align with his political philosophy. I wonder what her stance would be if our President were J.C. Watts or Allen Keyes (the man that ran against Obama for U.S. Senate) or even Colin Powell? Heaven forbid a person of Black or Hispanic descent should be a Republican or (greater still) conservative. I think what would happen is exactly what we saw happen to Sarah Palin. She did not receive support from women’s groups or hard line feminists because she did not fit their ideal of a feminist. President Obama does not fit my ideal of a U.S. president.

She made this reference contrasting President Obama vs. President Bush by stating that Bush “allowed for Katrina victims to wallow in their own vomit, feces and urine as if we were still on slave ships. Do you think President Obama would stand by and let his people suffer in a state of emergency of that magnitude if it were to occur now?” I’m not sure what she means by “his people” … I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she means Americans in general. She must have forgotten that Whites, Hispanics, and elderly people were left behind as well. Doesn’t Ray Nagin share some responsibility for not successfully evacuating the city before hand? … or how about Governor Blanco’s inaction? … nope – it’s all Bush’s fault. If given the opportunity, all I would say to her is what General Honore said at the time: “don’t get stuck on stupid.”

She talks about hateful cartoons of President Obama and of assassination attempts. Mr. Bush had plenty of those … there was even a movie made about assassinating him. I found her position off-base and out of step with where we are today as a nation. I don’t think that she has a good foundation to build an argument on. She is entitled to her opinion (however wrong I think it may be), but I’m not sure I’d be the only one that thinks she’s wrong. I’ve included a link to her blog at the end of this posting so that you can read it (if only to find out what some people are thinking). Sadly, I’m sure there are more out there like her.

There you have it.
Pass it along if you like or let me know if I don’t have a clue.

Eddie

Reference: http://www.blackplanet.com/your_page/blog/view_posting.html?pid=455910