Those of us who were fortunate enough to have parents dedicated to the education of their young may well remember hearing of the Fairy Tales as told by the Brothers Grimm or the fascinating fables related by our parents as they read the words penned years ago by a fabulist named Aesop. We were of the more fortunate children as too many never knew of these noted writers and in this lack, never developed the appreciation for the fairy tale or the fable. Today, a new teller of tales is upon the scene but the stories he tells are not much for entertainment value as he uses his position to spin bald-faced lies in an effort to frighten those who hear his twisted words. In his twisted world, since he cannot campaign on demonstrated accomplishment, his way of manipulating voters is to preach the doctrine of fear and of doubt.
It is a very sad reflection that the coming election will offer voters two candidates, a challenger and an incumbent who really has no record to run upon. More sad is to note the attack ads starting well before the conventions as they portend a summer and autumn of unrest, of more lies and twisted data all thrown on the airwaves to better scare America.
Probably the needy issue that will garner fewer words is the regrettable state of the American Black who truly needs problems addressed by a responsible government, and for this goal, Blacks have waited and waited since the days of Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society – more properly titled the Great Downfall as the lot of the Black in this nation has slipped backward since that time.
Our currently elected one, who promised to do all kinds of wonderful things, has failed in every vow he made. It seems that with no accomplishment to run on and the economy in shambles, this champion of Washington has come up with a new angle – he has launched African Americans for Obama.
Think on that for a moment and then imagine the caterwauling from sea to shining sea if any person formed a group called Caucasians for ….., or White People for ….., the din would be ear-splitting but I guess that the politically correct among us are blind to some efforts that promote racial discord while they openly tolerate others. Our media are, again, predictably silent, the ACLU utters not a peep and politicians on both sides of the aisle in each house of Congress are curiously silent. Perhaps they are afraid of waking their own consciences. Actually, this rather stupid move comes as a last-ditch effort to create a source for pre-election campaigning but the group targeted in this plan is the same group that has suffered most under the non-policies of Obama and his cadre of people seemingly dedicated to the total ruination of all that America has stood for since 1776. While openly boosting treatment of those here without official permission, this administration has bent or broken normal regulation to pander to the undocumented Latino population while totally ignoring the long-suffering Blacks among us, the one group that deserves far better treatment than that which they receive at the hands of a government that seems to care about their needs at election time and manages to then forget as soon as the votes are in their miserable, self-serving pockets.
Obama wants African Americans to support him because he is the right color. He has done absolutely nothing positive for any black in America. He has done nothing to replace a tired education system with a needed progressive one. He has done nothing to give any black child hope of finding a good job, of learning how to live outside of the asphalt plantations our major cities feature. He has literally broken the heart of the black mother and grandmother who live with one hope – that their children and grandchildren may come to know that better place often mentioned in song but is never to be found in the real world.
For the past two generations, black Americans have followed the wrong piper down the wrong pathway and nothing positive has ever come of it and this pattern will continue – unless…..unless black people tire of the plantation living, they tire of hearing gunshots through the night, they tire of hearing mothers wail as more and more young, once the hope of generations, become customers for the undertaker.
Obama might have championed better education for all but when he had a chance to do something that might actually lift black Americans, like the political coward he is, he punted. He made a boatload of promises and he let all America down across the board. Now, he seeks to built a racial divide where none need exist in a last ditch effort to garnet support from those he has ignored. At least, he has nerve.
Americans can and must do better. America can no longer tolerate the corruption in Washington that siphons our assets to the benefit of a selected few while increasing the national debt, taking deliberate measures to increase the cost of living for all Americans and laying the framework for more and more government control over all of our lives. These are times when government needs to grow businesses and through this opening of employment opportunities will come revenues not now available. Men and women of all colors will be able to seek and find employment and they will be able to regain much of their lost pride. As better employment expands through all levels of society, our streets will no longer be filled with hostility and death as is now the unfortunate case. All Obama and government need to do is to let America breathe – to let America cure itself – to stop adding obstructionist policies that have the effect of raising the costs we must pay for power, for fuel and for food, and to have the good sense to just get out of the way.
