MY SAY: REALLY MR. PRESIDENT?
At the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004 the candidate for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, a young man named Barack Obama gave the keynote speech. It was clear that he had “star power” even though he was promoting the election of the now risible John Kerry/John Edwards team.
The speech was full of his goat herding father, his domestic to the Brits grandfather, his other grandfather’s service in Patton’s army, blah, blah, blah, and their abiding faith in the promise of America. It was also full of “I feel everyone’s pain”…from Arab Americans detained unfairly, workers who lost their jobs, kids whose education is stymied by poverty, poor old folks who can’t pay for their prescriptions, women coping with the vapors, …blah, blah,blah…the usual litany of things that America must fix, with a dollop of the need for work and responsibility. The audience swooned with applause.
Then came this impressive tidbit:
“It is that fundamental belief — it is that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sisters’ keeper — that makes this country work.It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family: “E pluribus unum,” out of many, one.
Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America.
There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”
Really Mr. President? Is that why you made that race baiting, grudge inspiring speech about the Martin/Zimmerman case yesterday? Is that why you stoke Black racism exculpating it with past history? Can you seriously blame four generations of teenagers having babies without fathers repeating the tragedies of their great grandmothers on slavery or segregation?
You made things so much worse.
I have no hope you’ll ever change.
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