I watched
something necessary the other night, necessary for the
legitimacy of America and it’s interests around the
world. Necessary for it’s religion of capitalism and
it’s imperial ambition, which were not curbed in anyway
with the election of an African American. Instead they
gained perhaps the greatest spokesperson for their
cause that they could have ever received. People that
never felt inclusive now feel like part of America, like they
have a personal stake in its success and for people that
truly love this country, isn’t that what you wanted? To have
more people who live here proud of being an American? For
many people Bush was never their president, to them he
stole the first election and railroaded the second
one with mired swift boat attacks on John Kerry’s
character while dodging facts about the
mischaracterization of Iraq as somehow being
involved in 9/11 and how the intelligence that led us to war was
so badly distorted. Some surrogates even went as far as
to suggest that Mr.Kerry might have inflicted the
wounds on himself in Vietnam to receive a Purple
Heart…http://uk. youtube.
com/watch?v=JoM90bAsr1M
Thesame smear tactics were used all throughout this
election, the same fear mongering and questions brought
about Obama’s faith, place of birth and his
“relationship with terrorists.” This cost the McCain
campaign and it’s supporters, opportunity and
legitimacy about their complaints of the
future 44th President. They went beyond the simple
implications of the Clinton campaign deep into the
territory of arousing the fear and hatred ingrained in the
minds of white citizens all over America. And yet they were
denied yesterday for good reason. The mob would not have
tolerated it. His victory was a restoration of the
crumbling belief in our democracy, because the loss of
faith; that, my brother’s and sisters is how empire’s
fall, not from simple military failure but when their
people no longer believe in it. During the last few
years of Bush, this is what I saw. I cannot answer if
there would have been rioting would he have not won, but his
ascension to the Commander in Chief has made a strong case
for the people’s choice being what and who control’s
America. When in truth the strength and power of
Military Industry and Corporate Conglomerates saw more
of a champion than any urban working class citizen
could have, in Obama.Through careful planning,
timed responses, tactful alienation and one of the
best organized campaigns, at long last the people of
America have a man that they WANT to believe in, a man they can
point to as an example of the death of racism, the
birth of hope and the inclusion of member’s of
disaffected society in the United States.But is this to
be?Michelle Obama was right when she talked
about feeling proud to be an American for the first
time. And white conservatives took it out of context.
They assumed that the Black and Latino community who have
had the right to vote for the past 40 of the 221 years of this
countries existence should kneel and kiss the ground of
a land that is only now acknowledging their service and
contribution. Truthfully I am more inspired by her
words than most of his. And, I am reinforced in my
understanding that a man (especially one that
aspires to achieve anything significant) without
the right woman to support him and offer him guidance
will never amount anything. Her words were prophetic
for they truly did speak to the manner in which urban
Black and Latino people have embraced the USA.As I said
before this was necessary for America to do… To not follow
in the footsteps of the Roman Empire in its alienation
of the people’s that it conquered. Their great
mistake was NOT to include their allies and offer them
the benefits of citizenships and partaking in the glory
of what the empire gained as a reward for assimilation.
Africans were on this side of the world before Columbus, but
in US history they were brought as slaves, kept
subservient through a Europeanized
Christendom, and lied to about their glorious
past, and their contributions to the history of
humanity. After all it was Africans who comprised the
power ranks of the early church, Africans who
nursed the philosophy of the ancient Greeks and
African Muslims who ruled Western Europe for over 700
years, that’s more than 3 times as long as the United
States has existed as a country.They are a people who have
fought hard for every small victory and seemingly
insignificant right taken for granted nowadays.They fought and died
in every major US war going to back to the very founding of
this nation when Crispus Attucks was the first
person to ever die for American Freedom from British
Imperial rule. Yet every time they proved their
bravery and willingness to lay down their lives for the
nation of their captivity, subsequent birth
and allegiance to, they were denied the honor of a
well-deserved recognition. They were denied loans,
given substandard housing, redlined into the
ghetto, had their communities filled with drugs
and their addictions criminalized whereas the
upper class of white society had theirs treated as
an illness. Africans have had their commitment to
family and values overlooked by a media
highlighting of the worst sections of society. The
Black family did not fall apart until the crack era,
for even during the times of slavery, it came together with
more strength than ever! Because there were sisters who
were looking after children who weren’t theirs and
brothers who played the father when their father’s were
sold off and gone.Black people for all
intents and purposes have a right to have certain
cynicisms and grievances with America. Perhaps not as
much as Native Americans but they wouldn’t be the only
ethnic group in the world to have a difficult
relationship with the nation they live in. After all the
world’s nations are actually comprised of many nations
most of which are included by right of conquest and not
willing consent.And yet November 4th I saw Black people in Harlem
waving American flags proudly and loudly. I saw them
painted red white and blue, chanting and cheering
“USA, USA”. I saw cops shaking hands with brothers from
the hood who hate cops. I saw white college students who
have gentrified Harlem and the last of Harlem’s bulk of
Black residents welcome them with open arms dancing in the
streets because they were wearing Obama buttons or
carrying Obama posters. He truly is a unifying
force. He has changed the FACE of America, but now the
question remains can he actually change America? Can he
stop the war? Or can he just change it.America has a new leader. To me
personally I have always seen race a great illusion to
justify slavery and build the capital for
capitalism. His race is not as important as his design for
the economy. But those who would think that we live in a
post racial America are blind, and those who think that
his minor experience will prevent him from acting with
all the force of the greatest military power in the
world will be surprised. His great strength is in his
ability to listen and remember, to communicate and to
inspire. To convince and to come up with the best
explanation possible instead of perhaps some of the
worst excuses for leadership, rationale for war and
political nepotism that we have seen in America’s history
during Bush II.But his victory, he was right to say was not his victory
alone, it was also the resounding failure of the Right
Wing Republicans. So much so that it seems as if people from
the very onset on the right might have aided McCain’s
downfall to have the president they thought would be
better for business in the neo liberal world of
globalization.McCain lost this election for
many reasons though.-McBush: His
inability to distance and separate himself from George
Bush and the fiscal crisis that came as result of economic
policies of the 43rd president’s administration.
His pathetic attempt to make the difference known at
the end of the 3rd presidential debate was too little, way
too late.-The “Right” Enemies: A
person is often judged by their enemies, McCain
lost to Obama because of his inability to curb what was
first seen as the fringe of his party and eventually
came to be seen as a significant % of the base. In some
videos you can even see his own surprised and disturbed
reaction to what his supporters believed. The rallies
became more and more about hatred and not any issues of real
consequences. I know Christians and Right Wingers
that are logical independent voters and when they saw the
Republican base questioning him being a Muslim (as
if that was a crime), an antichrist, a socialist, and
screaming out “terrorist”, even the many of which had
planned to back McCain/Palin were disgusted.They looked at
their own party as if to say I can’t really believe
that you’re doing this to us now. If I were Obama I would
have not feared these people, I would have
engineered these people, and right now I would
thank God for them. They cost McCain the election. Any
rational debate that true fiscal and family values
conservatives would have had were mixed in the same bag as
these people.www. youtube.
com/watch?v=xVFWahLTdUowww. youtube.
com/watch?v=Gl2EndLZv7wwww. youtube.
would like to personally thank these idiots
should they ever muster the courage to actually leave
their Petri dish rural environment.-The Palin
Factor: Like I said, I know a few conservatives, most of
them aren’t religious zealots (although I do have some
family like that) and they told me that in good conscious they
couldn’t vote for their ticket. The right wing talking
points said that Obama and Palin had the same amount of
experience. To which a Military officer who is a
friend of mine snidely but honestly from the bottom of his
war hardened heart responded, “experience
being the same, she’s incapable of answering a
straight question, she’s incompetent, she can’t
stand up to Putin or anyone else. I voted Obama.”
Truly her champions were people who cheered during the
procession of The Emperor’s new clothes. She was no
Hillary.http://www. youtube.
OH MY F#####’ GOD. Caribou Barbie…Shut up
about having the LA Times hold back pictures of
Obama!!!http://www. youtube.
com/watch?v=MWZHTJsR4Bc ( THIS IS
FRIGHTENING ) And this is the GOP was making excuses for.Smart move
old friend…Right Wing Defectors:Colin
Powell put the nail in McCain’s coffin for all
Republicans who were creatures of logic over blind
faith. He spoke for those who wanted understanding
about the real issue, the economy. McCain choose to
focus on Ayers and other old professors instead.
He lacked vision, thinking his party could
influence the moderates and the independents with this.Instead Scott
McClellan, Christopher Buckley, etc… became
a testament to Obama being able to win over not just working
class whites, but conservative whites, which he
proved to be able to do in the home stretch.http://tips.
webdesign10.
com/politics/more-conservatives-back-obama-346.
htmlDuh, Economy: These are all
compelling arguments, but none of them more of a
resounding factor than the economy. Which McCain
avoided!!! Had McCain chosen for example Mitt
Romney as VP this race would have been much closer in some key
states. Here was a well-spoken, respected and
successful businessman. He was the most well known
Republican after McCain. He made millions from his
business, he understood the crisis from a
definitively fiscal Republican base, and
would have won independents who found no answers in the
2008 GOP ticket. Instead the economy became the blow that
McCain/Palin never recovered from.But what does this
all mean?Is the Revolution over? Hardly. Are the
world’s problems solved, not at all. Is Mumia going to
get out of jail? I hope Mr.Obama looks into that but I bet
it’s not high on his list. The threat of terrorism isn’t
over nor is the threat of preemptive strikes. Should
people of color now sign up for the Military now that the
president looks like someone in their family? Stop
it.In
order for Mr. Obama to have become America’s president, he had to back
Israel 100%, not mention of the suffering of Palestinians, so the
Middle East will not change drastically. Rahm Emanuel whose father was
a soldier in the Zionist paramilitary organization called “Irgun” was
recently selected as his Chief of Staff. I reserve my judgment and
approach with an open mind so as to not give into hypocrisy because a
man is not always his father. I just hope Obama can inject different
opinions as well as his powerful logic into that conversation. I hope
he will normalize relations with Cuba, for the sake of everyone who has
family they cannot see, but in order to win Florida he had to change
his tone about it. He will not investigate 9/11 although I think that
now that he has the power do to so he should not be afraid to use it. I
hope he will look into that and into the origin of the faulty
intelligence that led us into Iraq. He will be everyone’s president,
but the majority of white America doesn’t see Malcolm X the way I do,
nor did they see the Black panthers as freedom fighters, they saw them
as terrorists, are we to give up our history and whitewash our heroes
and praise those who kept us subservient because of this victory?
Racism
hasn’t disappeared and you can always tell a racist/ignorant person by
their notion that because Obama is president that we live in a post
racial America. It is a sign of progress, it is a great triumph for all
people, (after all we forget Barack is half white too.) It is very
inspirational, but inspiration alone doesn’t complete a crusade.
I
am sometimes accused of being too serious, which fools mistake for
negativity. No I just understand that now the idea of Reparations for
Blacks in America will be completely off the table. The powerful will
remain powerful, the rich will stay rich and we gain advancement only
in serving other’s causes that we then accept as our own. He cannot
change the past but he can change the future, and this more than
anything is what I, and others are hoping he will be able to do
expeditiously.
After all he only has 18 months
from the time he is elected, until the next congressional election
really gets into the swing of things, and Congress turn to the their
own races. He will need to act quickly.
The
price of having hope is sometimes disappointment, but the price of
having no hope is always failure… That said I have a few main concerns
for America’s new Caesar: Repairing, regulating and reforming the
economy, Healthcare for all the people of the richest country in the
world. Bringing logic and reason to the war on terror and “war on
drugs”. And lastly the reason that many Latinos and Indigenous people
voted for him and delivered in key battleground states. Stopping the
criminalization of hardworking immigrants upon whose backs our great
nation is built.
I
am just a man, one of 300 million, and though my support base is
massive, one of the largest in the underground. I know Mr.Obama will
never read this. But I have hope for the future you are trying to fight
for us to have Mr. Obama and any change from the last 8 years of this
record gas price, record home foreclosure, record incompetence (Katrina
& Bin Laden’s 8 yr holiday) government is a good start to me. My
cup of hope is full, but I sip it slowly, because hope is a powerful
drug.
Remember, all politics is local, our job hasn’t ended with the election it has just begun.
Que Viva La Revolucion,
Immortal
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