Subtle

Barack Obama is different. I don't mean that the same way Joe Biden meant when he said, "...[Obama is] the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy" ("Biden's description of Obama draws scrutiny" from CNN). Not sure what that was supposed to mean.

I don't mean it the same way that David Ehrenstein, a liberal editorial writer, meant it when he wrote in the Los Angeles Times that Senator Obama was the "magic negro" ("Obama the 'Magic Negro'"). Click the link, he tries to explain what he meant.

What I mean by different is that, unlike other liberal democrats who spew forth hatred-filled accusations, Obama speaks in a very positive, professional, and inspirational manner.

Now if you have read this blog faithfully, you know that this author does not want Obama anywhere near the White House because he opposes the President-Elect's policies. Life is life, and we roll with the punches. But Barack Obama is different. He is not a whinny liberal; he is a liberal. He is not a black leader; he is a leader. He has mastered the art of promoting liberal/socialist agendas with a mirage of conservatism. He is "Reaganesque" at times. Obama's hypnotic rhetoric has already pulled many so-called conservative Republicans to his side. It's like a Jedi mind-trick.

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Today, I started with a similar Saturday morning routine. I went to the gas station down the street to get a coffee. The gentleman in front of me paid with one of those cool "Iowa Credit Cards". (This is what I call the Iowa EBT card. I used to see people in front of me buying all kinds of groceries, more than I could afford, and think, what a pretty Iowa landscape on their credit card.)

The gentleman purchased a 16 oz Mountain Dew, a 20 oz Powerade, a bag of Doritos, and a sandwich. He punched in his pin, took his "groceries", and went on with his day.

I continued my routine with a trip to HyVee. Got a danish and a bismark, this time noticing a family piling up the groceries on the conveyor belt. It wasn't my business, but the gas-station experience had me curious. There it was, another "Iowa Credit Card". Maybe I wasn't so nosy after all since, as a tax-payer, I was a financial supporter of those groceries.

It appeared to be a husband and wife with two kids. Now, God-bless them. I want them to eat. I don't want their kids to starve. A quick glance showed a better selection to qualify as "needs" than Doritos and Mountain Dew, but that is really not what this entry is about.

What I observed this morning made me think about slavery. The gentleman in the store, the family in the grocery store; they all had black skin.

Recently, I finished the book America: The Last Best Hope. A large section of this book chronicled the suffering of Africans, kidnapped from their homeland and forced to exist as animals subservient to European settlers. This book reinforced my perception of America's historical tension that almost broke "The Union".

I see, as do many other real historians, the linear shape of a carat (^). The Founders were aware of the problem, most of them detested slavery acknowledging that it violated the very principals on which they warranted their detachment from England. Still, similar to the abortion view of many Christians today, they considered it to be a hill that was too great to climb. They attempted to contain the infection hoping that those who followed would extinguish the fire.

The fire only found new fuel to burn. It grew. It grew until in 1862, Abraham Lincoln had no choice but to use every resource available to stop it, to entirely put an end to it. He freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation. He made slavery illegal. As a side note, I wonder how many detractors said, "...that making it illegal would not stop it, they'll still find a way to do it."

I see this very moment in history as the top of the carat, the highpoint in the conflict. A simple understanding of American history reveals that the prejudicial injustice did not end in 1863. They did find another way to "do it".

The "other ways" are too numerous to list here; however, the shear blatancy has lessened. African-Americans in the 1960's were treated horribly; however, it would be difficult to argue that it was at the same level as those who lived pre-civil war. While a disgrace and inhumane, those forced to sit in the back of the bus had more liberty than those sold as literal property one hundred years earlier. I make this comparison to support the premise that 1860 was on the right down-slope of the carat shape.

I wonder, however, if America's racial injustices continued downward after the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century. Are African-American's truly free? It is this author's opinion that many still are not, they just don't know it. The white slave master, cracking the whip, has been replaced by the white, but many times black, politicians suppressing their freedoms with emotional rhetoric and government programs. It is an unconscious, yet willful submission.

A century after Fredrick Douglas petitioned President Lincoln to grant full citizenship to slaves rather than relocating them to South America, Martin Luther King traveled a similar path. He believed that all people should be treated the same, that regardless of one's color, he or she should enjoy all the privileges of being an American citizen and all the privileges of being a human being. Unfortunately, many of those that followed Dr. King took his message, repackaged it, and then redistributed it as though it was the original. It was not.

The new message said this: "Life is unfair if you are black. No matter what, you do not have a chance. Because you do not have a chance, you need me, you need the government to take care of you. You will not be able to accomplish the great things that other people accomplish who have different skin color. Those who do are not 'authentic'. They are 'sellouts', 'Uncle Toms'."

This heretic deviation from Dr. King's message was never propagated to help people. It was a new tool to enslave them. If people think that they need you, you can tell them what to do. They will obey. They will give you power.

Don't believe me? Do a Google search on Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton. Include words like fraud, extortion, investigation, and shake-down. Have a good chunk of time blocked because there will be lots of reading.

Men like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton need racism in the United States. They need those with black skin to think that they "can't make it". They need those votes. They need that money. They need that power.

One would have thought that a civil rights leader like Jessie Jackson would have celebrated the possibility of the "First Black President" (a title Bill Clinton and others bestowed on himself). Instead he said that he wanted to "cut his nuts off" (see video here). Why? Why did you want to "cut [the senator's] nuts off", Mr. Jackson? Two reasons: 1) He didn't want to share the power, 2) Obama's election would have diluted Mr. Jackson's power.

Obama's ascension to the "highest office in the land" flies in the face of Jackson's, and other politicians who have exploited minorities for decades, message: "That you can't do it without me." Now, when Jesse goes in front of the cameras to tell America that it hates black people, a President-Elect Obama will mean that Jackson will only lose credibility rather than pad his pockets. "Hates black people?", they say. "Why, a majority of voters just elected a man with black skin to be president. I don't know what Mr. Jackson is talking about..."

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Today, the man in the gas station and the couple at the grocery store; they didn't seem to be missing any body parts. I didn't see or hear anything that suggested any handicaps. Contrary to the popular opinion espoused by southern white slave-owners in the 19th and 20th centuries, this author believes that God created all races equally. God choose some to have white skin, some to have black, etc. etc. That is the only difference.

Why did these folks need "food stamps"? Can this author possibly know? No, he cannot. Each instance may have circumstances that totally invalidates mentioning it here as an anecdote.

I couldn't help but wonder, however, was it because they have been told that being successful meant being "sell-outs". Was it because that they were raised to feel helpless in a political environment that says, "you can't make it, you need politicians to take care of you." Had they really accessed their true potential, or had years of calculated and manipulative political propaganda dulled their sense of ability?

Barack Obama is different. Hopefully, those labeled by politicians as "minorities" to serve their agenda find his example inspirational and tune out the "worm-tongue" drones of the Jessie Jacksons and the Al Sharptons.

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One final question: Is Barack Obama a Jedi?

It wasn't until Star Wars: Episode III that the "Republic" discovered that the "Chancellor", to whom it had given emergency absolute power to ensure safety, was actually the "Dark Sith Lord". By then it was too late. Yes, Barack is different. He believes all American citizens should be treated equally. No quotas. No Affirmitive Action. He aims to eliminate all elements of racial divides; he won't shackle one ethnic group while others live freely to "pursue happiness". It is all citizens that should be dependent upon and subservient to the government, not just "minorities".