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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 753744" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Fellow Americans,</span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Barack Obama</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">; I wrote in </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Ron Paul</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">'s name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">life is worth living</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America .</span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival - all that I know about the </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">history of the United States of America</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"> , all that I know about </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">American race relations</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America .</span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million Blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that Blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them.</span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration - political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Harvard University</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"> 's Kennedy School of Government.</span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">I would have to believe that "fairness" is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that a man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest.. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.</span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead - and no one, including especially </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Alan Greenspan</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.</span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a Black man to the </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">office of the president of the United States</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"> , the wounded giant of the world. The battle between </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">John Wayne</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"> and </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Jane Fonda</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"> is over - and Fonda won. </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Eugene McCarthy</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"> and</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">George McGovern</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"> must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Kennedys</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"> have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a Black person.</span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton , Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a Black man who, like the pragmatist </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Franklin Roosevelt</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">, promises to - Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Lyndon Johnson's Great Society</span></strong>. </span></span><span style="color: #ff8000"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff">But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine - what little there is left - for the chance to feel good</span></strong>. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-size: 10px">There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness. </span></span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><strong><span style="color: #4040ff"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #4040ff">Anne Wortham</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #4040ff">.. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #4040ff">Illinois State University</span></strong> </span><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><span style="color: #4040ff">and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #4040ff">Hoover Institution</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #4040ff">.</span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"> </span></span></span></strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><strong><span style="color: #4040ff"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></strong></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #4040ff">In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer's television series, "A World of Ideas." The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A World of Ideas.</span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #4040ff"> </span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #4040ff"></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #4040ff"></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="color: #4040ff"></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #4040ff">Dr. Wortham is author of "The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness" which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues.</span></span></strong> </span></span></span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000FF"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 753744, member: 12952"] [COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#0000FF][FONT=Arial] [COLOR=#000000][SIZE=2][B][COLOR=#ff0000]Fellow Americans, Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]Barack Obama[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]; I wrote in [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]Ron Paul[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]'s name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]life is worth living[/COLOR][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=2][B][COLOR=#ff0000]. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America . I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival - all that I know about the [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]history of the United States of America[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000] , all that I know about [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]American race relations[/COLOR][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=2][B][COLOR=#ff0000], and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America . Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million Blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that Blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them. I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration - political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]Harvard University[/COLOR][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=2][B][COLOR=#ff0000] 's Kennedy School of Government. I would have to believe that "fairness" is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that a man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest.. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth. Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead - and no one, including especially [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]Alan Greenspan[/COLOR][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=2][B][COLOR=#ff0000], objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism. So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a Black man to the [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]office of the president of the United States[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000] , the wounded giant of the world. The battle between [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]John Wayne[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000] and [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]Jane Fonda[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000] is over - and Fonda won. [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]Eugene McCarthy[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000] and[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]George McGovern[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000] must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]Kennedys[/COLOR][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=2][B][COLOR=#ff0000] have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a Black person. So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton , Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a Black man who, like the pragmatist [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]Franklin Roosevelt[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000], promises to - Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#ff0000]Lyndon Johnson's Great Society[/COLOR][/B].[B][COLOR=#0000ff] [/COLOR][/B][/SIZE][/COLOR][COLOR=#ff8000][SIZE=2][B][COLOR=#0000ff]But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine - what little there is left - for the chance to feel good[/COLOR][/B]. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [B][COLOR=#ff0000][SIZE=2]There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness. [/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#ff0000][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#0000FF][FONT=Arial][B][B][COLOR=#4040ff][SIZE=2][B][COLOR=#4040ff]Anne Wortham[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#4040ff].. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#4040ff]Illinois State University[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#4040ff] [/COLOR][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=2][B][COLOR=#4040ff]and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's [/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#4040ff]Hoover Institution[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#4040ff].[/COLOR][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B][/B][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][COLOR=#0000FF][FONT=Arial][B][SIZE=2][COLOR=#4040ff]In fall 1988 she was one of a select group of intellectuals who were featured in Bill Moyer's television series, "A World of Ideas." The transcript of her conversation with Moyers has been published in his book, A World of Ideas.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][B][SIZE=2][COLOR=#4040ff] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][B][COLOR=#4040ff] [/COLOR][/B][B][SIZE=2][COLOR=#4040ff]Dr. Wortham is author of "The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness" which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][B][SIZE=2][COLOR=#4040ff] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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