Acting Stupidly?

     Shirley Sherrod got a first-hand experience of non-racial prejudice by the Obama Administration. Without examining any of the facts of the case against Ms Sherrod, according to her, the Whitehouse fired her. Now they are trying to backpedal and rehire her. Well, if she accepts another job from them, would she also be acting stupidly?
     Prejudice is making a decision without gathering a reasonable amount of facts. The Agriculture Secretary probably acted out of emotion probably prompted by the President’s desire to not have a racist on his team. The problem is that just as the administration acted or spoke stupidly against the Tea Party, it did the same thing against Ms Sherrod.
     Prejudice is only a third of the racism triad. The other parts are hatred and ignorance. Since racism is an equal opportunity destroyer, it infects all races. Will it ever end? Not as long as differences of appearance and ideas exist. This administration which touted itself as post-racial has opened a pandora’s box and ripped an ugly scab which will begin a new era of bleeding across the cultural landscape of our country. Heretofore, people accused of racism kept quiet but not now. The Tea Party will not just roll over and go away. Mr. Obama said if they bring a knife, you bring a gun.
     Well, the gauntlet has been thrown down and patriotic Americans will answer the challenge on November 4, 2010.

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Tea Partiers…Beware of NAACP Diversion Attempt

     Well, the out of touch NAACP  or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is now hurling accusations of racism against the Tea Party. Of all things, they are charging the Tea Party with racism. Racism is a horrible thing that infects all colors. Implicit is the belief that only people of color can be targets of racism. Sadly, racism is an equal opportunity destroyer.
     The Tea Party has done much to remind Americans of the foundations of our constitution. The Tea Party patriots believe that returning to the foundations of democracy will help all people irregardless of their color. Implicit in the name of the NAACP is a seeming built in exclusion of everyone except “colored people.” Ironically, they call the Tea Party racists!
     I believe this is nothing but a feeble attempt to get the Tea Party members’ eyes off the ball. Whether this is a coordinated effort with their democratic base or not, I don’t know. However, it does not take a genius to guess which party their efforts will help. That’s why the Tea Party cannot go for the red meat because their objectives are more noble than those of the NAACP.
     When you are ahead going into the fourth quarter, the worst thing you can do is to shoot yourself in the foot, I hope the Tea Party understands that principle.

Eulogizing A Domestic Terrorist

     As a child, I remember watching my dad getting his gun to make sure that our church had not been firebombed during the 1960’s by the Ku Klux Klan. I also remember sitting our church scared that we would be killed like the little girls in Alabama. In those days, media pictures of men in white sheets struck fear in the hearts of me and my friends. Politically, almost everyone in my neighborhood voted democrat. John Kennedy was a near messianic figure.

     Now, fast forward over four decades to the memorial service of the late Senator Robert Byrd. Both former President Bill Clinton and President Barak Obama gave this scourge of civil rights a pass. Clinton had the audacity to suggest that Byrd did what he did to get elected. Obama also inferred that Byrd had “seen the error of his ways” and changed in his latter years. Had this been the funeral of a Strom Thurmond or some other segregationist, would this duo have been so gracious? Trent Lott lost his job for just complimenting Mr. Thurmond. Yet Clinton and Obama nearly canonized this former domestic terrorist.

     I was raised as a democrat and most of my family still votes the party line. Yet most of them would not be as kind as Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama probably because of their experiences with some of Mr. Byrd’s comrades.

     I forgave him for what he did. However, I am against Clinton and Obama making more of a man in his death than in his life. Mr. Byrd was a politician who would do whatever it took to get elected irregardless of who might get hurt in the process. Sadly, today’s terrorists have traded their white robes for black robes of academia and they have the potential to do more harm to blacks than men of Mr. Bryd’s ilk.

"Open Mouth, Insert Foot," The Steele Doctrine

     Michael Steele, head of the RNC, has a proclivity for putting his foot in his mouth. In a time when republicans have the democrats on the run, Mr. Steele continues to shoot himself squarely in the foot. As a result, he gives fodder to the democrats and helps them to live to fight another day. Someone once opined that when your enemy is destroying himself, stay out of his way. Mr. Steele seems bent on helping the enemy. His several gaffs make me wonder if his staff reviews his speeches or if he speaks “off the cuff” or from some other place every time he speaks. I hope in the days to come that he will “think twice and speak once.”

     While his comment about Afghanistan being Mr. Obama’s war was ill-timed, his other comments or lack of comments bother me even more. I recently wrote an article, “A Message to Michael” which discussed his inability to explain to a group of black students why they should be republicans bothered me even more.  If our leader does not know why someone should not be a republican, should he be our leader?

     The good news is that Mr. Steele’s term will expire around January 2011…the bad news is that Mr. Steele’s term will expire around January 2011.

     Republicans will have the chance to take back the house and probably more seats in the senate. However, if our leader continues to speak such foolishness, we could end up continuing the nightmare in which we presently exist.