Unfortunately Travon Martin has become the latest tool for the black race baiters in the states.

As I watch for instance in the video Hank Johnson (D) Georgia say “he was executed for WWB in GC “walking while black in a gated community”. Then worse the shrill clown Federicka Wilson (D) Florida saying “he was hunted down like a rabid dog”.

How do these people get elected?
This is the best of their communities to have a say so in how our government is run?
Our government is being run by slow thinking “dim witted” individuals who ramp up problems WITHOUT FACTS?

We can discuss until the cows come home the “what ifs” of this case. Bottom line Zimmerman was beat up according to an eye witness. He sustained a number of injuries as reported by a doctor. Those injuries were at the hands of Trayvon Martin according to the bruised knuckles from his autopsy.

Unfortunately for Martin HE CHOSE TO ATTACK someone with a weapon who decided to defend himself.

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Hank Johnson, Federicka Wilson and all of the others who want to paint a glowing picture of Trayvon Martin as being a poor victim. It’s time to face the reality the real “WHAT IF” is … Trayvon should have continued to go on his way and NOT DECIDE to victimize someone armed.

Listen carefully to the Martin attorney.
It appears when all is said and done they do not want justice … they want Zimmerman convicted off murder.

One last note in this story.
FINALLY BILL O’REILLY showed a picture of Martin that WAS NOT DOCTORED for media purposes.

I have to wonder if this story would have gone unnoticed had not Fox news picked it up and continued to hammer away at it. Until the authorities were FORCED for their own best interest to really seriously investigate and DO SOMETHING – ANYTHING?

I have watched the charming daughter of Jesse Jackson on Bill O’Reilly. Ms. Jackson does her best to make excuses for her father and Al Sharpton … both missing in action on these reverse race beatings.

Moral of the story?

Jackson and Sharpton are both charlatans only interested in stirring up trouble for blacks.
Hold those slaves back.
Keep them thinking they are victims.
Anything to keep the dollars rolling into their own coffers.

For all of the good Martin Luther King did these 2 did their very best to tear it down. Now with Barack Obama’s help it looks like he wants to finish the job.

Class warfare and victimization is the name of the game.

Has anyone noticed IT IS NO LONGER WORKING?
Except for those with a hand out or those with the brain capacity of a pea?

by Joe Kovacs
More blacks arrested in mob attack on whites.
Defense attorney: ‘I don’t think it has a racial intent’

Police in Norfolk, Va., have arrested three more black teenagers in connection with a mob assault last month on two white reporters for the local newspaper, a case which has sparked national public outrage but little media attention.

Two 16-year-olds and one 13-year-old were taken into custody Saturday, each charged with two counts of simple assault by mob and one count of participation in a riot, both of which are misdemeanors.

It brings the total number of arrested suspects to four, since another 16-year-old was arrested May 3, charged with throwing a missile at a vehicle, a felony, as well as two counts of simple assault by mob, destruction of property and participation in a riot, all misdemeanors.

As WND originally reported, the couple was pummeled at a traffic light April 14 by dozens of black teens, and the Virginian-Pilot newspaper did not report the incident for two weeks, despite the fact the victims, Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami, are both news reporters for the paper.

The attack was first reported in an opinion piece by columnist Michelle Washington.

“Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim,” Washington wrote, describing the onslaught that began when Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami stopped at a traffic light while driving home from a show on a Saturday night. A crowd of at least 100 black young people was on the sidewalk at the time.

“Rostami locked her car door. Someone threw a rock at her window. Forster got out to confront the rock-thrower, and that’s when the beating began. …

“The victim’s friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car. Attackers came after her, pulling her hair, punching her head and causing a bloody scratch to the surface of her eye. She called 911. A recording told her all lines were busy. She called again. Busy. On her third try, she got through and, hysterical, could scream only their location. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. It happened four blocks from where they work, here at the Virginian-Pilot.”
the rest of the story …

Holder, Secretive DOJ Group Helped Oust Sanford Sheriff

The rest of the story …An Orlando Sentinel article detailing how the Department of Justice’s secretive Community Relations Service worked to bring about Sheriff Lee’s ouster raises troubling questions about the Obama administration’s involvement, especially when coupled with the cozy relationship that Attorney General Eric Holder has with one of the lead Trayvon Martin agitators, the Rev. Al Sharpton.

What is the DOJ’s Community Relations Service? The Sentinel article, entitled “DOJ ‘peacemakers’ helped Sanford stay cool amid rising tension,” paints a generally rosy, if slightly creepy, picture of the organization and its role during the Trayvon Martin shooting and the aftermath:

In their Navy blue windbreakers, polo shirts and dark sunglasses, they look like federal agents.
Their caps are embroidered with the Justice Department’s seal. They watch and listen silently. But they say little publicly.

When reporters try to chat them up, they remain stoic, saying simply they cannot talk to the media.

The peacekeepers have a specific mandate outlined in the 1964 Civil Rights Act to go into conflict zones within American communities that perceive discrimination or feel wronged because of their particular race, color or national origin.

Well as usual a few days late and a lot of dollars short Fox News Bill O’Reilly catches up with the Trayvon Martin first eye witness story.

A story by the way that has been known and reported on the web since a few days after the shooting occurred.

That eye witness who saw Zimmerman being wailed on by Martin. Zimmerman screaming HELP HELP as the eyewitness (John) is dashing to his apartment calling 911.

While the police are being battered for NOT ARRESTING the man who shot the kid wailing on him … Al Sharpton, and the Black Panthers are trying to kick up a firestorm of POOR BLACKS AGAIN BEING VICTIMIZED BY WHITEY.

What extremes will the MSM go to cause racial divide in the country?
Well simply tune into any of the progressive oriented SO CALLED NEWS OUTLETS and witness for yourself.

What extremes will Barack Obama go to in order to distract the public from his miserable job at running our country?

The guy is a monumental flop … what else can be said?

It seems the squeaky clean 17 year old was not so squeaky clean after all.

He was known on Twitter as ‘@NO_LIMIT_NIGGA’ read about that HERE.

I found these photos of the doctor job the media has done on Trayvon Martin.

Why do you suppose they have done this doctoring? So he looks a little more like “If I had a son he would look like this” Obama?

Here ya go the before and after shots.

From MoonBattery comes the story below.

The Trayvon Martin Spectacle

Never mind skyrocketing gas prices or a national debt that is an imminent threat to collapse the entire economy. Our rulers want us to think about the Trayvon Martin case instead — or rather, a fictionalized version of it.

Although the facts aren’t yet entirely clear, what actually happened is becoming apparent. A commendable citizen attempting to defend his neighborhood from crime got a little overzealous in following a suspicious-looking punk in a hoodie, the punk attacked him (as a witness confirms), and Zimmerman defended himself, earning him a commendation and the well wishes of all law-abiding Americans. Not being the criminal here, he was on the phone with authorities as events unfolded. The 911 tapes appear to confirm Zimmerman’s innocence. The tapes also confirm that screams from the Establishment Left notwithstanding, Zimmerman was not motivated by “racism,” as he didn’t even know Martin’s race when he started following him, thanks to Martin’s sinister hoodie.

However, liberals have distorted or ignored the facts to create a mostly fictional example of their bogus and corrosive narrative. The media has deliberately twisted the story into a “white” Hispanic hunting down an innocent boy and killing him to oppress blacks.

The hype is alarming, with the New Black Panthers, Obama’s close political allies (see here and here and here and here), offering a bounty on Zimmerman, which may constitute the only actual crime committed in the case.

The usual race demagogues have been shrieking, including Jesse Jackson (who refuses to comment on the New Black Panthers bounty) and Al Sharpton, who has repeatedly inspired his cretinous followers to kill whites in the past.

Predictably, this has been echoed by chilling calls for violence against Zimmerman. The verminous Spike Lee has been retweeting Zimmerman’s home address in hopes of getting him killed. Already the first Caucasians have died in what may have been retaliation for Zimmerman’s apparent act of self-defense.

Meanwhile, white liberals bleat like the pernicious lunatics they are that Zimmerman should be locked up regardless of his innocence. From MSNBC come bizarre cries that Trayvon Martin’s demise should be blamed on Rush Limbaugh or the Koch Brothers.

An appalling recent example of violence that really was inspired by racism — the horrific case of 13-year-old Allen Coon being set on fire on his own porch for being white — continues to be ignored.

The crisis was created not by George Zimmerman, let alone Rush or the Koch Brothers, but by professional racial arsonists like Sharpton and the malignant left-wing media, which sees in this an opportunity to attack our right of self-defense and to assist Obama’s reelection campaign by convincing the gullible that they have to prove they aren’t “racists” again.

We need a leader to hold this country together. Instead, we have Barack Hussein Obama issuing the statement that if he had a son, he would have looked like Trayvon Martin, thereby flashing a green light to those who are mendaciously exploiting the incident to advance a race-based leftist agenda.

Whole story here …

Just a little side note here folks. Apparently Spike Lee who has published whereabouts information about George Zimmerman on the net as well as the Black Panthers. The persons and organizations can be sued and go bankrupt for inciting violence against Zimmerman if he is harmed.

An example of such a loss is Tom Metzger of the East Side White Pride with ties to WAR who suggested their members need to do something about blacks and homosexuals. When members killed a young black man in Oregon they were sued and Metzger and his group bit the dust under a suit that lost them a whopping $12.5 million.

Other true character reference for Trayvon Martin:
SadHillNews

Barack Obama wants to lead by example.
He wants his daughters to be able to speak their minds in a civil and thoughtful way and not be called horrible names because they are being good citizens.

BUT IT DOES NOT MATTER that his buddies Bill Maher or David Letterman attack the children of Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum?

Yes indeed that is leading by example all right.

Al Sharpton talking about hate and in-sighting hate?

THIS IS A JOKE RIGHT?

Sharpton from Tawana Brawley to present can take credit along with Jesse Jackson for the lack of progress in the black communities. Without an oppressed black community they instantly HAVE NO INCOME.

The fact that Sharpton is paid by MSNBC indicates how at the bottom of the barrel this so called news organization actually has fallen. No wonder they are left with only the most stupid of the stupid as viewers.

Maher states Santorum home schools his children so they are not infected by reason outside the home living room.

No Maher he does not want them exposed or infected by the witless drones of your ilk who pollute society as YOU LAUGH nightly at your own stupidity.

Enough is ENOUGH!

For years the liberal/progressive/democrats have spun, lied, slandered and beat up on their opposition. While remaining SILENT AND DO NOTHING over the same behavior on their own side.

For years they did this without much of a fight back. So today when it becomes more and more clear what is going on it is finally time to take a stand.

The sniveling, whining, left is finally getting its just deserts. The opposition is finally saying “wait a minute … not on my watch”.

Personally I have always lived by “the law of return” but return it faster, better and harder.
Make a significant dent!

Karma is a true BITCH and the left HATES IT!

The media of the past has morphed today into “radical witless wingnuts“.
These faux intellects scream, yell, race bait, name call, malign and expect their BULLSHIT to fly.

What they ARE NOT SMART ENOUGH TO REALIZE is daily the public is getting it and most of all getting tired of it. These wingnuts have given it their best shot and that was not enough.

Of late Rush Limbaugh is the pinata of the left over Sandra Fluke.

Where was the outrage from the left over Bill Maher’s attack on Sarah Palin?

OH WAIT THERE WAS NONE!

Bill Maher is different?
According to David Axelrod he is a comedian so he gets a pass.
Would Axelrod think Maher was so funny if Sasha and Malia were the targets of Maher along with the Palin and Santorum children?

Should Team Obama give back the million from Maher?
I don’t think so! … it is money down a rat hole with the Obama loss in November. Losing a million for Maher only makes him an even bigger loser. Instead of simply being a loser in life he will be a million dollar loser in politics as well as life.

Again Karma is a real BITCH!

So the Main Stream Media Fools on the left who live in glass houses and have FOR YEARS BEEN CASTING STONES?
Get ready … it’s your turn.
Take care you do not get cut cleaning up the mess you have caused and “we the people” finish.

As we head into another Presidential election cycle racism is once again becoming front and center in the focus of American political discourse. Unfortunately racism, and the hypocrisy that goes with it, is indeed alive and well in our nation today, 146 years after the Civil War ended and 46 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed. It saddens me to see that some in this country have not progressed any further along the road to acceptance of race as a non-factor in life.

If you don’t believe racism is real just look at the media treatment of Herman Cain. Like him or not, agree with his policies or not, Herman Cain is an authentic American who happens to be black. He is not a hyphenated American; he is an American, period. When I say he is an authentic American I mean that he believes in the Constitution and the values that have made this country great. When I say authentically black I mean both of his parents are black.

The same media knotheads, who call me a racist because I oppose the policies of Barak Obama, publicly call Herman Cain names like “token negro”, “Oreo cookie”, “bad apple”, “Uncle Tom”, “a black man who knows his place”, and accuse him of “smoking a symbolic crack pipe”, “currying white favor”, and the like, things that I would never dream of saying. Some of these self-absorbed pretentious “journalists” and commentators are white and some are black but none of them have a clue what main stream America is about.

Where were these kinds of references in 2007 and 2008? Barak Obama received an awful lot of the white vote. Why were these kinds of comments not made when he was receiving so much support from the white community? You didn’t hear conservatives uttering such tripe and these same “journalists” and commentators fawned over Obama like he was a god. Conservatives talked about Marxism and socialism running for the White House, not the “house negro”.

Why is Obama, whose mother was white, blacker than Cain, whose parents are both black? Could it be because Cain is a conservative, the worst thing in life a “person of color” can be? I have heard black people and white people, all of them liberals by the way, call Cain vile names that I would never call him, or any other person, regardless of the color of their skin. Obama is of mixed race, Cain is of pure race, yet Cain is the one who is “not black enough”. That is an interesting concept, not a sensible one but an interesting one none the less.

Karen Finney, a Democrat “strategist” appearing with Martin Bashir on msnbc said that Herman Cain is “a black man who knows his place” and therefore is acceptable to the TEA Party and makes them “feel like they are not racist because they like this guy”. Bashir’s response is “thank you for spelling that out”. http://conservativedailynews.com/2011/11/for-the-left-cain-is-black-man-who-doesnt-know-his-place/

Does anyone else find this as vile and ridiculous as I find it? Has anyone ever heard a TEA Party person make such an asinine statement? No, I didn’t think so. Lloyd Marcus seems to be accepted at TEA Party events, as are any other “people of color”, who believe in liberty, justice, and the American Way.

Does anyone remember the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings? Thomas referred to the attacks on him as a high-tech lynching. It wasn’t conservative Republicans who trashed Clarence Thomas, it was liberals, Democrats, both black and white, but all of them liberals who are supposedly consumed with “racial equality”. Thomas was ridiculed because his wife is white, not by conservatives, but by liberals. And who could ever doubt the “Reverend” Al Sharpton when he tells us that Cain is not an “authentic black man” because he doesn’t espouse the “oh woe is me” attitude that only government can provide for success in the black community. Cain isn’t being reviled by conservatives but by liberals. We “conservative TEA Party racist types” accept Herman Cain but liberals don’t. Hmmm, curious this race question.

When a liberal calls me a racist because of my stand for freedom and against the Obama, Reid, Pelosi brand of Marxism I count it as a compliment. I know I am not a racist and so do they. The key is that they know they have nothing else to stand on so they try the age-old intimidation tactic of name calling. Well, it just doesn’t work any longer. We, the supposed racists, have wised up and now ignore this tactic. We are no longer intimidated by name calling.

The true racists in the country are those telling American citizens ”of color” that they cannot accomplish anything on their own, that the only way for them to have anything is to hold their hand out to liberal white folks who know what is in their best interests. Or they can hold their hand out to “Reverend” Al Sharpton or “Reverend” Jesse Jackson, who will go to their white liberal overseers and ask for “alms for their poor black folks”. Just as a side note, I consider myself a “person of color” also. As far as I know white is still a color, and actually, except for my beard, I am more beige than white.

Have you noticed that the pundits and mouthpieces for racism, black or white, seem to be doing just fine, financially, in the pundit world? And how do the “Justice Brothers”, Al and Jesse, make their money? Do they actually have churches they pastor or do they make their money pandering to white liberal guilt, the government, and telling black Americans that they are less than whites? I surmise that the “Justice Brothers” make their money extorting money from anyone they can find to extort money from. If one doesn’t give them money it must be because one is racist. It can’t possibly be because one believes they are “race hustling poverty pimps”.

And before anyone labels me a racist on that last statement, it is a quote from J. C. Watts, a former Oklahoma Republican Congressman and quarterback at the University of Oklahoma. He made that statement on the floor of the House of Representatives in speaking of “Reverend” Jackson. He must also be a racist in the books of “Reverends” Al and Jesse, and apparently another “house negro telling whites what they want to hear”.
I never tell anyone they can’t make it on their own. I never tell anyone of any color that the answer to their problems is a government hand out, that they are too stupid to succeed, or they are incapable of making a success of themselves. Is the key to success in our nation really a government handout or is it hard work, honesty, integrity, and dedication?

Racism is alive and well in the liberal sections of society. Conservatism says hard work and dedication will bring success, without ever bringing skin color into the mix. Herman Cain worked his way through college. His parents worked at least 2 jobs each when he was young so they could help their children get the education they would need to become successful in life. They didn’t sit back and wait for Al and Jesse to bring them a handout to keep them in line and in poverty. Cain’s parents had a vision of what it takes to succeed in life and they instilled that in their children.

Herman Cain has been successful because he understands how to be successful. He has worked his way to where he is today through education, dedication to values, and the willingness to apply himself to accomplish the tasks assigned by those above him in authority. He wasn’t content to sit on his butt and wait for Al and Jesse to hand him the pittance they normally hand their dependents. I believe the key to his success as much as anything else is his treatment of others. He is as considerate and respectful of the doorman at a hotel as he is to a CEO of any corporation.

To say in 2011 that Herman Cain has succeeded because he is the “house negro” of the TEA Party and conservative Americans is insulting to all Americans of all colors. It shows where racism dwells and it isn’t in conservative circles. This treatment of Cain shows once again that “people of color” who don’t tow the liberal line will be subjected to attacks of all kinds to keep them in line. For anyone to say that any “person of color” cannot succeed by their own initiative in today’s America is as racist as one can get.

Many Americans, including this writer, oppose Barak Obama because of his Marxist policies and his promise to “fundamentally transform America”. We are called racists and bigots because no one can really oppose his “enlightenment”; it absolutely has to be racism. I am not in Cain’s camp but I do respect and like the man based on his accomplishments and his vision for America.

Neither Cain nor Obama have any standing with me, for better or worse, due to the color of their skin. My opinions of both are based entirely on their policies and their vision of the future of the nation I cherish. I find it rather odd that the people who support Obama are not racists but those who oppose him are racists. And those who support Herman Cain are racists but those who oppose him are not racists. I am like the duck in the AFLAC commercial shaking my head and going, HUH?????????????????????????????

I submit this in the name of the Most Holy Trinity, in faith, with the responsibility given to me by Almighty God to honor His work and not let it die from neglect.

Bob Russell Claremore, Oklahoma November 4, 2011

What a pity Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and NOW BARACK OBAMA have close to destroyed ANYTHING MARTIN LUTHER KING built up.

These 3 man are a DISGRACE TO THEIR RACE.

THANK GOD!
Little by little the black community is FINALLY being represented by individuals who are PROMOTING “black society” instead of tearing it down or keeping it SLAVE TO THE SYSTEM.

Thank you Larry for the Massie heads up.

Onto the stage has stepped Mychal Massie.

The conservative chairman of the black leadership network Project 21, Mychal Massie, did not mince words Monday afternoon as he spoke at the empty chairs of his three would-be sparring partners — Al Sharpton, National Urban League President Marc Morial and former D.C. Congressional Delegate Walter Fauntroy — all of whom had been scheduled to debate him about the alleged racism in the Tea Party.

“It is nice to blame the white man, it’s nice to blame ‘Uncle Toms’ — such as myself — it’s nice to blame right-wing, extreme Republicans and conservatives. It’s easy,” Massie told his absent liberal counterparts. He was driving home the point that demonizing the Tea Party, which is unified by a desire for less spending, limited government and devotion to the Constitution, is not the answer.
The rest of the story …

Questioned about the reasons for having the debate without Morial, Shartpton and Fauntroy, Mychal explains the importance of holding these men accountable for their statements and rebutting their accusations.

Then on August 8, 2011 Massie caused quite a stir with a piece called “Nero in the White House”

Three significant historical events have been eclipsed by Obama: 1) Jimmy Carter will no longer be looked upon as the worst president in American history; 2) Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton will no longer be recognized as the greatest liars in presidential history; 3) Clinton’s stain on Monica’s dress, and what that did to the White House in general and the office of the president specifically, will forever pale in comparison to the stain and stench of Obama.

I need not spend much time on the failure of Obama as president. His tenure has been a failure on every measurable level. So much so, in fact, that some of the staunchest, most respected liberal Democrats and Democratic supporters have not only openly criticized him – some even more harshly than this essayist – but they have called for him to step down.

Richard Nixon’s words “I am not a crook,” punctuated with his involvement in Watergate, and Bill Clinton’s finger-wagging as he told one of the most pathetic lies in presidential history, in the aftermath of Obama, will be viewed as mere prevarications.

Mr. Nixon and Clinton lied to save their backsides. Although, I would argue there are no plausible explanations for doing what they did, I could entertain arguments pursuant to understanding their rationales for lying. But in the case of Obama, he lies because he is a liar. He doesn’t only lie to cover his misdeeds – he lies to get his way. He lies to belittle others and to make himself look presentable at their expense. He lies about his faith, his associations, his mother, his father and his wife. He lies and bullies to keep his background secret. His lying is congenital and compounded by socio-psychological factors of his life.

The rest of the story …

Someone just sent this my way and I had to share it.
I fully believe the cartoon above to be true.

While I am at it I might as well comment on the Glenn Beck gathering of 8/28.

You know the one about every progressive/liberal main stream media WINGNUT maligned AS racial, bigoted, crazy white people ad nausium?

Well all of those who comented INCLUDING Al Sharpton who made a total asshole (again) of himself by trying to worm out of what he said on the Bill OReilly show Monday nite.

Oh my GOD! This guy has been a disgrace for all blacks since Tawana Brawley.
Who on earth puts any stock in ANYTHING he says anymore?

I am a little tired of listening to ‘black politicians’ denigrate their own race and then turn around and denigrate whites because they themselves were born black.

Boo FRIGGING Hoo!
Part of these idiots were still in pampers while a MAJORITY of US WHITES were marching for their very equality and right to stand on some pulpit and spout this total trash.

Who am I referring to specifically today?

South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn. As the highest-ranking black in the U.S. House, he said that opposition to the stimulus bill is “a slap in the face of African-Americans.”

Hey you small minded twit … how about it’s a slap in the face of EVERY TAX PAYER who is FORCED to pay for this folly?

Then Eric Holder has the audacity to call us a nation of cowards?
HOW DARE YOU! If it was not for this nation of cowards you would NOT HAVE the soapbox from which you spout today.

What this man says about sums it up far better than I ever could.

What others have to say via Michael Savage talk radio:

Let me again remind visitors to this site of my opinion on several things.
Politically Correct was a miserable attempt by the ‘whiners of the world’ to continue in their cushy rut of ‘failing to thrive and survive in a tough world’.

EVERY minority group will have someone or some many who have an agenda that dooms that minority group to mediocrity.

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and their likes have an agenda to keep minorities slaves to the system.

Let me point out the hierarchy to this system.
Government = Slave owners
Slaves = those on the government dole … who today are required to do nothing period.
Share Croppers = those of us paying taxes to the government in order for the government to pass it on to the slaves who do nothing.

To top it off the SLAVE OWNERS (politicians) … are siphoning of a handsome sum (they ALSO DOING NOTHING) for perpetuating this growing of slave population.

Inertia spawns inertia.
There is a UNIVERSAL LAW … if you do nothing, NOTHING HAPPENS.

I found this posted on a forum yesterday.
Anne Wortham is the epitome of what so many of us whites fought for in the 60′s … believing all blacks deserve equal rights. Counter to the equal rights movement emerged the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and now Barack Obama who all realistically want blacks to remain enslaved by being “cared for” by another ‘massa’ this time called the government (government slave masters).

Bravo Anne!

No He Can’t
by Anne Wortham

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 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 be 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 E2 political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

I would have to believe that “fairness” is the 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 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, 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 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.

Who is Anne Wortham?

Anne Wortham is a Black woman, an 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 John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.

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.

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.

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.

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.