IT AIN'T ABOUT RACE, BABY

[proud2BlibKansan]

IT AIN'T ABOUT RACE, BABY


by


Mary Pitt


The speech by Barrack Obama was expected to be about race. It turned out to be much, much more than that, regardless of what you would learn from the evening news .

Of course, we know that the evening news and the "pundits" that you will find there always go for the more sensational aspects of any story, looking only at the surface without any effort to look for deeper meanings.

While they rail that Obama did not denounce his pastor or get up in the middle of the sermon and walk out the door at some of the pastor's "inflammmatory" statements, a bit of thought will cause you to wonder if they are not asking a bit too much. Or perhaps that is the reason so many churches are empty on Sunday morning, leaving the preacher shouting at the empty rafters.

On the other hand, if you really listened to the words of the man, a different perspective would emerge. He spoke not only about being a black man running for the American presidency, but about a black-and-white man attempting to reconcile both sides of his heritage and getting them to live together in peace, united by a common determination to establish the equality for which the Founding Fathers and many other generations of our ancestors willingly gave their lives.

more. . . http://discomfit.blogspot.com/2008/03/mary-pitt-it-aint-about-race-baby.html

[pork medley]

1. the Founding Fathers were willing to give their lives for racial equality?

Jeez, it's like everybody and his/her grandmother has a 'political' blog

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Read it again

Click on the link and read the whole thing this time.

[cooolandrew]

2. He is the man for our time in history to find in each of us what unites us.

[rug]

4. No, it was about damage control.