A little background on Anne Wortham is worth noting: she is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. (Read the rest)
Fellow Americans,
Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul'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 life is worth living. 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 history of the United States of America , all that I know about American race relations, 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 toAmerica.
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 Harvard University 's Kennedy School of Government.
I would have to believe that "fairness" is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that 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,Chicagoirrationally 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 Alan Greenspan, 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 office of the president of theUnited States, the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over - and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys 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, BlackAmerica. 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 Franklin Roosevelt, promises to - Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine - what little there is left - for the chance to feel good.
There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.
Another of her articles on black victimhood.
10 comments:
Wow, why wasnt this lady running. It is about time this liberal BS is put in its place before it ruins our American dream, which is just barely a flicker of life now.
Hoorah for speaking out.
Finally, verification that I'm not the only black person on the planet who thinks PrezBo is one of the worst things to happen to the black race. Unfortunately, the main stream media would never print something like this because it would make Obama look bad. Hopefully other blogs and non-MSM will begin to do it.
RIGHT ON THE MONEY!
Too bad those who need to see and understand this message will never see it.
The truth is spoken and is anyone listening out there?
Unfortunately, I hear crickets...
Thank you speaking out. It gives me hope for this country. I hope you will continue to speak out. This is not about race, but the President and his cronies are making it about race. They need to push their agenda forward any way they can.
As a white southerner I grew up in a racist family...it was the norm. As an adult, I don't consider myself a racist. I do, however have problems with stupid people. Obama's problem as president does not come from his color. Thank you so much Anne for intelligence. I wish I were your colleague.
Wow! Some article. I am sure many people will ignore what she wrote, but remember the venom.
I vaguely recall that John McCain and Ron Paul promised to "do something."
I don't know you Anne...but I love you ! I can't marry you because I am already married...but you are so right on...it is so refreshing to hear the truth !! I can't say enough about how much I respect and admire you for speaking out...your color means nothing your mind and ideology means everything to me ! God Bless
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