Umm, Maggie/Re:swine flu vaccine

[Guest guest]

13a.

Interesting that anyone who doesn't like Obama's politics or lies or

appointments is now a racist.? What is you find out we're all Black!

This is one eloquent lady.? Why not read what this Black woman of integrity has

to say.?

Francine

ANNE WORTHAM

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Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University

and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University 's Hoover Institution.

She is a member of the American Sociological ?Association and the American

Philosophical ?Association.

She has been a M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a

Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal

Opportunity in Higher Education.

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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. ?

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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.

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She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for

civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and

cultural marginality.

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Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and

Afrocentricism in education, the politics of ?victimization and the social and

political impact of political correctness. ?Shortly after an interview in 2004,

she was ?awarded tenure.

This article by her is something.

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 '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 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

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, 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 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 the United States , the wounded giant of

the world. The battle between Wayne and Jane Fonda is over - and that Fonda

won. Eugene McCarthy and McGovern must be very happy men Jimmie ,

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, 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 lin Roosevelt, promises to - Do Something! ?You ?now have

someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon '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.

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Re: OT: Unholy alliance - Big Pharma to fund ads for Obama's health

Posted by: " maggie_orourke " maggie_orourke@... ? maggie_orourke

Tue Aug?11,?2009 9:21?am (PDT)

" How else would he have been elected -with very little experience, racial

issues (sorry, they are using him for support for the agandas) "

Ooooh....now I get why you guys are freaking out! I'm laughing at myself for

being such a fool. This isn't about health care...it's about bigotry.

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> He did say a lot about change, just never exactly what he meant. How else

would he have been elected -with very little experience, racial issues (sorry,

they are using him for support for the agandas) and the networks gross one-sided

support and their reporting methods during the election. He is the biggest

puppet of them all.

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